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July 18, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 18, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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1800, 282, 2882.
I'm still getting I'm still getting besieged by angry women's World Cup soccer fans.
I now I said last uh I think uh half an hour ago that uh I figured about eighty percent 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 uh soccer audience, but uh I I said it was about eighty percent uh half an hour ago.
I've got to get it up to ninety-three percent now.
I'm still getting emails saying, You got it wrong with it.
Don't even know anything about women's World Cup soccer, you're you pathetic, you feat foreign panty waste.
Uh yes, I care I've already corrected this.
It was the three one was the result of the penalty shootout.
At the end of the ninety minutes, uh it was Japan two, United States two, and then in the penalty shootout, uh the Japan uh Japanese penalty uh scorers cleaned the American clock uh three one.
I've uh I've corrected it.
So please, women's World Cup soccer fans.
My God, doesn't anyone who listens to this show listen to uh what's that sport where they got the bats, uh, Mr. Snardley.
What's that?
That American football is that the one with Oh, that's one with the helmets.
Helmets, oh baseball, that's right.
Baseball, uh they got the bats and American football with the helmets.
Don't any of you guys listen to this?
It was the who knew women's world club Rush Rush listeners are fanatical women's World Cup uh soccer fans.
I was last year.
By the way, where was this interest last year when there was the male World Cup?
Male World Cup, uh there was no interest in the Americans, so where did they get to?
US team got to was it the quarterfinal I think it was the semi-final.
And uh and uh i in uh I think the year be was it four years before that they came uh close to winning the US male World Cup team, and it would have been the first time in the history of the World Cup uh 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 you can give it away.
Uh I I remember going into uh I think it was a uh sports bar in uh Chicago and uh and saying uh hey, uh hey guys, America's playing in the World Cup.
Do you think we could watch this?
And uh they said uh no, we'd rather watch the uh 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 uh and and and the uh and and it lights and it lights up the the screen.
That's all anyone wants to talk about.
It's uh it's uh it's amazing uh to me.
So I've already corrected the women's world cup thing.
I'm not gonna go there.
I was talking about the Gay World Cup, uh which I believe America also plays in, but I think uh I think Saudi Arabia beat Yemen in the final for that.
And by the way, their women's World Cup soccer teams are uh great too.
I love seeing the Waziristan team uh when they're all running around in the uh full burqa bumping into each other.
They they really they they do well.
They give it their best uh shot, but they they uh and actually they're very effective in the penalty shootout because when the Americans try to score against the Waziristani female uh soccer club, the ball just generally gets lost in the folds of the burqa, so uh uh it never gets into the back of the net.
But uh but that's the uh that's the scene.
That's the scene.
Women's World Cup soccer, male World Cup soccer, gay World Cup soccer, we're done we're done with the soccer.
Libyan War.
Do you remember this?
Libyan War.
It used to be it was in the all the papers for forty-eight hours.
The Libyan War, uh Obama's war.
It wasn't enough uh having the George W. Bush wars.
He wanted a war of his own, uh 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.
Uh just uh I believe now the uh that we uh we have formally NATO has formally uh uh recognized the rebels as the legitimate government of Libya, just as the Libyan people have given up on them.
Here is uh an associated press story from uh Zawiya Libya.
For three days running, the rallies have been carnival like affairs, with bands, horseback riders, and even a camel died green.
Wow, this 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 leader's defiant speeches boomed for massive speakers.
Obama has done more for Gaddafi's popularity than anybody.
He wasn't this popular when he was uh when he was taking down US airplanes and blowing up uh German discos full of US soldiers in the 1980s.
Uh but uh now he's more popular than he's ever been.
Gaddafi is going around Libya, uh 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 died green in Libya.
Uh less than he said uh Gaddafi basically says the the rebel movement now is uh uh boils down to just a few people hold up in Benghazi, Dimmer, and uh Tabruk.
Uh 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 the God, it seems months now.
How m how long is it ago since uh Ben Ali in uh Tunisia went and uh Mubarak in Egypt went, and uh then we decided we'd like to get a piece of the Arab Spring action, and we picked old uh old Quagmar boy in Gaddafi and uh we're gonna be there forever, desultorily bombing uh the desert sands of Libya.
Obama's Obama's war.
It ain't uh it ain't going anywhere.
Um what uh what we've been talking about today is uh is not really the debt ceiling, because I don't I don't even accept that as a kind of legitimate uh way of looking at it, because the only issue the only issue that matters is the size of government.
Uh government imposes costs.
Uh government there is no economy of scale.
You know, uh when uh Coca-Cola Company buys the Mom and Pop Cola Company in Hicksville, uh, 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, uh the more stupid it gets.
And that's why we should be talking about uh we shouldn't be talking about it in terms of the debt ceiling, the debt limit.
The world will set America's debt limit.
Uh and the world is already uh doing that.
Uh I I mentioned in uh 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 US treasury bonds.
You know, in other words, uh the rest of the planet, the Chinese, the Saudis, the Japanese, the British are gotta be willing to sink a fifth of their GDP into buying US treasury debt uh 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.
Uh it's a very different thing to do it in a country of three hundred million people.
In other words, you can't have you can't have Swedish style uh w a Swedish style welfare democracy or a Greek-style welfare democracy in a continental power of over three hundred million people.
You could just can't do it.
There isn't enough money.
There isn't enough money on the planet to fund the sheer waste.
Uh and that's why uh that's why you gotta have the pushback.
I used a phrase when I was here a few weeks ago, when uh the I think the last time I did the show from New York, I'm always very wary about doing this, since I got my uh my uh fine from the New York State Bureau of Compliance uh telling me that I was in non-compliance with the Bureau of Compliance and fining what was I forget what the fine was, fifteen thousand dollars or something.
Suspiciously round number.
But I said that actually what we need is an alliance of noncompliance, uh, and that Americans actually need to stand up and resist uh this level.
The ri the regulation is a is a very good example of the hidden cost of government.
People think there's no cost to uh that that that there's the that the that there's the cost of the employees and the agency and the bureau and the department.
That's that's just the beginning of it.
The real cost is the time it takes out of your life uh to be in compliance with uh this vast excessive uh monstrous regulation.
And you see that on Wall Street with the Sarbane Zoxley stuff.
You see that on the Lebanade 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 uh at the at the at at the 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 board level, and that way the the uh the debt ceiling type stuff doesn't seem so hopeless.
I mean, these guys are nuts.
They're talking about they're talking about uh trillions and trillions of dollars.
They're gonna name a multi-trillion dollar figure.
This this is what uh Timothy Geitner and uh 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, uh 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 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.
Uh in how many other 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 about uh uh negotiated by two different types of borrowers?
Now you and you and your misses can uh can sit in the living room tonight and say, uh, we're gonna negotiate a uh a new debt ceiling for us of one point eight million dollars, and then we're gonna go to the first national bank of Dead Moose Junction and tell them that uh we've agreed on a new debt limit of one point eight million dollars, so give it to us, please.
Debt limits are set by the lenders.
Uh 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 uh burden of debt that they're going to impose on you.
You're not part of the conversation.
Uh the spenders are talking among themselves uh about how much debt they're gonna place on your shoulders.
Uh and this whole accepting accepting the terms of this debate is nuts.
And Republicans should be mad about this.
Uh 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, Inforush, 1800, 282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Uh Mike in our control room in New York uh introduced the deplorable thought uh that in fact all this interest in uh women's World Cup soccer is uh just because people uh tuning in and the guys are tuning in in the hopes that one of the women will take their uh top off.
Who was the last one who did that, uh Mike?
I've uh 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 Lost all sense of time.
You're gonna 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.
Uh I'm just crazy about a man who changed our country.
This is hope and change Russia style.
This is uh this is great, says a voiceover, as we see Diana walking through Moscow while the camera frequently hovers over her sizeable 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 newbile friends sunbathing by the riverbank.
This is great, isn't it?
For this is like Vladimir Putin's soft core porn.
It's uh you can get it now, uh you can get this from Russia.
Why can't why can't Obama do this and stimulate the uh California porn industry?
Uh yeah, yeah, that that's uh that's at least uh you know, at least uh uh Putin's getting in there and he's part of it.
I'll tear my clothes off for Putin uh and uh they rip and they rip their t shirts off.
Uh 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 uh at some rally the uh a few months ago he said I found my thrill on blue Berry Hill and uh he had uh for some reason Goldie Horn was there.
I didn't I haven't been following Goldieh's career but apparently she's like uh she goes and does uh kind of celebrity nights uh in Moscow for Vladimir Putin now.
I don't know whether Goldie Horn is Goldie Horn taking a top off of Vladimir Putin uh I don't know.
But anyway women all over Moscow are tearing their clothes off of Vladimir Putin.
I think that's what uh uh that's what we need to get uh Obama going uh going on here.
Mark Stein in Farush let's go to Tim in Seattle.
Tim you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Good morning.
What a delight to hear you every uh every time you fill in.
Hey that's uh that's nice of you to say so Tim what's on your mind?
Down in in uh Portland they've got a river the Columbia and a big bridge that we're replacing uh costing three point two to three point six billion dollars to replace it.
Um when they put out the job job creation figures for this project it's uh it's creating twenty thousand jobs with this uh federal money uh but the way they figure that is it's actually replacing it's making two thousand jobs for ten years.
Right they're publishing that it's creating twenty thousand jobs.
So in other words if it creates a job for one year and they then it the job will last ten years.
They multiply it out ten years.
So in other words so in other words that's how twenty thousand jobs off this one bridge Yeah yeah exactly and I 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 month of uh you know four men unemployed but yeah if you can make the figures go your way uh apparently it works very well for publishing job production numbers.
You know th this isn't this isn't difficult.
The w the the reason the uh 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 the New York Times story I quoted at the beginning of the show uh people uh car sales are twenty eight percent lower than they were ten years ago oven sales are the lowest they've been in twenty 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.
Uh this is not a a time to go out and uh make big uh consumer things.
And and this idea that somehow the government can define its own reality by doing what you've just said Tim uh taking two thousand jobs and projecting them out over ten years and turning them into twenty thousand jobs.
I mean why stop there?
Why not project it out to the uh to the end of the century uh and uh and that way it uh w would be uh what what would that be a hundred and eighty thousand jobs why why don't they do it why don't they do it like that Tim once you can once you're gonna do that there's no end to it isn't it?
Well well exactly and actually uh oven sales aren't down because I bought one twenty years ago so I bought twenty ovens.
Yeah that's what if you buy one that's exactly right.
So if you if you buy an oven uh for twenty years that counts as twenty ovens.
There you go.
When did you last buy your car?
Yeah you have you got a car Tim?
I I've got a car, a truck and a motorcycle.
Oh really?
So you got three vehicles and how long have you had them for probably on the average let's see I've I've got a uh uh an O seven two thousand and one and a ninety eight so uh so that nine ninety eight with that ninety eight you've got thirteen motorcycles there.
You've got you've got your own team of uh ten cars and uh four motorcycles.
Four motorcycles so you've got your own team of motorcycle outriders.
I am one economy stimulating fellow 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 while we're on this uh subject you know with the 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 why can't he fly commercial?
I mean basically we've made the TSA are there they're 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 uh a tuba toothpaste bigger than this size.
You you can't take a kid's snow globe with uh 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 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 uh I'll be here tomorrow uh for another day of uh substitute host level excellence in broadcasting, but the real deal returns twelve midday Eastern on Wednesday, rush back uh Wednesday.
Bucharest, Romania.
Authorities say they're investigating the theft of sixty-four 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 uh 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, um uh Militaru, uh 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 sixty-four missile warheads, because they're just warheads.
They're not dangerous until you put them on the missile.
Uh so you don't know, you don't want to worry about it.
Uh they notice the seal.
Railway workers on Saturday noticed the seals on a carriage door were broken uh when the train uh reached a Danube port that borders Bulgaria and somebody had gone off with these sixty-four missile uh warheads.
Uh so but don't worry, they're not dangerous.
The warheads aren't dangerous until you put them on an on an actual missile.
And um uh so you don't have to worry about anything.
And actually there's no point.
Because if you're like uh if you're in uh in Midway, Georgia uh and the incoming missiles are uh coming down, you'll be too busy regulating the lemonade stand to worry about the illegal uh sixty-four missile warheads coming at you.
Uh those kind of little stories, I'm I'm always tickled by them.
They they come up uh uh uh more and more in uh 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 want to say that I was listening to the guy that called earlier from Dayton and he said that their economy was in such bad shape for gas prices.
But uh I think it's really from the way the jobs are being created because NCR just moved their world headquarters out of Dayton, Ohio, took Peachtree City, Georgia, and while it devastated Dayton, it created a bunch of new jobs for the people in Georgia.
Yeah, that's that's true.
Uh I'm pro as 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.
Uh and that's that's why uh the 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 got nowhere to go.
Uh the his national labor relations board thing, you know, where he's trying to prevent Boeing uh from uh opening a factory in South Carolina and he'd uh uh and he wants them uh he wants to be able to tell them where Boeing which state Boeing should locate their factory in.
Uh that's why Democrats want uh 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, uh like these guys in Dayton, you can take off for somewhere that's a more favorable business climate, and they don't and they don't uh they don't want that.
So you've got you you you you're making the point, Rebecca, that um that that these are not that these are not just kind of neutral uh developments, but they're actually they're actually the consequence of government policy.
Uh that the the governments make decisions and those uh and those drive companies to say to hell with this, uh I can move Two states away, or I can move my factory to the other side of the world, uh or I can uh the as long as you got somewhere else to go, you can respond to what governments are doing.
Um Mark, I also have a new uh name for your new movement.
Um it could be uh one one if my lemonade brigade.
The Lemonade Brigade.
I like that.
Hey, have you had Yeah, no, no, that's true.
I t I said I wanted like a junior version of the Tea Party.
I would like dissident lemonade stands across the fruited plain.
Uh don't let the government tell you you can't run a lemonade uh how how long is it since you've seen Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Rebecca?
Oh, it's it's been a while.
Yeah, it's like I I haven't uh 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 uh because Claude 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 uh is that uh when Jimmy Stewart's battling against corruption, he enlists these legions of kids.
They're like his little newsboys who pr who who print his little dissident newspaper.
And so you should put it in like uh let's put it in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington towns and have uh when we find our Jimmy Stewart figure, and like Rush isn't like uh I I wouldn't think Rush is automatic casting for the Jimmy Stewart role, but he could work on that folksy accent uh a bit,
and 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 uh by selling uh subversive, unregulated lemonade that as the police chief says, uh 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 f well we'll uh we'll we'll get to you and we'll come and we'll have our first dissident lemonade stand in your front yard in uh 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 Rushlin Boscher.
Hi, Mark, it's great to talk to you.
Um I just uh I just wanted to comment real quick about the guy who called up about the bridge that's creating twenty thousand jobs in ten 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, And a fraction of time that it's that it takes to build one bridge in the twenty-first century in the United States.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And that is one of the most striking features uh of the United States today.
Uh the length of time it takes to uh takes to put uh uh put up a building.
You know, when when you look at when you I m I think I made this point uh last year when I was talking about uh uh the business with uh replacing w the World Trade Center, where it's we're coming up to ten years and we finally uh got a little thing going there coming out of the big hole in the ground that we've been looking at for ten years.
Uh this happened to me uh in a town nearby town to where I live in New Hampshire.
They they got on the federal bridge subsidy program when a uh bridge was condemned and declared unsafe, and they got on the state bridge program, and then uh the state said, Well, we can't do it, but we've got on the federal subsidy bridge program.
Meanwhile the temporary bridge is worn out, and uh and and the and and the and there's still no estimated time of completion for the new federal uh bridge.
Small towns in New England used to build their own bridges.
When people talked about the bridge to the twenty-first century, it'll be the twenty-third century by the time they actually get it done.
In the nineteenth century, when we built uh eighteenth century colonists and eighteenth century settlers who built the bridge to the nineteenth century, they could put that up in their no account little uh north country Yankee towns all by themselves.
And uh it's it's fascinating to me that y when you when you're ta talking about even ten years, ten years to build a bridge.
What the hell is this bridge?
Is it a bridge to they're building a bridge from the West Coast to Hawaii?
Why does it take ten years?
And and it's the acceptance of that.
The acceptance of that whole uh attitude, Ross, I think is a big part of uh our problems.
How much would you reckon uh it it should take in real time to uh to put up a bridge?
Uh I think it'll take them about twenty years to start.
Maybe uh maybe if we're lucky, thirty years for completion.
Yeah.
And then and then we're gonna be getting into, of course, at that point you get into, you know, the zoning, uh you gotta g you'll have to renew zoning permits now, because it's getting too long uh to put up the bridge that your original zoning uh 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 uh all this is ridiculous.
I mean, this is just uh d just absurd.
You know, the if you go back to uh the depress the Empire State Building, for example, which was the tallest building in the world back then, that was put up in eighteen months during a depression.
Because the head of the of General Motors wanted to show off to the head of Chrysler.
He put up the Empire State Building in eighteen months.
Can you imagine that happening now?
Uh I could imagine that happening in uh eighty years now.
That's true.
That's that's true.
You know where the you know it's uh 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.
Uh it's uh it's actually using the use of its limbs.
When it takes you twenty years to put up a bridge, twenty years to put up a building, uh that is that is a uh a functioning society seizing up.
And that uh sclerosis uh and that hardening of the arteries, what's in those arteries uh uh affecting the blood from pumping and affecting us from uh preventing us from being able to put up an empire state building in eighteen months, uh what that is is government.
It's government regulation, it's government zoning processes, it's prov it's actually throttling the dynamism of a society.
Don't accept that it takes ten years to put up a bridge, or twenty years to put up a bridge, or thirty years to complete the replacement for the World Trade Center.
The World Trade Center.
You know, a bunch of a smelly cave dwellers took out the World Trade Center, and the economic hyperpower couldn't put it up and replace it in a decade.
Uh do you remember th those cartoons they used to email around uh after the World Trade Center was toppled, and it showed the towers rebuilt uh in the shape of uh some guy's hand flipping the finger to you uh with with the that the towers as the knuckles and with the great central digit sticking upwards, flipping the finger to Osama Bin Laden in his cave uh 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 ten years later.
Uh 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 uh as uh as toppling the Taliban in Afghanistan or knocking off Saddam Hussein in Iraq, that would have uh sent a message to the world uh about the resilience of America.
You know, uh 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 uh before you idiots pulled your stupid stunt.
But we didn't do that.
Mark Stein and Ferrara, that's a great point, Ross makes, by the way.
Don't accept this.
Uh in the nineteenth century, American towns built their own bridges and they didn't take ten years to do it.
And that's the way we should be doing it today.
Mark Stein in Farush, lots more to come.
Mark Stein in uh Ferush, you know, we were talking about bridges uh just before the break and the amount of time it takes to put up a bridge.
Why does it take to ten years to put up a bridge?
And I mentioned this little crazy example of a small town bridge that got uh delayed and delayed endlessly because it got into a state uh 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.
Uh so uh uh another little bridge in the same town broke down.
At this time the selectmen, uh the board of selectmen who run these small New Hampshire towns, uh 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 Tocville uh of our day.
I quote him in my soon to be imminently forthcomingly imminent book.
Uh I I quote that guy, that is uh not as elegant as Alexis de Tocville.
Screw the state, let's do it ourselves.
But it gets to the heart of what Tocqueville admired uh when he was going around Jacksonian America two hundred 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 uh 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 uh 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.
If you then you can control the government.
And uh that's we we get back then to the Rahme Manual, never let a never let a crisis uh go to waste.
And that and that's true, by the way, uh you should never attribute to incompetence, uh, which what what you can put down to to intention.
Uh and and uh and it is in the interests of statists to uh advance the dependency culture uh to have a majority uh of dependents who will vote for big government uh and uh and and will be a permanent constituency for big government.
So that's why what uh 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 uh when people talk about the squeeze on the middle class, statists don't care.
The 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 uh build a home for my family, I can take care of them.
Uh all I need is for you guys to stay the hell out of my way.
And that and for precisely that reason, uh statism is at war with the middle class, and why we have a situation in this country today where where the middle class gets squeezed from both ends by by uh the the statist ruling class crushing down on them from above uh and from the swollen, ever swelling ranks of the dependent class uh below them.
And when you have a situation as we have at the moment, uh where it's getting on for fifty percent of people who don't pay any federal income tax, uh, you're getting to the point where there's a permanent electoral majority uh for Obama-style statism, and that gets very dangerous.
Uh that gets very dangerous for the cause of liberty.
Uh Mark Stein in Farush, more to come.
Hey, Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network, and uh I know people get annoyed.
I know I know listeners get annoyed with the guest hosts, but by having four guests hosts, uh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network creates or saves uh twenty thousand seven hundred and thirty-one jobs.
And according to the Congressional Budget Office, it should uh save America three point eight trillion dollars in the out years between twenty thirty-one and twenty fifty.
So it makes a lot of economic sense having these guest hosts.
Uh it's been great being here.
Don't forget Rush will return live uh on Wednesday to see through the rest of uh uh of the week.
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