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	Yes, America's anchor man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man filling in.
	Rush always said, Rush always said that uh he wanted to transfer operational control of this show to the international community uh as soon as uh possible.
	So we have a Canadian host, uh we have a uh producer from the uh European Union, we have an engineer from the Arab League, so at last, at last, this show has transnational legitimacy.
	And uh any Americans involved in this program are just way deep deep in the background, you don't have to worry about them, it's an entirely peripheral thing.
	Uh they don't go to any of the meetings, the whole thing, basically now the whole show is under the operational control of the Canadians, the European Union, and the Arab League.
	So we have perfect at last, after twenty years, we have achieved impeccable transnational legitimacy on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	1800, 282, 2882.
	Uh Secretary uh Gates is about to testify at another uh congressional hearing on the Libyan non-war on the kinetic scope limited uh action.
	Uh Libya's new representative to the uh United Nations has followed Musakusa.
	Musacusa, the Libyan foreign minister has defected uh to the United Kingdom, and uh we were talking we were talking about that uh that earlier, and he's now been followed by the new UN ambassador to the uh the Libya's new ambassador to the United Nations.
	I will try to get the name.
	I'm ashamed to say I don't have the name of the Libyan ambassador to the United Nations, so I don't know if it is m as m mellifluous as Musakusa.
	Musa Cusa Musakusa, men have named you.
	Uh beautiful, beautiful, uh beautiful name.
	Musacusa.
	So we've been talking about Libya, and we've been talking about the budget, which is uh really part of I think really part of the same i uh uh part of the same issue, uh I've uh which is this nineteen fifty way, uh this nineteen fifties way of looking at the world,
	where where there's basically the United States and the rest of the planet, and the gap as it was in nineteen fifty between the United States and the rest of the planet was so vast because the rest of the planet was clobbered by World War II, uh all the other industrial nations, their uh their their industrial manufacturing centers all been bombed to smithereens, uh devastation everywhere.
	Uh the United States was the last man standing, it had more money than it knew what to do with uh and in the wake of that it began living uh beyond uh not beyond the means of the nineteen fifties and the early nineteen sixties, but beyond the means of future generations, which means us.
	Uh if you notice all these uh big entitlement programs introduced in the nineteen sixties, they were introduced uh uh in part because of that nineteen fifty mentality, we were the dominant economic power, we could afford to do it.
	Even then that was uh bad thinking because by that point Germany and France uh had recovered their uh economic base.
	Uh then as uh as things went on, uh other countries uh pulled themselves, uh pulled themselves up to speed, and uh they also developed uh Western scale economies, and still we thought it was nineteen fifty.
	Nineteen fifty uh never ended.
	It the clock is forever chiming nineteen fifty uh in Washington.
	Uh uh we we funded the UN and a dozen subsidiary bodies.
	We talked today.
	Today supposedly operational control of the Libyan non-war has been handed over to NATO.
	What is NATO?
	NATO is uh an alliance, for the most part, an alliance of nations, uh a military alliance of nations that don't have any militaries.
	Uh the United States is responsible for twenty-two percent uh of the funding of NATO.
	Uh the French and the British between them pick up about another uh twenty percent, and the dozens of other countries uh chip in for for the rest.
	So the idea that there is a NATO, NATO only exists uh uh because of the United States.
	If the United States pulls out, there is no NATO.
	Uh we set up NATO.
	We set up the United Nations and a dozen subsidiary bodies.
	We absolved post-war Europe of paying for its own defense.
	And as Germany and Japan and the rest of the West recovered, uh America continued to pay.
	America is the only country in the world, you know, I'm an old school imperialist, basically, and and uh in in my day, Imperial Powers garrisoned ramshackle colonies on the other side of the world.
	America is the only nation in history that garrisons other wealthy nations.
	The United States Army lives in Germany.
	The United States Army lives in Japan.
	The United States essentially covers the defense costs of some of the richest nations in history.
	And then because we think it's 1950 forever and we can afford it.
	And we can always afford it.
	And having uh forsworn imperialism, America then sat back as the UN fell into the hands of our enemies and their appeasons.
	And still we picked up the check.
	Western economic ideas were taken up by Asia and by Eastern Europe and by Brazil and Turkey and enriched many lands.
	But we saw ourselves as the unipolar hyperpower.
	So at NATO and G7 and everywhere else, every time the bill comes and the rest of the gang skips to the bathroom, we're happy to stick it on our tap.
	Because 1950 is forever and 1950 thinking is forever.
	We throw money at our friends to defend them against hostile powers that uh that collapsed uh twenty years ago.
	We throw money at our enemies to enable them to uh use their oil revenues to fund anti-Americanism worldwide.
	Uh we throw money at dozens of countries in between who have no geopolitical significance, but would quite like the idea of a federally funded AIDS prevention condom program or a federally funded cowboy poetry festival.
	Not to worry about it.
	You want to hold your federally funded Cowboy Poetry Festival in uh Central Africa?
	We'll pay for it.
	That's on us.
	Don't even think about it.
	Don't be so vulgar as to get out your wallet, the United States of America will pay for it.
	Uh this president, this president uh launches a war and then goes uh goes to Brazil.
	Uh so he's in Brazil, and he's congratulating uh the Brazilians on on their uh on on their uh discovery of uh uh uh you th their latest uh oil uh uh uh uh innovations and oil investments, and says America will be proud to buy oil from Brazil.
	We've got oil here.
	But we we but because we we think, oh, you know, whether it's nineteen fifty, we don't need to be so vulgar as to actually have any unsightly oil derricks in our own backyard on our own continent, on our own waters, so we can uh we can outsource all that to to other lands.
	Nineteen fifty is forever.
	Nineteen fifty is forever.
	The most ridiculous thing of all, this country's broke, by the way.
	This country is broke, broke bankrupt, drowning in debt.
	Uh China is the country in whose debt we're drowning.
	Yet at the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit.
	Uh America America this is after all the multi-trillion dollar deficits after the debt has become an issue.
	We offer to pay for China to lower its carbon footprint.
	In other words, we're proposing to borrow money from the Chinese government to give back to the Chinese government to pay them for to lower the carbon footprint that enables them uh to uh manufacture everything in China at a much lower cost than it can be manufactured in the United States,
	so they make everything that the world buys these days, and because of that, they've got so rich uh that they're N able to lend the United States money because we don't spend money on anything except government, uh and so we borrow money from China to fund worthless government programs uh while they use the money to develop their manufacturing industry,
	and then because their manufacturing industry is uh has got a big carbon footprint, we offer to borrow more money from them to lower their carbon footprint.
	That's how crazy it is, because of this 1950 thinking.
	1950 thinking when there was America way up there uh uh on the top of the world and everybody else uh was kaput, uh and then as Germany recovered, as Japan recovered, as South Korea got the got the got the whiff of capitalism in its nostrils, as China and India and Brazil and Turkey all got the idea of it.
	We still think 1950 is forever.
	And that's why this budget debate and this pointless uh transnational warmongering are actually part of the same mentality, the same outmoded nineteen fifty way of looking at the world that that is that That will doom this nation uh until unless we get serious about it.
	And and in a sense, I can understand that, you know, 30 why don't we let it go?
	Say 30 claw 33 billion out of the 2011 budget and let it go.
	Because uh because uh as much as this matters, this is the Democrats' budget.
	The Democrats were the party in power between two thousand and eight and two thousand and ten.
	This is their budget.
	Uh in a sense, uh the the fact that they didn't get around to passing one is a procedural uh trick on their part.
	Uh but if you if you uh uh if you look at it in uh i in in broad electoral uh democratic republican terms, uh they were elected in two thousand and eight with the mandate for the two thousand eleven budget.
	So uh on the whole, they they it's their budget and uh and they should come up with it.
	But the twenty twelve budget, the twenty twelve budget, which is just round the corner, which is what we should really be thinking about now.
	This is the serious one.
	And uh push your representative, push your senator.
	Because if if i th there's nothing that half these Republicans like than the old twitchy hand, the twitchy reach across the aisle itis that's been held in check since two thousand and eight.
	You know, you know what it's like, Susan Collins, Olympia Snow, the twitchy reach across the aisle thing.
	The the hand, the old hand starts twitching to reach across the aisle and make common cause with the Democrats, reach across the Isle itis.
	It's the only disease that isn't covered by Obamacare.
	Uh when you get it, there's no cure or whatever.
	If your representative, if your senator shots start showing signs of reach across the aisle itis, you need you need to impress upon them just how serious this uh just how serious this situation is.
	It's nothing to do with mid-century.
	It's nothing to do with 2075, uh or whatever it is the debt commission uh is talking about.
	Within within uh the next four to eight years, we are going to be spending twenty percent of federal revenues on debt interest, debt interest.
	That's to say it's not like it's like a MasterCard.
	When your MasterCard comes at the end of the month, you can't afford to pay off any of the actual debt, but you can just about stay current on the interest.
	How would you like to be in the situation where twenty percent of your income was going towards just the interest on your MasterCard?
	That's the situation the United States is in.
	Uh y let's say you make, I don't know, you make forty thousand a year, and eight thousand of that every year is going to the pay down the inter i d not pay down anything, just to pay the interest on your MasterCard.
	That's the situation that the United States is in.
	The United States will be spending more on debt interest than on the cost of its military.
	This is nothing to do with mid-century.
	This is nothing to do with social security running out in uh for your grandchildren or your great grandchildren.
	This is happening now.
	It's happening now, it's happening now.
	And if these guys are not serious about dealing with it now, then they're just part of the problem.
	Mark Stein in Forush on the EIB network, 1-800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, let's go to Phil in Appleton, Wisconsin.
	Phil, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Mark, it is a thrill to speak to you.
	I um I'm a dedicated Rush less listener, but I always relish your appearances and your free associative um consciousness ramblings.
	Great.
	You make me sound like uh Gaddafi's last address to the UN General Assembly.
	That's I thought you were about to do when you said Mark, it's a thrill to I thought you were about to do the full Obama prostration before King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and then you go and maneuver me into the Gaddafi speaking to the Oh, I love your free association rambling, like when Gaddafi was talking about jet lag uh to the UN General Assembly for twenty-five minutes.
	That's terrific.
	Okay, Phil.
	The only obeisance I would do would be just to, you know, the the uh uh to turn over with with a gut laugh, you know, some of the things you have to say.
	Uh it's always wonderful to hear you.
	Um I just have a small point to to make as you know, we're grappling with all these Titanic issues.
	Right.
	But um I was thinking that, you know, to it might be just a bit of an overreach to to come on too strong against the uh the NEA funding the uh the Cowboy Poetry Festival, and that don't you think that's just kind of our our our national heritage and our cultural identity that we you know rather than funding urine soak crucifixes and feces encrusted Madonnas, we could do something a little bit more in tune with the our national heritage.
	Well you're assuming that these cowboy poets, for example, are all in the in the kind of rugged cowboy uh poetry uh, you know, oh give me a home where a man writes a poem.
	Uh yeah, it could be you you could be HR is already thinking, you know, it could be federally funded uh uh broke back poetry where it's uh so you could have your whole uh you could have your old uh your uh your whole uh you know uh the whole gamut.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, wasn't it Roy Rogers, I think, when Trigger died, he had trigger stuffed, didn't he?
	And I wouldn't rule it out if somewhere in this great land uh trigger isn't floating in a pool of uh uh of the uh of the federally funded cowboy poets urine uh with NEA funding.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I'm not saying it is.
	If you know the whereabouts of trigger, uh do uh do feel free to let me uh let me know.
	But the last I heard he'd been stuffed and uh and was uh and was in uh Roy Rogers' front room, Roy Rogers died a few years back.
	I I'm not saying he is uh that he is like the federally funded uh crucifix in urine, but uh I wouldn't be so sure that we're just funding, you know, wholesome rugged eating beans around the campfire uh r uh kind, you know, while the uh withered uh wh while the old withered uh tree uh with the old guy hanging from it and the and the last cactus on the uh horizon.
	I'm not sure we're doing that kind of wholesome.
	Well, you know, the the the government fund funds monument construction and things like that.
	I mean they they could it uh they could, you know uh No, no, no, wait, no, no, no, a monument.
	You I think I know what you're saying.
	You're saying, look, the cowboy that was America was great, we should preserve our heritage.
	What do you do we're in Copeland?
	I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I and I I d I I dig where you're coming from, man.
	But what it comes down to is, you know, is that th there somewhere out there there'll be a Department of Cowboy Poetry Festival administration grant application processing.
	Yeah.
	And that will be what we're funding.
	And then there'll be professors of cowboy poetry festival educational workshop management.
	Uh the the last thing you need.
	I love cowboy.
	I love cowboy uh poetry.
	Got no object but think about it.
	If it's part of our heritage, what about it?
	Do you want to write a cowboy poem?
	You go out and you need a piece of paper.
	You need a back of an envelope.
	Have you got an envelope?
	Have you got a pencil?
	Uh if you've got a back of an envelope and you've got a pencil, you can write a cowboy poem, Phil.
	It's a low overhead business to be in.
	You don't have to you don't need uh federal funds.
	I mean, it's a festival.
	I mean you it's it would be good to Well, wait a minute.
	No, steady old Phil.
	When you say it's a festival, there's let's say you let's say Phil and Tom and Dick and Harry, you're all hot with the cowboy poetry fever, and you've got four envelopes and four pencils, and you've got and so you're all writing cowboy poems.
	All you need to do is rent the back room at Buds Bar out on Route 126 for 75 bucks.
	And you can have a cowboy poetry festival.
	You know, that I think it might be a little bit of an overreach to lampoon something like that.
	So you know, to to speak out against you know, because you know, you come off looking a little like like the typical sort of caricature of the Republicans being the Grinch that that stole the NEA.
	You know, I can understand why you wouldn't want to fund the National Politbure radio in the United States.
	But you think Okay, okay.
	Okay, I with I withdraw it.
	Actually I would be in favor, by the way.
	I withdraw my criticism of the federal poetry.
	You've convinced me.
	I would like the entire I would like the entire four trillion dollar budget uh transferred to the truth Let's have let's if we're gonna go in for if we're gonna like go in for uh federally funded for cowboy poetry.
	Let's uh let's do it for real.
	It's you know, serious uh uh stimulus funded uh cowboy poetry.
	Let's uh let's go in for the cowboy boy poetry big time.
	Uh let's uh let's spend three point seven trillion dollars on a cowboy poetry festival and drop it on Benghazi.
	That way we can uh that way we uh we all win.
	Uh Phil Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I'm not uh You're we you you're wedded uh Phil Phil is wedded to the uh I I love I like uh I like cowboy poetry as much as uh give me a home where a man writes a poem.
	An American taxpayers pay.
	It's seldom you can get a government grant until John Boehner takes it away.
	I love it.
	You can't be you can't beat federally funded cowboy poetry.
	And you're right, we may be uh we may be getting into uh getting into too much of the nitty-gritty here.
	We maybe it just in going to war uh against these uh these guy these federally funded cowboy uh but these cowpokes la you know, they ride off used to be that uh you could ride the range for days on end uh under lonesome skies, nothing on the horizon, and now there's all these cowboy poets living in their federally funded McMansions uh having a grand old time out there.
	So m but maybe you're right, it's just a peripheral issue, and uh there are more important things we need to uh need to get to work on.
	Mark Steid, InfoRush, talking about cutting government spending because that is what is threatening the future of the Republic.
	Lots more still to come.
	Hey, great to be with you.
	Rush uh returns live Monday for another week of excellence in broadcasting, but uh until then mere substitute host level excellence in broadcasting.
	Let's go to Bob in Greenville, South Carolina.
	Bob, thanks for waiting.
	You're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Yeah, how are you doing, Mark?
	I'm I'm very um concerned about our nation's critical thinking skills.
	That's something that's picked around in schools for a long time.
	Um with regard especially to our energy policy.
	How do we square as as a nation sending two billion to Brazil so that they can uh experiment with deep water drilling?
	We threw our own people out of work in those southern states uh near the Gulf of Mexico.
	Right.
	Who then had to go on unemployment, raise up the cost of taxes to you know to fund that.
	And then our our inflation goes up much more because we have to buy money buy oil, rather, from a place like Brazil where the president just bragged about we'd be one of your best customers.
	Have we lost our minds, Mark?
	No, uh uh we we yes, actually when if if you're uh the on the lost our minds question, you're right.
	Absolutely.
	We have lost our minds.
	Uh but the I think the liberal thinking is this, that it's it's the kind of uh it's the geopolitical version of uh what they used to call what was it, NIMBYism, not in my backyard.
	And basically now the whole of uh the United States is the backyard.
	And we do not need again this goes back to that 1950 thinking I was talking about earlier.
	We think we don't need to do the dirty, grubby, unpleasant work of uh of actually uh of actually getting oil off uh from from our land or our waters.
	We can outsource that uh to the Brazilians.
	And that was basically what O Obama, for example, he he as you said, this deep water offshore drilling off Brazil.
	He was he gave a speech praising that.
	He said, Good for you guys.
	Uh going in for this, we're happy to be your best customer.
	Well, if it's such a great idea, why can't you do it uh deep water offshore drilling in the United States?
	And I think it's be exactly it's because uh i it's a Sierra Club mentality that they that the uh entire uh North American continent should be a uh basically uh a kind of wildlife park punctuated by uh uh the occasional community organizing grant application office.
	That is basically the liberal plan for uh for for the North American continent.
	And everything unpleasant, everything industrial, uh everything that involves uh getting yourself dirty, putting on overalls, uh that should all be outsourced to distant uh people on the far horizon uh that we don't give a lot of thought for.
	Uh H. G. Wells and his uh great work, The Time Machine, uh actually captures uh captures this world when when humanity diverges into two species, the Eloy, who leads soft pampered uh Sierra Club type lifestyles, and then the Morlocks, who are the grunting, snarling, carnivorous uh types who beaver away out of sight underground.
	And we've already come up about, you know, uh whatever it is, eight hundred million years ahead of uh H. G. Wells' predictions.
	We've come up with that world because we lead our soft pampered Eloy uh lifestyles here in the continental United States, and we have these unseen Morlock workers uh off the coast of Brazil providing us with the oil to keep our lifestyles going.
	And and as you say, uh we're we're basically giving money to Brazil for no good reason we could get that oil out of our own ground uh and of our our own water.
	And and w you know, what's the what do you what do you think the oddest thing about uh it's not just that the President of Brazil was bragging uh that we were going to be his best customers, Bob.
	There was something even odder than that that came up.
	D do you know what that was?
	No.
	Immediately immediately Obama left, uh the Brazilians uh came out in opposition uh to the whole Libyan adventure.
	So in other words, even while even while uh Obama is in Brazil demonstrating his great personal communication skills, they're planning to stiff him the moment he's on Air Force One and it clears Brazilian air airspace.
	I mean, this guy's personal relationships with these world leaders are are all but entirely worthless.
	He gets so in other words, you give all your money to Brazil, but you don't even get the fig leaf of international support even in the very heat of the moment, even as your plane is taken off uh and and and flying back uh to the United States.
	One parting thought I was listening um uh to uh my mind playing through marshmallow world in the winter and picturing an Iman jazz pianist playing it, and it wasn't pretty.
	You're going back to you're going back to Andrew uh who called uh for Blunded Ontario, and he had been actually by piano playing Ibam on stage in London, Ontario, when I sang uh Marshmallow World.
	And uh I love the report in the newspaper from one of these agonized liberals uh that they were they talked to some uh student from the University of Western Ontario and it goes something like the the the the the review in the newspaper said Stein concluded the evening by singing It's a marshmallow world in the inter uh in the winter.
	By the end, said so-and-so student 26 years old, I felt the evening had descended into a hate rally because of course what hate rally doesn't end with, it's a marshmallow world in the winter.
	Bob uh from Greenville, South Carolina, thank you very much for your call.
	Great to uh have you with us uh on the on the Rushly Moore show.
	You know, this is this I think gets uh actually gets to the the heart of the the the situation that we have raised a generation of Americans now who d who have lost all connection with what it is that holds up this fantastic lifestyle we lead.
	Uh we think we don't need we don't ooh we don't need to look at any unpleasant oil derricks i we we can turn the whole of the United States into a vast wildlife park uh w full of land restoration projects.
	We can uh we can put it all under the control of the EPA.
	It's not just the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
	We couldn't possibly drill there because it would disturb the breeding grounds of the world's largest mosquito herd.
	We couldn't possibly have that.
	No, it has to go beyond that.
	The entire continent.
	Uh we don't want any we don't want anything that looks like industry.
	We don't want anything that looks like the stuff you have to do to get your hands dirty.
	We can live in a uh we can live uh the the uh the lifestyle uh of the wealthiest nation that has ever existed uh and we will no longer have to do any of the hard, grubby work necessary to preserve that lifestyle.
	When you're when you're sitting there having your arugula salad uh on the beach at Malibu, what do you think is holding up your lifestyle?
	Do you think that's just like a fact of nature that simply because you're living in Malibu uh and the other guy is living in the jungles of New Guinea, that you have a fabulous life and the guy running around in the loincloth in the jungles of New Guinea ha has a short, nasty brutish life.
	Do you think that is just uh as permanent a feature uh of the world as the earth and sky and that it's always gonna be like that?
	No, it's not.
	It comes from it comes from American energy and American innovation.
	And when you're the President of the United States and you're in a foreign land, and you're hailing them and praising them uh for something that you have act have actively outlawed in your land, like offshore drilling, Uh for something where you've thrown people out of work because you don't want any offshore drilling.
	You don't want any uh uh th so in other words, uh something that could have gone to an American company to employ American workers uh to do something in American war uh uh uh uh waters, where the President of the United States is bragging uh that uh that instead he's gonna give two billion dollars uh to uh to to the Brazilian oil giant Petrobras uh to to do in the uh waters of Brazil
	what you are preventing being done uh in in uh the waters of the United States.
	That's why this country is in trouble, because we think we can all live just uh live sensual lives nibbling arugula salads, and that nothing needs to actively hold it up and underpin it.
	And that's the that's the problem uh that this uh this great land faces.
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	Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
	I uh I I rather flippantly suggested that the whereabouts of Trigger trigger Roy Rogers Roy Rogers Great Mount Trigger were unknown, but in fact uh he is stuffed and well in Omaha, Nebraska.
	Uh the owner of uh RFD TV uh apparently bought him last year.
	So if you want to see trigger, he's not floating in a pool of cowboy poet urine, but he is in fact in Omaha, Nebraska.
	Uh thank you to Greg for alerting me on the whereabouts of uh of Trigger.
	Uh Gallup has Hillary Rodham Clinton uh's popularity near an all-time high.
	She's got a sixty-six percent favorability rating.
	That is the highest it's ever been other than December nineteen ninety-eight, uh, when she hit sixty-seven percent right after the GOP uh House of uh Representatives impeached her husband, uh President Clinton, uh, over the whole uh Monica Lewinsky bit.
	So basically basically uh uh uh bombing Libya has uh worked out for her about as uh about as swell as Bill and Monica did.
	Whereas poor old Obama uh he's uh he's down to 42 in a poll.
	There's 24 point gap between President Obama and uh Ann Hillary now.
	Hillary, uh are we looking at the uh next President of the United States here?
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	It could be the could be about the time for Hillary to start testing uh the waters in uh New Hampshire, maybe coming up um with uh uh some little campaign book.
	It uh w what what can we call it?
	It takes raising a Libyan village.
	Uh whatever whatever it is, uh she's maybe uh she's maybe positioning herself right here for the surprise run uh of the twenty twelve season.
	Sixty-six percent uh favorability ratings short of Bill hitting on another intern.
	This is about as high as it can go for her.
	Pretty spectacular.
	Let's go to Dave in Hope Sound, Florida.
	Dave, great to have you with us.
	Thanks, Mark.
	Great to be here.
	And uh great job as always filling in for Rush.
	I love I love uh I love being here.
	It's uh you never know what'll come up, whether uh whether it's Allah appearing uh mysteriously appearing on a Scottish potato or uh or crises over cowboy poetry funding.
	Uh what's what's on your mind today, Dave?
	Well, I was concerned about the gentleman who called earlier um who thinks that the uh federal government ought to be supporting the Cowboy Poetry Festival.
	And uh I hear day in and day out my fellow citizens thinking that America should pay for this, pay for that, any of their pet projects.
	There are a lot of things I'm I'm passionate about and I love to do, but I don't expect my fellow Americans to be picking up the tab, whether it's a church-related activity for me, whether it's um an entertainment item.
	Uh we've got this mindset so many in this country do that, well, the the government needs to pay for this.
	And right now we're not in a financial position to be picking up the tab for a lot of entertainment related items.
	No, and uh and and in and in fairness, the point being made was that it's part of our heritage.
	Uh everything is part of our heritage.
	Uh and and the reason uh that stuff is part of our heritage is because at one point it was economically viable, and then it ceased to be economically viable, and then it becomes something you read about in a in a history book.
	And and that doesn't mean that sim simply because it's past the point of self-support, which actually, as I pointed out, uh cowboy poetry isn't.
	It's a low overhead business.
	Uh, but that's no reason to do it.
	It's like the Sears Robot Catalogue.
	When you were living out on the prairie, uh under the lonesome skies and all the rest of it, the Sears Robot Catalogue was great.
	It was your only way of getting hold of stuff.
	Uh now it's 2011 and we've got this thing called the Internet.
	We don't need to federally subsidize the Sears robot catalogue.
	It ha that's the beauty of a dynamic, innovative society.
	Uh things come and things go, and that's healthy.
	That's healthy.
	When when you put the government in there to to artificially prop up things, that's pretty much a recipe for disaster, Dave.
	Absolutely agreed.
	And also an example, a great uh private enterprise called Silver Dollar City.
	Uh down in the Ozarks in Florida.
	Right.
	They do they do um uh traditional type folk songs and music, and it's a huge success.
	And and as far as I know, don't take a dime of government money.
	It's all privately supported.
	It's an it's a private enterprise business running down there to great success.
	No, and I think I think that's the right way to look at it.
	I mean, you can basically make the argument that any anything is part of part of the heritage and and and we should uh and we should support it.
	And the and the reality, I mean, I could make Bob was mentioning uh my performance of Marshmallow World.
	I could say, well, that's you know, uh that's keeping a beloved American classic song alive.
	So uh so why don't why doesn't the uh National Endowment for the Arts fund that?
	The reality is is that uh, you know, if I want to sing marshmallow world, that's uh that's between me and my checkbook, and I should figure out a way to make it pay.
	Uh and the artificial we now have too many artificial distortions.
	I mean, if you think about it, uh even if you wanted uh to set up an economic model for cowboy poetry in Elco, Novado, uh Elco Nevada, f uh f uh sluicing it uh through a huge federal bureaucracy thousands of miles away in Washington is almost by definition going to be a recipe for disaster, Dave.
	I mean, that's like the worst possible way you could find to do it.
	In any in any conceivable system.
	You're absolutely right on that, Dave.
	This is not a time for cowboy poetry.
	I gotta run, we got an EIB profit center coming up.
	More to come on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Mark Stein for Rush want to get to Karen in uh Richmond, Virginia before we wrap things up today because Karen uh wants to deal with the uh the the most important issue that has come up on today's show.
	Karen uh go for it.
	Oh, Mark, oh you you uh uh humor, why I just adore you.
	I adore you, but I gotta tell you, H. R. was so right.
	When I first heard about Musa Cosa, and he mentioned uh uh entree.
	Yeah, Kusa is actually an Arabic dish.
	I've learned it from Lebanese friends back in the 70s.
	Coosa is yellow squash.
	Yellow squash, right?
	Solid.
	Uh you hollow it, you cut off the tip, you holler it out from the center.
	You cut off the tip, hollow it out from the center.
	Okay, you're yellow squash.
	Stuff it with either uh lamb or beef and pine nuts and all the usual uh Arabic spices.
	Then you put it in a pot of water with uh uh some tomato paste, and you let that simmer for a while.
	Simmer for a while.
	Oh, coosa, right.
	That's that sounds uh that sounds tr uh to terrific.
	Well, no, I the presumably HR is mocking you, but pr Karen, but presumably Mousakusa would be like half the Greek dish moush mousaka.
	Yeah, we're we're well uh moussa or it could be it could be uh well we chatted about that.
	It could be an Alaskan slash Arabic dish where we have moose.
	Oh, now you're talking.
	Right, so you're saying that we you you first you get Sarah Pay first take your Sarah Palin, then take your bull moose.
	Open up on the bull moose, and uh uh and uh serve your serve your slices of moose on an attractive bed of coosa.
	And you've got a beautiful dish of mousacusa.
	And uh this is usually the point in the show at which I would say, here's one I've made earlier.
	Uh but unfortunately we're right out of time, so we won't be able to do that.
	We will resume recipes on the Rush Limbaugh Show live tomorrow.

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