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Jan. 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 21, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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Coronation Day in Washington, the re-immaculation of the President is now almost complete.
They are wrapping up their lunch at the moment.
The President, I thought, was very moving when he said that in the end, the name-calling is childish and we have to be better than that and all the rest of it.
And then immediately afterwards, Congressman Paul Ryan appeared on the steps of the Capitol.
And Department of Justice lawyer Dan Freeman, an employee of American taxpayers, got everyone to boo him and then tweeted that he got everyone to boo him.
Dan Freeman said, I just started the crowd booing when Paul Ryan came out.
So that's the new higher tone in Washington lasted for about 3.7 seconds.
And then Department of Justice lawyer Dan Freeman got them to boo Paul Ryan.
The coronation is over now.
The festivities are until the balls tonight, that is.
And by the way, the balls have changed over the years.
This whole tradition of a big lavish ball doesn't really go back that far.
Lots of guys, like Warren G. Harding, he canceled the ball.
He didn't want the ball.
He thought the ball was expensive and he wanted to set an example of thrift and simplicity to the American people.
I can't believe the guy ever got elected.
Anyway, I know he's not the best example of government integrity, but he did want to get rid of the inaugural ball, and he did succeed in 1921.
Harry Truman revived the official ball in 1949.
Now, he had won.
Dwight D. Eisenhower added a second ball due to the great demand for tickets.
By the time of JFK in 1961, five inaugural balls.
But by the second inaugural of President William Jefferson Clinton in 1997, there were now 14 official inaugural balls.
That's the official number of inaugural balls.
So it's not like some of these other ones we were talking about.
That was the all-time high, 14 official inaugural balls.
President Obama attended 10 official inaugural balls, so it came back down again for his first inaugural in 2009.
Not sure how many he's going to be attending tonight, but these are the official ones.
They're not like the ones the Black McDonald's owner operators of the Greater Baltimore Area inaugural ball and some of those other ones, the Association of Government Minority Contractors inaugural balls that I mentioned earlier.
I'm going to the Al-Qaeda inaugural ball, actually.
That should be a wild ride.
There's the Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolf Deranged Serial Killers Ball.
That should be a riot, too.
So there's all these inaugural balls tonight.
But meantime, life goes on.
Democrats see the budget process.
Democrats are now threatening, having not passed a budget in years, are now saying they're interested in crafting a comprehensive budget framework because they see the budget process as, quote, a great opportunity to 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 government does, no longer meets its minimal obligations.
The president is supposed to produce a budget by a certain day.
It's not just something that might be a good idea if he feels good about it and if he doesn't feel good about it.
He's obliged by law to produce this budget.
And the budget has, he has broken the law in that sense every year for, I think, with one exception, for the four years he's been president so far, he has never met the legal deadline.
And he said, and 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.
You probably have to file a tax return on April the 15th.
And you're probably thinking about it.
You think, ah, yeah, I might get to it by May the 28th or early July or whatever.
Or 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 have to.
This is a legal obligation.
And the ability, the ability, by the way, to produce a budget is basically the minimal legal obligation of the government of the United States.
And this is the forlorn counterpoint to Beoncay and James Taylor and Kelly Clarkson and all the rest of it at the official celebrations today.
The United States government can rouse itself to produce an inaugural ball that runs on time, but they can't produce a budget that runs on time.
You know, they can get, they can, 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 that.
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 with nothing else.
But the president cannot fulfill his legal obligation to produce a budget.
And this is where we are moving into a land beyond laws.
This is what the executive orders boil down to.
This is what the rule by regulation boils down to, where it doesn't matter.
This is what it boils down to when you 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.
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 dinner with Beyoncé wraps up early, he may get around to it.
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 recently.
He solemnly swore to uphold all the micro-regulatory flim flam of 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 swore to uphold all that today, but his minimum legal obligations as president, like filing a budget and operating to a budget, 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.
So life goes on.
The party is over.
The morning after you wake up with the hangover, it was terrific.
You went to the inaugural ball.
You got to dance with Beyoncé.
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 your silver slippers, your glass slippers, and you are back where you were the day before.
$16 trillion in the hole 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 additional tax increases through when you suddenly need some tax increases through in a hurry.
We will talk about that.
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These things go hand in hand, spending and foreign policy, because when you're broke, you can't influence affairs in the world.
And if we wondered what it meant when Putin, when Obama assured Medvedev, 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 without the United States and, in a sense, preparing for the post-American order.
These are extraordinary sums of money that have been spent in the first term.
$6 trillion the debt increased.
No plans to restrain it whatsoever.
No plans.
He told John Boehner during the 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 24-7, and he spends that money on stuff that doesn't make any difference and most of which leaves no trace.
And he's going to do that 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, a 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 were no shovel-ready projects.
The term is alien to the United States these days when you have to pass a zoning process and an environmental impact study.
How can you have a shovel-ready project?
There's no shovel-ready projects.
The environmental impact study permit will take 15 years.
So there's no shovel-ready projects.
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 was the Democrat word for spending.
They talked about stimulus, stimulus, stimulus.
All they've talked about, 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 going to be?
They're going to try to figure out a way to close the gap between what they're spending.
They put all the spending in place in the first term.
They are now going to come collecting the money to pay for it in the second term.
And the 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.
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 is going to be about.
So, when the party is over, when you have danced and waltzed Beyoncé round the floor, and then you have dashed after her, thinking that she is going to be your swain for life, and this magic inaugural moment will last forever.
You're just back in your rags, swabbing out the scullery, and 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 sign in for rush.
More to come.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
It's National Squirrel Appreciation Day in the United States, and we are observing that day very solemnly as we watch the streets of Washington, where it looks like the parade is about to start.
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.
The news from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the Manley Library.
I like that.
That's a nice name for a library.
The Manley 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, says an announcement in the Manly Library in Sydney.
The move follows the news that the long-delayed confession by Lance Armstrong last week that 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 testing and traces of urine were found in his drug sample, which is very embarrassing for a big-time athlete when that happens.
But I don't know where we stand on these performance-enhancing drugs things.
I certainly think maybe we could use a few performance-enhancing drugs in Washington.
Instead, it's just going to 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.
Mega Dittos from the president of the Boast Nerdly Fan Club.
Are you having an inaugural ball?
Is the Boast Nerdly Fan Club inaugural ball taking place in Washington tonight?
Oh, yeah, all four of us members are here.
I mean, we'll be partying.
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 Boast 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, yes.
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 right.
It was a trillion-dollar bill that mysteriously fell into the hands of Mr. Burns and Homer, who take it to Castro, who tries to steal the trillion-dollar bill.
Am I remembering the plot more or less correctly?
I think Castro succeeds.
It might explain why Cuba has that great health care.
They have all our money to pay for it.
Castro took the trillion-dollar bill.
Yeah, but you know, one of the sad things about life In the 21st century, is that things that were inherently ridiculous a mere decade and a half ago then become accepted as entirely normal.
So, the fact is, we had 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 the get around the debt ceiling that way.
I mean, it's like 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 would tell you about buying American debt when the United States Treasury starts minting trillion-dollar coins.
There was none of that.
At some point.
Well, the White House officially said that for the moment the trillion-dollar coin is off, the trillion-dollar coin is off the table.
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 off the table.
If you're going to, by the way, the inaugural disco and John Travolta is there, and he's in the white suit with slashed open to the navel.
You can see the trillion-dollar coin.
He's wearing it as a medallion nestling in his chest here if you're going to the inaugural disco in Washington tonight.
But, David, Paul Krugman thinks that you guys who are 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 we have this debt problem, we have credit issues around the world, and our solution is to literally make money out of nothing and give it to ourselves.
I mean, yes, yeah, I mean, tax code is all too obliterated for me, but I mean, even basic economics 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 going to end up like Greece.
You know, if we keep going down this path, we're going to 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 are not in the position of being able to talk about printing a trillion Euro coin or anything.
The Irish can't make a trillion Euro coin or anything.
So the fact that so, so in other words, the Greeks whom we sneer at and whom we despise as the very byword for absolutely insane profligacy actually have more serious, meaningful fiscal restraint imposed upon them 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 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.
The Rush Limbaugh Show, lots more to come.
Yes, it's a big day in Washington.
Nancy Pelosi is Nancy Pelosi is currently giving a speech at the official coronation lunch.
Do we want to cut away live to Nancy Pelosi's?
No, no, no.
I don't think we'll do that.
Oh, no, I think she's stopped now, and she's passing out souvenir coronation contraceptives to the assembled dignitaries.
That's very moving, very moving.
So we'll keep you up to date on all the developments in Washington.
I believe the lunch is overrunning.
The 3,000-calorie lunch.
They ate bison.
Bison, not Biden.
They should have eaten Biden, but we won't get that lucky.
But they were served bison.
And when the lunch is wrapped up, Chuck Schumer is the master.
By the way, where is it in the Constitution that Chuck Schumer is the master of ceremonies?
I don't get this.
It's like the Chuck Schumer Show.
And what's up with that, that someone gets to be the master of ceremonies?
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, say what you like about that royal wedding, but they didn't appoint some obscure member of the House of Lords to be the master of ceremonies.
What's the Chuck Schumer show all the time?
Anyway, so Chuck Schumer is now speaking, and there's like all these other dignitaries in there.
And when they've finished speaking, all had their speech, and they've passed out the Nancy Pelosi commemorative inaugural contraceptives, 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.
By the way, that's one town where they know how to do the parade.
I love Palm Springs where everything's like Frank Sinatra Drive and Bob Hope Drive and Dinosha Drive and then Gene Autry Trail.
So Palm Springs would have a great parade.
But David, 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 tombstone, 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 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 certain 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, you're right.
He said, for history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing.
And I mentioned this in the previous hour.
He's very good at connecting the words of the founding fathers and using them actually as a pretext for big government.
Because it's worse than altruism, David.
He's not talking here about people doing good works.
He's not talking about private charity.
He's not talking about people using the wealth they have accumulated to spend in ways that they think benefits their community.
He's talking about government.
He's talking a big 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.
And the liberals want the government to do that.
Yeah, and you make a good point, David.
It's like when he was asked about his faith, 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 as I think I said at the time, his brother lives in Kenya and makes $12 a year.
So if Barack Obama thought he was his brother's keeper, he could put a $10 bill in an envelope and ship it over to Nairobi and near double the guy's income.
But 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 warden at the zoo, and we're the animals.
We're the people who can't be trusted to make our own decisions.
And that's how he defines altruism, not as a moral code for the individual, but as a pretext for massive big government, 300 million people with their keeper being one man in Washington, D.C. How's that feeling from Palm Springs, David?
Pardon?
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 is still speaking.
No, it's I was going to 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 you know, when you put it like that, it's also the case that no matter the disastrous results, for example, LBJ's Great Society had a catastrophic effect on the black family in America.
But it doesn't matter.
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.
The fact that none of these things work makes no difference because by being prepared to support them, you 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, simply by being in favor of those programs, no matter how destructive they are, you advertise your moral virtue.
And that's what gives liberals that peculiar, preening, smug, self-regarding quality so many of them all have, David.
But thanks for your call.
A great to hear from you from Palm Springs today.
I can't get over.
By the way, I said in Palm Springs, all the streets are named.
Everything's named after Bob Hope and Bing Crosby and Dinoshaw and Facts of that.
I can't get over getting up early when you live on 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.
Jim in Northfield, Tennessee.
You're live on air.
You were watching the Nancy Pelosi speech, too, weren't you?
It got distracted.
But Jim, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show right now.
Hello, Mark.
Hey, good to have you with us.
Good to be with you.
Mark, I love your sense of humor, and I'm glad to see somebody can maintain a sense of humor under the certain current circumstances.
Yes, it's basically laughing into the abyss.
It isn't really, it's no laughing matter.
I have a question for you.
Mark, it's hard for me to understand how that the policies that are currently being pursued don't contain within them the seeds of their own destruction.
And because over time, it appears that taxes are going to have to increase and increase and increase to feed the 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 from now until eternity?
Well, you know, that's the question that everybody in big government has been faced with.
I mean, right, going right back to Russia 90 years ago, that 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 ear of government, like the Google guy who's got the ear of Obama.
Nobody's given him a hard time for putting all his profits via an Irish company into the Bahamas and therefore not contributing to the Treasury.
What you wind up with, and I think 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, a big dysfunctional mass underneath and no middle class in between.
But for the governing class, if you're in the nomenclatura, you'll still be like the president.
When the president jetted off to Hawaii back to his vacation, and so he had a $7 million vacation, so he spent more on one Christmas vacation.
I pointed this out the last time I was here, but the numbers got worse when he then flew back for the rest of his 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 world we're moving towards.
You'll have a big dysfunctional mass 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 40-car motorcade and all the rest of it.
And as long as that holds up, Jim, they figure that the system is working.
But what you do is you throttle the middle class.
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 at the top, Jim.
And I would say that's the society we're moving towards if we keep spending on this scale, Jim.
You still there, Jim?
Okay, Mark, I appreciate it.
I just have this awful foreboding that this is not going to end well.
No, it's not going to end well.
I'm depressing too many calls today.
Because every time I go back to Jim or to Dave for a response, they're too depressed to speak.
Cheer up, Jim.
Cheer up, Jim.
In the end, you have to believe that the American people, in the end, will 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 not just economically stupid.
It's also profoundly wicked.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
More straight ahead.
Mark Stein for Rush.
Still waiting for that parade to start.
I believe the marching band, the ceremonial marching band of the food stamps recipients is about to launch the parade, but we're still waiting for that.
Let's go to Anne in, is it Peeru, Indiana, Anne?
Or Peru, Indiana?
Hello.
Hi, Anne.
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show from Peru, Indiana.
I'm glad to speak with you.
Is it?
As the old movie here call it Peeru.
Peeru.
I thought it was Peru.
I was there years and years ago.
I had coal porter fudge at Arnold's Candy Store.
I think it was something like that.
Well, good.
I'll send you something.
It's a lot of fun in this town.
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.
Are we better off?
Actually, we are because we moved out of Indianapolis, which has turned terribly violent.
Yeah, well, that's a sad thing to that's a sad thing to hear.
But I remember it as a very nice town when it was Peeru.
Yeah, I mean, hey, it is what it is, what you make it.
And this is what I teach my little fellow.
But let me tell you what he said to me this morning.
We were watching the news, and a number came across the screen.
He says, Mom, what is that number?
I said, that's $16 trillion.
What?
You know, because you said earlier, you know, when we were kids, $16 trillion, that was just unreal.
It wasn't reality, as you said.
No, it's not.
Why are they putting that up there?
I said, well, that's the money that we owe out.
He says, you and I?
No, no, the United States.
He says, well, my gosh, what are we going to do?
Who do we owe?
And I said, well, mostly to China.
I said, now, I don't know what.
Now, maybe I put this thought in his head, but I said, I don't know what we're going to do if China comes to Colin.
Now, how old are you?
Well, what's going to happen?
I said, they might own a little bit of us.
He says, well, we should own ourselves.
We should own ourselves.
As I told your fellows there, I said, maybe we should move children into Washington and move the spoiled brats out.
Well, I wish your boy.
How old's your son, by the way, Anne?
He's just eight.
He's quite the bean counter.
Excellent.
I mean, when Obama was in that press conference, surrounded by all those photogenic grade schoolers, I wish your son had been there, too.
We should own ourselves is a great line.
Because he's right.
Because what happens when you owe money is that basically your future is mortgaged to others.
Other people will make the decisions about you.
I know.
Other people will make the decisions about your country and where it goes.
And his share of the total debt, if you take all the federal, state, municipal, 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 we have done a terrible thing to them.
And I'm glad he still is punctilious enough to be freaked out by the T1.
Sorry, I'm calling on a cell phone and the train is coming through.
But 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, that's great.
And I'm glad to hear that because we have to make the people that 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 going to be broke and they are going to be crippled by the burden of paying back the money that his generation spent.
Mark Stein for Rush, more to come.
If memory serves, Peru, Indiana is, I think it's about an hour from Hillsdale, Michigan.
I'll be at Hillsdale College 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 than most of the guys at Washington.
That's Hillsdale College, I think it's January the 30th that I'm going to be there, and then heading off to Washington this week for all the festivities.
But we have been enjoying a sacred moment, National Squirrel Appreciation Day in the United States of America.
We've covered all the solemn festivities.
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