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February 7, 2011, Monday, Hour #3

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	Yes, America's anchor man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Mark Stein coming to you live from uh New Hampshire.
	Live free or die.
	That's always good advice.
	And uh in fact it's not just a license plate slogan.
	I think it's a simple statement of reality.
	Uh that if you uh choose not to live as free people, uh then your society will surely die.
	It will die one way uh 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 uh the United States not far behind in the uh canoe for that uh particular waterfall.
	Or it will uh and eventually it will die just in the fact that eventually you just lose the survival instinct and stop breeding, uh as in fact has happened in uh Germany, Spain, and many other uh European countries with their deathbed demographics.
	Uh and uh I wanna I want to say a word uh uh today uh 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 uh had some guy uh come out and sing a uh a uh uh a song in favor of President Reagan than come out and advise Obama to spend more money on education, as uh will I am and the black-eyed peas did at the Super Bowl yesterday.
	The fact that the fact that anyone, even a brain-dead pop star, could think that the the problems facing America will be ameliorated by spending even more than this country already throws down the sinkhole on education uh is completely preposterous.
	Uh President Reagan what I love about President Reagan is the way all his l great lines stand up uh thirty years later, and even then some.
	Actually, some of his lines stand up uh we're going back sixty years now.
	Here's one here's one of uh President Reagan's I like.
	He was born he was born by the way, uh what was it, February sixth, nineteen eleven in uh in Illinois, and uh uh this is a uh 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 uh 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 nineteen fifties, as the host of General Electric's uh weekly playlet on television called uh GE Theatre.
	And if you ever s get a chance to see any of those old intros, and there are probably some of them up on YouTube and what have you by now, uh there's more conservative philosophy in the average Reagan intro to those old uh TV shows with Joan Crawford and Burgess Meredith uh than you likely to get in uh from 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 uh TV drama on G.E. Theatre uh back on TV in the fifties.
	And uh GE General Electorate, to that's the same general electorate that has gone along with the big statist ban on uh Edison's incandescent light bulb, uh that has uh that has uh uh c 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 Carly Fry light bulbs are made in China and then shipped over here.
	And incidentally, I wonder if the cost of, say, uh shipping those curly fry light bulbs uh from China all the way to the United States impacts on the uh conservation savings, energy savings that would be made if we were to still have incandescent light bulbs made in the factory down the street.
	Uh who knows?
	Who knows?
	All we know is that California, for example, has recently found that mysteriously enough, the curly fry light bulb that that we was forced upon Americans uh 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, uh they're only having sixty percent of the uh uh of the uh uh uh the the it's fallen by sixty percent 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.
	Uh so you uh 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 uh two or three minutes to warm up to its full glow, and then leave it on at least fifteen minutes before you switch it off.
	Uh 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 fifteen minutes at a time, uh, 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 we're forced to use light bulbs that uh give worse service, uh, that don't provide the uh 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 uh 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, uh provided genuine insights, real conservative insights uh into the role of government.
	Now, uh we've seen what President Reagan says.
	Uh 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.
	Though what what do those words in the English language actually boil down to in practice?
	Uh but even though walking around money, says Mr. Snodley, that's right.
	Community development.
	Uh community development.
	That's money you spend so that it develops in a more politically favorable way for you.
	But uh even though Barack Obama is in favor of this stuff, he's making the tough choices, and these 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, uh Obama is sub is uh is cutting an environmental program for the Great Lakes.
	The Great Lakes are gonna be just fine.
	The Great Lakes can look after themselves.
	The Great Lakes are gonna still be here when the United States of America looks like that French photojournalism coffee table book of the ruins of Detroit.
	Uh but yet we're told that this is an example of how uh President Barack Obama is getting tough.
	The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will be cut by a hundred and twenty-five million dollars.
	What is a hundred and twenty-five million dollars?
	Is that like uh uh if uh uh is that saving equivalent to, for example, if uh if Michelle Obama had taken uh maybe twenty-five fewer secure uh secret service agents with her when she went on her vacation to the Costa del Sol.
	A hundred and twenty-five million dollars.
	This is a country, this is a country with fourteen trillion dollars of debt, and he's congratulating himself for having cut a hundred and twenty-five million dollars 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.
	Uh the the projected deficit for this budget is one point five trillion dollars.
	That's not America's debt.
	That's not America's debt.
	That's uh 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 this country is committing suicide.
	Uh and and then and and its political class, its political class which is uh perpetrating this mass suicide.
	Uh the political class is congratulating itself uh because they managed to cut one hundred and twenty-five million dollars out of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
	Uh this is a joke.
	This is a joke.
	And voters get it.
	You know, tw only twenty-seven percent of voters favor raising the nation's present fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling.
	Sixty-two percent of Americans oppose it.
	Do you know how hard it is to get sixty-two percent of Americans to oppose anything?
	In many ways, this is a fifty-fifty nation uh on a l on a lot of stuff.
	Sixty-two percent of Americans understand, understand uh that if you if you raise the debt ceiling, it's gotta be because uh it's gotta be uh for very particular reasons.
	It's one thing to raise the debt ceiling because if the word gets out that America is gonna default on its obligations, uh then then uh then America will collapse.
	It'll it'll have its bond rating uh downgraded, uh, and it will be nothing more than a large Greece.
	And you can't have a large Greece.
	It's simply not possible.
	But uh sixty-two percent 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, and he doesn't even does he even have speech writers 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 uh bulldog rhetoric, what does he do?
	He's cut a hundred and twenty-five million dollars from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
	Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh the political class is not serious about the situation that America faces here.
	Ronald Reagan was.
	Ronald Reagan understood that when uh government does things that it shouldn't be doing, it will do them wastefully, expensively, uh, and the service will not be uh as good.
	So that's why anything that uh 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.
	Ninety-seven percent of the workforce of the Long Island Railroad retire on disability.
	Really?
	That's fascinating.
	Who knew it was such a dangerous job?
	Ninety seven, well, 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.
	Ninety-seven percent of them re retire on disability because working on the Long Island Railroad uh is uh that uh is that life-threatening.
	Now, when it was uh, you know, on the Acheson Topeka and the Santa Fe, and pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga choo choo when they were private railroads, oddly enough, ninety-seven percent of Pullman porters didn't retire on disability.
	Strange how that only settled in once it became a government railroad.
	Uh this 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 round.
	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 a hundred and twenty-five million dollars out of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative isn't gonna 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.
	One point five trillion dollar deficit in this year, one year's federal budget.
	America's political class has to get real about killing programs, stone dead.
	Uh 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 in for rush, lots more to come.
	Hey, Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
	Let's go to Curtis in uh Gross Point Park, Michigan.
	Uh Curtis, you're live on the Rush Slimbaugh Show.
	Hi, Mark.
	It's a thrill, a pleasure to talk to you.
	I love when you sit in.
	I 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.
	He refer uh another caller from um somewhere else in Michigan.
	No, no, he was in Myrtle Beach.
	He talked about Dearborn, he visited Detroit Henry Ford Museum.
	You know, there's a reason Rush calls it New Fallujah 'cause there's a large Arab population there.
	In Dearborn, yeah.
	In Dearborn Dearborn is standing uh um and they're very good people.
	I think they have their own Hodge every year.
	That's that's right.
	And they've uh and the and the police has been very cooperative and uh and arresting uh uh and arresting proselytizing kiss Christians in uh Dearborn Michigan as a matter of fact that we have a good uh mayor you know Dave Bean used to play uh uh basketball for the Detroit Pistons and he's taken on a very hard job uh 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 Gross Point 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 in a bedroom in there because the rule was if you you live where you sleep so they could say uh the police in the fire could say they lived in uh Detroit because they slept there.
	Right.
	Right.
	And this this is part of the kind of assault on American community that it that that comes under big government.
	Detroit's comeback.
	Right.
	All right we started our Kumbaya moment about forty three years ago that was the year after the 67 riot.
	Right.
	And I'm still waiting we've been putting money into education and the 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.
	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 wants to ride in on.
	Well, it might have been Kwame Kilpatrick.
	You know, you remember.
	him uh when you would leave uh Detroit uh Metro Airport and hit I-94 there was a big sign over the freeway that said uh welcome to Detroit we're so bad our mayor is in jail that's that's true you're almost up there with uh the great state of uh Illinois uh on uh on on that front you know Curtis you're you're you you're you're right though but I mean wa 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 the government just spend some more and government just does this and government just does that this is an example of what happens when you governmental ent governmentalize a city and it works for the unions and it works uh for 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 suits.
	Yeah.
	That's that's right.
	I I've got I've got to run, Curtis, because we've got to take a break here.
	But you're right, I had forgotten that.
	It was uh Detroit was held up by LBJ as a model of what the Great Society can accomplish.
	And uh in that respect, Lyndon Baines Johnson is entirely right.
	Uh Detroit, Michigan is a very fine model of what great society programs have accomplished in the United States.
	Mark Stein and Forush, lots more still to come.
	Hey, great to be with you.
	Rush returns tomorrow.
	If you go to uh Rushlimbore.com, though, it's uh it's like he's it's like he's still here, because there's tons of uh tons of material uh there, and you can access it at any time of your convenience, uh Rush Limbaugh.com.
	Uh Mr. Slurley was just telling me, we're talking about the Chamber of Commerce and uh Valerie Jarrett, who uh uh demonized the uh the Chamber of Commerce, and then uh uh like so many of those around Obama uh uh mysteriously faded away.
	But uh what was that?
	She was in a restaurant uh a couple of weeks ago.
	Oh, they were in a fi at a function, that's right, and there were members of the US military there.
	And and she mistook is this right, uh, Mr. Surely, she mistook one of the she she she went, oh Gasson at the at the waiter, and he turned out to be uh a serving member of the United States military.
	That's great.
	That's great.
	That's uh that's what that's wonderful, isn't it?
	That's like the old I forget who that was.
	I think uh Robert Benchley when he uh the old Algonquin days, he walked out uh onto the sidewalk uh and uh he said to the doorman, uh, call me a cab.
	And the uh 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 two thousand and eleven.
	The uh the caring, compassionate uh progressive liberals, always so well informed on our brave men and women in uh uniform.
	Uh the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, uh we were talking I was talking about it with Mr. Surly, because uh Barack Obama has uh has uh decided to cease demonizing them and has decided to engage in what is called, according to the Associated Press, part nudge part courtship.
	Uh and so he spoke to uh the Chamber of Commerce today, and he said this uh if we're fighting to reform the tax code and increase exports.
	Look at that 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?
	Uh 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?
	Forty-seven percent, something like 40 seven percent last year of uh 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 uh power grab centralization of American life, more and more being done by Washington when you don't have to pay for it.
	So this forty-seven percent 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 uh adding to the banality of uh this president's observations.
	This idea that somehow profits and bonuses, he has this view of of of America's taxpayers As Scrooge McDuck.
	You remember Scrooge McDuck in the old uh Disney Card, he was Donald Duck's uncle, I think.
	I got no use for uh Walt Disney cartoons.
	I'm a Looney Tunes man.
	I'd much rather spend time with uh Daffy Duck and uh Porky Pig than with uh Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, uh like bores.
	They never do anything.
	But anyway, uh 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 to Mr. Sophisticate, President Obama thinks the rich do with their money.
	That if you that if you give them if you give them uh tax breaks, as he sees it, if you let them make more money, they just put it in the the warehouse and they get into their Scrooge McDuck uh outfit and get into the bulldozer and plough 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.
	Uh rich people invest money.
	Rich people hire people.
	Rich people spend people and uh spend money.
	And generally speaking, when you're when you're spending money as a free citizen making individual choices, you're doing it in more honest and effective ways uh than when the the government does it for you.
	If I've got ten dollars uh and I decide I'm gonna spend it on lunch at the diner, if I decide I'm gonna put it in a savings account, if I decide I'm gonna blow it on one of the uh one of the cheaper hookers in northern New Hampshire.
	Actually, n uh I'd be I'd be hard put, I think uh even if I know uh ten dollar hooker in this part of northern New Hampshire in the winter.
	Uh but whatever I do with that ten dollars as a as an individual citizen making an economic decision is a more effective use of that money uh than giving it to the government of the United States to uh spend it on what what was the phrasing here?
	Block grants for community development.
	Block grants for community development.
	That's that 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.
	Uh the crazy the craziness that we have got ourselves into.
	Uh we're often accused conservatives of of wanting to turn the clock back to uh to to 1950.
	Not at all.
	I don't want to live in nineteen fifty.
	I don't want to I don't want to I I I mean there are some aspects of life in nineteen fifty our life.
	For example, since nineteen fifty, uh the size of America's state and municipal workforce has increased five times faster uh than the general population.
	You know, I'd like to go back to nineteen fifties uh levels of staffing.
	Uh but I don't want to go back to the nineteen fifty psychology, uh, because I think actually that's the trouble with uh with with big government today.
	We're mired, we're mired still.
	Washington still thinks it's nineteen fifty.
	It still thinks that we have a huge advantage over the rest of the world that we had only because, only because uh 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 uh and took years to rebuild.
	Uh we had a great advantage in that our cities, like Detroit, weren't bombed to rubble.
	So instead they governmentalized themselves uh to rubble.
	Uh but I don't want to go back to nineteen fifty.
	And I think the problem is when you listen to the the way uh Barack Obama wants to spend money, he still thinks it's nineteen fifty.
	Uh America's clock, government-wise, is still stuck in the uh in the Truman administration.
	You know, when Washington uh had a unique dominance of the free world, it could uh it could afford to be generous.
	So it was.
	We had more money than we knew what to do with.
	So we funded the uh 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 uh old school empires, uh, you know, ramshackle colonies, we garrisoned uh the some of the richest nations in history, like Germany and and uh uh 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 uh and 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 uh and the rest of the gang skip out to the bathroom, hey, we say no worry about it, stick it uh uh on our tab.
	And we threw money at our friends uh to defend them against uh hostile powers like the Soviet Union that went belly up uh a generation ago and we threw money at our enemies to enable them to use their oil revenues to fund anti Americanism worldwide uh and we threw money at dozens of countries in between who are of no geopolitical significance whatsoever uh but wouldn't say no to a massive subsidy for this or that.
	Uh and we threw money uh across the uh fruited plain of the United States on uh all kinds of programs that are entirely unnecessary, including the stupid fifth of a mile markers that we now have uh 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 uh as we were throwing all this money around that we're no longer paying cash but we're paying with foreign credit cards.
	Uh and that's what's really uh that's what's really crazy about this.
	The people mired in the past uh 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 uh even though it's now all borrowed money and and in fact we're we w w it's not it's it's partly foreign credit cards and it's partly credit cards we've issued to our unborn grandchildren uh and cheerfully uh pre approved them for limits that they will never be able to pay off.
	And uh when you've got a one point five trillion dollar 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 uh a jet propeller on the back of this thing and get us over the falls in the next twenty minutes.
	That's what this budget is doing to the United States of America.
	Mark Stein in for us, lots more still to come Oh, that's one of the all time great intros in pop music uh Tom Jones, it's not unusual.
	I think at the turn of the millennium uh when Bill Clinton was hosting that big thing on the uh on the mall in Washington as the clock struck midnight ten years ago, eleven years ago whatever it was now, I think Tom Jones was the starring attraction and he sang It's not unusual uh in uh in uh in uh in in contradiction by the way of Paula Jones's uh evidence to the grand jury by the way but other than that it was uh 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 uh especially um celebrating Ronald Reagan's the hundredth birthday it was such a joy to see all of the optimistic uh memories of him and you know how much he had um 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 the new freedoms that people are demanding,
	giving credit to Obama, if you heard of the legacy of Westminster, the speech that um Ronald Reagan gave at the British Parliament 25 years um plus ago.
	Yes that's that's right.
	That was one of his that's one one of the great set piece speeches he he gave uh at the Palace of Westminster uh twenty uh as you say, what was it, nineteen eighty five, something like that?
	Two maybe I think.
	But anyway, he was this uh one author was telling us that since uh that twenty five years ago only um a third of the countries had democracies and since then uh since he spoke now o over sixty percent um in n in two thousand uh nine now over sixty percent were democracies and he was crediting Reagan by you know saying that um 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 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, you know, hope that he gave to other people in other countries.
	Oh no, and there's no there's no doubt about that, Laura, that if you go to uh the Baltic states to Latvia and Estonia and Lithuania and the states of Eastern Europe, that they understood.
	They loved, and you you me y I I 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 uh the Iron Curtain, whom, as we discovered in the late eighties and the early nineties, f were were thrilled to hear a Western leader finally stand up and tell the truth about uh about this the prison state they were forced to live in.
	Yeah, and how many individual people even now in Egypt and all of the you know places around the world that are yearning, and it's not i it's not, you know, that they want jihadist uh, you know, ideology.
	They want freedom.
	They want what we have and what you know the the folks uh that were prospering have.
	And the capitalism capitalism that goes along with that success.
	Well, that I think I think there is I think we have to be a bit uh a bit careful uh about that, Laura, because I think you know if you take uh President Reagan's great line, uh, you know, the the nine most terrifying words in the English language, uh I'm from the government uh and I'm here to help.
	Uh President Reagan believed that.
	He believed in liberty.
	He believed in free people standing on their own uh uh on their own feet.
	And I think what is depressing about so much of the the Western world today, even before we we uh try spreading it uh to uh Fallujah or Gaza or or Waziristan or anywhere else, is that when you look at uh much of the Western world, the oldest free societies on the planet, so many of them uh 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 when you have town hall meetings and uh these people turned up as they did in two thousand and nine to beseech uh good King Barack in Barackingham Palace uh to do something about uh to to uh to to relieve them of their mortgage payments, uh to to uh relieve them of the responsibility uh for finding a job, to relieve to relieve them of the responsibility of adult life.
	Far too many people uh are willing to trade liberty uh for security.
	And the one thing I love about President Reagan, and the one thing that shines from every speech of his that he understood he understood that human dignity is intrinsically linked to the ability to stand on your own feet uh and uh 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.
	Uh Mark Stein Infrarush.
	Uh great talking to you, Laura.
	Um uh don't forget uh EIB network.
	Rush will return tomorrow across the EIB, and his special guest, Don Rumsfeld, more to come.
	Uh I was complaining about those pointless uh 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 saw a yellow sign saying no center stripe ahead.
	And about two hundred feet later, he ran across a hundred 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 three hundred dollar 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 gotta choose.
	Are you gonna 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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