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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
	Rush returns live to kick off a brand new year of excellence in broadcasting tomorrow, twelve midday Eastern.
	Rush back live for another full year of excellence in broadcasting.
	Great to be with you.
	1800-282-2882.
	Breaking news, breaking news.
	There is no truth to the rumor that Justin Bieber has come out in support of the Ground Zero Mosque.
	Justin Justin Bieber, Canada's Teen Sensation.
	Hey, hey, wait a minute.
	Uh I thought I was Canada's teen sensation.
	The public is so fickle.
	Uh Justin Bieber, Canada's Teen Sensation, was was rumored to have uh given an uh interview to Tiger Beat, saying that he was in favor of the Ground Zero Mosque.
	Uh and as a result of this, the the New York City hard hats uh who are protesting the Ground Zero Mosque had launched a boycott of uh Justin Bieber.
	Um Andy Sullivan, the construction worker who's uh the head of the nine eleven hard hat pledge had uh demanded that his uh eight-year-old daughter take down a Justin Bieber poster.
	So anyway, Justin Bieber's spokespersons now have denied that he gave an interview to Tiger Beat uh coming out in favor of the ground zero mosque.
	The Tiger Beach story in the current issue, did Justin Bieber grow a mustache?
	Uh that is a legitimate story.
	I don't again, I'm I hate to uh my I don't know.
	What what's happened to the research team on this program?
	Did he grow a mustache or didn't he?
	I haven't got the answer here.
	Now I look like a fool.
	Has Justin Bieber grown a mustache?
	Anyway, uh the Justin Bieber grow a mustache story is apparently genuine, but the grus Justin Bieber coming out in favor of the Ground Zero Mosque story never appeared in Tiger Beat.
	Tiger Beat is carrying Tiger Beat, Tiger Beat is entirely unaware of Justin Bieber's position on the Ground Zero Mosque.
	So you do not need to boycott Justin Bieber.
	Well, actually you do, you do, but on aesthetic grounds, uh not on grounds of uh of of his support for the ground zero mosque.
	But just the fact that a rumor that Justin Bieber is in support of the Ground Zero Mosque leads people to tear the posters of him off the uh bedroom walls of their eight-year-old daughter, I think is a sign that Katie Courick may be on to something with the rampant Islamophobia uh uh uh across the United States.
	If people are just prepared to turn on Justin Bieber on mere rumors of a tiger beat story, it th that means there's no end.
	There's no end to the depths of Islamophobia in America.
	Um there is a uh an interesting story uh in in the Christian Science Monitor today.
	Uh people sometimes say, well, why do you why do you talk about something going on in Canada or something going on in Europe?
	Because in case you haven't noticed, every single bad Euro Canadian idea sooner or later comes to the United States of America, whereas a very little, very little actually travels in the other direction.
	So whatever it is, uh government health care, confiscatory taxation, uh eventually that shows up here.
	Whereas uh you can you can go and talk about the second amendment all you want uh in in in most other countries of the Western world, and you're not gonna get anywhere.
	The traffic is all one way.
	So what's gonna be the next great European idea uh to make it to the United States of America?
	European nations begin seizing private pensions.
	Five nations in Europe are taking over their citizens' private pension money to make up government budget shortfalls.
	Uh they give a couple of examples here in Hungary.
	Uh last month the government made the citizens an offer they could not refuse.
	They could either remit their individual retirement savings to the state or lose the right to the basic state pension but still have an obligation to pay for it.
	Uh the government uh in effect uh nationalized fourteen billion dollars of individual retirement savings.
	Uh the bulgars are now uh trying something uh similar.
	Uh in uh what do they do with this money, by the way?
	The idea that somehow when they take money for the so-called government pension fund, they're gonna actually use it on government pensions is completely uh false.
	Uh in Ireland, for example, the National Pension Reserve Fund was brought into existence explicitly to support pensions for the Irish people in the years twenty twenty five to twenty fifty.
	Uh However, uh in March, the Irish government took four billion dollars out of this fund to rescue banks in the wake of the uh big downturn in two thousand and eight.
	And uh just uh six weeks ago they took the remaining savings of two point five billion euros out of it to support the bailout for the rest of uh uh the flailing Irish economy.
	So so all this money that was uh earmarked for pensions for the Irish people in the years twenty twenty five to twenty fifty, they just basically spent the whole lot of it.
	There ain't gonna be anything.
	If you're if you're expecting to retire in Ireland in the year twenty twenty-five, they've already spent it.
	Uh and that gets to to go back to what we were talking about earlier, uh that the pansy left solving problems that don't exist.
	But the cost of solving them is huge, is absolutely huge.
	It's actually more expensive.
	Solving fictitious problems uh turns out to be far more expensive than solving uh real problems, because in effect they're a fantasy.
	So you're you're not limited uh by the constraints of reality in determining what it is you do uh to uh to solve the problem.
	Uh the light bulb is a good example.
	There's no real problem with Edison's light bulb, but if you suddenly decide if if Congress gets together, uh the pansy left and the pansy right get together and decide, oh Edison's light bulb is America's silent killer.
	We've got to do something about it.
	The fact that this is a fevered fantasy that you have concocted out of your own head means that there are no limits uh to what you are prepared to spend to solve this problem.
	It's not like a real problem.
	If if if if you've got a washed out bridge uh and you need to replace the washed out bridge, you know what it costs to bridge from A to B. Uh that is, that is a fairly uh containable real world problem.
	When you're solving fantasy problems, there's no end to it.
	And that's why in Europe, uh at least five nations now have begun to seize private pensions.
	That's to say you may have a private pension arrangement, you may have a four hundred one K, you may have a SEP or whatever, and one day the government uh government spokesman just turns up on TV and announces he's nationalizing it.
	Just as the government took over General Motors, just as the government took over college loans, just as the government took over health care, the government is now taking over your 401k.
	And it's worth thinking about that.
	Because it sounds crazy.
	Uh but just think how crazy uh the government taking over General Motors would have sounded, you know, even as late as, say, nineteen eighty.
	Just think how crazy Obamacare would have sounded uh to any American of the mid-20th century.
	Uh sooner or later, all the crazy ideas implant uh th from that that seem totally antithetical to the American idea eventually implant themselves here.
	And that's why the the important thing is to nip them in the bud, to nip them in the bud.
	Uh and I would say that the the idea uh what sounds insane that the idea might uh that the government might nationalize your four oh one K, I would bet when when you're when you're uh spending four trillion dollars but only raising two trillion in revenue, uh eventually you run out of all legitimate sources of income.
	So the only question then becomes is how extravagant you have to be in seizing illegitimate sources uh uh of income.
	And the idea that this government will not start thinking about ways to nationalize retirement savings when that's the only kind of money that it can't easily access, uh you don't want to you don't want to bet against the uh the government uh uh trying something like that.
	Um there was a very interesting example of of why the left ties itself into into knots on this kind of stuff, by the way.
	When uh Ezra Klein, who's a um uh uh economist with the Washington Post and uh uh he he he got into trouble when he was on MSNBC and he said that one reason people find the um uh the uh the the Constitution so confusing as he put it uh is because it's over a hundred years old, and so it's written in this kind of old timey language that people don't understand.
	You you gotta love this guy is uh like Ezra Klein is basically the Justin Bieber of the Washington Post, and uh And you know, he can't believe that this constitution thing that America saddled with dates like from the Cindy Lauper era.
	I mean, who needs it, man?
	It's over a hundred years old.
	Nobody understands what what we who knows even what kind of language uh that people were speaking back then.
	And of course a lot of people rushed in to mock him to point out that in fact uh the Constitution is over two hundred years old.
	But you know, let's face it, if you uh but the uh and that this demonstrated lack of a certain grasp of history.
	But in fact, I think it gets to a more basic point that the the the left lives in the present tense.
	It doesn't matter whether it's a hundred years old, two hundred years.
	The King James Bible is four hundred years old.
	Who it's celebrating its four hundredth anniversary.
	Who can relate to it?
	It's like uh totally ancient outmoded stuff.
	Because it gets to the big distinction this between uh I think a a prog so-called progressive temperament and a conservative temperament.
	The idea that that uh that every idea comes with built-in obsolescence.
	So the fact that the Constitution is this moldy old thing uh written with quill pen means it can't possibly be relevant uh in the age of Twitter.
	Uh the idea that there might be timeless principles which endure beyond the span of a mere human lifetime is literally incredible to the left.
	Because it's a present tense moment.
	Uh it lives in a kind of fevered present tense sphere.
	And just as it has no interest in the past, it has no real interest in the future.
	That's why it spent our future.
	That's why if i if you were one of the Irish taxpayers uh who was shaken down to put money into the Irish pension fund for the years twenty twenty-five to twenty fifty, uh get used to it.
	They've spent twenty twenty-five to twenty fifty, just as we've spent our future.
	Uh just as the Congressional Budget Office does all these ludicrous predictions for the year twenty fifty and the year twenty eighty and the year twenty ninety, and none of it makes a da matters a damn, because we have outspent everything from those years.
	Uh and what matters is not the mid-20th century, but really from kind of twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen on.
	We are going to be hanging off the cliff by our fingernails.
	Uh but that is how the left thinks.
	Oh, the Constitution, uh it's written in all this old timey language, it's over a hundred years old.
	Who can possibly relate to it?
	Uh just as the the the uh functioning society uh is uh is a kind of contract between uh the present, the past and the future.
	And the left breaks that contract.
	It it it despises the past because it thinks there are no endearing principles and that thinks there is nothing you cannot reinvent.
	It doesn't matter whether it's basic societal building blocks like the family uh or uh or religious institutions or anything i uh or constitutions, doesn't matter.
	Uh who needs it?
	Uh but at the same time as it breaks its faith with the past, it also breaks its faith with the future, which is why if you're one of those teenagers who was standing behind Obama in the campaign rallies singing chanting all the hope he changey stuff, they've done for you too.
	Uh and uh it's not just the the uh old time constitution that they've tossed in the garbage can of history, they've tossed your future in the garbage can of history too, because in the end, the whole leftist big government program uh is completely unsustainable.
	We'll talk about that and lots more in this first live rush show of the new year 1800, 282-2882.
	Mark Stein and Farush, just want to make sure I've got that uh Ezra Klein quote right.
	Uh quote, the this is a Washington post columnist, by the way.
	Quote, the issue of the Constitution is that the text is confusing because it was written more than one hundred years ago.
	Who knew what who knows even what language that was uh that was spoken uh that was spoken then?
	It's like uh stuff from a hundred years ago.
	What's it take me out to the ball game?
	I think that was written in uh 1908, if memory uh serves.
	Buy me some peanuts and crackerjack, I don't care if I ever get back.
	Who the hell knows what it means?
	We should have nine Supreme Court justices weighing in on interpretation of anything uh over a hundred years old.
	But this is this is gets to the core of the leftist delusion.
	Uh the the the uh permanence is the vanity of every age.
	They assume that the present tense is forever.
	And because the present tense is forever, we have driven off, we have driven America off a fiscal cliff, uh, because the the progressive state uh breaks faith with both the past and the future.
	Let's go to Patrick in Bangor, Maine.
	Patrick, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Great to be with you.
	Uh I enjoy listening to you when you fill in for Rush.
	You do a great job.
	I love being I love being here.
	In your neighboring state, by the way, I'm live here in New Hampshire.
	Yeah, yeah, I know.
	Right close by.
	Well, I wouldn't say that.
	It's like uh it's a uh it's like a three-day drive zigzagging up and down, because it's from me to you is one of those you can't get there from here type.
	Don't get me going on the east to west highway that the state shut down for several decades, but uh that's best for another call.
	No, no, that's right.
	I love the way in your great state, whenever I do whatever that r what is it, Route 2 that's the big East uh or 302, whichever way it doesn't make any difference, but everyone you take across Maine.
	I love the way in summer they the minute the summer tourists arrive, they uh they just have the one lane uh highway and they're doing all the paving on it.
	So I that helps even more.
	Yeah.
	Uh but let's let's job.
	Yeah, that's that's great.
	Uh let's not complain about the main highway system, because that that'll that'll take us from here till next uh Christmas.
	What's what's on your mind, Matthew?
	We do have LePage in there, not to forget.
	He may he may make some changes.
	But in any case, uh my comment was about public sector unions.
	And uh I told your screener how that even in uh FDR's era, it's not that he wasn't calm enough to get on with that program, but they understood it was such an obvious uh you know nepotistic grab for power that it just wasn't palatable, you know.
	It was so overt.
	Now we find it to be, you know, the state of the nation.
	And it goes back to what you were saying about how their politics work eventually.
	It's the there's no long site, it's the politics of adolescence.
	And uh you know, they're they're great three tenants, you know, Marxist tenants is repetition, repetition, repetition, and here we are, no matter what what what subject you want to look at it, they've just inundated us and desensitized, and here we stand, you know.
	No, and as and as you point out, um uh w what everyone felt about FDR, he understood the basic the the contradiction uh in public sector unions.
	There was a fantastic moment.
	John Corzine, the floppo governor of New Jersey before Chris Christie.
	Now he he stood by uh the he he addressed a public sector union rally, uh and he said uh at one point, uh, we're gonna be in there working for you, pitching for you.
	This was over some negotiation for whatever this union rapacious terms this union wanted.
	Uh and what was fascinating was the use of the word we there.
	He saw himself.
	John Corsine saw himself as one of them.
	He's supposed to be their employer.
	He's supposed to be representing the interests of the people of New Jersey.
	And instead he was representing the interests of the rapacious public sector shakedown kleptocrats of New Jersey.
	And that's why you shouldn't have public sector unions, because he doesn't understand that he's the boss negotiating with the workers.
	Uh that relationship has no meaning in government.
	Especially not when you have unions just basically sluicing whatever percentage it is uh from their members' salaries straight to the Democratic Party to grow government and thereby grow the public sector union even bigger.
	Um you can't you simply can't have that.
	Um Patrick, I don't know whether is Maine a big union state for public sector unions.
	Well, they've killed off the economy uh over a quarter century or so through policies here.
	But so yeah, there's a lot of uh there's a lot of government jobs.
	That's really kind of what's left unless you're down in the southern part of the state, and that's basically uh Burb of Boston, which was getting all the welfare money through the big dig and all so it's getting that way.
	There's not a whole lot to be done.
	They there's so many restrictions unless we can be the CFL trees.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
	You should use that northern forest to see if you can't uh grow environmentally friendly uh light bulbs, Patrick.
	That that would be a great use for the Great North Woods.
	Uh thanks.
	Thanks for your uh call.
	You know, Patrick gets right to the uh the essence here.
	Whatever the necessity of unions or the justification for unions in the private sector, uh there's no there's no need for them in government because government is a monopoly.
	It's not as if they're you can have a a uh cartel of uh of of rapacious uh private sector uh uh bosses ganging up on the the poor working man.
	There's none of that in government.
	It's a cosy relationship.
	Uh that demonstration where people were saying uh in uh Springfield, Illinois, there was a demonstration a few months ago.
	People standing up and Down the street saying, raise my taxes.
	And if you'd listen to the way it was presented on Pansy Public Radio, the pansies and public radio were presenting it as a kind of communitarian thing.
	Oh, these public spirited uh citizens were saying that we need to pay more in taxes uh so that we can have better public services.
	No, this was a an a demonstration of public sector union workers who live off taxes.
	So them standing up and down, prancing up and down in the street saying raise my taxes is is uh as about as selfless as me prancing up and down in the street saying buy my book.
	It's it was entirely driven by self-interest.
	Uh unless we roll back public sector unions, there is no future.
	Mark Stein InfoRush, more straight ahead on the EIB network.
	And uh and we'll take lots more of your calls.
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	Just wanted to say one other thought, by the way, on this idea of the left thinking that you can live in an eternal present tense.
	Uh this was prompted by uh Ezra Klein uh uh saying that the Constitution is confusing because it's over a hundred years old.
	Uh and uh i i there's an old Taliban saying.
	Well, I don't think it's that old because the Taliban aren't that old, but apparently the Taliban have a saying in Afghanistan called Americans have all the watches, uh, but we've got all the time.
	I don't know, I I read this somewhere or other uh a couple of months back.
	I don't know whether it's a real Taliban saying.
	If it isn't, uh it would make an excellent country song.
	But it absolutely distills the essence of the of the clash of civilizations.
	Islam is playing for tomorrow, whereas a whole lot of the Western world has, by any traditional measure, given up on the future completely.
	We do not save, we do not produce, we do not reproduce, not in most European countries, not in Canada, not in Vermont or San Francisco.
	Uh but instead, like uh Ezra Klein, we want to live in an eternal uh present tense uh of which uh uh of which a contempt uh even the idea of using the expression over a hundred years old as a f as a term of obsolescence, if not of outright contempt, is a big sign of what's wrong with uh the left and what is wrong with the policies that it's imposing on this uh country.
	Let us go to Tim in Milwaukee.
	Uh Tim, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hey, ghostly, ghostly sounds.
	Are you there, Tim?
	I'm here.
	Thank you.
	Oh, great to have you with us.
	You're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	All right, thank you.
	Great show.
	Um I was just calling to uh New Year's Wish is at the 112th Congress.
	Oh, this up to the wishes of the borders.
	Yes, I think you're you're right there uh that that is actually an open question right now, because the sad fact is that November the second Feels uh rather far away.
	It seems to be receding into the uh the rear window rather faster than it should.
	Uh Henry Waxman, uh close ally of soon to be former Speaker Pelosi, uh say uh says we can expect uh one of the most rancorous uh Congresses in history in the next two years because of all the very extreme people, as he puts it, uh, who have pulled the Republican Party, quote, even further to the right, unquote.
	Now I hope he's right about that.
	Because I think we should have a rancorous two years in uh in the United States Congress.
	Uh because uh we gotta have a fight about some of this stuff.
	We can't have the usual reach across the aisle accommodationism.
	We can't have Fred Upton bipartisan uh when he drew up the uh Curly Fry light bulb legislation uh it was within between him, he's supposed to be a Republican of uh some kind or other, and Jane Harmon, Democrat of California.
	Uh we want to actually put some clear blue water between conservative ideas and the last two years.
	Waxman says that the last two years have been two of the most productive uh in uh in modern American history.
	Well, the the uh electorate uh uh delivered a verdict on that on November the second, and uh it looks like uh the uh political class would like to forget that verdict.
	So I hope he's right about this, that this this is because unless we draw the line, and well we already saw that in the lame duck session, people say, well, you know, it's only a hundred and th this this program that the Republicans have agreeing to, it's only a hundred and sixty billion dollars.
	What's what's the point of making uh a stand on that?
	What's the point of taking a firm stand on on that?
	Or the uh one of the Obama bills that was such a nickel and dime operation, nobody even it didn't even make the papers and uh a half trillion dollar acquisition of new federal land.
	Why is the United States government taking another half trillion dollars la uh worth of land out of productive use?
	This i but but by the time it happened, well, it was only four hundred and something billion dollars.
	Uh who cares about it?
	It's uh it's n it's it's just rinky dinky little stuff.
	No point even making the papers.
	What's your priority, Tim?
	What do you want to see him do?
	Uh well, like you said, I I uh uh uh uh it's it's gotta stop you.
	You just want a stop to the spending.
	Yeah, you're right.
	That's the that's the bottom line.
	But you know, it's it's I think it's worth understanding this that the idea there's two kinds of Republicans who are in Congress at the moment, because everyone's pretending to be concerned about the deficit and the debt.
	And there's two kinds of legislators there at the moment.
	There are those who want to figure out a way to make all this huge spending affordable, and there are those who want to make the who want to roll back the spending.
	And we need to support the guys who want to roll back the spending.
	It's not about figuring out a formula that will make this huge, wasteful government uh temporarily solvent uh for another year or two.
	It's actually about uh canceling some of these programs, uh abolishing some of these agencies and uh firing huge numbers of these uh bureaucrats.
	Uh that's that's the kind of uh they're the they're the policies that we have to get behind.
	Otherwise there is actually no way to salvage the situation.
	So Tim, every time your your congressman, I don't know who your guy is in Milwaukee, but every time your guy starts talking about the problem of the deficit and the debt, you have to correct him and say the problem is not the deficit and the debt.
	It's the bloated wasteful government spending that causes the deficit and the debt.
	The idea is not to uh the idea is not to bring in a balanced budget by increasing taxes or introducing a VAT as they have over in Europe, a value added tax.
	Uh the idea is to actually roll back the spending and make the government smaller.
	And if your guy isn't talking about that, he's not serious.
	And he and uh and and uh th he's he didn't get the message of November the second.
	Because the message of November the second wasn't just about the debt and deficit.
	It was also uh it wasn't just about big spending, it was uh it was about big government.
	Uh thanks for your call, Tim, and uh happy new year to you.
	And Tim is right, by the way, that uh that it's an open question as to whether we're gonna get these guys following through on what happened uh in uh i on on November the second.
	Uh what uh Henry Waxman calls the most productive lame duck session uh and the most productive l uh two years uh that uh the Congress has had in uh generations.
	He's right about that.
	Uh the Democrats get into power and they don't waste any time.
	They ram this stuff down your throat.
	They don't care.
	Uh they don't care what the polls say.
	Uh they didn't care about losing Scott Brown's Senate seat.
	The minute uh the minute uh they they uh they lost uh so called uh Ted Kennedy seat in Massachusetts uh and Scott Brown was elected uh did they listen to the message of that?
	No.
	They just got a bigger hammer to make it all the more easier to hammer the health care bill down America's throat.
	And whatever you think of the Democrats, they use their moment.
	Their tiny little window of opportunity, they use their moment to enact hugely expensive transformative legislation that serves their political ends.
	And you get the impression on November the second that uh the Republicans think, okay, we're back now.
	We've got the committee chairmanships, we've got the car, we've got the driver, we've got the corner office, we can just sit here and tread water for a couple of years.
	And America doesn't have that option right now because uh America is a big country and it's an important country.
	America can't be like Iceland or Greece.
	If when Iceland slides off the fiscal cliff it's tough if you're Icelandic but everyone else is a spectator.
	When Greece slides off the fiscal cliff it's tough if you're a Greek and it's tough if you're a German who has to pick up the tab for bailing them out.
	But otherwise most of the world is a spectator.
	Greece doesn't matter in the scheme of things.
	But when America slides off a cliff it's gonna drag most of the planet with it.
	And that is why this stuff has to be uh w we have to uh have a a Republican party in the House of Representatives that understands this is no time to tread water, but it's time to roll back roll back uh what the Pelosi Reed Congress did in the previous two years.
	And even if it's only symbolic even if even if they pass a bill repealing Obamacare, knowing full well that the reach across the aisle types at the Senate aren't going to go along with it and the President isn't going to go uh sign it, pass it, pass it.
	Tell America the two party system still functions and that while there's a pansy left dealing with fictional problems, uh th there is at least one party in the two party system that understands that America's rendezvous with destiny is looming and we have to act on this stuff not in 2020, 2040, 2070, but we have to act on it right now.
	And that moment began on November the second.
	Mark Stein in for rush more to come Mark Stein on the EIB network.
	I mentioned those guys uh demonstrating outside the Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, saying raise my taxes, raise my taxes we need to demonstrate our communitarian selflessness by signing on for bigger taxes.
	Do you ever wonder if you're an Illinois resident what your taxes go to an investigation of an Illinois prison by the Belleville News Democrat has found that the state has paid out ten million dollars for worker injuries in the past three years with more than two hundred and thirty guards claiming repetitive stress from manually operating the cell locks.
	Oh poor wee prison guards they have to manually operate the cell locks.
	Oh and they've got repetitive stress now.
	So two hundred and thirty of them have received a total of ten million dollars in payouts uh including the warden he got seventy-five thousand six hundred and seventy eight dollars.
	Why does the warden at uh what what is what jail is this?
	Oh yes, the Menard Correctional Center.
	Does the warden at the Menard Correctional Center also manually operate the cell locks?
	It sounds unlikely to me, but uh he's also apparently got the old repetitive stress.
	Maybe it's in the air now.
	Maybe the prisoners are coming down with it and if they can get some of those Gitmo lawyers uh on their team uh maybe they could uh sue for for catching the repetitive stress from the guards.
	Uh more than half the prison staff, three hundred and eighty nine guards have filed for the wow it's rampant there.
	If it if it breaks out of the prison repetitive stress uh to stalk the state of Illinois uh then it could be uh it i it it could be yeah well I think uh I think uh H.R. points out by the way that the prisoners are at risk from second hand repetitive stress,
	which I think is terrible because if you're like on death row there, so you've got like you're on you're sitting on death row in the Maynard Correctional Center, and you've got like twenty years of appeals ahead of you, you're gonna be dead from the second hand repetitive stress long before they ever stick you in the chair and fry you.
	I mean, this is outrageous.
	This is outrageous.
	We need to spend more money on this.
	We need to tax the people of Illinois more so we can give uh more payouts to more guards uh suffering repetitive stress at the Menard Correctional Center, and more prisoners uh f being stricken, lifetime prisoners, prisoners, uh career rapists, career murderers, serial killers, guys on death row coming down with second hand repetitive stress system.
	This is the priority for the United States of America in the year in the year 2011.
	Let us go to John in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
	John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Well, we'll just try to be a star today, Mr. Stein.
	Thank you very much for taking my call.
	I want to get right to my point.
	Great.
	Um you seem to do your homework very well.
	And I spent many years with military intelligence, almost twelve years, and one thing I learned in the military and within the intelligence community is that the military had a contingency plan, a what if plan for everything for virtually every country on this planet after the invasion of Granada, because previous to that they didn't.
	I find it hard to believe, and I'm I'm I I just cannot believe that Democrats and Republicans, common citizens, have never been told by the government that this government under Obama or under Bush, and let's say Obama, because he's our current president,
	hasn't spoken with financial wizards, people that simply know what's going on in the financial world to say that once the deficit hits 14 trillion any day now, or fifteen or sixteen trillion dollars, that if this occurs and there is a demand on the part of China, Japan, or anybody else that we owe money to, this is what is going to happen in this country.
	This deficit, this 14 trillion dollar deficit, which is about forty-five thousand dollars per person, man, woman and child in this country to pay it off, is so out of control.
	This could destroy, virtually destroy this country's entire financial system, but nobody ever breaches that subject.
	Have you through the people and connections that you have within high-level financial areas, have you ever been told of a contingency plan or a what-if plan if this goes on with this unbridled spending in this country?
	Well, this this is a fascinating point you raise, John, because Austin Goolsby, who's an Obama economic advisor, in fact I believe he's the only Obama economic advisor from uh 2009 who's still in the job today.
	All the others have uh parlayed their roller decks into lucrative uh uh private sector gigs now.
	But he was on TV talking about playing politics with the debt ceiling and uh the impact on the economy uh that would occur if we even raise the question of US government default.
	But the fact is we've only been able to get to this stage because the US is the de facto global reserve currency.
	Uh in other words, uh it borrows money and it pays it back in the global currency.
	So so from the Chinese point of view, it's less risky lending to a ma buying American debt than say buying Zimbabwean debt or even Icelandic debt.
	Now then, that uh that raises the question at what point uh does America spend so much uh that it jeopardizes its position as the as the global currency and in effect uh ends its status as the global currency.
	You may have noticed the uh US dollar heading into the toilet in recent months.
	Uh and at that point, we're just another not Zimbabwe, but we're just another Iceland.
	Uh and at uh and at that point uh we run out of people to buy our debt.
	As you say, where is the contingency uh for the CBO?
	That's an interesting question, and we will explore it.
	I gotta I gotta take an EIB profit center break here because we're one of the last solvent operations in the United States.
	Uh but I will I will return to that because it's a fa it's the biggest question mark over the future of the United States right at the moment.
	We'll take John's question and explore it in more depth uh still to come on the Rush Limbaugh show.
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	John wants to talk about uh the the contingency plans for uh for for America's looming date with fiscal destiny.
	Here's how the Congressional Budget Office puts it, musing on the likelihood of a an impending fiscal crisis.
	Uh The CBO says, quote, the exact point at which such a crisis might occur for the United States is unknown in part because the ratio of federal debt to GDP is climbing into unfamiliar territory, unquote.
	You know something?
	It's going to get real familiar real soon.

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