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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.
	Uh I I always I've had a bunch of emails saying, What w what what's what's what's going on?
	What's what's going on, Stein?
	You were you were here earlier in the week and then it was gonna be gonna be Rush and now now you're back.
	What's what's it is is it some clerical error?
	Uh did he accidentally uh guest host for the pre-scheduled guest host on Wednesday and Thursday, and then they uh discovered that shouldn't have happened, and so now uh they've had to get a guest host back to host no no no, it's not it's nothing uh nothing to do with that.
	Uh Rush uh returned on Wednesday.
	He is at uh the funeral uh of a friend today's at MyraCraft's uh funeral in Massachusetts.
	Uh 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 uh live on Monday.
	But certainly no one should uh no one should begrudge uh a man choosing to uh attend the funeral of his friend.
	So we have uh instead of the all-American authentic s 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 get a here it comes.
	Ah, here it comes.
	New York City, it's Auckland wine Friday.
	Uh 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 we are not live.
	We are not live.
	Yeah, we should.
	Next time we'll get one of those uh one of those versatile LAPD cops who can also perform in porn movies.
	He would have he would have uh got his entrance right on that.
	There would have been no problem there.
	Uh when w w we're not yeah, yeah, you can uh yeah, his his night stick would be um 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.
	Uh great to be with you here in the i normally it's uh it's cool here in the White Mountains, but we we have got uh we're getting the kind of uh dregs of the little heat wave, so we're up to the nineties here.
	And when this uh studio uh Ice Station EIB was built uh nobody nobody thought uh it nobody put air conditioning in, 'cause nobody needs air conditioning in this part of the world.
	And uh today for some reason, because of the old Al Gore polar bear thing, uh it's ninety-eight degrees and uh and and my poor assistant uh Tiffany uh has been spending the morning assembling a fan.
	Assembling a fan.
	Uh she went off.
	I said, uh oh, this I can't do the show in this sweat box.
	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 uh uh as uh as we've been on here uh during the first hour uh getting the 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 those cheap Chinese factories uh out 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.
	Uh you do it, you do 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 uh within a couple of minutes.
	But today you go and you buy the box, uh 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?
	Uh you the the Chinese factory gets to put the parts in the box, and then you get to make the fan uh for free.
	And that's globalization.
	What could possibly go wrong with it?
	Uh Markstein Infrarush, one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
	You can talk about anything you want to talk about.
	Anything you want to talk about on the show uh today, so give it your best, give it your best shot.
	Uh there is breaking news out of Norway.
	A bomb went off uh in central Oslo.
	Uh shattered windows in the Prime Minister's uh office, and uh but the but Uh I believe the uh the actual bomb itself was located in in the uh in the offices of the big state broadcaster where uh a youth political, some kind of youth political camp that the uh Prime Minister was due to be addressing there, and the gunmen uh the the gunmen uh were actually uh as I understand it were dressed in police uniform.
	Uh I'm getting conflicted reports on the number of dead and wounded, but it may be uh that at least four people are dead uh in this in this terrorist act.
	I will be interested to see whether it's anything to do with a fellow called Muller Kriekar, uh who has been ordered deported from he's a radical imam and he was ordered uh deported from Norway on Tuesday, and he threatened that if they did agree to go ahead with the deportation, uh that he would actually uh that he would actually uh take it out on uh on officials of the Norwegian state.
	So he he more or less explicitly made this threat on Tuesday and uh and now something uh uh close to what he threatened has apparently come to pass.
	I I have a sort of tangential link with Muller Kriekar in in that his most famous sound bite was when he said a few years ago that uh Muslims were going to dominate Europe because they were were breeding like mosquitoes.
	Uh when the Canadian Islamic Congress decided to sue me uh as a flagrant Islamophobe, it attributed that quote to me.
	Uh and and all these uh radical imams up in Canada and their various uh 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 Muller Krika, the radical imam who said that.
	And the position of the Canadian Islamic Congress is it's okay, it's okay uh 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, uh then that's some kind of hate crime.
	So I'm uh I'm in I've been interested in following Mullah Krikar since then.
	Uh so I noted that he was uh ordered to be deported uh on uh Tuesday, and that we now have on Friday this uh mysterious and fatal explosion uh at which the pri at a venue that the Prime Minister was due to speak at, and uh and and these guys were actually dressed as police officers from what we from what we understand.
	Uh so we will keep an eye on that uh and we will also keep an eye on the uh continuing uh debt ceiling uh drama that is going on.
	You know, the whole debt ceiling thing, by the way, uh it's im it's important to understand th th th the media uh has got a false narrative on this.
	Like the media thinks the thing to do is to reach a deal.
	And that's not 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, uh if it's the deal the Republicans got suckered into uh in the twenty eleven budget, in other words where they sign on to something that's supposed to be a big grand bargain uh and that uh supposedly has all these spending cuts in it.
	Uh and then when you actually look at the fine print it turns out there are no spending cuts, or the spending cuts it uh uh are intended to kick in on the twelfth of never.
	Uh that is that is not the deal that the rest of the world is waiting for.
	If the rest of if if if this is just jacking up the the debt ceiling business as usual, then the world will conclude uh that the political institutions of the United States do not allow for meaningful course 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, it's that's a problem for the Chinese.
	That's a problem for the Japanese.
	What's it what's it doing?
	No, no.
	No, it isn't.
	Who are the biggest holders of US uh treasury debt?
	In the in the top ten, you've got three foreigners.
	Basically, there's the Chinese, the Japanese and the British.
	They hold large reserves of US Treasury debt.
	Everyone else is domestic.
	US banks hold US 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 US Treasury debt.
	One trillion dollars worth of US Treasury debt.
	And so if if the US Treasury debt gets downgraded in the way that the Irish debt did, the Irish and the Portuguese debt had have been downgraded to junk, if if the US debt, treasury debt gets downgraded from the triple A rating, which is what Speaker Baehner was alluding to in his interview with Russia in the last hour,
	uh That 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 you keep your savings account.
	All the debt, the US 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 US Treasury debt?
	State and municipal governments.
	All those bankrupt states, uh California, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, they all hold tons of US Treasury debt too.
	So suddenly their treasury debt uh has been downgraded.
	This is gonna have uh this is basically if uh th that will be the consequence if the Obama model we just go on spending, spending and spending until we get downgraded, it's gonna have impacts on every aspect of U.S. life.
	It's gonna have an impact.
	If you've got a pension fund, uh 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, uh uh only of concern to the Chinese Politburo and the Saudi Sheikhs and a few other rich guys.
	No, it's gonna everything that you thought you you have an investment in, you've made pre provision for your pension, you've made provision for your insurance, you've made provision for your savings account.
	It's gonna affect basically every lever of fiscal stability in your life if US Treasury debt uh winds up getting downgraded.
	That's the real risk, and this feckless, useless, irresponsible court eunuchs of the Obama media are presenting the the actual issue as the precise opposite of what it is.
	Nothing would be more disastrous for the United States right now uh 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 round when you bump up against that limit in six months' time.
	Uh that would send the message that the institutions, the political institutions of the government of the United States are incapable of course correction.
	And once the world understands that message, the dollar is over.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, one eight hundred, two eight two two eight eight two.
	Mark Stein in Farush.
	Just to clarify uh what I was saying about these uh terrorist attacks in Norway, uh there were actually two of them, one in Central Oslo and one at uh this uh political summer camp on uh on an island, Utoya Island,
	uh and I believe at least four confirmed deaths in Oslo now, and a man dis disguised as a police officer uh using a uh a maskin pistol, which I think is uh Norwegian for uh for submachine gun in uh in uh 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.
	It passed about a year ago, and so I recently got a letter uh email from my liberal congressman talking about how wonderful it was and how irresponsible the banks were and how they can't place 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 spent compared to the banks, it's laughable.
	Yeah.
	So i I just find it interesting the hypocrisy.
	Yeah, you're you're absolutely right.
	I mean the the the difference is, of course, that it's the classic, you know, uh who who watches the uh watchman uh uh who who who regulates the regulators?
	Dodd and Frank uh think that every aspect of American life should be regulated, but they don't they don't think somehow government doesn't need regulation.
	I mean uh uh I mean government accounting is uh is a joke.
	Uh in two thousand and nine, Medicare handed out uh a hundred billion dollars, just shy of a hundred billion dollars.
	It was ninety-eight or ninety-nine in improper or erroneous payments.
	That's a tenth of a trillion dollars.
	That's a one tenth of a trillion dollars just in in payments it shouldn't have made but in government accounting that's just a rounding error.
	Nobody investigates them.
	Nobody says, oh, who 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 uh regulation bill to uh to check up on them.
	No.
	It's just, you know, look for it in the line items under miscellaneous.
	This double standard, because um it it I mean again every if you look at every aspect of life, Greg, uh if you if you look at the antitrust provisions that the uh the Department of uh the Department of Justice, the antitrust division, that's th they went uh uh after uh uh uh Microsoft in the nineteen nineties because Microsoft had too big a hammerlock on the market.
	Uh they they if if borders hadn't gone bust they'd probably began after borders in the nineteen nineties for for having too big a share of the book market.
	The market self corrects the the real antitrust uh the the the real trust, the monopoly trust is the government monopoly and there's no antitrust division to uh investigate the government monopoly.
	There's no reg regulatory authority uh to preside over the regulators and and that's why uh and that's a much bigger existential existential threat right now uh to the United States than anything some guy at Enron or Worldcom ever did.
	Uh what you know what what what Frank Franklin Reigns and Jamie Garelic at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac some twit uh Democrat emailed me after the show on Monday when I brought it up that uh these two guys uh for uh for for their genius in almost collapsing the global economy they got a taxpayer funded payout of 116.4 million and uh and and this guy wrote to me and he said oh you you 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 Reigns and Jamie Guerrero 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 ten times that size.
	Franklin Reigns and Jamie Guerrero can'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 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 uh th New York State, I'll give you another example Greg another one.
	New York State they're the ones I as I mentioned here, I made the mistake of hiring someone from New York and I I subsequently received a letter from the Bureau of Compliance in New York State telling me I was in noncompliance with the Bureau of Compliance and fining me 14,000 dollars.
	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 how often she worked uh who who where she uh commuted to work how she got there all that 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, uh the 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 uh fine me for being in noncompliance 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 tock fill top fill well I don't have as much money, Mr Stnadly as the state.
	I'm not as no, that's not true.
	I'm I 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.
	Uh if I was if I weren't such a sentimental guy, I'd have just fired her and uh hired uh hired somebody in in uh Uzbekistan and wouldn't have had any of these regulatory problems.
	The problem is the problem here is uh is is that uh is that government does not expect to be bound by the rules it imposes on others.
	And that ought to change.
	Uh 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 Sarbain's Oxley impose on everybody else.
	That's the way it should be.
	Yes, Rush will be back on Monday.
	This is uh like funky bumper music.
	Uh this is this is who who is who is this, Mr. Sadley?
	It's she oh this is Oh, I only know their one I know the good times.
	These uh the good I know that one.
	That's uh that's what they'll be playing at those Obama fiftieth birthday parties that you're invited to host.
	And uh certainly we want to do our bit for that.
	The whole if you go to my Obama.com, he's got a big four page glossy feature there.
	Because at a time of impending societal collapse, uh it's good to take your mind off it by by throwing a big lavish birthday bash for the fiftieth birthday of Obama, which coincides with the with the crashing of the debt ceiling at uh on August the third.
	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 he will deliver a special fifty minute birthday address to anyone who holds a fiftieth birthday Obama house party.
	He obviously can't come to your party because you're a nobody.
	Why would he show up at your you you lose as your party?
	He's not going to come to that.
	But he he has got a special fifty-minute birthday address.
	So when you've finished dancing around to Chic, uh you can take the needle off the uh 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 uh watch uh the fifty minute birthday address that uh President Obama is going to make for you.
	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.
	Uh but no, he wouldn't.
	He 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 uh last year, a whole big bunch of people in Rhode Island, the biggest democratic fundraiser in Rhode Island, she's big uh society queen down in Rhode Island.
	She invites all her wealthy friends to dinner with Obama.
	They all pay uh 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 fourteen thousand dollars to go and have dinner with Obama.
	Uh he sends he he arrives, he stands up at the beginning of the meal and says, unfortunately he has to fly back to Washington, uh 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 uh canine flatulence.
	Uh he made a joke about canine flatulence, which is what you want when you're just about to tuck into the Vichy Soirs or whatever it is they were serving for the uh for the first course, uh 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 uh 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.
	Uh for the Obama 50th birthday party, you can go to My Obama.com, d 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 you, the peasant subjects of Good King Barack can get the little frisson of excitement that the people who actually get to meet Good King Barack will be feeling when they're at the real birthday party, because he'll he'll he'll make this fifty 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, uh, you know, on a birthday, I'm an old fashioned guy.
	At a birthday party, I like to have a big cake and uh and they bring it in, happy birthday, and then the show girl pops out of the cake and dances around the cake.
	I'm like kind of trish traditionalist 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 fifty-minute birthday address from Good King Barack uh live out of the cake.
	So you can go and you can that he wants you to invite fifty people in your street, fifty people in your neighborhood to the 50th birthday uh Obama birthday party that you are you, the subjects of Good King Barack 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.
	Uh you know what's amazing?
	Steve Wynne, that big deal in Vegas.
	He goes out and says that Obama is a a wet blanket on the economy, which is true.
	Right.
	Out of the other side of his mouth, he says he voted for Harry Reed.
	Isn't that a dime bit of difference between Harry Reed and Barack Obama?
	You know, instead of studying a shrimp and a treadmill, you ought to study what makes this boob tick.
	Right.
	Well, you know, you're right about Steve, but you know, Steve Wynne 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 uh strolling down uh strolling down the street.
	And Steve Wynne is like a lot of successful guys in this country, in that he thinks, you know, he supports Harry Reed because he's in Vegas, and Harry Reed is the political establishment in Vegas.
	So so you you you you shunt some money, Harry Reed's way, and the idea is that Harry takes care of you.
	And and the big corporate players in America, uh, a lot of them think like that.
	Even the Koch brothers, the Koch brothers who are this decade's Halibutton, uh demonized, demonized by uh the the left now.
	If you go to the Huffington Post, Daily Cost, oh, Koch Brothers this, Koch Brothers out there obsessed with them.
	Uh 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 uh you take care of the establishment.
	If you happen to be in a blue state, uh 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 you you give a bit here and you give a bit there.
	And uh th there was a similar meeting held in New York of big, prominent GOP backers, uh, 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 ha they didn't vote, they voted for Obama in 2008 just because basically they found Sarah Palin too too deplorably vulgar.
	My word, this crazy woman from Alaska who uh 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 we won't vote for her.
	We'll vote for uh we'll vote for Barack Obama, who seems more our kind of chap.
	And then they and then they wake up uh and they're surprised two years later that the economy is flatlined.
	The economy is flatlined because all the smart guys uh didn't listen to what Rush was saying in 2008.
	Rush Rush got uh Rush didn't have any problem g figuring out what Obama's game was.
	Rush didn't have any rush said on whatever it was, January the twentieth, 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 uh that allows you to fulfill your economic potential.
	You're just another status swamp, like you can find in any other corner of the world.
	And and and while we should applaud Steve Wynne is right that Obama is the biggest wet blanket on the American economy ever devised.
	Uh when Steve Wynne says, Oh, yeah, but don't worry, I voted for Harry Reed, 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 puts when it comes to putting on uh top class acts uh uh at the stages in your casinos.
	Uh but when it comes to knowing anything about the the the kind of society you need so that people have enough money in their pocket to go to Vegas and see Frank Sinatra, 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 uh and stay in a fancy hotel and gamble at your casino and pay money to see some guy uh 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, uh every time and it's the same in Tampa.
	These guys are everywhere.
	The country club Republicans, uh and and not you know, Steve Wynne 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 was he's lived in this world all his life.
	Who are his friends?
	What wealth has he ever created?
	What does he know uh about what it takes to create the climate that Steve Wynne's uh casinos need to thrive?
	Steve Wynne Steve Wynne 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, uh a lot of the big guys in business are scared by the way.
	They don't want to talk.
	I mean, Steve Wynne says that.
	There's a lot of fear out there about Obama, about what he'll do to you about uh uh if you're a big name businessman and you go up against him.
	So we need more Steve wins.
	We need more Steve Wynns speaking out.
	But you should have been speaking out two years ago, Steve.
	You should have been speaking out in two thousand and eight, because all this was entirely obvious.
	And this economy basically, and unless things change, this economy is flatline.
	This is the dead parrot economy.
	This economy isn't going anywhere.
	Uh we're we're gonna have one point point point point whatever percent growth.
	That's all there's gonna 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 Wynne, Steve Wynne 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.
	1800-282-2882.
	Yes, it's all Obama 50th birthday party music on the Rush Limore show today.
	Mark Stein for Rush.
	Rush returns Monday.
	Uh the uh Norwegian broadcasters uh NRK are reporting now that an unknown group called Helpers of the Global Jihad uh have posted a a message saying that this is uh the a reaction, the bombs, the bombs and the shooting,
	two separate incidents, terrorist incidents in Norway in Oslo uh and in an island uh where a uh children's political youth camp, a party political youth camp was going on, uh are the a reaction to Norwegian periodicals publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons.
	So that's uh you know, it's the usual thing.
	If you say Islam is a violent religion will kill you, it's one of those deals, uh, according to uh this initial report from NRK in Norway.
	We'll see how that pans out.
	Uh Harry Reid, we're talking uh uh in the uh last segment about Harry uh Steve Wynn voting for Harry Reid.
	Harry Reid is in a is in a terror total snit at the moment.
	He he's uh he's furious that he's being a lot of the Democrats are furious uh that they're being frosted out of all the deals, supposedly.
	They're not involved.
	Every every Republican's got a deal.
	Every republi Republican's got some kind of uh cockamami bipartisan deal gun, and the Democrats are furious uh that they they haven't they're not they're not part of these talks.
	Harry Reid uh confronted White House budget director Jack Lou during a Thursday afternoon meeting uh about a supposed deal between the President and John Boehner.
	I'm the Senate majority reader, said uh I'm the Senate Majority Leader, said Harry Reid.
	Why don't I know about this deal?
	Uh well, I don't know, Harry.
	Maybe because you were at the federally subsidized cowboy poetry festival in Elco, Nevada.
	I don't know.
	Maybe they couldn't they couldn't get hold of you.
	Uh he so he's going around doing the full John Kerry.
	Don't you know who I am?
	Uh and is furious at being at being frosted out of these talks.
	But why would you why would he bring Harry Reid into a deal?
	This is the guy who's uh 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 he'd rather just spend.
	He'd rather just give the uh the federally funded uh cowboy poetry festival in Elka Nevada whatever they want.
	Hey, uh I don't want to be bound by a budget, I don't want a number in there.
	Well, you know, who needs it?
	He says he said it he doesn't think a budget is helpful.
	Why would you why would he get him in the talks?
	He he's not going to put anything on a piece of paper.
	This is what's so crazy about this thing.
	Is that the only plans, the only thing with numbers in, the only thing with numbers in and programs and policies and cuts and and hard numbers going down the right hand side of the page with a line and a total at the 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 what the Harry Reed 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 uh I'm doing great, Bill.
	Just uh you your your pr you pronounce your town Villaridge, is that right?
	Villa, Villa Ridge, Missouri.
	Okay.
	It's about forty miles out of St. Louis.
	Um I d I just wondered, I didn't I I want I didn't want I wanted to make sure it wasn't Spanish, VR V or something like that.
	Right, right.
	Uh Villarridge.
	Village.
	Yeah, with the government having a problem come August 2nd and paying off their debt.
	Um the dirty little secret that the news media and nobody's saying is what government things are gonna have to be shut down August third on this.
	Um like the Department of Education I'd like to see gone.
	And you know, and pensions, I'd like to see p government pensions gone, because you know, if you don't have the money, that's gone.
	But uh, 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 gonna cut government jobs, and this is where, you know, the the people are going to start hitting the road and realizing that they don't have a government job forever.
	And uh I think it's a good thing.
	Well, you know, i i i if it if it works like that it will.
	But I think if you I don't know what it's like in your in your town, but if you look at some of these municipalities that have run into trouble, uh the first things they cut are things that the the people notice.
	So they cut, for example, active policing.
	So you notice that your your home is getting broken into because there's no cops around anymore because the bureau they keep the they keep the guys at back at the uh back at the station sitting around at the desk shuffling the paperwork, uh, but they cut the actual services.
	That's why Obama cut to the chase.
	He said he said, Oh, you know what's gonna happen on August the third?
	You're not gonna 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.
	Uh I'd like the Department of Education gone.
	The the Republicans have been committed to getting rid of that for thirty years.
	And where where and it and it's more entrenched than ever.
	That did you know the Department of Education, the Secretary of Education in Washington.
	Uh 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.
	Uh and that's why August the third would be a great lesson for America.
	If we suddenly just had to stop spending, say, no, no, sorry, SWAT team, you'll have to go 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 third, August the third, 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 third.
	Uh the Secretary uh for education sends a memo to his personal SWAT team saying, You guys are gonna have to go home for a couple of weeks.
	I'd like to hear what else uh what what else should should stop we should stop payment on on August the third.
	That's uh that's a great point, Bill.
	Thanks for your call, gotta run.
	We've got an EIB profit center, and then lots more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for rush, rush back Monday.
	Uh I've already had 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 uh Stockton, California last month and uh took some guy into custody.
	It turned out to be uh took him into 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, uh, an education secretary who has his own personal SWAT team, his own personal Delta Force.
	There's no precedent on earth for the for the level of spendaholic insanity that we are now seeing in Washington.

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