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Jan. 28, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 28, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man uh sitting in, and no supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Rush was live from uh Los Angeles yesterday.
We got to get him.
I'm I'm in New Hampshire at the newest EIB broadcast facility, Ice Station E. I.B. And uh it's a hu absolutely huge studio.
You could get Rush in here, uh he Rush could play golf in here, actually.
Rush could play golf in here if we did a little bit of landscaping.
And on one of the attractively landscaped hillocks you could uh probably put Manheim steamroller to serenade him with silent night as he's playing golf in here.
So we'll try and get Rush to do uh a show from uh IS Station EIB.
He will be back live here behind the Golden EIB microphone on Monday, and tonight uh it's three back-to-back episodes of Rush on the golf channel, uh starting at seven PM Eastern, four PM Pacific.
So don't miss that.
Seven PM Eastern tonight.
Three back to back episodes, uh including my favorite one, uh the middle one, which has the title Hawaii 4-0.
So do do look for that.
Uh well, we were we were talking uh uh about fifteen minutes back when uh uh a caller called in and proposed that we should all volunteer to pay back the Chinese debt.
Uh and I wasn't impressed by this.
Uh in part because we've already given so much money.
The average American taxpayer has given so much money to China over the years anyway.
We didn't we didn't volunteer to do it.
Nobody told us that uh the government was going to be giving it to China, but we're giving it to China uh anyway, and uh the idea that we can sort of have a pass round the collection tin and raise uh three and a half, four trillion dollars and give it back to China uh is not is perhaps not as practical as it might be.
And I started talking about uh how I'd been at the gas uh pumps in uh St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and I'd uh and they were running slow and I'd said, nothing works in this third world country.
And the guy on the other side of the pump who was gassing up came round and said, uh hey, well, if you sinister foreigners uh don't like it, why don't you uh clear off and get the hell out of here?
And I snapped back at him, because it was a cold morning, uh, and said, uh that would have been a cute line thirty years ago.
But if we if we sinister foreigners pull out now, you guys are screwed.
Uh because we're propping up this country.
Uh we're buying all your debt.
Where you're living you're you you're living with a level of government you're not prepared to pay for, and uh and and it's the rest of the world that's buying your debt and keeping things going.
So if we foreigners d take your advice and get the hell out, you guys are screwed.
There's nothing left.
And uh and somebody uh somebody said to me, Well, how did that story end?
Did you and he get into a fight uh and uh it all come to blows?
And I I said, yes, you know, uh he uh he he grabbed a uh a bat from out of the uh the the bed of his truck and he clubbed me over the head, and uh I wound up going to hospital and all the butt.
But in fact he was so stunned by me actually snapping back at him that he just said, Woo, okay He'd never met a pansy foreigner who was prepared to uh to give him some lip on this subject before, so he he he uh he said, Well, you uh you know, he got he got the he got the measure of me.
He knew uh I was uh uh uh an i effete metrosexual foreigner, but I had my dander up, and he at this hour of the morning he had better things to do.
So he just said, Whoa, okay, man, and went off uh uh what offer.
So we didn't we didn't come to blows, and I wasn't on the front page of the Caledonia record in uh in St. Johnsbury, uh Vermont.
Uh one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two, and you know what it means at the end of the week.
Yes, you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Multi-trillion dollar debt to Beijing.
You can talk about the meltdown in Egypt.
You can talk about uh Charlie Sheen being taken to hospital with his hernia problems after a night spent with a bevy of hookers and a suitcase full of cocaine.
That would give anybody a hernia.
We were trying to establish earlier uh technically how many hookers make a bevy.
And uh and and H.R.'s best guess was four to six.
And I said to him that I thought six was the uh the the European Union uh estimate for the number of hookers in a bevy, because uh in a Eurobevy you get more hookers, because they're on the metric system.
So you get six hookers to a bevy over in Europe, but only four hookers to a bevy in the United States of America.
So we'll try and establish for you, because there is some doubt about this, and I know that uh George Soros' stenography pool uh uh are on the alert for factual errors from right wing hate radio.
So if you belong to the hookers union uh and I've grossly underestimated the number of hookers in a bevy of hookers, uh then uh we will try and correct the error before before the uh before the show is out today.
By the way, if you're Charlie Sheen and you're uh resting up from your hernia, and I take it you're in no mood to be under a bevy of hookers right at the moment, perhaps you could call up and let us know yourself how many um how many hookers are in a uh bevy of hookers.
I don't want to get short chained.
I'm very naive.
And you know, we're not we're not richly endowed with uh with hookers in uh remote northern New Hampshire, and I find I'm worried when I go out of an evening uh to spend with a bevy of hookers and a suitcase of cocaine that I may be getting a bit shortchanged, and uh, you know, I'll I'll wander into the brothel and I'll say, okay, I'll have the full bevy, and uh there's only two girls there, and I'm suspicious that maybe there ought to be more in a bevy of hookers when you paid up front, uh, but that sometimes you're not getting the full bevy.
So if you know about that uh do do let us know.
Yeah, that's right that's right.
A half rack or a full rack, says uh H.R. He's obvious he's a metropolitan, he's in New York, so he them they're more on top of the uh bevy of hookers down there, uh, metaphorically speaking.
Uh one eight hundred two eight two eight eighty two.
You know what was the other totally lame aspect of that State of the Union thing, by the way.
The Sputnik moment, the call for a Sputnik moment uh that the president uh made.
I mean, this isn't even his idea.
This is Thomas Friedman in the New York Times, who is always going on.
Thomas Thomas Friedman is what passes for a thinker at the New York Times.
He's off at the moment because he's writing a book.
He wrote the book uh The World Is Flat and he's doing some other uh other book now.
He's a big globalization guy.
And uh in fact all his columns, they're generally filed from the departure lounge, the VIP lounge of some airport, uh, and he's always complaining uh that uh when you're in the departure lounge at uh Shanghai or uh Alma Atta in Kazakhstan, and then you fly into a dump like LAX or Newark,
that this proves how America is slipping behind in globalization, because uh when you're in Shanghai, they've got the high-speed rail link with complementary Wi-Fi all the way to the airport, and you and then you get on the plane, everything's working fine, then you get in the plane, land at Newark and Newark is a dump, but then you land at LAXLAX is a dump.
And that's all his that's all his columns.
He always he's got this great line that uh, you know, uh landing at Kennedy Airport from Hong Kong is like going from the uh from the Jetsons to the Flintstones.
This is always his great line to show he's up on on top of American popular culture, which he last checked in with circa 1963.
So he always says uh landing at Kennedy after you've uh flown out of Hong Kong is like going from the Jetsons to the Flintstones.
I think that was in uh January 2008, uh a couple of months later he goes uh in JFK's waiting lounge after he gets there and takes off for Singapore, and he says that's like going from the Flintstons to the Jetsons.
You know, JFK is the Flintstones, Singapore is the Jetsons.
Then he then uh a couple of months later he's flying from uh Zurich to LaGuardia, and he says that's like flying from the Jetsons to the Flintstones.
So this is the only pop culture analogy he's on top of Thomas Friedman.
And his other analogy that he always uses is that America needs a Sputnik moment.
America needs a Sputnik moment.
Uh that we need to galvanize the nation in the way that we did during uh during the space race and the response to the space race.
But you know, that's not what big government is anymore.
Big government doesn't do that.
Uh and and in a way, the ability to do that, the ability to do a an extremely uh particular accomplishment uh which we did in the space uh in the space age, uh w was an anomaly.
Everybody used the space race template to apply to government.
Uh Rich Larry has a column today, my uh my old boss at uh National Review, Rich Lowry has a column today uh going on about the cliche, you know, if we can put a man on the moon, why can't we do uh why can't we uh fix Grandma's Medicare?
That's uh that was what they used to say in uh LBJ's day.
But but that's the point.
If we can put a man on the moon, in those days, the only way you could get to the moon was through a big government project.
That is a very particular uh you're looking to government to fill a very particular aspect of life.
When government is dealing with your health care, in other words, if you break your ankle and you need uh government, that's not a man on the moon moment.
If you uh when you buy a car and you need the government to have a hand in the manufacture of that automobile, that's not a that's not a man on the moon moment.
When you seek accommodation and you need a subprime mortgage, that's not a man on the moon uh moon moment.
These these are things that humanity was able to accomplish for its entire existence until we started thinking of it in terms of Sputnik moments.
The th that you could provide a rude dwelling for you and your family, and and you could get from point A to point B. And if you happen to fall off the roof of your rude dwelling, uh you could somehow uh manage to make arrangements for your own health care yourself.
These are not man on the moon moments.
There's nobody nobody saying, well, I've got a health care plan.
That's one small step for man, one giant step for mankind.
Let's plant the American flag in my big toe.
Those those uh are routine aspects of human existence, and a society that starts to look on them as a kind of space age moment, uh, is a society by definition in deep decline.
Because uh a society that cannot manage, that is now reduced to Michelle Obama uh lecturing Americans on their diets, uh a society that cannot uh control its own diet, cannot control its own health care arrangements, cannot make provision for accommodation, cannot make provision for transportation.
That is a society by definition that has so debauched its uh human capital uh that uh government now has to control every aspect of life.
It's not a man on the moon moment.
You know, when when they when they send a rocket up to the moon, uh they didn't they didn't say the the argument wasn't that this demonstrates uh the capacity of government uh to do something extraordinary, therefore government has to do everything ordinary.
And that's and that's why uh Obama is being deeply dishonest when he starts calling for a Sputnik moment.
We don't need, we don't need a Sputnik moment.
We need a main street moment.
Uh we need a small farm moment.
Uh we need a uh we need a homestead moment.
We actually need to stop thinking about the ordinary details of life as something to do with the space age, and uh return to the way they were viewed by the people who built a republic in the wilderness uh two and a half centuries ago.
And that is very different.
They didn't look on it as anything extraordinary.
Uh the guys who founded my town, the first miller in my town, uh, dragged his mill wheels.
He came from Connecticut and he dragged his mill wheels up the uh frozen Connecticut River one winter, uh almost to the Canadian border, uh, and he became the first miller in my town.
Now he's nobody special.
He didn't apply for a mill wheel transportation ground.
He didn't sit around in Connecticut saying, Oh, oh, you know, I can maybe move up there and open a mill if they had a high-speed rail link for me to put my whi mill wheels on.
Americans, as Tocville said, when a European has a problem, he wants to know what the government's gonna do about it.
Uh an American has a problem and he does it himself.
Or or that's what he used to say in uh Jacksonian America when Tocville was wandering around it.
So the whole Sputnik this is what's crazy about Obama's speech.
He thinks he sounds modern when he's talking about a Sputnik moment.
It's retro chic from the from the groovy space age, except all the groovy space age uh airports are now ab uh uh uh are now horrible decaying buildings filled with TSA agents groping your genitalia.
The space age ossified.
It got arteriosclerosis under government.
So Sputnik moment, Sputnik moment.
How can a man stand up there in multi-tr facing multi-trillion dollar debts that he that is destroying our children and grandchildren's future?
There's a guy, James Poulos at uh at a website called Ricochet, written a thing saying this isn't a Sputnik moment, this is a Stalingrad moment.
This is when Hitler threw everything at Stalingrad and realized he'd throwed everything at it and it was still a catastrophe.
This is America's Stalingrad moment, and Sputnik ain't gonna cut it.
Mark Stein in for Rush, 1800, 282-2882, lots more still to come.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Luann in uh Webster, Wisconsin.
Uh I think that's right.
I got my I had a momentary blank on my two letter postal abbreviations.
But I think I'm right there, Luann.
Great to have you with us.
How are you doing today?
I'm I'm doing good, old things considered.
How are you?
Well, I was doing perfectly fine listening to my favorite rode radio program, my favorite undocumented radio host.
But then David came on and got my blood boiling.
When he said that we first of all overspent our money and we need to pay back China, we didn't do it if we were in charge, but we wouldn't have spent like drunken sailors.
And second of all, my husband and I own a business, and every quarter we write out checks to the government in large amounts, I might say.
And if he thinks I'm gonna write another one to help pay down the debt, he's crazy.
No, basically what what uh David was arguing was that uh uh i i w where he was right i is that he was i he was right in that it's embarrassing for a great power to be indebted.
And normally this by the way, normally this level of indebtedness leads to the end of your dominant status.
It did for uh uh the French monarchy and it did uh it di one couldn't but one could uh make the same argument with Britain over lend lease with uh FDR and all the rest of it.
In in other words, but basically once you're mortgaged up to the hilt, it's over.
But you're right that you've already paid to China.
You you've already you write checks.
If you've got a small business, you're writing checks to China every single quarter, and and you're just rooting them through Washington as the middleman.
Right and and so the answer is not for as David says, for you you then to put a collection tin on the counter of your business so that your customers can come in and put five dollar bills in there and send it all over and put in an envelope and mail it to Beijing.
The answer is for the government to stop spending at a level that makes it necessary to uh for the for the Chinese to lend us money.
Absolutely.
Well, Luan what what business are you in, by the way, Luan?
Um we do quality control inspections for manufacturing companies.
Oh, right, right, right.
So you and you uh that's you and your husband, and so you're affected by all uh by the way, by all these new regulations about having to issue ten ninety-nines for this and ten ninety-nines for that.
All that stuff just takes up more time for you.
Oh, it's it's it's terrible the things that they've imposed on us small businesses.
It's really it's really bad.
Yeah, and it's uh and it's amazing to me that that uh and I don't know what Wisconsin is like.
New Hampshire at the state level is quite a good place to run a business in, but the the m the amount of federal regulation in the of business in the United States is crippling this country.
Uh and that's w that's why it's the amount of regulatory costs, the amount uh it costs to hire a person if you hire an employee in your business, basically government imposes a surcharge of uh 30, 35 percent by the time you've uh c cover the cost of insuring them and all the rest of it.
Uh it's driving jobs out of the country and it's driving businesses out of the country.
And until and an and the idea that uh uh we have a president that who stands up there on a Tuesday evening and he simply proposes this and he proposes that, uh all of which have one thing in common, that they're gonna mean more federal regulation, more agencies of this, bureaus of that, departments of the other, all with thousands and thousands of federal employees federally regulating you, and then David comes along and says, Oh, and by the way, I've got a collection tin here.
Uh we we don't think the uh the the Chinese air uh uh naval carrier uh program is ambitious enough.
We think they should be able to build more, so why don't uh why don't we have a collection and pay off the Chinese debt as individual citizens?
As you say, you already pay money to China and the government should stop uh spending at a level that uh necessitates that.
Good good for you, Luan.
Well, we're we're gonna get better because as of a couple days ago, we like I said, we're in Wisconsin when and Scott Walker is now the governor.
They put a new sign at the entry of our state that says now open for business.
Right.
And I hope that is true.
I do.
I hope I hope that i I hope that is true, because not enough uh not enough American states are.
Basically, California is closed for business.
Basically, New York State is closed for business.
Unless unless you're in the Bureau of Compliance business, uh in New York State is not a state to do business in.
Uh so I hope you I hope you're right on that, Luan.
Thanks, uh thanks a lot for your your call.
Uh she's in no hurry to donate uh donate money to uh China.
Uh by the way, we've had Ed, Ed emailed me to say he looked up the definition of bevy, and a bevy of quail, apparently, is uh is two dozen.
So if if if uh Charlie Sheet actually did have a bevy of hookers, uh it's no wonder I'm surprised it was Yeah, he would have more than he'd have at least a triple hard you, I would think, after after a uh bevy of hookers.
So I don't I don't know, uh I don't know about that.
But uh we we'll try and keep uh try and keep you up to speed on that.
I will I always love by the way, can we get that for the old bumper music, uh Mike.
That uh that what that that hit from the uh Don McLean hit from the seventies.
I put my bevy in the Chevy and I drove him to the levee.
What was that?
What was that song?
I'm amazed.
Can you get can you get a bevy of hookers in a Chevy?
Uh that is one uh not in a yeah, no in the Chevy Vault.
I think you can get twenty-four environmentally friendly hookers in a Chevy vault.
Uh we'll look into that and get back to you, 'cause we're on the cutting edge of things.
Open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Lots more to come.
Yes, Rushback Monday, open line Friday, Miami Shores, Florida.
This is from the New York Times.
Quote the Marine Patrol officers and Fish and Wildlife Agents made an onshore visit Thursday to the home of one Nick Harrington, 16 to deliver an ultimatum.
Remove the grand piano from Biscayne Bay within twenty four hours, or face felony charges, a five thousand dollar fine, or perhaps worse.
Apparently it's a felony to put a piano on a sandbar in uh in the state of For Florida.
Uh and uh South Florida has been gripped by uh the sight of this grand piano on a sandbar and why on earth it suddenly appeared there.
Uh and the reason is that uh the teenager had intended to make a surreal video of the piano perched atop the sandbar's highest point, with Miami's glittering skyline as a backdrop, to impress the college admissions officers at the Cooper Union in Manhattan, where he hopes to study art or music.
This this is the hyper power in twilight right here, this poignant image of a grand piano on a sandbar, uh that the guy has done as some kind of art installation in order to increase his chances of getting into college.
Do you know that, by the way?
By the way, you you're thinking about going to college, retraining, you know, there's no jobs in town.
You might want to take out uh quarter million dollars worth of debt by uh going to college and uh studying art, and the way to get in, apparently, is to put a uh a grand piano out on a sandbar and uh and that will impress the uh the people who determine whether you can go to college or not.
Wonderful.
Uh Nick remained quiet uh as to uh uh uh uh that that he put the uh sandbar out in the piano.
Nick remained quiet until an independent filmmaking couple.
By the way, that's the hyperpower in Twilight right there.
That phrase an independent filmmaking couple.
What is that?
Is that a category in the census now?
Uh Nick remained quiet until an independent filmmaking couple claimed credit on Wednesday for putting the grand piano out in the sidebar.
So no on the sandbar.
They're fighting over this.
They uh instead, by the way, in th they never did make the video because Nick uh and his family instead uh decided that was too much like hard work.
So they thought it would be better for him to pretend to play it while somebody set the piano on fire.
In other words, to get into an American college now, take your grand piano, put it out on the sandbar.
You know, in the old days it was how do you get to Carnegie Hall, practice.
Now it's, you know, how do you get to college in uh Manhattan?
Don't practice.
Have the piano towed out onto the sandbar, set it alight, and have uh an independent filmmaking couple take photographs of you playing the piano while it's on fire, assuming of course you get your fire permit from the state of Florida, and uh then send it in for your college application.
And that's great, because I think what we need in the America of the future is more college graduates uh who are familiar with getting a grand piano out onto a sandbar and setting it alight.
That is what is going to save the United States uh from sliding into the abyss.
Piano on a sandbar.
That is the story in today's New York Times.
Let us go.
No, chocolate sauce and a shower can.
That's not enough for for your for your art installation.
It was easier in the old days you could just uh uh put a crucifix floating in urine and uh get a government grant for it.
But it's no longer enough now.
You know, it's like uh when you're getting on like me and you're beginning to develop the old prostate problems, and you think to yourself, well, at least I can just urinate in a beaker and I can get a grant from the NEA for it.
Uh no, it's all more complicated than that.
You gotta drag the grand piano out in the sandbar.
Let us go to Nick Harrington's fellow Floridian, Victor.
Victor, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Yes.
Hi, Mark.
It's great to talk to you.
It's great to talk to you too, Victor.
Try not to laugh.
You're so funny with all this bevy in the Chevy bit.
Yeah, don't try it.
You'll you'll wind up with a herd yeah.
You wind up with a herd you like Charlie Sheen and Obamacare won't be there for you.
They cover the first twenty-three hookers, but not the full bevy.
Well, first of all, let me um in a little bit delatedly in the new year, on behalf of all your fans at the free republic.com wish you uh much and much and much and much in health.
Yes, that's good.
Go go freepers, go freepers.
Go freepers.
Lots of help, Mark.
We need to have you around.
You know that.
Okay.
Now I don't think anybody's planning to uh to take me out, and if they do, I'm sure uh someone will manage to blame it on Sarah Palin.
So uh what uh what else you want to talk about, Victor?
Well, in the reference to your earlier point about the Sputnik uh Sputnik, actually it's pronounced Sputnik moment.
Um what's interesting is that uh you know Obama is referring to the tentacle of supposedly the human achievement uh that's not only been um accomplished uh by the government, but uh also by the communist government nonetheless.
That's an uh you know interesting little little uh tidbit that uh you know the purpose of the launch, of course, was uh nothing less than an attempt by the Soviet Union to accomplish a military uh superiority over United States.
Yeah, it was the idea to establish Soviet dominance in space.
Now, to be fair, to to to to be fair to um Sputnik Sputnik, uh when I think what Obama uh m meant by that is that when the uh Sputnik Sputnik uh Rustbucket Rustbucket as Rustbukit uh Rust Rust Bucket however you say it, Rustbucket, uh however you say it in uh in Russian.
Uh the the w when it went up, I think he meant that it galvanized the United States into getting serious uh about space.
Now you can look in it, I think you can look at it uh as a different way.
I don't think Sputnik was ever a real threat uh to to the United uh to the United States.
And and in fact uh I I I read somewhere uh in the last couple of days that in if the Americans had been in first with that and launched a um uh launched it their own uh space satellite uh before the Russians, the Russians would have gone to the Security Council of the United Nations and denounced the Americans for the militarization of space and imposed a regime and got a security resolution,
uh security council resolution passed uh uh cle uh laying off the militarization of space, so that in fact in strategic terms it was to America's advantage that the Russians got there first.
But I think in f I think you're right.
It's an odd analogy uh for the uh for the for the President of the United States to be harking back to a mo a brief moment of Soviet uh superiority, uh Victor.
Uh but uh and by the way, did I pronounce Victor right?
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay, I know I was on TV, you know, and I pronounced uh I originally pronounced Obama I think one time I pronounced Obama Obama and I got denounced by a Democrat for mispronouncing Obama, and I wasn't.
I was just trying to I realize it's Obama, like in it's like it's like the Pakistan Pakistan thing.
So it's like the Sputnik Sputnik thing.
So we want to be sure we're on top of that.
But you found that odd.
So you found that odd just watching him and he and he and he brings he drags up a kind of Soviet analogy from half a century ago.
Right, it's a communist country, and the ultimate purpose was to basically, you know, uh create the in uh you know uh intercontinental ballistic missiles, and I think part of the alarm that went over United States uh was the obvious uh uh you know, Americans understood that finally uh, you know, if the Russians can uh hoist the Sputnik, I mean they obviously can launch a a missile that will reach United States.
So and of course, you know, Americans were working on their own pro on their own pro program at the time.
So but you but you know but you know, Victor, what the real Sputnik, the the the Sputnik moment of today is the Sputnik moment of today, is from the surviving communist power, China, is when China builds its first aircraft carrier and it establishes control over the Western Pacific.
Uh that will be China's Sputnik moment and the American taxpayer will have paid will have paid for it.
So that th this communist analogy is relevant.
But the difference is whatever Lenin's great line was, you know, the capitalists will uh sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
Uh this time round uh the the Chinese are selling us the rope with which they'll hang us.
So in they've improved on Lenin's formula.
Uh thanks very much for your call, uh Victor uh Victor, great uh to talk to you.
By the way, all this space age stuff I think is ridiculous.
Because you know, under Obama, NASA used to go to the moon.
And I can see the point.
If you've got a government space agency uh building a rocket and sending it to the moon, it's you need a government space agency for.
Uh the head of NASA, uh a guy called Charles Bolden last year uh gave an interview and he said that the uh brief he'd been given by President Obama was that the uh foremost priority was that, quote, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and math and engineering.
That's what NASA's foremost purpose is now under Barack Obama.
You know, Islam, the final frontier to boldly go where no diversity outreach consultant has gone before.
The President of the United States tells NASA that what's quote foremost for it is to make Muslims, quote, feel good uh about their contributions to uh to science, because um, as I'm sure we all know, as recently as the early ninth century, uh Mohammed Al uh Khwarizimi invented the first universal horror requadrant.
I mean, it's true things have been a little quiet since the early ninth uh century.
Uh but you know, if we make them feel good, who knows?
Who knows what might be possible?
Uh that's that's what we've uh that's what we've come uh down to from actually going to the moon to NASA as a self-esteem boosterism uh operation.
You know, uh Muslims are from Mars, infidels are from Venus.
That's that's uh Barack Obama's Sputnik moment.
Mark Stein in Farush, open line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
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Let's go to Drew in Quincy, Illinois.
Drew, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Well, thank you, Mark.
My pleasure to speak with you today.
Good to have you with us.
We've been gifted with a uh sixty-seven percent income tax, uh retroactive to the first of the year.
Um there is a plan for a bullet train to go from Chicago to St. Louis.
And we also have a prison that we could put uh Guantanamo detainees in.
Yeah.
And that's all you need.
When you got your bullet train and your Gitmo detainees, that's all you need to jumpstart the economy.
So do you believe this this uh state income tax uh sixty-six percent state income tax hike, that's uh that's uh temporary, and you believe that, don't you?
Uh like uh kinda if you think about the federal income tax that was going to end at the end of the war, which I thought was nineteen forty-five.
Right.
Well, Dunfier, what's the one from the uh what is it, the uh Spanish American war?
Spanish American war, which uh which uh as soon as that ends, there then they're then that temporary tax will cease too.
So as soon as the Spanish American war is over, uh then we'll uh we have toll roads in Illinois, and uh those the toll was going to end as soon as uh they were paid off and uh my best recollection was that was twenty-five years ago.
But we still pay toll, in fact we pay a higher toll now.
And you know what's interesting, by the way, about your state, President Obama's state, uh the business income tax has also increased by forty-six percent.
Forty-six percent.
So um so, you know, if you're in the uh if if you're in the moving truck business in Illinois, I would imagine that's the business to be in.
You can probably withstand, if you're in the in in the moving van business in the state of Illinois, you can probably uh just about withstand the forty percent, forty-six percent uh increase in business tax from all the people who are going to be calling and demanding your vans take them to some other state or some other country.
I d I should think at a certain point they're not they're not picky and they'd be happy for uh to load up the van and for you to drive them to Uzbekistan or wherever a more favorable business climate uh can be found.
I mean, what what is it with the people of Illinois uh that don't understand uh that the issue here is not the revenue, the issue is the spending.
When you've got a hole that is a bottomless pit, uh you you no matter how fast you tax, you can't throw any you can't throw enough money down there fast enough uh to fill it up, Drew.
How come your fellow uh your your your fellow Illinoisians don't get that?
They uh they elected Bogayevich, didn't he?
That's that's true, and but at least you know, at least he was interested in uh in in creaming it uh uh in creaming uh the uh the system for his own benefit, uh uh as far as one can tell.
I don't think even he would have uh enacted a sixty-seven percent tax increase.
But the the point here is uh, you know, why would you run a business in Illinois when you've just had a 46% increase in small business tax?
Why would you be there unless you're actually physically strapped down to that state?
Why wouldn't you just get the hell out?
I think anybody who is mobile and can move their business will, without a doubt.
Without it.
If they don't, they're dumb.
Well, I think you're I think you're absolutely right, uh Drew.
Thank you.
Thank you for your call.
You know, these things, uh, as long as we talk about it in these terms, uh, we are doomed.
Because uh when any when somebody is talking to you about revenue, uh when somebody is talking to you about uh uh uh increasing taxes or introducing a VAT, uh and even when they're talking about temporary things, uh then all they're doing is licensing the spenderholics to spend even more.
And when in fact you feed a spenderholic's habit, uh all he's gonna do is spend uh at an even uh at an even greater rate.
Now, Obama Obama said, the the genius orator, the Cicero of our time, said a couple of days ago uh when he he got some favorable economic indicator, he said, We're digging ourselves out of a hole.
Well, you know something?
If you dig yourselves out of a hole, you don't get out of the hole, the hole gets deeper.
So when you get a sixty-six percent uh income tax hike like they've just got in his state, and you keep digging, you're just digging the hole deeper and deeper and deeper.
And as every uh grade school kid can tell you, uh, when you dig when you dig a hole deep, deep, deep, deep down, you keep digging, eventually you come out on the other side of the planet, somewhere like, you know, for instance, China.
A kindergartner understands that, uh, that when you're in a hole and you keep digging, you come out in China.
Uh but the geniuses in the Illinois legislature who voted to increase taxes by 40 uh six percent on businesses and sixty-six percent on individuals decide that what we need to do is the Obama way of dig the hole deeper and deeper and deeper.
Mark Stein in Farush, more to come.
Mark Stein in Farush uh on the uh on the EIB network.
By the way, by the way, one solution to the debt is that uh anyone now, uh, under a bill proposed in the Hawaiian State Legislature, anyone will be able to get a copy of President Barack Obama's birth records for a 100 fee.
Uh this uh bill has been introduced uh in the state legislature by Hawaiian legislators who hope that it will finally dispel claims uh that he was born elsewhere.
All these uh stories that he was born in the coastal hospital on Mombasa uh in Mombasa, and he's really a British subject and all the rest of it.
And uh I think this is a good idea because I'm confident that so many people will be applying for a copy of President Barack Obama's long form birth certificate for a hundred dollars that we'll be actually able to pay off all the debt to the Chinese.
By the time by the way, I'm an I'm an immigrant to this country, and I need to show my long form birth certificate every time I apply for a library card or anything, so I'm I'm not quite sure what's going on here.
Uh Rush will be on the Golf Channel tonight, three episodes back to back starting at 7 p.m.
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