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March 23, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 23, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two, you can talk about anything.
Uh you can talk about Obamacare.
It's costing twice as much as Obama said it was going to cost.
It's only been two years.
And in fact, it hasn't really got going.
But it's already costing twice as much as it was supposed to cost.
Will the Republican president elected in November and the Republican House and a Republican Senate, let's assume all three fall into place.
Will they drive a stake through this thing?
Will they f what were we talking about in the last hour?
Silver bullets, magic bullets?
Whatever it is, will they pump this thing full of silver bullets and ensure that it does not rise from the dead to stagger around terrorizing the nation?
Will they have the guts to do that?
The Democrats have made a bet, you know.
The Democrats have made a bet that even if things don't go their way in November, uh that uh whatever uh arrangements prevail in Congress, the a Republican Washington will not have the guts to kill this thing.
And by the way, this is the twenty twelve election.
None of the goodies, the way this this uh accounting fraud was set up uh to to to to bring in the official Obama figure uh for this thing at under a trillion dollars was that uh none of the lollipops are handed out in the first four years.
The the uh the the lollipops don't kick in until four years.
In other words, they're due to start midway through this next presidential term.
What that means then is that you will be in the uh you will be in the situation at twenty sixteen where uh any candidate from uh the Republican Party will be having to run against an entitlement whose goodies are already being handled handed out.
And you know how difficult that is with uh Social Security, with Medicare, with Medicaid.
What are the odds if it isn't if it if Obamacare isn't killed in this term, uh, that Republican candidates will have uh the the uh the determination to kill it uh in twenty in the election in twenty sixteen.
Don't forget, by the way, this is a party that has pledged to abolish uh the Department of Education for thirty-two years now.
This a third of a century.
The Department of the Federal Department of Education and the Federal Department of Energy, they're not even associated with a successful president.
They're associated with the biggest floppo president of the modern era, uh until uh uh until recent years, uh, and that's Jimmy Carter.
And y and yet two little rinky dink departments that the uh Republican Party has been officially pledged to abolish uh for a third of a century are still there.
The Department of Education has its own SWAT team.
They kicked down the guy the door of some guy in California uh last year for uh for him improperly claiming a student loan or you know, improperly putting in for a student loan or something.
Turned out as usual, they'd got the wrong door, but they uh they they they arrived there in the full Robocop, kip kicked the door down and drag the guy out.
You know, th there's there's wasteful education budgets all over the Western world.
But the Federal s uh Secretary of Education in Washington is the only education minister in the Western world with his own SWAT team.
He doesn't employ any teachers, but he has a SWAT team.
And yet he's still there.
And yet Paul Ryan, as great as Paul Ryan is, still foresees a world in which it is entirely normal for the education minister to have his own personal SWAT team.
And that is that is why you want to think long and hard about this Obamacare business.
You want to because if it is not killed stone dead in this next term, it will never be dead.
And as I said in my book this this is the biggest dividing line.
You cross this Rubicon and you never get back.
Because government health care is the point at which the relationship between the citizen and the state changes for all time into something closer to junkie and pusher.
And and yes you still have right of center parties in countries with government health care and what are they doing?
They're they're basically claiming to be able to run they're not claiming to roll back the liberal state.
Heaven forbid, they're not going to roll back the left wing big government state, but they do claim to be able to run it better.
And if you and if you look at uh France where Chirac and Sarkozy are uh conservatives, Dominique de Villipin, do you remember him?
Uh Rush used to have great sport with his name.
He he was this fellow with Fabi he had hair like Fabio and he had a and he wrote books of for French poetry.
And he's what a conservative is in France.
You know, I'm not saying anything I'm I'm partial to French poetry myself and I may grow out my own locks.
But the but the point is uh that's what right or center guys are in other countries.
They're people who can run uh the left wing who who uh who sell themselves to the public on being able to the run the left wing state more efficiently.
So if the guy elected in November and the House elected in November and the Senate elected in November is not going to kill Obamacare stone dead in this term, then you've got to be very doubtful that in the twenty sixteen election uh people are gonna be people are going to be eager to run on rolling back Obamacare.
And that by the way, uh makes for makes America's uh fate, which is not foreordained at the moment, but that will make it a feder accompli, because basically this thing alone will be sucking up a quarter of a trillion dollars.
That's on the official CBO estimates right now, which we all know are mumbo jumbo.
By the time we get to it it'll be a lot more than that and what it will mean what it will mean by the way is that uh a couple of decades down the line you won't even be able to make the jokes about the socialist basket cases anymore because uh because the United States in combined federal state municipal government spending the whole shebang will actually be spending more than most of these European socialist utopias as a share of GDP.
So you've got to get rid of it this time round you've got to have a guy who's willing to get rid of it.
Do you think do you think Republican candidates not just at the presidential level are serious about killing this thing stone dead.
one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two we'll talk about other things too the Susan G. Coman for the cure breast cancer charity the purge goes on do you remember this they they uh they got into a little bit of difficulty because uh they announced that they weren't going to going to um give money to Planned Parenthood anymore because Planned Parenthood doesn't do uh breast referrals and uh mammograms doesn't do mammograms.
And uh and uh so they weren't there was you know they why would you fund Planned Parenthood?
So but you disrespect as as somebody in over at the reproductive rights correspondent at Mother Jones put it in a triumphalist tweet.
You come at Cecile Richards, the the president of Planned Parenthood, you come at Cecil Richards, you best not miss so they were seen to be disrespecting Cecil Richards at Planned Parenthood.
They were seen to be disrespecting big abortion and so the Susan G. had to be whipped into line.
They're the ones who gave us these awareness raising ribbons.
You know the pink ribbons now when you have the breast cancer awareness thing and they give you these pink ribbons uh and and you show to show you've got your aw awareness raised of breast cancer.
I don't know who isn't aware of uh breast cancer.
It'd be nice to have a cure for some of these things, but instead the most of the energy seems to be go f to the awareness raising ribbons now.
Uh I think my current favorite is uh they've they've run out of colored for they've got periwinkle for acid reflux.
And for amniotic fluid embolisms, the official ribbon is a pink and blue ribbon.
So we've had tremendous breakthroughs in hues of awareness raising ribbons, but we have not had uh any cure for these things that these ribbons are supposed to be a raising the awareness of.
Anyway, so they were the guys who've done they've raised this woman, the woman who ran uh the uh co Susan G. Coman Foundation, she's raised two billion dollars uh for uh breast cancer.
It doesn't matter.
She disrespected Planned Parenthood, so she had to have the old tire iron taken to her and be whipped back into line.
Uh and so they certainly Planned Parenthood certainly raised her awareness.
And uh I think that comes with a black and blue ribbon, actually.
But anyway, it goes on.
It goes on.
The whole thing isn't done yet.
Five executives of the Susan G. Foundation have been purged.
Three officials from the Dallas headquarters, as well as the CEOs of affiliate groups in Oregon and New York City.
Uh the chairman of the foundation has also stepped down from his post.
This is this is uh this is liberalism.
The big enforcers of liberalism, they don't brook any dissent.
You know, Rick Santorum can get away with with uh disrespecting Mitt Romney and Newt can get away with this, and nothing happens to them.
But on the other side of the ledger, they're brutal.
You wander off the reservation even for five minutes, and boom, they whip you back into line.
So massive purges going on in the wake of uh Coman then, by the way, reversed their decision and said they were going to continue funding uh Planned Parenthood, uh having been uh having been beaten, having had their little pink ribbon beaten into a black and blue ribbon by the uh the enforcers of big abortion.
And uh but the but the turmoil goes on.
Five high ranking executives from the Susan G. Coman breast cancer charity have been purged from its ranks.
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Let's go to Ron in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
Ron I've got uh I've got the world's smallest call screen uh at the moment for some reason.
It's due to budgetary cutbacks, and uh so it just says that Ron wants to talk about two things.
I have no idea what thing A or thing B is.
But Ron, go for it, it's open line Friday.
Well, uh basically I wanted to talk to you about gasoline.
Uh by the way, it's a privilege to speak with you, sir.
And it's good to talk with you too.
Rich Lowry was comparing the bolt with the Edzel.
Right.
Uh I see one big difference between those two.
Uh people nowadays actually want edsels.
You read the collector magazine.
Right, right.
I don't think that's gonna be the case in uh thirty years with that with a pug ugly bolt.
But uh main thing I called about was gasoline.
Uh I think that gasoline has been a racket for decades.
Uh this is nothing new.
What else in your life do you buy by the fraction of a cent?
What else do you buy that you know do you buy a pack of gum for seventy-nine point nine cents?
No, that you're you're referring to these things when you drive past the gas station, it says uh gas is now three dollars eighty-nine and nine tenth cents.
Right.
What else by that they charge you nine tenths of a cent for?
Just get rid of that stupid thing.
If it says three eighty-nine nine, it's three ninety.
You gotta buy ten gallons before you save a penny.
It's it's ridiculous.
Uh that's a very good point.
All cars had that little sticker by the fuel door that said unleaded fuel only.
That's right.
They said it costs more to remove the lead.
But no, no, that's not why lead it unleaded gas cost more.
Leaded gas was leaded with tetraethyl lead, which was a manufactured product, had to be blended with the gasoline.
So therefore there was more processes in the manufacturing, but leaded gas should have cost more.
But no, they always charged a dime more per gallon for the unleaded gas back in the seventies.
And now and now the gas has got this ethn what is it, ten percent ethanol or something that they're putting in it now?
Yeah, well, I was gonna come to that.
Right.
I was gonna come to that.
Okay, go go to the ethanol then.
Okay.
Well, there's one other quick mention of the ExxonVelds when it went aground, they said they had to charge five cents a gallon to clean it up.
Right.
Uh well, I could understand if that was Exxon, but then why did Sinoco and Shell and Amaco and all the other attack on a nickel too?
And why did that nickel never come off?
Right.
Uh as far as ethanol, uh have you do you have any idea what ethanol and gasoline is doing to small engines like your lawnmower engine and hedge trimmers and uh weed whackers and so forth.
It is absolutely destroying small engines.
Not to mention the loss of miles per gallon in your car because it's the one that's efficient fuel.
Yeah, my trusty assistant is uh she's shaky uh uh she's a a devout gardener and she's she's she's uh she's sighing with recognition that you've got a you in other words the uh your your little weed whacker will will expire and die uh uh a couple of years sooner than it would have, and you're gonna have to buy a new one and uh and get that and as you say, the uh mileage uh by the way, on these things is worse.
We've taken we've uh th the the other thing I find, and I'm I've never been able to track this down or whether it's just my paranoia, is that the ethanol the ethanol when you put the ethanol in, it seems to make the uh the uh actual uh gas pump run slower.
Do you know anything about that, Ron?
No, I don't know anything about that.
I've never noticed it.
Uh I have several antique cars that knows there's one station in Harrisburg that still sells ethanol free gas, so that's all I run in those.
But the car I drive every day is a nineteen ninety-one Imperial.
And you know, it's got a three three V six in it.
But you know, with the uh ethanol fuel, I get right around twenty mile of the gallon with that thing.
But back when I lived in Ohio and I was still running ethanol free fuel, I was getting twenty three twenty-three and a half, twenty-four miles per gallon in.
So you're having to fill up more by using the ethanol gas.
And uh we've we've done something which is almost unbelievably stupid, is we have taken we have taken a basic food product and made it part of the energy supply.
So we have actually distorted uh the basic food chain in all kinds of the world.
You may remember all parts of the world, you may remember a couple of years ago it was leading to kind of strange food riots in Haiti and Africa and other places, uh because because people are great, instead of growing corn to feed the starving masses of the third world, they're now growing corn uh to stick in your environmentally friendly Chevy Liberal mobile.
So uh it's caused all kinds of it's caused all kinds of artificial distortions, right?
And that's basically a a Congress EU mandate.
I think both Congress and the EU uh have agreed uh uh uh basically uh mandated that you gotta have a percentage of ethanol in the in the fuel now, uh if I'm right if I'm right.
Example of government messing about things that it has no knowledge of.
Well, I sure hope that the next president ends ethanol subsidies and puts an end to this doggone ethanol stuff.
I'm tired of rebuilding lawnmower engines.
Okay.
Look, Ron, uh uh you know, the president knows what's best for you.
Uh here's my suggestion.
Just put the algae in the lawnmower, right?
The president says algae, algae is the magic bullet as he sees it.
Algae, put stick the algae in your lawnmower, stick the algae in your weed whacker, it'll be uh they'll be calling it the algae whacker.
That's uh that's all you need, Ron.
Thanks, uh thanks for your call.
Great uh great to talk with you.
That was Ron in Elizabeth Town, Pennsylvania.
Who was who's Eli I should have asked him?
He's uh he's gone now.
Who who's Elizabeth Town uh named after Mike?
Uh you got any got any clue on that?
Mike's uh Mike's baffled by both yeah, Elizabeth.
No, I know it's somebody called Elizabeth.
I'm making the point.
Like I'm uh I'm a subject uh of her Canadian Majesty.
So when you like I mentioned uh uh the road between Buffalo and Toronto, if you come and see me being Dick Cheney, it's called the Queen Elizabeth Way.
That's named after Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, the Queen present Queen's mother.
That's who Elizabeth, if you come across something called Elizabeth in Canada, it's named after the present Queen Elizabeth or her mom.
I just wondered what big big shot Elizabeth was uh roaming around Pennsylvania.
D oh oh Elizabeth Taylor, yeah, maybe you're right.
Maybe that's who Elizabethville.
I well, I'm in favor of renaming renaming Elizabethville, Pennsylvania, uh like the like the Little Rock Municipal Airport, which is now going to be renamed the Bill and Hillary Clinton International Mega Airport.
Uh I am in favour of renaming Elizabethville, Pennsylvania as Bill and Hillaryville, Pennsylvania.
I think that's got a nice uh nice ring to it.
So maybe we could just rename uh or maybe Robert C. Byrd ought to start expanding beyond West Virginia.
Robert C. Birdville, Pennsylvania.
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Let us go to Sam in Oakland, California.
Sam, you're live on the Rush Limbo show.
Great to have you with us.
I'm doing I'm doing good, and uh good to have you with us.
What's on your mind today?
Okay, I'm pretty upset at Obama because when the Afghan president called American soldiers demons when he has a time today to call that little Nancy and say like, oh, sorry Rush called you a slut.
But you can't say tell him stop calling the people that are defending his country.
You know?
Because of one individual is telling us all in the mix.
What about them when one of them blew themselves up?
Or one of those soldiers killed Americans.
You know, you're you're absolutely right about this, and you know why?
It was because it would take more guts to get on the phone and tell Hamid Karzai watch it what you think.
Now this is you're referring uh to Hamid Karzai's statement.
I think he did this, by the way, uh when he was uh meeting with uh Medvedev, uh and he he basically uh told he he uh Karzai said that his country is plagued by quote two demons, the Taliban and American soldiers.
Uh and that that is hideous.
This guy Karzai, by the way, is an American client.
He's only alive because he's protected by Western soldiers.
Hamid Karzai would be dead, like every other.
You know, uh f since uh they deposed King Zahe back in the seventies.
Every single president of uh Afghanistan has concluded his term by being deceased.
Uh his term ends when he ends.
They're all hung from lamp posts, dragged through the bodies their bodies dragged through the streets, all the rest of it.
That's how presidents of Afghanistan have wound up uh ever since King Zahir was toppled in the seventies.
And this revolting, corrupt, disgusting individual Kazai, uh who was put on his throne in Kabul by the force of American arms, and who has been kept alive this last decade by a phalanx of Western soldiers, now says his country is plagued by quote two demons, unquote, the Taliban and American soldiers.
Uh And it's and and that I think it's interesting for Obama, the so-called reset button that uh David Cameron was talking about when he was over here a couple of days ago that Obama had pressed in the world.
This is a man who is so influential.
This tells you this is really speaks very poorly for the state of the hyperpower uh uh uh in the second decade of the twenty first century.
You accept that, okay, Ahmadinajad's not gonna be too keen on you.
You accept that the uh Politburo in Beijing's gonna have a few rough things to say about it.
You expect the the the Putin uh isn't gonna be too keen on this or that.
We are talking here about a man who uh who lives only because there are Americans protecting him.
Uh and by the way, by the way, a man who, even after he's gotten rid of the demons, the demons, uh the American soldiers, he expects the West to fund his joke Afghan army uh at a cost of four billion dollars a year.
And I know that doesn't I know that doesn't uh sound a lot in American terms, that's just a rounding error in the average Obama line item.
But four billion dollars goes a long way in a rubble strewn hellhole like Afghanistan.
And this is the Afghan army, by the way, uh, that uh has been responsible for what they call green on blue violence.
This is where Afghan soldiers trained by NATO forces, uh, go berserk and and uh start killing uh their their the the men they know very well, the men who've trained them and paid for them.
Uh they turn their guns on Americans, they turn their guns on other NATO soldiers.
Uh this happens routinely.
It happens so routinely that as I said, the Pentagon's got a term for it, green on blue.
The guy who went berserk and killed sixteen civilians the other day, he's a one off.
He's an anomaly.
But these guys, these guys the the Afghan army violence against their minders, against their friends, against their trainers, against the people who pay them, uh is so routine the Pentagon has a term for it, uh green on blue violence.
Karzai expects to be able to call Americans demons, yet still get the demon to pay up for his squalid, corrupt, disgusting regime.
You know, the best thing we can do, and it's probably the case that uh uh Afghanistan is lost, it's just gonna be yet another lost American war uh from the last two thirds of the century, and yet another unwon.
Let me rephrase that, an unwon American war.
We'll put it more politely, Korea, Vietnam, helicopters in the desert, uh Moggad issue, Gulf War I, now we got Afghanistan.
Yet another unwon war.
But the one thing uh uh we know about Afghanistan is that Hamid Karzai and everyone around him, uh the Taliban, whatever one feels about them, are popular.
Kazai's kleptocrat regime isn't.
And Karzai's plan is to steal as much money as he can and not end up like his predecessors as Afghan president hanging from a lamppost.
He wants to get out alive and enjoy his Swiss bank accounts.
This disgusting, loathsome slug is a horrible reflection uh on America's ability to get its way in the world.
Because uh if if if a client talks about the guys who pay him and protect him in the way that this guy does, with total utter contempt.
What do you it's no wonder what you how do you expect to be able to press impress uh Ahmadinejad or Assad or the fellas taking over in Egypt?
This guy lives only because of US blood and treasure, and he has nothing but contempt for the United States.
Hey, let's go to uh let's go to uh Adrian uh Adrian in Miami Beach.
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Mark.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Oh, great to talk to you.
So you're Adrienne E. D. N. E, are you?
E Double N E, correct.
The different version.
Yes, that's Yeah, love that.
One of my favorite names.
Oh, thank you, Mark.
I think my mother had great originality back in the fifties.
Oh no, don't give anything away.
What's on your mind today, Adrian?
The reason I am calling Mark is the Jewish people's support for Obama has me so baffled and confused, and the Cuban Jews Support Obama.
I need an answer.
Why, Mark, I cannot have a conversation with anybody in my religion about Obama because they are all for him.
I thought after he spoke out against Israel and the nineteen sixty six war, I think it was, on how we should give back what was taken from the Palestinians.
I thought that would have been enough to put them all on the right track.
But it didn't.
No, I think support him fullheartedly.
And they seem to be throwing Netanyahu under the bus because now they're telling me that he is making all the Orthodox women sit in the back of the bus and the Jewish men, the Orthodox Jewish men sit in the front.
No, you you know, th th this is this is this is fascinating, Adrian.
You know, uh the a lot of the problem is is it's a simple one.
I don't know.
I won't presume to speak for Cuban Jews.
But I think it's true of a lot of American Jews.
Uh that they're uh Jewish liberals are liberals first and Jews second.
And that's why you see uh it's it's an even more advanced in some ways, I think, in uh in Canada and uh Britain and Europe and places, uh, where a lot of uh European Jews are explicitly post Zionist.
You will you will find people uh on Holocaust Memorial Day in Europe saying that the creation of the State of Israel was a tragic mistake and it should never th they they've moved to the next stage.
Jewish liberals uh in a slightly more ambivalent position.
But you see it, I think, uh in their in their hopelessly confused reaction to what what's going on over there.
On this business, by the way, of uh women sitting at the back of the bus.
I think this is a reference to some private uh bus lines uh catering to the ultra orthodox uh who believe they they take pretty much the same view as Muslims on these things, that the men sit at the front and the women sit at at the back.
And it's funny it's funny your Jewish friends are kind of exercised about this, about uh private bus companies of the ultra for the ultra orthodox doing this kind of thing.
Uh but uh and I bet I gather by the way that uh some airlines are thinking about doing this agenda segregation because of uh of the way uh that they're now dependent on ultra orthodox thing.
But it's it's it it's an interesting difference.
There's a there's a uh school up in Toronto where they have Muslim prayers every Friday where the uh boys enter at the front, the girls have to enter at a by a separate door at the back, and girls who are going through their uh period, their time of the month, have to sit way at the back because they're regarded as unclean.
So they have to go right at the very back.
And this happens in a public school, public school in uh in Toronto, in the public school cafeteria when they hold Muslim prayers.
And it's interesting that that uh the Jewish liberals don't get concerned about something like that.
But somehow when a private bus company in Israel wants to uh cater to a uh the Orthodox and wants to have uh women at the back of the bus and men at the back of the bus for Orthodox Jews, that's suddenly completely unacceptable.
Now, for what it's worth, I'm I'm clear on all this.
I think if you're uh offering a public accommodation, whether in Israel or the United States or anywhere else, uh you can't tell uh women to sit at the back and men to sit at the front.
Uh when the Minneapolis airport, uh the c their Muslim cab drivers didn't want to take dogs, they didn't want to take passengers carrying out uh d guide dogs for the blind, they didn't want to take passengers carrying alcohol, and they didn't want to take uh women dressed in uh in uh revealing clothing because they look like infidel whores.
And that's fine.
That's fine.
I've got no problem with you like that, but don't be a cab driver at Minneapolis Airport licensed by the Minneapolis uh taxi licensing authority.
That's actu that then is official segregation.
You know, we've gone in other words, we've gone in a generation from separate drinking fountains in the south uh to segregated taxi cabs in in the north.
That's a public accommodation issue.
But it's fascinating that Jewish liberals in America get far more exercise between the b over something Netanyahu's up to in in Israel than they ever do about any of these issues closer to home.
And that's because from for most of them, their liberalism uh trump trumps their Judaism.
Mark Stein for Rush, more ahead.
Let's go to Dave in Salt Lake City.
Dave, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark, pleasure to speak with you.
My pleasure too, Dave.
What's on your mind?
Well, hey, I got a question.
Um I'm wondering with uh the world view that you've got, what your thoughts are on I think you've talked about this before too.
The um Chinese building up their Navy to such an amount that they've been working on lately.
And um what do you think they're are they building that up to protect their nation against some foreign threat that they view?
Or do you think they're viewing that or building that up in anticipation of some future preemptive strike against another nation potentially in the world?
Well, uh well, I mean, the reality is is this that they don't see the Pacific as an American lake any longer, which is what it's been since the second world war, and a lot of other countries are beginning to share that view just because of China's dominance.
The Pentagon issued a report on this, uh the the massive military build-up going uh on in China.
Uh they put everything in there except the central fact of this about who's paying for it.
And the I uh and basically, Dave, you're paying for it.
Taxpayers in Salt Lake City are paying for the Chinese military buildup just in the interest payments on US debt.
So we don't have to worry about China attacking us with with uh uh with their military.
They don't need to do that.
I mean, that one could foresee a situation, for example, where they uh w we're militarily committed to uh support Taiwan if China attacks Taiwan.
Now uh so so if China decided to to seize Taiwan, we'd send our guys in and we'd be at war with China.
We'd be funding both sides of that war.
I mean, basically, in fiscal terms, that would be the US civil war transferred to the Straits of Taiwan.
We'd be funding both parties in the war.
And and because that that is absurd, China knows that it will never have to do that.
Uh China is is taking advantage of American indebtedness in order to build up its uh military, in part to protect its sort of trade superhighway to Africa, resource-rich Africa and the Middle East.
Um but I but I think they're more like you know, they're more likely to they're more likely to actually drive us into bankruptcy than ever have to fire a shot in anger at a US aircraft carrier.
So I think that I think the real danger is not that they're building up their military, but they're that they're building up their military and we're paying for it.
We're already covering about eighty percent of the cost of the people's liberation army just in interest payments on the debt, Dave.
Federal administration who's aiding and abetting all along the way.
Well, there's absolutely no, you know, when you go back to the decline of the Roman Empire, uh the geniuses running the Roman Senate didn't say, well, we think Roman taxpayers should bankroll the Visigoth military uh f until the end of time.
And if they had done, basically, as those guys were just running around with a bit of wood and a bit of animal pelt, a couple of clubs, it would have been a hell of a bargain compared to funding uh the Chinese military.
Thanks for your call, Dave.
Gotta run Mark Stein Infrarush border cut.
Fanny May and Freddie Mack are being investigated by a US government watchdog for an October convention on which they spent six hundred thousand dollars.
And uh the Inspector General uh of the Federal Housing Finance Agency now says about half of that was of questionable value.
Uh the two Democrat hacks, Franklin Rain and Jamie Gorilik Gorelic, who uh who headed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack, they walked away with a combined taxpayer funded payout of one hundred and sixteen point four million dollars.
Uh would anyone like to say whether what what what part of that was quote of questionable value, unquote?
Uh it's strange that that six hundred thousand dollars is the only thing Fanny and Freddie are being questioned over.
This has been Mark Stein in for Rush.
Rush has been away today, boycotting himself.
He's so disgusted at himself, but he will return live on Monday.
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