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July 18, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 18, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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I'm still getting besieged by angry women's World Cup soccer fans.
I said last, I think half an hour ago that I figured about 80% of Russia's listeners turn out.
I didn't know there was such a huge overlap between the Rush Limbaugh audience and the Women's World Cup soccer audience, but I said it was about 80% half an hour ago.
I've got to get it up to 93% now.
I'm still getting emails saying, you got it wrong with it.
You don't even know anything about women's World Cup soccer.
You pathetic feet foreign panty waste.
Yes, I've already corrected this.
It was the 3-1 was the result of the penalty shootout.
At the end of the 90 minutes, it was Japan 2, United States 2, and then in the penalty shootout, the Japanese penalty scorers cleaned the American clock 3-1.
I've corrected it.
So please, Women's World Cup soccer fans.
My God, doesn't anyone who listens to this show listen to what's that sport where they got the bats, Mr. Snerdley?
What's that?
American football, is that the one?
Oh, that's the one with the helmet.
Helmets.
Oh, baseball.
That's right.
Baseball, they got the bats and American football with the helmets.
Don't any of you guys listen to this?
Who knew women's World Cup?
Rush listeners are fanatical women's World Cup soccer fans.
Last year, by the way, where was this interest last year when there was the Male World Cup?
Male World Cup, there was no interest in the Americans.
So where did they get to?
U.S. team got to, was it the quarterfinal?
I think it was the semifinal.
And in, I think the year, was it four years before that, they came close to winning the U.S. Male World Cup team.
And it would have been the first time in the history of the World Cup that a team would have won that had more players than supporters.
Nobody was interested in male World Cup soccer last year.
You couldn't give it away.
I remember going into, I think it was a sports bar in Chicago and saying, hey guys, America's playing in the World Cup.
Do you think we could watch this?
And they said, no, we'd rather watch the Golden Girls rerun on Channel 374.
Nobody's interested in the Male World Cup.
But you make one passing remark about women's World Cup soccer and they all and it lights up the screen.
It's all anyone wants to talk about.
It's amazing to me.
So I've already corrected the Women's World Cup thing.
I'm not going to go there.
I was talking about the Gay World Cup, which I believe America also plays in.
But I think Saudi Arabia beat Yemen in the final for that.
And by the way, their women's World Cup soccer teams are great too.
I love seeing the Waziristan team when they're all running around in the full burqa bumping into each other.
They really, they do well.
They give it their best shot, but actually they're very effective in the penalty shootout because when the Americans try to score against the Waziristani female soccer club, the ball just generally gets lost in the folds of the burqa.
So it never gets into the back of the net.
But that's the scene.
That's the scene.
Women's World Cup soccer, male World Cup soccer, gay World Cup soccer.
We're done with the soccer.
Libyan War.
Do you remember this?
Libyan War.
It used to be, it was in all the papers for 48 hours.
The Libyan War, Obama's War.
It wasn't enough having the George W. Bush wars.
He wanted a war of his own, so he launched one in Libya.
And he picked the one rebel movement in the Arab Spring that is incapable of toppling the hated dictator, even when you lend them every functioning NATO air force.
I believe now that we have formally, NATO has formally recognized the rebels as the legitimate government of Libya, just as the Libyan people have given up on them.
Here is an Associated Press story from Zawiya, Libya.
For three days running, the rallies have been carnival-like affairs with bands, horseback riders, and even a camel-dyed green.
Wow, this is great.
You read this and you think, wow, those rebels.
It's like party time there.
They're liberation, democracy.
And then you read the next sentence.
At each gathering, thousands of delirious supporters of Muammar Gaddafi cheered as the brother leaders' defiant speeches boomed from massive speakers.
Obama has done more for Gaddafi's popularity than anybody.
He wasn't this popular when he was taking down U.S. airplanes and blowing up German discos full of U.S. soldiers in the 1980s.
But now he's more popular than he's ever been.
Gaddafi is going around Libya.
He's got all these delirious carnival-like rallies, bands, horseback riders, even a camel-dyed green.
You know, that's how they know they have won.
That's the equivalent of mission accomplished when they break out the camel-dyed green in Libya.
Less than, he said, Gaddafi basically says the rebel movement now is boils down to just a few people holed up in Benghazi, Dima, and Tobruk.
As far as he's concerned, he's back and big time.
So it doesn't look as if we're going to be having a victory parade in.
God, it seems months now.
How long is it ago since Ben Ali in Tunisia went and Mubarak in Egypt went?
And then we decided we'd like to get a piece of the Arab Spring action.
And we picked old Kwagmar boy in Gaddafi.
And we're going to be there forever, desultarily bombing the desert sands of Libya.
Obama's war.
It ain't going anywhere.
What we've been talking about today is not really the debt ceiling, because I don't even accept that as a kind of legitimate way of looking at it, because the only issue, the only issue that matters is the size of government.
Government imposes costs.
Government, there is no economy of scale.
You know, when Coca-Cola Company buys the Mom and Pop Cola Company in Hicksville, and that will, generally speaking, there'll be economies of scale when you merge the Mom and Pop Cola Company into the Coca-Cola Company.
That doesn't work on government.
The bigger government gets, the more wasteful, the more unproductive it gets, the more stupid it gets.
And that's why we should be talking about, we shouldn't be talking about it in terms of the debt ceiling, the debt limit.
The world will set America's debt limit.
And the world is already doing that.
I mentioned in a column the other day that basically if you take American spending plans, they foresee the rest of the planet being willing to sink a fifth of its GDP into U.S. Treasury bonds.
You know, in other words, the rest of the planet, the Chinese, the Saudis, the Japanese, the British, are got to be willing to sink a fifth of their GDP into buying U.S. Treasury debt from Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke.
And there's no evidence they want to do that.
That's the real debt ceiling, and you can't raise that.
You're running up against the limits of the planet.
We're talking here about, you know, it's one thing to have a spendthrift government in Sweden or Iceland because there's only a couple of million of those guys.
It's a very different thing to do it in a country of 300 million people.
In other words, you can't have Swedish-style, a Swedish-style welfare democracy or a Greek-style welfare democracy in a continental power of over 300 million people.
You just can't do it.
There isn't enough money.
There isn't enough money on the planet to fund the sheer waste.
And that's why you've got to have the pushback.
I used a phrase when I was here a few weeks ago.
I think the last time I did the show from New York, I'm always very wary about doing this since I got my fine from the New York State Bureau of Compliance telling me that I was in non-compliance with the Bureau of Compliance and fining.
I forget what the fine was, $15,000 or something.
Suspiciously round number.
But I said that actually what we need is an alliance of non-compliance and that Americans actually need to stand up and resist this level.
The regulation is a very good example of the hidden cost of government.
People think there's no cost to, that there's the cost of the employees and the agency and the Bureau and the department.
That's just the beginning of it.
The real cost is the time it takes out of your life to be in compliance with this vast, excessive, monstrous regulation.
And you see that on Wall Street with the Sarbanes-Oxley stuff.
You see that on the Lebon Aid stand when a lemonade stand needs three different permits.
It's part of the same problem.
That the bigger the government gets, the more space government requires, the less space liberty has, the less space the citizen has.
And that's why it's important.
It's absolutely critical to resist this stuff at the most basic possible level.
You've got to resist it at the municipal level.
You've got to resist it at the school board level.
And that way, the debt ceiling type stuff doesn't seem so hopeless.
I mean, these guys are nuts.
They're talking about trillions and trillions of dollars.
They're going to name a multi-trillion dollar figure.
This is what Timothy Geithner and this guy, Lou, Jacob Lou, at the Office of Management and Budget, they say the sensible thing to do, this is the sensible thing to do, to protect the full faith and credit of the United States, the full faith and credit of the United States.
That's one of those phrases everybody uses now.
That you've got to name a multi-trillion dollar sum that is the new debt limit.
And then when you reach that, you'll just jack it up another three or four trillion.
You'll name a new multi-trillion dollar sum.
Now try that in your own life.
In how many other situations is the debt limit, this is what's going on in Washington.
How many other situations is the debt limit negotiated by two different types of borrowers?
Now you and your misses can sit in the living room tonight and say, we're going to negotiate a new debt ceiling for us of $1.8 million.
And then we're going to go to the First National Bank of Dead Moose Junction and tell them that we've agreed on a new debt limit of $1.8 million.
So give it to us, please.
Debt limits are set by the lenders.
And in fact, these guys aren't even the borrowers.
We're the borrowers.
They're the spenders.
The spenders, the spenders are negotiating the burden of debt that they're going to impose on you.
You're not part of the conversation.
The spenders are talking among themselves about how much debt they're going to place on your shoulders.
And this whole accepting, accepting the terms of this debate is nuts.
And Republicans should be mad about this.
The Republican leadership should be saying, we don't want to play this game.
You can play this game by yourselves.
We want to talk about the size of government.
We want to talk about lowering spending.
You guys spend too much.
There's no point in us negotiating mechanisms to enable you guys to spend as much as you want to spend.
There's no point being part of that conversation.
The only issue that matters, the only issue that matters is the spending, and the spending is a liberty issue.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein Infra Rush.
Mike in our control room in New York introduced the deplorable thought that, in fact, all this interest in women's World Cup soccer is just because people are tuning in, and the guys are tuning in in the hopes that one of the women will take their top off.
Who was the last one who did that, Mike?
Brandy Chastain.
How many years ago was that now?
Oh, how long ago was that?
How long ago is that, Mike?
Lost all sense of sense of dying.
Now, you're going to be waiting a long time for that.
If you want to see women take their top off, go to a Vladimir Putin rally.
Young women across Russia have been called on to show their support for Vladimir Putin by ripping off their clothes.
I'm just crazy about a man who changed our country.
This is Hope and Change Russia style.
This is great, says a voiceover as we see Diana walking through Moscow while the camera frequently hovers over her sizable bust.
He's a great politician and an amazing man.
He's Vladimir Putin, she says, adding that despite the millions who admire him, there are some who pour dirt on him, maybe because they are scared of him or because they themselves are weak.
Diana meets two nubile friends sunbathing by the riverbank.
This is great, isn't it?
This is like Vladimir Putin's softcore porn.
You can get it now.
You can get this from Russia.
Why can't Obama do this and stimulate the California porn industry?
Yeah, that's at least Putin's getting in there and he's part of it.
I'll tear my clothes off for Putin.
And they rip their t-shirts off.
There was a Putin party at a top Moscow nightclub where strippers sang to Mr. Putin's rendition of Blueberry Hill.
Did you hear Vladimir Putin sang Blueberry Hill at some rally a few months ago?
He's, I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill.
And he had, for some reason, Goldie Horn was there.
I haven't been following Goldie Horn's career, but apparently she's like, she goes and does kind of celebrity nights in Moscow for Vladimir Putin now.
I don't know whether Goldie Horn, is Goldie Horn taking a top off of Vladimir Putin?
I don't know.
But anyway, women all over Moscow are tearing their clothes off for Vladimir Putin.
I think that's where we need to get Obama going on here.
Mark Stein in for Rush, let's go to Tim in Seattle.
Tim, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hey, good morning.
What is it like to hear you every time you fill in?
Hey, that's nice of you to say so, Tim.
What's on your mind?
Down in Portland, they've got a river, the Columbia, and a big bridge that we're replacing.
It's costing $3.2 to $3.6 billion to replace it.
When they put out the job creation figures for this project, it's creating 20,000 jobs with this federal money.
But the way they figure that is it's actually replacing, it's making 2,000 jobs for 10 years.
Right.
So they're publishing that it's creating 20,000 jobs.
So in other words, if it creates a job for one year and then the job will last 10 years, they multiply it out 10 years.
So in other words, that's how 20,000 jobs off this one bridge.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't see them saying that if you're unemployed, you know, one man unemployed for four years, that that's four years of four men unemployed.
But if you can make the figures go your way, apparently it works very well for Job production numbers.
You know, this isn't difficult.
The reason the real jobs, as opposed to these phony government figures, the real jobs are where they are, is because of uncertainty.
It's the same reason that people aren't buying new cars.
The New York Times story I quoted at the beginning of the show, people, car sales are 28% lower than they were 10 years ago.
Oven sales are the lowest they've been in 20 years.
It's because when you have uncertainty, people hunker down.
You don't want to, this is not a time to take on new employees, give them a real job.
This is not a time to go out and make big consumer things.
And this idea that somehow the government can define its own reality by doing what you've just said, Tim, taking 2,000 jobs and projecting them out over 10 years and turning them into 20,000 jobs.
I mean, why stop there?
Why not project it out to the end of the century?
And that way it would be, what would that be?
180,000 jobs.
Why don't they do it like that, Tim?
Once you're going to do that, there's no end to it, isn't it?
Well, exactly.
And actually, oven sales aren't down because I bought one 20 years ago, so I bought 20 ovens.
Yeah, that's what you buy one.
That's exactly right.
So if you buy an oven for 20 years, that counts as 20 ovens.
There you go.
When did you last buy your car?
Have you got a car, Tim?
I've got a car, a truck, and a motorcycle.
Oh, really?
So you've got three vehicles, and how long have you had them for?
Probably on the average.
Let's see, I've got an 07, a 2001, and a 98.
So that 98, that 98, you've got 13 motorcycles there.
You've got your own team of 10 cars and four motorcycles.
Four motorcycles.
So you've got your own team of motorcycle outriders.
I am one economy-stimulating fella, I'm telling you.
Now, you're like these corporate jet owners, just with what you've got parked outside your house, Tim.
Hey, you know, by the way, while we're on this subject, you know, with the president demonizing these corporate jet owners, I was thinking about this the other day.
I was standing in line with the transport security guys.
I was thinking, why doesn't the president, why does the president need Air Force One now, by the way?
Why can't he fly commercial?
I mean, basically, we've made the TSA are there, they're strip-searching 94-year-old grannies.
So they've made air travel completely secure.
It's a sealed, secure environment.
Nothing gets through.
You can't have a tuber toothpaste bigger than this size.
You can't take a kid's snow globe with little snowflakes sparkling on sheep.
So why doesn't the president fly commercial?
We've got thousands of TSA employees who have made American commercial flight the safest flight in the world.
Why don't we sell Air Force One and the president can ride in the entirely secure environment of an American commercial airplane?
I think that would be an obvious cost savings right there, particularly when, as he points out, all these wicked, evil corporate jets are still around.
It would be setting a great example.
Commercial airline flying is so safe, the president should be up there with us.
Hey, great to be with you.
Rush returns Wednesday.
I'll be here tomorrow for another day of substitute host-level excellence in broadcasting.
But the real deal returns 12 midday Eastern on Wednesday, Rush Back Wednesday.
Bucharest, Romania.
Authorities say they're investigating the theft of 64 missile warheads from a train transporting military equipment to Bulgaria.
Hmm.
Odd.
Oh, that's that's sort of this is one of these little stories that crops up every now and again in the news.
Interior Ministry spokesman Marius Militaru, that's a good name, by the way, for a military spokesman, Militaru, said Sunday the components are not dangerous on their own, only when integrated into missile systems.
Okay, so you don't have to worry about these 64-missile warheads because they're just warheads.
They're not dangerous until you put them on the missile.
So you don't want to worry about it.
They noticed the seal.
Railway workers on Saturday noticed the seals on a carriage door were broken when the train reached a Danube port that borders Bulgaria and somebody had gone off with these 64 missile warheads.
But don't worry, they're not dangerous.
The warheads aren't dangerous until you put them on an actual missile.
And so you don't have to worry about anything.
And actually, there's no point because if you're in Midway, Georgia, and the incoming missiles are coming down, you'll be too busy regulating the lemonade stand to worry about the illegal 64-missile warheads coming at you.
Those kind of little stories, I'm always tickled by them.
They come up more and more in you notice these weird little things.
Maybe they're just going to the Libyan rebels and we have nothing to worry about, but maybe they're going elsewhere.
Let's go to Rebecca in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rebecca, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
Thanks.
I just wanted to say that I listened to the guy that called earlier from Dayton, and he said that their economy was in such bad shape for gas prices.
But I think it's really from the way the jobs are being created because NCR just moved their world headquarters out of Dayton, Ohio to Peachtree City, Georgia.
And while it devastated Dayton, it created a bunch of new jobs for the people in Georgia.
Yeah, that's true.
I'm pro-like the feminists say, I'm pro-choice and I vote.
And in the case of the economy, I'm pro-choice and I vote with my feet.
And that's why people like Obama want everything done at a national level.
And actually, beyond that, would prefer to have it done at a global level.
So you've got nowhere to go.
His National Labor Relations Board thing, you know, where he's trying to prevent Boeing from opening a factory in South Carolina and he wants to be able to tell them which state Boeing should locate their factory in.
That's why Democrats want an end to borders because borders give you a choice.
If you can move over a town border, a county border, a state border, or a national border, like these guys in Dayton, you can take off for somewhere that's a more favorable business climate.
And they don't want that.
So you've got, you're making the point, Rebecca, that these are not just kind of neutral developments, but they're actually the consequence of government policy.
The governments make decisions and those drive companies to say, to hell with this, I can move two states away, or I can move my factory to the other side of the world, or I can, as long as you've got somewhere else to go, you can respond to what governments are doing.
Mark, I also have a name for your new movement.
It can be one if by lemonade brigade.
The lemonade brigade.
i like that hey have you had yeah no no that's true i I said I wanted like a junior version of the Tea Party.
I would like dissident lemonade stands across the fruited plain.
Don't let the government tell you you can't run a lemonade.
How long is it since you've seen Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Rebecca?
It's been a while.
Yeah, it's like I haven't seen it in a while.
But you know, the thing about it is Jimmy Stewart, and I don't particularly like that movie very much, actually.
I'm very sympathetic because Claude Rains, who's the utterly corrupt senator in the movie, is such a great actor that I always find Claude, I always sympathize with the rotten, stinking, corrupt Claude Rains instead of Jimmy Stewart.
But what I find interesting about that movie is that When Jimmy Stewart's battling against corruption, he enlists these legions of kids.
They're like his little newsboys who print his little dissident newspaper.
And so you should put it in, like, let's put it in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington terms and have when we find our Jimmy Stewart figure.
And like Rush isn't like, I wouldn't think Rush is automatic casting for the Jimmy Stewart role, but he could work on that folksy accent a bit.
And we'll have a lemonade brigade of kids across the land running dissident lemonade stands, subversive lemonade stands that will bring down big government by selling subversive, unregulated lemonade.
That, as the police chief says, the state doesn't know what's in it.
And we can't have that.
The state has to know everything.
So you're on board with the lemonade brigade, are you, Rebecca?
Yes.
Okay, well, well, we'll get to you and we'll come and we'll have our first dissident lemonade stand in your front yard in Cincinnati.
Great to have you with us.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Let's go to Ross in Salisbury, Maryland.
Ross, you're live on the Rushlinbusher.
Hi, Mark.
It's great to talk to you.
I just wanted to comment real quick about the guy who called up about the bridge that's creating 20,000 jobs in 10 years.
That's right.
Yes.
I think it's funny how in the 19th and early 20th centuries, we could build towns and roadways and canals and skyscrapers in a fraction of the time that it takes to build one bridge in the 21st century in the United States.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And that is one of the most striking features of the United States today: the length of time it takes to put up a building.
You know, when you look at, when you, I think I made this point last year when I was talking about the business with replacing the World Trade Center, where we're coming up to 10 years and we finally got a little thing going there coming out of the big hole in the ground that we've been looking at for 10 years.
This happened to me in a town, nearby town to where I live in New Hampshire.
They got on the federal bridge subsidy program when a bridge was condemned and declared unsafe, and they got on the state bridge program.
And then the state said, well, we can't do it, but we've got on the federal subsidy bridge program.
Meanwhile, the temporary bridge has worn out, and there's still no estimated time of completion for the new federal bridge.
Small towns in New England used to build their own bridges.
When people talked about the bridge to the 21st century, it'll be the 23rd century by the time they actually get it done.
In the 19th century, when we built 18th century colonists and 18th century settlers who built the bridge to the 19th century, they could put that up in their no-account little North Country Yankee towns all by themselves.
And it's fascinating to me that when you're talking about even 10 years, 10 years to build a bridge, what the hell is this bridge?
Is it a bridge?
Are they building a bridge from the West Coast to Hawaii?
Why does it take 10 years?
And it's the acceptance of that.
The acceptance of that whole attitude, Ross, I think is a big part of our problems.
How much would you reckon it should take in real time to put up a bridge?
I think it'll take them about 20 years to start.
Maybe if we're lucky, 30 years for completion.
Yeah.
And then we're going to be getting into, of course, at that point, you get into, you know, the zoning.
You'll have to renew zoning permits now because it's getting too long to put up the bridge that your original zoning permit has expired.
So you then have to go back to square one and put in for a new zoning permit.
You know, I mean, all this is all this is ridiculous.
I mean, this is just absurd.
You know, if you go back to the Empire State Building, for example, which was the tallest building in the world back then, that was put up in 18 months during a depression because the head of General Motors wanted to show off to the head of Chrysler.
He put up the Empire State Building in 18 months.
Can you imagine that happening now?
I could imagine that happening in 80 years now.
That's true.
That's true.
You know, it's a tragedy that, but actually that does, and you know what that's telling you?
That's telling you that the whole society is seizing up.
It's getting arthritis.
It's actually using the use of its limbs.
When it takes you 20 years to put up a bridge, 20 years to put up a building, that is a functioning society seizing up.
And that sclerosis and that hardening of the arteries, what's in those arteries, affecting the blood from pumping and affecting us from, preventing us from being able to put up an Empire State Building in 18 months.
What that is, is government.
It's government regulation.
It's government zoning processes.
It's actually throttling the dynamism of a society.
Don't accept that it takes 10 years to put up a bridge or 20 years to put up a bridge or 30 years to complete the replacement for the World Trade Center.
The World Trade Center.
You know, a bunch of smelly cave dwellers took out the World Trade Center and the economic hyperpower couldn't put it up and replace it in a decade.
Do you remember those cartoons they used to email around after the World Trade Center was toppled?
And it showed the towers rebuilt in the shape of some guy's hand flipping the finger to you with the towers as the knuckles and with the great central digit sticking upwards, flipping the finger to Osama bin Laden in his cave and to all those sneering Euro lefties who thought that the superpower had got one in the eye and all the rest of it.
That joke isn't so funny when you're looking at the hole in the ground 10 years later.
That building should have been up there and been replaced in two years as a message to the world.
And that would have been as important, as important as toppling the Taliban in Afghanistan or knocking off Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
That would have sent a message to the world about the resilience of America.
You know, okay, they knocked it down.
We put it up in nothing flat and it's just the same.
So nuts to you, you stupid, smelly cave dwellers.
You did your best and you accomplished nothing because two years later it looks just like it did before you idiots pulled your stupid stunt.
But we didn't do that.
Mark Stein and Farah.
That's a great point Ross makes, by the way.
Don't accept this.
In the 19th century, American towns built their own bridges and they didn't take 10 years to do it.
And that's the way we should be doing it today.
Mark Steinen and Farush, lots more to come.
Mark Stein, in Farush, you know, we were talking about bridges just before the break and the amount of time it takes to put up a bridge.
Why does it take to 10 years to put up a bridge?
And I mentioned this little crazy example of a small town bridge that got delayed and delayed endlessly because it got into a state bridge building program and then a federal bridge building program.
And it still hasn't been built.
It's probably part of a UN building program by now.
And the UN's all distracted with bombing Libya to no effect.
So another little bridge in the same town broke down.
At this time, the selectmen, the board of selectmen who run these small New Hampshire towns, this selectman stood up and instead of going into the new state program and the new federal program, he said, screw the state, let's do it ourselves.
That guy is the Tocqueville of our day.
I quote him in my soon-to-be imminently, forthcomingly imminent book.
I quote that guy.
That is not as elegant as Alexis de Tocqueville.
Screw the state, let's do it ourselves.
But it gets to the heart of what Tocqueville admired when he was going around Jacksonian America 200 years ago.
And we need to recover that spirit.
There's no reason, there's no reason why the Omaha School District should have any federally funded diversity manuals.
What is the cost of that diversity manual by the time you sluice it through a huge government bureaucracy thousands of miles away?
Remote government is expensive government.
Remote government is bad government.
Remote government is unaccountable government.
Let's quickly go to John in Wazilla, Alaska, famous town where once upon a time the New York Times deployed 98% of its reporters to go through Sarah Palin's emails.
John, you're live on the air.
Great to have you with us.
How are you doing, Mark?
I'm doing good.
What's on your mind?
Well, I am a federal contractor, and I can infuriate your audience in under five minutes if I told them all of the nonsense that goes on to do anything federal.
But the thing I wanted to cover with you first and foremost is this debt ceiling issue is a red herring.
That is not the issue with Obama.
And if the American constituency was not as ignorant as we often prove that we are, they would read his book in which he says that all of the wealth in America was built on the backs of minorities and slaves.
And America should suffer economically to atone for that.
This is a red herring because Obama wants nothing more than to see our economy crash.
The second he can do that, it provides a justification for him to come in under the guise of declaring martial law for quote-unquote the public safety and form what he's been touting for as long as he's been in office, which is the formation of a civilian defense force that's equal to or even stronger than our U.S. military.
Then you can control the government.
And that's where we get back then to the Rahm Emanuel, never let a crisis go to waste.
And that's true, by the way.
You should never attribute to incompetence what you can put down to intention.
And it is in the interests of statists to advance the dependency culture, to have a majority of dependents who will vote for big government and will be a permanent constituency for big government.
So that's why what you see in the United States has in common with what you see going on in Greece and other parts of the world, that when people talk about the squeeze on the middle class, statists don't care.
The middle class are what they're up against.
The middle class is the self-reliant citizen who says, if you guys just get off my back, I can make a pretty nice living.
I can build a home for my family.
I can take care of them.
All I need is for you guys to stay the hell out of my way.
And for precisely that reason, statism is at war with the middle class and why we have a situation in this country today where the middle class gets squeezed from both ends by the statist ruling class crushing down on them from above and from the swollen, ever-swelling ranks of the dependent class below them.
And when you have a situation as we have at the moment where it's getting on for 50% of people who don't pay any federal income tax, you're getting to the point where there's a permanent electoral majority for Obama-style statism.
And that gets very dangerous.
That gets very dangerous for the cause of liberty.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more to come.
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