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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 anchorman sitting in.
I snuck across the borders in the early hours of the morning in the undercarriage of Barack Obama's armored Canadian hearsemobile.
They didn't spot a thing.
We just cruised straight through.
President Obama is believed to be about to break his vacation to make a speech.
Because he likes sitting on the beach for a couple of days, but after a while, he's enough of that and he feels a speech coming on.
And it's tough if you happen to book a vacation in 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 listen to something while he's speaking.
I think he's about to be, he's going to speak on Libya.
And I've been watching, have you watched this Al-Libia channel?
It's the big news channel, and it's basically the CNN or Fox News of Libya.
And the news announcers, I think, are not feeling they're likely to make the transition to the new regime terribly well.
The news announcers, the ankers are waving guns around in the Al-Libiya studio.
And these are the women announcers, by the way.
Basically, I'm looking at this chick.
She's like the Katie Couric of Libyan TV.
And she's waving this gun around.
And this is like she say, quote, with this weapon, I either kill or die today.
You will not take Al-Libia channel.
You won't take Jamahiriya channel, Shabibia 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.
So she's saying, like, as I said, she's the Katie Couric of Libyan TV, and she's waving a gun around.
And like she's saying, Bob Schieffer came into work unarmed, but Bob Schieffer is willing to take a bullet and be a martyr to save the Al-Libiya channel.
This is fantastic stuff.
I hope MSNBC do this on election night next year because it would be fabulous just to see Rachel Maddow 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.
But also more breaking, a lot of developments on the Libyan front.
Camis Gaddafi, according to one news report, Camis Gaddafi has been leading forces loyal to Gaddafi, Colonel Gaddafi, Gaddafi Sr., through central Tripoli.
But according to a report on Al Jazeera, Camis Gaddafi, his body has been found.
Now, I find this interesting because if you're not up on your Gaddafi sons, Camis Gaddafi is 27, and he was the one who was regarded by the United States government a couple of weeks ago, until a few weeks ago, as a reformer.
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.
I don't know about you, but if I had to sit through 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.
I'd be putting on the old Semtex belt and yelling Allahu Akbar in no time.
But each to his own, they thought he'd enjoy a lecture by Deepak Chopra.
And he, unfortunately, he made a trip to West Point, and then he had to cut shoot, cut short.
Well, actually, he had to cut it shoot.
I said it right the first time.
He had to cut short his visit to the United States to go back to Libya and start shooting large numbers of Libyan rebels.
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 Chance-Élysées on a state visit to Paris just last year.
The British government released the Lockerbie killer 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 healthcare system can do for your life expectancy.
Camus Gaddafi was given the red carpet treatment just a couple of months ago when he was visiting West Point and 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 bated breath for the announcement by the President of the United States who is coming out to speak on this issue.
He is interrupting his golf game to make a statement on the overthrow.
Because let's face it, the guy's been in power for 42 years.
If that isn't worth interrupting a golf game for, what is?
We'll bring you any news of developments in Libya.
Don't forget, 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.
It might not be Mark Wahlberg, but we're trying to get confirmation of Muammar Gaddafi if he changes his name to Mark.
And then Rush returns for a full week of genuine full-strength excellence in broadcasting starting live on Monday.
Now, I want to go back to a story that I touched on with Marie of not Baskin Robbins, what was it called?
Warner Robbins in Georgia.
Get confused, sounds like a corporate merger.
Warner Robbins sounds like a corporate merger between Warner Brothers and Baskin Robbins.
They not only make the movies you see at the multiplex, they also run the concession stand.
But it's, in fact, Warner Robbins in Georgia.
Marie called in.
She's a government worker then, she was complaining about corporate welfare.
And yeah, she thought she was, I'm not in favor of corporate welfare.
And you know why?
Because corporate welfare is anti-competition.
Mr. Snadley is quite right.
I wasn't stunned by that at all.
There's no inconsistency here.
I don't believe in corporate welfare.
What I believe in is a level playing field.
I don't want someone who knows 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 that Warren Buffett is a typical businessman.
He isn't.
Warren Buffett is an atypical businessman, and he's the only one Obama knows, apart from all his various members of his administration who 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 as the rest of the Western world.
If the idea is 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?
Why don't we try that?
Because right now there's no incentive for anyone in the United States to operate a business that makes more than $50,000 worth of profits.
And if you don't make more than $50,000 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.
We're 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 U.S. tax rates were not competitive with the Dominion of Canada.
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.
When the collapse came in 2008, these banks and a select number of other privileged Wall Street blue-chip grandees got $1.2 trillion in Fed secret loans.
Now, just again, just let's hold that thought.
Your government is able to spend $1.2 trillion without you knowing a thing about it.
I mean, $1.2 trillion isn't chump change, even by Washington standards.
$1.2 trillion is basically a G7 economy size.
It's basically what's the Canadian GDP.
I think that's up around $1.
It's basically just shy of Canada's entire GDP, just shy of India's entire GDP.
It's like a small G7, entire economy.
It's like dumping the entire Italian economy or the entire Spanish economy.
They spent it.
The Federal Reserve spent it, and nobody heard a word about it.
They spent a G7 economy.
They gave it to their friends.
They gave it to their friends.
Officially, these people got $160 billion in public bailouts in 2008.
Unofficially, they got $1.2 trillion.
Morgan Stanley got $107 billion.
Citigroup got $99 billion.
Bank of America got $91 billion.
What's interesting about this, by the way, is in a nice celebrate diversity touch, a lot of foreign, a lot of foreign businesses got money without you knowing it from the United States taxpayer too.
Royal Bank of Scotland, 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?
Does that sound like a Mississippi company?
Does that sound like a California company?
No, here's the clue: Royal Bank of Scotland is a bank in Scotland, and they got $84 billion from the Federal Reserve without you knowing a thing about it.
We are moving, by the way, I think.
When it's possible for a branch of Washington to give away $1.2 trillion without anybody knowing about it, whatever we are, we are certainly not a republic of limited government.
UBS, you know what the S stands for there?
That's Switzerland, Suisse.
They got $77 billion.
Hypo-Real Estate Holdings, that could be anywhere.
That actually might be in Idaho, but in fact, it's not.
It's in Germany.
They got $28.7 billion.
Essentially, the Federal Reserve gave $1.2 trillion, gave an entire developed nation's entire GDP 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.
We live in a nation with about twice as many three or four bedroom homes as it actually needs right now.
And instead, the priority of the Federal Reserve was to ensure that its cronies didn't take a hit on it.
This is what you're going to get more of, by the way, as government becomes bigger, it becomes more unaccountable.
You notice the other thing.
Obama has just basically issued his own one-man amnesty.
He's decided to 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 basically rule by executive decree.
His Majesty has issued a royal proclamation, which, let's face it, is a lot easier than wasting your time negotiating with John Boehner and a bunch of those crazies over in the Tea Party Congress.
So instead, he just issued an imperial decree that he's henceforth not going to be enforcing American immigration law.
And you're going to get a lot more of that.
A lot more secret payments, a lot more rule by decree, a lot more, instead of laws passed by your representatives accountable to you at election time, you're just going to get a lot more of this federal fiat stuff.
Mark Stein in for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
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 36 hours.
He was kind of getting restless, so he decided to give a speech.
And he is going.
What are we talking about?
Is he issuing an ultimatum to Gaddafi?
Oh, he's saying the Gaddafi regime is coming to an end.
Great.
Yeah, he said that yesterday.
I think he said it was slipping from the grasp of the tyrant.
He had his more poetic speechwriter on yesterday.
You 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 rotate the tyrants every few decades just to just add a little bit of variety of life.
Well, 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 Limbaugh 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 that's all I'm doing.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, don't worry.
We're not going to carry his, don't worry, we're not carrying his speech live.
We're not going to depress ratings.
They're not going to be switching over to soft and easy formats or whatever it takes to avoid the Obama speech.
You won't hear it here.
Excellent, because that's my second choice.
See, the reason I'm calling is, and this may be off the beaten path, it may be in Wright Field.
I don't know, but I've talked to a number of people about a very simplistic plan.
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 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 their store with it three to five times in a row, and then they think they've got you or a gas station or what have you.
Right.
To get the American people back into the spending mode, issuing X amount of dollars on a debit card, and you have to use it or lose it in 30 days.
And you do it three months in a row and make it, I don't care, 500 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?
I guess maybe I'm thinking simplistically, but I don't understand why stimulus of that nature wouldn't work.
No, you're right that if we had had a situation, let's just say for the sake of the arithmetic, that it was a trillion-dollar stimulus.
They came in a little below that.
They wanted to make it just 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 distributed it between 300 million American citizens, either in the form of the debit card you're talking about, or in terms of another instant reduction that would have showed up on that month's paycheck or whatever, it would have gone out in the real world.
And whatever it was spent on would have represented a kind of economic reality.
You know, if people had bought homes or if people had bought cars or if people had used it to invest in this or invest in that, those are real economic decisions made by 300 million individuals.
What the government stimulus did was stimulate nothing but government, which was its object, which was its entire object.
I mentioned when I was on the show just a couple of weeks ago, crossing a small Quebec-Vermont border post where Her Canadian Majesty's one-room hut 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 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 North Woods.
How does that stimulate the economy?
It doesn't stimulate the economy at all.
All it does is it provides more luxurious conditions for government employees.
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 on a debit card, would spend it in the real economy.
wouldn't spend it dropping a vast Uncle Sam starship in the middle of nowhere like these guys did at North Troy, Vermont, opposite the tiny little border crossing with Mansonville, Quebec.
And that's the reason, Tom, is they don't.
It goes back to what Bill Clinton said when he said during the days when 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 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 40-car motorcades to go through small towns in the middle of nowhere and dropping giant government bureaucracies in the middle of the woods where those bureaucracies are not needed.
Markstein for Rush, more to come.
Barack Obama has finished his statement and returned to the 12th poll or whatever he was on at the time he had to interrupt.
He didn't really say anything.
He said that the Gaddafi regime is on its last dress and it will soon be gone.
And he might have been better saved to wait until he actually had some news to report.
Very strange thing.
Do you remember, by the way, when he did that with Mubarak?
Mubarak decided to stay another three weeks.
Mubarak would have been gone a month earlier if he got so bad at Obama's speech, he dug in and stayed for another three weeks.
So I don't know.
Maybe this will just drive Gaddafi insane and he will stick around.
Khanis Gaddafi, his son, is, according to who you leave, according to Al Jazeera, he's dead and he's hanging from the lamppost, Mussolini style, or he's leading his so-called Kamis Brigade to reclaim the streets of Tripoli for so exciting things, exciting things happening in Gaddafi.
Let's go to Mark in Washington, Washington, D.C.
He is the only Mark in the lower 48 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.
What is it?
That's fabulous.
I listen to you guys a lot.
Yeah, I'm on an SSA, Social Security Disability.
Right.
And you're kind of touching my conscience here of feeling that maybe I don't deserve it.
But, you know, there's a lot of people that have never worked a day in their life, and they are on SSI, and they're everywhere.
They're too obese.
They put in like they have mental problems.
It's a lot of fraud that's going on there.
Well, it's also the fact that the Bob Dole's Americans with Disabilities Act massively expanded the potential categories of disability.
So in a sense, you incentivize disability.
And this is really the distortion that big government makes.
There are obviously, as I said, there are people who have genuine disabilities.
That's the little logo when you see the parking space at the mall with the wheelchair.
But when you incentivize a disability, when you start, and this is really the problem with big government, when you cease to treat people as citizens, in other words, when Mark in Washington 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 liberalization of Social Security disability in the 1980s incentivized disability.
The liberalization, the Americans with Disabilities Act incentivized disability.
And then when you have this downturn and essentially you have a flatline, dead parrot economy, no jobs market, again, you're further incentivizing disability.
I had a friend of ours, a neighbor of mine not far from here, he was 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, 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.
He was one finger short of qualifying for Social Security disability.
I don't know how many 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, maybe not at the sawmill, but maybe he just lost it in a lawnmower accident, boom, that would be it.
And he'd qualify for Social Security disability.
When you have government programs, they always grow bigger than they originally intended, and they incentivize membership in that group.
And as you say, if you have young people who have never done a day's work in their life, they are exactly like those rioters in London 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 for Werhauser Company in a sawmill for 25 years.
Right.
And it was hard work.
I mean, and so I ended up having, and I was the fastest, best worker there.
I loved being the best there on a separator, and it gave me peace, you know, and knowing that I'm doing a good job.
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 put in the work, Mark, but it's another thing, I think, if we're establishing this as a way of life.
I have a very small social security office for the northern counties of New Hampshire.
It's actually, you know, it's actually smaller than this room now, think about it.
It's a tiny little room.
But if you are not born in the United States, if you're an immigrant, you often find for one thing and another, you actually have to physically go in there every so often to 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 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 and 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 he he, he was disabled, but he's now coming up to retirement and he was worried that 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 on the seventh floor, who's sending him his government check?
It's.
It's now Vera on the 12th 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's not doing any work in 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 67 leaflets or something underneath telling you all the great things with social security.
I went through, I had time to go through all 67 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, 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 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 fraudulently getting on the system.
The state of Washington has labor industries.
There's so many people that are faking industries.
They're working while they're getting paid L and I payments.
It's just rampant.
It really has.
But what is that?
What would you prefer as the solution to that?
Would you prefer to have basically an end to this system and a much more limited means-tested program?
Or do you think where basically political reality means we're just stuck with this thing until it collapses?
It's going to collapse because it's too far gone.
And no one's going to reverse this.
You've got judges in there that are giving Social Security out like candy.
They don't, the lawyers, they got cahoots with the lawyers and the lawyers get paid so much, you know, out of the Social Security Fund.
And this is going to be a very impossible thing to stop.
Absolutely.
And I think you're right there.
Thanks for your call, Mark.
That means the system has got to collapse.
Basically, the important thing is that it collapse before it deforms too much of our human capital.
That's the lesson from London.
The grandparents and great-grandparents of these bozos looting and torching in London.
London burned in 1940.
It burned because the Luftwaffe bombed it to smithereens.
And those guys, the Londoners of that generation, didn't think, oh, oh, yeah, where's my government check?
Why haven't I got the latest model of iPod?
They stood up and they stood alone that bleak period after the fall of France when Britain was the only country 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 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 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 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 of 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 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.
He did a great job, by the way.
So we may get, it's 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 Leonardo Andy and Os in Texas.
Andy's been waiting a long time.
Andy in Austin, you're live on the Rushland Bush.
Great to have you with us.
Okay, thanks, Mark.
Just so you know, I did just buy your book, so your substitute to time here today will pay off.
Excellent.
Have your full whatever you paid, 28 bucks or whatever it was.
Have your full 28 bucks worth of national airtime, Andy.
Hey, thanks a lot.
Hey, I was just going to say, 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.
And really there's 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 teach the need or importance and relevance of having private investors fund corporations to produce goods and services in the private enterprise.
Instead, we get these government programs out there that are funded through extortion, basically in our tax code, 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 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.
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 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 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 demonizing Main Street in small-town America.
That's corporations.
That's business.
That's the backbone of this society.
That's what grows this society.
If you're very lucky, once in a generation, a Warren Buffett will emerge right at the peak of the mountain.
But the Warren Buffetts of the world are not what drive the American economy.
They're guys like Andy in Austin.
Thank you for your call, Andy.
And you're absolutely right.
Guys like you shouldn't be demonized by people like Marie who depend on guys like you to support Marie.
Andy?
Yeah.
Yeah, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Yeah, Marie doesn't realize that to pay Marie $1, they're also extracting $2.40.
When I give my money at $1 to a corporation, I get $1.20 back.
So it's just the dynamics are so backwards.
And when you compare the two, it just frustrates the heck out of me.
Yeah, you're absolutely right, Andy.
Thank you for the call.
You know, this isn't going to go anywhere, by the way, this demonization of corporations, because they're the people 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 Michelle Obama says she turned her back on corporate America, and that's what they're asking young Americans to do to turn their back on corporate America, she became a $350,000 a year diversity outreach consultant for the University of Chicago hospitals.
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, but an advanced economy cannot live on $350,000 a year make-work diversity outreach consultants alone.
Demonizing corporate America in preference of diversity outreach consultants is a recipe for societal suicide.
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 guy is.
Mark Belling will be here tomorrow.
I'd like to thank Mark for coming in a day early and talking to me about my new book.
You can read all about it at rushlimbo.com.
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 bed at night.
But Mark Belling properly will take over the show tomorrow, and Mark Davis will be here on Thursday.
And Rush returns live and refreshed from his deserved week off for a full week of pure all-American excellence in broadcasting next week.
Thanks a lot.
This has been Mark Stein.
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