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July 22, 2011, Friday, Hour #2

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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in.
	I've had a bunch of emails saying, what's going on?
	What's going on, Stein?
	You were here earlier in the week, and then it was going to be Rush, and now you're back.
	Is it some clerical error?
	Did he accidentally guest host for the pre-scheduled guest host on Wednesday and Thursday?
	And then they discovered that shouldn't have happened.
	And so now they've had to get a guest host back to host.
	No, no, no, it's nothing to do with that.
	Rush returned on Wednesday.
	He is at the funeral of a friend today.
	He's at Myra Craft's funeral in Massachusetts.
	He is a good and loyal friend, and he's there through tough times, and he's there to the end.
	And Rush will return to the show live on Monday.
	But certainly no one should begrudge a man choosing to attend the funeral of his friend.
	So we have, instead of the all-American authentic full-strength excellence in broadcasting, we have the cheap, watered-down, outsource foreign minimum wage excellence in broadcasting today.
	But other than that, the format for the end of the week is unchanged.
	Evidently not.
	I thought you were going to...
	Here it comes.
	Ah, here it comes.
	New York City.
	It's open wine.
	Friday.
	Monday to Thursday.
	A highly trained broadcast specialist controls the show.
	But as you just heard, we couldn't afford one of those today.
	So anything goes.
	1-800-282-2882.
	We are not live, yeah.
	Yeah, we should.
	Next time, we'll get one of those versatile LAPD cops who can also perform in porn movies.
	He would have got his entrance right on that.
	There would have been no problem there.
	We're not, yeah, yeah.
	You can, yeah, his nightstick would have been right on top of that.
	1-800-282-2882, we are not live from New York.
	We are live from the Granite State of New Hampshire.
	Great to be with you here in the...
	Normally, it's cool here in the White Mountains, but we're getting the kind of dregs of the little heat waves.
	So we're up to the 90s here.
	And when this studio, Ice Station EIB, was built, nobody thought, nobody put air conditioning in because nobody needs air conditioning in this part of the world.
	And today, for some reason, because of the whole Al Gore polar bear thing, it's 98 degrees, and my poor assistant Tiffany has been spending the morning assembling a fan, assembling a fan.
	She went off.
	I said, oh, I can't do the show in this sweatbox.
	Go out and get a fan.
	So she comes back with a fan.
	Well, she comes back with a box.
	And the box has parts for a fan in it.
	And so she spent the whole morning as we've been on here during the first hour getting the fan put together.
	Because that is the way people think, people think that all manufacturing has been outsourced to China.
	That's not true.
	That's not true.
	Those cheap Chinese factories out there in China, they don't make the product.
	They put the bits of the product in the box and then they mail it back to America.
	And Americans open the box and build the product themselves from the parts that the Chinese people in the factory have put in the box.
	You do it.
	In the old days, you'd have gone to a hardware store and bought a fan and come back and plugged it in the wall and you'd have been wafted by its balmy breezes within a couple of minutes.
	But today, you go and you buy the box.
	The box has come all the way from China with all the loose parts in it.
	And then you spend the rest of the morning trying to assemble the fan because that's globalization.
	And what could be wrong with that?
	The Chinese factory gets to put the parts in the box, and then you get to make the fan for free.
	And that's globalization.
	What could possibly go wrong with it?
	Mark Stein, Infra Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
	You can talk about anything you want to talk about, anything you want to talk about on the show today.
	So give it your best, give it your best shot.
	There is breaking news out of Norway.
	A bomb went off in central Oslo, shattered windows in the Prime Minister's office, but I believe the actual bomb itself was located in the offices of the big state broadcaster where a youth political, some kind of youth political camp that the Prime Minister was due to be addressing there.
	And the gunmen, the gunmen, were actually, as I understand it, were dressed in police uniform.
	I'm getting conflicted reports on the number of dead and wounded, but it may be that at least four people are dead in this terrorist act.
	I will be interested to see whether it's anything to do with a fellow called Mullah Krikar, who has been ordered deported from.
	He's a radical Imam and he was ordered deported from Norway on Tuesday.
	And he threatened that if they did agree to go ahead with the deportation, that he would actually take it out on officials of the Norwegian state.
	So he more or less explicitly made this threat on Tuesday.
	And now something close to what he threatened has apparently come to pass.
	I have a sort of tangential link with Mullah Crikar in that his most famous soundbite was when he said a few years ago that Muslims were going to dominate Europe because they were breeding like mosquitoes.
	When the Canadian Islamic Congress decided to sue me as a flagrant Islamophobe, it attributed that quote to me.
	And all these radical Imams up in Canada and their various sock puppet spokesmen went out all over the media and the usual brain-dead media took it.
	Oh, Stein says Muslims are breeding like mosquitoes.
	No, that was Mullah Crikar, the radical Imam, who said that.
	And the position of the Canadian Islamic Congress is it's okay, it's okay for a radical Imam to say that Muslims are breeding like mosquitoes.
	But if a guy like me quotes the radical Imam saying that Muslims are breeding like mosquitoes, then that's some kind of hate crime.
	So I've been interested in following Mullah Krikar since then.
	So I noted that he was ordered to be deported on Tuesday, and that we now have on Friday this mysterious and fatal explosion at a venue that the Prime Minister was due to speak at.
	And these guys were actually dressed as police officers from what we understand.
	So we will keep an eye on that.
	And we will also keep an eye on the continuing debt ceiling drama that is going on.
	You know, the whole debt ceiling thing, by the way, it's important to understand the media has got a false narrative on this.
	Like, the media thinks the thing to do is to reach a deal.
	And that's not what the rest of the world is looking for.
	Because if it's the usual deal, if it's like the deal the Republicans got suckered into in the lame duck session, if it's the deal the Republicans got suckered into in the 2011 budget, in other words, where they sign on to something that's supposed to be a big grand bargain and that supposedly has all these spending cuts in it.
	And then when you actually look at the fine print, it turns out there were no spending cuts or the spending cuts are intended to kick in on the 12th of never.
	That is not the deal that the rest of the world is waiting for.
	If this is just jacking up the debt ceiling, business as usual, then the world will conclude that the political institutions of the United States do not allow for meaningful cost correction.
	And at that point, the dollar is going to be downgraded.
	Now, what does that mean for you?
	A lot of people think, well, so what if the dollar's downgraded?
	That's just the business of a lot of foreigners.
	I mean, that's a problem for the Chinese.
	That's a problem for the Japanese.
	What's it doing?
	No, no, no, it isn't.
	Who are the biggest holders of U.S. Treasury debt?
	In the top 10, you've got three foreigners.
	Basically, there's the Chinese, the Japanese, and the British.
	They hold large reserves of U.S. Treasury debt.
	Everyone else is domestic.
	U.S. banks hold U.S. banks, which are not in the best situation right now, by the way, and haven't been since 2008.
	They hold a trillion dollars worth of U.S. Treasury debt.
	$1 trillion worth of U.S. Treasury debt.
	And so if the U.S. Treasury debt gets downgraded in the way that the Irish debt did, the Irish and the Portuguese debt had been downgraded to junk.
	If the U.S. debt, Treasury debt gets downgraded from the AAA rating, this is what Speaker Boehner was alluding to in his interview with Rush in the last hour.
	That means that all the debt, the trillion dollars of Treasury debt sitting at the First National Bank of Dead Skunk Junction or wherever you keep your savings account, all the debt, the U.S. Treasury debt in the vault of that bank has also been downgraded.
	So how many of the banks and insurance companies and pension funds you know who else holds a bunch of U.S. Treasury debt?
	State and municipal governments.
	All those bankrupt states, California, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, they all hold tons of U.S. Treasury debt too.
	So suddenly their Treasury debt has been downgraded.
	This is going to have, this is basically, if that will be the consequence if the Obama model, we just go on spending, spending, and spending until we get downgraded.
	It's going to have impacts on every aspect of U.S. life.
	It's going to have an impact.
	If you've got a pension fund, if you have insurance with a particular insurance companies, they're some of the biggest holders of U.S. Treasury debt.
	This idea that it's just some wacky foreign exchange type thing, only of concern to the Chinese Politburo and the Saudi sheikhs and a few other rich guys.
	No, it's going to everything that you thought you have an investment in, you've made provision for your pension, you've made provision for your insurance, you've made provision for your savings account.
	It's going to affect basically every lever of fiscal stability in your life if U.S. Treasury debt winds up getting downgraded.
	That's the real risk.
	And this feckless, useless, irresponsible court eunuchs of the Obama media are presenting the actual issue as the precise opposite of what it is.
	Nothing would be more disastrous for the United States right now than for the Republicans to say, okay, you win, let's just jag it up a couple of trillion dollars.
	And we'll do the same next time around when you bump up against that limit in six months' time.
	That would send the message that the institutions, the political institutions of the government of the United States, are incapable of cost correction.
	And once the world understands that message, the dollar is over.
	Mark Stein in Farush, 1-800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein in Farush, just to clarify what I was saying about these terrorist attacks in Norway, there were actually two of them, one in central Oslo and one at this political summer camp on an island, Utoya Island.
	And I believe at least four confirmed deaths in Oslo now, and a man disguised as a police officer using a masking pistol, which I think is Norwegian for submachine gun in English.
	Let's go to Greg in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
	Greg, you are live on Open Line Friday.
	Great to have you with us.
	Thanks for taking the call.
	My pleasure.
	I was talking about the Dodd-Frank bill.
	It passed about a year ago.
	I recently got a letter or email from my Liberal congressman talking about how wonderful it was and how irresponsible the banks were and how they can't police themselves and how necessary some regulation is.
	I found that funny considering a few days before that, I got his email talking about how extreme the Republicans are and how radical a balanced budget amendment is.
	When you look at how irresponsible the government's been compared to the banks, it's laughable.
	Yeah.
	So I just find it interesting, the hypocrisy.
	Yeah, you're absolutely right.
	I mean, the difference is, of course, that it's the classic, you know, who watches the watchman, who regulates the regulators.
	Dodd and Frank think that every aspect of American life should be regulated, but they don't think somehow government doesn't need regulation.
	I mean, government accounting is a joke.
	In 2009, Medicare handed out $100 billion, just shy of $100 billion.
	It was $98 or $99 in improper or erroneous payments.
	That's a tenth of a trillion dollars.
	That's a one-tenth of a trillion dollars just in payments it shouldn't have made.
	But in government accounting, that's just a rounding error.
	Nobody investigates them.
	Nobody says, oh, who's responsible for handing out a tenth of a trillion dollars to people who shouldn't have got it?
	Maybe we should have a Dodd-Frank regulation bill to check up on them.
	No, it's just, you know, look for it in the line items under miscellaneous.
	This double standard, because if you look at every aspect of life, Greg, if you look at the antitrust provisions at the Department of Justice, the Antitrust Division, they went after Microsoft in the 1990s because Microsoft had too big a hammerlock on the market.
	If borders hadn't gone bust, they'd probably be going after borders in the 1990s for having too big a share of the book market.
	The market self-corrects.
	The real antitrust, the real trust, the monopoly trust, is the government monopoly, and there's no antitrust division to investigate the government monopoly.
	There's no regulatory authority to preside over the regulators.
	And that's why, and that's a much bigger existential threat right now to the United States than anything some guy at Enron or WorldCom ever did.
	Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelic at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, some Twitter Democrat emailed me after the show on Monday when I brought it up that these two guys for their genius in almost collapsing the global economy, they got a taxpayer-funded payout of $116.4 million.
	And this guy wrote to me and he said, oh, you're just jealous because they're behaving like a private company because they are a private company.
	They're not a government-owned enterprise.
	No, they're a government.
	They have a privileged position protected by government.
	So, for example, they're exempt from SEC disclosure rules.
	They're exempt from Sarbanes-Oxley.
	They're exempt from everything a genuinely private company has to do.
	And they came close to collapsing the entire global economy.
	Why are Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorella walking around?
	The Enron guys for a fraud of half a trillion, half a billion dollars, $500 million, they went to jail.
	Whatever his name, the head guy was, he died in jail.
	The fraud at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the accounting fraud was 10 times that size.
	Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorellic aren't in jail.
	They're already wafting on to their next little cozy government sinecure.
	It's this double standard, Greg, that I think testifies to the genius of the Democrat media complex in how they frame the debate.
	Somehow, government is not a monopoly.
	Government is not a trust.
	Government is not an all-controlling, powerful entity in the way that some schlub at Enron is or some guy at WorldCom is.
	And you're absolutely right.
	We need to hold every time they pass a Dodd-Frank, the Dodd-Frank should apply to every government department that spends money, Greg.
	How about that as a constitutional amendment?
	There you go.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	How about that?
	Every financial regulation also has to apply to government departments.
	Don't ask a private company.
	New York State.
	I'll give you another example, Greg.
	Another one.
	New York State.
	They're the ones, as I mentioned here, I made the mistake of hiring someone from New York, and I subsequently received a letter from the Bureau of Compliance in New York State telling me I was in non-compliance with the Bureau of Compliance and fining me $14,000.
	And what was interesting to me about that is they knew, the state of New York knew every single detail about my employee in New York, where she worked, how often she worked, where she commuted to work, how she got there.
	They needed to know everything.
	The state of New York doesn't even know how many employees it has.
	If you call up departments and agencies of the state of New York, as the New York Times did, the guys were baffled by the question: well, we don't know how many people we got working here.
	Why do you want to know?
	Why should the state of New York fine me for being in non-compliance with the Bureau of Compliance?
	But if you're a state agency in New York, you don't have to be in compliance with the Bureau of Compliance.
	This is, again, to use Tocqueville, Tokfil.
	Well, I don't have as much money, Mr. Studley, as the state...
	I'm not...
	No, that's not true.
	I'm not.
	Yeah, they want my money.
	They want my money.
	So in other words, regulation that is supposed to protect my employee in New York.
	If I weren't such a sentimental guy, I'd have just fired her and hired somebody in Uzbekistan and wouldn't have had any of these regulatory problems.
	The problem is, the problem here is that government does not expect to be bound by the rules it imposes on others.
	And that ought to change.
	You are not subjects, and government is not the king.
	They're supposed to be citizen legislators, so their regulatory authorities, their bureaucracies, their agencies, the Department of This, the Bureau of that, they should be subject to the same rules as Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley impose on everybody else.
	That's the way it should be.
	Yes, Rush will be back on Monday.
	This is like funky bumper music.
	This is, this is, who, who is, who is this, Mr. Sardley?
	It's she.
	Oh, this is.
	Oh, I only know that one.
	I know the good times.
	These are the good times.
	I know that one.
	That's what they'll be playing at those Obama 50th birthday parties that you're invited to host.
	And certainly we want to do our bit for that.
	The whole, if you go to myobama.com, he's got a big four-page glossy feature there.
	Because at a time of impending societal collapse, it's good to take your mind off it by throwing a big lavish birthday bash for the 50th birthday of Obama, which coincides with the crashing of the debt ceiling on August the 3rd.
	So you don't want to worry.
	If they don't raise the debt ceiling, they will be lowering birthday balloons from it.
	And he has recorded, this is the good news.
	He will deliver a special 50-minute birthday address to anyone who holds a 50th birthday Obama house party.
	He obviously can't come to your party because you're a nobody.
	Why would he show up at you losers, your party?
	He's not going to come to that.
	But he has got a special 50-minute birthday address.
	So when you've finished dancing around Tashik, you can take the needle off the old record player and put it away and all sit down.
	You'll have worked up a bit of a sweat.
	You'll be in the mood.
	You'll be in the groove and you'll be able to watch the 50 minute birthday address that President Obama is going to make.
	If you want to make it.
	Well, no, he's having his big birthday party that if you've got a real lot of money, if you've got a real lot of money, you can go to the real birthday party.
	But no, he wouldn't.
	He won't even come.
	This idea, this cynical idea that he'll come to your party if you've got a ton of money, he won't even do that.
	There were a whole big bunch last year, a whole big bunch of people in Rhode Island, the biggest Democratic fundraiser in Rhode Island.
	She's a big society queen down in Rhode Island.
	She invites all her wealthy friends to dinner with Obama.
	They all pay, I forget what they paid, I think it was $14,000, oddly enough, the same as my fine from the Bureau of Compliance.
	But they paid like $14,000 to go and have dinner with Obama.
	He sends, he arrives, he stands up at the beginning of the meal and says, unfortunately, he has to fly back to Washington, but he hopes they all have a great dinner.
	So those people paid $14,000 to have dinner with themselves.
	Obama took off.
	He made a, I believe he made a joke about canine flatulence.
	He made a joke about canine flatulence, which is what you want when you're just about to tuck into the Vichy Soise or whatever it is they were serving for the first course, or the arugula salad or whatever it was.
	So when you paid $14,000 for an arugula salad, what gives it that extra classy touch is when the President of the United States does a canine flatulence joke and then clears off.
	And you paid basically $14,000 to have dinner with your next door neighbor.
	So don't make that mistake again.
	For the Obama 50th birthday party, you can go to myobama.com, download the glossy brochure that tells you how to host your very own Obama 50th birthday party.
	He won't be there, but you, the peasant subjects of Good King Barak, can get the little frisson of excitement that the people who actually get to meet Good King Barak will be feeling when they're at the real birthday party because he'll make this 50-minute birthday speech that he is guaranteed will be almost as boring as the real live speech he'll be making at the real birthday party.
	And if you want to make it more festive, you know, on a birthday, I'm an old-fashioned guy.
	At a birthday party, I like to have a big cake and they bring it in, happy birthday, and then the showgirl pops out of the cake and dances around the cake.
	I'm like kind of traditionalists like that.
	So if you want to do it like that, you could put the Obama 50-minute speech in the cake, and then it could kind of pop up and deliver the 50-minute birthday address from Good King Barak live out of the cake.
	So you can go and you can, he wants you to invite 50 people in your street, 50 people in your neighborhood to the 50th birthday Obama birthday party that you are, you, the subjects of Good King Barak, are invited to hold.
	Let's go to Tony in Tampa, Florida.
	Tony, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Thanks a lot, Mark.
	You know what's amazing?
	Steve Wynn, that big deal in Vegas, he goes out and says that Obama is a wet blanket on the economy, which is true.
	And then, out of the other side of his mouth, he says he voted for Harry Reed.
	There's not a dime's bit of difference between Harry Reed and Barack Obama.
	You know, instead of studying a shrimp in a treadmill, you ought to study what makes this boob tick.
	Right.
	Well, you know, you're right about Steve.
	But you know, Steve Wynn is like a lot of rich, successful guys.
	I mentioned Steve Wynn on, I think it was Monday or Tuesday's show.
	Told my little anecdote about seeing him and Frank Sinatra strolling down the street.
	And Steve Wynn is like a lot of successful guys in this country in that he thinks, you know, he supports Harry Reid because he's in Vegas, and Harry Reid is the political establishment in Vegas.
	So you shunt some money Harry Reid's way, and the idea is that Harry takes care of you.
	And the big corporate players in America, a lot of them think like that.
	Even the Koch brothers, the Koch brothers, who are this decade's halibut, demonized, demonized by the left now.
	If you go to the Huffington Post, Daily Cost, oh, Koch brothers, this, Koch brothers out, they're obsessed with them.
	Everyone knows the script I'm reading today has come straight from Koch Brothers HQ.
	Koch brothers give money to Democrats.
	Successful businessmen feel, you know, you've got to take care of, you take care of the establishment.
	If you happen to be in a blue state, you take care of the blue guy.
	If you're in a red state, you take care of the red guy.
	If you're in a purple state, you give a bit here and you give a bit there.
	And there was a similar meeting held in New York of big, prominent GOP backers.
	And they were supposed to, I think they listened to a video address from Chris Christie.
	And most of the people in this room who'd been assembled in this room were classic soft Republicans, corporate Republicans, fiscal Republicans.
	They didn't vote.
	They voted for Obama in 2008 just because basically they found Sarah Palin too deplorably vulgar.
	My word, this crazy woman from Alaska who shoots animals and makes moose stew, we couldn't possibly, I mean, she's the very last person we'd want to find ourselves sitting across a dinner party table with on Park Avenue, so we won't vote for her.
	We'll vote for Barack Obama, who seems more our kind of chap.
	And then they wake up and they're surprised two years later that the economy is flatlined.
	The economy is flatlined because all the smart guys didn't listen to what Rush was saying in 2008.
	Rush didn't have any problem figuring out what Obama's game was.
	Rush didn't have any.
	Rush said on whatever it was, January the 20th, his famous soundbite, I hope the guy fails.
	Because if the guy succeeds, it's the end of the American idea.
	It's the end of a republic of small government that allows you to fulfill your economic potential.
	You're just another statist swamp like you can find in any other corner of the world.
	And while we should applaud, Steve Wynne is right that Obama is the biggest wet blanket on the American economy ever devised.
	When Steve Wynn says, oh, yeah, but don't worry, I voted for Harry Reid, we should all laugh at him.
	We should say, Steve, you know how to build a great casino.
	Steve, you are the go-to guy when it comes to putting on top-class acts at the stages in your casinos.
	But when it comes to knowing anything about the kind of society you need so that people have enough money in their pocket to go to Vegas and see Frank Sinafre, you haven't a clue.
	How come you know so little about your own business that you don't understand what it takes for people to be able to fly into a desert town in the middle of nowhere and stay in a fancy hotel and gamble at your casino and pay money to see some guy in a tuxedo sing Luck Be a Lady Tonight?
	You know nothing about your own business if you don't understand what's underpinning it.
	So, Tony, every time, and it's the same in Tampa, these guys are everywhere.
	The country club Republicans and not just, you know, Steve Wynn is a Democrat explicitly, but I'm talking about these guys in New York who are all nominal Republicans, but who basically voted for Obama because they found Sarah Palin too vulgar.
	There's no secret about Obama.
	He's lived in this world all his life.
	Who are his friends?
	What wealth has he ever created?
	What does he know about what it takes to create the climate that Steve Wynn's casinos need to thrive?
	Steve Wynn talks a lot of sense, but it's taken him two years to wise up.
	And the tragedy is that guys in business, guys in business, a lot of the big guys in business are scared, by the way.
	They don't want to talk.
	I mean, Steve Wynn says that.
	There's a lot of fear out there about Obama, about what he'll do to you, about if you're a big-name businessman and you go up against him.
	So we need more Steve Wynns.
	We need more Steve Wynn speaking out.
	But you should have been speaking out two years ago, Steve.
	You should have been speaking out in 2008, because all this was entirely obvious.
	And this economy, basically, and unless things change, this economy is flatlined.
	This is the dead parrot economy.
	This economy isn't going anywhere.
	We're going to have one point, point, point, point, whatever percent growth.
	That's all there's going to be.
	There's not going to be anything.
	Unless you're talking about government jobs, there's not going to be any job growth.
	There's not going to be anything.
	It's the flatline economy, the dead parrot economy, the stalled economy in America and the developed world.
	And Steve Wynn, Steve Wynn, should know enough about the business he's in to have understood what this guy would do to that business.
	Thanks for your call, Tony.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Yes, it's all Obama 50th birthday party music on the Rush Limore Show today.
	Mark Snein for Rush.
	Rush returns Monday.
	The Norwegian broadcasters NRK are reporting now that an unknown group called Helpers of the Global Jihad have posted a message saying that this is a reaction.
	The bombs, the bombs and the shooting, two separate incidents, terrorist incidents in Norway in Oslo and in an island where a children's political youth camp, a party political youth camp was going on, are a reaction to Norwegian periodicals publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons.
	So that's the usual thing.
	If you say Islam is a violent religion, we'll kill you.
	It's one of those deals, according to this initial report from NRK in Norway.
	We'll see how that pans out.
	Harry Reid, we're talking in the last segment about Steve Wynne voting for Harry Reid.
	Harry Reid is in a total snit at the moment.
	He's furious that he's being a lot of Democrats are furious that they're being frosted out of all the deals, supposedly.
	They're not involved.
	Every Republican's got a deal.
	Every Republican's got some kind of cockamame bipartisan deal going.
	And the Democrats are furious that they're not part of these talks.
	Harry Reid confronted White House budget director Jack Liu during a Thursday afternoon meeting about a supposed deal between the president and John Boehner.
	I'm the Senate majority reader, said I'm the Senate majority leader, said Harry Reid.
	Why don't I know about this deal?
	Well, I don't know, Harry.
	Maybe because you were at the federally subsidized Cowboy Poetry Festival in Elko, Nevada.
	I don't know.
	Maybe they couldn't get a hold of you.
	So he's going around doing the full John Kerry, don't you know who I am?
	And is furious at being at being frosted out of these talks.
	But why would you bring Harry Reid into a deal?
	This is the guy who's a house, a chamber, a chamber of the United States government that he runs, and he hasn't bothered to pass a budget in two and a half years because he's not interested in the budget.
	He'd rather just spend.
	He'd rather just give the federally funded Cowboy Poetry Festival in Elko, Nevada, whatever they want.
	Hey, I don't want to be bound by a budget.
	I don't want a number in there.
	You know, who needs it?
	He said he doesn't think a budget is helpful.
	Why would he get him in the talks?
	He's not going to put anything on a piece of paper.
	This is what's so crazy about this thing: that the only plans, the only thing with numbers in, the only thing with numbers in and programs and policies and cuts and hard numbers going down the right-hand side of the page with a line and a total at the bottom of them are coming from Republicans.
	Obama hasn't got a plan.
	He's the man with no plan.
	Harry Reid, the man with no plan.
	They don't want budgets because they just want to spend.
	And it's like, if you just want to spend, why even bother opening the bank statement?
	Why not just carry on charging it to the credit card and let the unopened bank statements pile up?
	That's basically the Harry Reid thing.
	Why would you bother talking to him?
	Let's go to Bill in Villaridge, Missouri.
	Did I pronounce that right, Bill?
	Hello, how are you today?
	I'm doing great, Bill.
	Just you pronounce your town Villaridge, is that right?
	Villa, Villa Ridge, Missouri.
	Okay.
	It's about 40 miles out of St. Louis.
	Okay.
	I just wondered.
	I wanted to make sure it wasn't Spanish, Viarigé or something like that.
	Villaridge.
	Villaridge.
	Yeah, with the government having a problem come August 2nd and paying off their debt.
	The dirty little secret that the news media and nobody's saying is what government things are going to have to be shut down August 3rd on this.
	Like the Department of Education, I'd like to see gone.
	And, you know, and pensions.
	I'd like to see government pensions gone because if you don't have the money, that's gone.
	But, you know, and just other things that I think your callers should call in and start naming off some of the government things that we should start getting rid of because if they don't have a budget, they have to pay off what they need to pay off.
	And it's going to cut government jobs.
	And this is where, you know, the people are going to start hitting the road and realizing that they don't have a government job forever.
	And I think it's a good thing.
	Well, you know, if it works like that, it will.
	But I think if you, I don't know what it's like in your town, but if you look at some of these municipalities that have run into trouble, the first things they cut are things that the people notice.
	So they cut, for example, active policing.
	So you notice that your home is getting broken into because there's no cops around anymore.
	Because they keep the guys back at the station sitting around at the desk, shuffling the paperwork, but they cut the actual services.
	That's why Obama cut to the chase.
	He said, oh, you know what's going to happen on August the 3rd?
	You're not going to get your Social Security check.
	So he's not planning.
	He doesn't sound like he's planning on sending Department of Education bureaucrats home.
	But I agree with you, Bill, and I tell you this as well.
	I think we should ask now of our presidential candidates, what cabinet department do you want to get rid of?
	You said you didn't want the Department of Education.
	I'd like the Department of Education gone.
	The Republicans have been committed to getting rid of that for 30 years.
	And it's more entrenched than ever.
	Did you know the Department of Education, the Secretary of Education in Washington, he doesn't have any teachers.
	He doesn't have any students.
	He's not responsible for any actual teaching in any actual classrooms.
	But he has a SWAT team.
	The Department of Education of the United States of America has its own SWAT team.
	That's how nutty it is.
	And that's why August the 3rd would be a great lesson for America if we suddenly just had to stop spending.
	Say, oh, no, sorry, SWAT team.
	You'll have to go fishing for a couple of weeks.
	Sorry.
	The money for the Department of Education SWAT team isn't there anymore.
	It's gone.
	You'll have to, maybe it'll come back in a couple.
	Maybe there'll be a grand bipartisan deal, and the Department of Education SWAT team can come back from its fishing camp.
	But until then, you're gone.
	And August the 3rd, August the 3rd, actually listing this stuff.
	And you're right, Bill.
	Anyone, I'd love to hear people's suggestions.
	That's my personal place to start.
	Midnight on August the 3rd, the Secretary for Education sends a memo to his personal SWAT team saying, You guys are going to have to go home for a couple of weeks.
	I'd like to hear what else we should stop payment on on August the 3rd.
	That's a great point, Bill.
	Thanks for your call.
	Got a run.
	We've got an EIB profit center and then lots more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for rush, rush back Monday.
	I've already had a ton of emails saying, oh, come on, come on, Stein.
	The Department of Education doesn't have a SWAT team.
	Yes, it does.
	They kicked down a front door in Stockton, California last month and took some guy into custody.
	It turned out to be custody erroneously.
	But we can confirm that we executed a search warrant, said Department of Education spokesperson Gina Burris.
	The brokest nation in history is the only one with an education department, an education secretary who has his own personal SWAT team, his own personal Delta force.
	There's no precedent on earth for the level of spenderholic insanity that we are now seeing in Washington.

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