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Oct. 19, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 19, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man filling in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Rush returns.
Rush returns live tomorrow at twelve noon eastern, and uh after s scuttle on down to uh Massachusetts uh for a uh weekend shift as Mitt Romney's lawn boy.
Uh odd story out of San Antonio, an attempted break-in at a courthouse in downtown San Antonio triggered a bomb scare and FBI terror investigation early Wednesday morning, according to uh WOAI Radio, the pair, along with another man, uh uh the pair of men arrested, along with another man are all described as French Moroccan Muslims, and they're being questioned by the FBI joint terrorism task force.
It's interesting this um Iranian uh along with this Iranian plot that was busted up.
If you don't secure the southern border, the idea that it's just uh people coming here to do the jobs that Americans won't do uh is ridiculous, because eventually people here who are gonna who are gonna come here are gonna want to blow up uh the Americans who won't do the jobs that Americans won't do.
And uh that's that's the upshot of the Iranian plot.
That was actually the upshot of nine eleven when uh to the guys who boarded the plane uh that uh flew into the Pentagon uh ha got on board that plane with fake ID uh issued by the day day immigrant, daytime agricultural workers, day em day workers uh uh network in the parking lot of a seven eleven in Falls Church, Virginia.
And yet we still do nothing about the border.
We're not serious about the border.
And if you're not serious about your your border, eventually you don't have a country.
And so the idea that this is this isn't these arguments about fifteen years to build a border fence and the Great Wall of China, they're not theoretical.
Uh they're actually relevant to what's going on.
They're re they were relevant to nine eleven, they're relevant to this Iranian plot, and uh when we find out how these uh supposed French Moroccan Muslims entered the country and got to San Antonio, they may well prove relevant to that uh San Antonio story too.
That's uh breaking news out of San Antonio uh this morning.
Breaking news out of Seattle, Amanda Knox.
Amanda Knox has been seen at the Occupy Seattle protest.
She walked uh hand in hand with best friend Madison Paxton.
Madison Paxon, wasn't she uh Blake Carrington's mistress on Dynasty?
What a great name.
Madison Paxton.
She and Amanda Knox uh were seen strolling uh hand in hand uh at the Occupy Seattle protest.
At the Occupy Occupy Salt Lake City.
Uh the Occupy Salt Lake City protesters took over Pioneer Plan uh Pioneer Park to focus on corporate corruption, but they're now locked in a class privilege dispute between the middle class deadbeats of the Occupy Salt Lake City movement and the homeless and the homeless uh derelicts and the drug dealers who uh live in the park.
So the homeless guys and the drug dealers resent the fact that a lot of pampered middle class college sissies are now turning up and have taken over their park.
Uh and one of the homeless people has put up to uh has put up a sign saying, Welcome to Occupy the Homeless.
Uh we've been trying to do everything we can to integrate both groups together and be cooperative, said Alexandra Fabella, a spokeswoman for Occupy Salt Lake City, but at this point uh they haven't been been able to.
The homeless uh and don't apparently want to integrate with the Occupy Salt Lake City people.
For one for one thing, the Occupy Salt Lake City people have a far lower standard of personal hygiene.
So uh there seems to be a lot of uh lot of conflict in this uh tragic to report at Occupy Salt Lake City, where uh Occupy Salt Lake City is now taking taking the homes of the homeless and the drug dealers in Pioneer Park.
Tragedy that.
Um the the city of Los Angeles, Occupy Los Angeles, which sounds marginally less risable than Occupy Salt Lake City, don't ask me why.
But uh Los Angeles City officials who were assiduously wooing the Occupy Los Angeles movement, uh they've taken over the grassy area around City Hall in Los Angeles, but they're now beginning to back away from them.
Previously Council President Eric Garcetti told Occupy Los Angeles that uh the tent community could quote stay as long as you need to, and uh they've allowed the urban campo to continue despite a law prohibiting overnight stays at city parks.
Oh, this is amazing, isn't it?
Uh Los Angeles, California has laws against everything.
But if you happen to be politically congenial to them, those laws don't matter for anything.
And Mayor Antonio Via Rigosa Villa Rigosa, Via Rigosa, he gave one hundred ponchos to soggy demonstrators during the last big rain.
This is like a broke city, broke state, but they've got one hundred ponchos to give to the Occupy Los Angeles protesters to to keep them out in the rain.
That's very nice and multicultural, isn't it?
One hundred ponchos.
Um but they're now backing away because uh Occupy Los Angeles big theme is cracking down on wrongdoing by banks.
Uh on Tuesday, the city administrative officer Miguel Santana said uh that cracking down on wrongdoing by banks could cost the city at least uh fifty eight million dollars.
So um you know, so uh so they're now backing away.
Then they may be asking for the ponchos back, but they gave one hundred ponchos to Soggy demonstrators and they waived the no overnight stay.
Maybe they should try that in Salt Lake City and then those middle class college kids wouldn't be taking the the poor old homes from the homeless uh there.
Uh by the way, d I'm not sure how many people know this, but this whole thing by what's this is the most pathetic revolution in history?
Um Rob Spear would have no time for these guys.
Uh Lenin would have no time for these guys.
Mao would have no time for these guys, the uh these big sloth demonstrations, the big sloth movement.
It and it's not even American.
This whole thing was cooked up by the Vancouver based Adbusters Media Foundation.
Uh that that's uh Vancouver as in Vancouver, British Columbia, by the way, that's as in Vancouver, British Columbia Dominion of Canada.
What does it come to?
What does it come to?
What is the state the pitiful state of America's rebellious youth when America's rebellious youth have to basically uh just be frame Southern frontmen uh for what is essentially a Canadian rebellious youth movement.
This is pathetic.
Talk about doing the jobs that American rebellious youth won't do.
Why why can't America now develop its own?
Is there nothing, you know, it's bad enough having all these uh British TV shows all over American uh TV.
It's bad enough having uh every dam on the Connecticut River owned by a Canadian company, but now even youthful rebellion, even the revolution has to be outsourced to Canadians.
This is this is disgraceful.
This uh this Occupy Wall Street movement is uh must be the dumbest, uh dumbest revolution out.
The problem with Occupy Wall Street, by the way, isn't hard to figure out.
It's that it's got it's got no solution to these things except more government, more government.
Uh they're anarchists for big government.
They wanna they want to stick it to the man.
They wanna they uh on the one hand they wanna they want to uh urinate and defecate all over police cruisers, but on the on the other hand they're saying we need a bigger government budget.
They're sticking it to the man by asking the man to write them a bigger check.
It's the most pathetic revolution in history.
And it doesn't get to uh what we were talking about in the last hour, which is the real crisis of America, uh that we're bifurcating, I think, into something closer to a Latin American society.
We're basically um uh to to put it in uh Ron Paul terms, we're basically heading for an uh perenist Argentinian future, but with uh but with on a Roman Empire scale, and that ain't gonna be good, that ain't gonna be pretty, uh where you'll have a terribly corrupt elite at the top and a great seething mass of dysfunction underneath and no middle class.
If you've got your workarounds, like those people that uh Obama parties with on Martha's Vineyard, if you're in the Mint Martha's Vineyard crowd, if you're on the right side of the Martha's Vineyard board offence, you'll be okay.
But in the great seething mass of dysfunction outside it, it's not going to be pretty because we're at war with the middle class.
A lot of things are just seizing up seizing up in this country.
I'd cause uh to pay a few visits to pharmacies uh in the in the last uh week or so, and I'm astonished at how uh at the inability to f uh to fill a uh a routine prescription in expeditious time.
I was at Kinney Drugs, big chain pharmacy, in the drive thru lane, sitting there waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, and eventually the lady comes back and says there's a problem on the uh on the old uh on on the old uh insurance card.
Um I'm picking up uh prescription for a friend.
I say uh well s uh nuts to that, I don't care, I'll pay cash.
Uh oh, by the way, her first thing after she said there was a problem on the card is that they could sort it out if I drove round the back of the drive-thru lane and rejoin the line.
So that by now there's like five cars sitting in there.
You think of the economically productive man hours.
It doesn't matter, even if you even if we're all minimum wage workers, add up the amount of time we're all sitting there waiting for prescriptions to be filled.
Uh come round, come around so she said we can come around the back of the building and rejoin the end of the drive-thru lane.
Uh at that point, I say, to hell with this, uh I'll uh I'll just pay cash for the prescription.
And uh she goes off, says that's all she's gonna have to re-enter the paperwork, do it on this basis, do it on that basis.
I'm thinking, oh, well, this must be some very uh expensive drug or something, and it's gonna be three hundred dollars.
It turned out to be like twenty dollars, twenty dollars.
I'd sat in line for three quarters of an hour to get a twenty dollar prescription pay.
Next time round at the hospital, and uh the uh the the doctor says, Well use the hospital's pharmacy because it'd be quicker.
So I go to the hospital pharmacy.
Again, the same thing.
I'm standing in line between three people, all of whom have a problem on their insurance.
The one is for some twelve year old boy, and it says he's no longer insured, and the woman says, Well, can you call right aid downtown because he was insured two days ago on Sunday?
And it turned out that he'd got he he was a blue cross patient, uh, but instead they put him down as a Cigna patient or whatever.
It's just, you know, so again, it takes you're standing there taking ages and age.
And I'm watching these pharmacists.
And I realize that in fact so-called pharmacists uh actually spend far more time uh checking out whether the uh the the customer is entitled to receive the drugs without uh you w with the copay being taken care of or whatever, uh than actually filling prescriptions.
This is insane.
This is diverting, this this is a ludicrous waste of time.
It is the it is uh it is the sound of a nation seizing up.
When you can't just go in, pay the prescription, here's a twenty dollar bill, give me the change, I'm out of here, I'm done.
Uh it can't be done anymore.
And there's far too many aspects of American life that are seizing up like that.
And eventually, to go back to that question we were asked in the last hour when uh talking about how you can create enough jobs.
You can't when when so many barnacles encrust to the Hulk, when you've got to take a big chunk of time out of your day uh just to fill just to buy ten dollars worth of pills, when routine transactions start to eat into bigger and bigger chunks of the day, eventually too much seizes up.
And what's interesting about this is uh this is a classic third party transaction.
We made healthcare a third party transaction.
Uh that makes it automatically expensive.
This is Vienna Economics, Vienna School of Economics, this is basically the first principle.
Third party transactions are inflationary.
Because you don't care about the cost of those drugs.
You care about whether your third party will grant you access to those drugs.
Same with the college loans.
You don't care about the cost uh of uh and and uh colleges, college administrators don't care about the cost anymore of college education.
They're not coming up with a market price.
They know the government is there gonna pick up the tab for anything, so they can make it any that's why it's uh college education has increased at twice the rate of inflation.
Uh and that's why education that ought to cost maybe five thousand dollars a year goes up to thirty thousand dollars a year, and then fifty thousand dollars a year.
Uh and that's uh because it we made it a third party transaction.
You imagine if uh going to a restaurant uh was a third party transaction, and you decide you're gonna have the uh lobster bisque or whatever, and the uh steak tartar.
You don't care what it costs.
You just care that the third party will grant you access to it.
You don't care whether the soup du jour costs three dollars or thirty dollars or three hundred dollars.
All you care is whether the third party guarantor will grant you access to that.
And that all that is actually killing, throttling huge, ever more areas of American life.
And it doesn't matter whether it's uh direct Government intervention as in the student loans or arm's length uh government intervention as in other areas of life.
It's the sound of a nation seizing up, and we've got very little time uh to turn this thing around.
And that's why uh uh candidates who are proposing serious root and branch reform, even if they don't get it through, even if they've got a hostile Senate and a hostile house and they don't get it through, they ought to be talking that way.
Uh we need to be talking about serious, transformative structural reform because the structures we have at the moment are seizing up and the American middle class is dying before our eyes.
Mark Stein in for Rush, 1800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
Rush back tomorrow.
Let's go to Jerry in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Jerry, you're alive on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Mark, thanks for taking my call.
You ask uh during the first hour if there are any Perry supporters out here, and I'm one of 'em.
Uh I don't know why why it's such a mystery that uh we support Rick Perry.
He's one of the only conservatives that's up there on the stage.
Uh what really uh I guess mystifies me is how we can have a guy that puts in Romney care, supports global warming, and ours are illegal aliens, and we have him as our front runner.
Well, wait wait a minute, wait a minute, before we before we get into comparative things, what is it?
What is it about Rick Perry uh that you think makes him the kind of guy be because the the point about debates, by the way, is is apart from anything else, to show which of these guys you'd want to see not debating Rick Santorum uh or uh or Newt Gingrich, but who you would actually want to put uh at a podium debating Barack Obama.
And are you confident that Rick Perry, based on his debate performances these last five or six weeks, is is a guy who I can't say that he's a great debater, but I've been living in the state of Texas all my life, and for the past ten years we've had his leadership.
We've got more companies, more employment, uh we've dealt with all the illegal alien problems that the the uh national government refuses to deal with, and uh the state's still doing pretty well.
Well, here's the here's the thing though.
Uh you've got a situation in Texas uh where according to Romney, uh basically uh a big bunch of the gu uh the jobs that Perry uh has created are supposedly government jobs or jobs for illegal aliens.
That's the Romney critique.
What do you say to that, Jerry?
Well, I live in Texas, and I can tell you that on any given day like you can go downtown in any small city and you'll have sixty to eighty illegal aliens uh standing on the street corners trying to get work.
They're taking jobs that that could be taken by the Texans, and we've dealt with that.
And our preference would be to send them back across the board, but we're we're we can't do that.
Uh that's the federal government won't allow us to do that.
Yeah, that's that's true.
Only the only the federal government can actually deport uh deport people.
Uh but again w again I I ask you this.
What is it that leads you to think uh, for example, that uh the Rick Perry is a principled conservative?
Because if you look, for example, at the the whole business with the Gardasil thing where he basically wanted to uh innocu uh inoculate every single girl in Texas uh on the grounds that she'd be uh sexually active by the time she was nine or whatever.
Uh that the the critique of Perry there is that he had that when it came to assessing that, th he had no principled conservative objection uh to the state effectively mandating a uh a controversial and in many ways uh actually very objectionable uh inoculation uh uh uh statewide, regardless of circumstances.
What's what's your what's your reaction to that?
Well, I disagree with you on that.
I I I I didn't agree with that.
Uh I do have a daughter, and I would I I didn't agree with Perry on that, but I think when you say he didn't have a principal on it, he did.
He admitted it that it was a mistake, but he said he would always err on the right to life.
And I think his uh main objective there was he was trying to protect little girls.
He did did he go about it the right way?
Probably not.
And what about the accuracy in question his principles on that?
And what about the accusations that are made that he he's uh he he has essentially a crony view of uh of government?
That that he's of government?
Yeah, that it's about rewarding, it's about uh rewarding uh that he's got uh it's about rewarding cronies and uh uh and uh and it's about uh access and pay for play and all the rest of it.
He his argument about that was that I think when that came up in whatever it was, the uh Florida debate that he couldn't be bought that cheap, uh which isn't actually an answer to the accusation when you think about it.
Yeah, I I think if you look at all of them, they all have friends that are in there and there's probably some trails that could lead to all of them.
Uh you know, with Mitt Romney on the illegal alien, you know, it it's hard to distinguish some of those things, but I I don't think you're gonna find in Texas people saying that Rick Perry is uh showing papertism or or doing things that shouldn't be done.
Most Texas Texans agree with what Rick Perry's doing.
Okay, and we'll do and we'll do one more thing by the way, just before I let you go, Jerry, here's the here's the other thing is uh I don't like the uh about Rick Perry uh whatever the principles, uh I don't like the cheap demagoguery that i if you happen to disagree with him uh on uh his illegal immigration policy then he says it's because you've got no heart and you uh uh and and you're not comfortable with people who have different sounding last names of yours.
That's a Democrat talking point and Rick Perry shouldn't be using that one.
Yes, rush back tomorrow we uh talking to uh Rick Perry, Rick Perry fan.
I I mentioned I like that thing where Rick Perry always mentions that he's the son of a tenant farmer uh which is one thing that Mitt Romney can't say and I w I think I said at the top of the show I was uh I was I was I hope we get that oh that classic Dusty Springfield hit uh the uh what is it the the only man who could ever reach me was the son of a tenant farmer man love that song love that song.
Let's go to Pete in Loveland, Ohio.
Pete, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show talking about the Republican debate.
Great to hear from you.
Hello Mark I I enjoy listening to you.
I think you're a great fill in, okay?
Thank you.
My point is on this debate that they had last night, I I really feel that Obama won that debate.
The American people have seen enough of Congress fighting and bickering back and forth.
W we don't want to see that.
We want to see what are you gonna do and the moderators are asking the wrong questions but I think the Republicans are missing a great opportunity to cover what the mainstream media will not cover with Obama and let the American people know what's going on with our tax dollars with this solar and green energy fast and furious that that we've got Marxists that's been appointed as czars.
It's a great opportunity to expand on that and say if I'm the president, this will not happen.
So I think we're missing the mark there.
No, I think you're absolutely right Pete and one of the worst things, I mean it was enjoyable in a kind of uh vaudevillian knockabout way, but when uh Perry and Romney were sniping back and forth at each other uh in that uh in in that exchange, the the focus is all on them.
The again the focus of people attacking the Herman Cain nine nine nine plan.
At this stage what you're really looking for is to keep uh the focus on the opposition to keep saying that if you re-elect Barack Obama, you are in for this this guy I mean this is what's so crazy about this half trillion dollar job spill.
The half trillion dollars doesn't exist.
The Chinese don't want to lend it to us.
The Chinese do not want Western nations to spend anymore.
We spent the summer engaged in this stupid pitiful back and forth thing about the debt ceiling increase and at the end of it emerged triumphantly with a deal that cuts between two and seven billion dollars from the twenty twelve budget.
Well uh two billion dollars uh is is uh what the uh United States government uh borrows uh basically they borrow a fifth of a billion dollars an hour so that would be what the United States government borrows in ten hours.
In other words in the time it takes uh between announcing the deal and uh talking about it on on the Friday afternoon and talking about it on the Sunday press shows you borrowed or meet the press and all the rest of it you borrowed all the money back.
And then he goes out and he says we're gonna spend okay we've done our pretense at debt reduction we're now gonna spend another half a trillion dollars on the stupid uh on the stupid jobs bill.
And the Republicans should be keeping the focus on uh this that this crazy guy uh has no intention.
He appoints a committee and then the committee goes away for five years and nobody g pays any attention to them.
In the meantime he just gets back in the car, heads for takes America toward the cliff edge and decides to floor it with another half trillion dollar spending bill.
And when you're not every time you're sniping about Mitt Romney's lawn boy, you're taking the attention off uh off the uh off the real uh crisis facing the United States.
Exactly and there's gonna when it comes down to the final two or three there'll be plenty of time for them dogs to fight each other.
But but right now I you're exactly right, Mark, and and and mainstream media's not c so let America know what's going on and what you will do.
No.
No, you're you're right, you're right, Pete.
It was it was a sad debate from uh that point of view, I think.
Uh and I was interested, one I mentioned earlier that I like Michelle Bachman, and one thing I did like her about her performance uh last night was that she did keep the focus very much on uh Obama, the one term president.
Um there isn't a lot of time left to turn this stuff around.
There was a weird story uh out of Agence France Presse uh last week that said uh the Chinese had agreed to for uh to rescue the Eurozone in return for uh uh getting uh certain interests in European infrastructure.
Now think about how extraordinary this story would seem to anybody uh from uh just not I'm not going back to the remote past, but to sa an American or other Western citizen from forty years ago, from nineteen seventy one, he picks up a uh a story that's just uh reprinted.
The very first paragraph, Agence France Press.
China has made a secret commitment to prop up the crisis hit Eurozone in return for budget reforms and public sector cuts, the Sunday Times reported amid going growing turmoil over the region's debt crisis.
The paper said Chinese representatives at the G twenty finance gathering on Saturday had indicated that Beijing was willing to pump tens of billions into the Eurozone to purchase infrastructure assets from debt plagued nations.
This is the Western world in Twilight.
Uh the People's Republic of China, a communist politure, is keeping the other half of the Western world, Europe, from collapsing by buying its infrastructure assets.
Uh do you does anybody think anything good is gonna come of this?
You know, China will end up owning Europe.
And what's next for China then?
Uh do you think it do you think it's inconceivable that China won't end up uh purchasing large amounts of the United States?
Uh Albert Brooks, the filmmaker, the guy, what was that film he made?
Uh broadcast news.
He was in that film and he was in the one with uh uh what was it called?
Was it called Momway Debbie Reynolds as his he moved back in with Debbie Reynolds as his mom.
Al Albert Brooks, the actor.
He's got a novel out called Twenty Thirty.
And the premise of the novel, it's a fascinating book, actually.
He's he's a big liberal, but he gets what's going on.
Twenty thirty, Los Angeles is clobbered by an earthquake, and the United States is broke and can't afford to fix it.
And effec effectively the Chinese agree to buy Los Angeles, and they send in a ton of uh Chinese administrators and Chinese technology technology whiz kids to rebuild Los Angeles.
Twenty thirty, that's when Albert Brooks's novel is called.
I think the only thing he got wrong about that is maybe he's a decade off in the timing.
Uh maybe it should be twenty twenty.
It's happening now.
The Politburo, communists.
We helped China find the only economically viable form of communism, and they're now using it to buy infrastructure assets in Europe.
This would strike anybody from the nineteen sixties, from fifty years ago, from forty years ago, would think they'd landed in an alternative universe uh reading that story.
There was just a wire story, routine wire story.
This is the world we have made.
And all those Occupy Wall Street deadbeats have to offer is more of the same self-indulgent fiscal profligacy that got us into this hole.
Uh let's go to Mark in Princeton, Wisconsin.
Mark, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Mark.
Uh pleasure talking to you.
Um the reason I'm calling is I think I have a really important message.
And I've I just never heard it put this way before.
Um right now Obama has a war against the wealthy, and I want the Americ Americans, especially conservatives, to look at it a different way.
I'm a home builder, and I have not had a home to build since two thousand and eight, because I built homes around a fairly wealthy vacation lake in Wisconsin, Green Lake, Wisconsin.
And since the threat of what Obama was going to do with the wealthy's money, literally the five or six home builders around this lake, including myself, have had nothing to do.
And my point is that we need the rich.
The rich are an important component of our economy.
For example, um I was born in Chicago, Illinois.
I lived in Dollars Grove, and I wasn't rich, yet I got to use the wealthy uh I mean the environment that the wealthy used in Oakbrook for example, the restaurants, the hotels, the theaters, without the wealthy, we wouldn't have those things.
We wouldn't have this lake that I give around.
We wouldn't have Las Vegas.
We wouldn't have our environment.
And the proof of the pudding is if you look at Cuba, you look at uh China, they China has a lot of money, but the people don't.
Just the politicians.
Same with Cuba.
I heard it one time in the 50s, Cuba was a nice place to go, but you take the wealthy away, you take the restaurants, you take the environment and everything away.
Also the rich like myself, I I wasn't wealthy, I was aspiring to be but um I employed sixteen people that and and their families that keep care of their families, which now for the past three years I haven't been able to do.
You know, Ronald Reagan talked about trickle down.
Well it's more than just the money.
It's the employment.
I mean the rich have so many offshoots, so many facets of things they do for people and all we're s I mean all they're doing now is defending them.
Well they're not taking too much.
The rich create this pile of money and it keeps growing and the point of it though the left is well there's this pile of money and the rich keep taking from it and there's not enough left for anybody else.
That's flawed.
No, you're right.
It's a flawed view of the rich, and your international comparisons are right, because if you have private wealth, you have a situation where neighborhoods improve.
The streets are better.
As you say, the restaurants are better.
You have theaters.
You have civic buildings.
You have a civic culture.
The neighborhoods are nicer.
The neighborhoods are cleaner.
It's always fascinating to me.
If you go to places, I I drove around um western Iraq about uh three weeks after Saddam Hussein was toppled and you came to these little towns in the middle of nowhere and of course a coup a a couple of corrupt government officials had all the money.
So there were no rich really stealing from the people who who kept it all walled up in his Swiss bank account.
And so you when you went to these towns they would what strikes you about going to towns and countries like that is they're covered in trash.
You go into what would be a middle-class cul-de-sac in an American town, and it's full of garbage.
The place is a dump.
There is no culture of improvement.
And that's one thing I think that economic growth does.
When people talk about sustainability, the best thing you can do for a neighborhood is it's wealthy people, it's wealthy communities that want to improve those communities, that want cleaner air and all the rest of it in those communities.
And this idea of demonizing them, that somehow they've just found some racket and just out of sheer greed they want to depress everything, that world is coming.
I made the Argentinian comparison, whatever it was, 20 minutes ago, and it will be the same thing where you will have, as you do in – Argentina had the same standard of living as America in 1950 pretty much.
And then what happened is the Peronists get in.
A few corrupt, privileged people have access to the wealth, but because they've acquired it in illegitimate ways, they hole it up behind compounds – So you have wealthy people in compounds, and on the other side of the gate, and the other side of the wall, you have huge public squalor.
That's not what the rich do in the United States of America.
And the class warfare that Obama is engaging in is not just wicked on its face, but it is also absurd because private wealth improves the United States of America.
Public wealth has been squandered for the most part in the United States of America.
Thanks for your call, Mark.
Got to run, got to take an EIB profit centre.
We'll be back with more on The Rush Limbaugh Show in just a moment.
moment Mark Stein for Rush let's go to Kevin in Columbus Ohio.
Kevin you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show great to have you with us I was uh wondering about your uh candidate there what makes Any of them qualify to even be president.
Um they're sitting there tearing each other apart, and through all that, I see that the only person that would have a a chance would be Mitt Romney, but you guys don't even accept him.
Uh I when you say you guys, I take it then you're uh you're sticking with Obama.
In general.
Okay, and you're an Obama supporter, is that right?
I certainly am.
And which which you got to do with it.
Uh well, no, I'm just I'm just interested.
So you don't think any of these guys on the stage uh last night is qualified to be president?
What made Obama qualified to be president?
I really do not think so.
But the only person that really comes close is Romney, but they do not accept Romney.
Okay, now what makes a guy qualified to be president, Kevin?
Let's go, let's let's just talk about this.
What did what did uh what was Obama's qualification for being president?
Well, for one, he's intelligent, he's a constitutional scholar.
And that's me.
You know, it's good enough to really get in there and get it started.
I mean, he's intelligent for one.
Wait, wait a minute, wait a minute.
He's he's he's intelligent.
He's intelligent.
What's the evidence for his intelligence?
Come on.
He was at the Harvard Law Review, he never wrote a single more intelligent than anybody on that stage.
Right.
Okay.
Okay, that's great.
Well, if he's more intelligent than anybody on that stage, uh, how do you explain the last three years?
Well, because he's not been able, he's been hindered.
He's been strong.
But wait a minute, wait a minute.
They don't want him to do well.
Well, for the first them look bad after all these years of the right.
No, wait a minute, wait a minute.
No Republicans, no Republicans need be involved in Obama's triumph.
For the first two years, Kevin, he had a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House of Representatives.
No Republicans need be involved in the public conversation.
He had a a uh Democrat re uh majority in both houses.
Why did uh unemployment get worse, long-term unemployment get worse, housing market get worse, jobs market uh get worse.
Why did it all get worse?
They have the money.
They could hire, they just do not want to hire right now.
They're all right.
So the business so the business sector wants to keep the economy bad.
Is that what you're saying, Kevin?
Well, yeah, exactly.
They don't want to get better.
How's that?
Really?
And which and which uh which intelligent presidential candidate did you get that from then?
Did you get that direct from Barack Obama?
No, sir.
I I can see what's going on.
It's obvious that no one wants to do anything right now.
They're playing a wait-and-see game.
Yeah.
Why are they playing a wait and see game?
No, why are they playing a wait and see game, by the way?
They're because the the the best guarantor of a uh dynamic economy is uh certainty in the rules.
And Obama tossed all the rules up in the air.
That's why when you look at where companies move to, companies move to jurisdictions where the rules are understood and the rules are agreed.
But they didn't just start moving over the past three years.
They've been moving for a long time, and it's not because of rules.
It's because of greed, sir.
What what greed?
What do you mean by grade?
They make more profit.
That's what they go for, profit.
They don't care about anybody.
Just profit.
No, and you know what?
That by the way, that system, that system has guaranteed greater prosperity than at any point in human history.
In other words, allowing people to exploit their own economic self-interest.
What has Barack Obama ever created in terms of wealth?
When has he ever made a payroll?
When has he ever until he became president?
You talk about qualifications for president.
Until he became president, tell me uh what he ever did, what he ever did to get to the office at 9 a.m. in the morning and actually make decisions that matter.
We gotta run, Kevin.
We got an EIB profit center here.
I d I blush to use that word, but we gotta run.
That's it uh for Mark Stein sitting in on the uh Rush Limbaugh show.
That's it for Occupy EIB.
Uh I'm off to take my bi-monthly shower like the other protesters.
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