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Jan. 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 21, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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And don't forget that Rush returns live tomorrow to take you through the start of another four years of excellence in broadcasting for the Obama second term.
Coronation Day in Washington, the reimaculation of the president is now almost complete.
They are they are having uh they are wrapping up their lunch at the moment.
The president I thought was very moving when he said that uh in the end the name calling is uh is childish and uh we it have to be better than that and all the rest of it.
And then immediately afterwards uh Congressman Paul Ryan appeared on the steps of the Capitol, and uh Department of Justice lawyer Dan Freeman, uh an employee of American taxpayers got everyone to boo him and then tweeted that he got everyone to boo him.
Dan Freeman uh said, I just started the crowd booing when Paul Ryan came out.
So that's the the the new higher tone in Washington lasted for about three point seven seconds.
Uh and then Department of Justice lawyer Dan Freeman got them to boo uh Paul Ryan.
Um the coronation is over now, the festivities are until the balls uh tonight, that is.
Uh and by the way, the balls have changed over the years.
This whole tradition of a of a big lavish ball doesn't really go back that far.
Lots of guys.
Warren G. Harding, he cancelled the ball.
He didn't want the ball.
He thought uh he thought the ball was expensive and uh he wanted to set an example of thrift and simplicity to the American people.
I I can't believe I can't believe the guy ever got elected.
Anyway, I know he's not the best example of g government integrity, but he did want to get rid of the uh inaugural ball, and he did succeed in nineteen twenty one.
Ha Harry Truman uh revived the official ball in nineteen forty-nine.
Now he had won.
Dwight D. Eisenhower added a second ball due to the great demand for tickets.
Uh by the time of JFK in nineteen sixty-one, five inaugural balls.
Uh but by the second inaugural of President William Jefferson Clinton in nineteen ninety-seven, there were now fourteen official inaugural balls.
That that's the official uh number of inaugural balls, so it's not like some of these other ones we were talking about.
There's the f that was the all-time high, fourteen official inaugural balls.
Uh President Obama attended ten official uh inaugural balls, so it came back down again for his first inaugural in two thousand nine.
Not sure how many he's going to be attending uh tonight.
But these are the official ones.
They're not like the ones the Black McDonald's owner operators of the Greater Baltimore area uh inaugural ball and some of those other ones, the uh Association of Government Minority Contractors inaugural balls uh that I mentioned earlier.
I'm going to the Al Qaeda Ignor ignoral ball, actually.
It's uh that should that should be uh that should be a wild ride.
There's the amalgamated union of uh lone wolf deranged serial killers ball.
That uh that should be a riot too.
So there's all these inaugural balls tonight, but meantime life goes on.
Uh Democrats see the budget process.
Democrats are now threatening having not passed a budget in years, uh now saying they're interested in crafting a comprehensive budget framework because they see the budget process as quote a great opportunity to put pursue additional tax increases and to create a fast track process to push them through the Senate.
By the way, this is a good example of how uh government does uh g no out no longer meets its minimal obligations.
The president is supposed to produce a budget by a certain day.
It's not just something that, you know, might be a good idea and if he feels good about it, and if he doesn't feel good about it, he's obliged by law to produce this budget.
Uh and the budget has he has broken the law in that sense.
Uh every year for I think with one exception, for the four uh years he's been president so far, he has never met the legal deadline.
Uh and he said and he uh he the White House was asked about whether he was going to produce a budget on time this time, and they said they're thinking about it.
They're thinking about it.
It's like you.
Uh you're you probably have to file a tax return on April the fifteenth.
And uh you're probably thinking about it.
You think, ah, yeah, I might get to it by, you know, May the twenty eighth or uh early July or whatever.
Well I might not do one this year.
After all it'll roll around again next year, and I can file a tax return next April if I uh if I have to.
The this is a legal obligation.
And and the ability, the ability, by the way, to uh to produce a budget is is basically the minimal legal obligation of the government of the United States.
And this is this is this is the forlorn counterpoint to Beyonce and James Taylor and Kelly Clarkson and all the rest of it at the official celebrations today.
Uh the United States government can rouse itself to produce a an inaugural ball that runs on time, uh but they can't produce a budget that runs on time.
You know, they can they can get they can it's because it's difficult.
You've got to line when you line up Beyoncé, you've got to deal with her agents, with her managers, with her hairdresser and all it's a complicated business.
It's not like producing a budget.
Budget is simple compared to booking Beyoncé for your inaugural festivities.
So the government of the United States can almost pull off an inaugural ball if you overlook the malfunctioning jumbotron that left people enjoying the frisson of the cold Washington winter weather uh with nothing else.
Uh but the the president cannot fulfill his legal obligation to produce a budget.
Uh and this is this is uh where we are moving into a land beyond laws.
Uh this is what the executive orders boil down to.
This is what the rule by regulation boils down to.
Where it doesn't matter, nobody w this is what it boils down to when you uh pass laws that no legislators have read.
You are in a world beyond laws, and that's fine for the President of the United States, and it's fine for the government because they pick and choose which of their legal obligations they follow.
He the president is thinking about fulfilling his legal obligation to produce a budget in a timely manner.
He's thinking about it.
He's mulling it over.
If nothing if he if uh if uh dinner with Beyonce wraps up early, he may get around to it.
Uh but something else may intervene and he might not get around to it.
There's no big deal.
It's the president.
So what?
He doesn't he faithfully swore to solemnly swore to uphold all the executive orders that he signed uh recently, he swe he's solemnly swore to uphold all the micro regulatory uh flimflam of uh the Department of Health and Human Services, re Obamacare, he's solemnly swore to uphold the tooth level surveillance to use the exact words in the Obamacare bill, tooth level surveillance of the citizenry.
That's the exact phrase, tooth level surveillance.
He solemnly saw to uphold all that today, but the his minimum legal obligations as president, like uh file in a budget and operating to a budget, uh he doesn't he doesn't care about.
But the Senate now is talking about maybe passing a budget, because they see it as quote, a great opportunity to pursue additional tax increases and to create a fast track process to push them through the Senate.
Uh so life goes on, the party is over.
Uh the morning after you wake up with the hangover, it was uh it was terrific.
You went to the inaugural ball, uh you got to dance with Beyonce, you waltzed Kelly Clarkson round the floor at the official inaugural ball, and then at midnight, the clock strikes, and your coach turns back into a pumpkin, and you lose you you lose your your silver slippers, your glass slippers, and you are back where you were the day before.
Sixteen trillion dollars in the hole uh with Chuck Schumer saying that the great thing about budgets, normally he's got no use for budgets, decades can go half a decade can go by without the Senate passing a budget, not a big deal, but it's a great way of railroading uh uh additional tax increases through when you suddenly need some tax increases through in a hurry.
Uh we will talk about that.
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These things go hand in hand uh spending and foreign policy, because when you're broke, you can't influence affairs in the world.
And uh if we wondered What it meant when uh Putin uh when when uh Obama assured Medvedev uh to asked him to pass on to Putin that he would have far more flexibility in his second term.
Basically the flexibility is this that the world is going its own merry way uh without the United States and uh the in a sense preparing for the post American order.
Uh these are extraordinary sums of money that have been spent in the first term, six trillion dollars the debt increased, no plans to restrain it whatsoever.
No plans he he told uh John Boehner during the uh so-called fiscal cliff negotiations that there is no spending problem.
And you're right.
He doesn't have a spending problem.
He spends very easily.
He spends every minute of the day.
He spends twenty-four seven, and he spends that money on stuff that doesn't make any uh any difference uh uh and most of which leaves no trace.
And he's gonna do that uh in the second term as well.
Now at some point this catches up with him.
And this is why it's interesting.
Democrats are focused all the time now at tax increase, tax increase, tax increase.
This time four years ago, it was all about the spending.
It was all the nonsense about shovel ready projects and all the rest of it.
There are there were no shovel ready projects.
The term is alien to the United States uh these days, when you have to pass a zoning process and an environmental impact study.
Where the how can you have a shovel ready project?
There's no shovel ready projects.
The environmental uh impact study permit will take fifteen years.
So there's no shovel ready projects.
Uh but at that time they were all about the spending.
Between November 2008 and January 2009, they talked about spending, stimulus, they call it.
That's the that was the Democrat word for spending.
They talked about stimulus, stimulus, stimulus.
All they've talked about, and and they spent and they spend all that money.
So they talked about spending and they spent all the money.
From November to January, they have talked about tax increases, tax increases, tax increases.
What do you think the next four years are gonna be?
They're gonna try to figure out a way to close the gap between what they're spending.
They got put all the spending in place in the first term.
They are now gonna come collecting the money to pay for it in the second term.
And the and the uh preoccupations of Chuck Schumer and all these other Democrats are talking about tax increases are not small.
You know, basically it was a two-stage program.
We now have European levels of spending.
Uh he did that in his first term.
He passed European levels of spending.
The second term is going to be about European levels of taxation.
Because you can't have European sized spending and American sized taxation.
And that's what the second term's gonna be about.
So when the party is over, when you have danced and waltzed Beyonce round the floor, and then you have dashed after her, thinking that she is going to be your swain for life, and this in magic inaugural moment will last forever.
You're just back in your rags, swabbing out the scullery, uh and your and your uh your your white horses have turned into mice, and your coach is back to being a pumpkin, and your glass slippers are shattered and your barefoot scrubbing the floor.
America the morning after the inauguration.
Mark signing for Rush, Mordecai.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
It's National Squirrel Appreciation Day in uh the United States, and we are observing that day uh very solemnly as we watch uh the streets of Washington where it looks like the parade is about to start.
Uh the parade for National Squirrel Appreciation Day, so I'll be interested to see.
I think there's both grey squirrels and red squirrels marching in that, so it should be exciting.
Uh the news from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the Manley Library, I like that.
That's that's a nice name for a library.
The Manly Library is moving all of Lance Armstrong's books to the fiction section.
All non fiction Lance Armstrong titles, including Lance Armstrong Images of a Champion, the Lance Armstrong Performance Program, and Lance Armstrong, world's greatest champion, will soon be moved to the fiction section, uh says an announcement in the Manly Library in Sydney.
Uh the move follows the news that uh the long delayed confession by Lance Armstrong Last week that uh he relied on performance enhancing drugs to place first in his seven Tour de France competitions.
He'd evaded that, but he has now confessed after they did they did testing and uh traces of urine were found in his drug sample, which is very embarrassing for a big time uh athlete when that happens.
Um but uh I don't uh I don't know where we stand on these performance enhancing drugs things.
I certainly I certainly think we maybe we could use a few performance enhancing drugs in uh in Washington instead it's just gonna be tax increases.
Let us go to David in Springfield, Pennsylvania.
David, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Mark, it's an honor to talk to you.
Megadiddoes from the president of the Boast Nerdly fan club.
Are you having an inaugural ball?
Is the Bosner fan club inaugural ball taking place in Washington tonight?
Oh, yeah, all four of us members are here.
I mean, we'll uh we'll be partying.
It'll be it'll be a great time.
That's the most exclusive inaugural ball in Washington.
You'll be changing partners a lot.
Your dance card will not be filled, David.
All four members at the Bo S Nerdly fan club inaugural ball.
What else is on your mind today?
Well, I called to talk about what you were writing about last night, the trillion dollar coin proposal that Paul Krugman made.
Oh 15 years ago or so, I was little.
I was watching an episode of The Simpsons featuring a trillion dollar bill.
And my dad explained that the joke was that well, no one would ever print a trillion dollar bill.
Well, it seems like the joke's on us now.
I mean, they're not talking about just printing one but multiple coins to solve our debt problem.
That's that's right.
It was a trillion dollar bill that uh s mysteriously fell into the hands of uh uh of of Mr. Burns and Homer who who take it to uh Castro who tries to steal the trillion dollar bill.
That's uh am I remembering the plot more or less correctly, I think.
Yeah, yeah, in fact, CAFTA succeeds.
It might explain why Cuba has that great health care.
They have all the our money to pay for it.
Castro took the trillion dollar bill.
Yeah, it will you but you know, one of the sad things about life in the uh twenty first century is that things that were inherently ridiculous uh a mere decade and a half ago, uh uh uh then become accepted as entirely normal.
So the fact is we had uh for for about a week and a half, the most eminent persons in America actually had a serious discussion on whether or not the United States mint should mint a trillion dollar coin and increase increase the uh get around the debt ceiling that way.
I mean, it's like uh at that point at that point nobody seems to think well, you know, if you're lending money to America, if you're like China, or if you're like the British, or if you're like the Saudis, and you're buying American debt, what it what it would tell you about buying American debt when the United States Treasury starts minting trillion dollar coin.
There was none of there was none of that.
At some point.
Well well the White House officially said that for the moment the trillion dollar coin is off the trillion dollar coin is off the table.
Uh but that's only because he's wearing it round his neck for the inaugural ball tonight.
But he did say he did say that for the moment the trillion dollar coin is uh is off the uh is off the table.
If you if you're going to, by the way, the uh inaugural disco uh and uh John Travolta is there and he's in the white he's in the white suit with slashed open to the naval.
You can see the trillion dollar coin.
He's wearing it as a medallion ness uh nestling in his chest hair if you're going to the inaugural disco in Washington tonight.
Uh but David, what what Paul Krugman thinks that you guys who are uh opposing the trillion dollar coin are just being simple minded about it.
What don't you like about the trillion dollar coin, David?
Well, I mean, it just seems odd that you know we're we we you know we have this debt problem, we have you know credit issues around the world, and our solution is to give m literally make money out of nothing and give it to ourselves.
I mean, I mean I tax code's all too oblexive for me, but I mean, even basic economics will should show that that will probably hurt our credit rating around the world.
Well, you know you know, David, what Paul Krugman would say is because the Greeks, for example, we keep I love it when people say, ah, you know, if we're not careful we're gonna end up like Greece.
You know, if we keep carrying down this path, we're gonna be like Greece.
The Greeks actually can't do that, because they don't print their own currency.
The Greeks use the Euro.
So the Greeks the Greeks do not ha uh do not are not in the position of being able to talk about printing a trillion euro coin or anything.
The Irish can't print a uh make a trillion euro coin or anything.
So the fact that so in other words, the the Greeks whom we sneer at and whom we despise as the very byword for absolutely insane profligate profligacy actually have more serious, meaningful fiscal restraint imposed upon them uh than we do in the United States.
I wish we were like the Greeks and we didn't print our own currency, because we'd have to get serious about this thing.
And that's the that's the danger here, that we will destroy the United States dollar if we go down that path, and then they will be good for doing nothing but wearing at the inaugural ball.
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Yes, it's a big day in Washington.
Nancy Pelosi is uh Nancy Pelosi is currently giving a a speech at the official coronation lunch.
Uh do we do we want to cut away live to Nancy Pelosi's No, no, no.
I don't think we'll do that.
Oh no, she I think she's I think she's stopped now and she's uh passing out uh souvenir uh coronation contraceptives to the ascendal assembled dignitaries.
That's uh very very moving, very moving.
So we'll keep you up to date on all the uh developments in Washington.
I believe the lunch is overrunning.
The three thousand calorie lunch, uh they ate bison.
Uh bison, not Biden.
They should have eaten Biden, but we won't get that lucky.
Uh but they were served bison, and uh when the lunch is wrapped up, Chuck Schumer is the master.
By the way, how where is it in the Constitution that Chuck Schumer is the master of ceremonies?
I don't get this.
It's like being Chuck it's like the Chuck Schumer show.
And and and why what's what's up with that that someone gets to be the master of ceremonies?
I don't under I don't understand that.
But there's like way too much I'm not being partisan here.
If I was a Democrat, I'd feel there was way too much Chuck Schumer in this kind of thing.
I mean, so what you like about that royal wedding, but they didn't like uh uh appoint some obscure member of the House of Lords to uh to to be the master of ceremonies of all the Chuck Schumer show all the time.
Anyway, so he Chuck Schumer is now speaking, and these there's like all these other dignitaries in there.
And uh when they've finished uh speaking, all had their speech, and they've passed out the Nancy Pelosi commemorative uh inaugural uh contraceptives, uh then they will have the big parade.
But right now the parade is running late.
So let's go to David in Palm Springs and kill a bit of time before all the excitement of the parade.
Uh by by the way, that's one town where they knew do the know how to do the parade.
I love Palm Springs where everything's like Frank Sinatra Drive and Bob Hope Drive and Dinosaur Drive and then Gene Autry Trail.
Uh so Palm Springs would have a great parade.
But David, uh, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
Thanks for choosing me over Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
That wasn't a tough call.
You're damning yourself with fate praise there, David.
If they chisel that on your tube snowed, you'll know that your life was a total bust.
Thank you.
I have a comment about Obama's inaugural speech.
In one sentence, he replaced unalienable rights, which is the moral foundation of our government and the Constitution with the moral principle of altruism.
And and where what section of the speech was he talking about in that?
He quoted the declaration, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
That's certainly unalienable rights.
Right.
And then he said, unalienable rights may be self-evident.
But implementing them isn't.
We must all do that together.
Yes, that's that you're right.
He said for history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing.
Uh and and uh uh and uh w I I mentioned this uh in the previous hour.
He's very good at connecting the words of the founding fathers uh and using them actually as a pretext for big government.
Because it's not it's worse than altruism, David.
He's not talking here about people doing good works.
He's he's not talking about uh private charity.
He's he's not talking about people using the wealth they have accumulated uh to spend in ways that they think benefits their community.
He's talking about government.
He's talking a big uh by altruism.
He means altruism is the moral philosophy of most major religions, and it's intended to help the individual guide their lives.
That's right.
Yeah, and you you you make a good point, David.
It's like when he was asked about his faith, uh and in fact he said this at the National Prayer Breakfast, I think it was just last year.
He said, I have always believed that I am my brother's keeper.
And what he means by that is that the government should be your brother's keeper.
Because uh as as I think I said at the time, his brother lives in Kenya and makes twelve dollars a year.
So if Barack Obama thought he was his brother's keeper, he could put a a uh ten dollar bill in an envelope and s ship it over to Nairobi and near double the guy's income.
But he d when he when Barack Obama says, I believe that I am my brother's keeper, he believes that big government should be everybody's keeper.
And actually that's the way to put it, because they're like the uh warden at the zoo and and uh and we're the animals.
Uh we're the people who can't be trusted to make our own decisions.
And that's that's how he that's how he defines altruism, not as a moral code for the individual, but as a pretext for massive big government, uh three hundred million people with their keeper in uh being one man in Washington, DC.
How's that feel from Bob Spriggs, David?
Pardon?
I I I was hoping I was waiting for you to respond to my point, but you were thinking, wow, this guy's going on a bit.
I wonder if Nancy Pelosi's still speaking.
No, it it's um I was gonna uh Rush gets frustrated when arguments based on reason don't seem to work.
Right.
Because it's like trying to convert somebody from a different religion.
Liberal progressives have a faith-based morality, and we all grow up with it, so when we hear it's good to do help others, well, yeah, why shouldn't the government do that?
But but but you know, you when you put it like that, it's it's also the case that no matter the disastrous results, for example, LBJ's Great Society had a catastrophic effect on on the black family in America.
But it doesn't matter.
Uh government program head start, which has been around for half a century now and is totally worthless, makes no difference to America's humiliating, embarrassing educational performance.
Uh the fact that none of these things work makes no difference because uh by being prepared to support them, you you uh advertise your moral virtue.
So if you're in favor of increased food stamps, if you're in favor of increased dependency, if you're in favor of welfare programs that keep people in poverty and will prevent them from ever fulfilling their potential in life, uh simply by being in favor of those programs, uh, no matter how destructive they are, you advertise your moral virtue, and that's what gives uh liberals that uh peculiar uh pr s preening smug self-regarding quality so many of them uh uh of them all have, David.
But thanks uh thanks for your thanks for your call, a great from you from Palm Springs today.
I can't get I can't get over.
By the way, I said in Palm Springs, all the streets are named up, everything's named after Bob Hope and Bing Crosby and Dinah Shaw and facts that I can't get over getting up early when you live on like Frank Sinatra Drive and watching the Chuck Schubert show.
There just seems something wrong about that.
Let us go to Jim in Northfield, Tennessee.
Jim, it's great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, Jim.
Uh Jim, Jim in Northfield, Tennessee, you're live on air.
You you were watching the Nancy Pelosi speech too, weren't you?
Uh it got distracted.
But Jim, you're alive on the Rush Limbo show right now.
Hello, Mark.
Hey, good to have you with us.
Uh Mark, I love your sense of humor, and I'm glad to see somebody can maintain a sense of humor under the certain s uh current circumstances.
Yes, it's it's basically uh laughing into the abyss.
It's it it isn't really it's no laughing matter.
Uh I have a question for you.
Uh Mark.
It's hard for me to understand how that the policies that are currently being pursued don't contain within the seeds of their own destruction because over time it appears that taxes are going to have to increase and increase and increase to feed the uh welfare monster that's been created.
And the productive segment of society is eventually going to become less productive.
And so how is the monster going to be fed uh from from now until eternity.
Well, you know, that's that's the question that everybody in big government has been faced with.
I mean, right going right back uh to uh Russia ninety years ago.
That uh Russia had successful businessmen, and those successful businessmen got out.
Latin America after the Second World War when they were in the sort of heyday of their president for life phase.
Successful businessmen got out, except for the ones who were cronies and had the air of government.
Like the Google guy who's uh got the ear of Obama, nobody's given him a hard time uh for for uh putting all his profits via an Irish company into the Bahamas and therefore not contributing to the uh to the treasury.
What what you wind up with, and I think this they understand this at some level, is you wind up with a privileged elite and a big dysfunctional mass underneath.
It's basically a Latin American model, uh a big dysfunctional mass underneath and no middle class in between.
But for the governing class, if you're in the nomenclatura, uh you'll still be like the president.
The pre the president th when the president jetted off to Hawaii back to his vacation.
And so he had a seven million dollar vacation.
So he spent more on one Christmas vacation.
I pointed this, I pointed this out the last time I was here, but the numbers got worse when he then flew back for the rest of a vacation.
He spent more on one Christmas vacation than the entire royal family spend in a year traveling between their various realms, between Britain and Canada and Australia, and that's everybody, the queen, princes, dukes, duchesses, the whole lot of them.
He spent more on one vacation.
And that's the that's the world we're moving towards.
You'll have a big dysfunctional mass uh that will have no economic mobility, but you will have a privileged elite at the top that will still be flying off to Martha's Vineyard to pretend to take a vacation with the forty car motorcade and all the rest of it.
And as long as that holds up, Jim, they figure that the sist that they figure that the system is working.
But what you do is you throttle the middle class.
There's no and there's no movement between there's less and less social mobility between the two groups, between those at the bottom and the ruling elite uh at the top, Jim.
And I I would say that's the society we're moving towards if we keep if we keep spending uh on this scale, Jim.
Still there, Jim?
Okay, Mark, I I appreciate it.
I just uh I have this awful foreboding that this is not going to end well.
No, it's not going to well.
I'm depressing too bad he calls today.
I'm uh 'cause every time I go back to uh to Jib or to Dave for a response, they're depressed, they're too depressed to speak.
Cheer up, Jim.
Cheer up, Jim.
Uh in the end, uh the the you you have to you have to believe that the American people in the end uh will uh recognize that this is unsustainable, unaffordable, and actually deeply wicked to do this to our children.
We are spending money we have not earned and are asking generations yet unborn to pay it back.
That's that's not just uh economically stupid, it's also profoundly wicked.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
More straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Mark Steid for Rush, still waiting for that parade uh to start.
I I believe the uh the uh marching band, the ceremonial marching Band of the food stamps recipients is about to launch the parade, but we're still we're still waiting for that.
Let's go to Anne in uh is it Piru, Indiana, Anne?
Or Peru, Indiana?
Hello.
Hi, Anne.
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show from Peru, Indiana.
Speak with you.
Is it a year call it Piru?
Piru.
I thought it was Piru.
I was there years and years ago.
I had Cole Porter Fudge at I was Arnold's Arnold's Candy Store.
I think it was something like that.
It was send you something.
It's a lot of fun in this town.
It's it's a very unusual little place.
I'm originally from Indianapolis and we moved here.
My little guy and I, he's eight.
We moved here four years ago.
Oh my gosh.
Are we better off?
Actually, we are because we moved out of Indianapolis, which has turned terribly violent.
Yeah, well, that's uh that's a sad thing to uh that's a sad thing to hear.
But I remember it as a a very nice town when it was Piru.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, okay.
It is what he it it is what it is, what you make it.
And this is what I teach my little fellow.
But let me tell you what m what he said to me this morning.
We were watching the news and a number came across the screen.
He said, Mom, what is that number?
I said, that's sixteen trillion.
What?
You know, because you like you said earlier, you know, when we were kids, sixteen trillion, that was just unreal.
This you know, it wasn't reality, as you said.
No, it's why are they putting that up there?
I said, Well, that's the money that we owe out.
He said, You and I?
No.
No, the United States.
He says, Well, oh my gosh, what are we gonna do?
You know, who do we owe?
And I said, Well, mostly to China.
I said, No, I don't know what it now maybe I put this thought in his head, but I said, I don't know what we're gonna do if China comes a callin', you know.
Now, how old's you're old's Well, what's gonna happen?
I said they might o they might own a little bit of us.
He says, Well, we should own ourselves.
We should ourselves as I told your fellow there, I said maybe we should move children into Washington and move the spoiled brats out.
Well, I wish I wish your boy How old's your son, by the way, Anne.
He's just eight.
He's quite the bean counter.
Oh, well, I excellent.
I mean, why when uh when Obama was in that press conference uh surrounded by all those photogenic grade schoolers, I wish your son had been there too because that would have been.
We should own ourselves is a great line.
Uh because he's right.
Uh because what happens when you when you owe money is that basically your future is mortgaged to others.
Other people will make the decisions about you.
I know.
Uh other people will make the decisions about your country and where it goes.
And and uh and his share of the total debt, if you take all the uh federal, state, municipal, uh college debt, all the total debt in America, the debt per person, which is your eight-year-old son's share of the debt, is just shy of a quarter million dollars.
Every eight-year-old in the country.
And it we have done a terrible thing to them.
And I'm glad he was still I'm glad he still is is uh i i is punctilious enough to be freaked out by uh the tea watching.
I'm calling on a cell phone and the train is coming through, but he um uh like a lot of children.
I give him information and let him work it out on his own, and I think that children are quite capable of doing that.
Well, uh that's that's great, and I'm grand.
I'm gonna I'm I'm glad to hear that because uh we have to make the people that uh Obama has said he sees his primary responsibility is protecting the children.
If he wanted to protect the children of America, he would ensure that they had the same opportunities that he enjoyed growing up in the America of the 1960s and 70s.
And they will not have those opportunities.
They will not have the opportunities that Barack Obama had because they are gonna be broke and they are gonna be crippled by the burden of paying back the money that his generation spent.
Mark Stein for Rush.
More to come.
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Uh if if memory serves, Piru, Indiana is I think it's about an hour from Hillsdale, Michigan, I'll be at Hillsdale College uh and giving a speech there next week.
And if Anne brings her eight-year-old son along, I'll give him a shout out from the crowd because he makes more fiscal sense uh than most of the guys at Washington.
Uh that's that's uh uh Hillsdale College, I think it's January the 30th that uh that I'm gonna be there, and then heading off to Washington this week uh for all the festivities.
But we have been enjoying a uh a a sacred moment.
National Squirrel Appreciation Day in the United States of America.
We have covered all the solemn festivities.
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