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Feb. 6, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 6, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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Rush.
Rush wasn't here this time last year, was he?
Because that's when I got into trouble hammering the MM Detroit ad, because I was doing the Super Bowl post-Super Bowl Monday show then.
They always get me in for post-Super Bowl Monday because I have bring to bear my extensive forensic analysis of American sporting occasions.
That's why I'm always – but Rush will be back.
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Last year round, last year.
Oh, Carling's catching on.
Oh, that's great.
I love that.
When we get the Carling Super Bowl in the United States, I will be right on top of the situation there because I love that.
You can't get you what you really need for a real hot spot.
You're absolutely right, Mr. Snerdley.
You need brooms, brooms and stones.
And that's what Carling's got.
It's got brooms, it's got stones.
And that's what you need.
Donald Trump is taking credit for Mitt's big win in Nevada.
He said there was a lot of riding on that race in Nevada, and a lot of people are giving me credit for that, said Donald S. Trump.
And Donald S. Trump is taking credit for Mitt's big victory in Nevada.
I want to go back to that Super Bowl thing, by the way, because I am disappointed, to be honest, in Clint Eastwood.
Clint Eastwood is a great iconic American movie star.
And to see him participating in something as lame as that, I am going to.
I don't want to get into trouble with Detroit again because I think I wound up having to go on our affiliate station in Detroit the following day and having to prostrate myself before the people of Detroit because I think they were getting up a petition to have me removed from the Rush guest host roster.
So I don't want to go, I don't want to tiptoe down that perilous path again.
But there is something pathetic about a self-proclaimed libertarian such as Clint in agreeing to do these lame collectivist bromides, which is what that ad he did for Chrysler was about.
I've seen a lot of tough eras, a lot of downturns in my life, said Clint, and times when we didn't understand each other.
It seems like we've lost our hearts at our heart at times.
The fog of division, discord, and blame made it hard to see what lies ahead.
And according to the ad, all we need to do is just understand each other and we will hear the roar of our engines once more.
Look at the people who are praising this ad.
I don't know how that sells a car, Mr. Snurdley.
I don't want to buy some lame-ass, you know, Chrysler collectivist mobile.
What kind of thing is that?
David Axelrod, President Obama's chief strategist, called it a powerful spot.
Filmmaker Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning crocumentarian, tweeted, Clint, the consensus is you done a good thing standing up for Detroit, and your sermon seemed to be a call to give Obama his second half.
So Michael Moore is on board with Clint's call for collectivization.
This is ridiculous.
They're doing this.
You know, I used to love American car ads because they used to prioritize liberty.
You know, your vehicle opened up new horizons.
You know, get your motor running head out on the highway looking for adventure.
And even if they were just selling, you know dull uh sedans to people who lived in suburban cul-de-sacs, the camp, the car the car makers used to.
Yeah, the spacious back seat was one thing, but what I used to love about them was the way they'd, even if they were just selling like Subarus.
The Subaru that came comes with the built-in Kerry Edwards sticker.
That stayed on the car for for half a decade after that election.
Uh, to even Even to sell dull saloons, dull sedans to people who lived in suburban cul-de-sacs, the car makers would show them roaring around hairpin bends, deep into the forests, splashing through rivers, over a washed-out bridge, across the desert plain.
And they'd then come to rest on the edge of a spectacular promontory way up on the roof of the world, offering this kind of spectacular view of half the planet.
And the message was freedom, individual freedom.
Cars give you liberty.
You get behind the wheel and you put that car in gear and you go.
And it's liberating.
And now Clint Eastwood himself, Clint, this is Mr. Gran Torino.
Mr. Gran Torino himself, Daddy Harry, is telling this, oh no, it's about collectivization.
It's about us all pulling together.
It's about some dystopian wasteland, but the second half of America is about to begin.
And if we all follow the Detroit model of all things, the Detroit model, then everything will be just swell, just grand, and America will have a terrific second half.
And it's almost as bad.
I think it was two years ago that Audi, the German car maker, again, of all people, do you remember that German car ad from the Super Bowl, the Audi ad from two years ago, Mr. Snerdley, the one where it shows the guy being sort of handcuffed by the green police, and the environmental police take this guy away,
slam his head against the counter and lock him up because he wants to use a plastic bag at the supermarket checkout.
And then the eco-commandos take the guy's house because they discover he's got a battery in his trash.
And you're assuming at some point the kind of contrarian spirit of the American self-reliant individual will kick in in this totalitarian scenario.
And instead, it just shows some eco-wimp driving the Audi A3TDI, I think it was, which is fully environmentally compliant.
And the eco-stormtrooper tells the driver, okay, you're good to go.
And with the approval of the state enforcers, this guy meekly pulls out of the stalled traffic and drives off.
And the message of this ad was, Green has never felt so right.
And that wasn't the real message.
The real message is you're a wimp and you've got to comply with the totalitarian eco-statist bullies.
What kind of car ad is that?
The car ads in recent Super Bowl and recent Super Bowls are staggering.
At some point, we were talking in the previous hour that we didn't want to send someone to Washington to quote manage the decline, unquote, as Newt put it.
If you want to see the decline in the American spirit, just look at the kind of vaunted, widely admired ads, car ads that are put up at the Super Bowl from year to year.
Where's the celebration of American individualism?
Where's the celebration of liberty?
Where's the celebration of the American spirit?
So you get a guy who knuckles under.
He drives some pathetic vehicle that's fully compliant with the whimsical dictats of the eco-stormtroopers.
That's supposed to be a celebration of the American spirit.
And in fairness, and in fairness, you know, that's a German car.
And the Germans, you know, have something of a tradition of knuckling under to state authority.
But that's a very bizarre way to sell German cars in the United States of America.
So then we move on to Chrysler and Clint Eastwood.
Clint, go ahead, punk, make my day.
Go ahead, punk, play Misty for me.
Mr. Gran Torino himself, and he's there and he's driving.
He's saying that wandering through this post-industrial ruin and saying that this is the model for the American comeback.
That is one of the most deeply depressing ads.
And he's saying, by the way, that the Detroit model, the bailout model, the get government money to bail out your union pals model, and then sell what's left to the Italians, which is what Chrysler is.
There were no mention, no Italian reared his head in Clint's ad there.
There was no mention of Fiat or any sinister Europeans lurking in that ad.
That's somehow an American car ad in the 21st century?
What happened to?
I'd give anything to see Dinah Shaw come back and sing, See the USA in your Chevrolet, because you used to be able to see the USA in your Chevrolet and if the and the USA you can see in that Chrysler ad and that AUDI ad and last year's thing with M ⁇ M, this is not that.
There's something.
There's something symbolic about the corrosion of the American spirit when you look at the car ads that are being unveiled at the Super Bowl.
So we're gonna.
We'll talk about that, your thoughts on the halftime show and the slick ads 1-800-282-2882.
We're also talking about Nancy Pelosi signing on to the Obama administration's.
Nancy Pelosi claims to be a Catholic.
She says, I'm a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and I love it.
But they have this conscience thing that puts women at risk.
That's the problem with you Catholics.
You've got this conscience thing.
You've really got a.
That this conscience thing, as Nancy Pelosi puts it I think that's the way they put it is.
That is that from the King James Bible, that particular form of words, this conscience thing.
Nancy Pelosi says you Catholics, it's all very.
She says she's a devout Catholic.
That's why she's pro-abortion, that's why she wants hundreds of millions of dollars in condom distribution to stimulate the economy.
Nancy Pelosi says that you Catholics have this conscious thing.
Just get over this conscience thing, will you?
What's wrong with you guys?
Just take Nancy's advice, get over this conscience thing and and just get hep to the way the Catholic institutions, the Catholic Church, will be handing out condoms, will be handing out abortive faciance and it will be making available free sterilization for its employees, and that way you can still be a devout Catholic and honor your faith, as Nancy puts it, but you won't be hung up on this conscience thing.
That's Nancy Pelosi's line on the Obama administration's crackdown on religious liberty.
We'll talk about that and the rest of the day's news straight ahead.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for Rush.
Hey, Mark Stein for Rush.
Do you remember that fella, what was he called?
Bart Stupak.
He was a supposedly pro-life congressman who gave the Obama administration one of the vital last votes they needed to steamroll Obamacare through.
And he gave them his vote in exchange for an assurance that no taxpayer dollars or health insurance premiums were involuntarily going to be used to provide any kind of abortion services.
And I would be interested to know what Bart Stupak makes of this latest move by the Obama administration, whereby Catholic institutions are going to be forced to hand out abortive faciants free.
And the interesting thing about this, of course, is that there's nothing surprising about it at all.
Big government makes everything smaller.
Modern liberalism is fundamentally illiberal.
The high priests of tolerant are increasingly intolerant of even the mildest dissent.
And all the people driving around with the Celebrate Diversity stickers insist on imposing a one-size-fits-all conformity with the state church.
And that's really what's behind what the Obama administration is doing here.
Let's go to Ken in Detroit, the city I was trying not to malign just a few moments ago.
Ken, it is great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Well, thanks for my call.
And you brought this up earlier, and I just wanted to say that your evaluation of last year's Super Bowl commercial was correct.
But what I called about is a conflict between Nancy Pelosi and the Roman Catholic Church.
And it's time for the Roman Catholic Church to follow its own teachings, to enforce its own doctrine.
Nancy Pelosi, who is not a devout Catholic, she needs to be excommunicated, removed from membership from the Roman Catholic Church as does anyone else who chooses to publicly go against the teachings of her own church.
Well, you know, that is something that we hear from time to time about the position that Democratic, and it's usually Democratic politicians, Democrat Party politicians who find themselves in conflict with the church's teachings.
And in theory, they could be prevented from receiving communion and all the rest of it.
In practice, the Catholic Church doesn't really ever go nuclear on these guys.
And they put up with an awful lot of pathetic having it both ways.
John Kerry, when he was asked about abortion when he was running for president in 2004, and he'd twist himself into knots like a pressed salary.
He'd go, well, of course, I'm personally, passionately, committedly, personally, passionately, committedly opposed to abortion, but I would never dream of letting my opposition to abortion interfere with my party's legislative agenda.
And that's basically what he says and what Nancy Pelosi, well, Nancy Pelosi, in fact, is kind of slightly more honest than him.
She's up front.
She says, yay, go for it.
I'm abortion.
Wow, I'm there.
Perform one for me right now.
Yeah, partial birth abortion.
I'll hold her down.
You do it.
She's gung-ho for it.
And the fact of the matter is that the Catholic hierarchy in the United States has chosen to live with a generally kind of completely open disregard for the church's teachings by prominent Catholic politicians.
I mean, why would they change that now, Ken?
You read the official catechism of the Roman Catholic Church and their book of canon law.
And I used to be a Catholic.
I'm a Lutheran now.
The means of excommunication is in there.
And if Nancy Pelosi was a member of, I'd say, most conservative Protestant churches, she would have been gone a long time ago.
That's true.
On the other hand, she's confident that she could hold the Catholic Church in line.
And you're right to say, by the way, that it's not just the Catholics who go in for excommunication, but the more serious Protestant denominations do as well.
But at a certain point, you know, the whole relationship between the church and the state is hopelessly conflicted because the Catholic Church want to be big players.
They want to remain part of the establishment.
That's why they're very agreeable to whatever it is annulling the marriages of all these various Kennedys that seems very bizarre to me.
How many years had Ted Kennedy been married when he, in fact, persuaded the Catholic Church in Massachusetts to rule that that marriage, in fact, had never existed in the eyes of God?
And actually not just Democrat politicians, but Republicans too.
Rudy Giuliani, how many marriages had Rudy Giuliani had?
He said two marriages annulled.
That's great.
How about Newt?
Newt wasn't a Catholic at the time he got through his marriage, so I don't think he was in the annulment business.
But this is the Catholic bishops in the United States have wanted to remain political players.
And on the whole, apart from abortion and contraception, they've been in favor of the big government agenda.
They're all hot for illegal immigration.
They're hot for government health care.
And they've forgotten the big lesson of post-Christian Europe, that as the government grows, everything else gets smaller.
And that is something that they will be living with the consequences.
We'll see.
We'll see.
Maybe this time they will take a stand, and maybe that stand will mean something.
But you got to bet, you got to bet what the way Nancy Pelosi and President Obama and Commissar Sebelius have bet, that they are going to railroad this thing through, that Obamacare, Government health care means the government sets the terms of health care.
The government determines what.
You can't just choose to be insured.
An employer can't choose the particular health care plans that he happens to think meets the needs of his company and which he wishes to offer to his employees.
He now has to find himself providing a whole range of services.
This isn't, by the way, this isn't just a conscious thing for Catholic institutions, but this is something for free-born individuals too.
How can the state compel you?
The state now, this is the issue on which the United States, the first settlers of the United States, came to this continent because they wished to live in accordance with their religious conscience.
That's how the Puritans washed up on Plymouth Rock because of this very issue.
It gets to the very heart of American identity and is the most basic question in the founding of the United States of America.
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How's that Arab Spring going?
It's going gangbusters.
A Libyan militia has been, this is the new free post-Gaddafi Libya.
One of Libya's many new militias detained and questioned to death a former ambassador to France.
Omar Brabesh, a career diplomat who was cultural attaché in Paris, was brought in for routine questioning in Tripoli.
His body then turned up a few hours later at a hospital in Zintan.
Photographs of his body revealed welts and extensive bruising on the abdomen, lacerations on both legs, and a large wound on the sole of the left foot.
Some of his toenails appear to have been removed.
Some of his toenails appear to have been removed.
That's life in the new post-Gaddafi Libya.
How are things going Arab Spring-wise in Egypt?
Egypt defies United States by setting trial for 19 Americans on criminal charges.
From the New York Times, Egypt's military-led government said Sunday that it would put 19 Americans and two dozen others on trial in a politically charged criminal investigation into the foreign financing of non-profit groups that has shaken the 30-year alliance between the United States and Egypt.
And what I find fascinating about this is that the American big shots, Hillary Clinton has issued warnings to the Egyptians.
Barack Obama delivered a warning to Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, who's basically the guy running Egypt.
It's under a military junta.
That's how the Arab Spring is working out so far.
The military junta has been there for a year.
Tantawi's been running things for a year.
Obama sent him a letter two weeks ago warning him not to put the Americans on trial.
40 members of Congress have sent letters making the same threat.
The days of blank checks are over.
Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the Democrat who chairs the spending panel overseeing the aid to Egypt, said in a speech in the United States Senate on Friday, and you know what the Egyptians say?
Nuts, take your money.
If it's a choice between putting these 19 Americans on trial or getting a big check from the United States government, we don't want the check from the United States government.
We'd rather put these guys on trial.
We are watching before our eyes the building of the post-Western Middle East, the post-American Middle East, and in Libya and in Egypt.
In Libya, the guys we sent U.S. airplanes and the rest of NATO in to help have just tortured an ambassador to death.
And in Egypt, the regime that we dismantled, Mubarak, the successor regime, has now put 19 Americans on trial for funding a non-profit group.
It's a beautiful thing, the Arab Spring.
Let's go to Jeffrey in Columbus, Ohio.
Jeffrey, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, thank you.
Yeah, I was just sitting here wondering about, first of all, I have two issues.
One with Clint Eastwood, but let's get to that next.
The first one is the Catholic Church.
Now, for one, why are we giving the Catholic Church money?
And for two, if they don't agree with what's going on, why do they accept the money?
I didn't hear it.
Outrage when these altar boys are being molested.
Well, hey, hey, hey, let's put the altar boys to one side for a moment.
But let's look at it this way, Jeffrey.
Who doesn't get money from the government of the United States?
That is not the question.
The question is about the Catholic Church, is what we're discussing.
Yeah, but that's my point.
That when government gets me, I don't get money from everything.
Yes, you do.
You receive all kinds.
You know exactly what I'm getting at.
Yeah, and I'm saying, and I'm making the point to you, Jeffrey.
I understand your point, and I'm telling you this: that when government gets so big, it's got fingers in everything.
It's got fingers in college loans, it's got fingers in health insurance.
And that's the point about big government, Jeffrey.
Don't get so chippy about it.
Hey, Jeffrey.
No, no, no.
Hey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey, ease up a little and listen to my point.
When the government gives you goodies, gives you little baubles, gives you funding, it has the right to determine everything you do.
It's the point I made in the last.
If the government gives the Catholic Church 2% of its financing for a particular school or hospital, it has the right to determine 100% of what that hospital does.
It's the same thing with colleges, and it's increasingly, it's the same thing with individuals.
Under Romney Care in Massachusetts, some couple who were paying whatever it was $500 a month for health insurance were told that no, they should pay more.
They should pay $1,800 a month for health insurance.
The big government means the government increasingly has control over every aspect of your life.
Go ahead, Jeffrey.
What's your point?
I hear you on that big government.
I mean, that sounds great, but it's really not big government that's going on.
You guys just like to say that.
But anyway, now, why are you turning down an American icon that all he's doing is telling you the truth about another American icon industry?
Now, could you hear what would be going on?
Oh, give me a.
Hey, Jeffrey.
Hey, Jeffrey.
Yeah, Jeffrey, just a minute, Jeffrey.
Do you know who that ad, that Clint Eastwood ad was for?
Say that again?
The Clint Eastwood ad, the American icon that I tore down, as you put it, he was doing a commercial for whom?
He was doing it for the American spirit, which means the surge you could call it work.
Like you guys like to say, the surge.
That was a surge, too, that saved an industry from being no more.
Now, why can't you?
You guys are all American and are American ideals, but then to save an American company, you don't want to do it.
You want to take a look at the business.
Hey, Jeffrey.
Obama for being the first president to let an American industry like that go under.
Hey, Jeffrey, it was a commercial for the Chrysler Motor Company.
You know that?
And weren't they about to go under?
Yeah, the Chrysler Motor Company.
Do you know who owns the Chrysler Motor Company?
What do you mean, who owns it?
I'm sure they have investors, but the thing I'm saying is...
It's 58.5%.
It's 50.
Jeffrey, it's 58.5% owned by Fiat.
Do you know what Fiat is?
Oh, man, listen.
You're playing these word game, but you know the dealerships.
You don't play these trouble.
I'll interested to see when he gets back to Detroit.
Hey, hey, Jeffrey.
I'm going to do that with those people that he was.
Hey, Jeffrey, I love the American spirit, especially when it's 58.5% owned by Italians.
You can't get more American than the Fiat Motor Company.
It couldn't be any more American if it was owned by Perrier.
It couldn't be any more.
Chrysler couldn't be any more American if it was 58.5% owned by Cambert cheese.
That's the American spirit, Jeffrey.
That's what you're cheering there.
Where's Jeffrey gone?
Everything about America, government, everything else, but you try to hide behind the same thing.
Smart people know better.
I mean, you guys play a lot of word games, and if people would just do their own research, I'm not playing word games, I'm talking about corporate ownership.
The fact of the matter is that the Chrysler Motor Company is a majority-owned Italian enterprise.
I'm not saying majority-owned, but there were American jobs saved, American factories saved.
So I don't care about who owns what part of what.
There's a lot of outside entries that own parts of our American company, but that's not the point.
The point is, the American port is the one I'm interested in, not who owns what, where.
Yeah, because there's nothing worried about.
Nothing says made in America like an Italian-owned automobile that's built in the province of Ontario.
Good luck with that, Jeffrey.
The American spirit.
I'm just playing word games.
I know, I know.
I'm not going to play word games anymore.
Word games like corporate ownership structure.
That's just that tricksy kind of stuff that we write with guys trying to do.
Do you know?
This is tragic.
This is tragic because at a certain level, Clint Eastwood, when he says the second half of America is beginning right now, the ownership of Chrysler, which is basically 60% fiat, fiat owns 60% of Chrysler, and the Canadian and American auto unions own what's left between them.
And that's basically what that's that if that is the future of America between majority foreign ownership and rapacious unions that are insisting on the preservation of deals that are no longer justifiable, then there is no second half for America.
It's doomed, it's over, it's done.
But if Jeffrey wants to say, well, wow, that's the American spirit, man, and an Italian-owned corporation that builds its products in the province of Ontario, by golly, you can't get more American.
I'm proud to be an American.
Well, at least I know I'm 60% owned by Fiat.
Yes, that's the American message.
Great.
Oh, I'm just playing word games, Mr. Snurdley.
I'm just playing word games.
Okay, welcome back.
More word games live on the EIB network.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush.
Mark Stein, Inforush on the EIB network, playing word games, playing word games, as Jeffrey accused me of doing.
Jeffrey from Columbus, Ohio.
Jeffrey said, by the way, just as he disappeared from the airwaves, you're not even an American.
What do you know?
That's true.
I'm not even an American.
I'm just like the owners of Chrysler in that respect.
They're not even Americans.
It's amazing how much of that there is out there.
I was on C-SPAN yesterday being interviewed, and somebody tweeted in just before the end of the show.
There's, thank God, only seven minutes more and a real American will be on, because that guy, Thomas Frank, who wrote What's the Matter with Kansas, he was coming on to talk about his book.
But that actually gets to the heart of the It's Halftime in America message at Clint Eastwood.
If you find it irritating to have foreigners on your airwaves and Italian-owned automakers in Detroit, think of what it's going to be like 10 years, 20 years down the line when it's the Chinese Politburo picking out your Rush Limbaugh guest hosts.
You know, it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
By the way, just to connect those two themes that Jeffrey was talking about, because he started talking off, you know, he was playing word games.
He started talking about the Catholic institutions, and then he switched to my dissing of Clint Eastwood's Super Bowl ad.
But the two things will soon merge, the individual-mandated health care and Clint Teastwood's message on behalf of Chrysler Automobiles, because Obama has now got the new, he's got new, at his behest, a cafe, the new CAFE rules, which are the corporate average fuel economy rules.
The Environmental Protection Agency is about to introduce another killer hike in the corporate average fuel economy rules.
They've got to get up from whatever it is, 35 miles per gallon now to 40.9 miles per gallon in 2021 and 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
And this is basically going to clobber what's left of the American automobile industry.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration says there'll be no vehicles costing $15,000 or less.
So college students and low-income consumers, they're not going to be any cars for you.
You're going to be out of the car.
7 million buyers will be forced out of the market for new cars.
And that will, and in effect, according to the projections, that will mean that in effect, as the Washington Examiner puts it, there will in effect be an individual mandate to buy the new Chevy Volt.
So we'll see how that works out for the American automobile industry.
But these are new environmental protection agency standards that are going to push up.
Basically, they're going to stick another 20 miles on the fuel economy costs for United States automobiles.
So it's going to go up from 35 miles to 54.5 miles per gallon.
7 million consumers will, as a result, according to the official calculation, will no longer be able to afford to buy U.S. automobiles.
So they'll be, but don't worry, because by then the high-speed rail link will be on and they'll be fine with that.
And except the U.S. high-speed rail link isn't going to be that high-speed because they'll have the Transport Security Administration guy.
So you'll have to get there two hours before your train leaves to go through all the groping at that.
But this is where Jeffrey is perhaps, you know, sometimes it helps to play the word games and to look at the bigger picture.
Let's go to Mark in Manassas, Virginia.
Mark, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Hello, Mark.
Big fan, and so glad to be able to speak with you today.
You're my favorite guest host.
Hey, that's great to hear.
Thanks for that, Mark.
And I just, I did want to, I didn't call about this, but I also happen to be a refugee from Detroit, a third world city in a first world country.
But what I was calling about is to give you lauds about your new book, After America.
I love the book.
And although it did make me despondent about the prospect of growing government and the needs of certificates and the needs of undergraduate degrees, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Yes, and I'm despondent because you speak, most of us speak about the federal government, but it's the sorcerer's apprentice.
And the government starts at the federal level, morphs into the state, down to the county, down to the city environmental protection agencies and things like that.
It's just, it's the road to serfdom.
And also, because of you, I can't go to an airport without saying the word open Gropensure, or Über Gropensure.
I love the term.
The Uber Gropenführer.
Uber Gropenführer.
My daughter started an internet business, and she got out of the blue a letter from a state bureaucrat saying cease and desist.
No requests for information, no request to dialogue, no nothing, just a cease and desist order.
Right.
And because she's on the internet and people from that particular state logged into her website, they have sent her a cease and desist order.
And now, I mean, she's a young small businesswoman, has 200 people on her website, and a state government has said, sue us.
Yes, but because you sue us, you can't operate in this state.
Yeah, you make a great point, Mark.
We've got to run because we've got to take an EIB profit center here.
But one in 20 Americans needed permission from the state, from the government, to do their job in the 1950s.
Now, one in three Americans need permission from the government to do their job.
Where do you think it's going to be another five or ten years down the line?
Your daughter getting that cease and desist order, that's, again, that strikes at the heart of the American idea.
What kind of America is it where you need the permission from the government to start a business, to do a job, to create wealth?
And that's the America we're not moving towards.
We're deeply mired in already.
Mark in Manassas, Virginia, we'll take more of your calls and lots more on the Rush Limbaugh show straight ahead.
Georgia's top court has struck down a state law that restricted assisted suicides, siding on Monday with four members of a suicide group who said that the law violated their free speech rights.
So the right to assist in the killing of somebody else is a free speech issue, according to the Supreme Court in Georgia.
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