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Sept. 9, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 9, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman filling in, Mark Stein, great to be with you.
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Uh we've been talking about uh President pass this jobs bill and uh pass the President passed this bill has uh said we need to pass this bill now and get uh America's economy going again.
Uh FEMA may, by the way, be issuing an advisory um because the President last night he announced this uh jobs bill as I said before on the first stimulus, he took a trillion dollars and he tossed it out the window into the Potomac and watched it float out to sea.
Now he's taking half a trillion dollars, a mere half a trillion, because this is a bipartisan compromise.
He's taken a mere half a trillion dollars and tossed it out of the window and uh into the Potomac and watched it float out to sea.
So if you uh happen to be in uh in the Bahamas uh lying on the beach this weekend and uh you're lying there getting a suntan and lots of uh big wasted American dollar bills wash up over you.
Uh it's nothing to worry about, it's just a little by product from uh the uh the President passed this bill's past this bill speech.
Good news, Obama's uncle quietly released from jail.
Oh quietly released, not like that old he didn't have to do the old perp walk like uh Dominique Strauss Kahn uh did when he was pulled off that uh Air France jet.
Uh officials released President Obama's uncle from Plymouth County jail yesterday.
Sadly too late for him to join the president uh for a vacation of Martha's Vineyard.
Officials released President Obama's uncle from Plymouth County jail yesterday, after holding him for more than two weeks on an immigration detainer for violating an order to return to his native Kenya in nineteen ninety two.
How many years ago is nineteen ninety two?
That's nineteen years.
Nineteen years.
He's been uh living here illegally, but he's now done two weeks in detention, so he served his time.
He can live here illegally for another nineteen years and then do another two weeks in uh the year twenty thirty.
Uh US officials refused to disclose any other information about Onyango Obama, who remained in the United States undetected until Framingham police arrested him August twenty-fourth on drunken driving and other charges.
So that's good news.
So right there in Massachusetts, uh the American Jobs Act of President Obama has created or saved another job because now uh On Yango Obama will be able to go back to that job at the liquor store that he had selling uh selling liquor to underage drinkers.
So that's uh that's great.
So we've created or saved another job for an illegal immigrant to sell liquor to underage drinkers.
The economy is really going gangbusters.
Uh Margot Steinin' for Rush, Rush returns Monday, but it is the end of the week, and you know what that means.
Live from New York City, it's open line Friday.
I don't know.
I I gotta I mean how how expensive would it be to create or save another job in the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and hire Renee as a voiceover artist to say Live from New Hampshire it's open.
We don't even need to get Renee.
We could get Will from Amanda, Ohio, who also did the uh live from New Hampshire, it's open line Friday.
We could get Congressman Gomert, he was interested in getting in on the act.
Live from New Hampshire, it's open line Friday.
We're at Ice Station EIB, uh just a little wee bit south of the Canadian border.
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Ice Station EIB live on the Rush Limbaugh Show, Mr. Snerdley is running the show direct from New York City today.
And um uh m Mr. Snowley, are you gonna be there for the nine eleven uh observances this weekend?
Well, you're uh uh m Mr. Snadley says he's returning to Florida for the uh for the nine eleven observances, and that's probably a good thing.
Uh the official commemoration uh at ground zero.
Uh Mayor Bloomberg has explained that unfortunately there will be no room for firemen at the ground zero uh the uh yeah, no no room for them.
There were there was room for them on September eleventh, uh two thousand one, and people were plenty glad to see them on September eleventh, two thousand one, but there's no room for them ten years later.
And one of the reasons there's no room for them, by the way, is because the s the the place is still a building site.
But one of the things I love about uh the opportunities I get to uh sit in for Rush is is that when you're a writer and you're sitting in a room and you're coming up with this and that, it tends uh it's got to be self-generated.
And the thing I love about being on this show is that uh uh occasionally a listener will call in and start some little thread of something going in your head uh that that uh that takes you in a i in a different direction uh and and you wind up where you wouldn't have gone all on your own.
And when I was on this show, I think it was last year, maybe it was the year before, uh somebody called in I I forget what we were talking about.
I don't think we were actually talking about nine eleven, but I wound up saying that actually one of the most disgraceful disgraceful uh aspects of uh nine eleven and what it did to the United States is that hole in the ground uh that uh that the the whatever it is, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey left there year in, year out.
And uh when I uh wrote my book that I was talking about with Mark Belling uh a week or two back, uh w th I I after I'd been talking about that on the show about the the embarrassment of this hole in the ground for a decade, a hole in the ground in Lower Manhattan.
Uh and I remember talking about the emails that you used to get in the wake of September eleventh, and and uh you you probably had those too.
They used to go around.
There was a joke email that used to say the proposed plans for the new World Trade Center replacement building, and he used to basically show a collection of uh of of skyscrapers like a fist with the with the four knuckles but the central finger sticking up uh the central tower sticking up like a like a middle finger flipping the bird uh to all those leftists and Muslim terrorists and Euroweenies who uh rejoiced at seeing uh America get it pow smack
right in the kisser on September eleventh, two thousand one.
And people used to email this joke, this little cartoon around all the time.
Uh the the new World Trade Center design looking like the uh the the towers with the three knuckles and then the middle finger, the central tower standing up, flipping the finger to the rest of the planet.
It's not funny when you can't put up a building after ten years.
Uh the Empire State Building was put up in uh less than eighteen months in the middle of a depression.
But we can't do that anymore.
And that gets back to what Congressman Gomert says.
Why can't you put up a building?
Why can't the superpower put up a building in a decade?
That's the question they should ask Nanny Bloomberg.
I'm not interested in Nanny Bloomberg's views on Islam or anything else.
He's not responsible for Islam.
I'm interested to know why as mayor of that city he can't get a building built in a decade.
It's pathetic.
Uh and this came Yeah, well, that's that's right.
He can get the he can he can get the he can he can get the trans fat out of your pastry, you can get the trans fat out of your burger, but he can't get the lead out of his pants when it comes to putting up a building in New York City.
It's uh it's embarrassing, and it ought to it ought to shame every American that the tenth anniversary commemoration will be taking place at a building site.
And as I said, this came up uh I think it was last year sometime, might have been the year before.
And uh I started thinking about it, and uh and after I'd it had come up on the show I wrote it up and it's actually a little segment in my in my book uh because I d I think it t it is telling us something about our no my next book, Mr. Snardly is worried my next book is gonna feature something from R Renee.
No Renee is doing the audio version of my my book, Mr. Snardley.
People said I I uh I would do the audio version of my book myself, but I can't keep up this ridiculous accent for the whole book.
It's bad enough having to do it for three hours.
So we're getting Renee into to do the book.
This book is by Mark Stein.
He's making a fool of himself.
So Renee will be doing the audio version uh of of my next book.
But um I I d I think this is I think this is the essence of of nine eleven, that uh that that th taking down the towers is something our enemies did to us.
The ten year hole in the ground is something we did to ourselves.
This was should have been a priority.
This should have been one of those things where the mayor, supposedly the mayor is a can-do mayor, why didn't he get on the phone and say we need to make this happen?
We need why didn't the president get on the phone and say we need to make this happen?
I mean, I I and the reality is you can't make anything happen.
These guys, when you look at that embarrassment of a building site ten years later, uh that's that's what regulation does to you.
That's what government permits do to you.
That's what government licensing do to you.
You can't put up the Empire State Building in eighteen months now.
It would take you the best part of eighteen months to get approval for a wheelchair ramp up around the Empire State Building to the top floor.
And that kind of uh arthritis is a big problem with the economy today.
And so when a a uh when a fr uh a man gives a fraudulent speech saying he's looking into the possibility of rolling back dozens of regulations when he's actually uh regulating at a rate unknown uh to any previous presidency, uh when Barack Obama says uh that he doesn't understand uh what what that kind of uh seizing up of the limbs does to a society.
But you when you look at that hole in the ground and the nine eleven observances on Sunday, that hole in the ground, uh that building site, ten year building site, a ten year building site, uh is is the the says something profound and eloquent uh uh about the arthritis that is afflicting American energy and the American entrepreneurial spirit.
And as I said, nine eleven is something our enemies did for us.
The ten year hole in the ground is what we did to ourselves, which is why all those emails of the first week saying, Oh, look at this, the new design with the f but with us flipping the finger in the giant skyscraper shape to the rest of the planet.
Not funny anymore.
When you can't put up a building in ten years, that cartoon uh is no longer funny.
I'll tell you something else to look out for September eleventh.
No farmen, there's no gonna be no farmen there.
No he's got no room for firemen.
Not going to be any clergy there, uh either.
Uh I'm slightly more sympathetic to that because I figure somewhere in some calculation he knows, oh well, this is gonna be one of those things, isn't it?
We're gonna have to have if we have an episcopalian and we have a Catholic and we have a rabbi, then we're probably gonna have to have an imam, and if we book an imam it'll be like that ground zero mosque imam, uh where you you you spend your whole time touting him as Mr. Moderate, splendidly moderate guy, and then he flies off to Edinburgh uh in Scotland to attend some interfaith conference and he calls for the introduction of Sharia in the United States.
So it's gonna be the usual thing.
We'll book an episcopalian, a Catholic, a rabbi, and two moderate Imams, and the moderate imams will will uh turn out to have been giving a sermon uh demanding death for the Jews in Riyadh three weeks earlier and it'll come up on the internet.
So it's best just to have no clergy there, no clergy whatsoever.
One thing you should uh uh demand when you go to a nine eleven commemoration is they took is that they talk about it honestly.
It's not a quote tragic event, unquote.
It was an act of war.
And when they start talking about it as somehow an opportunity for multicultural hand holding hand holding for healing, for unity, for celebrating diversity.
Remember, remember Todd Beamer on that plane Flight ninety-three.
Uh I think at nine twenty-eight, it was nine twenty-eight that the terrorists made their move and seized that fourth plane, the one that was heading for the Capitol.
We don't know whether it would have flown into Congress or whether it would have flown into uh the White House.
Had it not been for an accident of presidential scheduling and with George W. Bush out of town that day, you don't know where that could have uh wound up.
Uh Robert C. Byrd, who was the Senate Majority Leader back then, could have wound up as President of the United States uh simply because uh Osama got lucky when the fourth plane slammed into the White House.
You don't know uh what could have happened as a result of that.
And I certainly don't want to live under a Robert C. Byrd presidency.
Um that uh so what those guys did at 928 when the plane was hijacked, nine fifty-eight, half an hour later, half an hour later, uh Todd Beamer cried, let's roll, and they fought back against those terrorists.
Uh we can't put up a memorial to them in ten years either.
The stupid crescent of embrace that's supposed to be in that field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania still isn't ready.
There's something wrong.
There's something wrong not just in in uh the the sclerosis of the American bureaucracy, but there's something wrong in that we don't even agree on what it is those guys did.
You know, Todd Beamer is an all but forgotten man.
Let's roll.
It was the only good news of the day.
Every every aspect of national government failed that day.
All the big expensive money no object, federal alphabet soup, uh CIA, FBI, FAA, INS failed.
Floppo, did nothing, useless.
The only government that worked was uh lowest level uh metropolitan municipal government, the fire department uh uh the firemen of New York, pounding into that building, pounding up with a hundred po uh a hundred pounds of equipment on their backs, pounding up into that burning building.
Uh that was the only bit of government that worked.
So naturally the only functioning bit of government is eliminated uh from Nanny Bloomberg's commemoration.
And the and the courage, the raw courage of Todd Beamer and his fellow passengers who got on an ordinary commuter flight, and when they discovered that it wasn't an ordinary commuter flight, they didn't sit there following the stupid nineteen seventies hijack procedures.
They acted as citizen volunteers in an ad hoc militia and provided the only good news of the day.
And we're gonna commemorate that ten years on with a lot of weepy, huggy, feely, touchy, weepy, multi-culty, mushy, wimpy, pansified drivel for the most part about quote, tragic events, unquote.
It's not good, it doesn't say a lot about us, uh and if if that's what it is like at your nine eleven commemoration, complain about it.
Make sure this event is addressed honestly and understood for what it is.
Mark Stein in Farush, one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Let us go to Bill in Hardy uh wait a minute, Hardy VI, I I think I pride myself on knowing my two-letter postal abbreviations.
What's VI?
V Virgin Islands, Bill?
Uh no, Virginia VA.
Oh, VA, okay, then it was uh a clerical error.
So I was all the I was all excited.
I thought you were calling us direct from the beach at St. Thomas or something.
But uh Bill at Hardy, Virginia, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Thanks for waiting.
Well, in the memorable words of Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a Ramadan event, Shalomalakum.
That's right.
Shalom Akbar to you, Bill.
Uh Alahu Mazeltov.
Talk about being um uh uh insensitive to the prerogatives of others, uh as Dana Milbank was saying that the whole invitation to the uh speak to the uh Congress was uh a uh breach of eter etiquette that everyone knows or should know that uh joint sessions of Congress are by invitation only.
Uh it's like uh uh inviting your friends and relatives to uh a pool party at your neighbor's pool and not telling uh your neighbor that uh that you've done this.
Uh i i i it it's it just you know d a terrible thing, uh a terrible uh social faux pop.
But beyond that, the uh uh his behavior yesterday was one step removed from telling the Congress it should vote itself out of existence.
Uh you know, it's just getting in the way, it's not doing anything meaningful, it's holding things up.
The only thing that really surprised me was that at the end he didn't say uh I've crossed the Rubicon and the die is cast.
Right.
You're right.
I mean, basically he's saying uh he's saying uh if you pass this jobs bill, I'll send you a free rubber stamp.
That's all that's all he needs from them.
And i and and it's a fascinating point, especially for us foreigners, because the the first thing you learn about the United States is that uh these two branches of government are co equal.
He he is not the king, and this is not uh his parliament uh and his ministers.
They're co equal branches of of government.
But uh but this seems to be news to President Obama, Bill.
Well i i I think I think he he wants less to be king and more to be emperor.
Um I I would keep in mind the saying about the Ides of March, however.
Right.
Okay, no now no.
You'll get you'll get the uh you'll get the Secret Service stamp uh stampeding router if you start uh talking like uh that.
Good thing we got your two-letter postal abbreviation wrong and uh they'll all be heading off to the Virgin Islands, uh Bill.
Thanks, uh thanks a lot for your call.
And uh Bill is uh Bill is right there that that this idea just standing there.
I mean, this is this is where supporters of the president just don't get it.
You want you want Congress to pass a bill, you send them something on writing.
If you can't even be bothered to get out the uh the Dan Rather Smith Corona typewriter and actually put it on paper.
You haven't got a jobs bill.
There is no jobs bill.
Yeah, I'm going nowhere.
Somebody help me pass this bill now.
Uh I haven't heard that song in ages, but I do believe that's how the lyric goes.
I'm going nowhere, somebody help me pass this bill now.
And remember, when you call 1800 past this bill, we won't just send you one jobs bill.
We won't send you two jobs bills.
We'll send you twelve jobs bills.
And when you uh call 1800 past this jobs, we will also send you entirely free of charge a Ronco Vegematic with a retail value of half a trillion dollars.
All you have to do is call 1800 Pass This Jobs bill now.
Let us go to Deb in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Deb, you are live on Open Line Friday.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Deb.
You are you there, Deb?
How are you?
Hey.
I'm great, and thank you.
Thank you for waiting.
Great to have you with us.
Thanks.
I'm happy to be on the show.
Um I was gonna make my first comment about Rene.
I'd love to know what Renee, I would love to know what blissfully ignorant rock he's living under, because I'm sure it's not in this America.
Well, no, he's not country.
He just feels that if we don't giggle uh chortle, titter and guffour at the president, then all this magic stuff will work.
Uh and and if we just sit there and keep a straight face as he's telling us about his jobs bill, then magically the nine percent unemployment rate, uh official unemployment rate will wither away to two or three percent, and this country's economy will be booming again.
Just if we sit there and when he reads the teleprompter, we pretend to take him seriously.
Surely you can do that, Deb.
That's why I call it blissfully ignorant.
Um just walk away, Renee.
Okay.
Uh and what else did you want to talk about, Deb?
Yeah.
Was uh the fifty-three percent vote that Obama got, you know, back in what, 2008?
Um there were so many first-time voters that that voted, and not because of politics or what America needed or what America didn't need.
Uh it was a popularity contest.
And I can guarantee you that those people that made up a good percentage of the fifty-three percent, are not gonna vote again.
Because they don't care.
So you think you can't do yeah, I think that's right.
I think he he appeared in two thousand eight as someone uncontaminated by politics.
So he was like a a a big new sudden glamorous movie star uh who who's just had one big hit opening and nobody knows too much about him.
And he he wasn't a conventional political figure who'd been around forever, like Joe Biden or Bill Clinton or Hillary or any of those fellas.
And so it was enough for him then to just uh go wafting around the country uh talking about hope and change, and yes we can, and we are the ones we've been waiting for.
But you can't sing that song second time around, can you, Deb?
No, and and the people that like I said that voted for him for one specific reason.
Now I'm a firm believer that we need to get away from saying things that you know don't offend under others.
Let's tell it like it is.
You know, I people don't need to be afraid to offend.
If they're offended, go away.
But he played that card.
Yeah, one card.
And those first time voters, whether they were eighteen to their twenties, came out because here's a man.
We're gonna elect the first black president of the United States, and I want to be part of this.
And they're not gonna be out there next time.
No, I think that I think that's a very good point.
There was a combination of factors.
And I think I think if you look at Giltryd and white uh liberals in particular, that the the the intoxicating frisson of voting for the first black president of the United States uh was w w w g they got a real kick out of that.
Now they thought they could afford they they thought they could afford the consequences of their choice.
And what has happened is that we now have a flatline economy and they realize there are real world consequences to your choice.
When you uh basically serve up uh the White House to a man who has uh been community organizer or whatever he was community organizer, state senator, uh then a uh United States Senator.
But basically he had never been in a situation where he had to go into the office at nine o'clock in the morning and make executive decisions.
When you decide uh to take a flyer on a guy like that, you've got to be pretty confident that that America's uh structures are so fundamentally secure that you can afford the consequences of your choice.
We have a collapsed housing market, we have a collapsed jobs market, we have a dying dollar, uh, and uh people are beginning to understand that actually the the price of making yourself feel good for voting for Barack Obama is actually quite high.
Uh Deb, thanks for your thanks for your call.
Great to have you with us on the show.
Let us go to Tyler in uh Dubuque, Iowa.
Tyler, great to have you with us.
Hey Mark, how are you doing?
I'm I'm doing good.
I'm doing good.
Where which part of Iowa is Dubuque in?
Right on the Mississippi River.
And let me um let me just say that I am um contrary to Renee, I am a traitor to black people everywhere.
I'm a black conservative.
And you're no longer black.
Yeah, well, you can't be a black conservative.
We all know this, Tyler.
When you become a conservative, you cease to be black.
It's one or the other.
It's like when you're uh Sarah Palin, she can be a woman or she can be a conservative.
She can't be both.
Well, let's not get confused.
Yeah, well, you you you you bet and if you're like Condoleezza Rice and you're a black uh and you're a black female uh Republican You've got to decide what it's gonna be.
Yeah.
You can't you just can't do that.
The whole identity group thing just won't work if people try being black and conservative.
Well, what actually what I wanted to talk about today was what you um what you mentioned earlier about Mayor Bloomberg and not allowing the firemen to attend um the the nine eleven memorial.
And the the thing that strikes me is that we're having this this lovey dovey message in the name of in the name of political correctness, and eventually what's gonna happen it's happening already is that these kids they're are gonna grow up not knowing about nine eleven and they're gonna treat it like another day on the calendar just like Pearl Harbor Day, something that happened a long time ago when it was really you know, probably the darkest day in modern America's history.
Yeah, y what what's interesting is it's already uh that um President Obama has declared it a day of service, and I believe there's a website called I think it's nine eleven day dot org uh that you can go to and say what service you're gonna do on that day.
So people have gone on there and they've said, Oh, I'm gonna be spending the day cleaning up part of the beach.
Uh and that's good.
If you want to clean up part of the beach, fine, clean up part of the beach, but don't pretend it's anything to do with nine eleven, which was an act of war.
Right.
Uh you you you can clean up the beach uh on the other three hundred and sixty-four days of the year.
Exactly.
Yeah, th this is I mean, what what's interesting, Tyler, about th this is that it's the reluctance to confront the truth.
I mean, I wouldn't even mind, but it's it's it's these are the most tired and clapped out banalities uh uh of the multicultural mindset that they're that there are no enemies.
There are just friends we haven't hugged quite hard enough yet.
Uh and the idea that this is now almost every public commemoration of nine eleven, whether you look whether you look at the the peace quilt at the Metropolitan Museum uh of art, uh when you look at the uh uh ground zero commemoration under under Michael Bloomberg, there is a deep dishonesty about the nature of the event and it's it's asking a lot to ask three hundred million people in effect to go along with an official lie about this event.
It's actually like the previous caller said, it's all we're so afraid to offend anybody that we don't call anything like it is.
Yeah.
No, no, that's uh that's uh that's true, and we don't I mean you mentioned Pearl Harbor.
Imagine if ten years after Pearl Harbor.
Imagine if in nineteen fifty one we had observed the tenth anniversary of Pearl Harbor uh by by uh learning all about the evils of uh Japanese internment during World War Two.
That's that's how uh that's how school districts uh across the country in the nine eleven study packs, uh they're being told that they should they should study things uh like for example how uh it is uh nine nine eleven made Americans more fearful of Muslim women in Muslim garb.
I mean these are the th there's a place there's a place for uh uh that kind of discussion.
But as I said, if if on the tenth anniversary of Pearl Harbor uh the every single mayor across the land uh decided he wanted to have a photo opportunity where he was seen to eat sushi with members of the Japanese community, people would have thought this c this country was psychologically deranged.
I mean, th th this is this is quite the weirdest uh anniversary observance in in modern history, I would say, Tyler.
I would I would agree with that assessment for sure.
Thanks, uh thanks a lot for your call.
Open line Friday, one eight hundred two eight two eight eighty two, Mark Stein in for rush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for rush, uh and this uh nine eleven anniversary weekend, not sure I I dare risk uh turning on the television over the next seventy two hours or so.
I'm not sure I can face the tone of the official commemorations.
Uh th there are no there are no enemies, uh just friends we haven't apologized to sufficiently.
Uh it's not gonna be encouraging for what it says about the state of the nation ten years after an act of war.
Uh let us go to Steve in Daytona, Florida.
Steve, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Mark.
Hey, um what did a Democrat president in nineteen sixty four that said before this decade's out, we'll put a man on the moon and we did, and we can't even fill a hole in New York City.
Yeah, that was uh that was President Kennedy, uh it wasn't nineteen sixty four, I think it was more like sixty-one or sixty-two.
Okay.
He was si it was sixty one.
I shouldn't know this actually, 'cause that's another thing that's in my uh brand new book uh Steve.
And I wouldn't mention it, but you did.
So I'll I'll take advantage of that and say if you want to actually read my thoughts on uh the the the specific challenge uh that President Kennedy issued and how America was able to fulfil it within a decade, uh that's that's also uh that's also my in in my book, Steve.
But you're right.
Um I oh oh Mr. Sludley says I should give the title of the book.
I'm being too discreet here.
It's called After America, and it's available at all good bookstores.
If you um if you go to borders, uh uh borders is closed, borders is closed, but it's in the front window because even the looters didn't want it, Mr. Snerdley.
So it's you can get it you you can get it's at it's at Amazon too.
Borders uh yeah, Barnes and Noble, it's a Barnes and Noble too.
Uh but um but uh borders applied for chapter eleven, and unfortunately my book's only got ten chapters, so we weren't covered by the settlement.
Anyway, Steve, uh you're you're absolutely right there.
It was ten years uh put a man on the moon, and I actually say in the book that it's uh it's hard to imagine that I think that was the supreme achievement.
That was the pinnacle of man's achievement uh in the twentieth century, the end of a great century of progress from about the mid nineteenth century all the way up to about the mid twentieth century.
And if you think about it, Steve, don't you find it really it's kinda hard to imagine us going to the moon now.
D if you remember that moment, don't you find it hard to actually think of a a guy stepping out and planting the flag on the surface of the moon now that if we that i just to even try and conceive of us doing it in twenty eleven.
It it kind of seems as if it's something from a sort of more glorious past that we couldn't we couldn't quite m muster the will to do now.
Anything, Steve?
Yeah, it's unbelievable how fast that they built everything down.
Now like I say, I'm in Daytona and watching, you know, my father worked down at the Cave as an electrician and watching how fast that thing won up and they and got going and they put a man on the moon that quickly and and is it's an utter disgrace that we can't do something in New York City to to do something for with that whole I mean it just blows me away that that that's where we're at through all the um red tape that we got to go through.
You know, I'm a you know I'm an electrician contractor in Daytona and it's like the the red tape that we got to go through just to just to do anything, you know.
Just to put up Yeah and and that's a good way that's what you so you do basically what a lot of your dad was uh doing at uh Cape Canaveral or Cape Kennedy and uh and the difference is is that just performing regular routine work now is regulated, regulated, regulated.
Federal regulation Yeah just just federal regulation sucks up about ten percent of GDP which which is the equivalent of basically the Canadian economy.
We we take the Canadian economy or the Indian economy and toss it down the toilet every single year in just complying with federal paperwork.
And that's why you can't put up a building in ten years.
And I think it's uh I mean I don't want to I don't want to keep quoting myself but the the line I use in the book is that it's it when you think of what we were able to do in the last half of the nineteenth century, first half of the twentieth century culminating in this moment when man stepped on the moon, uh planted the flag on the moon it was a wonderful American moment actually they took a the I love the way they took a cassette machine of uh Frank Sinatra and the Count Basie band doing Fly Me to the moon.
There's like any other cut.
If the Germans had got there first they'd have had Beethoven the eight ode to joy or something.
But our guys they take a cassette of Frank Sinatra and the Count Basebad see fly me to the moon.
Now p knock it I don't know what the equivalent of uh Frank and the Basie band now is, you know, co uh Lady Gaga or Justin B but can you imagine?
Can you imagine?
It's it's hard to imagine anybody just actually stepping out of the module and uh st firing up the iPod and blasting out Lady Gaga on the surface of the moon.
And I say in the book it's a bit like uh a date farmer in Nazaria uh he who knows in in the middle of Iraq he knows that somewhere around here is the great ziggurat of Ur from the glory days from the glory days.
But it's an it's it's lost grandeur and it will never come again.
And I think that's that's the tragedy.
We should have shown the world when the when the World Trade Center was taken down, we should have put it up again in nothing flat.
Uh we should have built it bigger and better.
And the message we would have sent to the world is you cannot you cannot you think you took out the New York City skyline.
The New York City skyline is back.
It's bigger it's brighter it's in your face and when you stand on the top floor you get a terrific view and you look through the telescope you get a terrific view of uh all the top Al Qaeda lieutenants sharing the executive loutrine at the back of the cave back in Waziristan.
Uh that's how big it is uh and that's how great America is and no matter what you throw at us, we come back bigger and better and scraping the sky bigger than ever.
And we didn't do that.
And when we didn't do that we told the world something about American sclerosis in the early twenty first century.
Mark Stein for Rush more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
You know it's easy to mock this president.
It's easy to mock this president, but don't ever let them tell you that his American jobs act isn't already working.
Let me tell you, let me tell you, as one undocumented immigrant, the opportunity to get three hours of casual day labor right here on the Excellence in broadcasting network.
That is testament to the way this man's far-sighted vision, his ability to create or save jobs is already working.
Take his advice, Republicans pass this bill now.
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