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Aug. 22, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 22, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anger man sitting in.
I snuck across the borders in the early hours of the morning in the undercarriage of Barack Obama's armored Canadian Hearse Mobile.
They uh they didn't spot a thing.
We just cruised straight through.
Uh President Obama is believed to be about to break uh his vacation to make a speech.
He likes sitting on the beach for a couple of days, but afterwards enough of that, and he feels a speech coming on.
And it's tough if you happen to book a vacation of Martha's Vineyard, because it's a small island and you're not out of earshot of his speech.
So this could be you might want to put the headphones on and uh and listen to something while while he's uh he's speaking.
He's I think he's about to be is he he's gonna speak on Libya.
And um I uh I've been watching have you watched this Al Libya channel?
It's the big news channel, and it's the uh it's basically the CNN or Fox News of Libya.
And uh the the news announcers, I think, are not uh feeling they're likely to make the transition to the new regime terribly well.
The the the news announcers uh the the Ancas are waving guns around in the Al Libya studio.
And these are the the the women announcers, by the way.
They basically I'm looking at this chick.
She's like the Katie Courick of Libyan TV, and she's waving this gun around, and she's and this is like she say quote, with this weapon I either kill or die today.
You will not take Al Libya channel.
You won't take Jamahiria channel, Shabbiya channel, Tripoli or all of Libya.
And even those without a weapon are willing to be a shield in order to protect their colleagues at this channel.
Uh so she's saying, like, as I said, she's the Katie Couric of uh uh of Libyan TV, and she's waving a gun around, and like uh she's saying Bob Schiefer came into work unarmed, but Bob Schiefer is willing uh to take a bullet and be a martyr to save the Al Libya channel.
This is fantastic stuff.
I hope MSNBC do this uh on election night next year, because it would be it'd be fa I mean it would be fabulous just to see Rachel Mado waving a gun around saying, with this weapon I either kill or die today.
You will not take MSNBC alive.
It would be fantastic stuff.
Uh but um uh also more breaking, lot a lot of developments on the Libyan front.
Kamis Gaddafi according to one news report, Kamas Gaddafi has been leading uh forces loyal to Gaddafi, uh Colonel Gaddafi, Gaddafi Senior, uh, through Central Tripoli.
But according to a report on Al Jazeera, Kamis Gaddafi uh his body has been found.
Now I find I find this interesting because if you're not up on your Gaddafi sons, uh Kamis Gaddafi is twenty-seven, and he was the one uh who was regarded by the United States government a couple of weeks ago, until a few weeks ago, as a reformer.
Uh he came for a month-long visit earlier this year.
He met at NASA and the Air Force Academy.
He was given this is how the treatment he was given, how spectacular it was.
He was given front row seats for a lecture by Deepak Chopra, entitled The Soul of Leadership.
Uh I don't know about you, but uh if I had to sit through uh a lecture by Deepak Chopra in the front row, I would certainly I would be in the mood for civil war by the time I got back to my own country.
That'd do it for anyone.
Uh I'd be uh I'd be putting on the old semtex belt and yelling Alahu Akbar in no time.
But each to his own, they thought he'd enjoy a lecture by D Pak uh Chopra.
Uh and he uh unfortunately he was he made a trip to West Point uh and then he had to cut shoot uh cut short.
Well actually he had to cut it shoot.
Uh I said it right the first time.
He had to cut short his visit to the United States to go back uh to Libya and start uh shooting large numbers of Libyan rebels.
But but it's fascinating to be the Gaddafi family must be wondering what the hell did we do to suddenly deserve all this?
We were getting on so well with everybody.
We were received Gaddafi was allowed to pitch his tent and bring his camels, park his camels in the Champs Elyse on a state visit to Paris uh last just last year.
Uh the British government released the Lockerby killer uh to back to Libya because he apparently only had three months to live.
That was two years ago.
It's amazing what getting out of the British national health care system can do for your life expectancy.
Uh Camus Gaddafi was given the red carpet treatment uh just a couple of months ago when he was visiting West Point and uh visiting NASA and all the rest of it, and now he's getting the red carpet bombing treatment from NATO over in Libya.
And there's reports on Al Jazeera that his body has been found, but conflicting reports say he's leading the fight back through the streets of Tripoli, and we are waiting with uh baited breath uh for the announcement by the President of the United States uh who is coming out to speak on this issue.
He is interrupting his golf game to make a statement on the overthrow.
Uh because let's face it, the guy's been in power for forty-two years.
If that isn't worth interrupting your golf game for, what is?
Uh we'll be we'll bring you any news of developments in Libya.
Don't forget uh Mark Belling will be here sitting in for Rush tomorrow.
Mark Davis in on Thursday.
A lot of excitement when we said Mark Wahlberg would be sitting in on Friday.
Uh it might not be Mark Wahlberg, but we're trying to get confirmation of Muammar Gaddafi if he changes his name to Mark.
Uh and then Rush returns for uh a full week of genuine full strength, excellence in broadcasting, uh starting live on Monday.
Now I wanted I want to go back to a story that uh I touched on with uh Marie of uh not Baskin Robbins, what was it called?
Warner Robbins in Georgia, get confused, sounds like a corporate merger.
Uh Warner Robins sounds like a corporate merger between Warner Brothers and Baskin Robbins.
They they not only uh make the movies you see at the multiplex, they also run the concession stand.
But it's uh in fact, Warner Robins in Georgia, Marie called in, she's a government worker there and she was complaining about corporate welfare.
And uh and and she thought she was I'm not in favor of corporate welfare.
And you know why?
Because corporate welfare i is anti-competition.
Uh Mr. Snardley's quite right.
I wasn't stunned by that at all.
Uh there's no inconsistency here.
I don't believe in corporate welfare.
What I believe in is a level playing field.
Uh I b I I don't want someone who knows how who to call in Washington.
We have crony capitalism with Obama.
You notice the way the only businessman he ever quotes, the only businessman he knows is Warren Buffett, like the richest guy on the planet.
He always says, Oh, my friend Warren Buffett says he'd be prepared to pay more taxes.
Warren Buffett, he seems to think this is how out of it the president of the United States is.
He seems to think the p Warren Buffett is a typical businessman.
He isn't.
Warren Buffett is an atypical businessman, and he's the only one's uh he's the only one Obama knows, apart from all his various members of his administration are in the big revolving door with Goldman Sachs going in and out from Goldman Sachs to the United States government, from the United States government to Goldman Sachs all year long.
But ordinary businessmen, people who run small businesses in this country are entitled to the same corporate tax rate uh as the rest of the Western world.
If the idea is uh that we need to be more like Canada, or we need to be more like Sweden, or we need to be more like Ireland, then why don't we start with the corporate tax rate?
Uh why don't we try that?
Because right now there's no incentive for anyone in the United States to operate a uh a business that makes more than fifty thousand dollars worth of profits.
And if you don't make more than fifty thousand dollars worth in profits, you're not interested in taking on a new employee.
So small businesses in this country are taxed at an outrageous amount, where taxed at over twice the rate that Canadian businesses are.
Can you believe that sentence, by the way, has ever existed in the English language?
That somebody would be sitting on the radio in the United States of America complaining that US tax rates were not competitive with the Dominion of Canada.
Uh Americans should be ashamed of that.
That's what Marie doesn't get.
But instead we have crony capitalism, where if you know who to call in Washington, if you know how to get past the White House switchboard, you can get your Obamacare opt-out and all the other things.
We have a story today from Bloomberg that Citigroup and Bank of America Corp.
were the reigning champions of finance in 2006, at the peak of the property market.
Uh when the collapse came in 2008, uh these banks and a select number of other privileged Wall Street blue chip grandees got one point two trillion dollars in Fed secret loans.
Now just again, just let's hold that thought.
Your government is able to spend one point two trillion dollars without you knowing a thing about it.
I mean one point two trillion dollars isn't chump change even by Washington standards.
One point two trillion dollars is basically a G seven economy size.
It's basically uh what's the Canadian GDP?
I think that's up around one point uh uh it's basically just shy of Canada's entire GDP, just shy of India's entire GDP.
It's like a small G seven entire economy.
It's like dumping the entire Italian economy or the entire Spanish economy.
They spent it.
Uh the Federal Reserve spent it, and nobody heard a word about it.
They spent a G seven economy.
They gave it to their friends.
They gave it to their friends.
Officially, these people got a hundred and sixty billion dollars in public bailouts in two thousand and eight.
Unofficially, they got one point two trillion dollars.
Morgan Stanley got a hundred and seven billion.
Citigroup got ninety-nine billion.
Bank of America got ninety-one billion dollars.
What's interesting about this, by the way, is uh in in a nice celebrate diversity touch.
A lot of foreign uh a lot of foreign businesses got money uh without you knowing it from the United States taxpayer too.
Royal Bank of Scotland.
Uh which which state which American state do you think Royal Bank of Scotland is headquartered in?
Go on, take a wild guess.
Is Royal Bank of Scotland does that sound like an Idaho company?
Uh does that sound like a Mississippi company?
Uh does that sound like a California company?
No.
Here's the clue.
Royal Bank of Scotland is a bank in Scotland.
And they got eighty-four billion dollars uh from the Federal Reserve without you knowing a thing about it.
We are moving, by the way, I think.
When when when it's possible uh for a uh a branch of Washington to give away one point two trillion dollars without anybody knowing about it.
Whatever we are, we are certainly not a republic uh uh of limited government.
Uh UBS, you know what the S stands for there?
That's uh Switzerland, Suisse.
They got seventy-seven billion dollars.
Hypo real estate holdings now that could be anywhere.
That actually might be in Idaho, but in fact it's not, it's in Germany.
They got twenty-eight point seven billion dollars.
Uh essentially the Federal Reserve gave one point two trillion dollars.
Gave an entire developed nation's G entire GDP uh to a handful of its clients in an attempt to reinflate a credit bubble, which you can never do.
The result, as we know, is the property prices are flatlined.
Uh we live in a nation with about twice as many three or four bedroom homes as it actually needs right now.
Uh and and and instead uh the the uh the priority of the Federal Reserve was to ensure that its cronies didn't take a hit on it.
Uh this this is what you're gonna get more of, by the way, as uh as Amer as government becomes bigger, it becomes more unaccountable.
You notice the other thing.
Uh Obama has just basically issued his own one man amnesty.
He decided uh he's decided to ex uh effectively change the rules on immigration enforcement just off the top of his head.
It's easier than getting it through Congress or whatever.
It's b basically rule by executive decree.
Uh his Majesty has issued a royal proclamation, which let's face it is a lot easier than spend wasting your time negotiating with John Boehner and a bunch of those crazies uh over in the Tea Party Congress.
So he instead he just issued an imperial decree uh that he's henceforth not going to be uh enforcing uh American immigration law.
And you're gonna get a lot more of that, a lot more secret payments, uh a lot more rule by decree, a lot more uh instead of laws passed by your representatives accountable to you at election time, you're just gonna get a lot more of this uh federal fiat stuff.
Mark Stein in Farush, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network.
Uh President Obama is speaking as I speak.
He has interrupted his Martha's Vineyard vacation to give a speech.
He hadn't given a speech for uh thirty-six hours.
He was kind of getting restless, so he decided to give a a speech.
And uh he is going uh what what are we talking about?
Is he issuing an ultimatum to Gaddafi?
Uh oh, he's saying the Gaddafi regime is coming to an end.
Uh great.
uh Yeah, he said that yesterday.
I think he he said uh he said the uh it was slipping from the grasp of the tyrant.
He had a better he had he had his more poetic speechwriter on yesterday.
Uh he should get that guy back.
I like this slipping from the grasp of the tyrant and into the grasp of new incoming tyrants, because they should always just uh rotate the tyrants every every few decades just to just add a little bit of variety of life.
Well, if he's actually if he's actually announcing any serious new developments, or if he's just hogging up airtime, we will keep you up to the minute with what's going on.
But in the meantime, let's go to Tom in Jacksonville, Florida.
Tom, thank you for waiting.
You are live on the Rush Lynbore show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Mark, how are you doing?
I'm doing good.
How are you?
I'm great, thank you.
Well, until you told me about Obama coming on, I was doing fine, but you know, that's off the body.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, don't worry, we're not gonna carry his don't worry, we're not carrying his speech live.
We're not gonna uh we're not gonna depress ratings, they're not gonna be switching over to soft and easy formats uh or whatever it takes to avoid the Obama speech.
Uh you won't hear it here.
Excellent, because that's my second choice.
See uh the reason I'm calling is and this may be off the beaten path of maybe in Rayfield, I don't know, but I've I've talked to a number of people about a very simplistic plan.
If they if they would have done it the first time, or perhaps if they do another stimulus and maybe you can straighten me out on this, but to get the hand get the money into the hands of the true taxpayer, what would be the downside of issuing most businesses let me backtrack a little most businesses will try to get you to come into the store, was it three to five times in a row and then they think they've got your gas station or what have you.
Right.
Uh to get the American people back into the spending mode um issuing X amount of dollars on a debit card, and you have to use it or lose it in thirty days.
And you do it three months in a row and make it I don't care, five hundred bucks and they can use it any way they want.
Don't put any of these dumb you know, well, don't go out and buy liquor, don't go do this, because most normal people will go out and spend it on something good.
And then that trickles out what does it trickle out like five or six or seven times somehow that money?
Um I guess maybe I'm I'm thinking simplistically, but I don't understand why stimulus of that nature wouldn't work.
No, you're you're right that if we had had a situation, let's just say for the sake of uh sake of the the arithmetic that it was a trillion dollar stimulus.
They came in a little below that.
They they wanted to make it just uh under that.
But in effect, they took all that money and they tossed it in the Potomac and they watched it float out to sea, because it was the object of it, and this is where they would disagree with you, Tom.
If you had taken that trillion dollars and you had uh distributed it between three hundred million American citizens, either in the form of the debit card you're taking about you're talking about, or uh in terms of uh uh another instant reduction that would have showed up on that month's paycheck or whatever, it would have gone out in in the real world.
And whatever uh w whatever it was spent on would have uh represented a kind of economic reality.
You know, if people had bought homes or if people had bought cars, uh or if people had used it to invest in this or invest in that, those are real economic decisions made by three hundred million individuals.
Uh what the government stimulus did was stimulate nothing but government, which was which was its uh object, which was its entire object.
I mentioned when I was on the show just uh a couple of weeks ago, uh crossing a small Quebec Vermont border post where her command her Canadian Majesty's one room hut uh is on the northern side and on the southern side.
The stimulus money paid for the erection of this vast two-story starship government thing that you you don't even need the close-up feature on Google Earth.
You can see it from Pluto.
You don't need to zoom in.
It's the biggest thing in the Great Northwoods.
They built the how does that stimulate the economy?
Doesn't stimulate the economy at all.
All it does is it provides more luxurious uh conditions uh for uh government employees.
Doesn't it's not a real economic decision.
And that's why they don't trust Tom in Jacksonville, because Tom in Jacksonville, if you gave him this money uh on a debit card would spend it in the real economy.
He wouldn't spend it uh dropping a vast Uncle Sam starship in the middle of nowhere like these guys did at North Troy, Vermont, uh opposite the tiny little border crossing with Mansonville, Quebec.
And that's the reason, Tom, is they don't it it goes back to what Bill Clinton said when he said during the days when uh the the government had a surplus, he said, Oh, we could return it to you, but you wouldn't spend it in the right way.
And that's that's his problem with you, Tom, is the government doesn't trust you to spend your money in the right way.
And by the right way, they mean wasting it on stupid things like uh forty car motorcades to go through small towns in the middle of nowhere and uh and dropping giant government bureaucracies uh in the middle of the woods where those bureaucracies are not needed.
Markstein for Rush, more to come.
Barack Obama uh has finished his uh statement and returned uh to the twelfth hole or whatever he was on at the time he had to interrupt.
He didn't really say anything.
He said uh he said uh that uh the Gaddafi regime is is on its last dress and it will soon be gone.
And uh uh he might have been better saved uh to to wait until he actually had some news to report.
Very strange strange thing.
Do you remember by the way, when he did that with Mubarak, Mubarak decided to stay another three weeks.
Mubarry would have been gone a month earlier if uh he got so bad at Obaba's speech he d he dug in and stayed for another three weeks.
So I don't know, maybe this will just uh drive Gaddafi insane and he will stick around.
Uh Carnis Gaddafi, his son, is according to who you leave, according to Al Jazeera, he's dead uh and he's uh hanging from the lamp post, uh Mussolini style, or he's leading his uh ca so called Kamis Brigade uh to reclaim the streets of Tripoli for so exciting things exciting things happening in uh Gaddafi.
Let's go to Mark in Washington.
Uh Washington, DC.
He is o he is the only Mark in the lower forty eight who is not an accredited guest host on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
But if he does well on this call, he could be hosting the show by Friday.
Mark, it's great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Yeah.
Mark to Mark.
Yeah, Mark to Mark.
Uh that's uh what is it?
That's what that's just uh fabulous.
I listen to you guys a lot.
Yeah, I'm uh I'm on an SSA, Social Security Disability.
Right.
And you're kind of touching my conscience here of feeling, you know, that maybe I don't deserve it.
But you know what there's a lot of people that are have never worked a day in their life and they are on SSI and they're everywhere.
Um they're too obese, uh they got they put in like they they have mental problems, that it's uh a lot of fraud that's going on there.
Well, it it's also th it's also the fact that the uh Bob Dole's Americans with Disabilities Act massively expanded uh the potential categories of uh of of disability.
So uh so so we so in a sense you incentivize disability.
And this this is really the distortion that big government makes.
There are obviously uh as I said, there are there are people who have genuine uh disabilities.
That's that's the little logo when you see the parking space at the mall with the wheelchair.
But but when you incentivize a disability, when you start and th this is really the problem with big government.
When you tr cease to treat people as citizens, in other words, when Mark in Washington uh is not treated by the government the same as Mark in San Diego or Mark in Pocatello or wherever, but you're all treated differently according to which categories of citizen you fall into, into which subgroups of citizen you fall into, then you will incentivize membership in those groups.
And the the liberalization of Social Security disability in the nineteen eighties incentivize disability.
Uh the liberalization uh the the Americans with Disabilities Act uh incentivized disability.
And then when you have this downturn, uh and and uh essentially you have a flat line dead parrot economy, no jobs market.
Again, you're further incentivizing uh disability.
I had uh an a uh a a friend of uh ours, uh neighbor of mine uh not far From here.
He he was uh like a lot of guys, because we live in a logging part of the world, people are always losing fingers, you know, when you work at the mills, uh you you y it's uh you see a lot of guys wandering around here with only two or three fingers.
He was forever losing fingers, but he never quite lost enough fingers to qualify for so he was one finger short of qualifying for social security disability.
I don't know how many you have to get you have to lose on there.
But essentially that was what he was working towards at a certain point.
If he could just lose one finger, in maybe not in the not at the sawmill, but maybe maybe he just lost it in a lawnmower accident, boom, that would be it, and he'd and he'd qualify for social security disability.
When you have government programs, they always grow bigger than uh they originally intended, and they incentivize membership in that group.
And as you say, uh, you know, if you have young people who have never done a day's work in their life, they are exactly like those London uh those rioters in London who who also have never done a day's work in their life.
Many of them are on disability, but they weren't too disabled to riot and torch and loot.
It's kind of strange how that works, Mark.
Yeah, I worked uh for Warehouser Company in a sawmill for twenty five years.
Right.
And it was hard work.
I mean, um and so I ended up having and I was the fastest best worker there.
I loved being the best there uh on a separator, and it gave me uh peace, you know, and and knowing that I'm doing a good job.
And I le and I like that.
But now you know I can't do that physical work anymore, and it's almost like I am dependent on the government.
Well, you know, it's one thing if you've if you put in if you put in the work mark, uh, but it's it's another thing, I think, if uh if we're uh establishing this as a way of life.
I have a very small social security office uh for the for the northern counties of New Hampshire.
It's actually, you know, that's actually smaller than this room now, I think think about it.
It's a tiny little room.
Uh but if you are not born in the United States, uh if you're an immigrant, you often find for uh one thing and another you actually have to physically go in there every so often to uh I'm not sure quite what I think I had to pick up a one of my kids' social security cards in person or something like that.
Number uh numbers in person, something like that.
So I'm in there and there's like one guy in there, and I'm thinking, oh wow, this is great, I'll be out of here in nothing flat.
Who can believe it?
A federal government office and there's only one other person ahead of me in the line.
He starts telling this story.
He's just the situation that Mark was in.
He's never worked.
He he got uh he he he was disabled, but he's now coming up to retirement.
And he was worried that uh so when you're when you're disabled and you're getting social security disability, and then you retire and you move to social security retirement, you're going from one corner of social security to another.
And he was worried that somehow this transition might not be smoothly affected and there might be an interruption in the government checks, because instead of Mabel at uh uh on the seventh floor who's sending him his government check, it's it's now Vera on the twelfth floor who's going to be sending him his government check.
And the minute he started, the minute he started in on this explanation, I understood that, you know, basically I could write off the whole day.
I was going to be there all day.
But the but the surreal aspect of that, the idea, what is he for a start he's moving he was he was moving to retirement.
What actually is he retiring from?
He hasn't he he's not doing any work.
Well, in what that sense, what are you retiring?
He was retiring in effect uh from one area of social security check processing to another area of social security check processing.
And the fascinating thing for me about this as I stood there listening to this story go on and on and on and on.
I stand there and there's a thing on the wall saying, Do you know with your social security you are in a number you are entitled to, and there's sixty-seven leaflets or something underneath, telling you all the great things with social security.
I went through I had time to go through all sixty-seven leaflets or whatever it is.
There's not a single one of those programs uh that I'm interested in, or if I were interested in, I would want the government uh to to run the mechanism for getting it to me.
And more to the point I understood that by the time I come to retire, there will be no money for any uh any of that stuff uh going around.
And Mark, just just one one final point.
You're so you're getting your disability right now, are you?
Yeah.
Now let me ask you a question, because you know at a certain level uh that so that social security, whether the disability or the retirement is unsustainable, isn't it?
Well because I see all the people that are that are fraudulently getting on the system.
It's L and I. Uh L and I payments.
It's just it's rampant if we're really bad.
But what is that?
What would you prefer as the solution to that?
Would you prefer to have a a mean a uh basically an end to this system and a means a much more limited means tested program?
Or or do you think we're basically political reality means we're just stuck with this thing until it collapses?
It's gonna collapse because it's it's it's too far gone.
Um and no one's gonna reverse this.
Uh that you've got judges in there that are giving social security out uh like candy.
They don't uh the lawyers, they got cahoots with the lawyers and the lawyers get paid so much, you know, out of the Social Security Fund.
And it's just gonna be a very impossible thing to stop.
Abs absolutely, and I think uh I think you're right there.
Thanks for your call, Mark.
That means uh the system has got to collapse.
Uh basically the important thing is that it collapsed before it deforms too much of our human capital.
That's the lesson from London.
Uh the grandparents and great grandparents of these bozos looting and torching in London.
London burned in nineteen forty.
It burned because the Luftwaffe bombed it to Smithereens.
Uh and those guys, the Londoners of that generation didn't think, oh, oh yeah, where's my government check?
Uh why haven't I got the latest model of iPod?
Uh they stood up and they stood alone that bleak period uh after the fall of France when Britain was the only country uh that had not surrendered to fascism in that part of the world.
They stood alone.
They took it when a foreign air force was lighting up the town uh every night.
Now their grandchildren and great grandchildren, the children of dependency, the children of welfare, a generation marinated in stimulus their entire life, who have been stimulated uh f from from birth, who know nothing, know nothing about the rituals of daily work.
A fifth of British children are raised in homes where no one works.
In other words, what what you do and I do every day.
Get up in the morning, get dressed, go out to the front door, and return when your day's labors are completed.
That ritual is entirely unknown to a fifth the British children.
And they're told they're raised as a matter of expectation.
The government pays for your accommodation, the government pays for your food, the government pays for your drink, the government pays for your drugs, the government gives you enough pocket money to buy the iPod and the Xbox.
And if the government uh starts to say, Well, hang on a minute, we don't know whether we can afford this much longer, then they go out into the streets to loot and burn.
You don't want to let it get to that stage.
Thanks for your call, Mark.
Uh he did a great job, by the way.
So we may get uh it's uh Mark Belling in tomorrow, Mark Davis in on Thursday.
We may get Mark from Washington State to guest host on Friday.
Mark's time for us, more to come.
Let's go to Ron in uh uh Leonard, let's go to Andy and Oss in uh Texas.
Uh Andy's been waiting uh a long time.
Andy in Austin, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Okay, thanks, Mark.
Just so you know, I did just buy your book, so your substitute uh time here today will pay off.
Excellent.
Have your full whatever you paid, 28 bucks or whatever it was.
Have have your full twenty-eight bucks worth of national airtime, Andy.
Hey, thanks a lot.
Hey, um, I was just gonna say, uh, listen to the lady from Warner Robbins earlier.
It's just a sad thing that we have allowed this demonization of our corporations to occur.
Uh and and really there's no no mechanism in place for them to even defend themselves against the education system that we have that's so woefully inept and doesn't even ex doesn't even teach that the need or importance and relevance of having private investors fund corporations to produce goods and services in a private enterprise.
Instead, you know, we get these government programs out there uh that have uh are funded through extortion, basically in our tax code, uh to provide these benefits for so many people who don't really have any value, no value associated with the goods or services that they receive.
It's just so frustrating to me to see uh how effective they've been at demonizing so many good organizations out there who deliver products and goods and services that we as a nation and the world consume and it's just very disheartening to see that that's here's the thing, Andy.
You and I pay for Marie.
She doesn't pay for us.
Marie can't exist.
Marie can't feed her children, Marie can't pay our mortgage unless uh Andy goes to work at his business and I go to work at my business every day.
We pay for Marie.
Marie doesn't pay for us.
And we pay more than enough, by the way.
And that's why when the president only knows one businessman on the entire planet, and it's Warren Buffett.
And everyone thinks, well, if the President keeps quoting Warren Buffett, there must be uh m a whole lot bunch of other people out there just like that, super mega rich.
No, I tried to tell Marie, you know, when you demonize corporations, you're demonizing your neighbors.
You're dem you're demonizing Main Street in small town America.
That's that's corporations.
That's business.
That's the backbone of uh this society.
That's what grows this society.
If you're very lucky, uh uh uh uh once in a generation a Warren Buffett will emerge right at the peak of the mountain.
Uh but the Warren Buffett's of the world are not what uh drive the American economy.
They're guys like Andy in uh in Austin uh in Austin.
Thank you.
Thank you for your call, Andy.
Uh and you're absolutely right.
Uh uh you guys like you shouldn't be demonized by people like Marie who depend on guys like you to support Marie.
Hey, Andy Yeah.
Yeah, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Yeah, Marie doesn't realize that to pay Marie one dollar, they're also extracting two dollars and forty cents.
When I give my money at a dollar to a corporation, I get a dollar twenty back.
So you know, it's just the the dynamics are so backwards, and and when you compare the two, it just it just frustrates the heck out of me.
Yeah, you're absolutely you're absolutely right, Andy.
Thank you for the call.
You know, this isn't going to go anywhere, by the way, this demonization uh of corporations.
Because they're the people by the who are the backbone of the Tea Party movement.
They're the people who went to the town hall meeting.
They're the people who will employ you.
You know, when when Michelle Obama says she she turned her back on corporate America, and that's what they're asking young Americans to do to uh turn their back on corporate America.
She became a three hundred and fifty thousand dollar a year diversity outreach consultant for the University of Chicago hospitals.
Uh it was such a critical job to the University of Chicago that when she quit to become first lady, they didn't bother replacing her.
I'm sorry, uh, but a a uh an advanced economy cannot live on three hundred and fifty thousand dollar a year make work diversity outreach consultants alone.
Uh demonizing corporate America uh in preference of diversity outreach consultants is a recipe for uh societal suicide.
On that on that cheery note, we will pause for an EIB profit center.
Well, Colonel Gaddafi has outlasted another EIB guest host.
What a survivor that uh that guy is.
Uh Mark Belling will be here tomorrow.
I'd like to thank Mark for uh coming in a day early and talking to me about my new book.
Uh you can read all about it at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Uh after America, get ready for arm again.
It's the cheery little thing you'll want to read to your five-year-old as you tuck her into into bed at night.
But Mark Belling uh properly will take over the show tomorrow.
And Mark Davis will be here on Thursday, and Rush returns live and refreshed uh from his deserved week off uh for a full week of pure all American excellence in broadcasting uh next week.
Thanks a lot.
This has been Mark Stein.
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