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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
	Yes, America's Anchor Man is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein.
	Honored to be here.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	I'm a foreign exchange student at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	It's a it's a great program.
	Guys like me get to study here, and uh in return, President Obama's brand new Department of Jobs gets to launch its pilot program in Bangalore.
	So it all works out.
	Rush is away this week.
	It's guest hosts a go-go, Mark Belling will be here tomorrow.
	Mark Davis comes in on Thursday.
	I believe Muammar Gaddafi makes his debut as an EIB guest host on Friday.
	Apparently he had a sudden yen for a midlife career change.
	He's uh he's picked out a fabulous new party dress to wear for the Ditto Cam, so you won't want to miss that.
	But today we are live from the Rush Limbaugh Show's Northern Frontier, Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire, just a smidgenette south of the Quebec border.
	Nothing much going by here, except the occasional lonesome moose and an armored Canadian black funeral mega hearse bus being delivered to Obama for his next tour of Small Town America.
	Because nothing says hope and change, like a giant armored Hearse Mobile run rumbling down Main Street.
	Nothing is sudden but death and taxes, and uh Obama's bus looks like death and your taxes paid for it.
	Uh great to be with you for the start of another week of excellence in broadcasting.
	Uh President Obama has issued a statement from Martha's Vineyard on the situation in Tripoli.
	I can't believe I read that with a straight face.
	I love that song, by the uh well, I love I love that song, Mr. Snerdley, uh From the Halls of Martha's Vineyard to the Shores of Tripoli.
	That's a great song.
	Why's he why doesn't he uh ha play have them play that when he uh when he makes this announcement?
	Yes, it is it is his summer White House, uh Martha's uh Martha's Vineyard.
	Uh by the way, do you remember that Congressman, Mr. Snerdley, who was complaining uh that increasing the military presence on Guam risked capsizing Guam, that the entire island would turn over would flip over.
	And uh Yeah, whatever that Congressman was.
	And do you remember the poor fellow from the uh uh uh whatever he was from from the uh joint chiefs of staff or whatever who was testifying to Congress.
	And this and this Congressman is explaining to him how he's worried that Guam will flip over and capsize, and and the general is trying not to catch his eyes and back out of the room slowly.
	And um and I'm worried, I mean, because I take it that the a congressman, a big time congressman, wouldn't uh wouldn't stand up in public and advance the notion that Guam could be capsized if it weren't technically possible.
	I'm worried that the size of Obama's motorcade might capsize Martha's Vineyard.
	I think I think that could be a uh a serious problem.
	Anyway, from the halls of Martha's Vineyard to the shores of Tripoli, President Obama has declared that Libya is, quote, slipping from the grasp of the tyrant, unquote.
	And uh presumably into the grasp of a new tyrant.
	So we look forward to that.
	Nothing like a change of tyrant after forty-two years.
	Colonel Gaddafi, what a survivor.
	He outlasted America's Triple A credit rating, but he is heading for the big downgrade now.
	Uh one-eight hundred-two eight-two-2882.
	Uh great to be with you.
	Mr. Snerdley is here with us.
	Uh he landed uh belatedly in New York uh like twenty minutes ago after after the usual nightmare flight.
	Uh but we are glad to have him uh along with us.
	Obama continues his retreat on Martha's Vineyard.
	He stimulated the local economy over the weekend uh by taking his 40-car motorcade to buy an ice cream for them.
	Uh just that right there will do uh wonders for the economy.
	He also bought a book, uh he he bought two books, I believe, uh, at the local bookstore.
	It wasn't my new book.
	Uh you won't be surprised to hear.
	I would be stunned if they had a copy of my book at the Martha's Vineyard bookstore.
	Instead he bought the Bayou trilogy by Daniel Woodrule, set in Louisiana Swampland, because let's face it, a uh big time Democrat feels completely at home in Louisiana Swampland.
	And Rodan's debutante by Ward Just, a coming of age novel set in mid-20th century Chicago.
	Associated Press said the president was looking for, quote, drama, passion, and intrigue, unquote.
	And uh and you would be too if you'd been cooped up in the world's largest Canadian hearse for a week.
	Uh so between the entourage and the motorcade and the closed streets, he spent a five-figure sum to stimulate the economy by uh twenty-four dollars and ninety-five cents worth of books at the local bookstore.
	So the stimulus is working.
	He's he's uh he's still working on his uh jobs plan.
	By the way, this is amazing.
	Uh uh this was on one of the Sunday shows, a Gallup poll showed twenty only twenty-six percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling the economy.
	Do you know any of these twenty-six percent, by the way?
	If you are one of the twenty six percent I'm I'm stunned by this.
	There's you can still find in the United States of America twenty-six percent of Americans who approve of the way Obama is handling the economy.
	Are they all residents of uh Martha's Vineyard?
	If if you're one of that twenty-six percent, I would love to hear from you.
	one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
	If you're one of the big twenty-six percent that approve of the way Obama is handling the economy, uh I'd love to know what aspect of it uh you are actually approving of.
	Is it uh is it the uh the jobs bill, is it uh the property market, is it the unemployment rate?
	Uh let me know.
	Uh is it the the quantitative easing three, which we may be lined up for uh if the Fed uh can't find anyone else to buy American debt?
	Let me know.
	Twenty six percent if you're one of the twenty-six per cent of Americans who approve of the way Obama is handling the economy.
	I would uh love to hear from you.
	one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
	A quick EIB uh programming note, by the way.
	In the next hour, my fellow EIB guest host, Mark Belling will be here.
	Now you're probably wondering uh what's going on.
	I mean, uh you know, for Rush fans, the only thing worse than switching on and finding a guest host is to switch on and find two guest hosts.
	But we're gonna do it to you today.
	Uh at the top of the next hour, we're bringing in a guest host to guest host for the pre-schedule guest host.
	Uh Mark Berling's gonna swing by and he'll interview me about my uh new book uh that I alluded to from uh a moment ago in its absence in the Martha's Vineyard bookstore.
	Uh so the second guest host will guest host for the first guest host by interviewing the first guest host.
	It's easy to follow.
	Uh Mr. Snerdley said I could have interviewed myself uh about my new book, but he didn't think I could keep up the accents long enough.
	I can't even keep this one up, by the way, for the full three hours.
	If you notice uh my natural midwestern vowels start to break through in the final hour of the show when I guest host.
	Anyway, we'll see how it works out.
	Uh Mark Stein with a Mark Belling interlude.
	It's a two-mark Monday.
	It's a new format.
	We focus grouped it in major markets like Tripoli and Benghazi, and they seem to like it.
	So if uh Two Mark Monday catches on, we'll try two Walter Wednesday and uh and uh two Friedrich Friday.
	That's uh Friedrich von Hayek and uh Friedrich Engels.
	It'd be a kind of Germanic crossfire, Hannity and Combs kind of thing.
	You'll love it.
	So anyway, Mark Belling will be talking to me about my new book uh in the next hour, which has the cheery title After America Get Ready for Armageddon.
	Uh the publisher wanted to call it something more upbeat and positive, uh the little superpower that could.
	I think that was their idea.
	But we'll get into all that financial collapse, cultural collapse, total societal collapse in our next hour.
	How often do you get a uh a teaser like that?
	Coming up coming up in our next hour uh total societal collapse.
	But you know it's not unrelated to what's going on here in in Martha's Vineyard.
	You know that the the fascinating thing about Martha's Vineyard uh is that the President of the United States has been there uh every summer vacation since he became president.
	He went there in two thousand and nine, he went there in two thousand ten, now he goes two thousand eleven.
	Martha's Vineyard is not a place uh that the average American vacations in.
	It's a very uh special place.
	You can't even uh you can't you can't even drive there.
	You you can only get in by ferry or plane.
	I don't even know.
	How does he get his forty car entourage there?
	Do they all do they have to lay on extra ferries?
	How do you get a 40-car entourage uh to Martha's Vineyard?
	Uh it's a very odd place, and you you get the sense of it, what it's like is when you read about how he spends his day.
	President Barack Obama put in a brief appearance Saturday at the home of his friend and one-time teacher, Harvard Law School professor, Charles Ogletree, as he continued his Martha's Vineyard Vacation.
	Obama spent much of the day in seclusion at his rented compound.
	Do you know that's a fascinating word?
	This is Associated Press.
	Compound is always a bad word in the newspapers.
	It usually uh it's usually if a guy is being staked out by the ATF or the D Eight.
	Remember this happened all the time uh during the the 1990s.
	Uh guys like uh Randy Weaver, he he w where was he?
	In Idaho.
	He had a compound, and uh the ATF or or the FBI or whoever it was were stake uh were were staking it out and uh they wound up uh killing his uh killing his wife and or kid.
	Uh Waco, Waco was a compound.
	Remember that?
	That was what that that's the comp the only good compound, all the when whenever you see the word compound, it by the way, if you're thinking you're putting your house on the market, uh and uh it's not a good idea to be described in the Realtor's Brochure as a compound.
	Compound is a bad word.
	If you're if you're in Idaho like Randy Weaver, or if you're in Waco like those guys, uh the Janet Reno stormed, compound is a bad word.
	The only place in America where compound is a good word is Massachusetts.
	In Massachusetts, anybody who's anybody has got a compound.
	Uh the Yeah, the Ken the Kennedy compound, that is the Naples Ultra of Compounds.
	That is the most desirable compound in Massachusetts.
	But now President Obama, he's got a compound in Massa in Massachusetts.
	Martha's Vineyard compound.
	You might be confused, you might be thinking, what's he doing?
	Living the Randy Weaver lifestyle, living the Waco lifestyle.
	No, no, this is a Massachusetts compound, so it's okay.
	Uh he was joined so he went to see his friend Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree, who is an authority on race and politics and became Obama's mentor uh when m when Obama was a student there.
	Uh he's got a home on the island.
	Uh another f the the senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, who also has a home on the island, accompanied Obama to to the uh home of pr Professor Ogletree.
	So isn't this nice?
	This is like a sweet this is like a little this is uh like a whole little club they've got there.
	All a nice little gated community of people who think exactly alike.
	Uh it is a very odd uh it is not a typical vacation.
	Uh whenever you mock whenever you Obama is that true, Mr. Snerdley?
	He's got w do I think he has black servants and in uh on his uh at his compound.
	Now no, I would imagine I would imagine like everyone else in Massachusetts, he probably has uh Latino uh servants now.
	I don't that's the Rainbow Coalition.
	Latino Black power brokers, Latino servants.
	Celebrate diversity, Mr. Surley, honestly.
	What what what are you all about?
	Anyway, they have uh and actually I'm just reading this story and it says updates with colour details.
	So maybe maybe the uh the next associated press story will actually s supply the uh supply the details on uh on that.
	But this is you know, uh somebody said to me, Oh, oh, so you're like mocking you, you crazies on the right, you're mocking uh Obama for taking his vacations in Martha's Vineyard, like Republican presidents don't take vacations.
	Oh, right.
	You know, the first Bush vacation, I remember this in the summer of 2001, the summer before nine eleven, ten years ago, he he he went to Crawford, and the White House press corps had to follow him out to Crawford, and they were furious.
	Uh they were f there was nothing to do.
	They set up the uh the so-called Western White House or whatever it was, the summer White House in a in the gym of the public school in Crawford, Texas, and the White House press were furious because they'd spent the previous eight years summering with uh Clinton on Martha's Vineyard.
	Uh Clinton Clinton was also the summer guy for Martha's Vineyard.
	He I remember him being greeted by Carly Simon at the airport at Martha's Vineyard.
	He he seemed to travel with a smaller entourage than uh than Obama.
	So he was greeted by Carly Simon.
	I don't know why she was in the entourage, but she was in a backless dress, and I remember the picture of Clinton running his hands all over uh all over Carly Simon's back, moist moist with perspiration.
	Uh and uh she is one of the great backs, by the way, Carly Simon.
	I'm not I want to be I don't want to be too partisan here, whatever my political difference is with Carly Simon.
	She has a fabulous back.
	Anyway, uh Clinton vacation on Total Back or I haven't seen actually I once wrote in a m Mrs. Snadley wants to know whether that's total back or partial back.
	I once rode in an elevator uh with Carly Simon in a backless dress, which is how I studied her back, but it it w it wasn't quite that low cut.
	Uh no no cleavage, if you know what I mean, Mr. Snardley.
	Anyway, um uh so so this is where Democrats go uh on vacation with the elite super rich.
	You can't even compare that.
	I mean, say what you like, you can be anti-bush or whatever, but he vacationed in Crawford, Texas, where nobody would vacation unless they liked it.
	Uh and that is and that is a difference.
	And there is something, to me, there is something uh Latin American about uh a man walling himself off in his compound with other members of the elite, especially after he's just descended on uh small town America.
	He's he's driven down main streets in Minnesota with a 40-car entourage, 40-car motorcade in his armored Canadian bus uh in case any of the uh citizens of small town Minnesota break through uh break through the line and and try to get a piece of him.
	There's something Latin American about this is profoundly unrepublican.
	Uh and I say that as uh as uh someone who was born a subject to the crown, that there is that that that this is that this is not this is beyond monarchical.
	It's it is like some Latin American banana republic lifestyle.
	We'll talk about that and lots more.
	1 800 28282 Mark Stein Inforush.
	Mark Stein Inforush on the EIB network, 1-800-282-2882.
	Uh Rush returns uh next week.
	Uh this guy Rick Perry, are you have you been following him?
	The uh the media are are worried about him.
	The media are worried about him, so uh they are the the whole job, the whole thing now is if his numbers uh continue to rise, they're gonna have to jump on him, clobber him to the ground, and uh and leave him looking like uh one of those moose that Sarah Palin's uh blown a hole in.
	Uh and so they'll use anything.
	I love this story.
	Rick Perry's stem cell surgery could lead to quackery.
	He had a a stem cell treatment last month.
	Uh he he got uh he got stem cells.
	He g doctors removed some stem cells from his fat cells, cultured them in a lab, and then injected them back into his spine.
	That's uh that's a that's a medical breakthrough because I didn't even know uh Republican candidates had spines.
	When when when when that we can't allow that to catch on, it would be terrible.
	How did that happen?
	That's uh that's absolutely amazing.
	So they injected the they found the Republican candidate's spine.
	Boy, if only we'd if only we'd had this in 2008 or back in 1996 when Bob Dole was running.
	Uh they found they found the Republican candidate's spine and they injected some stem cells, cultured stem cells, uh into uh into his spine.
	And doctors are now worried that this could drive thousands of desperate Americans into the clinics of quacks.
	This grossly irresponsible operation by Governor Perry uh could, quote, have the unfortunate potential to push desperate patients into the clinics of quacks who are selling unproven treatments for everything from outside to autism, unquote.
	Dr. George Q. Daly, uh of uh something or other at Har Harvard uh told the Associated Press.
	I wonder if he's vacationing on Martha's Vineyard, because that's where the Associated Press is vacationing.
	So maybe maybe Dr. George Q. Daly of Harvard uh was at one of these Obama cocktail parties and mentioned it to the Associated Press guy there.
	But he says Perry, quote, Perry's actions have the as an highly influential person of power, Perry's actions have the unfortunate potential to push desperate patients into the clinics of quacks.
	Governor Perry has only been in the race for twenty minutes and already he's killing you.
	He's a threat to your life.
	He's a threat to your life because he had this bizarre operation where they they remove some of his fat cells and then injected them back into his spine.
	But that is uh but that is certainly a medical breakthrough.
	They've uh managed to find the spine of a Republican candidate.
	Boy, I hope whoever the candidate is, the spine holds up until uh Tuesday in November 2012.
	That would be a great start.
	Social Security disability on the verge of insolvency.
	Laid off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.
	Applications are up nearly fifty percent over a decade ago, as people with disabilities lose their jobs and can't find new ones in an economy that has shed seven million jobs.
	This is from the Associated Press.
	What's uh f fascinating about this is the assumptions the newspaper.
	This is by Stephen Olemacher of the Associate Press.
	He says, quote, claims claims for disability benefits typically increase in a bad economy because many disabled people get laid off and can't find a new job, unquote.
	Now that's fascinating to me that supposedly dis the disabled are more uh prone to unemployment in a recession.
	By the way, and I'll explain this afterwards.
	A lot of these guys looting and torching London are officially classified as disabled by the British welfare state, uh, and they're not disabled enough that they uh they can't rampage through the street looting and torching and lobbing concrete pieces of concrete through store windows.
	We'll get into that in just a moment.
	Great to be with you.
	It's two mark Monday on the EIB network.
	Mark Belling will be here at the top of the hour.
	1-800-282-2882, and remember I want to hear from you.
	Twenty-six percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling the economy.
	Uh uh I've always loved that expression, by the way, handling the economy.
	It makes it sound like he kind of crumpled it up and tossed it out the rear window on his armored Canadian bus while he was driving through uh Dead Moose Junction, Minnesota.
	Uh 1-800-282-2882, if you are one of the twenty-six percent of Americans who approve who approve uh of the way Obama is handling the economy, I would love to hear from you.
	We're talking about this uh thing about the Social Security Disability Program being swamped by claimants.
	Just to give you an idea of the way this thing's growing.
	Uh there are a million there were there are three point three million people applying for federal disability benefits right now.
	That's a million more than a decade ago.
	And I love what the Social Security Commissioner, Michael Astro, said about it.
	He said it's primarily economic disperation.
	People on the margins who get bad news in terms of a layoff and have no other place to go, and they take a shot at disability, unquote.
	And so, in other words, uh people it's it's a it's about meeting the federal criteria for disability.
	This is actually gets to the heart of what is wrong with government programs.
	It's not about being disabled as most people would understand that term.
	Uh, you know, when you when you go to the parking lot and you see the uh the little wheelchair logo by the disabled parking space, and you think, okay, the disabled guy is a guy in a wheelchair.
	Don't worry about it.
	You don't have to be in a wheelchair to qualify for federal disability.
	And I mentioned that a lot of these guys rioting, looting, torching, burning in London were officially categorized as uh disabled because uh f uh in the late nineties, in order to so-called reduce the unemployment rate, the British government found it convenient to reclassify the long-term unemployed as disabled.
	They weren't actually disabled.
	They could they could hold most jobs.
	Yes, you might be disabled if you were asked to, you know, rapel into the uh presidential palace in Tripoli and depose Gaddafi.
	You might be a wee bit too disabled for that.
	But you were certainly not disabled enough to hold down the majority of jobs, and yet they uh for p for essentially for political reasons to give the appearance of lowering the unemployment rate, they classified a big chunk uh of the uh of the uh uh unemployed as disabled.
	And by the way, this is profoundly wicked because what you're doing is the state is inviting somebody, is incentivizing a citizen to collude in a lie, because somewhere, somewhere deep inside you know you're sitting around at home all day, you're disabled, you're claiming you're disabled benefits, but somewhere deep down inside, you know uh you're able to work, you know there are jobs you can do.
	Uh and so there's something actually evil about the welfare state say uh classifying someone as unable to work when they are in fact uh when they are in fact able to.
	Now, what happened in the United States is a similar process.
	In the nineteen eighties, uh they here's again, Charles Blahohouse Blahhouse, one of the public trustees who oversees Social Security, says, quote, the disability program got into trouble first because of liberalization of eligibility standards in the nineteen eighties, unquote.
	Who could have foreseen that?
	When you make it easier, when you when you when you take this is actually a perfect in a nutshell what is wrong with uh what is wrong with government.
	You start a small program off and then gradually it metastasizes and expands to include everybody.
	Uh i it it doesn't matter where you go.
	It's common to government all over the world.
	In Greece they introduced the right for people in hazardous professions to retire at fifty.
	And initially a hazardous profession meant bomb disposal and one or two others, which is which is fair enough.
	Bomb disposal is hazardous.
	Then they um changed it so that uh if you were a hairdresser, that qualified as a hazardous profession.
	Then they made it so that what I'm doing right now, talking into a microphone is a hazardous profession because of microphone bacteria.
	If you're a if you are the Rush limbore of Greece, and I don't think they have one, because otherwise they wouldn't be in the hole they're in, uh but if you're the Rush Limbaugh of Greece, you have the right to retire at fifty because of microphone bacteria, because you've been sitting in front of this microphone.
	Boy, what a class action suit Mark Belling and Mark Davis and Walter Williams and I will have against the EIB network who have exposed us to all this microphone bacteria.
	We would have the right to retire in Greece because that counts as a hazardous profession.
	Uh the reality is that uh once you start introduce these entitlements, uh uh being actually a citizen of a functioning society becomes a hazardous profession uh because you're just being shaken down uh to pay for unsustainable entitlement programs that are going to collapse.
	And if you're one of these people who is trying to get a piece of social security, which by the way, you know, now the idea, for example, social security uh full social security benefits retirees can get at age sixty-six, gradually rising to sixty seven.
	Early retirees can get reduced benefits at sixty-two.
	This isn't a country, by the way, where uh where m uh male and female life expectancy is pushing eighty.
	So we're talking the the system is set up.
	The system is set up so that so that in effect it's going to pay you uh uh uh to have a long weekend for the last twenty five percent of your life.
	However, if you qualify for disability, you can get full benefits based on your work history even before sixty-two.
	Uh there's no way there's no way any society can make this arithmetic add up.
	Uh not in a time when when people uh as I said, their life expectancies in the United States and other Western societies are pushing eighty.
	Uh when when Roosevelt introduced this system in the nineteen thirties, the idea would be you'd be on it for a couple of years and then you'd die.
	Not the idea that you'd be on it for two decades or a quarter century uh if you manage to qualify because you meet the criteria for being so-called disabled.
	Let us go to Alan in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
	Alan, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hi, thanks for taking my call.
	In regards to uh talking about the Social Security disability, uh I'm sixty-six and uh uh about two weeks ago I got a disability form from the government.
	And I I didn't think anything about it because uh I'm not disabled.
	But all of a sudden I start reading about people that are getting these forms and they're flooding the system with people that are uh supposedly uh disabled that really, really aren't.
	And I started to think, well, something's going on here.
	I'm not really sure what it is, but all yeah maybe they're trying to collapse the system.
	I don't know, maybe they're trying to put more people uh into dependent situations, but uh I just want to let you know that I I got the form and I looked at it and just threw it away because uh uh people will fill it out and now.
	Wait, wait.
	Wait a minute, Alan, did you like uh put your shoulder out when you threw the form away?
	Because uh if so you may qualify.
	I believe me, I qualify in more ways than one.
	I got more metal in me than a landmine.
	But uh you probably qualify for something, but it's probably the lad fill in Bethlehem for that.
	You probably that's probably the one thing you can't get uh get into the disability program for.
	Uh I don't know, with three back operations and two hip replacements I qualify for something, but it certainly isn't isn't disability, and I just I just feel when I got this that they were uh uh there's something f uh something fishy uh So your thinking is they're actually touting for business.
	they're sending these things out to anybody.
	You you may you it's like the uh whatever it is from the publisher's sweepstakes, you may already have won.
	You may already be disabled and you just didn't know it for the last three or four decades.
	They they're basically just shipping it out.
	I think that's where they're going.
	It's under the uh Cloud and Pivot Act.
	Right.
	Okay, well you might as well get up here.
	Yeah, as you say, the object really is to collapse the system, and in many ways the fastest way to do that would be if all three hundred million Americans get classified as disabled, uh and then we can start from scratch all over again.
	Now that is a that that by the way is my approach to a lot of the problems with big government.
	Uh for example, when they had the panty bomber, if you remember him uh from uh whatever it was the Christmas before last who tried to uh self detonate over Detroit.
	And we were assured by uh Janet and Compatano that uh the reason he was allowed to board the plane was that he wasn't actually on the no fly list.
	He was just on the standby list for the no fly list, because the no fly list is clogged up with, you know, seven year old boys from Pennsylvania and uh and and small businessmen from wherever who've managed through some bureaucratic mix up to get on there and can't get off again.
	Uh and my position on the no fly list is that uh uh when all nine billion people on the planet manage to get on the fly li on the no fly list, then we can start again from scratch.
	And same thing here with Social Security Disability Program.
	Let's get all three hundred million Americans classified under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and then we can start again from scratch.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
	Don't forget, coming up in our next hour, total societal collapse.
	Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
	Dozens of people were arrested in front of the White House over the weekend after staging a rally to protest a seventeen hundred mile oil pipeline that Trans Canada Corp wants to build uh from Alberta into the US.
	Uh and uh the these people were all urging President Obama to bl to block construction of the pipeline by denying Trans Canada a permit.
	Good luck with good luck with that, losers is is uh is multimillion dollar armored Canadian Hearse Mobile only runs on uh Canadian gas.
	So I believe you've got to have the world's to actually fill it up in Minnesota, you've got to have the uh world's longest gas pump coming all the way down from Alberta uh over into uh i across International Falls and then he like uh sticks it there in in the uh Hearstmobile and fills it up.
	So good luck good luck getting this thing.
	The Trans Canada uh oil pipeline, it's gonna use oil sands, tar sands oil.
	That's the new c new scary word to an American environmentalist.
	Yeah, tar sands, tar yeah, it's racist.
	It's racist oil.
	Yeah, I didn't mean to say that.
	I didn't mean just I didn't mean to say that, uh Mr. Snerdley.
	We don't we don't want to we don't want to any it sounds like something out of Br'er Rabbit, isn't it?
	Tossing him in the tar sands oil.
	We don't want to do that to him.
	Let's go to Marie in Warner Robins, Georgia.
	Uh Marie, it's great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Where is Warner Robbins, by the way?
	It's in Georgia.
	Yeah, I know it's in Georgia, but which bit of the state?
	It's kind of Southwest, or the southwest part of the state.
	But I had a question for you as well.
	When are we going to disgust the disabled ore corporations?
	Because they're taking subsidies, they're getting money, federal taxpayer dollars as well.
	So and Mr. Romney just said last week that corporations are people, so when are we going to discuss these disabled people?
	They're getting money too, right?
	So so you're federal dollars, aren't they?
	Right.
	Yeah, yeah, that's true.
	Well, you don't even have to go they're disabled too, right?
	Yeah, like the uh like the big uh the big uh uh banks who got all the they got some awesome disability.
	I mean if you're talking if you want to talk about all these disabled people, how do you think they feel sitting around in their office?
	That's like what three or four thousand square feet being disabled.
	I think they probably feel bad, don't you?
	Yeah, they got like Citigroup and uh Bank of America and Morgan Morgan Stanley got a hundred and seven point three billion dollars in disability payments from Fed Chairman.
	I just don't understand all the disabled people taking all of its federal money and then what about the taxes?
	I mean, City City Group uh yeah, Citigroup took ninety nine point five billion dollars in uh in uh in federal disability payments.
	You make now I understand what you're getting at here, Marie.
	And you make and you're making a and you're making a good point, uh, which is that um which is that corporate welfare is as devastating I think is as destructive as as uh any broader societal welfare and it's and it's done on a uh uh on on in individual terms, these guys get a lot of money.
	So if you're saying to me, do I think Morgan Stanley should have got a hundred and seven point three billion dollars?
	No.
	Uh you're right to be um you're right to be mad about uh that kind of stuff.
	Uh I think G I think GE should pay taxes.
	But you know what?
	But just let's go back to what Mitt Romney says, Marie.
	Uh when Mitt Romney says corporations are people, what do you think he means by that?
	I think he means that people are own stock, and they in a sense they are.
	That's why I said we might as well we're gonna discuss disabled people, we might as well discuss all of the disabled people, the one the wealthy that's taking money from the middle class, the poor taking money from the middle class.
	Yeah, just just a minute.
	Listen, no, but just a minute, let's explore this.
	So in when a corporation pays tax, only wealthy people pay that tax for the corporation, you're saying.
	Is that is that your point?
	That that that if if if a corporate because America has the highest corporate tax in the world, has thirty five percent that's what they're supposed to pay.
	Do you think any of them ever get around all of those loopholes?
	Do you think they actually get around to paying it?
	Or you think they're just No, no, no.
	Here's here stay stay with me.
	Stay with me a minute on this, because the official rate is thirty-five percent.
	Do you know what it is in Canada where the where Obama's bus comes from?
	Nah, I can't imagine.
	It's sixteen percent.
	And it's going down to fifteen percent.
	What do they actually pay it?
	Or is that Exactly?
	Exactly.
	And here's my next here's my next point, Marie.
	When you have super mega high, insanely high corporate tax that's the highest in the developed world, do you think the big guys at GE, do you think the big guys at Citigroup, do you think the big guys at all the sinister mega corporations, you think global megacorp Inc., as you said, pays thirty-five percent?
	No, it doesn't.
	It's all floating around offshore and here and there.
	Because when the corporate tax rate gets that big, it becomes worth your while devising ways around it.
	And that benefits the super mega global corporation, but it doesn't uh it doesn't uh uh benefit the guy on Main Street who employs five people.
	I'm no idea.
	What business are you in, Marie?
	What job do you do?
	I I work for a regional assistant.
	I don't want to go any further than that.
	But I will be able to do it.
	Do you do you do you work for a private do you just say that do you work for private company though?
	No.
	Okay, well then you're out of this equation entirely.
	So let me explain it to you.
	If you don't work for in the private sector, the rest of us are all holding up and paying for whatever it is you do.
	So let me explain it to you.
	Uh that what what Mitt Romney means is that a corporation cannot pay tax.
	A corporation is an uh uh uh an entity.
	A corporation is a corporate HQ.
	A corporation is articles uh of incorporation in the bottom of the president's desk drawer.
	Every dollar of tax paid by a corporation is paid by a real human being, whether it's a stockholder, whether it's an employee, whether it's a customer to whom the costs of federal regulation and tax are passed on.
	Federal regulation alone in this country accounts for ten percent of GDP.
	Uh what that means is that we are sinking the equivalent uh of a uh of the Indian or the Canadian economy into complying with federal paperwork.
	Uh so in other words, uh whatever you feel about whatever you feel about corporations, you don't like walking down Main Street and seeing mega global corp Inc and they're it's all full of rich guys.
	But every single dollar of tax paid by the smallest corporation, and that term by the way, can apply to your local hardware store, your local hair salon, and all kinds of other entities.
	Every dollar of Tax is paid by a real life human being.
	A corporate entity in itself does not pay tax.
	That was what uh Mitt Romney, God bless him, was trying to explain to you.
	Most corporations in this country are not Goldman Sachs.
	Uh, they are not Citibank, uh, they are not ExxonMobil, they are not uh British Petroleum, they are your friends, your neighbors, and they're paying taxes, corporate taxes, at the highest rate in the Western world.
	If you if you make more than fifty thousand dollars worth in tax, you pay thirty-five percent.
	No other country does that to crush its small businesses.
	Mark Stein for Rush.
	Mark Stein on the EIB network.
	Rush will return next week.
	Don't forget tomorrow, Mark Belling will be here, and Mark Davis uh comes in on Thursday.
	Lots more still to talk about as uh the Rush Limbaugh Show continues.

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