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Nov. 26, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 26, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's anchor man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein, no supporting paperwork whatsoever.
The only immigrant in the United States who will not be covered by the forthcoming amnesty.
I'm living in the shadows and I'm loving it.
Mark Belling will be here tomorrow, and then Rush returns Wednesday to take you through the end of the week.
Um I mean talking, because this is like the kind of depressing phase of uh the the post-election blaz, isn't it?
The uh November, December, J just that time when uh between now and the inauguration.
I guess they're gonna have a whole bunch of inaugural balls again on uh January the whatever it is, but although I notice there's no sort of delirious uh there's no kind of delirious magazine covers and anything this time, it all seems to be a bit more low-key over on the Democratic side.
Even they can't seem to get enthused about uh what's uh what's coming up.
But uh Rush's uh Rush's monologue a week ago I thought was very important, because it was about how you can uh uh you can win once in a while you'll win the politics stuff.
We do very well in off years, you know, in the uh in the midterms, nineteen ninety-four, uh two thousand and two.
Uh Republicans can have good years then because they're essentially because they're low turnout elections, so people who are engaged by politics vote.
In the presidential years, uh people who are pe people vote uh a broader pool of voters comes in, and they're basically people who uh who swim in the in the broader culture.
They're not people who know the names of their congressmen or governor and aren't terribly interested.
And that's a reasonable position.
And that's just a conservative position apart from anything else, uh, because the point about politics is to is to free up time for you to be able to live your life to to the fullest.
And that's the pitch the left made make.
The for the left everything is political because for the small core of left wing activists, they control everything uh and uh uh and it's full time for them, but they understand, they understand that for the majority of people, uh they're not engaged by politics,
and so the best way to position uh the left wing side is not as one side of an argument or another, that's all very confrontational, but just to make it the kind of default position that th that is so obvious that it's not everyone knows, everyone knows global warming is happening.
So what's the point of even discussing it?
Uh and that's that's the classic template for them, to make theirs the easiest position for the people who don't want to think about politics.
And so every we face getting clobbered every four years about that.
I mean, basically there has been no decisive if you discount the first President Bush 1988, because that was basically Ronald Reagan's coattails, there has been no real active uh enthusiastic vote uh for a Republican presidential candidate now in almost thirty years.
You know, we lost the b the the left had a point.
We did lose the popular vote in two thousand.
And you know something?
If we were like some countries, Australia has compulsory voting.
Everyone votes in Australia.
So you don't have these genius consultants uh who are uh hired at great expense to uh provide information on how to get certain people to the poll and who's likely to turn out and can we target these soccer moms in southern Ohio.
You don't have to do that in Australia, because one hundred percent of people turn out.
Everybody turns out.
And we all know, we all know that if one hundred percent of people turned out in the United States, the Republican Party would never win.
The Republican Party would never win.
Uh that's that's why they always say polls of uh polls of uh likely voters skew more Republican than registered voters, and polls of registered v voters skew more Republican than polls of all adults.
In other words, if you're engaged by politics, you respond to conservative ideas.
But if you're just out there watching dancing with the stars and you uh as you flipping through the channels you happen to see something about some election that's happening in your school gym on Tuesday, so you might as well go down and vote for the president.
Those kind of people the vast majority of those kind of people are not uh we have abandoned them.
We have abandoned them, and we gotta get them we gotta get them back into it.
And uh th the left y you know, the the left is uh it's absurd that the left have take managed to take over Hollywood.
It's one of the reasons, by the way, that Hollywood is in the toilet.
It's kaput.
I I said on this show a couple of months back that I think in the end all effective storytelling is conservative.
Because it's about consequences.
You you make a decision, you make a choice, and you have to live with the consequences of that choice.
And the left says, no, no, no, there are no consequences to anything.
You can wake up uh you you wake up on a Tuesday morning and decide you want to have an abortion, there are no consequences to that.
You wake up on a Wednesday morning and decide, well, you've uh been a man for a couple of decades, but you'd like to try being a woman now.
Uh there are no consequences to that.
Life without consequences.
Uh and successful storytelling is about is about consequences.
It's how the the novel was invented because of consequences.
A girl goes to a ball when she's seventeen and she happens to accept a dance from the wrong gentleman, and her life changes because of that one incident.
Uh and the left says, nah, nah, there's nothing.
There's no con do what you want.
If it feels good, do it.
There's no consequences to anything.
So all effective storytelling is basically conservative, which is why the only thing propping up Hollywood at the moment is basically uh old bits of English literature like uh The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
And even Rush was talking about, when he was talking about his monologue, Rush was talking about James Bond.
Uh 'cause rush is a big Bond fan.
Uh he he just bought the whole lot in Blu-ray.
I went to see Skyfall uh the uh the other day.
Uh I enjoyed Skyfall very much.
Uh Rush enjoys them.
But there is no doubt, there is no doubt that back in the uh back in the early days, uh generally speaking, uh when Ian Fleming was writing those books, there was no doubt who who would who the bad guy was.
The bad even in the Roger Moore era, the bad guy with the Soviets.
Yes, Bond usually wound up uh sleeping with the uh with the Soviet agent, but he uh he still understood that she was on the double uh the the other side and that in fact his seduction of her was part of uh part of subverting the Soviet plan for world domination.
Whereas when General Petraeus from the CIA, who is like uh America's James Bond, when he's uh when when when he's having fun with his biographer, that's just a little bit on the side.
There are no geopolitical consequences to that.
When James Bond gets his leg over, there are geopolitical consequences.
And now you have a situation where films can't even thriller plots are about nothing.
There's nothing at stake in thriller plots now.
You go and see a th you go and see uh your big conspiracy thriller, you know, and there'll be uh they'll be on a plane and the sun threat to blow up the plane and think maybe like the suspiciously uh swarthy Arab looking guy in seat thirty seven D is the guy who's gonna c blow up the plane, and then it turns out that uh no he's just been set up by uh the vice president of a Halliburton subsidiary who's a friend of Dick Cheney's.
Uh and so there's and so films are not film thrillers are not about anything.
It there's never been a period in human history like this uh when you have uh when you have uh uh uh entertainment storytelling that is not about it.
They had some stupid thing the uh uh a couple of years ago.
There was one of these big thriller planes where it's a rogue plane, the plane itself, because you can't make anybody the villain.
Oh, we have we could have a Muslim villain, that might be a bit problematic.
We could have a Chinese villain, ooh no, let's not go there.
Oh no, we don't do that anymore.
So they made the plane the villain.
It was a an automatic plane that went rogue.
It's a plane and and uh started flying toward a skyscraper in New York, right?
Which might ring a few bells with uh with some of uh older listeners might remember vaguely a few years ago there was something about a plane flying into a skyscraper in New York, and it turned out to be some guy sitting in a cave in uh in in Afghanistan who'd been plotting this and they were bad guys and they sent the bad guys uh to the United States and the bad guys had a big conspiracy and then they got past airport security and then they got on the plane and they flew it into the building.
That's what happens in real life.
When Hollywood told that story, it was a rogue plane.
The plane went rogue.
The plane is the terrorist, because you can't tell stories about anything.
And that is why that is why we would be we have got to get back that's that's and the and the and the great message of all those dumb, numbing, stupid, idiotic tales is that uh if there's uh if if if uh if you abandon that territory, then other guys tell your stories for you.
And the left tells the same stories.
Ooh, there are no bad people out there on the planet.
There are just friends that uh uh that that we whose grievances we haven't yet sufficiently accommodated.
That's what the left tells you.
That's the siren song of the left.
And it's so easy because it means you don't have to think about anything.
You just can uh you know, you just can sit on your porch and strum your guitar and do a little dope or whatever whatever they do these days and uh and the world goes on its way.
And you can work for your nonprofit and there are no consequences.
And we need to get back on all on all that ground uh and all that tough.
Every time there is a guy there are there there are there are fellas out there uh writing conservative novels uh making conservative films uh which doesn't mean they're political it doesn't mean they're making a film about uh what a great guy John Boehner is they're not making films about the Republican Party but they're making films with a moral center that teach you that the the the choices we make as free people have consequences.
And when those people are telling those stories we need to support them and we need to have more of them.
Uh because otherwise there's not going to be anything left except the dumb stupid reality shows like what I was uh I was trying to find uh Fox News last night and I came across whatever it was extreme Amish cougars uh on uh on whatever it's called TLC is it the the learning channel there's no learning on the learning channel it's just extreme Amish cougars or no that's not what is it extreme cougar wives that's right extreme Amish cougars is a spin off I'm actually pitching to Paramount this week.
Uh so I hope I didn't give it away there.
Uh but the the if you abandon that if you just say to yourself we're gonna retreat and we're just gonna discuss getting this or that congressman elected then the sea that your children swim in and the sea that your grandchildren swim in will be liberal and it will be impossible uh to elect genuinely conservative candidates.
And the Republicans, which is what they're doing uh already will slide further and further towards the so called mildly right of center parties in Europe where they offer to manage the left wing state slightly more efficiently than the left wing party does.
And that's the only way once you let the culture become liberal that's the only way you can get a so called right of center party uh elected and we we are far too close to that situation.
We may have crush in the days after the election thought we'd cross the line.
I don't think we'd cross the line.
I'm not that pessimistic.
There's still everything to play for uh but to do that you've got to go big uh Mitt Romney fought a who's a good man and an honorable man but he fought a small shriveled campaign on narrowly f if ever there was an opportunity for a b what's the point of picking Paul Ryan as your running mate and not fighting a big picture election on where America is.
At least then if we'd had a big picture campaign we could at least say we had lost with honor.
Instead, you know, play it safe, don't frighten the horses, fight play small uh don't even tell most people there's an election going on just fight it out with a few turnout models in selected precincts in Ohio and Florida and New Hampshire.
It's pathetic I want the the next time round uh we deserve a candidate who fights a big national campaign on the existential questions facing the United States.
Mark Stein in for Rush we got lots more of your calls straight ahead one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network for the first time in history uh uh uh adult diapers outsell baby diapers in Japan.
The uh the demographic the demographic decline of Japan and Europe is well underway.
Adult diapers if you're in the diaper business if you're huggies or pampers and you want to sell in Japan the uh the adult diaper business is the only business man.
No one's having any babies uh but there's lots of non-aginarians uh around terrific news Michael let's go to Michael in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
It's great to have you with us on the Rush Limbos Thank you.
It's nice to be on long term listener from the late eighties.
Wow concept of consequence feeds right into what I made here as a point.
I w was in Vietnam in sixty seven, sixty eight within thirty six hours I was back in Madison, Wisconsin on the University of Wisconsin campus Yeah for the Cultural Revolution is what I refer to.
And uh the culture revolution evolved around sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
And I saw what was going on, and I did a lot of speaking out relative to the consequences of choices being made at that time and the long term impact for our country.
Because I'm a patriot.
And uh of course it went over the top.
Uh it was condescending towards me from those around me, which hey, what's right is right.
I mean, we got basic principles and standards we need to live by.
Well, let's move on to Obamacare now.
During that whole debacle, I made many calls across the country to religious leaders, to politicians across the country, relative to the fact that they would not work with the issue that was it should have been of the forefront, and that's sex outside of committed relationships and the impact.
The state of Wisconsin spends upward to 140 million a year, and that's these are three-year-old statistics, just for thing about their birthing in the hospital in the state of Wisconsin.
that's just the beginning of the economic impact for all of us in this state because we need to carry that need out from a tax base to the age of 18 and as well includes college And uh that's rather frustrating to see that none of our politicians would want to address this particular issue, especially during the Obama care period when this should have been addressed in terms of what was dressing health care costs.
And uh what do you do?
You see the churches, nobody nobody wants to deal with with reality.
You speak the issue of abortion.
Abortion is another form of birth control.
It's what leads up to the need for the abortion that's not being addressed, and how that you as well as how that impacts the uh the tax base.
So the the left has a compelling logic, Michael, in not uh uh not addressing it, because from their point of view, as we saw as we saw in this recent uh election, uh single mothers, single women generally, but single mothers in particular, are are among the loyalist Democratic Party constituents.
Because for a single mother, uh big government is the is the sugar daddy who'll who'll never let you down, who always remembers to send the check.
And it it's one of the oddest things about that uh commercial, that uh campaign ad by uh Lena Dunham, I think, who sh stars in a TV show called Girls, and she's uh extremely big big star uh and it's a big hit show, and she basically uh did an ad that uh said if you want to when you offer your virginity to somebody, uh in it ought to be something special.
And she equates voting for Obama with losing your virginity.
And people thought it had been stolen from Putin uh because Putin did the same thing, he's the big Russian strongman.
You know, he got he's he walks around all bare chested.
I don't know why he's got moves that would stop a truck, but he walks around Putin.
I hope that doesn't cause war between our two great nations, by the way.
But it's a fact.
And uh he walks around, uh he's fabulous, uh fabulous cleavage.
Uh and he walks around, he walks around with uh all bare chested, and and the women uh are devoted to him.
And so uh th they make those uh virginity ads.
And in fact, it doesn't even come from him, it came it come came from an Australian senator.
Uh was the it was the Australian Green Party that was the first one to try this thing that you know voting for your great uh patriarchal leader is the same as losing your virginity.
And in a sense, they're not they're not wrong, because if you look at that Life of Julia ad, Obama is presenting himself to uh w um the women of America.
This is what the feminist revolution has dwindled down to.
Uh my uh friend Rich Larry at National Review said basically Obama in this campaign ad is presenting himself uh to the women of America as father, lover, protector, uh the man that every woman needs who's always there for you.
Because we have uh raised men to be feckless uh and to figure and actually to figure out that logically it's not worth getting mixed up with uh women in stable relationships.
You're much better uh to take uh the money to be in extreme cougar wives on TLC where you can go and uh do some show on TLC where you uh get mixed up with some uh seventy-six year old cougar uh for for four shows and uh get a nice little check than trying to build stable relationships committed relationships uh which the government disincentivizes.
Instead the government tells you that the most important man of your life is the big patriarchal uh uh great national leader Obama he will take care of you from the m day you are born to the day you die to the day you want to get an abortion to the day you want to go on welfare uh whatever it is Obama is your protector and is there for you.
And we laughed at that but the fact of the matter is that to a lot of young women in America that made perfect sense and they liked the message.
And that is the real problem in America today.
Yes, Rush is out today.
Mark Belling is here tomorrow live from New York City and Rush will return to take you through the end of another week of excellence in broadcasting starting on Wednesday.
So uh substitute host level excellence in broadcasting today but Rush uh back Wednesday enough you can go to Rushlimbaugh.com and uh it will be as if he has never gone away.
Let's go to David in Oklahoma City.
David, thanks for waiting.
You are live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Uh how we want Mark It's going great and uh how's it going out in Oklahoma City?
I love that city by the way it's so spectacularly clean.
You could eat you could eat off the sidewalk.
Yeah.
But uh I was gonna get your perspective on something and I've been like many conservatives contemplating what's what's going on in culture and similar to what Rush said after the election that he he went to bed thinking we'd lost the country I I was kind of in the same boat.
But I got the thinking that I don't think we really need to to compromise on anything per se, but we need to reframe the argument as to how we present it to the public.
Because I think if there's one reality that can't be disputed it's that the general electorate has begun to tilt left but just like the people that I speak to they don't know why they're tilting left and you kind of touched upon that already.
I think you have to reframe the argument in such a manner as to people still vote with their wallets but you have to indicate to them the true gravity of the situation.
Now the pundits are always on TV saying oh we have $15 trillion dollars and that the average layman has no idea what maybe that means and what the gravity of it is.
So I would advocate presenting it like this.
You can either try to draw off of our own economic engine something that can sustain if anything can sustain what we're spending you draw off our own economic engine, you know our our massive GDP, or you go to the creditor, be it the investors or China, whoever it is and you frame it the argument a lot of people out there who just keep going in and they they get their lines of credits maxed out, they go get another credit card, they go to a classy lender they move on money to mention they go bankrupt.
You frame the argument just like that on a macroeconomic scale.
And you got you try to reach the voting electorate through that prison because they don't understand the $15 trillion dollars in debt.
They don't understand the fact that we're not going to be able to service it.
No put it in terms they can understand.
No, basically uh basically if uh if interest rates on the debt were to go up to what they were in the late nineties or the early years of this Yeah, where what's happened?
What's happened?
Something's uh something's gone wrong.
I'm here I got you I couldn't hear you heard me worried there my screen went blank.
I don't know what that's I don't know what's going on here either.
Uh it's uh it's somebody's hacked into it.
But you can hear me still can you I can yeah.
And can you hear me, HR you okay that's that's good.
I sorry I thought I thought someone had disconnected the bit of wet string that connects New Hampshire.
New Hampshire's basically uh bagdad outside the green zone.
I mean it's like uh it's good No you're uh you are absolutely you are absolutely right uh to put to put it in those in those ways.
Mitt tried to when he said, you know, I don't want to have to borrow money from the Chinese to pay for Big Bird.
But you're right that most people don't understand all this trillion dollar stuff and I mean it's so disconnected from what it What it really boils down to those is that um every single American, man, woman and child, their share of the debt is about two hundred thousand dollars.
Every American family, their share of the total debt is about three quarters of a million dollars.
Uh that's the equivalent.
We were talking about royal families, uh the cost of royal families versus the cost of uh the Obama family at the top of the hour.
Basically, the um the the uh the that that three quarters of a million is about the budget deficit of Liechtenstein, which is one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
And so the uh the the his Serene Highness, the Prince of Liechtenstein can afford to be uh can afford that three quarters of a million dollars in a way that uh Bud and Cindy cannot afford that three quarters of a million dollars.
Every single American family, their share of the debt is three quarters of a million dollars.
And we ought to be able to explain that uh to people in a way that resonates.
And I think uh uh uh we we we've uh we've lost Oklahoma City, is that right, Kit?
Uh is that right?
Oh, you so I thought I th I thought you I thought you'd uh I thought you dropped off the we're having some uh having some technical uh issues up here.
But you're the you're uh b by by the way, I gave a speech in Oklahoma City just for a friend of mine uh a year or two back, and it struck me as a uh a conservative as essentially a conservative state, but that was prone to temptation.
In other words, uh in other words that even in what we think of as red state heartlands, you can see that there's a drift that the ratchet effect of big government, even in what the Republicans now think of as their last red state redoubts is already underway.
Would you say that's the case?
Mark, I'm I'm just waiting your time.
I can't hear you all with the industrial equipment here, but uh generally speaking, uh it is a very conservative state.
But uh I think they I think in a way the the power to be and the economic engine of the state.
They have the they have the luxury of being able to play both sides because they have a workforce that has generally conservative values.
Right.
They're out there working and putting in their time and doing what needs to be done.
Uh well I'm glad I'm glad to hear that industrial equipment worrying away back there.
I don't hear a lot of that as much in the United States as I used to.
I'm amazed to hear industrial equipment whirring this side of Shanghai.
So it's crazy.
Well, it's bigger Air Force Base, so I mean twenty-two thousand people around here.
Okay, that's uh that's that's that's good to hear.
I do love I and I said right at the beginning of the call uh that I love uh the cleanliness of Oklahoma City is a m is amazing.
Because if you like in these uh old uh East Coast cities like Boston, you know, there's like litter flapping down the street, New York, all the rest of it.
It's like it's m the downtown area of Oklahoma City is like eerily eerily uh clean.
It's like it's like an invasion of the body snatches thing that's gonna uh going on there.
Either that or they uh they they are imbued with admirable uh civic uh spirit.
Uh yeah, I mean that's that's basically it.
It's got to be put in real terms that people understand.
By the way, just to go back to the other point that was made just then, which is do we want to uh do we want to so-called compromise moderate our values?
No.
No, we don't.
And you know, this is again to tie it all together, the social issues and the fiscal issues are part of the same thing.
That if you have the the best indicator of whether a child is going to have a uh reasonably prosperous life that allows him to live in stability and fulfill his economic potential, i is whether he's uh raised in a two-parent household.
Uh that's that's simply a uh a fact.
The statistical evidence on that is overwhelming.
And that doesn't mean you have to demonize single mothers, but you have to recognize that when a child is brought into the world uh by someone who's uh seventeen years old and has uh no uh uh male figure in that household to raise the child, uh that that kid is starting off with a huge crippling disadvantage in life.
And furthermore, you have to recognize that uh that constituency is a constituency for big government.
Tockville, when Tocqueville uh toured uh America, he said the big difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution was that the re French Revolution hacked away all the intermediary uh bodies a bit intermediary levels between uh the state and the citizen.
In other words, they hacked away local government, they hacked away at the authority of churches, they hacked away at civic organizations.
They hacked away at the family particularly.
And what the United States had was strong intermediary institutions between Washington and the citizens so that Washington barely impinged on people's lives back then.
What happens when you destroy the family when you uh when you diminish churches, when you diminish municipal and county and state government, there's nothing left except you the citizen at one end and good King Barack at the other.
And so and so uh if you the the weaker families get uh the more you will have a constituency for big government because the only uh intermedi there are no intermediary institutions.
There's no other source of uh civic value in the uh and civic strength in the United States and so it's not a small thing.
And we know that because in the end all those people uh Bill Weld in Massachusetts he was in office but not in power.
George Pataki in New York he was in office but not in power.
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Sacramento, California he was in office but not in power.
There's no point to electing these people who claim to have squared the circle because they haven't squared the circle.
They haven't squared the circle at all.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more in a moment.
Mark Stein on the EIB network, you know Rush was talking about uh James Bond.
Last time round, 2008, uh Daniel Craig who plays James Bond was asked uh who would be a better Bond, uh McCain or Obama and he answered that Obama would be the better Bond because as Daniel Craig put it, he'd be willing to quite literally look the enemy in the eye and go toe to toe with them.
Uh McCain would probably be a better M, he said, mentioning uh Bond's boss played by Dame Judy Dench.
Now this was uh this like was ridiculous because John McCain has lived James Bond's life.
I mean I uh whatever one feels about McCain's candidacy, he's survived plane crashes like Roger Moore in uh in Octopussy, he's escaped death in shipboard infernos like Sean Connery in Thunderball.
He's endured torture day after day uh month after month without end like uh Pierce Brosnan in the uh in the opening uh in the title sequence of Die Another Day.
He's done everything James Bond has done except uh get lowered into a shark tank and uh and go to bed with uh Gilson John.
As far as we know, I mean I don't know what about McCain but he's basically he has lived Bond's life and that's why he looks like what a guy who's led an action hero life looks like.
He looks unkempt and scarred and maimed and kind of slightly wacky and yet McCain McCain who has lived Bond's life Daniel Craig says oh no we'll give him the desk job because McCain is a real action hero but Obama it looks like what a movie producer would think an action hero would look like cool, remote and all the rest of it.
And that's and and that actually right there is a is the problem that as long as as long as these guys can't even see the reality in front of their in front of their face that McCain has actually lived that life McCain had lived that life.
McCa McCain is the action hero in that a and Obama's never broken a sweat.
He's a community organizer.
Nobody even knows what that does he's gone what does that mean?
You go into an office and shuffle flyers but he's the action hero in our cultural terms he's the action hero and McCain's just the boring old guy who gets the desk job.
We got to do something to change that narrative.
Let's go to Doug in Houston.
Doug, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Yeah the uh the uh the great soon to be seceding state of Texas or uh is there that I live here and not some other places.
That's for sure that's true.
I wanted to make a point you had said uh earlier and I wanted uh uh comment on your uh how you think we've not fallen off I don't want to say the fiscal cliff or even the social cliff or the cliff where we don't think we can get this back and I I and I'm I'm gonna somewhat disagree and uh I think we've had fifty years of social engineering and it's basically Lyndon B. Johnson's great society has come to fruition and it's taken fifty years to just
about fully implement uh the social change in this country that so much of our economy now is devoted to giving free stuff away or getting things from the government.
I don't think we're gonna get that back.
Well you never know you can you can get it.
I think I think it is possible to get it back and I'll tell you why Doug, because there's this thing called reality and uh it doesn't matter.
In the end it doesn't matter whether reality is square and old fashioned and not as cool as Obama.
Uh reality doesn't need to get to two hundred and seventy in the electoral college reality doesn't need to swing uh 1500 soccer moms in southern Ohio.
Uh reality can poll as badly as it gets with the focus groups and still trump everything else and and reality is going to force changes on the United States whether it likes it or not.
And the question then is uh is how it responds to those changes.
I mean, I agree with you.
It's interesting that, in a way, America's mythology hasn't caught up with the reality of the situation.
Basically, at the moment, America spends about 41% of GDP is spent by government.
Government accounts for about 41% of GDP.
In Canada, it's 42%.
So that 1% is the difference between a sturdy republic of self-reliant citizens and an effete semi-French monarchy socialist basket case of wimps.
42% Canada, 41%...
United States and I guess I understand that point but you know you talked about when will people realize uh or changing the narrative on how much in debt each person in the United States well none of them will ever know how much each one of them is in debt unless you send them a bill.
Yeah you know reality won't set in until uh we get so far in debt that we have to either devalue our currency or inflation runs among when somebody goes that's paying two dollars for a loaf of bread has to go spend six dollars.
That will be reality.
But there's there's none of that reality right now.
So no you're you're right you're right Doug it's only gonna be on uh uh uh event uh uh effectively America will have a choice between defaulting on the world and killing the dollar or defaulting on the people and uh risking uh social unrest.
So so which of those calls you make is gonna be is going to be critical.
Thank you for that we did get I told you we'd get to total societal collapse in the end and we did with Doug.
The Rush Limbaugh show on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network stay tuned more ahead.
Mark Stein in for rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I want to say one quick word uh before we go about the great Larry Hagman of Dallas uh who died a couple of days ago uh great great man and a great show Dallas and the interesting thing about it was that it taught a lot of people in the eighties it taught a lot of people at Eastern Europe that was their vision of what life was like in the West.
Ceausescu agreed to put it on television in Romania because he thought it would show people how horrible and appalling life was in the Western world and then instead they all saw J.R. and South Fork Ranch and thought I want to live like that.
And after the Chaoșkus at Christmas time it was about this time of year, just before Christmas were put up against the wall and shot the first thing that Romanian television did after uh after covering the shooting of Ceausescu announcing the new regime was they showed the pilot episode of Dallas.
So rest in peace the great Larry Hagman uh son of Mary Martin, Broadway legend and a great figure in his own right.
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