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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
	Hey, happy Cyber Monday to you.
	Yes, America's Anchorman is away today.
	And this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Living in the shadows and loving it.
	Welcome to the start of a brand new week at America's number one radio show.
	Rush returns live on Wednesday.
	Mark Belling will be here tomorrow because uh because Mitt Romney may have binders full of women, but Rush has binders full of guest hosts.
	Yes, folks, it's uh it's our post Thanksgiving massive store wide clearance.
	All our Mitt Romney gags are priced to clear.
	You can get great deals on big bird gags, eighty-five percent off on Mitt put a dog on his roof lines.
	We'll give you uh two for one on cracks about uh Mitt Romney closing down your factory and giving your wife cancer.
	All our Mitt Romney gags are priced to clear because it's Cyber Monday.
	I hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
	It's always been my favorite American holiday, the day we give thanks to Almighty God for all the blessings of this land, as uh the Oscar winning Jamie Fox did last night on the Soul Train Awards uh live from Las Vegas.
	He said, quote, give an honor to God and our Lord and Saviour Barack Obama, Barack Obama, unquote.
	So we give thanks to our Lord and Savior for all the blessings of this land.
	Uh food stamps, uh extended unemployment benefits, uh loosen social security disability criteria, um I don't know, free contraceptives, death panels.
	I may have missed one or two, so call me up and let me know.
	We thank our Lord and Saviour, Barack Obama.
	1 800 28282.
	We're live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire, just south of the border.
	So if you're fleeing the country, do drop by.
	We'd love to see you as you escape.
	Uh it's uh sixteen degrees and snow on the ground up here.
	Uh I was stampeding for Black Friday bargains at the general store and I slipped and sprained my ankle, so I spilled all my bait.
	It was uh horrible business, so I d I didn't really save anything.
	Uh H.R. is with us in New York, down in Florida.
	Uh Mr. Snerdley is off today.
	Um maybe he's enjoying a what what do they call it in Florida?
	A social liaison with Jill Kelly.
	Uh we'll find out later in the week.
	But it's a busy news day.
	The US Embassy in Cairo is tweeting that they're glad Mubarak is gone and that the revolution now means that America is happy to deal with a fellow democratic country.
	Do you know I'm not I'm not one uh and I believe it's actually a condition of my green card that I'm not uh uh allowed to foment insurrection against the United States government.
	But in a non-fermenting sense, I do think that come April the fifteenth I might withhold the seventy-eight cents or whatever it is my share that goes to support the US Embassy in Cairo, because this is without doubt the dumbest embassy on the planet.
	They're the ones, by the way, uh who all during that uh that business uh back on September the eleventh last year, uh were sending out these ridiculous tweets saying how much they objected to that uh that video guy, the UT the un the unknown YouTube video guy in California.
	And uh for some reason they they started tweeting me.
	They put me on their Twitter feed, and I got on the receiving end of whatever idiot is in charge, whatever tenured idiot is in charge of social media in the uh in the US Embassy in Cairo.
	Uh and now he's at it again, all glad Mubarak is gone, we're glad we're dealing with a fellow democratic country.
	Mohammed Morsi has just seized more dictatorial powers uh than Hosni Mubarak ever had.
	I love the way Politico put it.
	Uh they p Politico said Morsi's move came just days after he was praised by US leaders for helping to negotiate a ceasefire.
	Hmm, odd that.
	I wonder if there's any connection.
	Uh but anyway, he's uh he's now seized more dictatorial powers than Mubarak ever had.
	Um but there is some pushback on the streets of Cairo.
	There's horrifying scenes on the TV of uh of police beating back frenzied uh protesters uh in Taris Square.
	Oh no, wait, that's uh Walmart in Long Island.
	Anyway, we'll keep an we'll keep an eye on that.
	Earlier This year, uh, when I was uh the day before I was sitting in, Rush said uh as he was taking his leave, uh he said, Mark Stein's gonna be with you tomorrow to tell you why uh you're all doomed.
	So I noticed that since the unpleasant events of November the sixth, uh, that Rush has been uh sounding uh a little bit more the we're all doomed thing.
	So I I I think he's moved a little bit closer to my position on the total societal collapse thing.
	So we'll deal with total societal collapse in the course of the today's show, but we'll also try and keep our spirits up.
	You know, there's there's always an upside to total societal collapse.
	It's uh you know buying in at the low end of the market, you know, the good things can come of it.
	So we'll try and look on the good side of total societal collapse.
	1800, 282-2882, the fiscal cliff of getting nearer.
	The fiscal cliff, by the way, is just the warm-up for total societal collapse.
	It's not really the big thing, it's just a kind of little thing, just to get you in the mood for it.
	Lindsey Graham, Senator Senator Lindsey Graham, says he would violate the Grover Norquist anti-tex anti-tax pledge in return for entitlement reform.
	Uh good luck with that, Senator.
	Uh, what's the betting that by the time all that shakes out we'll get the first part of Lindsay Graham's sentence, but not the second.
	Uh Warren Buffett has a uh big piece in the New York Times today, uh calling on a minimum tax for the wealthy.
	This idea that uh, you know, we would have no problems with deficits, uh no problems with the debt.
	The official national federal debt, sixteen trillion dollars, uh if you add in uh uh add in state and municipal debts, there's a few more on top of that, and and if you add in all the unfunded liabilities and total debts of the United States, it comes to about two hundred and twenty trillion dollars, uh which is about uh two hundred thousand dollars per person, just uh just uh keep you in a good mood in this post-Thanksgiving period.
	But uh but Warren Buffett says, not a worry, all we have to do is just make the rich pay their fair share.
	The Forbes 400, writes Mr. Buffett, the wealthiest individuals in America, hit a new group record for wealth this year.
	One point seven trillion dollars.
	And he thinks they need to pay more.
	The problem with this, by the way, one point seven trillion dollars sounds like a lot of money.
	And for most countries it would be a lot of money.
	The problem here is that it's just over uh the average Obama federal deficit for just one year.
	Uh the average uh federal deficit for Obama's first term is about one point three trillion dollars.
	So if you confiscated the entire wealth of the Forbes 400, if you took every single penny they'd have, you'd have enough to pay off one year of Obama deficits.
	If you took everything they had.
	So what are you gonna do uh next time round?
	You're gonna have to move in an entirely different uh Forbes 400.
	You have to persuade a lot of Saudi oil sheikh and a lot of uh Russian oligarchs to come and move to Malibu and the Hamptons and agree to be next year's Forbes 400, so then you can confiscate everything they've got uh and pay off another year of uh federal deficits.
	That's the problem.
	There aren't enough of the rich for what this government is spending, and they never will be.
	I mean, there's only one Warren Buffett.
	And that and that's the point.
	I mean, he's the he's the guy, every b uh uh Obama quotes him as if he's the great sage.
	You know, uh Mitt Romney, he's a rich guy, uh so he just steals from people and uh gives your wife cancer, closes down your plant.
	You don't need to pay any attention to attention to him, but Warren Buffett, he has great insight, so we must pay attention to him.
	He's the third wealthiest person on the planet, Warren Buffett.
	The first guy is a Mexican, so he's beyond the reach of the United States Treasury.
	Uh Mr. Buffett is worth uh about forty-four billion dollars.
	So if he donated every single penny he's got to the government of the United States, they would blow through it in four and a half days.
	If you took every single penny that uh Warren Buffett had, it would be cover four and a half days of government spending.
	This this government, uh the Obama administration spends one hundred and eighty-eight million dollars an hour every hour that doesn't go.
	Uh every hour, every day, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, uh including uh Christmas, Thanksgiving, Ramadan the works.
	So the forty-four billion, if you took everything Warren Buffett had, uh, four and a half days.
	The fourth richest guy on the planet is French, so he's beyond reach, the fifth is a Spaniard.
	Uh number six is Larry Ellison, who's American, but he's a loser.
	He's only worth thirty-six billion.
	So he and Warren Buffett between them could keep the United States government going for a week.
	And then you're down to your Christie Waltons, who'd see you through, she's got twenty-five billion, which would see you through a couple of days of the second week.
	There is not enough, this whole tax the rich thing.
	The problem here, the problem here is that government is way bigger than the capacity of even the the rich to uh to sustain it.
	Uh remember this Buffett rule uh the everyone was excited about if only Warren Buffett paid tax at the same rate as his secretary.
	The Congressional Budget Office worked this out and they and they figured that it would raise the Buffett rule would raise 3.2 billion dollars per year, which is which is what the government of the United States borrows every seventeen hours.
	So in five hundred and fourteen years, I work this out.
	It's the I worked this out in uh uh I'm not sure whether it's in the hardback edition of my book might be in the paperback intro of it uh but it's in uh it's in one version or another.
	I worked it out that if uh under the Buffett rule in the United States government would raise enough money in five hundred and fourteen years to pay off Obama's twenty eleven federal budget deficit.
	So if you want to mark it on your calendar, uh five hundred and fourteen years uh would be the year twenty-five-26.
	Easy way to remember it is if you remember Zagar and Evans futuristic pop hit from the psychedelic sixties in the year twenty-five-25.
	Uh in the year twenty-five-25, we'd still be paying off uh Obama's twenty eleven federal budget deficit, but in the year twenty-five-26, the next year, the Buffett rule would have paid off just one year of Obama deficits.
	So in other words, in half five hundred and fourteen years' time, the Buffett rule will raise so much money that in five hundred and fourteen years' time, we will have paid off the 2011 federal buffet.
	F uh federal buffet.
	That's what they should change it to.
	Federal deficit.
	They should rename it the federal buffet in order of Warren Buffett.
	This is the absurdity of nobody spends on the scale government does.
	Yes, the rich guys, they've got all the yachts, and they've all got all the gulf streams and they got all the rest of it, but it's government spending day in, day out, one hundred and eighty-eight million dollars an hour that it doesn't have every single hour of the day.
	There is no way to plug that gap.
	So if you think the wealthy are going to be hit by what's coming, the fiscal cliff is gonna drag everyone else down with it.
	And on that cheery note, we will get off to another great rollicking start uh on uh the Excellency Broadcasting Network.
	1800-282-2882, Mark Stein InfoRush.
	Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network, 1800-282-2882.
	Uh China is putting up the world's tallest building.
	Remember the world's tallest building?
	Once upon time, America used to have stuff like that.
	Uh but now China is putting up the world's tallest building.
	Listen to this.
	In 90 days, the eight hundred and thirty-eight meter skyscraper dubbed Sky City.
	Uh they they're building five stories a day on this thing uh in the capital of Hunan province, Changsha.
	Uh it's something called I love this name, by the way, the broad sustainable building company.
	If you had something called the Sustainable Building Company, uh that would be in America, that would be some pathetic thing uh building federally subsidized yurts in uh Vermont or whatever.
	Uh but this broad sustainable building company in China is putting up the world's tallest building.
	Five stories a day, The whole thing will be finished in ninety days.
	How long has that hole in the ground in Lower Manhattan been there now?
	Twelve years, and we're all getting excited because finally there's a finally after after uh what is it, eleven years eleven years since nine eleven.
	Uh you g you can see a little bit of it just uh poking above the ground now.
	Uh eleven years.
	Eleven years that's been there.
	China is putting up the world's tallest building in three months.
	Japan.
	Japan has just unveiled the first of its new generation of high speed magnetic levitation trains that will be able to do speeds of more than three hundred and ten miles an hour.
	You know, I was on that thing, what's that train that goes from Boston to uh to Washington, the the Axella?
	They c they call it the uh is that what they call it?
	The uh the Acella?
	Because it's meant to sound like accelerate as if it goes fast.
	Yes, it does go fast compared to normal lousy Amtrak trains.
	The uh the Montrealer, which went from New York to Montreal uh until they got rid of it.
	Uh one reason they got rid of it was because but in my part of the world, between White River Junction Vermont and Montreal, it averaged sixteen miles an hour.
	So you would have been quicker bicycling.
	When you're on the train, bicycles and the and you you you came up alongside uh Route 2, bicycles were passing you when you're in the Amtrak Montreal.
	So they call this thing the Acela, or whatever it's called, between Boston and Washington, and they pretend it's a high speed train.
	It averages speeds of seventy-eight miles an hour.
	That is not a high speed train.
	Uh the uh the the uh European trains are doing uh a hundred and fifty, I think the German one gets up to two hundred.
	Uh they've got this new one now in Japan that does three hundred and ten miles per hour.
	If you're gonna have big government, uh it should be doing stuff like that.
	Uh what you've at least got something to show for it.
	You can say, oh, well, yeah, you yeah, my taxes are high, uh, and the government's spending a lot of money, but I got this uh big high speed train.
	Uh uh I've got this big uh Chinese building that they're putting up, it's the world's tallest building, and they built it in ninety days.
	Big government uh Obama goes around talking about only government can do the Hoover Dam, only government can do the Golden Gate Bridge.
	Government here doesn't do any of that.
	Government builds bureaucracy here.
	That's all it does.
	That's all it does.
	And the and it and it is it is sad.
	It is sad to me that uh uh we're to we're trying to figure out ways to save money.
	It's as they keep saying we can't cut any of the fat out of the budget.
	All the fat's been cut.
	This fiscal cliff uh is gonna be devastating 'cause uh all this these huge three and a half trillion dollar federal budgets, there isn't a lot of fat in them.
	What do we have to show for the three and a half trillion dollars?
	You know, why don't we I would be in m I would be in favor of across the board cuts in everything?
	Because by any reasonable standard, at least thirty to forty percent of the budgets of every single federal department is entirely wasted.
	What do we have to show for it?
	Where are our three hundred mile an hour trains?
	Where are our uh world's tallest buildings?
	You know, there isn't a single one because otherwise the uh the creeps and faunas on the network news would be putting on the old hard hat and standing in front of them uh and saying Obama built this.
	Obama built this for you.
	Uh that's where the money went.
	You cannot point to where this money is gone.
	We've got a three and a half trillion dollar budget and it doesn't fund anything except bureaucracy and dependency.
	So now China will put up the world's tallest building in ninety days, and Japan will have three hundred and ten mile per hour floating trains.
	Three hundred and ten mile per hour floating trains.
	I was in the so-called club what's that thing but how do you say it again?
	Club Acela?
	I was in the club Acella Lounge at Penn Station, which is very nice.
	It's like you can go in there to get away from all the panhandlers and pimps and muggers infesting the rest of the station.
	Very nice.
	So you go into the Club Acella.
	They've got those buck seventy-nine mouse traps that you get from Victor, you know, those little m wooden mouse traps with the big V on.
	They've got buck seventy-nine mouse traps at the so-called prestigious Club Acela Lounge in Penn Station in New York.
	Uh that's that's the high sp that's the high speed rail network abtract style versus the three hundred and ten mile an hour bullet train in Japan.
	At some point, we got to get on top of this stuff and demonstrate uh that we can actually that we can actually make this uh m still make things still do things.
	Um If you're gonna have big government, there's an argument for doing it big government Japanese style and having space age trains.
	There's an argument for doing it French style and having the Te J V the high speed trains, there's an argument for doing it like the Swedes and the Danes.
	I caught a train from from Sweden to Copenhagen Airport goes across this big huge body of water in about fifteen minutes.
	In other words it's quicker to get from Sweden to an airport in a foreign country than it is to get from from from downtown New York to LaGuardia Airport.
	If you've got big government and nothing to show for it, you've got the worst of all worlds.
	And that's what they should be talking about cutting in the fiscal cliff.
	Big government hair funds bureaucracy and dependency.
	More straight ahead on Rush Yes, Rush returns Wednesday, but don't forget you can go to Rushlimbore dot com and if you're a Rush twenty four seven member you need not be discombobulated by sinister foreign guest hosts one jot or tittle rush limb dot com.
	This is this uh staggered me in the in the news today.
	Associated press medical writer Lindsay Tanner bounce houses kids injuries sore inflatable bounce houses can be dangerous with the number of injuries soaring in recent years.
	The numbers suggest thirty US children a day are treated in emergency rooms from bounce house accidents.
	It's America's silent killer folks bounce houses, bouncy castles you know these things you see them at parties, uh you see them at children's fairs most involve children falling inside and many children get hurt when they collide with other bouncing kids.
	They're now looking at uh whether the US Consumer Product Safety Commission uh should take action other recommendations include not overloading overloading bounce houses with too many kids and not allowing young children to bounce with much older or heavier kids.
	They say that bounce houses should be supervised by trained operators now that's great is isn't it so it's like just when you thought if you were thinking wow there's like no jobs out there whatever there's never been a better time to become a credentialed licensed bounce house operator.
	You know you can do it at an American college you'll just have to take out a six figure debt to do it.
	But they then you will you could easily do a bachelor's in bounce house old and you would be and you would be uh l legally permitted to supervise uh children in bouncy castles.
	Uh bounce house injuries are similar to those linked with trampolines and the American Academy of pediatrics has recommended against using trampolines at home and they now say police policymakers should consider whether bounce houses warrant similar precautions So this is going to be the next thing folks you can't children bouncing around and boun it oh it's all good fun bouncing into children but if you haven't got a licensed bounce o bounce house operator there,
	fully credentialed and preferably with a master's in bounceology, then you could be risking your child's life.
	You know at some point there's got to be an end to this.
	What what kind of uh what kind of adults uh are raised in uh emerge from this protective environment for example if you go back to D Day, remember D Day?
	You people used to know about it.
	It used to be in the history books.
	Uh D Day was a big thing back in uh over on the beaches in Normandy, right?
	And they're like all these Americans on there.
	They're like farmers, they're insurance agents uh they've just uh been called up to go and serve their country in time of war and they're landing craft and they're landing on this this foreign continent they don't know and they jump off those craft and they scramble up the beach and the Germans are firing on them.
	And do you think do you think a nation uh raised to be scared of bouncy castles would ever be able to do that.
	So you'd like have the guys the guys who've been raised been told oh you can't go into bouncy castle unless there's a license fully licensed credentialed master of bounceology there to supervise you.
	and you can't and you can't do any extreme bouncing and you can't bounce with people who are of different age groups and everything.
	And like twenty years later, then they're on those landing craft off the off Omaha Beach in Normandy, and they're and they're told, okay, you've got to get uh it's time to to jump off the landing craft onto the beach.
	Oh, I don't know.
	The beach might be springy and bouncy.
	I don't know.
	Is there a credential bounce operator here?
	What kind of adults are gonna emerge uh from this kind of cocoon?
	Bounce houses now, America's silent killer, bouncy castles.
	Let us go to Patrick.
	Patrick, who is in I've never I've never taken a call from this particular jurisdiction from the Turks and Caicos Islands in the British West Indies, one of her Majesty's domains.
	Patrick, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Hello, Mr Stein.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Um I have everybody telling me after the election that I am supposed to uh relax, slide into the managed decline, watch life go by, you know, Obama won, and you know, meanwhile I've got this, you know, gaping bound in my chest.
	And um uh in your book After America, um yes, there's some pleasantness about this, but I feel like I would be completely giving up and giving in and becoming the kind of uh uh robot that I think Mr. Obama wants a lot of us to be.
	Yeah, you don't you certainly don't have to give in, Patrick.
	By the way, what would are you just vacationing down in the Turks and Caicos.
	No, I live here.
	Great.
	So you've already fled the country.
	I tell you what, if you got the shrug for me started about uh almost twenty years ago when I was living in Santa Barbara, California, and it became illegal to be alive.
	Right, right.
	Yeah, everything's against the law in California.
	It's it's f what what island are you in in the Turks and Caicos?
	Uh Providencialis.
	It's uh the most uh populated one.
	No, no, no, I know.
	I love uh I love Grad Turk when you've got the uh where you've got the uh uh all the uh all the dogs wandering in the streets and everything.
	Grand Grand Turk is right.
	Grand Turk reminds me, it really is.
	No, I love Grand Turk.
	It reminds me of the British West Indies uh when I was uh when I was a kid.
	It's refreshingly unchanged Grand Turk.
	And uh and and the Turks and Caicos for for for those of you who aren't familiar with them, the government in London fired the government of the Turks and Caicos on the grounds that they were hopelessly incompetent and corrupt, uh to which uh people uh responded to Gordon Brown's uh uh uh uh uh actions uh saying, in that case, why don't you fire yourself, which is a fair enough point.
	So the uh the Turks and Caicos is uh is under direct uh rule now.
	So you've already fled.
	Well I tell you what, Patrick, if you have you got a rec room, have you got a basement?
	Um no, not exactly.
	Well, you need you need to find some room in your house because uh once the new fairness doctrine kicks in, Rush is gonna be doing his show uh from your house and beaming it in from offshore.
	It'll be like be like uh they used to have pirate radio in uh in the sixties.
	Uh it'll be like that.
	You have three governments to deal with, like me.
	I deal with the American government, the local government, and the British government, and I really would like to get it down to just one government screwing me at a time if possible.
	Yeah, that's right.
	We need we need some economy of scale.
	Why why can't why why do we have to be screwed over by multiple governments?
	Well, I'm uh I'm sorry to disclose your location, Patrick, because as I'm sure you know, as a US citizen who makes the mistake of venturing onto the rest of the planet, the United States Treasury takes a great deal of interest in your bank account.
	So Oh yeah, they're here.
	They're they're around, believe me.
	Yeah, so don't worry, we're not gonna reveal that you're in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
	We're gonna we're gonna alter it.
	We'll say we'll say uh you're in Bermuda or St. Kitts or Papua New Guinea.
	Okay, by the time this goes to air, we're not gonna give away that you're in Providencialis in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the British West Indies, uh turn left by the church and swing past the grocery store and it's dead ahead of Well we wouldn't dream of doing that to you, Patrick.
	Uh the point is pleasure talking with you.
	And a pleasure talking to you too.
	You know, uh Patrick said it would be easy to give up, and that is what big government banks on.
	And I and in fact I think prov provided uh Obama's margin of victory in November.
	The what uh what Mitt Romney thought was the argument for voting for uh the Republican Party uh Romney basically used the are you better off now than you were four years ago uh and he says the economy is dead uh and I'm gonna make it come back to life.
	And people accepted the first half of that proposition.
	The economy is dead.
	But then they think, oh no, well then I want to cling to the party of food stamps and the party of disability checks and the party of increased unemployment benefits, because if the economy's dead, uh would you rather take a wild flyer on Mitt Romney promising to bring it back uh or just uh t uh uh just hug ever closer to the big government security blanket.
	And that is what uh and that is what Barack Obama very successfully used, I believe, uh to to win his margin of victory.
	Uh that essentially m people have s have subconsciously, not necessarily consciously, but they've subconsciously digested the reality of the last four years, and they've concluded that nothing is going to get better.
	And Patrick is right.
	You don't think like that.
	You can take this back.
	You you can't do it at the national level.
	The national level's gone now.
	Uh for two years or for four years and and maybe beyond that, who knows.
	But but this is still a federal republic, and at the local level and at the county level and at the state level, uh you can find examples of uh of Republicans with great innovative ideas who did very well.
	That's the laboratory of democracy.
	This this place, three hundred million people are not gonna go over the cliff together.
	Uh that's not gonna that's not gonna happen.
	There will be people uh who emerge from the rubble and they will be doing it uh at the state and local level.
	And that's that's where the energies are gonna have to be uh focused for the next four years until the next uh the next Republican candidate who has to be dragged across the finish line and then gets demagogued into being a hater of women and a guy who doesn't believe in evolution and whatever cockamami drivel they manage to uh heap over his head.
	But in the meantime, you don't have to give up, you can make a huge difference.
	Just in, for example, these Obamacare man health care mandates.
	Uh you can make a huge difference in uh the d in persuading state governments to claw back uh uh and resist the big national power grab of Barack Obama.
	It's not a federal he he's not operating a federal government anymore.
	He's operating a highly centralized national government.
	Don't let him do it.
	Make sure your state guys uh where they're where they're sane, not obviously in California or New York and places, but where they're still sane, uh make sure they reclaim and push back uh against the uh the power grab from Washington.
	Mark sign in for us, more straight ahead.
	A gas worker in Springfield, Massachusetts, uh managed to uh blow up a strip club on the weekend.
	Um it it's amazing this scene.
	It looks it looks like something out of Benghazi.
	Uh and uh I gather uh we now know that it was in fact uh a gas worker from the local utility company, but it wasn't enough.
	Susan Rice went out on Meet the Press on Sunday and said it was uh something to do with that YouTube video, a movie protest that got out of hand.
	But this uh this strip club downtown strip club in Springfield, Massachusetts, has been completely leveled.
	It's a huge explosion.
	The thing the whole thing's gone.
	They don't know where and there's nothing left of this thing.
	The whole there were uh there were pasties and tassels flying everywhere.
	People like seven miles uh if you were driving south on I-91, you got like pasties on your windscreen, skidded off the road and uh and on to the shoulder.
	The poll.
	The poll the poll took out uh some uh electric substation in Staten Island, and it would have put the whole place out of power, but they're still out of power from Hurricane Sandy, which was what, six months ago now.
	Anyway, so uh it was a devastating scene.
	So do spare a sh a um uh do do spare a thought uh at this time of year when we're thinking about charitable uh giving, because after four days after four days, uh people in Springfield, Massachusetts are still stripperless.
	So obviously uh our hearts go out uh go out to them.
	Uh many uh many of the there's thirty eight there are thirty eight strippers now who now have no club.
	They uh they've uh they've got nothing to wear.
	This uh this thing's literally taking the clothes off their back.
	Uh so it's it's astonishing scenes of devastation.
	FEMA is handing out FEMA, I gather, uh have arrived in Springfield.
	FEMA uh declared a f federal emergency site round the Springfield Strick Strip Club and they are handing out federal G strings.
	Uh each uh each G string by the time it's been passed through the Federal bureaucracy uh costs uh four thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars.
	But they have been distributing them because these uh these strippers are in need.
	It's uh it's an appalling scene of devastation in Springfield, Massachusetts.
	Uh one minute it was this just the strip club, one minute was there, next it's gone.
	But FEMA are there and are distributing uh federally manufactured, fully compliant, fully compliant G strings to the strippers.
	It's not like the Bouncy Castle thing.
	A fully accredited, trained, licensed guy with state and federal permits is on the scene uh handing out uh temporary G strings uh to these strippers in in the hope that they will be able to rebuild the devastated stripper community of Springfield, Massachusetts.
	So our hearts go out to them.
	Let us go to Jeff in Dunmore, Pennsylvania.
	Jeff, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Thanks, Mark.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	And listen, great job on your book uh After America.
	I thoroughly enjoyed it.
	Was very informative.
	But I just want to tell you uh today I I've been thinking a lot about this whole matter of the fiscal cliff and all of the talk that we hear from our political leaders of how we're approaching the fiscal cliff, and I think most of that is just smoke and mirrors.
	Uh we're not approaching the fiscal cliff.
	We've gone over the fiscal cliff.
	We are in the canyon of debt from which we are never going to climb out of.
	It's not going to happen.
	We have debt in this country, Mark, that we cannot pay back.
	And the sooner that we face that and deal with truth and deal with reality, the sooner we're going to have a remedy to get better and understand that everybody is going to need to take a haircut.
	We're going to need to declare bankruptcy.
	We're going to need to restructure, and we are going to need to address these issues of not only Social Security, Medicare, which are over $130 trillion of unfunded liability presently, but all of the other spending, the wild spending that goes on at the federal, even the state and local levels, because this problem is not just a problem at the federal level.
	State governments are in trouble with their pension programs.
	My state in particular has a $40 to $50 billion unfunded liability presently for state pensions.
	And plenty of other states are in similar circumstances, as well as municipalities, The city that sits adjacent to my town, the city of Scrant, which was in the national news, is a there's better bankrupt city for for a long time, but they keep borrowing more money and borrowing and kicking the can down the road, and eventually uh you're not going to have anything left to do, and and you're going to have a real crash.
	So uh I I just can't figure out why it is that we can't get political leaders in this country with enough character and integrity to come out and tell the American people the truth.
	Uh, you're really.
	You're right there, Jeff, and and well said.
	And the interesting thing is when you talk to guys in Washington and you look in their eyes, you can see there is no intention ever of paying this stuff back.
	And it's the same at the municipal level and at the state level.
	And the municipal level as they're done in California.
	Uh broke cities can pass it up to a broke state and the broke state can then pass it on to a broke nation.
	Where does the broke nation pass it on to?
	There's not enough money on the planet uh to to cover this level of spending, which is why this pathetic dance of the Warren Buffett's and all the rest of it is uh is so pathetic, because there is ab th that that's barely skimming the surface of it of of the of the real honest uh uh accounting of the binge that uh that we've been on for uh for a generation now.
	Uh thanks thanks for your call, Jeff.
	I've got to run because I'm up against uh I'm up against a break.
	But uh but he's absolutely right.
	Uh you look in these guys' eyes and they have no intention of paying this stuff back.
	And that entails certain consequences.
	Mark Stein in for us, lots more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for us.
	Uh You can win.
	They're taking bids now for a strategy session with uh with Sandra Fluke.
	You can bid on a strategy session.
	Personal strategy session with Sandra Fluke.
	Uh the the the leading bid at the moment is $20.
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	If you're willing to go up to say like uh twenty-two dollars and seventy-three cents, you could win your own personal strategy session with uh with Sandra Fluke.
	Uh not not it doesn't sound as much fun as a personal strategy session with Jill Kelly and her identical twin, but you can't you can't have everything.
	Mark Stein Infor Rush on the EIB network.

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