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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in for low grade cheap foreign knockoff excellence in broadcasting.
	Rush returns on Monday.
	He uh was out unexpectedly today because uh Myra Kraft died earlier this week and Rush is attending the funeral in Massachusetts, uh but he will be back behind the golden EIB microphone live on Monday.
	Mr. Snerdley is running the show uh from New York because under the uh National Uh Labor Relations Board, it's uh no longer permissible for the host and the head guy to be in the same state.
	So that's why when Rush was in Los Angeles, Mr. Snardley was uh running the show from Palm Beach, um in New Hampshire, now he's got to move to New York.
	Uh then when Mark Davis is run uh hosting the show from Texas, uh then Mr. Snadley will have to run the show from Alaska.
	That's how it works.
	It's all it's it's a simple matter.
	You'll soon get used to it, it's just part of the new federal uh regulatory regime.
	It all works out uh all works out very nicely.
	Uh a little bit of an uh update on this uh business about the downgrade of uh the US bond rating.
	Uh standard and pause.
	Standard and pause have said that the US bond rating will be downgraded in three months' time, if not sooner, uh unless the following happens.
	Uh there is a plan to reduce the debt by about four trillion dollars.
	That's their minimum.
	Uh and they've got it, and the plan has got to be one uh in which the fiscal discipline uh is built into it.
	In other words, it can't be the usual stuff about the out years and all the rest of it.
	Uh it's got to be a real plan with real numbers.
	So where is the president on this?
	You know, I love this.
	Uh Speaker Boehner uh was talking about it in the first hour of the show with Rush.
	And uh John Boehner was saying, you know, otherwise risk a downgrade, risk a default and all the rest of it.
	The the world's rating agencies now are telling the United States four trillion dollars within three months or it's a downgrade.
	And then your bank, as I pointed out last hour, if you bank at the first national bank or whatever, uh you got your savings account in there.
	The the banking system of the United States, the American banks hold about one trillion dollars in US Treasury debt.
	Uh and when that gets downgraded, your bank gets downgraded with it too.
	Your pension fund gets get downgraded with it too, your insurance company gets downgraded with it too.
	You can't have a triple A rated bank uh holding a lot of non-triple A debt uh from the US Treasury.
	And there's one thing I'm not I'm you know, people know that I'm not the world's biggest Europhile, but the European Union have got a point on this.
	That, you know, uh they they they uh they stamped it.
	These rating agencies stampeded to downgrade Portugal and uh Ireland uh their government debt to junk.
	Boom.
	And the Europeans say, well, you know, these are American ratings agencies, they're anti-European.
	Uh and there's there's a point there's a point to this, because at least uh the governments in in the European Union, all of whom uh most most of whom are uh uh uh not anybody's idea of conservative governments, uh the the uh are all talking about austerity, austerity measures, austerity, austerity.
	Harry Reid isn't talking about austerity.
	The word has never passed his lips.
	Barack Obama isn't talking about austerity, they're talking about more spending, more, more, more.
	How do you like it?
	How do you like it?
	Uh that's another song they'll be playing at the Barack Obama 50th birthday disco.
	They uh more more more.
	How do you like it?
	How do you like it?
	It's the Barack Obama 50th birthday anthem.
	Uh SNP, Standard and Pause are now saying four trillion dollars within three months, or the dollar is gonna be downgraded.
	And that's that's all that's all uh that's propping us up right now is the fact that the the d th or US government debt is gonna be downgraded.
	That's all that's propping us up right now is the triple A rating.
	Uh the fact that the fact that US government debt has not been marked down to junk the way uh that uh a lot of European debt has.
	Uh but the more these guys aren't even talking about reining it in.
	They're talking about new spending.
	Kathleen Sibelius uh has just announced a whole new lot of uh wonderful uh uh healthcare programs for for women that aren't gonna cost you anything.
	They're quote, without cost, unquote.
	What do you mean they're without cost?
	What that means is that um, you know, I've got to pay for them, and every other federal taxpayer's got to pay for them.
	There's nothing without cost.
	And we're not even so we're not even talking about it in the same language that the Irish and the Portuguese and the Greeks have been forced by reality to adopt.
	They don't want to.
	They're spenderholics like Obama and Harry Reed.
	But reality has trumped political reality and they're having to do it.
	And we're going to be in that situation in three months' time.
	This is serious stuff.
	If you've got money in an American bank, if you've got uh uh an American pension fund, if you've got uh an insurance policy with an American insurance agency, uh a downgrade of uh of US Treasury debt is going to be a disaster for you.
	1 800 uh 282 2882.
	Stop the spending.
	Let's just stop it.
	I want August the second to roll around because I think I think uh every head of every agency should have to justify every spending.
	Right now you only hear about it if something kind of crazy uh is so crazy it's it it it makes uh a local newspaper uh somewhere.
	Uh there was a uh at one of the border crossings here.
	Uh I'm up near the uh New Hampshire Quebec border.
	I'm in the sort of and also the uh Vermont Quebec border.
	I'm in that kind of little triangle.
	The big the big border crossings are in Vermont.
	New Hampshire's just got one sort of tiny little border crossing.
	But the big vo Vermont border crossings aren't uh aren't actually that uh aren't actually that big.
	Uh and and that bothers the United States government.
	It allocated, it allocated in the stimulus package five million dollars uh for a border crossing at Morse's line, Vermont, uh and it would uh and what they would have done with this five million dollars would they they would have uh upgraded the border post to a two-story facility and widened the road to take eight lanes of traffic.
	Uh Morse's line border crossing uh averages two cars an hour.
	What do they need eight lines of traffic for?
	Eight eight lanes of so that's two cars an hour.
	So let's say we take one car, each car has its own lane per hour.
	So that's one car in lane one, one car in lane two, and that leaves six lanes for uh customs and border protection uh officials.
	Uh also, also they were getting, apart from apart from the eight lanes of traffic, in their new uh two-story facility, they would have had their own fitness center.
	They don't need a they don't need a fitness center in the building because they'd have six lanes of empty traffic to go bowling in if they wanted to.
	Uh that that is a c that is one small example of how everywhere you look in federal government spending, there is grotesque diseased waste going on.
	Uh and you couldn't you I thought this this image, this uh this sleepy little US Canadian border crossing, where you'd have had the new two-story facility.
	Uncle Sam would have had his eight lanes of traffic and his new uh two-story facility with the purpose-built fitness center sitting opposite the Queen's little one-room shack on the other side.
	That you couldn't have actually had a better example of out-of-control spendaholic uh Obama era federal government than that.
	But that there's actually an even better one than that, and that's uh I think it's in uh a Montana town called Whitetail, uh, where there's not just two cars an hour, there's fewer than five cars a day.
	And uh they were supposed to be getting an eight point five million dollar upgrade, stimulus upgrade, in order to serve thirty cars crossing that border post a week.
	Uh and as I said, that would have been even better than the the big facility, the eight lanes of traffic for Uncle Sam sitting opposite the Queen's little one-room shack uh on the other side of the border uh if in in the Vermont-Quebec border.
	Uh at the Montana crossing, Ottawa noticed that this border crossing was also only getting five cars a day.
	So instead of lavishing eight point five million dollars on it, they announced they were gonna close the border.
	They were gonna close that border post.
	The the United States government was going to spend eight point five million dollars on a border post to nowhere.
	And that's that that that's that's again is the perfect image of spenderholic government in the Republic at uh of Twilight.
	An eight point five million dollar purpose-built express checkout with nowhere to go on the other side.
	Uh this this kind of this is why August the third, I would love it if there was no debt ceiling deal.
	And on August the third, every little item of federal expenditure had to be justified because this waste is sick, it's sick and decadent.
	Uh And you can't go on like this.
	Nobody's doing it on this scale.
	We look at the Greeks and we laugh at the Greeks.
	We look at the Portuguese, we laugh at the Portuguese.
	Look at the Spaniards, laugh at them.
	All these uh Mediterranean layabouts.
	You look at the numbers.
	You look at the numbers of the Mediterranean layabouts.
	The T word isn't involved.
	Trillion isn't involved.
	Trillion was a word trillion was a word uh that uh was of no use uh to anyone except astronomers uh until a couple of years ago.
	T the T word, trillion, was something to do with however many light years this particular planet was from Earth.
	That's the only that's the only context in which anybody used it.
	The Democrats mainstreamed trillion.
	They normalized it.
	You know, uh oh Obama says uh millionaires, he wants to increase taxes on millionaires he because uh millionaires can afford to pay more.
	No, the problem isn't the millionaires.
	The the problem is the first class of trillionaire politicians in the Republic's history.
	That's Obama.
	That's Harry Reid, that's Barney Frank, that's Nancy Pelosi, the first trillionaire politicians in American history.
	And the Republicans should be the party for putting the T T word in mothballs, for putting the T word, burying it, driving a stake through the T word uh and burying it and salting the earth and saying, No, we're going back to the days.
	We're going back to the days when we only had uh when we only had deficits in B B word in billions, when budgets were with B words, billions.
	We're gonna restore this country to a billion dollar republic.
	The nightmare of trillionaire politicians, the first generation of trillionaire politicians is over.
	Uh, we're gonna drive a stake through that word and you're not gonna hear it again because there is no way there is no way it can be afforded.
	We gotta come up with now the ratings agencies have just told us we've got to come up with four trillion dollars worth of savings real savings within three months, or US Treasury debt will be downgraded.
	And how does the joke president respond?
	Because he's busy getting ready for his fiftieth birthday party and recording his fifty minute birthday address uh and getting ready for the special fiftieth birthday performance of more more more, how do you like it, how do you like it?
	So you can't take too much time on this.
	So he says his his one specific proposal is that he's going to increase the eligibility of social security from sixty-five to sixty-seven by the year twenty thirty six.
	That's it.
	You think that's gonna be enough?
	Think that's gonna save four trillion dollars in three months?
	Do you think that's gonna be enough to pre prevent a downgrade of US Treasury debt?
	There's no money on the planet to afford the trillionaire class.
	The trillionaire class, Obama, Harry Reed, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin, Barney Frank, the first c generation of trillionaire politicians in the Republic's history.
	It's time to bury that word.
	Mark Stein for Rush, one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
	Mark Stein for is this uh is this more boba, how do you like it?
	Yeah, oh I don't think I've heard this in decades.
	Who is it?
	The Andrea True Connection?
	Is that is that who did it?
	Oh, there we there we go.
	I I more more more.
	How do you like it?
	How do you like it?
	Yeah.
	More more more.
	How do you like it?
	How do you like it?
	Uh that's uh that's good.
	This should be the the national anthem for the Obaba era.
	I think to mark his fiftieth birthday.
	We should make boba, how do you like it, how do you like it?
	The new national anthem of the United States.
	one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two, Markside for Rush, open line Friday.
	Let us go.
	Uh let's go to Ron in Claremont, Florida.
	Uh Ron, you're live on the Rush Limbo Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hi, Mark, how are you?
	Definitely my definitely my favorite guest host.
	Oh, well, there's damning with faint praise, but uh I'll take what I could get.
	Yes, I have a quick question and then and then uh something that maybe you can help me out with.
	Uh just a little concern.
	Okay.
	My question is, uh what kind of approach do you think it's gonna take uh to beat Obama in the in the uh next election?
	Do you think I mean would it have to be more like a uh uh um uh the Steve Wynn and uh uh Donald Trump approach or because it almost seems to me like everybody that's stepped up is afraid of Obama.
	I mean I mean that's just what it seems like to me.
	But the only two people that have ever really come forward are are Trump and Wynne and called it like they've seen it.
	Well you know I'll tell I'll say this about Donald Trump and this is why people liked the uh you know the twenty minutes while he was running for president.
	Trump isn't a conservative in in any sense and his idea that somehow uh the problems of the United States are China's fault uh that that's n that's that's ridiculous.
	China didn't say hey you guys run up a fifteen trillion dollar debt.
	We did that to ourselves.
	We did it to ourselves and uh and understanding that uh is is is the first uh step toward dealing with it.
	So Trump is not anybody's idea of a conservative.
	But what conservatives loved about Trump for the twenty minutes he was in the race uh was the way he just clobbered Obama.
	He didn't care about being respectable uh and and being house trained uh and and and uh you know that's what I think that's what people want in a candidate.
	They want they want to see Obama on the ropes, Obama reeling.
	Obama where's your plan?
	You you stand there in front of the teleprompter and all the pansies in the media say, oh yes he's proposed a four trillion dollar plan.
	No you didn't you you read out the number four trillion off the tra that's not the same.
	Put a piece of paper.
	Come on uh just one piece of paper outlining your plan.
	Where's your plan?
	Where's your plan?
	And and uh conservatives conservatives what they enjoyed about Trump was the tone.
	They enjoyed the the way he was secure enough in in himself not to worry what the media thought about him, not to care uh uh about whether they asked him back on to meet the press.
	He just basically decided he was gonna uh f uh battle this uh campaign on his terms and I think I think that's the way to put it I think a guy like Steve Wynne, when Steve Wynne says this guy's the biggest wet blanket on the economy ever, I think they're the terms we should frame it in.
	I was a bit worried.
	You know, I thought John Boehner, given the absurdity of the situation uh which as uh as Rush puts it uh is basically because the Democrats don't have any plans were basically watching Republicans negotiate between themselves with various shades of Republican plan.
	And I thought John Boehner tonally, I think tonally John Boehner should be far ruder uh about a president of the United States facing a downgrade in treasury debt and he has he can't even type uh double spaced one sheet of paper with a plan on.
	He's got zillions of aides sitting around with nothing else to do and none of them none of them can sit there and get out the old keyboard and type up a one page plan Ba Bayner, that's that's why people like Donald Trump.
	Don it was a tonal thing.
	They like the t and that and I think you're right there Ron that actually uh somebody who puts who puts the Democrats on the ropes and who makes them defend this stuff in uh in conservative terms I think would would uh would be one so I'm with you on that.
	Is anyone uh is there anyone looming that uh meets that description well I don't you know I you know I would I don't really know Mr Stein but uh I mean uh um you know uh Perry and and uh uh Michelle Bachman but it it's almost like they just uh I mean they just hold back.
	I mean from what I understand the only two people who have come out and and and called it like they seen it was Trump and and uh and and Mr Wynne the other day.
	Yeah.
	But you know I think that's because Steve Wynne uh lives in the real world and if you live in the real world even if you're a Democrat, you know, like as he said, he voted for Harry Reid.
	But he's he's got uh he's got a big bunch of buildings uh that he's losing money on unless they're full of people gambling and listening to the music acts in his showroom and eating in his restaurants and staying in his hotels.
	And you know, you need an economy you need an economy for that.
	Uh nobody nobody in Iowa is going to take a vacation in Vegas uh when when the economy heads south in January twenty thirteen when Obama's elected and all the tax cuts, all the all the tax increases and extra regulation and EPA burdens uh that that that he's put a two year delay on until after his re election,
	when all that stuff kicks in in twenty thirteen, Steve Wynne's hotels, Steve Wynne's casinos, Steve Wynne's restaurants, Steve Wynne's showrooms are gonna be even emptier.
	And that's why this guy is in is in the real world in a way that uh even a uh even a conservative member of the full-time political class isn't because uh these guys never wander in uh you know, a politician uh never wanders into the legislature and says, Oh, gee, nobody's here, everybody's left, nobody can afford to come here anymore.
	Uh Steve Wynne gets that, uh and he's secure enough in his sense of self to be able to say it.
	And I want whoever runs uh for the Republican nomination uh to match that tone, to put it in real t real terms like that, and not to not to be cowed by Obama in the way that too many Republican politicians are.
	More to come.
	Yes, it's Obama fiftieth birthday party music on the Rush Limbaugh show today.
	Rush uh returns live Monday at uh twelve midday Eastern.
	He's at uh the funeral of a friend MyraCraft in Massachusetts uh today.
	He would have been here today uh following the uh ongoing debt so-called negotiations, but they're likely to go on Monday, so you won't really miss anything.
	He'll be back Monday uh to take you through the next interminable stage of the so-called grand bargains before America's looming date with destiny, August the second, August the second, uh the debt ceiling collapses.
	Uh we have mass default, we have downgrading, we have the collapse of the dollar, but not to worry because August the third is Obama's fiftieth birthday party, so we can all party on.
	That's uh it and you just know, you just know that the media uh are gonna be uh are gonna be celebrating the good times at the Obama fifty birthday party rather than the uh societal collapse uh going on all around us.
	Uh the uh Ecuadorian authorities say they've seized three hundred and fifty-seven dead sharks from a boat that was fishing illegally in uh the Galapagos Islands National Park.
	Three hundred and fifty-seven dead sharks.
	Uh that's like amazing for what is presumably a uh a pretty average-sized uh Ecuadorian fishing boat.
	I love the way, by the way, sharks have uh uh changed from from being this predator to now being this uh species that we protect.
	I notice um the the new James Bond films, nobody gets tossed into a shark tank anymore.
	I don't know whether that's something that uh Daniel Craig insisted on when he took over the role.
	Daniel Craig, he's a big um Obama supporter.
	Uh he said that Obama would make a great James Bond.
	Uh because he I think what what was his quote?
	Because he'd be quite w willing to quite literally look the enemy in the eye and go toe-to-toe with them.
	That was why Daniel Craig supported Obama.
	Yeah, because he'd he'd uh he he he'd be willing to go he'd be willing to go to Blofeld's secret lair in the hollowed out volcano and deliver a fifty minute speech until Blofeld surrendered and begged to be released.
	Let me out of this volcano, Obama won't stop talking.
	But I noticed I noticed with the Daniel Craig thing that uh he never gets tossed into a shark tank anymore.
	Maybe as an Obama supporter, he he doesn't want that.
	But maybe I would like to see a scene in the next James Bond movie where a poor old shark gets tossed into a tank of Democratic Party operatives.
	You know, that would be real I mean maybe that would just be too bloody and hideous for them to see.
	But I think that would be an interesting twist in the next Bond movie if they toss a shark into a tank of uh Democratic Party operatives.
	Let's go to John in uh Crofton, Maryland.
	John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Thanks for waiting.
	Hey no, Mark, you bring me back to uh my college days in uh Hanover.
	I guess you're in New Hampshire, right?
	You you're a Dartmouth man, are you?
	The President's gonna turn fifty.
	I feel like I could have been his father.
	Uh I think I probably would have done a bit of a please, please.
	We we don't need any new birth of conspiracies right now.
	So if you've got the long form birth certificate, keep it to yourself on there.
	We don't we don't want any paternity suits in uh in in in the uh county court in Maryland.
	Speaking about birth certificates, I think Uh uh uh Donald Trump, uh that was his big single issue, they came out with they produced some kind of a longer form birth certificate.
	But you know, when you buy the Mona Lisa or anything that uh you know has to be validated, you know, you go to Sotheby's or Christie's and you say, Hey, uh, is this original piece of paper over here in Honolulu?
	Is it is this paper fifty years old or not?
	But they're not gonna be a good thing.
	Yeah, no, that and Trump.
	That's right, proven provenance is the most important thing when you're at an uh uh gonna buy a painting at Sotheby's or whatever.
	Now uh I I I don't know whether you're going to your fiftyth anniversary at Dartmouth, but you will find the place I think has changed from the Dartmouth mentioned.
	Hey, let me tell you changed.
	You know, Tim Geitner, our Secretary of the Treasury, he's a graduate from there.
	And uh Jeff Mel, the head of GE, big buddy big crony of the president, he's a graduate from there.
	And I know where it's gone.
	It's gone gone to hell, for Christ's sake.
	I don't give him any money anymore.
	Because there should be more of you like that, because actually that's that's that's the that's the one way these guys uh uh one way these guys get the message.
	Uh and the idea of the tea party, by the way.
	Yeah.
	That's a better way I do.
	The president uh I'm down in uh outside of Washington, DC, and the president whenever he wants to take a break and he uh doesn't go golfing, he goes to some school where these heads full of mush, these young people that support him, uh will just uh look at him in awe.
	But he went to University of Maryland this morning, and I understand his big message was uh he wants to raise taxes in uh in this new uh negotiation.
	And Rush said, Watch out, don't let him raise taxes.
	That'll mean that the Republicans lost.
	And so this reminds me of uh the uh a Ponzi scheme.
	This guy's gotta take in new money, as in any pyramid scheme.
	And I'm Italian American, by the way, and I think we should stop calling it a Ponzi scheme because that was small potatoes.
	You got Bernie Madoff sitting in jail because he had a Ponzi scheme and he was dealing in billions.
	Now you got a president's got a Ponzi scheme dealing in trillions in our future.
	And so we ought to call this the Obama scheme.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And you're and you and you are right.
	In fact, this is a Bernie Madoff uh kind of operation, because if you look at uh the government entitlements, the government does not have the money to honor the commitments it's made.
	That's basically what Obama's saying that when he said, Oh no, Granny's gonna get it on August the third, the day of the day of my birthday, I'll be having a great time, but she won't get her social security check that month because we got nothing.
	Uh and Bernie Madoff uh was doing that.
	He he Bernie Madoff was doing that and he's sitting in jail now.
	He's gonna that po that guy is gonna die in jail.
	But the the the United States government, uh along with states and municipalities which have made uh commitments and pledges and promises and guarantees that they cannot honor, they ain't gonna be going to jail.
	Uh you're right, we should change it from uh uh a Ponzi scheme.
	We should uh we we should we should find a new governmentalized term for that because it is the all-time uh greatest uh th uh thing.
	And the idea, by the way, that uh we're gonna have new taxes, any new taxes in this economy will be a defeat for the Republicans.
	What don't you get what what don't they get about this?
	Nobody's hiring anyone uh because the cost of hiring an American worker is too high.
	Uh the cost in what you you you take on board in terms of uh uh of regulation, in terms of what you take on taxation, in terms of what you take on health care commitments and insurance commitments, and the idea that that now is the time to say, no, we're gonna tax you even more, and uh you're gonna uh uh because you have to pay pay your share.
	What uh where where do they get this higher?
	Where does a well a rich guy spend money?
	A rich guy goes into restaurants and orders a meal, and he tips the waiter.
	So when you say to the rich guy, no, you won't be able to go to the restaurant because we're taking more of your money, what's that gonna do to the waiter's tips?
	Uh this idea corpor corporate tax is another good example of this.
	Corporations don't pay tax.
	Every single dollar that a corporation pays in tax has to be fished out of a real life human being's hands, whether it's a stockholder, whether it's an employee, whether it's a customer, there's a real person, a corporation, uh articles of incorporation sitting in the bottom desk drawer at the desk in the corner of the uh the president's office.
	Uh the a corporation doesn't pay any tax.
	Every dollar of tax that a corporation pays has to be pulled out of the pocket of a real life human being.
	And yet and yet the uh half the country is still falling for this.
	Oh, he's not raising taxes.
	He's only raising taxes on corporations.
	I mean, they're not like people, are they?
	Uh He's only raising taxes on rich people.
	Who do rich people spend their money on?
	They ha they pay poor people.
	Who hires poor people?
	Rich people hire poor people.
	And this and the fact that this guy is even he you said at this school in Maryland this morning he was just talking about raising taxes again.
	Is that right, John?
	Yes sir.
	Well then he's out of his mind.
	That's the point I was making about when I was comparing it to the uh headlines in Ireland and in Germany and in Greece and in Portugal and in Spain.
	Because those guys those guys have got the message that that government has to tighten its belt.
	I don't know whether they mean it.
	They don't want to do it.
	They're all big spenders but they but they're not going out and saying hey no we don't have a spending problem we just need a few more taxes and that'll solve everything.
	I I can't that was that was the Obama message in Maryland, right?
	What it was hey Debbie Wasserman Schultz she said a while back that the uh president owns this economy I think that's what uh John Boehner and Eric Canner uh and even Mitch McConnell if he can open his mouth that's what they ought to tell him and they shouldn't negotiate with him anymore.
	This guy is supposed to be coming up with a plan.
	The only plan he has is called the Ponzi scheme and he's out uh highfalutin it again.
	He lives high on the hog while the the rest of the country our standard of living has gone down so bad that people are getting depressed, they're committing suicide this is a hell of a thing.
	This is the death of the American dream.
	That's a absolutely a good way to put it there isn't going to be an American dream.
	This will be the first generation in American history to bequeath the certainty of poorer, meaner, shrunken shriveled lives to the next generation and that should be a point of shame to the people who did this to us.
	That that by the way is the the rather uh uh uh dramatic uh portion of uh uh of of my forthcoming book deals with that the end uh essentially the end of the American dream.
	Look around you look around you.
	This is as good as it gets uh because your children and your grandchildren are going to be in smaller homes, in smaller cars without the economic opportunities and the American dream won't have any meaning.
	It'll be some phrase uh from from a lost world, lost world like uh like uh date farmers in nineteenth century Nazaria uh who who vaguely remember that the great ziggurat of Ur is buried around here somewhere.
	It'll be it'll be a fading memory of lost grandeur that phrase.
	Thanks for your call, John lots more to come.
	The Rush Limbaugh Show Mark Stein in for Rush The uh death toll in Norway is mounting and the uh helpers of Global Jihad so called are uh walking back their claim that they were uh they were responsible for it.
	Mark Stein open line Friday uh let's go to Jan in Houston, Texas.
	Jan, you're uh live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hi Mark it's great to talk to you.
	Uh you're my favorite guest host and I love your humor.
	You have to you have to have a chuckle as we as we go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel and head towards the rocks at the bottom.
	What's on your mind today, Jan?
	I'd like to eliminate all the czars I'd like to eliminate three fourths of Michelle's staff.
	Right now uh how how many people are that?
	I think the last time I saw I think she has uh she has a staff of uh is it twenty four, twenty four I thought it was forty something.
	Oh you may be right maybe I'm defining it narrowly and you may be and I I think that's right.
	I mean on what constitutional basis does the first lady uh have uh forty a staff of forty what for she has no constitutionally defined responsibilities it's not an official position.
	She just happens to be the person who's uh married to uh to the chief executive why why is that something that the taxpayers should pay for well I mean I could see her having a personal shopper and a nanny and maybe uh a hairstylist and uh a makeup artist or uh a nail tech but that would leave her with approximately six people to take care of her um calendar and social No I'm I'm way beyond you on that.
	I don't think I think if I think this is the wrong way to to look at it because I've uh I've life's been good to me, and I've met enough uh kings and queens over the years and princes and so forth.
	I've met the uh I met uh I met Queen Elizabeth, I met the Queen of the Netherlands, I met the Queen of Spain.
	These are queens, right?
	These are people who who are born into r royal houses.
	And they do not live as grandly and with the uh level of expectation uh as uh the first lady of the United States does.
	You know, they if in other words, if you want to if you're in uh the average uh continental royal house and you want to get a haircut, you call a hairdresser.
	You don't go to the hair salon and and sit there reading People Magazine until she's ready to cut your hair, but the hairdresser comes to you.
	You don't need a hairdresser on staff.
	Uh this is just the wrong way.
	This is the the the wrong way of looking at it.
	If you go back to what Mamie Eisenhower had to make do with, in those days, in Mamie Eisenhower's day, uh the the the White House uh the first lady just had a social secretary, and that was it.
	The idea that they there's this big bloated Well wait a minute Oh now mister Snerdley is saying we don't want to go back to first ladies uh that is most that is most ungalant of you, mister Snudley.
	Well So you're now saying it's uh national reputation thing.
	We've got to we we've got to pay what it takes to to get I don't want I don't want to even uh I mean I think I m I made the point, Jan, yesterday, uh that I thought uh the i that if the TSA has made planes as secure, so secure that if they're now going through the crotches of every six-year-old girl who tries to board an American airline, those planes must be the safest places on the planet.
	So why can't the President of the United States fly commercial?
	I mean, no other this is not I found myself uh on a plane not so long ago talking to some guy and uh I said, Oh, what is it you know, he's making a bit of chit check, he said, What do you do?
	I said, Oh, I'm a writer.
	I said, what do you do?
	And he says, uh, I'm the president of Costa Rica.
	And the and the idea that the idea that somehow you have to you can only go anywhere, you can only move around with this vast medieval entourage, uh, is I think is I think ridiculous.
	There's absolutely no need for it, and three quarters of Michelle Obama's staff is a good place to what was the other thing you suggested, Jan?
	Uh well we said cut it cut out the czars, eliminate three fourths of her staff, and I'd like to see them have stay at home vacations at Camp David.
	They call it vacations.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, you mean y you don't want her on wherever it was the Costa Brava last summer where they have to close the beach and they're at the most expensive hotel in Spain and they've got a hundred and twenty-eight secret service guys booking every room in the hotel.
	Okay, I think I think you're also right about the czars.
	The czars are unrepublican, the czars are unaccountable.
	Uh America should not be dancing with the czars at this point in history.
	So Jan, you are right on that.
	And thank you for your call.
	Uh open line Friday, Mark Stein in Farush.
	Rush has been attending a funeral in Massachusetts today, but he will be back live twelve midday uh uh Eastern time, nine AM Pacific, uh this Monday.
	More in a moment.
	Mark Stein in Farush.
	Uh it's been uh been great.
	I didn't expect to be here today.
	This uh third appearance of the week was uh very sudden and last minute, but it is always always a great honor to be here, even in these uh perilous times uh for the Republic.
	Uh and and that's why some I sometimes can sound a little hysterical when I'm talking about this stuff, but that's because I'm an immigrant.
	I've seen how this stuff plays out in other countries, and I don't want it uh see it play it out out here.
	I came here for the American dream.
	The American dream is the opportunity to live your life to the fullest potential, and that's what's being crushed by the size of the state, by the size of the government Leviathan.
	It sure it ensures you cannot live your life uh to its fullest potential, and that has disastrous consequences.

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