Jan. 24, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein. | |
| Honored to be here. | |
| No supporting paperwork whatsoever, but thanks to Mitt Romney, I am now on the path to self-deportation. | |
| They'll all be trying to get a piece of it soon. | |
| I'm uh I'm from the foreign exchange student wing of the uh Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. | |
| Great program. | |
| Uh guys like me get to study here, and in return Canada gets to ship all its oil to China. | |
| So it all works out for uh for everyone. | |
| Rush is away today. | |
| He will return tomorrow to take you through the end of the week with full strength, excellence in broadcasting. | |
| He said he said uh at the end of yesterday's show, he said uh uh that I was gonna be here and I was gonna beat up on Newt and then I was probably gonna beat up on Mitt as well. | |
| And here's the thing you know, this this is what it has come down to. | |
| Uh whoever wins the nomination after this process is likely to be a flawed candidate who has to be dragged over the finish line. | |
| And that doesn't matter. | |
| We're not the way we're not the party that believes in Messiahs. | |
| You know, we we don't believe that some guy is the one. | |
| We're not like that idiot movie director, Spike uh Lee, uh, who was saying after the nomination of Barack Obama that henceforth they will they will uh they they will divide all human time into i i into before Obama and after Obama. | |
| They're not we don't look for we don't look for Messiahs. | |
| We don't look for a guy to descend from the heavens and bestride the world like a colossus. | |
| So the guy, it's gonna be one of these four. | |
| My uh my friend Bill Crystal, uh a great man in many respects, uh he's the editor of the Weekly Standard, you see him on Fox News all the time. | |
| He's now calling for uh I forget who is it he's c he's calling to jump in? | |
| Uh Mitch Daniels. | |
| He's calling for Mitch Daniels to jump in. | |
| Uh some people uh uh are calling for Bobby Jindle to jump in. | |
| Some people all these guys well well this exactly, this is the this is the point. | |
| They want these guys to come in. | |
| Uh they they want the white knight on a charger to ride in and rescue us from the four dwarves or whatever these guys up on stage are meant to be. | |
| And it's and it's not j Bobby Jindle is the white knight. | |
| Bobby Bob Bobby Jindle is the white knight for Luciana who's gonna ride in and re and Mitch Daniels is gonna be. | |
| Paul Ryan is gonna be. | |
| These guys didn't run. | |
| And and you remember the way it was last summer after the Iowa straw poll, everyone said, whoa, whoa, scary. | |
| Michelle Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll, which doesn't mean anything anyway, because it means, as far as I know, the Iowa straw poll means uh in Ames means you pass around uh uh uh enough ten dollar bills uh or gift certificates entitling you to free beer if you go and stand in the Michelle Bachman tent. | |
| Who knows what it means? | |
| Uh but they said, Oh, this is worrying. | |
| We need to get Rick Perry in here. | |
| We need to and Rick Perry came in and he self-detonated uh forty-eight hours later. | |
| And then Herman Kane came in. | |
| Everyone was hot for Herman Cain. | |
| We are not the party of Messiahs. | |
| Uh we're not the party of uh white knights on charges. | |
| Uh the f it's gonna be a flawed candidate that is uh gonna have to be dragged across the finish line. | |
| And that's just the way it is, and we have to deal with that. | |
| The important thing now uh is that uh we gotta get there, we've got to make sure the Senate and the House seats and all the state and local races and everything else way down the bottom of the ticket. | |
| Uh there's big turnout for those and uh and and we and uh those th those chips all fall the right way too. | |
| But you know, who's who's to say? | |
| Who's to say? | |
| Uh Obama is the luckiest guy in the world. | |
| He the only reason he's president is because he was a senator, and the only reason he's a senator is because he uh he had no opposition in Illinois uh and he was running uh he wound up running against Alan Keyes was parachuted in from out of state. | |
| Uh and the only reason he's a senator from Illinois is because he was a state senator in Illinois, uh and uh whatever it was in mysteriously he managed to get his opponent's uh divorce records unsealed. | |
| He's the luckiest guy in the world. | |
| And who knows? | |
| He may get lucky again this November and it'll be a uh Reagan Mondale 49 state blowout. | |
| Who knows? | |
| Who knows? | |
| But this is these are the four guys we have. | |
| Nobody's gonna jump in. | |
| Mitch Daniels, Bobby Gindle, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, they could all jump in and then, you know, twenty minutes later, mysteriously, uh ABC News would reveal that they'd wanted an open marriage in 1973 or whatever the hell it was. | |
| So there's no point there's no point even getting going down this path. | |
| These are the four guys. | |
| Uh And they've all got they've all got good qualities. | |
| If you took twenty-five percent of each of them, you'd have a hell of a candidate. | |
| If you if you took uh the twenty-five percent of Mitt uh that turned round the uh winter Olympics, uh which was which was uh looking like the United States economy, uh Mitt turned it around and uh made money off of sports people don't even like. | |
| Nobody likes curling here, nobody likes the two-man lute. | |
| It's what what is that kind of what is the nobody's interested in any of these sports. | |
| Mr. Mr. Snerdley is standing on his bad hood now, real men don't like the two bad loots. | |
| Oh, you know you could get into it. | |
| Don't you think it's like it's so touching when you see them go down the hill. | |
| You can see the guy on top likes the other guy because he's arching himself his body upwards so he doesn't crush crush the Stanley cup of the guy underneath him. | |
| You know that. | |
| You know that, Mr. Snudley, he's uh he's he's all t he's very insecure about these things. | |
| Real men like the two-man luge, come on. | |
| Anyway, Mitt made money off of these sports. | |
| Mint made money off sports nobody likes. | |
| Nobody likes curling. | |
| Nobody likes curling. | |
| I did play by play curling once, years ago. | |
| I was about uh 1920, something like that, filling in for some guy. | |
| Uh did play by play curling up in Canada. | |
| They got a curling channel in Canada. | |
| Yeah, I did play by play curling. | |
| I was what can I tell you? | |
| I was desperate. | |
| I was sleeping in a dumpster uh around the back of the stockyards. | |
| It was the only available work. | |
| Uh the uh the curling channel, they got a curling channel up there in Canada. | |
| I don't care what cable package you have here, 7,000 channels, you don't get the curling channel, nobody gets the curling channel. | |
| Now if they got the side of Mitt that turned around that if he did to the United States economy what he did to uh what he what he did to the winter Olympics, that would be a great achievement. | |
| Uh if you were to take the side of Ron Ball that is uh uh opposed to the Federal Reserve and fiat money, fiat money, uh as he calls it, which is a phrase I always like. | |
| I mean, God bless the man for using the phrase fiat money uh in presidential debates. | |
| Uh it's so it sounds like what they used to bail out Chrysler with, but God bless him for actually introducing it as a debate concept. | |
| Uh if you took that side of him, because he's right about that. | |
| He's right about the Federal Reserve. | |
| The Federal Reserve is uh spent last year buying 70% of American debt. | |
| Uh the the the treasury issues the debt, the Federal Reserve buys the debt. | |
| How long do you think that's gonna work? | |
| Ron Paul isn't wrong about that. | |
| If you took the side of Rick Santorum, that's right on the uh the on the social issues, he's right about those. | |
| That if you've got uh dysfunctional families, uh if you've got the family as the basic building block of society, uh and it doesn't matter how many uh how big a government, how many welfare payments you have, if you destroy the family, you can't have a strong uh economy. | |
| In the end, an economy is built by citizens. | |
| You took that side of Rick Santorum. | |
| And if you took the big picture side of Newt, the side that thinks outside the box, he gave this speech on brain science. | |
| What other Republican candidate gives a speech on brain science? | |
| He's looking uh b because Mr. Sur. | |
| Look, here's what he thinks about brain science. | |
| In I'm gonna I know you don't care what he thinks about brain science, I'm gonna explain why it's important. | |
| Here in the Western world today, in the Western world today, uh people are living longer and longer, they're living to the age of 97, spending the last twenty years uh with dementia. | |
| Uh Alzheimer's, all this kind of stuff. | |
| That's expensive. | |
| Now you look at you think of the expense of this. | |
| If you're like in Greece, where everyone retires at fifty-two and they spend their last twenty-five years on dementia, being uh kept in a facility at taxpayers' expense. | |
| Newt is actually thinking about these big picture issues. | |
| If we could cure out cybers so uh people would be uh mentally competent, uh particularly when we've got so many non-aginarian senators or whatever. | |
| I mean, you know, what was it? | |
| What Mr. Snurley wants to know if if uh if if uh if Newt is so smart, how come he didn't see Freddie back was gonna be a problem for him. | |
| Now it's true, he's got he's got a few uh but I'm I'm just looking. | |
| I'm saying if you took twenty-five percent of each candidate and put them all together, you'd have a uh that guy isn't running. | |
| So the guy so uh so th so the way to think about this is uh we're gonna get a guy that m that a good half of us are not gonna be happy about. | |
| And we're gonna have to drag him across the finish line. | |
| I have no problem in saying this. | |
| I think there's all kinds of baggage baggage with Newt. | |
| Well no, no, no, no, no, no. | |
| It's not it's not it's not lame at all. | |
| It's not lame at all, uh Mr. Snurley. | |
| Actually making money off the Olympics is an achievement. | |
| Do you know uh Canada held the Olympics in Montreal in nineteen seventy-six and they didn't pay Montreal taxpayers only finished paying off the debts from the nineteen seventy six Olympics on their two thousand and five property tax bills. | |
| That's what having a non-Mitt Romney run Olympics can do. | |
| And that's a no Mr. Mrs. Snurley is now resorting to cheap Canadophobia. | |
| And we're not gonna go down we are not gonna go down that. | |
| We are not gonna go down that route. | |
| You know, I say there's too much hate out there. | |
| I'm gonna take the high road. | |
| Uh if you took all these candidates and you came up with a uh and you came up with they took all their best points, uh, then you would have a great candidate. | |
| But it doesn't work like that. | |
| We're gonna disagree. | |
| And the point is that any one of these guys would be better than Barack Obama. | |
| And we gotta keep our keep ourselves focused here. | |
| Uh Obama tonight is going to be talking about fairness. | |
| What he means by fairness uh is a huge government that mediates relations between the citizen. | |
| Fairness, when a government official uses the word fairness, what he means is more state power. | |
| Because fairness means the government regulation uh of relations between uh individual citizens. | |
| So when he has when he has uh that uh poor woman uh uh the most famous secretary in America, Warren Buffett's secretary, sitting up there, he's gonna use her as an emblem of what's not fair. | |
| The fact of the matter is she may be a very nice lady, uh and all and all the rest of it. | |
| Uh but but what Barack Obama is arguing about is for a massive government uh where certain people will have privileged relations with that government, like Warren Buffett, for example. | |
| It turns out he's who knew he's the surprise beneficiary of the cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline. | |
| Uh because now he's going to be uh a lot of that, insofar as any of that oil gets into the United States and doesn't go to China, it's gonna be coming on the Burlington and Santa Fe Railroad, which he happens to own. | |
| So very conveniently, uh very conveniently, the less oil that goes down the Keystone pipeline uh has to come on trains owned by Warren Buffett. | |
| I mean that's what it that's the country you going into. | |
| Fairness. | |
| When a politician uses the term fairness, what they mean is government management uh of relations between individuals. | |
| Uh Mitt Romney shouldn't be arguing on that uh on that turf. | |
| Uh you're gonna have a bigger government, uh a broker government, uh and that's why we shouldn't be talking about sugar beet. | |
| That's why we shouldn't be talking about Terry Shivo. | |
| That's why we should be talking about the real issue here, uh, which is that this government uh and government of the size that Barack Obama wants and that he will implement in his second term is gonna drive this country deeper into the abyss than it's ever known. | |
| So if you didn't like the first Obama term, you're not gonna like the second Obama term. | |
| Any one of the four guys on that stage should be better. | |
| Yes, there's problems, so what? | |
| I don't I'd like I'd love it if Calvin Coolidge won the ticket, but he's not running this year. | |
| He didn't want to get into the race. | |
| He didn't want to throw his hat in. | |
| I know he's been dead for seventy years. | |
| I'd rather eighty years. | |
| I'd rather Calvin Coolidge dead than any of those four guys up there alive. | |
| But he's not on the ticket. | |
| Uh I'd like a constitutional amendment so that even though he's been dead for eighty years, he could be allowed to run. | |
| We gotta make do with one of these four guys, and whichever one of them it is, uh it's better than Barack Obama. | |
| And that's what matters. | |
| 1800, 282-2882. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush on the EIB network. | |
| Let's go to Joel in Yakima, Washington. | |
| Joel, thanks for waiting. | |
| You are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show. | |
| Thanks, Mark. | |
| I uh I can't believe I'm actually gonna defend NBC here. | |
| I think your analysis of the line of questioning last night was completely unfair. | |
| Um Sugarcane, Cuba and Fidel Castro, uh NASA funding, not Mars, NASA funding. | |
| No, NASA, yeah, NASA funding, yeah. | |
| It's very relevant to the state of Florida and the electorate for the upcoming primary in the state of Florida. | |
| Uh well let's just uh let's just look at that. | |
| Uh sugar sugar funding. | |
| Uh right, these guys are running for president of the United States. | |
| And uh the citizens of Florida uh there's no such thing as citizenship of Florida, there's citizenship of the United States. | |
| So there's US citizens who have happen to live in Florida. | |
| There was plenty of talk about taxes and the federal government at large. | |
| What's what you hear here's the questions that were relevant to the voters in Florida. | |
| Okay, let's go in the room. | |
| You know what the relevant thing about sugar cane sugar cane? | |
| The the total sugar subsidy. | |
| So this is for uh cane sugar and beet sugar, as uh as Newt Gingrich would say. | |
| The total sugar subsidy in the United States is uh something like sixty million dollars, right? | |
| Sixty million dollars. | |
| Okay? | |
| Uh do you know what the United States government, the government of the United States is currently spends that it doesn't have every single hour of the day. | |
| In other words, uh what it spent during the first hour of the show, money it doesn't have, uh what it borrows. | |
| Uh it borrow do you know how much that sum is? | |
| According to the 2011 budget? | |
| A hundred and eighty-eight million dollars, a fifth of the billion this government uh uh spends a fifth of a billion dollars it doesn't have every single hour of the day. | |
| So a sixty million dollar total United States sugar subsidy uh works out at about twenty minutes of federal borrowing. | |
| In other words, as long as it took them to give the the the period they discussed the time they discuss sugar beets and sugar cane for uh is as long as it takes the entire United States government uh to borrow that sum. | |
| Sixty million dollars is about the equivalent of three refurbished border posts in the middle of the Vermont, New Hampshire, and North Maine Woods. | |
| Sixty million dollars is peripheral to the fate of the United States and uh and the and the good people of Florida uh who will be exercising their votes as citizens of the United States who happen to be residents of Florida should understand uh that spending twenty minutes talking about twenty minutes worth of uh federal borrowing is completely irrelevant to their future, their children's future and their grandchildren's future. | |
| But I don't particularly care about sugar cane, but it is obviously relevant to the people in Florida. | |
| I don't I don't think the funding and uh Cuba are relevant to the nation. | |
| Well well, let's take let's go through them. | |
| I'm uh I'm up for that. | |
| No, I'm uh I'm up for that too. | |
| Cuba, uh Brian Williams Brian Williams asked this question. | |
| If China were Cuba, uh what then? | |
| Uh this is a preposterous equ uh uh question. | |
| Obviously, uh if China were uh as Rick Santorum said, if China were ninety miles offshore, things would be uh we we'd react to China very differently. | |
| Yes, so what? | |
| If uh if Belgium were Cuba, we'd react to Belgium uh very uh differently. | |
| If uh Papua New Guinea was Cuba, we'd re react to Papua New Guinea very differently. | |
| It's a it was an absurd question, a pointless hypothetical, and a complete waste of time, even if you want to talk about Fidel Castro. | |
| What was the third one you said? | |
| NASA. | |
| NASA? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Now here's the here's the NASA. | |
| Yeah, NASA, NASA. | |
| Uh the uh the the the uh the the space administration. | |
| Now Mitt gave a qu uh uh an answer about the space coast. | |
| He goes, people are hurting on the space coast. | |
| Uh and so in other words, we ought to we ought to invest in NASA uh so that people on the so-called space coast of Florida will have jobs. | |
| So in other words, uh so in other words, uh going to Mars should just be the ultimate in uh in in uh economic stimulus. | |
| It's interplanetary economic stimulus. | |
| And after we've done that, we can go to intergalactic economic stimulus. | |
| So I accept your point that NASA uh may be a critical employer on the so-called space coast of Florida. | |
| Uh but the space program uh does not exist uh for the benefit of of stimulating the Florida economy. | |
| So in other words, even to discuss it in those terms does a great disservice uh to the purpose of NASA and to the point of space exploration, Joel. | |
| Well, I I respectfully disagree. | |
| I I just think that you were completely unfair about it in the beginning of the show. | |
| Well, you've uh you've made your point, Joel, and I hope by the way, uh it's Joel, not Joel, isn't it? | |
| I did get that right, did I? | |
| Because I was The other my other fascinating point about uh Briar Williams is that he said uh he doesn't say weekend, he says weekend in the which I you hear people saying in uh in in in clubs in Mayfair in London, and I don't think I've heard anyone ever say on this side of the Atlantic before. | |
| But thank you very much for your call, Joel. | |
| No, I I I stick to what I said. | |
| Sixty million dollars of sugar subsidies, waste of time. | |
| Uh and talking about the sp if there's a justification for the space program, it's not because it improves the jobs market on Florida's so called space coast. | |
| And uh if there is an issue uh uh with Fidel Castro and the fate of Cuba, it is not because, as he put it in this hypothetical absurd hypothetical, what if China were Cuba, would we take it differently? | |
| Obviously we would. | |
| If Russia were where Cuba is, we'd treat it differently. | |
| If India was where Cuba is, we'd treat it differently. | |
| It isn't. | |
| Cuba is where Cuba is. | |
| China is not in the Caribbean. | |
| It's a pointless hypothetical and should never have been asked. | |
| Hey, great to be with you. | |
| Rhythm Nation. | |
| Jana Jackson, she's got the sugar beat. | |
| She's got the she's got the sugar bee. | |
| You know, when you when you're that into the sugar beat, you risk having a sugar malfunction at the sugar bowl. | |
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| Here vignettes from Obamaville, twenty twelve. | |
| Lynn, Massachusetts. | |
| Authorities say a Massachusetts woman bought sixty four dollars worth of soda using a stolen welfare benefits card, and then immediately fed the full cans into the supermarket's automated redemption machine for the nickel deposit. | |
| Uh which uh so what it was she's bought sixty four dollars worth of soda, so uh like sixty four dollars sixty four dollars that's about sixty let's call it sixty cokes, and she feeds every full CAD into the redemption machine, and she gets three real dollars to grow the economy with. | |
| Uh although uh obviously she's increased Coca Cola's carbon footprint by uh feeding all that hideous sugary beverage into the landfill. | |
| I don't know how this works. | |
| This is vignettes from Obama Phil. | |
| Tina Caffarelli of Lynn pleaded not guilty Monday to charges including larceny, property destruction, and receiving stolen property. | |
| She was ordered held on two hundred and fifty dollars bail. | |
| I don't even understand this. | |
| This is a woman who uh who ste but by the way, when they say the welfare benefits card, this is basically the food stamps card, isn't it? | |
| Because you don't need to uh you don't you don't need to they don't have the uh they don't have the food stamps uh anymore. | |
| You it's like a kind of credit card. | |
| It's like uh it's it's like the uh whatever they call it. | |
| It's the food stamps credit card, don't leave home without it. | |
| Uh it says more about you than cash ever can. | |
| Uh the the food so they're using the food stamps card at Price Chopper. | |
| Sixty four dollars worth of soda. | |
| She feeds them all into uh the automated redemption machine. | |
| So they all the nick all the uh all the uh aluminum uh it's all going into the aluminum recycling uh and that's all being confused because it's contaminated by the uh Coca-Cola or seven up or whatever's in there, so she's she's damaged the planet. | |
| She's w worsened global warming. | |
| Uh but she does get three dollars in cash. | |
| Now, how often does she do this? | |
| Because uh sh they're demanding two hundred and fifty dollars in bail from a woman who uses a stolen food stamps card uh to feed a bunch of cans into uh into a machine and get three dollars worth of cash. | |
| Uh popular saying in Massachusetts, Lin Lin, the city of Sin, you never come out the way you went in. | |
| That's that uh that's uh that's what they say in Massachusetts. | |
| You have a wild time there. | |
| I'll bet you know sometimes Mitt Romney likes to go on an almight you know, people say he's Mr. Clean Cut Mormon. | |
| I'll bet you in Massachusetts he likes to go on an almighty bender. | |
| Just like somehow just like fire up the car, drive into Lynn, maybe uh maybe beat some mug some guy in an alley, take his food stamps stamp, and then and then uh and then and then steal all the uh steal all the coke because he doesn't drink, so he wouldn't uh he gets all the coke with the food stamps and then you just shovel it into the redemption machine and then you drive away with three dollars in nickels. | |
| Now uh if uh Mitt has to declare that on his tax return, that's capital gains, isn't it? | |
| Because it's not income. | |
| It's not income, so it's it's on his investment. | |
| He invested in a stolen food stamps card and he got three dollars of nickels out of it. | |
| This is the Obama economy. | |
| They're now stealing your food stamps credit card to price of co price of uh price of Coca-Cola sixty-four dollars. | |
| Uh the return you get from the automated redemption machine three dollars. | |
| Using somebody else's stolen food stamps credit card, priceless. | |
| That's the Obama economy. | |
| Congratulations. | |
| Let's go to John in Cincinnati Ohio. | |
| John, it is great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh show. | |
| Hey, Mark, it's jolly good to talk to you today. | |
| Jolly good to talk to you too. | |
| I d I do hope you're you're not taking the Mickey out of me there. | |
| What's all do you mind, John? | |
| No, no. | |
| Um I've been watching all these debates and um you know, first I got a statement in a question for you about this Romney tax thing. | |
| You know, first it's it's clear to me that you know the media and the Liberals, and unfortunately even some of the Republican candidates think that enough of our great country is just so ignorant that they don't understand the difference between regular income tax and capital gains tax, and they're just gonna keep blurring the lines and playing this. | |
| And I'm just wondering if you think that that's true, that a large part of our country is just really that ignorant, or if this is just going to go away and backfire at some point. | |
| No, I I think you're gonna see the president actually making the argument you talked about uh in the speech tonight. | |
| His whole issue now is fairness, fairness fairness. | |
| And what he thinks is he thinks he can present it in a way he'll he'll point out Warren Buffett's secretary sitting in the gallery and he'll say it's outrageous that she pays tax at three times the rate of uh of Mitt Romney. | |
| And I would imagine that uh when you watch ABC and CBS and NBC, they will report that and they will take it at face value. | |
| Uh and that will be how the issue is framed. | |
| But but but I don't uh you know, I d I think out there there's enough people who understand that the problems facing the United States are not that the uh the the that people do not give enough in taxation uh to the federal government. | |
| The problem is that the federal government is uh is spending, it's spending way too much, it's spending way more than anything useful it's doing, and that when a guy like Mitt Romney, who doesn't actually have a job, he's he's uh uh judging from these tax returns, Mitt Romney is officially unemployed and living off investment income, in other words, living off uh in a sense living off a 401k or a savings account or whatever. | |
| And if he happens to and if he's giving over three and a half million dollars uh to the United States Treasury, that's more than enough. | |
| I I don't think I mean I think I think these I think this issue uh if Mitt is if Mitt is smart, he can drive a stake through the the conventional uh uh uh uh uh portrayal of this issue. | |
| But you're you and you think Americans are smarter than that too, John, is that right? | |
| I clearly do. | |
| I uh I I think that they're just playing this card and i it's just frustrating that the Liberals and the media clearly do assume that a large percent of the country is that ignorant. | |
| And I don't think that's the case, and I I think it's gonna backfire on them. | |
| And I think they could easily turn it around and start asking Obama how much he's paying in capital gains tax, and if he considers that fair. | |
| I mean, w why not ask him for those records? | |
| Well well, oddly enough, the uh the media never do ask uh Obama for anything. | |
| But the bo th the the thing about where they might be on to something, John, is look, there's not a lot of people like Mitt Romney. | |
| Mitt made twenty million dollars or something last year, and he's paying a rate of whatever it is, thirteen point nine percent. | |
| So he's giving three million and whatever to uh the to the United States government. | |
| Uh for a start, as Rush has pointed out, he's already paid tax on that. | |
| Because the money you invest is the money uh from his salary that he had left after he's paid tax on it uh and after he's paid for his living expenses that he has left to invest in another company. | |
| So in other words, the m the money uh that he put into uh acme investments uh in order to get the income that he's report in uh uh that he's reporting in this uh in this tax year he's already paid tax on and now he's paying an additional fifteen percent uh tax on it. | |
| The qu the question here the question here is a really basic one. | |
| Is the issue revenue or is the issue taxation? | |
| And I think I think m uh uh or is the issue spending and I think most Americans understand that the the issue is not revenue. | |
| You could take everything that everyone like Mitt Romney has and it and it wouldn't matter. | |
| In other words even if you took all the wealth of the uh if you taxed all the all the uh income of the of the wealthiest one percent it wouldn't pay it would pay for maybe one Obama stimulus package. | |
| There's not enough Mitt Romney's uh in the country to run to run the federal government on. | |
| We're getting to the stage in fact where there's not enough money on the planet to run the United States government on. | |
| And I think I think there's a large um every day there's more and more people who understand that, John. | |
| I do as well and I and I'm hopeful it's gonna keep turning in that direction that the bigger picture is is what matters is this debate goes on and these smaller issues go away but you know you just keep seeing the media play these cards all the time and i it just makes you realize that they have such a uh a low you know thought of the American public that they can just keep doing that. | |
| Well you know here here's here's the here's the response to that. | |
| What what do you want the corporate tax rate to be in the United States of America? | |
| It's thirty five percent now. | |
| It's like uh sixteen and a half percent in Canada. | |
| Canada, which most Americans think of as a socialist basket case has a corporate tax rate half the rate of the United States. | |
| So why do you think, by the way, why do you think that this company that wants to put the pipeline in from Alberta down to Houston is called Trans Canada. | |
| Trans Canada owns every single dam on the Connecticut River in my part of New Hampshire I went to I was uh I was driving down Main Street uh in Wells River Vermont and saw a Trans Canada truck parked outside the laundromat only the other day. | |
| You see them all over they own every dam on the Connecticut River. | |
| Why? | |
| Because it's more profitable to be in the dam operating business as a Canadian company than it is as a US company. | |
| At a certain level now, at a certain level, the United States is just driving its economy into a flatline economy. | |
| Unless you're a crony capitalist, unless you're Warren Buffett and you've got the hotline to the Oval Office, there will be increasingly less point to operating a business in the United States. | |
| And I I think people do understand that. | |
| The problem is not the tax rates the problem when you've got the highest corporate tax rates in the Western world, when you got higher capital gains tax than most parts of the Western world, the issue is the spending, not the taxation. | |
| Mark Stein for us more ahead Mark Stein in for us Dick Army Dick Army says, quote Newt had problems, but I don't think that it was accurate to say he resigned in disgrace unquote. | |
| If you know anything about uh Dick Army's relationships with Newt, you'll know that for Dick Harvey that is the equivalent of uh kissing him smack on the lips and running his hands uh up and down his back for twenty minutes. | |
| That's the warmest thing that Dick Army has ever said to Newt about Newt Gigrich. | |
| Newt had problems, but I don't think that it was accurate to say he resigned in disgrace. | |
| Rush was talking about Newt uh yesterday and he said um what was it he said Newt is a vessel? | |
| Yeah, new to Newt is a vessel. | |
| Yeah I mean I could agree with that. | |
| My worry is that it uh the vessel he is maybe the Costa Concordia. | |
| That's the problem. | |
| But uh no I mean no no let me let's be serious for a minute. | |
| The um the he's right Russia is absolutely right on this. | |
| Rush is right on this that uh new when when you want someone who is arguing with conviction conviction uh on big picture conservative principles the way Rush has done for twenty years Newt uh and uh to us at least on the domestic front and one or two other areas uh Ron Paul are the only guys doing that uh uh uh up there and Mitt is not doing it. | |
| Of the two front rummer uh the two front runners uh Newt's doing it and Mitt is is not. | |
| And uh the most pathetic moment in that Sad little excuse for a debate last night was when uh the candidates were asked what they'd done for conservatism. | |
| And Mitt Romney said, Well, I uh I uh I've married and I've raised however many children, you know, seventeen children and uh 123 grandchildren, and I've uh and I've uh I've run a business and uh there's all kinds of people who've got seventeen children and 127 grandchildren, and it doesn't mean they've done anything for conservatism. | |
| This is pathetic, it's insufficient. | |
| It's it's really is insufficient. | |
| And people, you know, here's the thing for here's the thing for uh uh i uh for for for Mitt Romney. | |
| In South Carolina, he was twenty points ahead two weeks ago. | |
| Twenty points ahead. | |
| And he finished twelve points behind. | |
| He lost thirty-three points in two weeks. | |
| You know, that's a guy with really soft support, pathetically soft support. | |
| And it's soft because when he's asked about it, when he's asked a meat and potatoes question like that, when he's asked when he's asked one where you want real raw dripping red bloody meat, you want a big hunk of fresh roadkill to toss to the crowd, he says, Well, I I'm I married a good woman, uh I've been dating since high school, and I'm and it's not enough. | |
| Who cares about that? | |
| At some point, Mitt Mitt Romney, more than anything else, by the way, uh Mitt Romney, I think, needs a really big idea. | |
| I mean, this is the this is the point. | |
| He can't run on anything he did in Massachusetts. | |
| Uh his whole thing now, I'm not gonna apologize for m for my success, is uh that's a cute line. | |
| But when most people when they get the uh the the precy of your success and it involves words like Cayman Islands and Swiss bank account, that is not gonna be a sellable line. | |
| You need to have a big and by the way, it's not good enough to say people on the space coast are hurting. | |
| He was he that's what he does everywhere he goes. | |
| When he was in uh when he I can do this and I'm a foreigner. | |
| When you're in Iowa, you go, people in the Hawkeye state are hurting. | |
| When you're in New Hampshire, you go, people in the granite state are hurting. | |
| When you're in the South Carol uh South Carolina, you go, people in the Palmetto State are hurting. | |
| When you're in Florida, it's a big spa uh state, so you break it out into regions. | |
| You go, people on the space coast are hurting. | |
| People in the people in the pad handle are hurting. | |
| Uh people at Par Beach, they're not hurting so much. | |
| I'm a I'm a foreigner and I can do this stuff. | |
| Come on, man, get real. | |
| Can't you gotta connect with the people? | |
| You've gotta connect. | |
| You've got to can you've got to connect. | |
| Well, a guy has got he that's why Newt is uh Mitt is never gonna be Mr. Warmth, Mr. He's never gonna be sitting in a diner and some schlub is gonna be explaining uh why they're uh why they're it uh uh th their social security disability check was twelve days late and they wound up getting kicked out of their trailer and then their ex-wife uh had the account froze. | |
| No, uh Mitt is never gonna be able to connect with those people. | |
| He needs a big idea. | |
| He needs a big idea and he needs to get it uh quickly, because otherwise uh uh otherwise uh Rush is absolutely right that when it comes to to actually uh to conviction to conviction, uh when when Newt starts talking about all those big picture issues, he was brilliant on the pipeline on uh in South Carolina. | |
| He was he said there's no excuse for the for this pipeline not being built. | |
| Uh this pipeline from Alberta to Houston. | |
| There's no uh there's absolutely no excuse for it, and Trans Canada will probably sue the federal government and win over it. | |
| Uh and he said uh we have driven Obama's genius is to have driven a conservative pro-American prime minister into shipping the oil to the Chinese. | |
| It doesn't do anything for the environment. | |
| The safest way to transport oil in the world is by putting it in uh American pipelines. | |
| Uh instead, uh instead, America is not going to be getting oil from Alberta, it's gonna be getting it from the Middle East, which will be coming in tankers, which will be leaking all over the pristine oceans of the planet. | |
| Uh that's in the Atlantic, so the oil coming into the country will be devastating the Atlantic, and the Albertan oil that will and it is now going to be have to be shipped to China will be traveling in leaky containers across the the Pacific, contaminating the Pacific. | |
| Environmentalists supposes, poses if they c if they cared about the planet, this this is uh this this is a complete no-brainer. | |
| You bring it in the pipeline from Alberta to Houston, and the Americans get the oil. | |
| Instead, you ship it in containers uh from the Middle East, leaking all the way across the Atlantic to America, and you ship it from Canada to China, leaking all the way across the Pacific. | |
| Environmentalists opposes. | |
| Opposers. | |
| And Newt is the only one up there explaining this stuff in primal terms. | |
| And uh and and uh Mitt needs to get with the program on this. | |
| He needs a big idea, he needs able to articulate it, and saying, I'm not gonna apologize for my success, I'm not gonna apologize for my Cayman Islands again. | |
| That isn't gonna be enough. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush, more to come. | |
| Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network. | |
| We're talking about the presidential so-called debate last night. | |
| There was no such thing. | |
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| Newt is gonna uh insist that from now on the audience gets to express itself as it wishes. | |
| He's right, and he should have insisted on that last night. |
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