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More than a half a million.
That would be 500,000 for those of you in Rio Linda.
More than half a million wealthy Britons are expected to move out of the country in the next two years amid concerns about crumbling road and rail networks, crime, and high taxes.
According to a survey in the UK Daily Mail, some 19% of people with savings and investments worth more than 250,000 pounds are considering a new life overseas, which is up from 17% six months ago and 14% a year ago.
The figures suggest that at least 500,000 people in Great Britain with that level of personal wealth may leave the UK in the next two years.
Investing in improving the infrastructure such as roads, railway, and communications networks is seen as the most important way to make the UK a more attractive place to live.
61% of wealthy people choosing this option.
But cutting regulatory red tape for businesses, lowering taxes, improving public services like healthcare, education, and police were high on the agenda.
500,000 people moving out in two years from the UK.
We're on that road.
You're not going to believe me.
Sometimes I don't believe it.
I can't go anywhere without this subject coming up.
At least one person asking me if I know a safe place to park money.
If I were to leave the country, where would I go?
I know people who have bought property in Brazil in case they have to flee the country.
There are people in this country actually thinking about that.
What with the direction that we are on?
It's up to now, what is the story, 20?
The New York Post is reporting that according to their sources, as many as 20 Secret Service agents may be involved in the so-called Columbia Hooker scandal.
So far, 11 agents have been suspended with pay.
The shenanigans came to light after one of the agents allegedly refused to pay his escort $47.
As I said in the first hour, we got to find this guy and give him a promotion.
I mean, here's a guy.
He wants to find a hooker.
He finds when he gets in and out of there for $47 and was even arguing about that.
Thought that was too high.
And the argument spilled out in the hall and people heard about it.
And that's how people know about this.
$47.
And as I also said earlier in the program, the most important question about this is one that has not been answered yet.
And that is, who paid for the hookers' contraceptives?
I mean, what with the Republican war on women and everything?
That's a big deal here.
And the question hasn't been raised.
Did you know, this is from the UK Daily Mail.
It's from February 28th of 2011.
It's a little over a year ago.
Story.
Late U.S. Senator Edward Ted Kennedy rented out a Chilean brothel for the entire night, claims FBI files.
Ted Kennedy rented a brothel for a whole night on an official visit to Chile, according to declassified FBI files.
The late U.S. Senator is reported to have invited one of his chauffeurs to participate in the night's activities during the 1961 stay in the capital, Santiago.
I wonder what Bill Clinton's views are on all of this.
The Secret Service and hookers for $47 and no count.
I'm sure that the agents didn't have to pay for that.
I mean, I'm asking the question.
I'm asking the question, but I don't think they paid for the contraception.
It's probably built into price.
Who knows?
But I doubt that they paid for it.
But I wonder what Bill Clinton thinks of all this.
I would, well, we don't know that, do we?
Isn't that some of that early reporting from that era?
I mean, Snerdley is telling me that Clinton used to send the state troopers out to procure that.
We don't know that for sure, do we?
Is that for certain?
Was that just lower?
I don't know that that was ever confirmed.
By the way, while the Secret Service agent was getting in and out of Night with a Hooker for $47, Mrs. Clinton was having a party at some pro-Cuban bar.
Clinton boozed at Cuban bar in Cartagena.
Hillary Havana heck of a good time.
America's top diplomat all smiles as she arrived after midnight with a dozen pals and her State Department security detail at Cafe Havana in the Colombian seaside town.
And she ordered a dozen beers, two shots, and bottles of water, and they lift the waiter a $40 tip, which is less than the $47 the Secret Service agent spent on the hooker.
Well, we're interested in prices, you know, money being thrown around.
Well, looks like that she had a good time.
This is after midnight at Club Havana, dancing around.
There's pictures of her dancing around.
She's got some beer.
Yeah, there was real music dancing this time.
Snerdley's ass, see, being a wise acre here.
Back in what?
I forget the year that the Lewinsky story broke.
A month before the story broke, and nobody could figure this out at the time, folks.
A month before the story broke.
In fact, here's the whole thing.
One morning, the L.A. Times on the front page had a black and white photo of Bill and Hillary Clinton dancing in their swimwear on a beach somewhere in the Virgin Islands, just in the L.A. Times.
At the White House press briefing that afternoon, six hours after the paper hits the streets, or maybe seven hours, Mike McCurry, the White House press secretary, is doing the briefing.
And some reporter says, What is this picture in the front of the LA Times?
What is that?
And McCurry gets all righteously indignant.
That is the most outrageous invasion of privacy.
We can't believe that.
The Clintons were enjoying a private moment on the beach, and that long lynch was.
And up to that time, nobody had heard of the picture.
It's the LA Times.
They wanted that picture out, as it turned out, because it was just a month later Lewinsky story hits.
And it was later learned, ladies and gentlemen, that the whole thing was posed.
Mrs. Clinton was in a one-piece.
Bill was in a one-piece.
And they were dancing.
It turns out there was no music.
They were on the beach.
The whole thing was staged.
There was no music.
He was dancing and it got a bunch of still shots.
And that hit a month before Lewinsky.
So that picture was able to be revisited when the Lewinsky story hit when they first denied that there was anything to it.
Why, look at this loving couple.
Just a month ago, they're on vacation to Virgin Islands and they're having a great time together dancing on the beach.
And I forget who it was, but somebody looked into it, found out that there were no speakers, no music, no thing.
We asked on Friday, and we were being rhetorical, if Barack Obama's secretary paid a higher tax rate than that.
She did.
It turns out that she did.
Obama, like Buffett, the New York Times, had a lower tax rate than his secretary.
For months, Obama has marveled that the billionaire investor Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
Turns out another famous, well-compensated American does too, Mr. Obama.
The president and his wife reported adjusTedros income of $789,000.
They pay just over 20% of that in federal taxes, according to their returns in a gift tax return released by the White House on Friday.
And they confirmed that Obama's secretary, Anita Decker-Breckenridge, paid a slightly higher tax rate than her boss in 2011 on a salary of $95,000.
Well, Shazam, how wonderful.
What a magical occurrence.
What a coincidence, isn't it?
As, by the way, they're voting on the Buffett rule today.
It's not going to go anywhere.
I mean, the last thing anybody wants is for this to pass, folks.
Except there's some polling data.
The American people are depending on the poll in support of this.
Yep, that's true.
But Buffett doesn't want it to pass.
Obama doesn't want it to pass.
The Democrats don't want it to pass.
All it is is a campaign vehicle.
Pure and simple.
Nothing more than that.
Let me take a brief time out.
We'll do that.
We'll continue much more straight ahead.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute.
Back after this.
By the way, Fred, the Obamas did not have to pay a 20% rate.
They could have paid the top rate of 35% if they wanted to.
They feel they are undertax.
The president said he's undertaxed.
Clinton says he's undertaxed.
But boy, these people take advantage of every evil deduction the tax code offers them, don't they?
I don't see any of these people claiming to be undertaxed writing checks to the Treasury, which they can do.
So if Obama wanted to pay a higher tax rate than his secretary, because it's not right that she pays a higher rate than he does, he could have.
He could have written a check.
They use these evil deductions to get their rate lower.
So you could say that we, the taxpayers, are subsidizing the Obamas, just like we're subsidizing big oil, according to Obama's logic.
Nancy Roanoke, Virginia, thank you so much for waiting.
Great to have you on the program.
Thank you, Rush.
I just wanted to say that I believe the real reason that we stay-at-home mothers are seen as a threat is that we're home every day listening together with our children to you.
You know, that's not just a joke.
I think that's part and parcel of what the anger with stay-at-home moms is.
Homeschooling, all that stuff.
Listening to talk radio, not giving your life over to the government, to the state, to the Democratic Party.
I mean, there's all kinds of reasons that are rolled up into this resentment.
My children grew up listening to you, and they're all free conservative adults at this point.
And they're fine people so far, right?
Very much, yeah.
Well, that's very sweet of you.
How old are they now?
Our youngest is getting ready to graduate from college.
Our middle is Doctor of Pharmacies, and our oldest son is West Point Brad in the Army.
Wow.
Well, congratulations.
But they grew up on you.
They subscribed to the Limbaugh Letter.
And we're just really grateful for the influence that you played on that one.
Well, I can't thank you enough.
You're making my day here.
Thank you for all that you do.
No, no, no.
Look, I appreciate it, but that's just great.
I hear this kind of stuff, and it kind of I'm still a little embarrassed.
I don't know quite how to thank people properly for that, but I appreciate it more than you can possibly know.
But yeah, it's a war on rush babies, too.
Because, like she said, her children grew up listening to this program.
The resentment and the hostility.
Why be angry at women who stay home and raise their kids?
What is there to be mad at about that?
It's none of your business.
Okay, you're a woman, you're a feminist, and you want to go work and so forth.
Fine.
What's so wrong with a woman who wants to stay home and raise the kids?
Well, I'll tell you what it's because there's a husband there supporting it all and that's what Jay.
Because that's a violation of one of the first tenets of feminism.
Don't make a man part of your life.
Don't make a relationship that big a deal in terms of your happiness.
It's not supposed to happen.
National Football League.
Have you heard about this?
The National Football League is going to require that unruly fans who get kicked out of stadiums pass a code of conduct exam given by licensed psychotherapists before they can get back into the stadium and go back to a game.
No, no.
It's all over the place.
Unruly fans booted from stadiums this year will be required to pass a code of conduct test or they won't be allowed back in for another game.
The idea was hatched by a licensed psychotherapist.
We're not trying to squash anybody's passion.
We're just trying to say don't be violent.
Say Dr. Ari Novik, the Californian who's the brains behind the program.
Requirements will vary depending on the stadium, but most of the time, the stadium louts will have to pass the test before being allowed back in.
The classes are an effort to stem the rising tide of ugly stadium behavior that has included everything from bare knuckles brawls to lewd Jets fans who screamed obscenities at women until they exposed their breasts in a rude gate D tradition at the old Giant Stadium That's exactly what was happening.
That's exactly what Jets fans were screaming obscenities at women until they exposed their breasts at Gate D.
It was a tradition.
Yep.
And they at the old Giant Stadium.
I don't know that's happening at Life Stadium, but it did happen at the old stadium, Jets games.
This is an ongoing problem.
On?
No, no.
No, no, no.
Unruly fan behavior at stadiums.
I think a sobriety test would be enough.
But still, no, no, the league is very serious about this.
Well, I'll tell you why.
They have got to make the stadium experience as pleasant as possible because now with high-definition TV, bigger and bigger screens, a bathroom that's free right down the hall, food that you get yourself or make yourself much, much cheaper than at the stadium.
Same thing with the beer.
You're not out in the elements.
It's much more inviting to stay at home.
They've got to do something.
It's why people like Jerry Jones are building these stadiums that make going to a game an all-day affair.
You go to the stadium before the game, all kinds of stuff to do.
You stay after the game, all kinds of stuff to do.
They've got to do that.
They've got to keep, they don't want it becoming a studio show.
Plus, they need the revenue from tickets.
And the more problems they have with drunkenness and lewd fan behavior in front of kids and so forth, the bigger problem they're going to have keeping people.
So they're dead serious about this.
Now, you can laugh about having to pass some kind of psychotherapy test.
That's why I said sobriety test would probably suffice.
But they're dead serious about it.
Yes, it is.
Especially at night games, it is that big a problem in a lot of stadiums.
It is a huge problem in the NFL.
You don't think they wouldn't be doing this kind of thing if it weren't a big deal.
Well, looking for a couple of hits here from the past.
I've got one of them here on my computer.
Looking forward to New York.
The other one we got, we're just going to set it up here for just a second.
One song, 1968, Sandy Posey, Born a Woman.
And there's all kinds of these songs out there.
The songs that just sent Gloria Steinem and the gals to the roof.
Wishing and hoping by Dusty Springfield.
Now, the reason for that, this would be Dusty Springfield's 73rd birthday today.
I think her real name was Mary O'Grady.
But I remember she was one of my look of love from the Thomas Crown Affair.
You don't have to say you love me, which, by the way, they aired, they used in the first episode of Mad Men this year.
What a great tune.
You don't have to say you love me.
I'll never tie you down.
Of course, all lies, but still, what a voice.
But wishing and hoping, one of her first tunes in 1964.
We're digging it out of the grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites.
And I want you to listen.
This is 1964.
For those of you who may never have heard this song in this audience, some of you are young enough, may never have heard.
This was a hit.
This was a huge hit in 1964 from Dusty Springfield.
This is what young girls grew up thinking life was all about.
Wishing and hoping and thinking and praying, planning and dreaming each night of his charms that won't get you into his arms.
So if you're looking at my love, you can share.
All you gotta do is hold him and kiss him and love him and show him that you can.
That's all you gotta do.
Show him that you can just by me.
Do the thing he likes to do.
Wear your hair just for me.
You won't get in, singing and a praise, wishing and a hoping.
Just wishing and hoping and singing and bringing planets and dreaming.
This is the route, folks.
Cook his meals, iron shirts, put out his slippers, and do it with a smile.
And that's what it was all about.
Now, I was 13 when this song hit.
And I knew when I was 13, I wanted to be in radio.
And I was at 1964, I was four years, three or four years away from my first job in radio.
So now that's that.
Hey, Mike, see if you can find the syndicate of sound and Hey Little Girl.
We got to do the male version of this.
Our profit system has everything.
All I have to do is say we got the biggest groove yard of Forgotten Favorites.
So you can find syndicate of sound, Hey Little Girl.
But first, now here's a different spin on it.
This is 1968, and this is Sandy Posey, the daughter of Jim Posey.
It makes no difference if you're rich or poor, or if you're smart or dumb.
A woman's place in this lower world is under some man's thumb.
And if you're born a woman, listen to it, listen to it.
You're born to be hurt.
Hurt, not heard.
Born to be stepped on like to cheated on and treated like to fact that song, for one of our early feminist update theme songs, if you remember Snurdy, way back about 23 years ago, 22 years.
So that's 1968, 17.
I was 17 then.
You can imagine the modern era of feminine, literally two years later, one, two years later, sprung up.
And oh, gosh, things were big changes.
But it didn't, I'll tell you when I knew it.
Well, this is too inside baseball esoteric.
But no, I'll tell you.
On Saturday mornings, I had to take our remote turntable and broadcast equipment, go to Sears and do a couple hours of a radio show from Sears.
And one day, program director got the idea to have some, because I was in high school doing this, bring a couple high school girls in, have a discussion about something.
I'm still taking orders back in those days.
And one of the high school girls that showed up started talking about women's lib.
And I'm 18 and I'm hearing militancy.
And she was one of the most popular girls.
This was not some angry, one of the big click.
And I didn't, I wasn't smart enough to realize.
I just thought, well, this is, I didn't know what I was in the middle of then, but it didn't take me long to figure it out.
And as I was a junior, senior in high school, I started hearing this young woman, she's angry, she's ticked off.
Wow, I'd never heard anything like this before.
So at the time, I didn't know what she'd been reading.
Anyway, can't find the syndicate of sound, Hey Little Girl, but it's the male version of what's expected to go along with Sandy Posey and Dusty Springfield.
Dusty Springfield's real name, by the way, was Mary O'Brien.
I said, oh, Grady.
And she would have been 73 years old today.
Got to take a break.
We'll do it.
We'll be back and continue in mere moments.
Don't go away.
Yeah, just sitting here listening to Under My Thumb by the Rolling Stones.
And that's from, I think, 64, 65.
I got fired.
One of my seven or eight times of being fired was for playing that song too often in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, W-I-X-Z.
I really got fired, violating the programming format by playing that song too often in rotation.
It was in an oldies format.
I just, I liked it.
I got canned for it.
By the way, Gallup has done their first head-to-head poll of Romney versus Obama.
Romney is ahead by two points in the first poll here.
And the headline, Romney, Obama in tight race as Gallup daily tracking begins.
And then there's this sub-headline: Romney voters slightly more certain they will vote.
Romney voters are certain they'll vote over Obama voters 47 to 45.
Romney even beats the one with independence 45 to 39.
Right now, in the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll, the first one of the season, Romney is up over Obama in independence 45 to 39.
Hearings are getting underway in Capitol Hill on the GSA scandal.
We got an audio soundbite.
I want you to listen to this.
This is your Obama regime.
Daryl Issa, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the GSA spending, a Region 9 commissioner and acting administrator Jeff Neely, who is currently on administrative leave, testified that during the QA, Neely and Darryl Issa had this exchange.
Chairman, on the advice of council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege.
Mr. Neely, did you attend the 2010 Western Regional Conference in Las Vegas?
Mr. Chairman, on the advice of my council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege.
Mr. Neely, did you approve the funding for the 2010 Western Regional Conference?
Mr. Chairman, on the advice of my council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege.
Just a few more.
Mr. Neely, what was the original budget for that conference?
Mr. Chairman, on the advice of my council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege.
This is the Region 9 Commissioner, Acting Administrator Jeff Neely, on administrative leave, the General Services Administration, refusing to answer these questions.
Please, the fifth to every question.
That's your Obama regime in action.
Jim in Reno, Nevada.
Glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Well, thank you, and hello.
I just called to add another reason why full-time mothers are despised.
Okay.
And I'm hoping we have time for me to add one thing to your list of undeniable truths.
But the thing that is not liked about full-time mothers, and you know, we let the left label them as stay-at-home moms, and that implies somebody who never gets their you-know-what out the front door.
But they are full-time parents, as opposed to ones that split their time and then do not devote all their time to their children.
At any rate, they also, they're not only independent, but they raise independent children because there's no government programming there.
They're not.
Oh, that's that's very much true.
The children are not introduced to statist programs either.
The children end up becoming self-sufficient, self-reliant, and not needing government.
And that, you're no, you're absolutely right.
It's a great adjunct.
That's the threat.
No, you're exactly right.
But I'm going to cut you off before you add to the 35 Undeniable Truths of Life because nobody does that.
I've always said, don't try this at home.
The 35 Undeniable Truths, I'm sure, in fact, I tried to do it again.
I tried to come up with the second 35.
And they're good, but they're not nearly as powerful as the originals.
But that is a there's more truth to what he said than you think at first blush.
Because the children are raised to be self-sufficient and self-reliant.
And because that's the experience the parents have had.
And that's where the morals, the values, that's all taught.
Now, you've got stragglers.
Some of them don't.
Nobody's family ever turns out beaver cleaverish.
Everybody's got a couple bad apples in their family.
But for the most part, the theory holds.
And that's how you get rush babies.
And by the way, it's how else you get free thinkers.
Stay-at-home mom, traditional nuclear family, raising kids, teach them to be free thinkers.
Which, when you stopped, that used to be a liberal thing.
Liberals used to be the ones open-minded, tolerant, afraid of nothing.
And they always ran around saying it was right-wingers that wanted to censor them.
And look at how things have changed.
Every censor around, practically, is on the left.
And they're dead serious about it.
If they don't want to hear it, it shouldn't be said.
And if somebody says something they don't want to hear, they want that person to be punished.
No question about it.
Folks, I have to tell you, if the regime will stonewall something as relatively innocuous as the GSA scandals, how are we ever going to get to the truth on something like Fast and Furious?
Because, I mean, this is chump change compared to Fast and Furious, and they're stonewalling this.
As far as I know, nobody died from GSA spending.
And I'm sure that all the contraceptives were paid for with GSA spending because that was a lot of money, a lot of sex going on.