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July 18, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 18, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's anchor man is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein.
Honored to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
I'm a foreign exchange student at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a great program.
Guys like me get to study here.
And in return, Barack Obama gets to sit in on Vladimir Putin's Monday night poker game with Ayatollah Homaney and Zhang Xi Minh win back all the uh trillions of dollars in debt that America owes.
So it all works out.
Rush is away today, but he will be back live on Wednesday to take you through the end of the week with full throttle, premium strength, excellence in broadcasting.
Uh it's just the watered down substitute host variety today, live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire, just uh a smidgenette south of the Quebec border, because you never know when you might have to make a run for it.
Uh Mr. Snerdley's running the show from uh New York City today, and I believe Nanny Bloomberg is live in the control room with him to check that uh the EIB network's transfats are in full compliance uh with New York City law.
1-800-282-288-2.
Carmageddon is apparently over in uh in Los Angeles, Highway 405.
Uh, you can uh go on there and uh get stuck in traffic just like normal now.
Apparently uh everything is back to normal there.
Carmageddon is over uh on uh on uh what do they call it out there?
Freeways, freeways in California, aren't they for?
I'd love to have a freeway here in this part of Northern.
I'd love to have a Carmageddon.
It's a big bit of a disappointment, I thought.
I thought it was gonna be like, you know, Carmageddon in Paris when it's like uh uh big public holiday there and in some of the uh livelier livier barn lieues of Paris, the youths, the quote, youths, unquote, as the discreet French media say, light up all the Renault and uh citrons.
I thought it was gonna be that kind of Carmageddon they had in Los Angeles.
Uh it's uh, you know, where uh we're we're two miles from uh the local mosque, there's uh the the streets are full of flaming cars.
It's very it's very annoying.
If you're one of these sophisticated French types, you know, and you're having uh what they call a sankasset, that's uh when it's uh I think five to seven PM in the evening, a sank cassette.
That's uh when a uh sophisticated Frenchman spends that time with his mistress.
And when uh he spends his time with his mistress, he gets up, he puts his clothes back on, and he's supposed to hurry back to his wife.
And it's tremendous it's uh tremendously embarrassing when he looks out the window and he sees that his citron is in flames uh on the sidewalk.
So I thought it was gonna be like that kind of Carmageddon out in Los Angeles.
It's uh and instead uh they're just Mr. Snerdley told me they're just installing a couple of roundabouts in the middle of this key stretcher uh freeway 405.
So it's a big big disappointment to me.
Uh meanwhile, beyond Karmagedd, life goes on 1-800-282-288-2.
Uh don't call my bluff.
Don't call my bluff, says the old poker face Barack Obama.
Don't call my bluff.
And uh and oddly enough, nobody in the state-run media is inclined to call his bluff.
Uh he's the grown-up in the room.
He's fiscally prudent.
Uh uh according to a new CBS News poll.
From CBS News.
I didn't know CBS News was still in business.
That's great, isn't it?
I'm very heartened to hear that.
CBS News, they're still going, who knew?
Anyway, CBS News poll, a seventy-one percent shun GOP handling of debt crisis.
This is the headline.
Seventy-one percent shun GOB handling of debt crisis.
So Barack Obama, according to this CBS News poll, and you might want to have a look at the numbers uh down here because uh they can be very murkily constructed, CBS news polls.
But uh seventy-one percent shun the GOP handling of the debt crisis.
So Obama is accomplishing his principal goal, which is to make whatever happens the fault of the Republicans.
Uh he's proposed, supposedly, this is why uh everybody's saying he's the grown-up in the room.
He's proposed four trillion dollars in savings.
Like what?
He hasn't proposed any savings of a trillion this or a trillion that.
He stood at the teleprompter, and he's read out a large number a couple of times.
He said trillion.
He said trillion with a sober and serious expression on his face.
And the White House Press Corps takes him seriously.
The only specific cuts this man has proposed for fiscal year twenty twelve.
And that's all that matters, by the way.
All the rest is ridiculous when they talk about the out years.
You know, this will uh bring savings of twelve point eight trillion dollars by the year twenty forty.
Uh this will uh bring savings of uh twenty-three trillion dollars by the year twenty seventy.
There isn't going to be in America by twenty seventy.
Uh there's no point uh there's no point even taking seriously discussions on out years.
In the out years, Barack Obama is gonna be uh giving speeches in the United Arab Emirates for six-figure sums like the way Bill Clinton uh spends his time.
So anything he proposes for the out years is entirely irrelevant.
Uh don't bear any attention to that.
All that matters is savings now, fiscal year 2012.
Anything other than fiscal year 2012 or permanent structural changes uh in the entitlements starting now is just uh is just nonsense.
It's a bluff.
And as he says, uh he doesn't want anyone to call this bluff.
Um fiscal year 2012, he's proposed cuts of two billion dollars.
Two billion dollars.
The man who's added four trillion dollars to the national debt in two years, can fined two billion with a B, two billion dollars worth of cuts.
Hallelujah!
What a fiscally prudent leader we have.
No wonder the media take him so seriously.
Two billion dollars is what the United States government borrows every ten hours.
So in the time it takes you to sit in a room at the White House and listen to Obama explaining his plan for two billion dollars worth of cuts, he's already borrowed it all back.
Negotiating with Obama is literally not worth the time.
Uh Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs, the uh the great recruiting ground for an Obama administration officials, in the same way that the Democratic Party uh uh former administration officials is the great recruiting ground for Goldman Sachs.
Uh Goldman Sachs has cut its estimate.
They're they're they're entwined together like the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
You remember the way uh Mullah Omar's daughter was married to Osama bin Laden and Osama bin Laden's daughter was married to Mullah Omar.
That's the way it is with the Democratic Party, uh bigwigs and Goldman Sachs.
Goldman Sachs has cut its estimate of third quarter GDP growth to one point five percent.
And it expects the unemployment rate, here's the good news, the unemployment rate is going to come down, but uh only very slightly to eight and three quarter percent by the end of twenty twelve.
In other words, on election day, unemployment will be what it is today.
The flatline economy will be what it is today.
And these are the numbers from Obama's pals, from the three guys left at Goldman Sachs who haven't been given jobs in the Obama administration.
So the flatline administration is confident that the gangbuster's recovery summer can be kept going through November uh 2012.
More from the flatline administration.
This is from the New York Times.
The auto industry is on pace to sell twenty-eight percent fewer new vehicles than it did ten years ago.
That's an amazing statistic.
That's like uh twenty-eight percent fewer new vehicles.
It's like remember all those jokes people make about, well, you don't want to be the last buggy whip manufacturer uh when they invent the automobile.
Uh the the automobile industry is going the way of the buggy whip, and we haven't even invented its replacement yet.
Uh the auto industry is on pace to twelve sell twenty-eight percent fewer new vehicles than it did ten years ago.
Sales of ovens and stoves are at their lowest in twenty years.
So if you want to stick your head in in uh in in the oven and light the gas because you can't stand the way the economy's going, you won't be even be able to do it in a new oven.
Sales of ovens and stoves with their lowest in twenty years.
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, discretionary service spending, that's basically everything except uh food, shelter, and health care, is down seven percent.
That's over twice as high as it's fallen in any previous recession.
And while we're giving out all these numbers, here's my favorite number of the day.
It's an absolutely ingenious statistical comparison from Mark Tapscott in the Washington Examiner.
Uh according to Jim Messina, his campaign manager, through the second quarter of 2011, President Obama now has five hundred and fifty-two thousand contributors to his 2012 re-election campaign.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that during the same two quarters, the US economy generated 260,000 jobs.
In other words, Obama attracted twice as many campaign donors as his economic policies created new jobs.
Who are these people?
I can understand getting suckered the first time around in 2008.
I can just about understand it.
I couldn't really, because a lot of us, uh including me, including Rush, a lot of people uh uh got got this guy figured back in two thousand eight.
But I can forgive I can forgive folks getting suckered first time around.
Who are these people ponying up money again?
2012, uh through the second quarter of 2011, uh half a million contributors uh pres President Obama attracted half a million re-election campaign contributors.
Uh at the same period, he only created 260,000 jobs.
Uh in other words, he attracts twice as many campaign contributors as his administration uh creates jobs.
Now the the um uh the media are still uh uh uh still agreeing to go along and not call his bluff, not call his bluff on the uh dead parrot economy.
Uh if you read the reports, though they're still using this word unexpectedly, you know.
Uh unemployment figures were unexpectedly disappointing for the second quarter.
GDP growth was unexpectedly disappointing for the uh second quarter.
Sales of ovens and stoves were unexpectedly down for the second quarter.
All this word unexpectedly.
Uh but it's getting difficult.
It's getting difficult to do this stuff with a a straight face.
Candy Crowley was on CNN.
I don't know whether you saw this.
I only see CNN uh in airports when you're delayed at the gate and you're sitting there for six hours and they're just showing you Wolf Blitzer till uh till your plane uh takes off.
And that's I think that's why CNN's ratings are uh where they are actually, because nobody can everyone associates it with just gate delays, so they don't want when the minute they get home, the last thing they want to do is switch on CNN and actually see three hours of the Wolf Blitzer show from the comfort of their own home.
So anyway, Candy Crowley is on CNN and nobody saw this, so I'd like to bring it to your attention because this is the latest official explanation for the state of the economy.
Uh Candy Crowley was talking to Jacob Lew, director of the Office of Management and Budget.
And uh and she asked him about some of these unexpectedly disappointing numbers.
And this is what Jacob Lew replied, quote, I don't want to get this wrong, because this is such a fascinating explanation as to what's happening with the economy.
I don't want to get this wrong, so I'm going to be careful here.
Quote Mr. Liu, director of the Office of Management and Budget, quote, look, it has been a difficult few weeks in the economy.
Ain't that the truth?
A difficult few weeks, a difficult few weeks.
Everything was going great up until I don't know.
What was it now?
The uh the second week in June, something like that, and then we've had a difficult few weeks.
So uh he goes, Look, it has been a difficult few weeks in the economy.
There have been some external factors from the nuclear accident in Japan to other things that made the growth slower.
Unquote.
Did you know that?
I I thought it I I I've been I've been racking my brains to figure out what could possibly be wrong with the US economy.
Why is there uh officially nine percent unemployment and unofficially it's way higher?
Why is GDP growth flatlined?
Why is the housing market slumped?
Why are two-thirds of the uh uh mortgages in Harry Reed's state of Nevada underwater?
I mean, racking my bl because Obama's done everything right.
He did the big trillion dollar stimulus, he did the whole thing.
What could possibly be the explanation for why we've had a difficult few weeks in the economy?
And it turns out it's the nuclear accident in Japan.
Who knew?
It's it's basically the aftershock of the Japanese earthquake has uh has been responsible for the US uh unemployment rate, uh the US underwater mortgages, and the US flatline economy.
So as soon as the Japanese clear up their problems with that nuclear reactor uh recovery summer will be going gangbusters all over again.
We're gonna talk about that.
We're gonna we're gonna talk about the debt ceiling, uh, which is really uh which is which is is uh really one of those ceilings like you see in a James Bond movie where he gets into the elevator and the ceiling of the elevator starts coming down and crushing him.
That's what this debt ceiling is doing to us, and this is no time to be uh no time to be raising it.
You gotta bust out bust through it uh the way 007 would.
Mark Stein, Infrarush, 1800, 282-2882.
Ugh Git up.
I love I love uh I love I love uh doing this show from uh New Hampshire uh because we don't get a chance to get funky in uh in this part of northern New Hampshire, so I don't get m oh now we don't go how?
And we don't go get up, get up.
We don't we don't get a chance to get on down or get on up.
That's how bad it is.
Uh it's basically just always the same.
We're entirely consistent.
We never get on down and we never get on up.
That's just the way it is.
Uh one, oh yeah, we do do we do do cow tipping, uh, and if you cow tip right, the cow never gets on up again.
But uh 1-800-282-288-2, Mark Stein in for Rush.
Uh uh in in the uh twenty years ago, it's amazing, really.
Twenty years ago, Clinton became president uh with the great line that James Carville gave him, uh it's the economy stupid.
Uh in debt-ridden America, twenty years later, it's the stupidity economists.
The economists uh file all these reports saying, Oh, disappointing, unexpectedly disappointing.
We we get these economic numbers, it's the stupidity, it's the stupidity.
How it's the stupidity economists.
How stupid.
Your government at work sitting in Federal Reserve vaults are one billion dollars.
There's one billion dollars that nobody wants, right?
Now, a billion dollars doesn't seem like a lot of money this uh these days, because we're so indebted, you know.
So it's not like when you've got fifteen trillion dollars worth of debt, what's a billion dollars?
But it's a it's a it's an image of what's wrong.
A billion dollars that nobody wants.
Why?
Because they're one billion dollar coins.
Nobody likes dollar coins, so they don't use them.
But in 2007, uh Congress mandated uh the production of a certain number of US dollar coins.
They thought that uh the way to get people to buy these coins or to use these coins would be to put uh the presidents on them.
So so because people out there are just itching.
You're just you you you don't use a dollar coin.
What would make you use a dollar coin?
Well, uh, you know, obviously if you've got Millard Fillmore on a dollar coin or Chester Arthur on a dollar coin, suddenly the whole dollar coin thing falls into place.
You can't wait to get out there uh to uh to to Walmart and and jingling your uh mallard Filmard dollar coins and your Chester Arthur dollar coins in your pocket and get out there and start spending them.
Your Benjamin Harris dollar coin.
That's all been that's the only thing that's been preventing Americans from well, no, you can't get Taft on a dollar coin.
They've got to save Taft for the two dollar coin.
Uh that's uh No, no, no.
Taft to Taft will have to wait for the two dollar coin.
But you can't get y you know, the Americans didn't want to use the dollar coin.
So you put Chester Arthur on the dollar coin and boom, they're there.
They they're jingling their Chester Arthur dollars, uh all over spending them all over uh uh uh all over Walmart.
Funnily enough, it didn't work out like that.
So there's one billion dollars in coins that nobody wants.
Nobody wants.
Maybe they could uh drop them all on that Japanese nuclear reactor and solve all the problems there, the whole thing would be crushed under the uh the weight of the Chester Arthur Mallard Film or Dollar Coins and there would be no the the damage that the Japanese nuclear reactor is doing to the American economy would all be over.
Uh but instead, even though the so far we've got a billion dollars of coins sitting in the vaults, because it's mandated by Congress, uh they can't stop producing them.
They've still got to carry on producing dollar coins that nobody wants uh to fulfill to fulfill the obligations uh of this uh of this congressional program.
The can Congress required the production of these dollar coins.
We we are not yet Zimbabwe.
You know, you don't need you don't need a wheelbarrow uh of uh uh uh uh of uh five uh thousand dollar bills to take to the supermarket to buy a quarter mil.
We're not Zimbabwe yet.
But we are actually producing money that nobody wants that is useless, that is just gonna sit in a vault for all time uh just because Congress mandated it.
It's the stupidity economists.
It's the stupidity.
Uh and here's another one.
Two Navy ships that cost three hundred million dollars.
Okay?
Three hundred million, that's not a lot of money, that's just a third of a billion dollars, a third of a billion.
It's nothing, it's nothing.
The they all had nice names.
The USNS, Benjamin Isherwood, and the USNS Henry Eckford were commissioned in 1985 uh at the Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Company to carry fuel to the Navy's fleet around the globe.
Uh they were never completed for some reason.
Uh They've never they've never seen a day of service.
They've sat at the mouth of the James River as part of the uh US Navy's ghost fleet.
Ninety-five percent complete, eighty-four percent complete.
Uh they tried to offload them to a British company that wanted to on sell them on to a NATO uh country, uh, and the British company bailed out.
They're going to the scrapyard, cost a third of a billion dollars without having seen a day of service.
This isn't big stuff.
This is just stuff that goes on in the federal government day in, day out.
Little it'sy bitsy sums.
A billion dollar in coins nobody wants, a third of a billion, uh mothballing two ships that have never seen a day's uh a day's service.
It's the stupidity economists.
Mark Stein Infor Rush.
Yeah, great to be with you.
Rush returns Wednesday.
Don't forget you can go to Rushlimbore.com and uh it's like he's not away.
It's it's like he's not away.
If you're 24-7 rush subscriber, uh you don't have to worry about sinister foreign guest hosts taking over the airwaves, because you can just wallow in rush 24-7 if you go to uh rush uh limbore.com.
It's the stupidity economists.
Big government by definition will be profoundly stupid.
Uh and eventually it be gets uh gets so stupid that it becomes an e existential threat.
There's just so much waste everywhere you turn.
Uh mentioned those billion dollars in coins nobody wants sitting in Federal Reserve vaults.
Uh here at the other end of the scale is just a little nothing, nothing kind of expenditure.
The Omaha public schools use more than a hundred and thirty thousand dollars in federal stimulus dollars, right?
This is interesting, by the way.
Uh the stimulus was supposed to stimulate the economy.
Uh so in Omaha, they sent the stimulus dollars to the school board.
Because uh let's face it, uh, you know, if that doesn't stimulate the economy, what does?
So they sent 130,000 to the Omaha School Board, which uh used it to buy uh eight thousand copies of a diversity manual instructing teachers and staff members on how to become more culturally s uh sensitive.
Uh that's by teaching them that American institutions exist to channel wealth and power to white people.
I don't know whether that's true at the Omaha School Board.
I I haven't looked at the composition, but uh apparently this this was uh what they needed to spend stimulus dollars on.
By the way, uh they bought 8,000 diversity manuals uh for a hundred and thirty grand.
Uh that works out what is uh I'm uh my mental arithmetic isn't what it used to be.
I guess I'm uh I might I'm almost like a product of the Omaha school system itself.
Uh I think that works out to about sixteen bucks apiece.
Don't they get a group discount?
Uh don't they get a bulk discount?
I mean, uh Barnes and Noble wouldn't pay that kind of money for some uh diversity manual, uh Amazon.com wouldn't pay that kind of but they didn't have they paid sixteen bucks apiece for these diversity manuals to uh to teach people about entrenched white power and privilege.
Now, even if you think, even if you think that that is the business of a public school system to uh in effect engage uh in social engineering, and in fact, really child abuse.
I mean, in years to come we will look at what uh these people did to these kids uh as a form of child abuse.
Even if you thought that was something that the Omaha School District should be doing, they know all this stuff already.
What do they need to buy some stupid diversity manual uh that tells them everything that's taken for granted by every single teacher in the system?
Uh uh school board president Sandra Jensen says the district doesn't endorse everything in the book, uh, but she says it's intended to open a dialogue.
No, it isn't.
That's the last thing anyone wants in the American public education system.
They don't want any kind of dialogue.
When you're spending uh a hundred and thirty thousand dollars, federal dollars, federal dollars, you know, if the Omaha taxpayers want to do this themselves, if the if people uh who have the misfortune to be trapped within the Omaha School District want to pass a school budget that provides for uh spending sixteen bucks a piece on stupid uh social engineering diversity manuals peddling the same old bromides uh that have been stale since nineteen seventy-two.
Good luck to him, good luck to them.
Uh but there's no reason why federal taxpayers should be doing that.
It's the stupidity economists.
Let's go to David in Vail uh Colorado.
I'll be I'll be out in um Colorado in uh at the end of this month, actually.
I think not uh Vale but uh but Denver.
Great to have you with us on the show, David.
Oh, thanks, Mark.
Thanks for taking my call.
Good to have you on there.
Hey um, my pleasure.
Earlier you were commenting about uh uh Ob Obama said uh he's got four trillion in savings.
You notice he's kind of parsing his words there, he's not saying cuts, he's saying savings, which can mean almost anything.
You can cut subsidies, you can uh cut tax breaks, you could you know, you can do all those things, and that's considered a savings.
You can raise taxes and that's considered savings.
Yeah, and and it's one of these weasel words.
It's like with the stimulus, you know, the s the way the stimulus was intended to quote create or save, unquote, so many jobs.
Nobody knows what that means.
You know, that in uh in other words, he was saying that if we if we let him blow a trillion dollars on his stimulus, it will quote create or save, unquote, a certain number of jobs.
There's no way of managing that.
He's basically saying, well, uh uh a certain number of jobs would disappear anyway, so this would save uh jobs that might otherwise have been under threat of disappearing.
You can't even ma uh uh measure that.
And it's the same with these savings, these so-called savings for out years.
Out years.
Uh do you talk much about in your life, David, about out years?
No.
So if you if you had I don't know how you guys live in Vale, Colorado, 'cause it's like uh it's like an upscale community compared to my broken down neck of the woods.
But if you like had an expensive cocaine habit, I'm not saying you do, but if you did have an expensive cocaine habit and somebody said you ought to do something about it, and you were projecting uh a certain percentage in savings in the amount of money you were spending on cocaine uh that would that would uh save a certain amount of money in the quote out years, would anyone take you seriously?
No, they wouldn't.
This is this phrase uh this phrase is a good example of how uh government economics has entirely flown the coop from real economics.
There's the any time any uh politician uses the phrase out years, you sh you should just switch you should just switch him off.
You should uh you should stick a bag on his head and uh go do something else, because there's no point paying any uh paying any attention to him.
Uh how many how many savings how m how many trillions of dollars in savings do you think Obama should be uh presenting us with?
Savings?
I don't care about any savings cuts is what you care about.
Yeah, exactly.
You want you want real cuts.
The the the idea that what he means by savings as well, by the way, is that he's talking about possibly slowing the rate of increase in government.
Uh so uh so in other words, the idea is that government should pr be projected and the the the Republicans are guilty of this as well.
That they even they foresee uh that government i the budget is just gonna grow and grow and grow and we're gonna be running massive deficits uh until the year 2030, 2040, but then start to to tail off.
There isn't gonna be an America in in 2030 or 2040 unless we start it now.
So any time a politician is not talking about cuts, and any time he's using weasel words, and any time he's talking about savings, David is right on this, or uh talking about the out years, he's not worth paying attention to.
You should tell that guy he's not serious.
Great uh great to have you with us uh uh on the show, uh David.
Uh it is uh the stupidity economists.
Uh police in Georgia shut down girls' lemonade stand.
I I started collecting these stores.
I got in my soon to be imminently forthcomingly imminent book, um I've got a I've got uh uh a little bit on uh some of this excessive regulation.
You know, there's a there's a section in that book about uh the uh regulators going to church bake sales and uh closing down uh church bake sales where little old ladies bake pies at home and then sell them to raise funds for the church.
That's illegal in Pennsylvania.
You've got to have a prep kitchen, you know, you've got to have one of these industrial kitchens, stainless steel.
That's the only that in in Pennsylvania, you cannot bake a pie and sell it at your local church unless it's done in a prep kitchen.
Sorry, that's tyranny.
Tockville Tockville got that right.
Tocqueville uh two hundred years ago, French guy, two hundred years ago got the measure of these guys.
He said that's soft despotism.
Soft despotism In Midway, Georgia.
Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits.
Midway police chief Kelly Morganstar says police didn't know how the lemonade was made, who made it or what was in it.
So what?
Who cares if the cop doesn't know what's in the lemonade?
If the cops want to know what's in their lemonade, they should make their own lemonade back at uh Midway police headquarters.
Uh the p the girls have been operating for one day when police chief morning star and or another officer cruised by and said the girls needed a business license, a peddler's permit, and a food permit to operate, even on residential property.
The permits cost fifty dollars a day or a hundred and eighty dollars per year.
In other words, you need three permits to run a lemonade stand in Midway, Georgia, and you need to spend a minimum of a hundred and fifty dollars in order to run a lemonade stand in Midway, Georgia.
Uh the police chief herself, so this isn't some rogue cop.
You know, this isn't your Clint Eastwood Maverick type suddenly taking the law into his own hands and uh and and smacking down these little three kid punks running their lemonades.
It's nothing like that.
This is the police chief.
The police chief herself shutting down the lemonade stand and saying that uh for three schoolgirls to run a lemonade stand on on residential property, you need a hundred and three permits of a hundred and fifty dollars a day.
Sorry, that's tyranny.
It's tyranny.
What did you The girl yeah Well, you know, Mr. Snerdley says the girls are criminals, and we should we should make an uh example of them.
I mean, after all, they're breaching three laws.
They they they're uh that's that's right.
They're three three per th three permit.
Yeah, that's right.
Lemonade is a gateway drug.
Uh so this is this is perhaps part of Michelle Obama's thing on cracking down on uh and and Nanny Bloomberg on all this unhealthy uh soda that you're putting into yourself.
Uh but uh this is I'm not uh I'm not supposed to quit now.
Mr. Snardley says I shouldn't be questioning the rules.
Uh it is a condition of my green card that I am not allowed to foment the overthrow of the United States government.
So, so I want to emphasize that nothing uh I'm doing uh on today's show uh meets the definition of fermenting.
This is an entirely non-fermenting broadcast.
But I don't believe there's anything in the terms of my green card that says I'm not allowed to foment the overthrow of the Midway Georgia Police Department.
And I'm in favor of the overthrow of the Midway Georgia Police Department.
I'm in favor of police chief Kelly Morningstar being run out of office for telling three girls uh that they need a hundred and fifty dollars worth of permits in order to in order to sell lemonade.
This is one of the reasons I came to this country.
I love that American expression.
If life hands you lemons, uh make lemonade.
Not anymore.
It's illegal.
When Obama and the statists hand you lemons, uh the government enforcers won't let you make lemonades.
Uh conservatives often talk about uh, you know, what hill is worth dying on.
No, I'll let this go.
Let this go.
That's not a hill worth dying on.
Lemonade.
The right to run a lemonade stand is a hill worth uh dying on.
I I would be in favor of a uh a junior version of the Tea Party called the Lemonade Party, with millions of children in it across this country who want the right to do as their predecessors through American history have done, and that is to put up a stand outside their house and sell homemade lemonade.
Lemonade is a liberty issue.
The second uh the second amendment guys, the first amendment guys, uh you the the gun crowd say uh, you know, gun control isn't about guns, it's about control.
Lemonade control isn't about lemonade.
Whatever police chief Morningstar says, lemonade is about control.
1 800 282 2882 Mark Stein InfoRush.
Mark Stein Inforush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Chris in uh Dayton, Ohio.
Chris, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Uh hi, Mark.
Uh I was just calling about that uh article or well, that statement you made about the guy from uh from the uh administration or representing the White House stance On the fact that the economy is tanking because of the situation in Japan.
Right.
And I mean, uh from where I'm from, we all know what the real answer is why the economy's tanking.
It's in the gas prices.
Now, you you're you're disputing that the economy in Dayton, Ohio, is being affected by the aftershock of the Japanese earthquake, which is the official position of the Office of Management and Budget.
You know, the same thing happened when President Bush was in office, you know, when the gas prices went up.
I mean, around here uh single handedly the gas prices put the automobile industry on its ear in this town by itself.
Well, you know, the thing the thing about it is uh there's a the gas prices have doubled since uh Obama came to office.
Uh I think they were whatever they were, a buck eighty-five at the time he won the election, and they're uh somewhere between three seventy and four dollars now.
And of course that does change the rationale.
If you're uh in large parts of this country, people have to commute a uh long distance to relatively uh not terribly well remunerated jobs, and the economic rationale for that uh is transformed according to whether you're paying a uh uh a buck eighty-five a gallon uh or whether you're you're paying three uh seventy a gallon.
But it also affects everything.
It affects the cost of uh uh delivering food from one place to another.
So it's uh it's it contributes to the food inflation uh that that we see.
But that's a political decision.
Well uh the the United States, ever since the creation of the Department of Energy, which is actually really the Department of No Energy, that's the the Federal Department of Energy, the Jimmy Carter creation, which the Republicans have been pledged to abolish since 1980 and have never got around around to it.
The Department of No Energy uh ensures that uh in order to make us pay virtue uh be feel virtuous about us ourselves, uh a country that could be more or less energy uh self-sufficient uh actually gets ever more dependent on uh on on uh on foreign sources of energy.
So it's gonna it's a political decision, and and Americans who are mad about gas prices should take it up with the people who are ex uh uh preventing uh the exploit the exploitation of domestic energy sources, which is the government of the United States and the Department of No Energy.
Well, exactly.
And and what I find you're ironic is that, you know, uh President Obama signed the release of strategic oil uh, you know, from our reserves.
Uh okay, yeah, our gas prices went down, you know, okay, fifty cents for a while, but now they're going back up.
Yeah, yeah.
Well how there's no there's no point there's no point skimming uh the top of a off a lake off a government lake.
That's not going to do anything in the long term.
Uh the the long-term uh gas price is being set by the Obama administration's policies, and its policies are that energy is bad, uh grow economic growth is bad, economic growth is destructive uh uh to to the planet.
Stephen Chu, the the non-energy secretary, the genius non-energy secretary, uh came into office saying that he thought it would be a great idea if uh uh Americans were paying the same gas prices as in Europe.
Well, in uh the United Kingdom it's about ten bucks a gallon right now.
Now now the energy secretary of the United States wants that ten bucks a gallon as a model for you guys.
So it's gonna be two and a half what what you're paying now, it's gonna be three times higher than that.
That's what the uh government official in charge of gas prices.
The Cabinet Secretary with responsibility for gas prices, he wants you paying ten dollars a gallon, Chris.
That's ridiculous.
Well the average person i wouldn't never be able to afford that.
No, no, Chris, you're looking at this the wrong way because uh because they're gonna install new meters on those gas tanks, and uh to get a a gallon of gas in your in your Toyota Corolla, you'll just have to put in ten of those exciting uh dollar coins with Chester Arthur and Mallard Filmore on that nobody wants.
You just put ten of the Franklin Pierce dollar coins in the gas tank and they'll give you uh uh a gallon of gas back in return.
That's the Obama economic model, it's sure to work.
Great to have you with us on the show.
Mark Stein in for rush, lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for rush as the uh debt ceiling negotiations go on.
How will it end?
How will it end?
Oh, it's a cliffhanger.
The the Japanese, by the way, are not just uh destroying the American economy through their earthquake aftershocks, as the Office of Management and Budget has uh explained to us.
Uh they also beat the United States in the Women's World Cup.
And soccer, I didn't even know there was a women's world cup, but uh apparently they I knew there was a gay World Cup.
A gay world do do the Americans uh play uh play uh the in the gay World Cup.
Do we have a team in that, or is it uh just Saudi Arabia and Yemen?
I'm not sure.
I'll have to look into that.
Uh the Women's World Cup, uh Japan beat the United States 3-1.
We were so close, said Abby Warmberg of the American team.
3-1 isn't really close unless you're using uh Obama-type uh math, uh Abby.
I mean, you you lost badly.
Uh Japan beat the United States Women's World Cup uh 3-1.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
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