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Dec. 30, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 30, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in, entirely unregulated, entirely unlicensed.
My temporary month long temporary talk show host Palmitt expired in nineteen eighty-three and I have never renewed it.
So entirely uncredentialed.
We were talking about these uh Curly Fry light bulbs, and uh a listener emailed me to say what happens when the big earthquake hits uh San Francisco and millions of Curly Fry light bulbs are shattered in the earthquake.
And so they are not disposed of in compliance with the uh convenient fourteen step light bulb disposal program involving the rubber gloves and the uh pair uh the pack of playing cards and the mason jar and uh emptying the persimmon jelly onto the carpet.
Uh they're not disposed of in compliance with the fourteen step program, and so the whole of San Francisco be te becomes contaminated and uninhabitable.
Well, you're gonna have you're gonna have a hell of a class action suit, as we saw with nine eleven from first responders who go and rescue people uh in these homes with all the shattered curly fry light bulbs everywhere.
Five years down the road you're gonna have a hell of a class action suit from all the uh toxic illnesses they're laboring under.
That is big government at work solving problems that didn't exist until the moral narcissists of big government uh decided to solve them.
Let us go, let us go.
Direct to the guest host of guest hosts.
Uh Walter E. Williams is a uh is a favorite uh is a favorite guest host of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Every time I host this show, I always get tons of emails from people saying, Oh, well, uh you're you're okay if we have to have some, you know, sinister illegal immigrant hosting the Rush Limbaugh Show.
But Walter E. Williams is the guest host of guest hosts, and it's a great honor to have him live with us now uh to talk about his new book, Up from the Projects.
Uh Happy New Year to you, Walter.
Well, happy new year and Merry Christmas to you, Mark.
And and and that's right, Merry Mer belated belated Merry Uh Christmas to you.
Now your your book, just uh the title here, Up from the Projects.
You grew up in uh about as poor as poor can get in in America, isn't it?
Well, not quite.
Well, you in the Phil you you in the Philadelphia ghetto.
Yeah.
Uh but but but but uh just explain to us the difference between projects as we understand the term now and projects back then.
Yeah.
Well th the the actual name of the project was Richard Allen Housing Project in North Philadelphia.
And if a matter of fact, in the book, I there's a there's a photograph of the building in which we lived.
And if you look at the building, you see no graffiti.
Ungraffiti was unheard of.
I the closest we came to graffiti was drawing hopscotch, uh, you know, taking chalk and drawing hopscotch in the uh street so we can uh play hopscotch.
And and uh uh people used to uh there were no bars the window.
We did not go to s we did not go to sleep with the uh un with the sounds of gunshots uh in the background.
There weren't bars at windows in the hot, humid summer nights, if we behaved ourselves, uh my mother would let my sister and I sleep out on the fire escape.
And one rather other remarkable thing is that my father uh he deserted us uh when when I was three and and uh a couple years later my mother finally divorced him.
Uh and when my sister was two.
But among all the people that we knew, we were my sister and I, we were the only uh kids without a mother and a father in the household.
Now today it would be exactly the opposite.
It would be a rare thing to find a mother father in the household in the project in which I grew up.
Yeah, because housing projects around the country.
Now now what's the what's the the reason uh for for that?
Because LB LBJ and the Democratic Party thought they were doing uh black Americans a great favor with the Great Society uh forty-five years ago.
Uh and uh it seems to have had uh certain malign consequences at least as far as the black family's concern.
Oh, yes, th the the welfare's the welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery could not have done, what harsh as Jim Crow laws could not have done, what the rank discrimination could not have done, and namely break the black family.
That is, back in the late eighteen hundreds and the early nineteen hundreds, uh even up until nineteen forty, in most cities you found uh upwards of eighty percent of black kids living in two parent families.
Today you'd be hard put to find uh twenty or thirty percent.
And in some cities, uh uh eighty percent, eighty-five percent of black kids don't l uh uh don't have uh uh two parents.
And even during slavery, many times uh marriage was not allowed among slaves, but kids children lived in households with their two biological parents.
Yeah, and and and now as you say, uh maybe eighty-five percent don't have any don't have any uh male head of the household.
And if there is, it's often just a kind of transient boyfriend passing through.
That is absolutely right.
And and by the way, the the um the illegitimacy rate among black Americans is around seventy percent.
And I'm not a prude, but you know, if you're born and you find out you don't know who your father is or where he is, uh that's not a best start on life.
But I would say this, Mark, is that it's not a black thing because in Sweden, and that's the mother welfare states, the illegitimacy rate is fifty-four percent.
Uh right.
And among whites in the white Americans, the illegitimacy rate is over twenty-five percent where it was in the sixties when people would start com uh talking about black illegitimacy.
Yeah, and and and if you make those uh overseas comparisons, uh you basically you can say that uh what LBJ did to the black family, the British welfare state did to the family in general, because you uh across the United Kingdom, white families, uh the m the mother will be moving from one boyfriend to the next and he'll be abusing the uh fourteen and fifteen year old daughter and children grow up in complete uh complete chaos.
Uh so once government takes an interest in you and once government decides to do you a favor, it can be pretty bad news for for basic societal building laws.
Well, it's it's a basic economic principle.
That is if you tax something, you're gonna get less of it, and if you subsidize something, you're gonna get surplus of uh surpluses of it, and it's just the fact of business that we have been subsidizing slovenly behavior.
Now let's let's uh because I I said before the break, you you you you understand everyone knows you understand macroeconomic theory and this.
And this this book applies it to your own life.
But there are kind of uh fascinating glimpses of the difference between uh then and now.
Uh there was a story uh in the New York papers a couple of weeks ago about how cab drivers were the the TSA may not be willing to profile at American airports, but New York cab drivers say they're gonna profile because it's life-threatening not to profile.
You started as a cab driver.
That's right.
Uh b back in the nineteen fifties in Philadelphia, uh and when you used to uh you you used to get tired in your shift at uh two or three in the morning, you just pull over and take a nap i in in uh in the cab.
Nobody would do that in Philadelphia these days.
That is right.
I would I would take a nap at a cab stand, you know, but it could be two I work from twelve to eight shift that sometimes.
Right.
And there's nothing doing, so I slid I'd I'd uh uh sleep in the cab and the hot summer times the windows also be open, and I'd get a customer maybe a tap on the glass to say, Driver, can you take me so and so?
But if anybody did that today, they might be accused of attempting attempted suicide.
Right.
And what what is what is the reason uh uh uh for that, Walter.
Is it is it the f I mean when you look, as you say, uh when you look at at the uh the project you grew up in, there's no graffiti, uh it's clean, it's well maintained, it's not crime-ridden.
Uh what what happens?
Is it the fact that uh that uh w we we turn huge populations in depend into dependence and tell them that they no longer have the dignity of self-reliance?
What what what is the reason for it?
Well, I I think again, what you're just plain economic theory, the cost of various kinds of behavior, or anti-social behavior, has been reduced.
That is criminals uh uh go free.
You know, you know, at one time uh in United States, uh rape was a crime punishable by death.
Today, rape you you can rape a woman and maybe get out in five years, four years, or maybe not even that.
So it's a lower cost of uh of all kinds of criminal activities.
And so you expect people to engage in it more.
Well you you started out uh as you say, you weren't at the very bottom, but you uh by any conventional understanding, you were poor.
Uh you did you did the kind of jobs uh suddenly uh you know Barack Obama never had the need to work as a cabby uh on the night shift in in uh in Philadelphia, and you became uh uh uh a professor at uh a George Mason.
Uh do we do we still have uh that level of social mobility, or are we getting into the uh situation uh of the country's uh that many of us thought we'd left behind, where you actually have transgenerational uh uh a transgenerational underclass just mired at the ball.
Yeah.
Well I I think one of the things that one of the great things about our country is and makes us unique among all nations, and that is just because you know where a person ended up in life, you cannot be sure about where he started.
That is, there's such upward mobility in our country that uh that you don't have to start at top.
But you know, and and and matter of fact, uh according to the Forbes 100 riches uh Americans, all that's new blood.
You you don't find the Rockefellers, the Carnegie's, the Goulds, and their it's the Steve Jobs, it's the Bill Gates and others who are first generation very wealthy people.
And so it's a lot of income mobility.
It's not like Europe.
If you don't start at top in Europe, you're not gonna get to the top.
Well, hold that thought, Walter, because I uh I want to explore that uh a bit with you when when we come back, because take your circumstances now and apply it today.
If, say you start off in life without a uh a male role model in your household, if you're leading a kind of transient existence with with with the pillars of your family are not secure uh and you're and you're gr growing up independency and on welfare, can you jump from that rung of the ladder uh and get yourself up uh into the into that uh Forbes five hundred lists.
We'll talk about that and other questions uh with Walter when we return on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
One show, twice the guest host, Mark Stein Infrarush, talking to Walter Williams about his uh his new book, Up from the Projects, uh, which is a uh a fascinating glimpse at uh at uh at Walter's uh own life and and Walter's kind of intersected uh with key American institutions at c at kind of end every step along the way because you uh you were in the army,
uh Walter uh in tumultuous in tumultuous times uh during the desegregation uh period and uh That's right, I was drafted uh from Philadelphia and sent to Fort Stewart, Georgia without a very good orientation on the southern way of life.
It's some adjustment problems.
And uh yeah, I and matter of fact, I was just a plain troublemaker while I was in the army.
I and and and uh actually they trumped charges on me, trumped up charges Article 92, which is failure to obey a direct command.
Right and I was court martial.
And I won the court martial.
And I think it's in the book.
I I I forget what what pages on, but it shows the court mark martial document not guilty of all charges and specifications.
And I brought ch charges against the company commander that court martialed me uh for undue hardship on a person subject to his command, and uh before I could get the charges uh uh written out or or uh processed, they shipped me to Korea.
Right, right.
So this is this is like way more you had way more trouble than any of the don't ask, don't tell guys.
Uh you you you you basically went in there as a as a young hotshot and and as you say a troublemaker.
But you but you came out.
I mean you you've got uh I think a you you learned a lesson from an uh f f from an army chaplain that you uh knew during the Korean war.
That occurred in Korea.
They sent me to uh this black army chaplain, and uh because I was still raised I was raised in hell.
Matter of fact, give you an idea, when I when I landed in Korea, if we landed on LSTs, there was no port like it is now.
And uh and a long line of guys waiting to go through the process, and you had to fill out these personnel uh uh, you know, give your age your next to the can your religion and race in there, and under race I put Caucasian.
And as chief warrant officer asked me, he said you made a mistake.
I said, No, I didn't.
And so I said, I'm Caucasian.
And so then he asked me why did I put down Caucasian?
Because I say, Well, if I put down Negro, I'll put to get the worst job over here.
Now I never changed it.
He probably did.
But this cat chaplin, he told me, he says, you know, Williams, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
And my response to him, I didn't actually say it because he's an officer.
I said that Uncle Tom so and so.
But actually it turns out that later on I witnessed, you know, I I agreed many years later, that he was absolutely right.
Right.
And I was wrong.
Right.
Right.
And it takes but the big but the big thing, Mark, is that that what happened to me, I had a lot of time by myself.
I had a job that and just all by myself, because nobody wanted to work with me.
And I was twenty four years old, and I said to myself, if I don't get started soon, I'm never going to be anything.
So my wife and I we agreed, exchanging letters, as soon as I get out of the army, and we saved seven hundred dollars, we're gonna move to Los Angeles and I'm gonna go to college.
And I got out of the Army July third, I had my job back with the taxicab company July seventh, and July and December first, my wife and I we had saved nine hundred dollars, and we uh hooked up a four by six U Haul it trailer to my nineteen fifty-one Mercury with all of our worldly possessions in it and it wasn't even full, and we headed off to Los Angeles.
Now now you you you bring us back to what we were talking about earlier in a way, because you have a wonderful line uh about Mrs. Williams in the book, and Mrs. Williams is a familiar figure uh until her death uh to millions and millions of listeners to this show who used to love uh when you would uh when you would talk uh uh about your wife uh uh uh on the show.
You have a wonderful phrase there.
You say she was a civilizing and humanizing influence in my life.
Oh yes, she was.
And that is re that is really in some sense the the big purpose of of marriage when it's working is that man man is a crazy beast like you in the army.
He's a barbarian.
Yeah, he's a barbarian, and the civilizing figure is is the woman who domesticates him and as in your case, uh uh g gets him to to kind of get his life together and uh pack up and move up and make something of himself.
You figured that out at twenty-four, um thanks uh in part to your wife, but a lot of a lot of uh a lot of guys don't don't seem to g a lot of twenty-four year olds now are still c crazy teenagers.
Well, you know, you know, Mark, we uh my wife and I she was very popular and very highly likable, and she's getting invited to parties and and I got invited because that's the only way they can get her is to take me because I was not that agreeable person.
But we would get home at one o'clock at night and two o'clock at night, and and you know what a young man would like to be doing at one and two o'clock at night.
And but I'm getting a lecture from her.
I'm she's saying, Walter, do you always have to prove that you're smarter than everybody else?
Did you have to say that to the person?
Well, blah blah blah blah, you could have that let that go by.
And I got and I started getting uh lectures to kind of civilize me.
And and I and as you say, that's that's ac actually uh what you need because if you're unlucky, you don't get that at twenty-four, and you figure it out when in in the ruins of your life when you're thirty-eight or you're forty three and uh time has passed you by.
That's right.
So actually that's that's that's one of the most uh important things you could do.
How how long were you married for in uh we were we uh uh uh forty-eight years, and if we if my wife had lived two more months, we would have been together as a couple for a half a century.
That's pretty amazing.
And it's and it is a kind of tragedy uh that if you went back to your corner of Philadelphia, it will it will be increasingly rare to find people who are able to say that.
Oh yes.
And and and and as you were saying before we enter the break, as you were saying, there their opportunities for kids to get out do not exist uh when when that the opportunities that I had because of things like the minimum wage law, all kinds of regulations and all kinds of labor laws that cut off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder, and kids and young people do not have the opportunities to get out that I had.
No, a lot of things a lot of things have changed and a lot of things uh seem easier than they were then and fairer than they were then.
Uh but in a lot of uh a lot of ways uh the the the breaks are harder.
So so the book is called Up From the Project autobiography.
Uh give us give us the name of the uh uh of of the publisher Walter Well it's uh it's the Hoover Institution and Amazon carries it and they they might be they said they have it out of stock but they'll be reordering it soon but you can get it from the Hoover Institution and if you go to my webpage Walter E. Williams dot com it's a link to the Hoover Institution there.
Right and you can and you can all and you can also order it direct if you go to Hoover.org whose book's so excellent.
Walter uh it's a uh it's a terrific book and if you've listened to Walter when he's sitting in here, this uh tells you the story where he came from and how he got to be who he is.
Happy new year to you uh Walter and it's been great to have you on the show.
More from the Rush Limbaugh Show coming up in just a moment.
Yes, it's guest host go go at the Rush uh limb show.
Uh you just heard Walter Williams the new book is called Up from the Projects is his uh autobiography and uh a uh vivid portrait uh of a lost world when you when you look at uh at the Philadelphia he grew up in and in his Tales from the Army days you can get it uh by uh going to the Hoover website uh at uh at Hoover.org.
Uh Walter's great point is is that which is the most basic conservative lesson of all is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.
And what g that's what government does.
It subsidizes bad behavior uh and that's why we end up with more of it.
And and uh there's a uh somebody wrote to me I think two or three years ago just before the whole Lehman brothers meltdown started and said, oh why why bother about that?
We're rich enough to afford to be stupid and that's how the Western world thought up to the fall of two thousand and eight that we were rich enough to afford to be stupid.
We could just throw uh money at these problems uh in a sense just for uh flattering ourselves and for uh bumping up our um uh our moral vanity and that's what w that's what we did and and there were huge terrible human consequences to the stupid things we did.
You know that is that is actually the essence of leftism is that it doesn't matter whether it does whether so called humanitarianism does anything for the person on the receiving end of the humanitarianism but that it makes the humanitarian feel good about himself.
And that's the that's the history of the welfare prod uh welfare programs uh and entitlements and uh and all the rest of it.
Welfare was enormously destructive transgenerational welfare enormously destructive but hey it made it made uh middle middle class people feel good because they demonstrated how kind and virtuous they were by being willing to throw money at the problem.
It had real life consequences exactly the same as the stupidity that's going on in uh New York today.
Let's go to Thomas in Make On, Georgia.
Thomas, you're live uh on the uh on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
It's great to be on the show Mr Stein.
I'm a student of chemistry, and I just wanted to add on to the talk about the cleanup of the mercury from the curly fry light bulbs.
Okay.
In the cleanup of it, during some mercury spills that I've seen, some of the cleanup is, in addition to wearing the gloves and some of the other safety equipment, you have to dust the area.
The area is also dusted with sulfur dust, which causes the mercury to stick together.
It just causes it to stick together because it's still a liquid.
Then it is scraped into a container, a glass container, where then it can be put into a glass.
a secure storage facility where it can be processed by proper uh proper chemical companies that have the proper facilities.
Now now when you say you use this phrase sofa dust.
So what's it called?
It is sulfur sulfur Oh sulfur dust.
Right, right sulfur dust has just been powderized and it's a okay right right now is there any any chance that's presumably why I think that if the main department of environmental protection said you then have to after you've done all the business with the gloves and the playing cards and the mason jar you've got to go around with uh strips of duct tape just picking up presumably the particles of sulfur dust.
Is that right then?
Um in the kit.
Now I think the duct tape that they're talking about is to actually pick up the bits of the mercury.
Oh right.
I'm not I'm not exactly sure if these kits that they're talking about issuing um actually have sulfur in them.
But one of the other things too is that you have to be careful when you're cleaning up the mercury that you're not wearing any um any some some metals such as gold, mercury can uh bind in with the gold.
And so if you if you had a ring on, for example, a gold ring, then you would it would bind with some of the mercury and you'd be every time you wore that ring, you would be exposing yourself to mercury.
So remove your ladies, if you're listening to this and you drop the light bulb, remove your wedding ring and your engagement ring before you attempt to clear up the light bulb, before you get the gloves, before you get the playing cards, before you get the mason jar, before you get the persimmon jelly.
Uh also remove I don't know why the state of Maine irresponsibly declined to inform people that they needed to take off their I guess it's a rural state, so they don't have a lot of gangster rappers in the Great North Woods, because i if you're nobody yeah, the in in Maine nobody has any any any gold.
They're just wearing, you know, ornamental engagement rings made from moose horns, you know.
You don't have to worry about the gold.
But uh any visiting gangster rapper, uh say he's uh lying low after the East West Rap Wars and he's l holed up in the North Maine Woods, remove the bling.
If you drop your curly fry light bulb, take your bling off before you bend down to pick it up.
Is that right, Thomas?
I uh that's uh that's from what I know.
It's it's it can bind in with the metal.
Right.
Yes.
Then go and have a seafood then go ahead and has a s seafood dinner, says Mr. Snerdley, so that any of the mercury that's blended in with your bling will then leak into the lobster some giant giant mercury uh poison toxic lobster will be rampaging down the Maid Coast.
Thank you, Thomas, for that.
So the state of Maine is wrong.
It's not a simple fourteen-point disposal uh procedure for removing the if you break the curly fry light bulb.
It is in fact up to what are we now?
Up to sixteen or seventeen points now.
Take off your wedding band uh and uh remove all your I'm so gl I'm relieved Sammy Davis Jr. didn't live to see this because this would have been a disaster.
This would have been a disaster for him if he had in fact I wouldn't mind if they went back and investigated it, uh that he probably died from uh from premature poisoning from a prototype of this curly fry light bulb.
It's oh yeah, gold fillings, yeah, yeah.
What about gold fillings?
That's true.
Uh maybe you should remove those.
Maybe before attempting to remove the light bulb, you should just uh find a dentist uh I would I would go outside.
Because they say you've got to go outside for fifteen minutes and wait until it's safe to re-enter after you've opened the windows.
So I would uh I would, if you've got gold fillings in your teeth, I would, while you're outside, uh tie a piece of string to the garage door uh and the other end to your tooth, and then walk down to the end of the driveway, pop up the automatic garage door opener, and let it yank your gold tooth out.
And then, and only then when you've removed all the gold teeth from your mouth, will it be safe for you to re-enter the house and attempt to dispose of the curly fry light bulb.
Uh this is America in the twenty-first century.
This is what we did to the great iconic invention of Thomas Edison.
I forget who it was who said that in the most important invention of the nineteenth century was the idea of invention.
But they were right.
They were right.
Everything, if you look if you compare the first half century of the twentieth century to the second half, uh it takes longer to fly transatlantic.
It looks longer to fly from New York to London now than it did in nineteen sixty.
Uh, you know, we went in the first half century of air travel, we went from Wilbur and Orville right to biplanes to transatlantic jet liners in the first half century, and now the whole process has seized up.
Uh we are living through the sclerosis of America.
Uh we don't invent things, we regulate the life out of stuff we have already uh invented.
Uh and in unless we liberate uh re-liberate American potential, uh unless we stop making it difficult uh for people actually to develop new products and get them to market.
Uh and uh we will become a nation of regulators.
Every single activity that you can think of is now regulated.
And we have huge regulatory agencies uh wandering into hardware stores and uh uh and fining people uh because they're they're offering free coffee to their customers.
Uh we have become a nation of regulators uh instead of uh a nation that actually rewards innovation.
Let's go to Dan in Cookville, Tennessee.
Dan, uh you're live on the Rush Limbo Show.
Great to have you with us.
Uh, thanks for having Dr. Williams on always enjoy him.
Um I would have called you yesterday if I could have gotten to a phone.
But on Tuesday, I watched a uh thing on uh uh C SPAN about uh James Oberstar, who's our uh you know, chairman of the Transportation Committee and all that.
And it was just a marathon love fest for uh older, how he'd you know seemed to have fixed everything in the world.
And later on that night on the History Channel, I saw this thing about the crumbling infrastructure in America, and it said we're we're turning into a a third world country.
And they talked about dams, levees, roads, and the electrical grid.
Yeah, because we we close dams.
That's what we do.
We don't build dams.
You think Obama's gonna put up a Hoover Dam?
If you're lucky, if you're lucky, he'll put up a wheelchair ramp for the Hoover Dam.
Well, what got me really irate was that they had an engineer on there who uh practically apologized as well, oh we could fix all this, we can fix all this.
And it kind of made you think, well, wait a minute, who's been in charge?
Well, it's the government.
And it does on the electrical grid.
Now that that is mostly privately owned, but it's heavily regulated by the government.
And all these failures, I thought, well, you know, here it comes, here it comes.
They're gonna say we need more taxes.
But you know, as soon as they say we need more taxes, then it kind of puts a spotlight on the government needing to uh uh is is the culprit and not the savior of of all of our problems.
No, it it uh uh uh it's it's the inability to make things happen in a timely fashion.
Uh I don't think you can get the Caledonian record of uh Vermont's Northeast Kingdom and Northern New Hampshire in Cookville, Tennessee, but uh uh Dan, but if you if you could, you would see that Vermont's chief stimulator, Vermont Stimulus, uh has explained that there was no new infrastructure building done uh by the stimulus.
The stimulus was a complete failure in Vermont as everywhere else, because nothing is shovel ready in the United States.
Shovel ready, as Obama's admitted, is just a phrase.
It has no meaning in reality because America is no longer shovel ready.
That's the infrastructure problem in the United States.
Mark Steinon Farush, more to come.
Mark Stein and Farush, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta has lost or misplaced more than eight million dollars in property, uh losing track of items including computer and video equipment, government auditors say.
But don't worry, I don't think they've lost any of the uh the vials of uh anthrax or smallpox or anything like that.
So you don't you don't have to uh supposedly you don't have to worry about that.
They've just lost eight million dollars worth of, you know, stuff that isn't particularly toxic.
You don't there was no light bulbs in there, so you don't uh you don't have to worry about it.
Massachusetts, Massachusetts sets target to slash carbon emissions, because that's the priority for the state of Massachusetts.
Uh uh part of the plan includes a pilot program linking car insurance premiums to the miles tra driven, a pay as you drive program.
That's wonderful, isn't it?
You know, restrictions on freedom of movement.
You used to have to be a big old-time uh communist or fascist dictator in uh President El Presidente for Life type to introduce that.
But if you introduce it in the name of saving the environment, people will volunteer to have their movement restricted.
Pay as you drive.
Pay as you drive in Massachusetts to cut back on unnecessary travel.
And let's face it, you're not like Al Gore, are you?
Pretty much everything you do is unnecessary.
Why don't you just stay home and uh instead of say you you don't really need to ramp up all the miles on the car, you don't really need a light bulb, do you?
After all, you're you're pretty much in the dark on everything anyway.
What do you need the washer for?
Why don't you go and take your clothes and uh beat them on the rocks down by the river with the native women by while singing multicultural chants all mornings long.
It'll be a much more rewarding multicultural experience.
Pay as you drive, coming to Massachusetts.
That would be bad news for the 200,000 miles old Scott Brown's ramped up on his pickup, wouldn't it?
Uh where oh Texas.
Texas is also gone uh for the uh got Texas, Houston, Texas.
A longstanding tit for tat between Texas and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over pollution regulation has got has grown fierce in recent months.
Uh the the the uh the EPA is going to directly issue greenhouse gas permits to Texas industries beginning in January after the state openly refused to comply with new federal late regulations.
Uh good for the state of Texas.
Who who elected the Environmental Protection Agency?
Were they on the ballot on November the second?
No.
The guys who are on the ballot, the guys who are on the ballot on November the second, the guys you vote for, uh, the Environmental Protection Agency has slipped beyond their control.
Uh regulation is a bigger threat to the United States of America than pollution is.
This country will regulate itself to death long before it pollutes itself to death.
And the message for 2011 is that you need to make the Tea Party message, you need to make the people's message heard not just by your legislators, but by these insulated, insulated regulators living in a world of their own.
Uh for example, Kathleen Sibelius.
They stripped the death panel provisions out of the uh Obamacare bill.
Uh they stripped them out of the Obamacare bill, but Kathleen Sibelius put them back in there anyway.
Because uh because the bureaucracy can do that.
In the end, it doesn't matter what the legislators legislate, because the bureaucracy and the regulators will just regulate it into being anyway.
This is the critical issue uh facing the United States uh in in uh in the years to come.
Uh November the second sent a message to the legislative class uh what we need to do in 2011 is real in uh the regulatory class because regulatory tyranny is a bigger threat to the United States uh than any environmental pollution in Houston, Texas, or anywhere else.
Mark Stein in for rush, more to come.
Mark Stein, Infrarush on the EIB network.
I'm about to change a light bulb here in our new uh facility at Ice Station EIB.
So I've got my rubber gloves, I've got my pack of playing cards, I've got my mason jar, I've removed my bling, uh, and I find myself recalling the words of uh Sir Edward Gray, the British uh foreign secretary, glancing out of his window at dusk on uh on August, I think it was August the third, nineteen fourteen, on the eve of the Great War, and he said uh he looked at the uh the lamp lighters in the London dusk, and he goes, the lamps are going out all over Europe.
We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
Uh the lights are going out all over America, but we did it to ourselves.
We're regulating ourselves into the dark uh by by banning Edison's uh iconic light bulb.
And this really uh is is the big takeaway from what we've been uh what we've been discussing today.
Uh that the left would rather s uh solve fictitious problems, and because of their control of the media, they do a great job at stampeding uh uh the Republicans into going along with it.
And so we've got to stampede back.
That's what happened on November the second.
That the right, this is a 7030 nation.
When you take the polls, 70% of Americans uh believe in in uh in small government and a self-reliant citizenry that can fulfill its own opportunities.
But we don't have a 70-30 elite culture.
So we push back on November the second, and we have got to do even more pushback uh to make sure the Republicans don't go all wobbly and soft spined and reach across the eiley, because when they reach across the aisle, they enact stuff like this curly fry light bulb legislation.
So we've got to keep the pressure up all through 2011.
I will see you Monday and look forward to it.
Have a great new year.
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