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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
	Great to be with you.
	Rush returns live on Monday.
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	I'm sure he was saying um at the end of yesterday's show that he was disappointed he couldn't be he couldn't be here to go through it, uh go through it with you live, but uh he will have his take on Monday, including perhaps uh some observations on whether Gary uh Johnson of New Mexico uh using his line about shovel ready projects and dogs.
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	Uh I want to uh by the oh by the way, it's the uh end of the week, and of course you know what that means.
	Live from Ice Station EIB, it's open line Friday.
	Yes, indeed, the economy has recovered sufficiently that the Excellence in Broadcasting Network was able to commission a brand new IDent uh for Open Line Friday live from Ice Station E.I.B. in Northern New Oh, wait a minute, I've just told it comes out of my salary.
	Great.
	Wonderful.
	I wonder if JC Dugard will give me a bit of her twenty million dollar sex offender settlement to cover the cost of my ice station EIB uh I don't.
	Oh, that's that's terrible.
	There must be a I I'm um uh that's that's that's that's a big that's a big problem.
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	1-800-282-2882, you know how it works, Monday to Thursday, a highly trained broadcast specialist tightly controls, ruthlessly controls the content of the program.
	But today you can talk about anything you want to talk about.
	Lay it on me.
	You want to talk about JC Dugard?
	Uh you are free to do that if you want to.
	If you want to talk about uh Greek default, Greece is apparently within days or weeks, weeks or even days of default.
	If you want to talk about the uh the European meltdown, uh you can do that.
	If you want to talk uh about uh Rick Perry's answer, which I thought was spectacularly bad on what he'd do if he got one of those 3 AM calls uh that told him that uh Pakistan's nukes had been seized uh by Islamists.
	I thought that was the worst answer that Perry gave out of several bad answers uh in uh the debate yesterday.
	Uh so you want to talk about any of those uh or anything else that's on your mind.
	1-800-282-282.
	I tell you what I want to talk about, and that is uh an associated press story that I think is a large part of the problem with the way we discuss issues in this country.
	Washington, with the economy sputtering, the warring factions of Congress have lurched toward gridlock over the usually non-controversial process of approving disaster aid and keeping the government from shutting down.
	You know, just as a general observation here, I don't want to I don't want to do uh a whole literary criticism number on this piece.
	It's by a chap called Andrew Taylor of the Associated Press.
	But it's talking like this, by the way, that's got us into the fifteen trillion dollar hole.
	What he calls the quote, usually non-controversial process of approving disaster aid and keeping the government from shutting down, unquote.
	It's the fact that so much of what federal government does is, quote, usually non-controversial, unquote, that has got us into the fifteen trillion dollar hole.
	When your government model, your government budgetary model is to spend four trillion dollars but only raise two trillion dollars.
	And when there is no m way of closing that gap.
	Not even if you if you tax Warren Buffett at the same rate as his largely mythical secretary.
	You cannot close that gap.
	You can never close that two trillion dollar gap.
	You can never get enough revenue to close that two trillion dollar gap.
	Um that's your model, a lot more of how government spends actually ought to be controversial.
	But suddenly, but but but but but as Andrew Taylor of the Associated Press writes this story, uh you'd get almost get the impression that there's something wrong about all this government spending suddenly appearing to be controversial.
	Here it is, the GOP dominated House early Friday muscled through a three point seven billion dollar disaster aid measure, along with a stop gap spending bill to keep the government running past next Friday.
	Because by the way, uh without that, the government would have uh the government funding was only paid for through September the the 30th.
	The narrow 219, two and three tally reverse an embarrassing loss for House GOP leaders that came Wednesday at the hands of rebellious Tea Party Republicans.
	Uh so they've got their those rebellious Tea Party Republicans under control now, and they've muscled through a $3.7 billion disaster aid measure.
	Even before the House votes, however, the s leader of the Senate promised that majority Democrats will scuttle the measure as soon as it reaches the chamber on Friday.
	Democrats there want a much larger infusion of disaster aid.
	Because like this this $3.7 billion disaster aid measure.
	Now that would be a lot of money in most countries.
	$3.7 billion measure would be an awful lot of money in Greece and Portugal, be a lot of money in uh Canada, be a lot of money in Australia.
	But here it's nothing.
	It's a pittance, it's insulting.
	It's a rounding error to Harry Reid.
	He wants no part of it, this three so he's gonna scuttle this three point seven billion dollar bill.
	Because it's peanuts, it's trivial, it's nothing.
	Three point seven billion dollars?
	Why that's barely three times uh what Warren Buffett owes the IRS in back taxes.
	It's nothing.
	It's not worth even talking about three point seven billion dollars.
	Democrats there want a much larger infusion of disaster aid, and they're angry overcuts totally $1.6 trillion from clean energy program.
	Excuse me, I'm excuse me, I'm about to have a stroke here.
	Can this be can this be can this be right?
	I uh my heart, you get call uh cold nine one what I need a doctor.
	One point six trillion dollars from clean energy pro cuts totally So just a minute.
	This is the state we're in now.
	The clean the the United States budget is not one point six trillion dollars.
	The clean energy program's budget is not one point six trillion dollars.
	Just the proposed cuts from the clean energy programs of the United States budget are one point six trillion dollars.
	I can't read I can't read that.
	I can't read that without getting heart palpitations.
	Get me get me my heart get me my heart medication.
	Just shoot the juice, put me on the drip now.
	I can't handle this.
	Uh one point this is we we now have it's not just this is how bad things are.
	It's not just that the budget of the United States government is one point six trillion dollars.
	It's not just that the clean energy program budget is one point six trillion dollars.
	It's that the proposed cuts from the clean energy program are now one point six trillion dollars.
	Do you know what one point six trillion dollars is, by the way?
	It's the entire Canadian economy, it's the entire Indian economy.
	You read all that stuff in the paper, you know all these uh sensible moderate uh uh guys, the uh Council of Foreign Relations type, you know that guy who does that show uh on um uh CNN, I only ever see it if I'm stuck in an airport on Sunday mornings uh and Wolf Blitzer is having twenty there's twenty minutes uh in between gate changes at LaGuardia that Wolf Blitzer isn't on CNN, and they put this guy Farid Zakaria on there, who does uh who does some unwatchable show on Sunday mornings, all very reasonable and moderate.
	It's all the it's all the reasonable moderate people.
	It's the Thomas L. Friedman type uh that's the kind of person they're all moderate and reasonable and moderate and reasonable back and forth with each other.
	And people like Fareed Zakaria are always telling us, isn't it inspiring?
	You know, the way uh it's not that the US is uh is getting smaller, it's that all these other countries are getting bigger and they're all coming up now.
	They're all raving about the Indian economy.
	Look at India.
	India's gonna be, do you know, by mid-century, in the Indian economy and present projections will be bigger than the US economy.
	China will be the world's number one economy, and India will be the world's number two economy.
	We take the entire economy of India, and we throw it down the toilet just in part, just in part of the budget of one boutique niche clean energy program from the Barack Obama administration.
	And you know, by the way, what the clean energy program is?
	That's this business where they uh under under they they set up uh a program it was supposed to spend thirty-eight billion dollars uh encouraging uh in clean energy jobs, one of these green jobs programs.
	So far they've spent 17.2 billion dollars and they've created a little over three thousand jobs, which works out to four point eight million dollars per job created.
	Okay?
	That's a world record.
	Previously, previously the world record for government subsidized green job was held by the Spaniards.
	They had a solar panel assembly plant.
	It was uh like Cylindra, but a lot cheaper.
	Uh so uh a lot less money sunk into it.
	And every single job on that sonar panel assembly line was subsidized by the Spanish government to eight hundred thousand dollars.
	And uh I thought, wow, that's that world record will stand for some time.
	That's quite impressive, throwing eight hundred thousand dollars down the toilet per solar panel assembly job.
	But no, the superpower came along and said, I'll see you, your lousy eight hundred thousand dollar subsidy per green job, and stick four million bucks on top of it.
	So we subsidize uh jobs, uh clean energy jobs, four point eight million dollars per green job.
	So now uh now Harry Reid is is saying he's upset about cuts totaling one point six trillion dollars from clean energy programs.
	Uh so he says the House plan is not an honest effort at compromise and it will be uh and it will be rejected by the Senate.
	This combination of events promises to push the partisan war into the weekend.
	I don't even know.
	This is from Andrew Taylor at the Associated Rest.
	Promises to push the partisan war into the weekend.
	Well, isn't that a pity?
	Is that is if you're a member of the uh the partisan warriors union, you're not allowed to have partisan war in the weekend, is it triple time or whatever?
	Uh we're fed up with this, said Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Democratic Whip.
	They know what it takes for us to extend stopgap funding and keep the government in business, and this brinksmanship, we're sick of it.
	1.6 trillion dollars in cuts to clean energy programs.
	And so because of that, the Senate is not going to uh the the government's main disaster aid account will retire will run out of money early next week.
	Now I assume this is to fund uh the federal emergency management agency.
	As of Thursday morning, there was just two hundred and twelve million dollars in FEMA's disaster relief fund.
	Uh the House now adds another three point seven billion dollars.
	Do you know this president, by the way, has declared more disasters than any other president in history?
	He has declared a federal emergency uh every two and a half days on average since he took office.
	If something happens every two and a half days, it's not an emergency.
	It's not an unusual event.
	You can set your watch by it.
	The president declares a federal emergency every two and a half days.
	If he's doing it every two and a half days, it's not an emergency, and this is not an emergency management agency.
	We may now be at the stage where this president has declared more federal emergencies than every other president before him in the previous two and a third centuries of the Republic.
	So if he's doing it every two and a half days, it's no wonder they're running out of money, because it's not an emergency.
	Uh so this isn't even a disaster fund bill, the 3.7 disaster fund build.
	The disaster here, the federal emergency, the federal disaster area.
	Why doesn't the president declare the the uh the United States government a federal disaster area and just cut to the chase, because that would make a lot more sense.
	1 800 282 2882, open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Stein Info Rush, more to come.
	1 800 282 2882, Mark Stein InfoRush on Open Line Friday.
	Uh let us go to Mike in Harker Heights, Texas.
	Mike, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hey Mike, are you there?
	I'm here.
	Great.
	Great great to have you on the show.
	What do you want to talk about this uh this frying Friday?
	Well, the lady that she had on uh the uh segment earlier, um she was talking about the candidates and uh Yeah, Lisa from uh Lisa from Southern New Hampshire.
	Yeah, it it just drives me nuts when people say that they're just gonna stay home and not vote.
	And I hope maybe she was just uh talking about the primary or something, but uh it it just absolutely drives me crazy.
	Uh why would you sit home and not vote and essentially you know give us four more years of what we've had?
	It just, you know, people like that.
	It's almost like voting for a third-party candidate.
	You just, you cannot sit home and not vote in the general election.
	Well, I suppose Lisa's defense to that would be that uh that sometimes a system becomes uh becomes uh dysfunctional to the point where uh if you have a two-party system, which is what the United States has, and there are structural obstacles to any more parties getting in the mix, because it's not a parliamentary system, you know, new new parties pop up uh relatively frequently uh in uh in in other countries under a parliamentary system.
	Uh uh and and that's not the way it works here.
	There hasn't been a new party of any consequence for a century and a half now.
	Uh uh and maybe the fact maybe that fact alone uh is weighing heavy on on Lisa and and if you think for example for example, um the message uh what what happened with the Tea Party is that it decided to work through the zombie husk of a Republican Party it generally loathed in two thousand and ten.
	So it sort of stuck its hand up the back of the rotting dead zombie husk of the two thousand and six, two thousand and eight discredited Republican Party, that it certainly worn out its welcome uh with many conservatives, and decided to work through that dead husk.
	And it and it uh caused a huge and it got a huge victory.
	It earned a uh uh a victory that hadn't been seen since uh Grover Cleveland's second term in November of uh 2010.
	It it it elected, it swept ton of candidates into office in November twenty ten.
	So let me ask you this, Mike.
	Doesn't November twember twenty ten seems a lot longer uh than ten months ago, doesn't it?
	I mean, what has happened since then?
	Well, yeah, but the the that's my point is that people got out and voted.
	And they voted, you know, the way that they uh they believed, and and it you know, it's finally happening.
	So it's it's gonna turn through the system that we have now.
	It's gonna eventually give us what what we want by the Tea Party rising up as it has.
	I mean, i i it's it's just it just has to.
	But the exact opposite is gonna happen if people just set home.
	Well, suppose just just how how about this for for instance?
	Uh suppose uh uh what her worry is is that there will be uh there will be a candidate elected in November of twenty twelve, who will stand there uh in January of twenty thirteen, take the ocean uh the oath of office,
	and then uh uh and then a couple of months later will be standing there with some big comprehensive immigration reform surrounded by, you know, doing the doing the George W. Bush thing when he did his education uh act with his uh with his good friend as he used to always describe it,
	his good friend Teddy Kennedy and all the rest of it, his good friend Pat Leahy, his good friend, you know, the whole reach across the aisle thing, the whole that that whole thing that's uh epidemic on the Republican side, the twitchy reach across the aisle disease that is the only disease not covered by Obamacare, you can't get treated for it anywhere in the country.
	It's running it's an epidemic uh among Republican legislators.
	And Lisa in New Hampshire, Nisa in New Hampshire d figures that's not enough when you c when the country's going over the cliff.
	But you can't just go 180 degrees the other way and just let uh let the the status quo stay the same with what we have in the White House now.
	Well, you're you're right, Mike, uh that you can't let things stay the same.
	But you know, eventually, I know and I take your point.
	Thank thank you for your call.
	But eventually, uh polit people often talk about political reality.
	In the end, political reality gets trumped by real reality.
	In the end, political reality reacquaints itself with real reality, and it's just a question of how soon you see it coming and how violent and convulsive that reacquaintancy is, which is why it's better to do it when you can rather than when you're forced to do it.
	Hey, great to be with you.
	Rush returns Monday, it's open line Friday.
	That means you determine the contents of the show, whatever you want to talk about.
	1800, 282, 2882.
	This is from the Associated Press.
	Young adults are the recession's lost gener Wait, wait a minute.
	Lost generation?
	I thought they were wait a minute, aren't they the Hopey Change generation?
	What happened to that?
	Young adults are the recession's lost generation.
	The lost the the lost generation.
	Yeah, no, they didn't get screwed.
	Mm Mr. Snerdley is giving them too much credit.
	They didn't get screwed, they screwed themselves.
	They stood behind they they thought they thought that if you vote for a guy who's got a couple of monosyllabic abstract nouns, that's a hell of a program.
	He's got hope, he's got change.
	You can get it in hope, you can get it in change.
	You go into the Barack Obama hypermarket, he's got hope.
	He's got a a big shelf load of hope on the left hand shelf and a big shelf load of change on the right hand.
	They say, oh, hope change.
	It's the hope of change, it's the change of hope.
	It's the audacity of hope, it's the change of audacity.
	It's the audacity of uh change, it's the change of hope.
	And that was enough for them.
	So they didn't get screwed, Mr. Snerdley, they screwed themselves.
	In record numbers, young adults are struggling to find work, shunning long distance moves to live with mom and dad, delaying marriage and raising kids out of wedlock if they're becoming parents at all.
	I don't quite understand that.
	So they're so they're struggling so much they're having kids out of wedlock.
	Uh the unemployment rate for them is the highest since World War II.
	And the high uh uh the the new 2010 census data uh released Thursday shows the wrenching impact of this recession on the lost generation.
	Barack Obama's lost generation.
	Uh uh employment among young adults was uh sixteen to twenty-nine was fifty-five point three per cent compared with sixty-seven point three per cent in two thousand.
	It's the lowest since the end of World War II.
	The employment to population ratio for all groups from 2007 to 2010 dropped faster than for any similar period since the government began tracking the data in 1948.
	It's another fabulous uh brand new all American record from the Obama administration.
	The employment to population ratio has dropped faster than for any similar period since the government began tracking the data in 1948.
	Congratulations to the United States government.
	Uh the latest figures, on the other hand, if you're one of the lost generation and uh and you haven't got a hopey changey rally to go today, if the president's not doing a photo op in your town, if he's not appearing at a bridge uh that he wants uh somebody to rebuild starting in 2022 or whatever is genius photo up today is.
	Uh so you got nothing to do because there's no hopey changey rally.
	You're not required to go and stand behind Obama because you're young and photogenic and you sway and you say hopey changey and you look like a brainwashed cult member, so you got nothing to do today, and you happen to just sitting around the house listening to the radio.
	Here's good news for you, members of the lost generation.
	The latest figures also show a rebound in the foreign-born population to 40 mil you know, I can't if there's one thing I can't stand, I don't know whether I mentioned this before it's one thing I can't stand, it's these foreigners.
	I mean, let's let's face it.
	Uh the latest figures also I can stand anything except foreigners.
	The latest figures Next thing you know, they'll be hosting the radio shows.
	The latest figures also show a rebound in the forward board population to 40 billion, or 12 point nine percent, the highest share since nineteen twenty, a one point four million increase from two thousand and nine.
	This is, by the way, a fact that is not widely understood.
	Uh you know, uh when uh basically about a hundred thousand new people arrive here every month officially.
	A hundred thousand extra people arrive here every month.
	So the economy has to add uh basically one hundred thousand jobs just to stay as lousy as it is.
	That's just to stand still.
	We've got to find enough uh employment and economic activity for a hundred thousand new people every single month.
	So in effect, uh when you have a job uh a month like August, where there were no jobs created, where the Obama administration's uh terrific uh employment performance uh on the dead parrot economy was zero jobs created, it's in in effect a loss of one hundred thousand jobs.
	One hundred thousand uh jobs down, because that's uh that's more who come.
	Uh one point four million new foreigners here, that's great.
	Always use more foreigners.
	Uh I mean, I can't keep guest hosting uh Rush every time, so we've got to get some more foreigners in here to do to uh to do it.
	Most immigrants continue to be low skilled workers.
	That's certainly true in my case.
	Most immigrants continue to be low skilled workers.
	In other words, they're doing the jobs.
	They've come here for the jobs that don't exist, for like uh uh doing the uh the jobs uh like the checkout jobs at the supermarket that uh are soon destined uh to be automated.
	This this is an insane business model for any company.
	Uh in effect, you're taking on more and more and more manpower every single every single month, and there's nothing for them to do.
	But they're now calling.
	They're kind of getting beginning to figure it out.
	The Hopi Change Generation.
	In 2008, the Hopi Change Gen they were the Hope he changed generation, now they're the lost generation.
	Congratulations to President Obama.
	Let's go to Joe in Gurney, Illinois.
	Uh what what a splendid name for a town.
	Joe in Gurney, Illinois.
	Great to have you with us on the show, Joe.
	Hey, thanks.
	Um I was doing a research paper on crime, and I stumbled onto something uh two somethings actually, uh, about violent crime and about corruption in government.
	Right.
	The first thing that I stumbled on to is that nationwide there are about fourteen hundred people per year who are murdered for their ATM card and pin.
	Right.
	The second thing that I stumbled on to probably explains why that we have so much trouble cleaning up governments.
	Um each and every city, county, and state in the country has its own system of accounting, which means that to do an effective audit, you have to have an individual accountant with an insider's knowledge of the accounting system to do to walk in and do the research who is not also an insider.
	You've got to have a neutral person, somebody you can research the book and show the fraud and it's and corruption.
	The thing is, Congress could fix this overnight if they just required all cities, counties, and states to use one standardized system of accounting.
	It's called the government it's called the government uh accounting system.
	It's been adopted by a couple of states.
	It's right there, it's it's simple.
	If you had if you suddenly had hundreds of thousands of accountants around the country who could walk in and uh just go through the books and say, Here's the corruption, you'd have an entire army to clean up government.
	Well, Joe, I'd go a bit further than that, though.
	I'm uh you're absolutely right on that point, by the way.
	If you if you ran your company and you said uh to an auditor, well, you've got to come in and audit my company, and I happen to use the Joe from Gurney accounting system, it's unique to my company, it's unique to Joe from Gurney Inc.
	Uh they would they wouldn't take that for a moment.
	The IRS wouldn't take it for a moment.
	You wouldn't be allowed to file your taxes, nobody would take your taxes.
	why don't they use instead of a special government accounting system why don't they have to to use the same system that Joe's hardware store or Joe's feed store would have to use which is uh whatever it's called GAP, the generally accepting what's it called generally accepted accounting principles.
	Why don't they just why don't they just use that?
	I have to use that, you have to use that.
	Why don't the government use that?
	Well the government imposes a gap on banks and credit and financial institutions.
	That way it's they can you know go in and audit the books.
	But because you have this this idea of you're a sovereign country, you're a sovereign government, you have the right to run your internal affairs the way you want to, you get to use your own accounting system.
	Back in the 1980s there was a a political effort that was intended to um to get um standardized accounting system in place.
	You can find it on Wikipedia for crying out loud.
	The government accounting system board is what it's called and it's it's there.
	You can anybody can look it up.
	If Congress were to pass a law that said all agencies receiving federal funds must use one standardized accounting system.
	You'd you'd completely tear the lid off of all of the embezzlement and all of the waste that goes on in the States and believe me it's a lot more than people realize you'd probably clear off a good chunk of the debt do we Yeah I I would I would say by the way,
	because we're talking huge sums of money here at at all levels of of government Medicare in two thousand and nine handed out I think it was ninety-eight billion dollars in improper or erroneous payments.
	That's that's like a tenth of a trillion dollars which would be a significant amount in a private enterprise to just lose and yet it's it's sort of in the line items under miscellaneous under government style accounting.
	If everyone got excited about Enron uh which was an accounting fraud of about the same size of uh Cylindra it was about half a half a billion dollars uh and the Enron crowd went to jail uh the hen g the head guy get died I think before he could actually be sentenced to jail.
	But the Fannie Freddie thing was an accounting fraud ten times that size, and nobody pays any attention to it because somehow it's licensed.
	Because they're quasi-governmental entities, they're not supposedly – no one worries about it in the way they would if you tried to do that or if I tried to do that.
	Why disparity in the way that they keep track of everything?
	information pub things that should be public information things that everybody should know about that stuff is is it's it's basically hidden in plain sight that you've got to put in enormous amounts of of time doing research.
	Okay, well, that's a great point, Joe.
	And actually, these are the kind of policies, by the way, that it would be easy for any candidate, just to ensure us that he's in the realm of sanity, to stand up and say, I would impose an agreed accounting system on every public entity for which I am responsible.
	If it spends the public's money, that money has to be accountable.
	That would be easy to do.
	That would be relatively easy to do, relatively simple to do.
	it would prevent a a lot of this stuff happening.
	Mark Stein in for rush one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	By the way I was uh uh in New York a few days ago and I was uh talking to John Pod Horitz who's the editor of uh Commentary magazine and the son of uh Norman Pod Horitz whom Rush is uh uh often citing on this show and John said to me uh just casually uh do we know the name of Warren Buffett's secretary yet?
	Which I thought was actually a rather good point.
	We're gonna have uh the the the president is proposing to entirely change American tax law on the basis of Warren Buffett's secretary and nobody knows who she is.
	Nobody knows if this secretary actually exists I think well I was talking about J.C. Dugard earlier if they were to come up with a if they were to institute uh sex offender monitoring reform in California which obviously grotesquely failed uh in JC's case they'd pass a law and as is the want these days they'd call it JC's law.
	Well I think this instead of calling this new new thing the Buffett the Buffett rule we should have it called uh you know who Glender's law or Darlene's law or whatever the name of the Secretary is we don't know the name of the Secretary.
	I'm gonna call her Della, I think.
	Della's Law after uh Della Street on the Perry Mace.
	She was the most famous until Warren Buffett's secretary came along, Della Street was the most famous secretary in America.
	But now we got uh we got uh Warren Buffett's secretary, uh and we're gonna have tax reform uh on the basis.
	By which they mean, of course, tax increases.
	That's the only kind of reform they do, folks.
	Tax increases on the basis of an entirely fictional human being.
	Uh whenever I hear all this Oh, Warren Buffett's secretary pays more taxes than Warren Buffett.
	I'm reminded of uh John Edwards, when John Edwards was You remember John Edwards, the guy who's uh uh currently facing thirty years in the slammer for uh using for using his uh use using his campaign contributions to uh buy a bassinette for his love child or whatever it was.
	Anyway, uh John Edwards Yeah, well they don't call it actually the other thing uh Mr. Surley makes a very good point.
	Nobody has secretaries anymore.
	If I was to call my secretary uh my secretary, she'd quit in disgust.
	Uh they're called what uh what what what are you what what are we meant to call you uh the execu executive assistant?
	What do we what Administrative Assistant?
	That's right, Hallmark used to have Secretary's Day, and you'd go and buy your secretary's uh day uh card.
	The last secretary I had quit when I handed her a secretary's day card.
	You meant to Hallmark canceled the line and replaced them with administrative assistance card.
	But suddenly secretaries are back.
	This myth from the depths of time.
	Why, Miss Jones, you're beautiful without your glasses.
	They're back from the fifty years.
	They haven't been nobody's seen secretaries.
	But Warren Buffett has the last secretary in America, and she may s pays more tax than anybody.
	It's amazing.
	And uh this secretary.
	Uh I'd like to know uh the name of this secretary, because I'm beginning to think.
	When John Edwards was running for president, he used to go on about this coatless girl.
	Uh he would always be going, Somewhere tonight in America, there's a coatless girl going to bed, shivering because her father's been laid off at the mill.
	It's like this Dickensian sob sister story.
	Nobody identified.
	Somewhere in America, he left it at that.
	Nobody we didn't pin it down more, was it in uh I don't know, was it in Greenwich, Connecticut?
	Was it in Palm Springs, California?
	Nobody knew where the coatless girl was.
	Nobody knew where the coatless girl was.
	I think John Edwards coatless girl grew up to become Warren Buffett's secretary.
	That's my theory.
	But I would like, if this was Joe the Plumber, uh they would have the media would have done a number on this guy.
	Joe the plumber, they had his tax liens splashed all over.
	They said he hasn't got a license to practice.
	He's only licensed to be an associate assistant deputy ex uh under plumber.
	He's not an official plumber.
	Is is Warren Buffett's secretary an officially credit uh credentialed secretary?
	Why don't we know whether she's uh Della the Secretary?
	Where are her tax liens?
	Oh no, the media sa oh yeah, uh Warren Buffett's secretary.
	We're gonna reform we're gonna reform by which we mean increase American taxes on the basis of a fictional human being that nobody knows.
	This is a fascinating moment in American history.
	So I'm not gonna call it the Buffett rule.
	I'm gonna call it Della's Law.
	Della's Law.
	Uh we're reforming American tax law on the basis of a fictional human being.
	It's amazing.
	1-800-282-2882, Mark Steinin for Rush, more to come.
	Mark Stein Infrarush, we have a name.
	We have a name.
	Warren Buffett's secretary is called Debbie.
	Debbie, she is the last secretary in the United States of America, and she is the highest taxed individual in the United States of America.
	Spare a thought for Debbie when you're when you're jetting off in your corporate jet.
	Think of Debbie the Secretary riding at the bag of the Greyhound all the way, taking you're just jetting off there in your corporate jet, Mr. Fancy Pants Chief Executive, and Debbie the last secretary in America and the highest taxed individual in America is sitting there back of the uh Greyhound bus.
	Uh Debbie, the secretary, is Warren Buffett's uh secretary.
	I don't know whether she was also I don't know a lot about uh the background of Debbie the Secretary.
	Maybe she was also John Edwards coatless girl.
	I I suggested earlier that John Edwards Coatless Girl grew up to become Warren Buffett's secretary.
	So maybe before she became Debbie the Secretary, she was Debbie Debbie the coatless girl.
	Uh but uh but so now from now on, I'm not calling it the Buffett rule, we're gonna call it Debbie's Law, because it's uh it every time you pay your new forty-eight percent, seventy-three percent, whatever the federal tax rate is, you'll know that you're complying with Debbie's law and you will have Debbie the last secretary in America to thank for the forty-eight percent, seventy-three percent tax rate, whatever it is, whatever it is you get stuck with.

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