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March 12, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 12, 2012, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Yes, America's anchor man is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein, just another foreign mercenary in the Republican Party's war on women.
I've been down in uh Australia, Australia for the last few weeks.
Uh anything happen uh round here while I was away, HR?
No, no, no.
Okay, no, I just it just seems like kind of odd.
I uh I turned up this morning and the the building was uh surrounded by a huge picket line of members of local forty seven of the amalgamated union of substitute hosts, uh Mark Belling, Mark Davis, Mark Foley, they're all there all wearing uh giant condoms for some reason and demanding that I disassociate myself from associating myself or whatever it was.
Anyway, Rush has suspended himself for the day, and he will but he will be back.
He will be it's just a temporary suspension.
Uh but he will be back tomorrow, and it's a gol it's a golf suspension.
He's oh come on, HR.
He can't still have uh have uh uh have have enough people still willing to associate himself to to make up a round of golf.
That's absolutely absurd.
Uh he's uh he's golfing.
Uh actually Obama, he always golfs alone, doesn't he?
He golfs last, who golfs alone.
Uh but uh Rush is uh golfing today uh during his uh suspension of himself, but he will be back here tomorrow live to associate with himself.
Uh live at uh for for three hours of uh true non-substitute host excellence in broadcasting.
But this in the meantime, this is uh your foreign mercenary in the Republican Party's war on women, and we will try to keep today's show a contraceptive free zone.
No contraceptives need be involved in the making of this radio uh in the radio broadcast.
So if you pick up anything from the show, it's because we're complete we're we're flying completely without protection for the next uh three hours.
So if you're you may be at risk of catching something nasty from this pure undiluted uh right wing hate speech coming to you all the way uh for the next three hours.
You know the the odd thing about the so-called Republican war on women is that the Snake Run media keep telling us that it's a great gift to President Obama and has made him a shoe-in for re-election.
Yet oddly enough, what do we find?
From this morning's Washington Post, ABC News poll, Obama's approval rating is forty-six percent.
His disapproval rating is fifty percent.
Fifty percent.
When it hits that magic number, generally speaking, as as uh incumbent congressmen and senators know, if you hit the fifty percent disapproval rating uh in the run up to election day, you're you're pretty much uh done for.
But uh oddly enough, despite despite the Republicans handing him uh all this uh all this gold uh in the uh in in uh this gift of the war on women.
Uh Obama's disapproval rating is fifty percent.
Fifty-seven percent of those famously sensitive and nuanced independents disapprove of the president.
Fifty-seven percent.
In other words, the guys who dis who d who determine the result of the election, fifty-seven percent of them disapprove of the president.
Sixty-five percent of poll respondents disapprove of Obama's handling of gas prices.
Now I think that's unfair, actually, because uh I don't know what there is to disapprove of in his handling of gas prices.
He actually hasn't done anything about it at all.
Um but uh sixty-five percent of uh poll respondents disapprove of Obama's handling of gas prices.
Fifty percent general disapproval rating.
Uh fifty uh nine percent appr disapprove of his handling of the economy.
You are gonna need a ton of contraceptives uh to bury those numbers.
Uh the uh the energy situation, the gas prices, that's not gonna get any better, by the way.
You know, what's the point of this uh slight improvement in the jobs numbers if you're paying four dollars a gas to drive an hour to a uh a low paying job?
Uh this is an interesting uh associated press story.
Unions may be united in working to re-elect President Barack Obama, but their leaders also are trying to repair bitter divisions over his rejection of an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.
This is the Keystone pipeline that's going to bring all this Canadian oil down through the United States.
Now, oddly enough, it's all going to be going from Albert instead of going from Alberta to Texas, it's going to be going from Alberta to Vancouver and on big containers all the way over to the Chinese.
After the White House blocked the pipeline in January, Labourers Union president Terry O'Sullivan said he was, quote, repulsed by some of our supposed brothers and sisters, lining up with job killers like the Sierra Club and the National Resources Defense Council to destroy the lives of working men and women, unquote.
Get used to it, Labor's Union President Terry O'Sullivan, because uh the modern day Democratic Party is a job killer.
It's not like the Sierra Club, it is the Sierra Club.
It views the United States of America.
Uh it views the United States government uh as a giant Sierra Club, as a kind of uh non profit uh that uh that is there to promote good causes and is entirely disconnected uh from anything so vulgar as uh genuine wealth creation.
Uh but an interesting uh difference of opinion opening up between unions and the President.
one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two, Mark Stein in Farush, we're gonna talk about that and uh and all the rest uh of the day's news.
Uh there's so many wonderful um health uh care innovations around at the moment.
You know, that's that's really what this uh whole business has been with the uh with the birth control debate is that it's uh it's has one it's it's uh it's something you need, uh it has an impact on your health, and therefore the government should mandate it.
Uh in the Wall Street Journal this morning, Alicia Finley has a wonderful open letter uh uh uh of other essential benefits that she thinks uh that uh government health care mandates should impose on employers.
Fitness club memberships.
Most doctors agree that exercising is one of the best ways to prevent disease.
However, gym memberships can run between two hundred and forty dollars and eighteen hundred dollars per year.
Such high prices force us to choose between exercising and buying groceries.
Uh why not require employers to pay for workers' gym memberships?
Coffee.
Studies show that coffee can ward off depression, Alzheimer's disease, type two diabetes, and sleepiness, uh which makes it one of the most powerful preventive treatments.
Uh why shouldn't employers be required uh to cover coffee consumption uh of their employees?
And um I think that I think that's an interesting point.
Uh I going back to this Georgetown University business, uh the some students group and George and Georgetown, the ones who are advocating for uh all this free birth control, uh I love the way they put it.
They say that uh Georgetown discriminates between its faculty and uh and its employees and the students, uh, and that it covers the faculty, it covers the employees, covers the janitors, but it doesn't cover the students, and that's and that's true.
That's like uh that's like complaining when you go to check in at the Hilton Hotel that uh the Hilton's uh health care plan uh covers the bellhops and covers the room service delivery made uh and covers the janitor, but it doesn't cover the guests.
That's that's true.
That's true.
It is uh it is utterly discriminatory.
And I agree with those guys.
I think when you you check into a Hilton, you check into a Comfort Inn, uh you check in you check into the Econo Lodge, he should be covered by their health care plan.
Where where will all these health care innovations get us?
There was a story you may have seen in psychopharmacology recently.
I d I don't know how many of you read psychopharmacology.
It's uh it's great.
I only buy it for the pin ups.
Uh but it was propranolol reduces implicit negative racial bias.
They've found a pill that can cure you of being a racist.
They g it's uh it's an amazing thing.
It's uh it's a common a common well, it's uh I think i it's a white pill, I think, actually.
It's it's a it's a w it's a white it's a white pill, Mike, but it it will cure you of despite that, it's a non racist white pill.
Uh and it will cure you of being a a uh it will cure you of being a racist.
I think this should definitely c be covered.
Employers should have a responsibility to put this in their employees uh water cooler uh so that we eliminate racism among across the fruited plain.
If we put this in uh if if if employers are mandated to cover this pill, which is called uh what is it called again?
Propranol, propranolol.
Um and uh it reduces inbuilt racism.
These are just the headlines.
Uh and uh uh and uh I like this uh I like this uh one left wing website who says this pill should be mandatory for all right wing Republicans, tea bags, Q Klux Klan, people who hate the immigrants and want them deported.
Let's put propanolol in the water supply and stamp out the ugliness of republicanism forever.
Stop being so paranoid and take a chill pill.
Uh I I think they're I think they're putting it in the water.
Are they already putting it in the water?
I'm maybe I'm being paranoid, but I feel less racist right now than I usually do.
Are they already putting it in the water?
Uh anyway, this is this is uh just the kind of medical innovation.
It was developed by a Scottish scientist uh called black.
So even if the pill is white even if the pill is white, the man who invented it is called black.
Uh it targets brain areas that regulate fear.
So you see, you you racist Republicans and Tea Party types out there, you might just uh you might just be paranoid and fearful, irrationally fearful uh about all the good work uh that uh President Obama is doing, but just take these pills a couple of times a day, and you'll soon be feeling uh you'll soon be feeling great.
Uh implicit, by the way, implicit racial bias can occur even in people with a sincere belief in equality.
So just because you think you're not racist doesn't mean you don't need the pill.
I certainly think I certainly hope I certainly hope the president can manage Kathleen Sabilus, Commissar Sabilius.
Uh I certainly hope Commissar Sabilus will be able to get a a government regulation mandating, mandating that employers all cover the non-racist pill uh in the uh in in the in their health care plans.
I think, by the way, Jim Goad uh on the internet, uh I'm not sure what website this comes from, but Jim Goad has a great line on this.
As a friend of mine asked, What's next?
An enema that cures homophobia.
They're working on it.
They're working on it.
Uh one eight hundred-two eight two two eight eight two, uh Mark Stein Infrarush.
We're talking about uh all the news of the day.
We're gonna try and remain a contraceptive free zone.
I know that's impossible in America.
In America, everyone's it's all about contraception now all the time.
Catholic Church is basically just one giant condom dispenser now.
But we're gonna try and keep it a contraceptive free zone uh for the rest of the show and talk about uh Obama's fifty percent uh disapproval uh number.
Uh we'll also talk about uh this uh uh dismal turn in what is already a pathetic and sad dribbling away of the Afghan campaign, this US soldier who killed a dozen civilians uh in uh outlying parts of Kandahar province over the weekend.
And we will talk about all the rest of the day's news too.
One eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two Mark Stein in Farush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in Farusshall, the ERB net.
Well, okay, okay.
Uh one one one more uh contraceptive thing.
This uh over the weekend uh from CBS Detroit, man shot at Detroit gas station reportedly over price of condoms.
A man was shot and killed Friday night after an apparent dispute over the price of condoms at a Detroit gas station.
WWJ's Beth Fisher spoke to an employee at the BP gas station on Fenkel and Myers, uh, where the shooting took place.
Uh the employee said the argument was apparently over the price of a box of condoms.
He said the customer bought a box of condoms but made a comment that he was overcharged and could have bought them somewhere else for a cheaper price.
After being told he couldn't get a refund, the customer allegedly began tossing items off the shelves.
That's when, according to the employee, the overnight clerk came out with a gun and fired a warning shot which struck the customer in the shoulder.
Police say the customer was taken to a local hospital where he later died from his injuries.
Ron Scott with the Detroit coalition against police brutality say they are working on conflict resolution between gas station owners and Detroiters.
Uh uh uh something they will be discussing at a meeting on Sunday.
This is why we need government mandates for contraceptives, folks.
They are killing them they're killing each other over condoms at a Detroit gas station.
BP, by the way, uh that's uh British petroleum.
Uh they don't use that anymore, though.
Remember their ads uh beyond petroleum.
And then uh and then after they had the uh troubles with the Gulf, uh the big spill in the Gulf, uh, and uh they were the bogeyman, the preferred bogeyman of the Obama administration for a while.
By the way, uh British Petroleum uh were basically Obama's uh and the Democratic Party's uh preferred oil company.
They uh they were massive donors to the Democratic Party.
They were on board with all the environmental climate change nonsense.
They basically had the same relationship.
BP had the same relationship with the Democratic Party that Total FINA ELF, the uh French oil company had with Saddam Hussein.
And a fat lot of good it did them because when it came time for Obama to toss them under the bus, he did it gleefully.
So they were uh British petroleum, and then they started they turned their logo into a daisy or whatever whatever it's meant to be, and became beyond petroleum.
And today they've just announced a seven billion dollar settlement uh with people in the Gulf region, uh so they were um uh uh what were they uh British Petroleum Beyond Petroleum now, BP big payout.
Uh although if you're buying condoms at a Detroit gas station, it's BP better protection.
Anyway, they've got problems at both ends now.
They've got problems in the Gulf with massive payouts, and they got problems uh with uh with BP gas station nightclerks shooting people over condoms.
This is why we need a government mandate stop the senseless killing, folks.
This is why we need the government to take over over the supply of contraceptives.
Maybe this is just the rumors that the Republican Party are gonna prevent you having sex when they take power.
When they come to power, they're not gonna let you have any sex.
And that's why there's already a rush on condoms at Detroit gas stations.
Uh but that's uh that's uh that's the way it looks in Detroit.
They're they're killing each other over condoms in Detroit.
Now what's the bigger picture here?
one eight hundred, two eight two, two eight eighty two, Mark signed for rush.
What's the bigger picture?
Uh I was thinking about all this, and I remembered a uh piece I'd read somebody sent me by an Indian uh professor, Professor Vyadyanathan, who's a uh professor in uh Bangalore in India.
And uh and he says that uh he he puts really what's happening with this whole sort of attitude with contraceptives and health care mandates and all the rest of it in in the kind of broader context.
He looks at the declining weakness, the the the ongoing weakness of the West.
In nineteen ninety, the G7 uh was responsible for fifty-one percent of global GDP, and the emerging nations were responsible, that's China, India and so forth, were responsible for about thirty-six percent.
Uh in two thousand and eleven, that is precisely reversed.
In other words, in twenty years, uh the uh G7 share of global GDP and the emerging nations like China and India and so forth have reversed.
And he says the crisis faced by the West is primarily because i of a six-letter word called family.
The West has nationalized families over the last sixty years.
Old age, ill health, single motherhood, everything is the responsibility of the state.
Now this guy, by the way, he's in the he's a professor in India and he's got a touch of sort of post-imperial chippiness about him.
He's not anybody's idea of a right winger.
He'd be the kind of guy liberals would love.
If he popped up on national public radio or PBS, uh liberals would love this guy.
He's not in any sense right wing.
He's making a very uh simple point here.
The West has nationalized families over the last sixty years.
Old age, ill health, single motherhood, everything is the responsibility of the state.
And when family when that's the case, why do you need to save?
That's why household savings, America was the biggest saver.
American families were the biggest savers on the planet in nineteen eighty.
Now they're the biggest debtors.
Household savings are negative in the US.
Total jet debt to GDP ratio is up to four hundred percent in many Western nations.
The fact is the West is facing a total demographic crisis.
It was responsible at one point for twenty five percent of global population.
Now it's down to eleven percent and expected to shrink to three percent in another twenty years.
Uh this Indian professor says Europe is going to disappear from the world map unless migrants from Africa and Asia take it over.
And he puts it down to a single thing the nationalization of the family.
Once upon a time government's nationalized industries now they've nationalized us.
Yes, Rush is away today, suspended himself for the day he's off uh playing golf uh but he will return live tomorrow at twelve noon eastern.
Uh this is Mark Stein, a a mere foreign mercenary in the Republican Party's war against women.
The war against women I love it.
I I rappelled into an IUD factory and blew it up this morning just on the way to work just to make me feel good.
Uh the war against uh war against women.
Let us go to uh let us go to Brent in Charleston, West Virginia.
Brent, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
A pleasure to talk to you, Mr. Stein.
I'm calling about the fuel prices.
We are I am thinking the middle class and everybody's thinking because of the fuel prices.
He the president told us when he'd run he'd bring the prices of fuel down.
It never even happened.
He didn't even look at it.
Look what his policy has done.
Well look he when when wait a minute just just a minute Brent when did he say he was gonna when did he say he was going to bring uh gas prices down?
I don't remember him saying that he said that to run and I'm against George Bush on his election he was compla they were complaining about fuel prices back then and he said he'd bring fuel prices down, energy prices down.
I see nothing but everything my power bill, my gas bills tri almost tripled and I I don't see no end in sight.
Well here's here's the here's the bad news Brent Stephen Chu, who is uh who is the energy secretary in the Obama administration, uh he came into office uh uh saying that we have to this is a quote we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe unquote.
So if you don't like gas at four bucks a gallon, the goal of Stephen Chu, the Obama energy secretary, is to double them or triple them.
He's he's thinking of eight, ten, twelve dollars a gallon uh like the guys pay over in Europe totally ridiculous.
He will not he will not win this reelection on the gas prices alone.
It is sinking the the American people we can't afford it.
Hey well hey here's another here's another thing.
I'm just uh I'm just riffling through uh my my file of uh Obama nonsense from two thousand and eight uh and here's what he said in two thousand and eight uh he said that people were angry about the rapid increase in prices uh uh as opposed to the price themselves and that and that what he was in favor of would be a more gr quote gradual adjustment uh to the present cost.
So whether he wants it may be the case that his energy secretary wants you to pay uh ten dollars a gallon for gas but Obama Obama's position is that he's in favor uh of getting it up to four, five, six, seven, eight dollars a gallon, but he just thinks it should creep up slowly as opposed to happening uh say in the few months before an election here.
Uh and uh and so that's the that's the point.
Uh this guy this is the Brent, there's not there's nothing difficult here.
He's not in favor uh of uh a buck fifty gas.
Remember do you remember it's not so long ago that gas was a buck fifty?
Remember that, Brent?
When I was growing up, it was fifty cents a gallon when I lived in Alabama and uh then we had the gas wars and they were going to uh do this energy thing, and I I never happened around it.
Well you don't have to go uh you don't have to go back to when it was fifty cents a g uh gallant in your in your childhood, because it was like uh it was like a buck fifty uh with it within the last uh decade, a dec, you know, whatever it was just before uh nine eleven or so it wasn't uh it wasn't that high.
The uh because of the because of the whole environmental business, uh Obama and Stephen Chew and all the clever people think you are driving around too much.
W what do you drive in, Brent?
What what vehicles?
In a what?
Honeston.
Okay, what is what is that?
Uh it's a uh Korean built car.
Right, okay.
So you're not driving around like in the big BMW that Stephen Chew the energy.
Well, the energy s the energy secretary's wife drives around in a BMW that gets gonna believe it.
I can say for land is the top of the line for us.
No.
Well, that's the that's the thing is that uh they think uh that she should be allowed uh the the energy secretary thinks that his wife should drive around in a BMW, but all you guys uh should be in a thing that's the size of the cup holder in the average American pickup truck.
You should be driving around, instead of driving around in a Chevy Silverado, you should be driving around in a Chevy cup holder, a tiny little thing like they drive around in in Europe, and better yet, you shouldn't even be in that little car.
Uh you should be on the high speed uh Joe Biden Memorial High Speed Rail Link or you should be on a municipal bus.
And the and the reason for this is to save the planet.
And of course it's not to save the planet.
Uh it's essentially a means of control.
Uh that that uh that freedom of movement is fine in theory uh when it's Mrs. Stephen Chew driving around in her BMW, but if you just let everybody do it, if you let Brent in Charleston, West Virginia go around with freedom of movement, there goes the neighborhood.
And so there's nothing the idea that Obama is in favor of gas prices being a buck fifty a gallon again, uh is ridiculous.
Four dollars t for him and Stephen Chew is where it's gonna be.
Is is a good place for it to be.
He'd be happy for it to be six dollars, eight dollars, ten dollars.
They're not bothered about this.
Why what difference does it make to the governing class?
Uh Obama has a 40-car motorcade uh when that accompanies him when he goes around in his ridiculous uh Canadian weaponized bus when he pretends to visit some small town out on the prairie uh and on either side of the Canadian weaponized bus are twenty vehicles full of Secret Service agents uh and they're all paying four dollars a gallon.
He doesn't care 'cause Brent in Charleston, West Virginia picks up the tab for that.
So he has no plans to lower gas prices.
He's not bothered about gas prices.
As I said, the government of the United States now thinks of itself as the Sierra Club.
It thinks of itself as a kind of non profit uh that c that can afford to maintain the United States as some kind of theme park.
So we don't need to have any unsightly oil rigs off our shores or in the uh Arctic n uh national what what's it called?
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to uh the world's most uh pristine mosquito breeding grounds.
We don't need to disturb that uh by having anything uh so vulgar as uh oil exploration.
We don't even need even if the oil comes from elsewhere, even if it comes from Alberta, north of the border, we don't need to to have some unsightly underground pipeline that nobody can even see.
But even just the thought and and the and the country is crisscrossed with pipelines anyway, but just the thought, the thought of that that brand new pipeline having all that beastly horrible energy in it, uh running down from Alberta to Texas.
Uh just the thought of that is so offensive, is so offensive uh to environmentalists who care about the planet that they would rather that it was put on big container ships and all that oil went across the Pacific Ocean to China, which by the way is far more damaging to the planet uh than uh just putting it in a pipeline and sending it from Alberta to Texas.
And by the way, all the oil that has to come from the Middle East uh by container ship to the United States uh instead of that oil coming from Alberta to Texas, that too is more damaging to the planet.
Uh the whole point, I thought, of environmentalism was to think globally but act locally.
They've acted locally, but nobody's thinking globally, because the net result of Obama's pandering to the S Sierra Club on the pipeline ban, is that it actually is worse for the environment if you think of the planetary environment, which environmentalists are meant to.
So if it's all about saving the planet, Obama's pipeline ban actually makes the planet worse.
He's destroying the planet.
The great savior, the man who promised to lower the oceans, the oceans are roiling uh with container ships taking all the oil from uh Vancouver over to China and all the oil from the Middle East over to the United States.
He's actually destroying the planet.
The great savior of the planet in pandering to the Sierra Club has made the planet's environment w worse.
Because it's uh i it's it's about uh an I it's with with liberals it's always about the ideological pose.
The practical result of it is always entirely irrelevant.
Thanks for your call, Brent.
Uh great to have you uh with us on the show.
Mark Stein in Farush one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two rush has suspended himself but he will return on the EIB network tomorrow.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Barbara in Avon, Connecticut.
Uh what a what a melliflous sounding town Barbara an Avon lady from which whereabouts in Connecticut is Avon, Connecticut about twenty minutes west of Hartford.
Okay, very very nice.
And great to have you with us on the show today, Barbara what's uh what's on your mind?
Mark well during the Nixon administration, wasn't the E the D um Department of Energy put together then?
Isn't that when it got started?
Uh I think the Department of Energy actually is is one of the malign legacies of uh the Carter administration.
Uh I think he he founded he founded it after um uh after the whole uh business with the uh nineteen seventy three uh oil uh spike in prices and all that I remember waiting at the pumps for many hours uh uh but I think that we've spent billions of dollars on that department and they've done nothing.
No I think they should all be fired.
Well but the but that depends on what you think the point of them is.
The point of the Department of Energy uh which which as I said is a Carter Administration invention is not to enable uh America to become booming in energy.
It the idea of the Department of Energy isn't that we it should preside over uh oil licenses uh offshore in the uh waters of the United States or opening up the uh the the mosquito breeding grounds in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that's not the idea of it.
The Department of Energy uh is designed to to to constrain and regulate and depress and shrink and shrivel the opportunity.
That's why you create a government uh c government department.
It's Mrs. Thatcher's uh favor famous line when uh when I can't remember what it was now about some problem or other and uh a cabinet minister suggested they create a cabinet department to deal with it and she said no no and uh if we do that we'll never be rid of it.
And she's quite right.
The Department of Energy was was created by Jimmy Carter in Malay's mode as a means of managing American decline.
It's a complete waste of time.
The Republican Party has been pledged to abolish it for over thirty years now and and even this stupid pointless little rinky dink nothing department that is entirely irrelevant has not been abolished by the Republican Party, which is which is not encouraging when it comes to driving a stake through Obamacare as needs to be done after the next election, Barbara.
Right so the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission uh does something different from the Department of Energy they regulate in a different way because they regulated me.
They stopped me from generating hydropower and told me I would go to jail.
Really?
Where were you generating hydropower in in in Connecticut?
Yes on the Farmington River.
Really?
And they and they said and and they said that's within the f jurisdiction of a federal body that's that said you would go to jail if you were to uh if you were to use the Yeah, you know that's fascinating, 'cause like my uh little town in New Hampshire.
The only reason it exists is because there's a stream running through the little village.
And when people came here, they thought, wow, there's a st a stream here, so we can run sawmills and uh the industrial revolution with the city.
Yeah, that they put up the England.
Yeah, and you had so you had all these uh little you don't need actually uh a terribly big stream in order to to run uh a small sawmill.
So uh in this rather miserable and pathetic little brook of mine, they had these little mills all along the river, and that's how the village grew, the village grew up.
And now, of course, as you say, uh there's some federal regulatory authority that will threaten to put you in jail if you were to do anything like that again.
So in other words, if we'd had these bodies around two hundred years ago, there would have been no United States 'cause you wouldn't have been able to go and you wouldn't be able to go into the hills and mountains uh and the Great Beyond and the Frontier and settle them and do stuff there because the Federal Regulatory Authority would say, no, you can't do that.
Whatever you want to do, uh we're gonna shut you down about it.
You're you're right about that, Barbara.
I believe that might be how long ago was this that you uh you were told you couldn't do this?
It was in the uh the eighties, the seventies, late seventies and the eighties, all through the eighties, and we we did everything they told us to do.
We spent about a hundred and forty thousand dollars putting together a license application, which once it's submitted can be copied by anybody in the country, and they can then submit a license application.
Right, right.
This is this is the amount license on your property.
But you know, but you know, Barbara, that's where you went wrong.
You should uh you should have done what the Keystone Pipeline guys, this uh Trans Canada, the Canadian company did.
They they spent I don't think it was a hundred and forty thousand.
They spent closer to fourteen million on paperwork, and they still didn't get it.
So i that that's the whole point of that stuff.
No matter how much you spend to jump through the hoops, they're law they can always come up with one last hoop uh and prevent you from uh prevent you from doing it.
Thanks.
Thanks for your call, Barbara.
You know, that's um that's actually a very good point uh she makes when she th the whole point about the Department of Energy is not uh it was created in the wake of the uh oil crisis of nineteen seventy-three when the OPEC boys decided boom uh we're gonna we're we're gonna bring the West to its knees.
And uh and and so if the if the Department of Energy, if Carter uh had had any sense in his response uh when he became president uh in uh early nineteen seventy-seven to that oil crisis, uh if it had really been intended to ensure that the United States would never be vulnerable uh to anything like the nineteen seventy-three oil crisis ever again, uh then obviously we would be we would be drilling everywhere.
But all Obama says, all Obama says is we can't just drill our way out of this.
Obama is the handringer par excellence.
When you ask him about oil prices, the only thing he says is, Oh, we can't just drill our way out of this.
There's nothing we can do.
There's nothing he can do.
He says it's foolish to think you can drill your way out of this.
Nobody's asking him to drill your way out of this.
All all all he was being asked to do with the pipeline is pipeline your way out of this.
Uh but he's he won't even let that happen.
Uh the uh no, it's it doesn't matter what it is.
It doesn't matter it's oil, gas, it doesn't matter whether it's nuclear energy, doesn't matter whether it's electricity.
They want to regulate you into smaller, meaner, more cramped, more restricted lives.
To go back to what Brent was saying, uh driving around.
It's about restricting your m it's about restricting the your horizons and your ability uh to live your life to its fullest potential.
The Department of Energy does not exist uh to enable the United States to become energy independent.
It exists to manage and regulate and shrivel uh the American spirit into smaller, meaner, shrunken lives.
Mark Stein for Rush, more straight ahead.
Hey, it's uh Boogie Wonderland on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Occupy Wall Street is running out of money and says it only has enough funds left.
It says it will be broke in three weeks.
It will need a corporate bailout in three weeks.
It's down to its 45,000, last 45,000 dollars.
This is an organization which uh within a couple of days uh of uh setting up camp at Wall Street in last September had raised over half a million dollars.
It had the support of uh Ben and Jerry, remember the hippie-dippy Vermont ice cream makers and wholly owned subsidiary of the Anglo-Dutch Multinational Unilever.
All these groups who supported it, they have uh had hundreds of thousands of dollars occupy Wall Street.
It has gone and left no trace.
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