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July 22, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 22, 2011, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman 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 it's a great program.
Guys like me get to study here.
And in return, Ben Bernanke gets to use the Central Bank of Zimbabwe printing press as an alternate weekend, so it all works out.
All works out.
And yes, I know on Tuesday I said Rush was going to be here with authentic full strength made in America.
Excellence in broadcasting through the end of the week, but I'm afraid it's the uh cheap foreign knockoff excellence in broadcasting today.
But it's like a it's like a Bangladeshi roller Rolex.
You won't be able to tell the difference until it breaks down after twenty minutes.
Uh Rush is in Massachusetts, uh attending a funeral today.
Myra Kraft, a great uh philanthropist in Massachusetts.
Uh Rush was uh talking about her earlier in the week, and he's a good and loyal friend, and he's there through the tough times uh too.
So he'll be back on Monday, uh in time, no doubt, for the uh latest uh ludicrous bipartisan debt deal.
But in the meantime, we have debt, we have deficits, decline, doom, despair.
Yes, the weekend starts here.
Live from New York City.
It's open live Friday.
Actually, we're live from the uh the White Mountains of New Hampshire, but the the uh federal jingle regulatory authority hasn't approved the new I dent yet.
Uh Mr. Mr. Snadley, you're in uh you're in New York, right?
Okay, so let me see if I've got this right.
Yesterday Rush was in Los Angeles, but you were running the show from Palm Beach.
Uh today I'm in New Hampshire, so you're running the show from New York.
It's like some na national labor relations board thing with like with Boeing being told where they have to build the factory.
When we get a guest host from the Solomon Islands, Mr. Snerdley will be uh producing the show live from Tajikistan.
You know it makes sense.
1800-282-2882, open line Friday.
You know how this works.
From Monday to Thursday, a highly trained broadcast specialist determines the content of the show.
But we don't have one of those available today, so it's a free-for-all.
Whatever you want to talk about.
Uh ballet, cricket, go for it.
Now's your chance.
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Uh yesterday on the show, uh Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, called in to talk to Rush.
Here's how that conversation went.
Happy to have with us the Speaker of the House, John Boehner.
I'm glad that we had a chance to talk to you here, Mr. Speaker, because the first line and people are confused with all of these leaks as to what's going on.
Well, Rush, there is no deal.
No deal publicly, no deal privately.
There is absolutely no deal.
Are you talking about a deal, though?
Pardon me?
Are you talking about a deal in secret?
Our focus right now is getting the Senate to follow us in the house and pass cut cap and balance.
I believe that we've got to act to prevent a default and to prevent a downgrade of our nation's credit rating.
And the best way to do that is to enact cut cap and balance.
But let me be clear.
I believe that is the best course of action.
I said all the way along that we've got to keep the lines of communication open.
That's why Leader Cantor and I have talked with Mitch McConnell, we've talked to Nancy Pelosi, we've talked to the President.
We talked about fallback options.
If in fact Cut Cap and Balance does go down.
And I do think that it's our obligation to have a fallback plan, but it doesn't work.
Well, but that's what everybody's worded.
What is the fallback plan?
The congressional aides out there today saying that the deal's been struck.
He's unnamed, he's on Fox, he's saying it's three trillion dollars of cuts uh with no tax revenue.
National Journal says three trillion in cuts with insignificant tax revenues.
So a lot of people out here are of the opinion that Obama is the one who ought to be caving.
He's the one that doesn't have a plan.
He's forcing you to compromise with yourself.
And they're just he's done great damage to the economy.
People wanted to stop.
I understand.
I'm concerned about the nation defaulting on its credit rating.
I'm um concerned about us not doing anything about our debt, uh, which will cause our credit rating to fall.
And which then would mean everybody's interest rates go up.
I think that's irresponsible.
Uh, frankly, we've looked at a half a dozen fallback plans.
Uh none of which none of which uh are all that appetizing.
Uh that's why we continue to support CutCap and balance.
So you're convinced that a default would uh make it be unable.
We were to be unable to service our debt if there's a default.
I'm concerned that we're getting into uncharted territory that could wreak uh great havoc on our nation.
Uh and I don't think it's necessary uh to get into that unknown zone and take the chance.
Uh I frankly believe that we've got to find a way uh to to cut our our budget deficit, cut our debt, and balance our budget.
Why is it not Obama's responsibility to do that?
He is the one that's put us in this position.
It would have been nice if the president put a plan on the table months ago.
But the president has refused uh to put any plan on the table.
It's obviously been driving me right up a wall.
Well, he wants you to take the heat for whatever happens.
Yeah, but I think at the end of the day, he knows that he's the commander in chief, he's the president of the United States, and he will take the heat.
Well, a lot of people are concerned that uh you are his lifeline to re-election, uh, and that that's how he sees you.
And that if he can get you to in any way act that can be portrayed as a cave that he wins.
And that's what people are deathly afraid of.
Russia, I'm trying to do what I what I taught taught my kids to do, the same thing my parents taught me to do.
You did the right things for the right reasons, good things will happen.
All right.
Speaker Boehner, thanks much.
I wish we had more time, but we don't.
Thanks very much for that was uh John Boehner, Speaker of the House of Representatives, calling in to the Rush Limbaugh show yesterday.
And uh the key point to remember about that exchange is that the president has not put any plan on the table.
The president does not have a plan.
Uh and rush was uh trying to get uh uh Speaker Boehner to address this, which is that there's something kind of slightly crazy about negotiating with a guy who refuses to put anything in writing on the table.
Uh people talk about the media uh have given this kind of phr ludicrous misrepresentation of what's going on here.
They've said that uh uh th that uh Obama is the grown-up in the room.
Obama is the grown up in the room because he has a plan for four trillion dollars worth of savings.
He doesn't have a plan.
He's got nothing in writing uh that is that is a plan of any kind.
He wrote an op-ed in USA Today yesterday, it's got no specifics in there on anything.
It's all just the usual geous platitudinous generalities.
Uh how can you negotiate with someone who won't even put anything on the table to negotiate?
There is no plan.
He got it he his by a plan they mean that he read out the number four trillion dollars.
Uh that means that he got his aides to book the uh the extra wide teleprompter, the one you can get the twelve zeros on, uh and he read out the number four trillion dollars.
Uh and the fact that he's announced the fact that he stood there in public and he said and he said four trillion dollars, everyone thinks he's got a four trillion dollar plan.
He hasn't he hasn't got a plan for anything.
The only specific for this plan, by the way.
This is this is what the adult in the room, the grown up in the room, is proposing.
He he's rumored to be in favor of raising the age of social security eligibility from sixty-five to sixty-seven.
Okay?
Sixty-five to sixty-seven.
He's gonna raise but don't worry, don't worry if you're like uh sixty-four and a half now.
Don't worry about that, because this dramatic uh b game-changing debt reducing move will not be made till the year twenty thirty six.
That is the only specific that there's even a rumor about in the so-called Obama plan that he will be willing he's he's willing to talk about considering perhaps discussing raising the age of social security eligibility from sixty-five to sixty-seven by the year twenty thirty-six.
Uh if that's the best offer, there isn't gonna be a twenty thirty-six, not for not for America.
Yet this is the guy that the media portray is the grown-up in the room.
And you know, I I I uh spe Speaker Boehner is doing a difficult job here because it's hard to negotiate in good faith with a guy who won't put anything in writing.
A guy who's actually responsible, who who is, as he said, the commander in chief, the president of the United States, the chief executive uh of the failing company.
But he won't put anything on paper.
How do you negotiate with that?
And and when John Boehner talks uh about uh default and a cut in the debt rating, uh I think this this gets to the heart to the way the media has uh utterly fraudulently uh uh misrepresented this story.
To the to the court eunuchs of the of the Obama media.
Uh a failure to raise the debt ceiling by a couple of trillion on August the second would signal to the world that uh American government was embarrassingly dysfunctional.
Uh that's that's not the issue here.
That's that's not what the world is looking for.
In reality, raising the debt ceiling by a couple of trillion without any spending cuts would confirm to the world that American government is terminally dysfunctional.
The world is looking for to avoid uh a downgrading of US Treasury debt in the same way that Ireland's was downgraded to junk a few days ago.
Uh the world is looking for at least four trillion dollars worth of cuts and now, cuts now, not not cuts in the year 2036, but cuts now.
Uh otherwise we're looking at a downgrade, and the c and the implications for a downgrade are not going to be pretty.
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Uh it's interesting to contrast that uh what's what's going on in the debt talks with what's going on with uh borders.
Today is the last day of Borders, not the not the uh national borders, the Borders Bookstore.
Borders the uh the big chain store is going the way of the uh Southern Border.
It's uh it's basically out of business, it's gone.
It's uh it's uh it's great news for me.
I've I've got a new book coming out in a week or two, and for the first time in my life it's in the front window at Borders, because even the looters didn't want it.
So it's bye-bye borders.
Uh Rich Lowry has an interesting column at National Review today, uh, and he and he makes the point uh that you know the market corrects.
When Borders had a nineteen nineties business model that failed to take into account uh the arrival of the internet and online book sales and the development of the Kindle and the Nook and all the rest of it.
Uh so it had a nineteen nineties uh business model and uh the market has worked uh and the market has ruled that the nineteen nineties business model is inefficient and the company couldn't adapt, so it's died.
That's the creativity of capitalism.
That's the dynamism of a free market uh at work.
Do you know if if uh if the United States government had merely a nineteen nineties outmoded business model?
In other words, if its business model was only fifteen to twenty years out of date, that would be the best news ever for the United States.
Uh but in fact our business model is fifty to eighty years out of date.
Uh and when you look at the and when you look at our business model, you've got to you've got to wonder, it's a lot harder to fix than what's going on at at Borders or Blockbusters or any uh these uh companies.
Blockbuster.
Blockbuster video went bankrupt because it was uh it was wedded to a nineteen eighties technology and distribution system.
Uh but it but in government, if you were if you were only a quarter century out of date, that would be a huge achievement.
I mean, basically uh the Obama Democrats are insisting that an 80-year-old, eight zero, we're not talking about the nineteen nineties like the Borders Business model or the nineteen eighties like the blockbuster video model.
We're talking about an eighty-year-old social program.
Social Security, a early nineteen thirties social program is inviolable.
It can't be touched.
Uh i i you you can't do anything to it.
They're saying uh it was set up that way eighty years ago and it's got to stay the same for all eternity.
Uh that's that's like Blockbuster insisting in uh in in 2011 that there's there's no problem with its business model uh for rentals of silent movies with live orchestral accompaniment.
That's and you imagine that.
You think blockbuster video has a problem because of its nineteen eighties business model.
You imagine if they were still selling uh they were renting silent movies with live orchestral accompaniment and saying, Oh no, no, don't worry about it, there's no need to change.
You yes, there are some problems uh parking the musician's bus in uh in residential cul-de-sacks, but you know, it's nothing that we don't really Need to make any any changes.
That's uh borders had a nineteen nineties business model, it's gone.
Blockbuster uh had a nineteen eighties business model.
The problem with the United States government is is that it's got an early and mid-20th century business model and it's not gonna and it's refusing to change them.
We'll talk about that, and we will talk about lots of other things.
There are explosions in Norway.
Uh uh some kind of bomb has uh shattered the uh windows of the Prime Minister's office.
We'll we'll keep an eye on that.
Lots of dramatic things happening around the world, but this is your day to call in on what you want to talk about.
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Mark Stein Inforush on the EIB network.
Rush returns Monday, open line Friday, 1800-282-2882.
August the third, by the way, is not just the day after the debt limit is reached.
Uh the day of the Republic's crash, the day of the default, the day of the downgrading of the dollar, the day of total societal collapse.
It's also by happy coincidence.
Yes, it is.
It's a that's exactly right, Mr. Snodley.
It is Obama's birthday.
Fancy that they've scheduled they've scheduled the collapse of the Republic and Obama's birthday for the same day.
So I think there's no doubt what uh well I don't I I'm I'm I might uh do you have to genuflect toward Mecca, or can you just genuflect in any direction?
I don't know.
I'll have to take uh uh uh I'll uh well he I if you genuflected his direction that I think he's at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago where they're having the big fundraiser uh big birthday fundraiser for him.
But you know, it's not enough it it's it's not enough just to have like one birthday party.
Uh the the Obama the the My Obama dot com website has uh has issued a uh a special glossy four-page step-by-step guide that instructs you, you the humble peasant subject of Good King Barack, how to hold your own Obama birthday party.
It's uh it's not I mean he won't be coming to it, he won't be coming to your birthday party because you're just a peasant nobody, but you can still hold a birthday party for him, and he will uh deliver a live fifty minute speech which is which is what every party needs to go to to go with a swing, don't you think?
A fifty minute speech for Obama, that's and and come on, uh give the guy some credit.
He's only speaking for one minute uh for every year he's spent on his planet.
Uh I hope they are.
I think they should rename it.
Uh they uh uh Washington, DC should be renamed Obamaton, Obamaville, D.C., Obamaville, DC.
And I hope they take down all those losers on Mount Rushmore and just uh and just change it to Mount Barackmore, and they should have fifty they should just take all those all those loser schlubs off Mount Rushmore and just have fifty massive stone barracks uh just gazing out from the mount in honor of his birthday.
But if Yeah, uh well, I think there will be official the governors of all fifty-seven states will be at the party to to pay homage uh to it.
In fact, I think in order to in order to emphasize how critical Barack is to the Republic, uh I think they will expel seven of those states from the Republic.
So we will only have fifty states uh to match the number of years that our blessed Saviour has has passed upon this earth.
But you know Well well as a special as a special treat, uh they're going to be handing out the the fifty calorie no fat no taste yogurt.
Uh so Michelle Obama will be handing the fifty calorie uh uh no taste low fat no fat no taste yogurt out uh and then and then Barack will be uh chowing down on whatever he wants to chow down because he's in because you know, he's in fabulous, uh fabulous shape.
That's why they can that's no, no, no.
I mean, this is this is the um the uh the the House of Bourbon, Louis the Sixteenth, uh he had uh debt approaching, I think uh interest payments approaching sixty percent Of uh revenues uh in the year before the French Revolution, and that's why Mary Antoinette said, let them eat cake.
We're going the same way, our debt, but we we can't eat cake.
So we're we're an improvement on Mary Antoinette uh and the House of Bourbon in that respect.
But this this guide, so you can you losers out there, you nobodies, you peasant subjects are good King Barack, you can have your own happy birthday, Barack 50th birthday party.
They're telling you to invite fifty friends.
So if you know fifty people on your street who want who wanna hear a fifty minute speech from Barack Obama, and let's face it, let's face it, you you only have to be in a very small cul de sac, and everyone will come.
Fifty, fifty people who want to sit through a fifty minute speech uh from Barack Obama, because nothing says partying like it's two thousand and eight uh than listening to a fifty minute speech from Barack Obama.
Then there's a special website, uh myobama.com.
Uh they've got all the fiftieth birthday logos there, and they fortuitously timed it to coincide with the collapse of the Republic.
Yes, Rush is away at a funeral in Massachusetts today.
He will be back uh live twelve noon Monday for a full week of uh excellence in uh in broadcasting.
Uh from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Uh McDonald's manager punched customer who had service dog.
A Marietta McDonald's manager is accused of punching a mother who brought a service dog and her autistic children into the restaurant.
A Cobb County warrant charges Tiffany Denise Allen with simple battery, simple assault, fear and disorderly conduct.
Uh th this woman uh just happens to go into McDonald's with her service dog, and the manager uh takes against the dog, follows the woman into a uh bathroom, the woman tries to flee, she throws her her cup of McDonald's coffee to the ground and runs away, uh, and the uh McDonald's manager uh follows her into the parking lot uh and uh hits her in the face.
So the poor woman goes uh in for uh to McDonald's to get a uh quarter pounder and comes out a quarter pounded.
That's uh that's marvellous, isn't it?
Uh McDonald's Mac McDonald's, yes.
Now what is it, Burger King, have it your way.
Ow.
Uh that's uh that's uh uh it uh it's a funny thing, you know, the the business with service dogs uh leads to odd altercations, I find.
Someone should publish an anthology of uh uh of of service dog conflicts in the world.
I wouldn't mind betting that actually it's at the root of most wars that uh that break out.
There was a story uh in Australia somewhere, I think it was Adelaide, uh, that uh this uh a blind man went into a restaurant and a uh he asked and the waiter said, What what's that dog with you uh for?
And instead of saying that it was what uh a guide dog, a guide dog, that's what they called him in Australia, uh the waiter thought he said it was a gay dog and refused and refused and refused to let him in the restaurant.
It's it's a What gay dogs?
Yeah, but this was a non-gay dog.
It was a confusion over the Australian accent, because if you think it you know the Australian accent where the waiter goes, uh, hey, what's that dog?
And uh the blind guy just said, Oi, Mike, it's my guide dog.
Uh and and the and the uh the waiter who was apparently uh uh an Asian waiter misunderstood the Australian accent.
He hadn't been there that long, and he thought it and he thought it was a gay dog.
And so the uh the the restaurant wound getting fined uh for uh homophobia and being ordered and ordered to pay compensation, uh, because even though the dog was a hetero heterosexual dog, the implication that the restaurant didn't take in homosexual dogs was regarded as you know, apt put them absolutely beyond the pale.
The case went to whatever they call it down there, the equal opportunity tribunal, um and uh and and uh the the statement of the restaurant owner was that they thought the the dog was not a uh a blind person's dog, but an ordinary dog that had been turned gay, as the owner put it, which only made his case worse.
So there's crazy there's crazy things happening with service dogs.
Uh all all all What do you call a dog what's that, Mr. Snerdley?
Well, that's all dogs, isn't it?
A dog uh Mr. Surley wants to know what's the what do you call a dog who likes human legs?
All dogs like human legs.
I've never I've yet to meet a dog that doesn't doesn't like a a human leg.
I don't believe that dog is being invented.
If you if you know of one, if you know of a breed uh that do that it isn't taken by human legs, then then uh then let me know.
1800 28282, if you're a if you're a dog expert and you know the non-leg appreciating, most dogs are leg men, whether they're gay dogs or heterosexual dogs.
Let's go to Richard in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Richard, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Well, thank you, Mark.
Uh I have a suggestion for the Republicans on closing the deficit.
And it starts by let's agree with the Democrats.
Let's make very clear that we don't want to cut programs for anyone in need.
And second, though, let's make those wealthy pay their fair share.
And let's start by not sending checks to those that don't need them.
And there's a great article a couple of days ago in our local paper that highlights that.
So your theory it then is by is by accepting the Democrat proposition and saying that uh that things like Medicare should in fact be means tested and should only go to people who need it.
Exactly.
And let's agree with them.
We're not gonna throw poor old Granny outside, but let's get those poor wealthy people.
Now there's an article in the main Arkansas paper, supposed to be sympathetic two days ago about a man who's been spending his weekend going to Washington lobbying for Medicaid.
And it's because of the benefits he gets.
Right.
Well, it happens to mention that he's a doctor with the university health system and makes three hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars a year.
Yeah, but you know you know you you're you're right.
A man who makes three hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars a year doesn't need the government uh in charge of his uh of his health care.
But the reason the Democrats will never go along with that is uh to go back to the line on guns, you know, just as gun control isn't about guns, it's about control.
Uh lemonade stand control isn't about lemonade stands, it's about control.
Health care control uh isn't about health care, it's about it's about control.
They they do not want if you look at the way uh poverty is defined in this country now, poverty is is ridiculous.
No people, the poor people of today, if you look at the way it's defined, uh would be regarded as uh as the wealthy people uh uh of the middle ages because we have we have so redefined poverty that our poverty programs now are targeting people who would be middle class and upper middle class in any previous society.
Uh and that suits the Democrats just fine, because it it i i the more people who the more people who are receiving checks from the state.
Uh Obama gave the game away uh w a couple of days ago when he said, Oh, well, you know, if this August the third deadline, you know, if my birthday deadline, my birthday debt ceiling deadline uh passes, I can't guarantee that the August checks will go out.
So in other words, he's saying to grandma, he's holding the gun to the grandma's head, as he'd put it, and he's saying, uh if if if the if uh the Republicans don't cave before my birthday, you're gonna get it, lady, because your check ain't gonna be gone out.
And he gave the game away here that that is the business of the United States now, to send checks out to the citizenry.
And as you point out, Richard, most of these people, a guy, a doctor making three hundred thousand dollars in Arkansas, uh doesn't need, doesn't need to be getting his health care from the distant national government uh uh on the far horizon.
It's absolutely stupid.
Uh it's pointless.
And by the time it's been sluiced, if you if you think of the pipe for the delivery of Medicaid from Washington to this $300,000 a year doctor in Arkansas, and you it's like a leech field pipe.
It's like uh the pipe out of your septic tank.
There's these holes all the way along, and government employees all the way along leaching money uh uh uh and services out of this thing.
Uh so it's an inefficient delivery system.
But what It does is it justifies the Leviathan state.
It justifies the big government behemoth.
And so if you say to Democrats, that's where that's where your pals at the Arkansas Democrat Gazette aren't thinking straight on this.
If you say, if you obviously there would be no problem if we just said, look, uh we're gonna we're we're gonna stop all this government spending, but we're just gonna concentrate on the on the poor and needy.
Uh that's not what that's not what the big entitlement state is now.
The big entitlement state is where people earning three hundred thousand dollars a year pay huge amounts in taxes in order for the government to give them little lollipops back as tax credits for this or government programs for that, which are which are like prizes, which are like rewards, which which are like treats, like birthday treats at the Obama birthday party.
Uh they're like little birthday treats uh in in which the good King Barack rewards you for agreeing to live your life like the statists want you to live.
And that's why they're never ever gonna go they're never gonna go along with these programs that say only the really poor, only the really needy are gonna get them.
They want them to be big universal programs because they w uh by doing that you accept that the state is the legitimate arbiter of how you live your life.
And that is what the uh the Democrats want, I'm afraid.
Thanks for your call, Richard.
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Uh Richard's Richard's theory is we should just say uh you're right, uh people need to uh the the the wealthy need to pay more.
Uh some of these wealthy people shouldn't be getting uh the benefits of Medicare and Medicaid and all these other programs, uh and so they should be taking off the rolls.
But the but the Democrats will not go along with that because the Democrats want a big big universal social programs because they require big government bureaucracies and big government to run them, and because they establish the principle uh that uh in in uh in the United States of America uh the government is entitled to take what it has from you and give you a little bit of it back in in Obama 50th birthday treats for agreeing to live your life the way the government wants them
to live.
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Mark Stein in for Rush, open line Friday, 1-800-282-2882 Los Angeles.
A city official says a Los Angeles traffic officer has been fired for appearing in uniform in a pornographic film.
Uh Bruce Widden, executive director of the city's Civil Service Commission, told the Los Angeles Times Thursday the officer was fired earlier this week.
Widden says John Dankler.
John, is that John Dankler or John Dangler?
I can't tell.
It's like a little blur on the on the uh printout here.
Uh John Dangler, is that his porn name or is that his regular Los Angeles traffic cop name?
Uh John Dangler was dismissed for misconduct on the job and in uniform.
And for indecent acts that reflected poorly on the city workforce.
What's interesting about this story?
He's a twenty-three-year employee of the city's Department of Transportation, and he and another uniformed traffic officer came under investigation three months ago uh after it turned out that they had appeared in this pornographic film with an actress performing lewd acts.
I don't know what have the ha what happened to the other uniformed traffic officer.
Maybe maybe they're still there.
But I think this is absolutely deplorable.
You know, if you look at the benefits that uh that your average uh Los Angeles traffic officer gets.
You look at the pension, you look at the time they get to retirement.
This guy is a twenty-three-year employee of the city's Department of Transportation, not that far away from retirement.
Why is he taking the jobs of good, honest private sector porno actors?
They don't have the benefits that that that John Dangler has.
Uh John Dang they don't have the retirement uh uh and health care options that John Dangler has.
What about won't we spare a thought for the poor minimum wage porno actor who's having his uh having his jobs taken from him by uniformed Los Angeles traffic officers?
This is this is just uh this is just terrible.
My my only I think the only possible defense for this is if he turned out to be uh from I think it was the uh California or whatever they call it, the occupational health and safety guys, who were uh considering regulating uh pornographic movie shoots uh by requiring them to maintain the same hygiene standards as uh as a California hospital.
And if you've ever been to California hospitals the last couple of years, you'll know that shouldn't be that difficult.
Uh but no, they were requ they were gonna require that everybody in the pornographic movie had to wear latex gloves and surgical masks.
So uh so they would be brought up to the same hygiene standards as a California hospital.
Uh by the way, if you've ever been in a uh national health service socialized hospital in Scotland, uh it would be nice if you could bring uh the standard of hygiene in the average Scottish hospital up to that of a California porn movie shoot.
But uh so the only excuse would be if this LA traffic officer was actually in uniform uh there because he had been assigned uh to check whether everybody in in the lewd act was wearing sufficient amounts of latex gloves and and uh surge surgical marks.
Yes, probably probably well, I don't know whether he was wearing his helmet in uh in this particular scene.
But I think that's uh I think that's uh I think that's good.
I think it's good the the uh that we should have uniformed uh security people.
I don't know whether he was there.
I mean, I don't even see what the objection is.
I mean, basically uniformed members of the Transport Security Administration are taking part in lewd acts at every airport in the country.
Why when they don't seem to be in danger of getting fired?
Why why should the poor LA uh LAPD traffic cop wind up getting fired?
Uh let us go to uh Tim in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Tim, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show as we contemplate the uh looming date with destiny.
Mark, how are you?
I'm doing good.
How's things with you?
Uh no legitimate complaints.
Uh well outside of uh you know governmental issues, but that's another story entirely.
Um I wanted to put forward the notion that the Democrats have an ulterior motive in these budget discussions, which I know comes as a shock.
Uh and what is the ulterior motive then?
Well, I will tell you.
I think that they're trying to uh how do I say this?
Sodomize the political vernacular by conflating taxes and revenue uh that the two become inseparable in the public mind.
And and what part what part of revenue i they they're trying to replace the word taxes with revenue because they think revenue sounds sober and responsible, but without terrifying people that it just means they have to write a bigger check uh at the end of the year.
Well, I I think it's more than that, even I I think that what they're trying to do is make the two terms interchangeable so that the future be populated by a public who thinks that the way out of economic despair is a beaver new taxes.
And they'll never even stop to think that cutting taxes would actually do more to alleviate economic woes.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
Now, you know, you're absolutely right here, yeah, because the ta increasing the tax rate does not mean uh an increase in revenues.
Right.
And you're absolutely right on that.
And by the way, there's no real uh the the evidence suggests that you cannot get uh you cannot get revenues up above nineteen per cent of GDP.
Uh all the all the historical evidence suggests that when you try to go above that, people just uh people just make alternative arrangements.
They don't work as hard, uh they move their money offshore, they park it somewhere, uh so it uh it does it's not declared as income for a few years.
You can't get it up above nineteen percent.
People don't want to uh uh uh beyond a certain point, uh the the people who generate economic activity, the dynamism in the economy does not want to go above nineteen per cent of GDP.
Now the the Obama sickness, the Obama depravity, the Obama Reed Pelosi depravity of the last few years assumes that you can uh you can uh have uh government expenditures of twenty-five per cent of GDP or more, twenty-five to thirty per cent of GDP by the federal government as a permanent fact of life.
You could tax everybody, you could take everything from everybody, and you are not gonna get enough to cover that.
Because uh the evidence the evidence is plain on this, uh that uh that you can't push it up above nineteen percent, unless in very particular agreed circumstances.
If you happen to be, I think the most uh that a m that uh uh uh most revenue that uh the United States government ever collected as a proportion of GDP was the year 1944, at the very uh at the very climax of the war, when we were gearing up to land on uh the beaches of Norway and liberate a continent, uh and the national focus was on that.
Uh but absent that you can't do it.
And these guys uh as you say, by confusing the words revenue with taxes by saying, Oh, well, if you increase taxes, you increase revenue.
No.
Uh Obama's increased taxes on everything, and he uh and he ain't gonna have any revenue to show for it because he's killing the economy.
By the way, did you know Larry Flint was arguing for a porn movie industry bailout a couple of years ago?
Maybe it's because of the all these uh LAPD moonlighting officers.
Mark Stein uh Inforush, lots more straight ahead.
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