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Feb. 7, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 7, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Mark Stein coming to you live from New Hampshire.
Live free or die.
That's always good advice.
And in fact, it's not just a license plate slogan.
I think it's a simple statement of reality that if you choose not to live as free people, then your society will surely die.
It will die one way or another.
It will die either drowning in debt and unsustainable nanny state programs, as so many parts of the Western world are already doing, Greece and Ireland and the United States not far behind in the canoe for that particular waterfall.
Or it will, and eventually it will die just in the fact that eventually you just lose the survival instinct and stop breeding, as in fact has happened in Germany, Spain and many other European countries with their deathbed demographics.
And I want to say a word today because we are speaking on the day after the Reagan centenary.
And it's a great shame if we had a healthy culture.
I would much rather have had some guy come out and sing a song in favor of President Reagan than come out and advise Obama to spend more money on education as Will I Am and the Black Eyed Peas did at the Super Bowl yesterday.
The fact that anyone, even a brain-dead pop star, could think that the problems facing America will be ameliorated by spending even more than this country already throws down the sinkhole on education is completely preposterous.
President Reagan, what I love about President Reagan is the way all his great lines stand up 30 years later, and even then some, actually some of his lines stand up.
We're going back 60 years now.
Here's one of President Reagan's I like.
He was born, by the way, what was it, February 6th, 1911 in Illinois.
And this is a line of his I like.
Quote, outside its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector, unquote.
Outside its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.
Now, when do you think he said this?
Was it in the first inaugural, the second inaugural?
Did he say it as president, or did he perhaps say it earlier as governor of California?
No, no, no, no, no.
He said this one Sunday night back in the 1950s as the host of General Electric's weekly playlet on television called GE Theatre.
And if you ever get a chance to see any of those old intros, and they're probably some of them up on YouTube and what have you by now, there's more conservative philosophy in the average Reagan intro to those old TV shows with Joan Crawford and Burgess Meredith than you're likely to get from most of the members of the Republican Party in the United States Senate today.
Outside its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.
He just said that, not as president, not as governor.
He just said it, introducing some long-forgotten piece of black and white TV drama on GE theater back on TV in the 50s.
And GE, General Electorate, that's the same general electorate that has gone along with the big statist ban on Edison's incandescent light bulb that has submitted to the government plan to replace the incandescent light bulb with the Curly Fry light bulb, the one that gives that spectral gloom that makes it impossible for you to read Reagan's speeches while you're sitting in bed reading from the nightstand in the evening.
And in fact, that has been great news for China because all those curly fry light bulbs are made in China and then shipped over here.
And incidentally, I wonder if the cost of, say, shipping those curly-fry light bulbs from China all the way to the United States impacts on the conservation savings, energy savings that would be made if we were to still have incandescent light bulbs made in the factory down the street.
Who knows?
Who knows?
All we know is that California, for example, has recently found that mysteriously enough, the Curly Fry light bulb that was forced upon Americans because it was going to save the planet, the Curly Fry light bulb's lifetime has been greatly exaggerated, apparently.
In the state of California findings, they're only having 60% of the it's fallen by 60%, the estimate for the length of time these things will last.
Because who could believe it?
People just keep switching them on and off.
You know, you decide you want to go to the bathroom, you need to go to the bathroom, you've got an urgent need.
So you walk down the hall, you walk into the bathroom, you flip the bathroom light on, you do your business, you flip the bathroom light off, and then you, oh no, you can't do that anymore.
You're supposed to flip the light on, leave it two or three minutes to warm up to its full glow, and then leave it on at least 15 minutes before you switch it off.
So unless you're in the bathroom an awful long time, unless you've got chronic dysentery or some other problem that keeps you in there for 15 minutes at a time, you're not getting the full value from your curly fry light bulb.
It's a very good example.
But yet the government imposed it on us because it was supposed to save the planet.
Because now we're forced to use light bulbs that give worse service, that don't provide the long life they're supposed to give, and that have to be manufactured in China and shipped all the way.
General Electric.
This is the same General Electric that agreed to all this.
This is the same General Electric that President Ronald Reagan, not President, but Ronald Reagan, just as a mere actor and spokesperson for GE, this is the same General Electric for which Ronald Reagan, week after week on TV in the 1950s, provided genuine insights, real conservative insights into the role of government.
Now, we've seen what President Reagan says.
Government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector outside those very few legitimate functions.
Now we're told that President Barack Obama is getting tough with spending cuts, spending cuts.
He's making the tough choices, we're told, by Jacob Lew, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
He wrote in Sunday's New York Times about the tough choices, the tough choices, tough choices that President Barack Obama, the man who doesn't duck the tough decisions, is making.
So even though, even though Barack Obama supports an environmental program for the Great Lakes, he's cutting spending on it.
Even though he personally supports block grants for community service and community development, what does that even mean, by the way?
A block grant for community development?
What is that?
A block grant for community development.
What do those words in the English language actually boil down to in practice?
But even though walking around money, says Mr. Snutley, that's right.
Community development, community development.
That's money you spend so that it develops in a more politically favorable way for you.
But even though Barack Obama is in favor of this stuff, he's making the tough choices.
And these things are going to be cut.
This country is falling into, is sliding off Niagara Falls into the Niagara River and being washed out to Lake Ontario.
And yet, to show the tough choices he's making, Obama is cutting an environmental program for the Great Lakes.
The Great Lakes are going to be just fine.
The Great Lakes can look after themselves.
The Great Lakes are going to still be here when the United States of America looks like that French photojournalism coffee table book of the ruins of Detroit.
But yet we're told that this is an example of how President Barack Obama is getting tough.
The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will be cut by $125 million.
What is $125 million?
Is that like if is that saving equivalent to, for example, if Michelle Obama had taken maybe 25 fewer Secret Service agents with her when she went on her vacation to the Costa del Sol?
$125 million.
This is a country, this is a country with $14 trillion of debt, and he's congratulating himself for having cut $125 million out of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
The Great Lakes doesn't need a restoration initiative.
The United States of America needs a restoration initiative.
The projected deficit for this budget is $1.5 trillion.
That's not America's debt.
That's not America's debt.
That's not the interest on our debt.
That's not payments due on the debt.
That is just the deficit on one year of federal spending.
This country is committing suicide.
And its political class, its political class, which is perpetrating this mass suicide, the political class is congratulating itself because they managed to cut $125 million out of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
This is a joke.
This is a joke.
And voters get it.
You know, only 27% of voters favor raising the nation's present $14.3 trillion debt ceiling.
62% of Americans oppose it.
Do you know how hard it is to get 62% of Americans to oppose anything?
In many ways, this is a 50-50 nation on a lot of stuff.
62% of Americans understand, understand that if you raise the debt ceiling, it's got to be because it's got to be for very particular reasons.
It's one thing to raise the debt ceiling because if the word gets out that America is going to default on its obligations, then America will collapse.
It'll have its bond rating downgraded, and it will be nothing more than a large Greece.
And you can't have a large Greece.
It's simply not possible.
But 62% of Americans have got the message that the political class refuses to get, that it's simply not serious.
And this joke president, a joke president, make no mistake, he's got all his catchphrases in here.
Make no mistake.
This will not be easy.
It will require tough choices.
He's got all the buzzwords.
It's like there's a software program.
He doesn't even, does he even have speechwriters on the payroll or does he just hit the template and print it out straight automatically?
Make no mistake.
Right, okay, gotcha, make no mistake.
He says that every time.
This will not be easy.
Okay, gotcha.
He says that every time.
It will require tough choices.
Okay, gotcha.
It will require tough choices.
He says that every time.
And at the end of all the macho-stirring, tough choice bulldog rhetoric, what does he do?
He's cut $125 million from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
Ladies and gentlemen, the political class is not serious about the situation that America faces here.
Ronald Reagan was.
Ronald Reagan understood that when government does things that it shouldn't be doing, it will do them wastefully, expensively, and the service will not be as good.
So that's why anything that doesn't have to be done by the government should be done by somebody else, because when government does it, it will be worse and more expensive.
It will be like the Long Island Railroad.
97% of the workforce of the Long Island Railroad retire on disability.
Really?
That's fascinating.
Who knew it was such a dangerous job?
97%.
Well, I guess being a conductor on a train must be pretty dangerous, mustn't it?
Oh, yes, but this also includes all the office staff.
This includes the people shuffling paperwork in the back office.
97% of them retire on disability because working on the Long Island Railroad is that life-threatening.
Now, when it was, you know, on the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe, and pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?
When they were private railroads, oddly enough, 97% of Pullman porters didn't retire on disability.
Strange how that only settled in once it became a government railroad.
This is something that Ronald Reagan understood and we have forgotten.
The greatest line that we can honor Ronald Reagan with is that marvelous line from his first inaugural: We are a nation that has a government, not the other way around.
Barack Obama thinks this is a government that has a nation.
The governors of California and New York think they're governments that have a state.
This is killing America.
And cutting $125 million out of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative isn't going to mean anything.
We're washing ourselves into the Great Lakes, into Lake Ontario, down the St. Lawrence, and into the Atlantic Ocean.
We're flushing ourselves into the ocean while Barack Obama congratulates himself on the tough choice he's made.
$1.5 trillion deficit in this year, one year's federal budget.
America's political class has to get real about killing programs stone dead, or there isn't going to be an America for not for your grandchildren in the year 2080, 2090.
There isn't going to be an America in 2030 or 2040 if this stuff doesn't end right now.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush, lots more to come.
Hey, Mark Stein, Infra Rush, on the EIB network.
Let's go to Curtis in Gross Point Park, Michigan.
Curtis, you're live on the Rush Slimbo show.
Hi, Mark.
It's a thrill and a pleasure to talk to you.
I love when you sit in.
I love being here, Curtis.
You really hit my Detroit buttons early on in the show.
And the caller from Sault Ste. Marie, yeah, he couldn't be any farther from this city.
Gross Point Park is a border city of Detroit.
I grew up in Detroit.
1953, I was born.
I left Detroit in 1976 for fear of my life.
Another caller from somewhere else in Michigan.
No, no, he was at Myrtle Beach.
He talked to Dearborn.
He visited Detroit, a Henry Ford Museum.
You know, there's a reason Rush calls it New Fallujah because there's a large Arab population there.
In Dearborn, yes, in Dearborn is in city.
And they're very good people.
I think they have their own Hodge every year.
That's right.
And the police has been very cooperative and arresting and arresting proselytizing Christians in Dearborn, Michigan.
As a matter of fact, we have a good mayor.
You know, Dave Bean used to play basketball for the Detroit Pistons, and he's taken on a very hard job.
One of the local things in the news is he's begging the Detroit police, who most of them don't live in the city of Detroit, to move back into the city.
When Coleman Young was mayor, it was required that you live in the city.
When I moved to Grosse Pointe Park, I moved into the First Street, my starter home.
The borderline for Detroit ran right through my dining room.
And a lot of the homes on the street built additions on the back, and they would put a bed and a bedroom in there because the rule was if you live where you sleep.
So they could say the police in the fire could say they lived in Detroit because they slept there.
Right.
And this is part of the kind of assault on American community that comes under big government.
Detroit's comeback.
Right.
All right.
We started our kumbaya moment about 43 years ago.
That was the year after the 67 riot.
Right.
And I'm still waiting.
We've been putting money into education, and it's going downhill.
The good families of Detroit are moving out of Detroit because they're afraid to send their kids to the public school.
They go to we have charter schools.
Governor Engler of the past started that initiative.
But who was the who is the big and some big businessman came in and wanted to give a lot of money to start up some new charter schools in Detroit, but whoever was the mayor was said they didn't need some white guy riding in on a white horse.
I think they could do with anybody riding in on whatever color horse he's.
It might have been Kwame Kilpatrick.
You know, you remember him.
When you would leave Detroit Metro Airport and hit I-94, there was a big sign over the freeway.
It said, Welcome to Detroit.
We're so bad our mayor is in jail.
That's true.
You're almost up there with the great state of Illinois on that front.
You know, Curtis, you're right, though.
But I mean, it's still staggering to me that people don't get this.
When you have a city that is functionally illiterate, where half the people are functionally illiterate, where they have the literacy standards of a sixth grader.
And as you say, billions have been sunk into this school system where you've had big government that has had a 45-year experiment in wrecking this city.
And yet people still think, oh, well, you know, maybe if we just, government just spends some more and government just does this and government just does that.
This is an example of what happens when you governmentalize a city and it works for the unions and it works for the regulators and the bureaucrats, but it doesn't work for anybody else who's on the receiving end of that government.
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program held up Detroit as going to be one of the model cities on the model.
Yeah.
That's right.
I've got to run, Curtis, because we've got to take a break here.
But you're right, I had forgotten that.
Detroit was held up by LBJ as a model of what the great society can accomplish.
And in that respect, Lyndon Baines Johnson is entirely right.
Detroit, Michigan is a very fine model of what great society programs have accomplished in the United States.
Mark Steinen for Rush, lots more still to come.
Hey, great to be with you.
Rush returns tomorrow.
If you go to rushlimbaugh.com, though, it's like he's still here because there's tons of material there, and you can access it at any time of your convenience.
Rushlimbore.com.
Mr. Snurley was just telling me, we're talking about the Chamber of Commerce and Valerie Jarrett, who demonized the Chamber of Commerce, and then, like so many of those around Obama, mysteriously faded away.
But what was that?
She was in a restaurant a couple of weeks ago.
Oh, they were at a function.
That's right.
And there were members of the U.S. military there.
And she mistook, is this right, Mr. Surley?
She mistook one of the, she went, oh, Garçon, at the waiter, and he turned out to be a serving member of the United States military.
That's great.
That's great.
That's wonderful, isn't it?
That's like the, I forget who that was.
I think Robert Benchley, when he, in the old Algonquin days, he walked out onto the sidewalk and he said to the doorman, call me a cab.
And the doorman said, I'm a United States Admiral.
And Benchley said, well, in that case, call me a battleship.
Valerie Jarrett is doing that stuff for real in 2011.
The caring, compassionate progressive liberals, always so well informed on our brave men and women in uniform.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, I was talking about it with Mr. Surley, because Barack Obama has decided to cease demonizing them and has decided to engage in what is called, according to the Associated Press, part nudge, part courtship.
And so he spoke to the Chamber of Commerce today and he said this, if we're fighting to reform the tax code and increase exports.
Look at it again.
He's got all the butch language.
If we're fighting to reform the tax code, do you seriously think that this man is fighting to reform the tax code?
Or do you think he just goes to bed at night and doesn't give the tax code another thought?
If we're fighting to reform the tax code, he says, the benefits cannot just translate into greater profits and bonuses for those at the top.
They have to be shared by American workers who need to know that opening markets will lift their standard of living as well as your bottom line, President Obama told the Chamber of Commerce on Monday morning.
You know what's wrong with this?
47%, something like 47% last year of Americans did not pay any federal income tax.
Now, obviously, they pay a lot of other kinds of taxes.
They pay sales tax, they pay state tax, they pay property tax, they pay all kinds of things.
But if you're not paying 47%, if you're not paying federal income tax, why would you be bothered about an increase, power grab, centralization of American life, more and more being done by Washington when you don't have to pay for it?
So this 47% of Americans who don't pay any federal income tax, that contributes to this remorseless centralization of power in Washington and the defederalization of America.
And adding to the banality of this president's observations, this idea that somehow profits and bonuses, he has this view of America's taxpayers as Scrooge McDuck.
You remember Scrooge McDuck in the old Disney card?
He was Donald Duck's uncle, I think.
I've got no use for Walt Disney cartoons.
I'm a Looney Tunes man.
I'd much rather spend time with Daffy Duck and Porky Pig than with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse who are like boars.
They never do anything.
But anyway, Scrooge McDuck, Donald's uncle.
Do you remember him?
He's the rich uncle, and he just spends his time.
He's got a big warehouse where he keeps all his money in gold coins and he just plows them.
He sits in a bulldozer and he plows them back and forth in his warehouse all day.
That's what Mr. Sophisticate, President Obama, thinks the rich do with their money.
That if you give them tax breaks, as he sees it, if you let them make more money, they just put it in the warehouse and they get into their Scrooge McDuck outfit and get into the bulldozer and plow the gold coins in the warehouse back and forth all day long, back and forth.
That's all they do with money.
They hoard it.
They don't.
They don't.
Rich people invest money.
Rich people hire people.
Rich people spend people and spend money.
And generally speaking, when you're spending money as a free citizen making individual choices, you're doing it in more honest and effective ways than when the government does it for you.
If I've got $10 and I decide I'm going to spend it on lunch at the diner, if I decide I'm going to put it in a savings account, if I decide I'm going to blow it on one of the cheaper hookers in northern New Hampshire, actually, I'd be hard put, I think, even if I'm a $10 hooker in this part of northern New Hampshire in the winter.
But whatever I do with that $10 as an individual citizen making an economic decision is a more effective use of that money than giving it to the government of the United States to spend it on, what was the phrasing here?
Block grants for community development.
Block grants for community development.
You might as well just have a budget that says abstract noun for abstract noun, abstract noun, abstract.
Abstract noun for abstract adjective, abstract noun.
None of these things mean anything.
None of these things are real.
All of these are distortions in a functioning economy.
And more to the point, the United States isn't rich enough to afford it.
The craziness that we have got ourselves into, we're often accused, conservatives, of wanting to turn the clock back to 1950.
Not at all.
I don't want to live in 1950.
I mean, there are some aspects of life in 1950 I like.
For example, since 1950, the size of America's state and municipal workforce has increased five times faster than the general population.
You know, I'd like to go back to 1950s levels of staffing.
But I don't want to go back to the 1950 psychology because I think actually that's the trouble with big government today.
We're mired.
We're mired still.
Washington still thinks it's 1950.
It still thinks that we have a huge advantage over the rest of the world that we had only because, only because we were the last man standing at the end of the Second World War when all the other advanced industrial powers had all bombed their factories and their cities to rubble and took years to rebuild.
We had a great advantage in that our cities, like Detroit, weren't bombed to rubble.
So instead, they governmentalized themselves to rubble.
But I don't want to go back to 1950.
And I think the problem is when you listen to the way Barack Obama wants to spend money, he still thinks it's 1950.
America's clock, government-wise, is still stuck in the Truman administration.
You know, when Washington had a unique dominance of the free world, it could afford to be generous.
So it was.
We had more money than we knew what to do with.
So we funded the UN and all the other subsidiary bodies.
And we absolved post-war Europe of paying for their own defense.
And we garrisoned, not like old school empires, you know, ramshackle colonies, we garrisoned some of the richest nations in history, like Germany and Japan.
And even as the UN fell into the hands of our enemies and their appeasers, we still picked up the check.
And even as Western economic ideas were taken up by Asia and Eastern Europe and Brazil and Turkey and everybody else, we still saw ourselves as the unipolar hyperpower.
So at every summit, at NATO and G7 and all the rest, every time the bill came and the rest of the gang skip out to the bathroom, hey, we say, don't worry about it, stick it on our tab.
And we threw money at our friends to defend them against hostile powers like the Soviet Union that went belly up a generation ago.
And we threw money at our enemies to enable them to use their oil revenues to fund anti-Americanism worldwide.
And we threw money at dozens of countries in between who were of no geopolitical significance whatsoever, but wouldn't say no to a massive subsidy for this or that.
And we threw money across the fruited plain of the United States on all kinds of programs that are entirely unnecessary, including the stupid fifth of a mile markers that we now have all over this once beautiful state of New Hampshire.
It'd still be a beautiful state if only you could see it through the signs.
And we never even noticed as we were throwing all this money around that we're no longer paying cash, but we're paying with foreign credit cards.
And that's what's really crazy about this.
The people mired in the past are those people who still think we have the unique dominance of the world that we had when we emerged from the Second World War.
Everyone else is rich, but we're still the only ones throwing money around like crazy, even though it's now all borrowed money.
And in fact, it's partly foreign credit cards, and it's partly credit cards we've issued to our unborn grandchildren and cheerfully pre-approved them for limits that they will never be able to pay off.
And when you've got a $1.5 trillion budget deficit for a single year's federal government, you have basically, you're in the canoe and you've been drifting towards Niagara Falls, but you've suddenly decided, wow, we better put a jet propeller on the back of this thing and get us over the falls in the next 20 minutes.
That's what this budget is doing to the United States of America.
Mark sign in for Rush.
Lots more still to come.
Oh, that's one of the all-time great intros in pop music.
Tom Jones, it's not unusual.
I think at the turn of the millennium, when Bill Clinton was hosting that big thing on the mall in Washington as the clock struck midnight 10 years ago, 11 years ago, whatever it was now, I think Tom Jones was the starring attraction.
And he sang It's Not Unusual in contradiction, by the way, of Paula Jones's evidence to the grand jury, by the way.
But other than that, it was terrific.
Tom Jones, it's not unusual.
Hey, let's go to Laura in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Laura, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Mark.
Thank you for your wonderful comments, especially celebrating Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday.
It was such a joy to see all of the optimistic memories of him and how much he had, what an impact he had on freedom of not only our country, but so many others.
I was wondering if you heard, you know, since everybody's giving credit to Mr. Obama for Egypt and all of the new freedoms that people are demanding, giving credit to Obama, if you heard of the legacy of Westminster, the speech that Ronald Reagan gave at the British Parliament 25 years plus ago.
Yes, that's right.
That's one of the great set-piece speeches he gave at the Palace of Westminster, as you say, what was it, 1985, something like that?
1982, maybe, I think.
Anyway, this one author was telling us that since that 25 years ago, only a third of the countries had democracies.
And since then, since he spoke, now over 60% in 2009 now, over 60% are democracies.
And he was crediting Reagan by saying that he knew that that was the spirit of the individual and most countries that still want that freedom.
And he was saying what ails the democracies that are just struggling is trust in political and governmental institutions that is low, like the Tea Party saying we don't trust our government anymore.
That that is what's ailing most of the ones that are not surviving as democracies.
So I just resented that the media would credit Mr. Obama's speech and leave out the great, amazing effect that Ronald Reagan had on this country.
And he had not only bringing down the Soviet Union, but all of the hope that he gave to other people in other countries.
Oh, no, and there's no doubt about that, Laura, that if you go to the Baltic states, to Latvia and Estonia and Lithuania and the states of Eastern Europe, that they understood.
They loved, and it was extraordinary to meet people because all the smart set thought Reagan was a Mr. Bozo when he called it an evil empire.
And they had no idea of millions of ordinary people on the other side of the Iron Curtain, whom, as we discovered in the late 80s and the early 90s, were thrilled to hear a Western leader finally stand up and tell the truth about the prison state they were forced to live in.
Yeah, and how many individual people, even now, in Egypt and all of the places around the world that are yearning, and it's not that they want jihadist ideology.
They want freedom.
They want what we have and what the folks that are prospering have.
And the capitalism that goes along with that success.
Well, I think we have to be a bit careful about that, Laura, because I think if you take President Reagan's great line, the nine most terrifying words in the English language, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
President Reagan believed that.
He believed in liberty.
He believed in free people standing on their own feet.
And I think what is depressing about so much of the Western world today, even before we try spreading it to Fallujah or Gaza or Waziristan or anywhere else, is that when you look at much of the Western world, the oldest free societies on the planet, so many of them don't want liberty.
So many of them would rather trade liberty for government security.
And the fact that you have the President of the United States congratulating when you have town hall meetings and these people turned up, as they did in 2009, to beseech good King Barak in Barackingham Palace to do something to relieve them of their mortgage payments, to relieve them of the responsibility for finding a job, to relieve them of the responsibility of adult life.
Far too many people are willing to trade liberty for security.
And the one thing I love about President Reagan, and the one thing that shines from every speech of his is that he understood that human dignity is intrinsically linked to the ability to stand on your own feet and to take responsibility for your actions and to provide for yourself and your family and to build a life for yourself without government getting in the way of that and assuming responsibility for that.
Mark Stein, in for Rush.
Great talking to you, Laura.
Don't forget, EIB Network Rush will return tomorrow across the EIB and his special guest, Don Rumsfeld.
More to come.
I was complaining about those pointless street signs that are disfiguring my state, all those ones that say stop sign approaching before the stop sign and the stop sign approaching sign approaching before the stop sign approaching sign.
Chris in Corpus Christi, Texas, said he was driving down the road.
He saw a yellow sign saying no center stripe ahead.
And about 200 feet later, he ran across 100 feet of roadway with no center stripe.
And after that, the center stripe then reappeared.
And he wanted to know: wouldn't it be simpler to paint the stripe in the road rather than put a $300 sign up saying that there's no center stripe ahead?
Ladies and gentlemen, that's the America of the future.
There is no center stripe ahead.
This is no time for bipartisan reach across the aisle, drive down the center stripe in the middle of the road.
You've got to choose.
Are you going to drive on the left-hand side or the right-hand side?
This is a time for choosing.
Rush returns live tomorrow on the EIB Network.
This has been Mark Stein sitting in.
Great being with you.
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