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Dec. 28, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 28, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, I really feel like as a nation, we're in the cleanup crew stage.
The party's over.
The drunken row is ended.
And now there's just the mess.
All this spending.
It's left us with all this debt.
Everybody knows it's not sustainable.
You've got the Democrats who refuse to stop spending.
They refuse to leave the party.
And then you've got the other people who've been drinking here.
The people who are receiving all of this government money, they don't want to be cut off.
And they're kind of addicted to the whole thing.
That's the situation that we're in right now.
No politician has ever been thrown out of office for spending too much money until it gets to the point where they have to stop spending that money, where they have to start imposing cuts.
Gray Davis in California is a perfect example of that.
On the other hand, when you're someone who gets up and tells the unpleasant truth that we've got to save programs by reducing the money we're spending on them, there's a big kill the messenger.
There are responsible public officials out there.
A lot of members of the House of Representatives who were elected in 2010, the freshman class, they're committed to dealing with this.
We're going to be joined this hour by Martha Zahler, who's running for Congress from Georgia.
She's got that message.
She wants to go to the House to do the same thing.
The problem is that when you do it, there's an enormous backlash.
I do have some optimism that a growing number of Americans realize that we can't keep doing this overnight.
Obamacare remains unpopular.
In fact, every story that you see about Obamacare, and as it's trickling in the rollout of it, it's bad.
If there was ever if there was a positive story out there about Obamacare, don't you think that they'd be trumpeting it?
Ben Nelson in Nebraska, Democratic senator from Nebraska.
He's announced that he's not going to run for re-election.
He's up for re-election next year, 2012.
Big blow for the Democrats.
It means it's an open seat.
Well, I we all know why Ben Nelson isn't running for re-election.
He knew he was going to lose.
Nebraska is a conservative state.
Nelson was able to play this dance long enough.
Well, I'm a moderate, I'm not really a liberal, I'm not a nut like Barack Obama.
But when push came to shove, we saw what side that he was on.
In states like Nebraska, people recognize you can't do this.
You can't take this next step.
The problem that we have is we've already taken nine other steps.
Medicare and Social Security are going to have to be reformed one way or another.
We can't keep funding all of these government programs, high-speed rail and alternative energy and all of this aid to states, all of this money that goes to these nonprofit organizations that nobody is ever able to track.
We've got to restrain the spending.
And that's where the backlash comes in.
And that's why I think what's happening in my state of Wisconsin is a metaphor for the country.
Let's go to the phones right now.
Melbourne, Florida, and Bruce, it's your turn on the Russian Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Mark, it's an honor to talk with you.
You know, I totally agree with what you're saying, as do many voters, but the obstacle that we're facing is that you have a union, you also have a president that does have a Spengali-like effect on a considerable number of voters.
And I guess what I need to try to point out is maybe if they do succeed in getting their agenda done, just as we've seen in Spain, it took a number of years for the populace to really realize that those agendas don't work.
And I, you know, I'm wondering if we really are in that crossroad now that it's the inevitable does happen, that it will revert back to you know to a stabilization of our country on the right track at the sacrifice of certain years that the Union and Obama's plans are possibly continually implemented.
The challenge nationally, as I said, is that it's going to be harder than what Governor Walker had in Wisconsin.
You know, federal employee compensation isn't the big part of the problem here with regard to our country.
The government unions Don't have the ability to collectively bargain on public compensation.
There are other problems here.
It's going to be more difficult.
You mentioned Spain.
You can talk about Greece.
You can talk about the other nations that are confronting this.
Europe itself is a basket case.
Europe is a few years ahead of us.
Europe drank the socialism Kool-Aid.
They have 30-hour work weeks and four days four-day work weeks.
They have governments carrying people.
They're providing all of these services that their economies no longer can sustain.
The birth rates decline.
The productivity has gone down.
The money isn't coming in to pay the bills, and their credit ratings are in the toilet.
The rest of Europe is looking at Greece, which is the most foregor foregone, uh far gone of all of them, saying, okay, we'll bail you out, but you've got to restrain your spending.
And the people of Greek are rioting.
They're opposed to it.
They don't want to do it.
And for people who think that that isn't what's going to happen here, I just fear that it is.
That's why it's imperative that we not expand the welfare state any more than it is, because we've got to scale back on what we already have.
Look at the success Democrats have had with the fear tactics on Medicare and Social Security, really for decades now.
Every election year they come, Republicans gonna take away your social Republicans gonna take away your Medicare.
People panic over this stuff.
They use it because it's going to work, because they think it works.
Look at Obama right now.
He plans to run for re-election with the message that there's no problem, but all we have to do is raise taxes on the rich, and all of these problems will go away.
Our economy will magically improve.
We won't have a budget deficit anymore.
Everything will go well, that's just obviously fantasy land.
But he's selling it to people because they desperately want to believe that we aren't spending way too much money.
Well, we are.
And when somebody comes in and starts restraining that spending, the kickback from the people who had been getting the money is violent.
And I think what's happening in Greece is just a small, small warning of what will happen in our country.
This is where I'm pessimistic.
If I could just interject one thing, and you said something very important.
Obama is projecting what his agenda is.
She's got sort of the advantage.
I'm a Republican, and I would like to see any Republican nominee win the election.
But what Obama has is an advantage.
He has a media, he has a celebrity base, and he has a core base that his his how can I say his projection of who he is pretty much static.
You see what you get.
We had so much infighting amongst our party that I think that sh really re reflects a confusing menu for voters to see.
And I think when you hear like Ann Culture say, for example, Romney's the ultimate conservative.
You know, I believe that there are two other candidates that fit that profile.
Guess what I'm getting at is we need to solidify and whoever, whoever the GOP nominee is, back them whether you believe X, Y, or Z, start to do less infrastructure because we're up against a machine that just portrays Obama as one type of industry.
And I guess the point that I'm trying to make is even if Obama is defeated, it's going to require incredible fortitude on the part of the next president and the Congress.
And I'm telling you, it's going to have to be a Republican Senate or in a Republican House, or you're going to achieve nothing in terms of spending cuts.
It's going to take incredible fortitude because you are going to have a rebellion from whomever it is that's getting the money now.
And I just take a look, and I hate to keep using Wisconsin as an example.
When you see the unbelievable crybabying and the hatred and the rage that comes from being told that you can't have your union negotiate on certain things, from being told you got to pay a little bit for your health insurance.
When you pe see people squealing like banshees over something as minor as that, imagine if we do go forward with changes in Medicare.
Imagine if we do suggest something like raising the retirement age for Social Security to save the program.
People will go nuts.
You've got lifelong dependency on these programs from some people.
And then let's look at all of the other stuff that's out there, all of the people that are getting jobs.
Because money, black grants are funneled from the federal government down to the state and pumped into some social service organization that says that it's doing wonderful things.
They'll go crazy if this is cut off.
I'm telling you, when you get the money from government, you feel as though you have an entitlement to it forever.
It's the reason I guess why we call some of these programs, entitlement programs.
Thank you for the call.
Let's go to Atlanta now.
And Ed, Ed, it's your turn on EIB with Mark Belling.
Hi, Mark.
Uh I was uh working in Milwaukee the latter half of 2010.
I actually spent the Saturday before the election at the Walker campaign headquarters making get out the vote call.
Uh and even though I I was back in Atlanta by the time all the fun happened last winter.
I've been following uh politics here in Wisconsin pretty closely.
My question is this if Walker does survive this recall, can the unions just turn around the next day and start gathering more signatures for another recall?
No, they only get one crack.
They only get one crack at it.
If he survives the recall, they can't try again in his term, and it is a four-year term, meaning he wouldn't have to face this until he runs for re-election in 2014.
So this is their only shot.
The reason why I think the stakes are so important here is if Walker is thrown out of office, every other governor in America is going to see that message.
Potential candidates for president are going to see what see what happens here.
And they're just going to lay off and they're going to try to sweep the problems another two or three years down the road.
Well, we know what's going to happen with that.
What happens when you do that is California's finances right now.
What happens when you do that is what's going on in Grace.
If Walker, however, wins, it will be taken as a mandate that you can be fiscally responsible and the public will reward you for it.
The whole Tea Party movement, as far as I've been able to tell, was people standing up saying they wanted a leader.
They wanted tough decisions to be made.
They wanted to be able to deal with these problems.
They're terrified about the level of spending, they're terrified about the debt.
They know that none of this stuff is sustainable.
They want somebody to grab the bull by the horns and fix it.
If Walker is thrown out of office for trying to fix the problems in his state, what message does that send everywhere else?
That's why what happens to him is so important.
As I said, the good news is I think he's going to win.
The situation in Wisconsin's finances right now is very, very good.
Nobody's feeling any pain.
Even the government workers that are, you know, making fools of themselves with this recall, do not have not had to make any kind of significant sacrifice at all.
He's probably going to win.
If he doesn't, though, the implications out of all of that are ominous.
I'm Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh on this yakking about my state of Wisconsin.
Let's go now down to the Southeast, Georgia.
I'm joined right now by Martha Zahler, who does for a living what I do.
She's a talk show host.
But she's also running for Congress.
It's a brand new district created by the remapping of congressional districts in Georgia.
And I'm told that about 20 Northeastern Georgia counties are involved in this.
There's several Republicans that are running.
It's a predominantly Republican seat.
The winner of the primary probably wins the general election.
I'm fascinated, though, knowing a little bit about Martha, about why she's chosen to make this jump from talk show host to somebody who actually wants to get involved in government.
So I'm going to ask you, Martha, why are you doing it?
Martha?
Martha?
Okay, something happened with the line.
You might know that something would happen with the line when we're caught talking to another talk show host.
All my life, I've been saying to callers, is the caller there?
Is the caller out there?
Now we get an actual radio talk show host on the line, and we can't get her on the air.
I think we have her, Martha.
Hey, Mark, how are you?
I'm great.
I find it hilarious that every single caller that we've tried to get on the program the entire time I've guest hosted for Rush has gotten on, but when I get on other talk show hosts on the line, we can't make connections.
Anyway, what I was asking you is why do you want to make this jump from talking about what's going on to actually participating in what's going on?
You know, I've been in the corporate world as well as on the radio.
I've raised a family, and I've been talking about this for years.
And in the last couple of years, with everything that happened with the Tea Party and all of that, I just said somebody has got to make these people listen, and somebody has got to communicate.
So I've decided to throw my hat in the ring because these messages are important.
We've got to cut spending.
We got to get these regulations out of the way, including Obamacare, and we've got to change the tax code.
And I know people say one person can't do it, but there's about a hundred people right uh that are thinking the right way up there, and we just need a few more.
The messages that you cited are the core messages that I think came out of the Tea Party movement.
Would you describe yourself as a Tea Party candidate, or is that too simplistic?
No, I'm Tea Party friendly.
Uh Representative Jack Kingston said I was Tea Party before they called it Tea Party.
I have criticized Clinton budgets and Bush budgets as well as Obama budgets, and so that's been where I am.
But we've got to cut the spending and we've got to really communicate conservatism.
One of the things Rush is always right about, which he's 99.5% right all the time, is that when we won in ninety-four, we didn't continue to communicate conservatism.
We thought we had won everybody over.
And so they threw us out after a fairly short period of time.
And now we have to reteach conservatism.
And I think if conservatives run as conservatives, they win.
Well, when I take a look at the presidential race, everybody says they're conservative.
Their track records aren't always conservative.
We all know that the way to win a Republican primary is to say that I am a conservative, but I think it doesn't it go beyond that in which you actually then have to be true to those principles once you get there.
And I think that's been the problem with so many Republicans.
They talk that good game when they're run when they run, but when they go to Washington, what happens is they go native.
It doesn't happen right away, but it does happen.
Well, and that's why we need more accountability in Washington because it's extremely important that we have that, and we're not doing that right now.
And what happened to a lot of these Tea Party guys, quite frankly, is the leadership got in their ear and they said, you know what?
You're gonna be a rock star.
If you get out there, you'll be great, and we're gonna help you.
And now they're a year into this two year term and they haven't really done anything.
We haven't cut spending.
We've asked for another one point two trillion dollars that the president's gonna ask for.
And we've got to have a plan on the table that includes cuts.
You need happy warriors up there that are going to talk about the conservative message, and that's why I wanted to throw my hat in the ring.
I'm an empty nester, my kids are grown, I've had a fantastic career.
Um my husband has a great career.
He's a physician, and Lord knows I've run his medical office for the last 21 years.
And if there's any business that has had more government thrown at them in the last 20 years, it's the it's the medical world and especially practitioners.
So I just said now is the time for me to give back.
And you know what?
I I like what you said to Scott Walker earlier, because I'm not afraid of losing.
I want to win and I intend to win.
Okay, but I'm also wanting to do the right thing.
I want to do policy over party.
And this two month deal was a party deal.
They made the the agreement because it was good for politics to extend the payroll tax uh cut for two months and to do the dock fix for two months and all of that.
That's why they did it.
I'm glad you I'm glad you mentioned that, Martha, though, because I think that one of the problems that exists right now is you've got some Republicans who, for good reason, are completely impatient.
They see what's happening.
They see that we are going another one hundred billion in in the red every single month, and they want to fix it now.
It's my belief, however, that we can't fix this if Barack Obama is president of the United States.
Unless you have a president who is committed to to to changing the the way we're running our government, we're going to get nowhere.
All you can do in state is to try to hold them in check to try to stop the problem from getting any worse.
Do you agree with me that you can we're not going to fix anything until you get someone different in the White House?
Oh, absolutely true.
We need another 30 or 40 conservatives in the House.
We need to take the Senate so that we can undo some of this.
Now, if we didn't win the presidency and we did those two things, you could maybe make a difference there.
But at the same time, you gotta change the presidency because this president, he's not moving to the right the way Bill Clinton did.
You know, when Bill Clinton was in the half of his term and he saw how unpopular he was, he started to move on.
Okay, well, you're running for Congress.
Let's assume for a moment that a Republican and one who actually is willing to bite the bullet and suggest real changes in federal spending, proposes that.
You know the backlash that's going to occur, and Congresspeople like perhaps yourself are going to be getting all of these calls.
Tell convince me that you'll stand firm and that you're not going to buckle when you get all of these calls from people who are terrified that they're going to lose their little government Benny.
Because I've been doing it.
I have been talking to people and telling them the tough things that were that were out there.
And you can you have to be able to put that forward.
I'm going to stand up because that's what I've been doing.
And I am going to make sure that people get the communication that they need.com.
Get in there and um help me do the work that we need to do.
You're lucky nobody else named Martha.
Grab that one on you first.
That's Martha Zala.
She's running for Congress from Northeastern Georgia.
It's a it's a brand new district, and the primary election is coming up on next year.
She does have a few uh people that are running against her.
Uh Doug Collins, uh Hunter Bicknell, and Clinton McDuffie have all declared uh their candidacies for that seat.
So those of you down in Georgia, Northeast Georgia, you've got an interesting race to take a look at.
I'm Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush.
Rush.
Rush.
Cheetah is dead.
We led the program with that story if you missed it.
Cheetah is dead.
The chimp from the Tars.
No, the the one from the 30s, 80.
Cheetahs.
That's still the most bizarre.
It's isn't it it like almost can't be true?
Like it's a hoax.
Like that this wasn't the real cheetah, that this was a nine-year-old chimp that they that they kept bringing in new chimps and were passing them off as cheetah.
I don't know.
Uh Kim Jong Yo's funeral procession is now, I think, finally over.
All of the fake tears from the North Koreans uh have been spilled.
Time to get into some political news here.
First of all, this process is messed up.
You can't change it, but it's messed up.
We have had an nearly a half year, more than that, actually.
You go back to the spring of Republican candidates holding all of these dog and pony shows, all of these debates.
You've had jump starts of this candidate and that candidate, and no one has voted yet.
All of this has been played out in on television a year before the election.
The Iowa caucuses are now in six days.
It's still 2011.
It's literally the first day that you can hold it in 2012.
New Year's Day is a Sunday.
January 2nd is the observed New Year's Day, the government holiday.
So they can hold the thing on January 3rd, and then a week after that, you've got New Hampshire.
You end up with this permanent campaign, and I know all the reasons for it.
Every state wants to go first.
Everybody's moving their primaries or their caucuses up, so therefore New Hampshire and Iowa had to keep moving up.
Because there is all of this interest, and there are all these cable networks.
You've got the debate a week thing going on, and you've ended up with a process that's just it's it's messed up.
But it is what it is, and the Iowa caucuses, which may or may not be important, are in six days.
It's just not only suggesting that we just ditch Iowa.
The problem is that you can't just ditch Iowa because Iowa's going to schedule their caucuses before anybody else.
If New Hampshire moves to August of the preceding year, Iowa's going to be in July.
And whatever the first one...
I mean, look at all the attention that was given to that straw poll.
Think about this one for a minute.
Tim Polenti was running for president and bailed out because he did poorly in the straw poll in Ames, Iowa.
I think he made a mistake.
Given how these candidates have gone up and down in the polls and you can come from nowhere.
I don't know that Poleni did the right thing in bailing out.
Maybe he would have been one of these candidates that would have had his moment in the sun.
I think if Polenty would have dreamed that Newt Gingrich could be showing the strength that he's showing right now, he might not have dropped out of the race.
Anyway, Ron Paul is actually leading in a lot of the polls in Iowa, and for the first time, really, some of the other Republicans are starting to attack him, and the strongest criticism is coming from Newt Gingrich.
For those of you who listened to the program yesterday, I think I managed to antagonize the supporters of every single person who is running for the Republican nomination for president.
I've got the Mitt people mad at me.
I've got the Newt Gingrich people mad at me, the Ron Paul people are really Mad at me.
Anyway, here's what Newt has to say about Ron Paul.
Don't blame me.
These are Newt's words.
He says Paul is a protest candidate, and he could not and will not vote for him if he's the Republican nominee for president.
Gingrich said that, quote, Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.
Rick Santorum chimed in on Ron Paul.
Think about having a guy running for president who is going to be on the left of Barack Obama on national security.
So Paul's now getting heat from some of his rivals.
What we've seen is that whomever is the target does start to slip in the polls.
Toll certainly has been taken on Newt Gingrich.
In the meantime, Mitt Romney's trying to put himself above the fray again and is throwing out his criticism of President Obama trying to establish, I guess, this notion of an inevitable inevitability of his victory.
He did have something to say, however, about Gingrich.
This is Mitt Romney on Newt Gingrich talking about Gingrich's inability to get on the ballot in Virginia, which he compared to uh Pearl Harbor.
Listen to Romney.
I think he compared that to, what was it, Pearl Harbor?
I think it's more like Lucille Ball at the chocolate factory.
Was it a chocolate factory?
Remember, Lucy was making the cakes and the cakes were going on too fast, and she and Ethel couldn't keep up with the uh with the whole thing.
I don't know what's going to happen in Iowa.
As I commented yesterday, every prediction that I've made about the presidential race has been wrong.
The one comment out of yesterday's program that made the Rush Limbaugh website.
If I say something else about me being an idiot today, I'm sure that'll be on the website tomorrow.
Anyway, nobody really knows what's going to happen there.
What is happening, though, isn't all that bad.
Whether you agree with Paul or Gingrich or Romney, whether you back Centaurum or Michelle, or for that matter, Rick Perry, what has happened is that once one of these candidates have shown strength, there's been a really severe background check on them.
Newt Gingrich's comments about Romney care, positive as they were from five years ago were found.
All of this garbage that Ron Paul put in his newsletters back in the 90s have been found.
While a lot of people are concerned that the dirty work is being done for President Obama and the Democrats, the good part of this is it's hard to imagine that any of them have any baggage that won't be found.
Whomever does emerge from all of this, whether it's Mitt Romney or someone else, will have been thoroughly tested.
And there aren't going to be too many surprises that are going to come out as a come out on that candidate as a result.
Let's go to right now, let's go back to the phones and Leona, California.
Carl, it's your turn on EIB.
Okay.
You're on, Kyle.
Yes, good morning.
Hi.
Carl, you're on.
You got to start talking to me.
Okay, you know what?
I've just got to express some frustration, and I can't even articulate it.
I just hope I can hand the ball off to somebody that can make sense of this.
But I am so absolutely frustrated with the recent caving of the GOP on this two-month extension.
What I want to hear out of those people is that you know what?
We have borrowed ourselves into hole.
It's like the kid getting out of college and taking away daddy's credit card.
Hey, this is gonna hurt.
Get used to it.
We've got to get with the program and start turning this country around.
Don't think it's gonna be easy.
And yet, oh well, the polls may not like that, and so they cave in again.
Yeah, I mean, I I I guess I don't agree with that because I think that this was a false issue.
I mean, after all, the Republicans are pushing for what?
A one year extension?
So the argument is over a two-month extension over a one year or a one-year extension.
In the meantime, the Democrats are playing this thing as an indication that the Republicans are not serious about cutting taxes, that the Republicans are the party that wants to raise taxes on the middle class.
There was no Way you were going to win that argument.
The problem that we have in our country is that we are spending way, way, way more than we are taking in.
The problem is that Barack Obama is ignoring that problem and it's trying to scan the American public into thinking that all we have to do is raise taxes on people of high income and everything's magically going to go away.
This was a distraction on his part, and I think they needed to get it off the table.
Furthermore, they're going to be bringing this thing up every two months, and I don't think you can allow yourself to get baited into this into this trap of being called the party that's in favor of raising your taxes.
Well, I I I agree, but I'm still waiting for a dad to emerge, somebody to actually be an adult in this whole conversation and say, you know what, we we've got to set the course and we've got to go there.
We've we've got to pay off the bills.
We've got to stop being the uh slaves to China.
I mean, i i if we if we can't.
Well, you understand you understand why that isn't being done right now.
There's one big problem as to why that's not being done.
The problem is that the president who's sitting in the White House and the party that controls the Senate is not serious at all about cutting spending.
Right after that deal that was cut with that fake two with that fake uh uh cuts that they were going to do when they extended the debt ceiling, he came right back and said, Well, maybe we need another stimulus to you know to jumpstart the economy.
Even the two month extension that you're talking about here probably would have a deficit implication until you have a president of the United States who's willing to address the problem.
We're going nowhere with it.
Thank you for the call, Carl.
I appreciate it.
My name is Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
Grettis program tomorrow night on the record, Greta Van Suspen, Russia's going to be the uh guest for the entire hour.
That's tomorrow night, December the twenty-ninth.
Story in the news.
Iran getting more belligerent and apparently fearful of the sanctions that the Obama administration is finally trying to put together, is now threatening to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, which is a vital artery for transporting about one fifth of the world's oil supply.
The Ron Paul people think that we shouldn't be the world's policemen.
The problem is that the nations that we're worried about right now have plans for us.
Iran's very, very dangerous.
But this isn't about Ron Paul and it's not about Iran.
I want to tie together my comments about the budget problems that we have in the United States and the need for change.
Reducing spending is only part of it.
We can get out of a portion of this pickle if we finally get some economic growth.
The reason we haven't had any under Obama is you have a socialist who is trying to run what is still a capitalistic based economy.
The private sector of the United States, its health is dependent upon profits.
The stock market goes up when companies are profitable.
Companies are profitable when they sell products, when they are making money.
When they're making money, they try to make more money.
They go out and hire people, they go out and expand, they go out and invest.
When they make more money, that money is distributed.
Consumers get their hands on the money, and you have a booming economy.
It's not exactly a rare.
We've had a lot of booms in our economy in the past.
But we haven't had one in several years, and we've had no recovery here.
The reason we've had no recovery is we have a president who hasn't done one thing to create any economic growth.
What did he do with stimulus?
He threw all of the money at government and he tried to invent industries who are creating products for which there is no market.
The money went to Cylindra.
The money went to alternative energy companies who are making windmills.
The money went into areas where the products had to be mandated in order for someone to buy them.
That's why it didn't work.
But as the Iranian story demonstrates, we do have an opportunity for dramatic growth right here in our own country.
I can prove it.
There are people listening to me right now in North Dakota.
There are parts of North Dakota that are boom towns right now.
There's been a major oil and gas discovery in the Dakotas.
Yes.
They're in the early stages of taking advantage of it.
You've got boom towns developing.
You've got people that are looking at the potential of seeing tremendous changes in their own economy.
But we've got oil all over the place in our country.
We've got natural gas all over the place.
We've chosen not to take advantage of it.
You want to get economic growth.
Well, then take a look at what's going on in the world.
Oil is back over $100 a barrel.
If Iran does shut down the Strait of Hormuz, it's probably going to go to 130 or 140.
If there is a global recovery, energy prices are going to continue to go up.
Well, let's start going and getting some of the energy that we have here.
You don't need to invent alternative energy in energies.
You don't have to go out and subsidize Cylindra.
How about drilling for the oil that we have?
How about taking advantage of the fact that Canada is oil rich?
You've got a president who is being dragged kicking and screaming into approving a pipeline, the Keystone Pipeline that will bring cheaper energy to the United States, that will create a remarkable number of jobs in the construction, and will be able to liberate us from being dependent upon foreign oil.
But we haven't done it.
You've got an EPA, which only two weeks ago came out with new regulations calling for the mothballing of existing American coal plants.
This is going to drive up our energy costs as well.
In my own state of Wisconsin, there's a proposal to go out and build an iron mine in northern Wisconsin.
The Democrats in my state don't want to allow it.
All of the same environmental concerns.
My point on this little diatribe is this.
If we are to have economic growth, we need to take advantage of the industries that we have here.
The demand for energy is growing.
A significant portion of our federal budget problems can be addressed if we aggressively try to exploit the energy resources we have.
When the economy can you imagine if we got back to a growth rate of five or six percent?
We've had that in the past.
How would I do it?
I'd get the government off the backs of corporate America.
I'd allow us to take advantage of the energy resources that I'd have.
I'd kill Obamacare.
You couldn't do that.
If you get growth, that budget deficit that we have will immediately begin to shrink because tax revenues coming into government will go up.
Obama and the Democrats want to run for reelection on this notion of taxing the rich, taxing the tax the rich.
Get some economic growth so that they make more money.
When they make more money, that means they're going to be paying more in taxes.
If you want to soak the rich, allow the rich and allow the rest of us to start making some money.
Instead, you've got just a hostility toward the private sector and an aversion to going after the energy resources that we have.
If you don't believe me, take a look at what's going on right now in the Dakotas.
This can happen all over the United States if we start taking advantage of the energy resources that we have here in our own country.
My name is Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush.
Rush.
Two million people crying on queue.
You really have to see the footage of the Kim Jong il funeral procession.
They're hauling his body or his carcass or whatever it is down all of these streets, and you see these North Koreans.
I mean, this is some of the worst overacting you're ever.
I mean, the three stooges didn't exaggerate their reactions more than this, crying and crying and crying and crying for fear that somebody up there on Big Brother North Koreal land might be seeing them not cry.
You know who else?
You know who what really wanted to go?
You know Obama wanted to go to that funeral.
You know he you know he wanted to reach out.
You know he this was his way of extending his arm to the North Koreans.
You know he was halfway there.
He's in Hawaii right now.
You know he wanted to go.
Let's go to Oklahoma City and stand.
Stand, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Well, God bless you.
Um I'm just wondering if if you give me a zero to ten on the uh the the Koreans crying or Bill Clinton crying.
The Ron Brown thing.
When Ron Brown was killed.
Yeah, Ron Ron Brown, who is a member of the Clinton cabinet, uh Clinton uh Clinton uh once he realized he was on camera uh suddenly invented a tear which went away the moment that the uh that the cameras went off.
Yeah, the North Koreans did have some practice uh on that.
In any event, Kim Jong il is no longer with us, and we're here in deep mourning at EIB over that.
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