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June 4, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 4, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Don't worry, America.
You need not be discombobulated by sinister foreign guest hosts much longer.
The real deal, the man himself, the great Rock of Gibraltar of American conservatism for the last quarter century returns tomorrow for authentic, full strength, all American excellence in broadcasting.
But uh but for now for today, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein, the last unamnisted immigrant in America, a mere foreign exchange student at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a great program.
Guys like me get to come and study here, and in return John McCain gets a vacation condo in Syria.
So it all works out.
We're live from Ice Station EIB in uh far northern New Hampshire.
People say to me, Well, well, why are you in far northern New Hampshire?
Rush is in Palm Beach and Dugar Bansky is in in Beverly Hills.
It just lowers the whole tone of the whole rush guest host lineup to have some schlub who's in far northern New Hampshire.
And it's true, you know, the weather's lousy, uh you can't get a Rugula at the general store, the roads are unpaved, but when Lois Lerner and the IRS come after you with those really tough questions, there's a disused logging road, and you can be across the border in about twenty minutes.
So there is that.
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In the in the final moments of the show, we had um we had Mike calling from uh Aspen, and uh and I got so many emails about about Mike.
He uh I think we added just thirty-seven affiliates from just having Mike's positive message on the air.
Uh and so if you're if you're a liberal and you share Mike's positive message, uh do call us, one-eight hundred-two eight two two eight eight two.
But if you are a liberal, be warned that even your guys are not happy about this.
Uh the IRS hearings are going on right now, even as I speak.
And uh Charlie Wrangle, Democrat of New York, Charlie Wrangle, has said, We have found a cancer someplace in Cincinnati, and we have to find out what caused this.
It's uh it's odd that Charlie Wrangles should be the the one Democrat who seems steamed about the IRS.
I I wonder I wonder what that's uh I wonder what that's all about.
I don't think it's uh got uh is the Cincinnati office also responsible for regulating rental income from your vacation place in the Dominican Republic?
I don't know.
We'll have to we'll have to look into that.
But Charlie Wrangle says we have found a cancer someplace in Cincinnati, and we have to find out what caused this.
Nobody knows what caused the cancer in the uh in the IRS.
Uh Michael Douglas says his cancer was caused by too much oral sex.
Uh so I would imagine we're about thirty-six hours from Douglas Shulman and Stephen Miller pleading that same excuse on behalf of the uh IRS.
Um a mass outbreak of Michael Douglas disease has afflicted the Cincinnati office of the IRS.
Uh so we'll keep you up to date.
We'll keep you up to date on that.
Uh Michael Michael D the outbreak of Michael Douglas disease in the Cincinnati of the IRS.
You may have had diff I you know, I heard uh whatever it was uh this morning I got an email saying the uh that the uh big IRS hearings were were starting on TV.
So I went to look uh for them, and normally the the place you can go to to look for great unvarnished hearings, public hearings, congressional hearings, the place that exists for that is C SPAN.
So I switch on C SPAN, and they've got live coverage uh of Dick Durbin talking to himself about something or other in the United States Senate.
You know that phony parliamentary coverage uh that uh they have in Congress.
It's not like, you know, uh Prime Minister's questions in the Australian Parliament where there's a great big mob howling and booing and braying and it's all lot of back and forth and all the rest of it.
It's just uh like some guy with the camera close on him talking to himself in an empty room and pretending this is some kind of parliamentary debate.
And so there was a live coverage of Dick Durbin talking to himself about something or other on C-SPAN.
So that was C-SPAN 1.
Uh sp I switched to C SPAN two, and there was a woman talking about uh mental health awareness raising awareness raising day or whatever it was.
Uh So I go to C SPAN 3 and there's some guy in uniform testifying on sexual harassment in the United States Coast Guard, uh, which always reminds me of that uh 1920s n novelty song, uh what is it, Who Coasts with the Coast Guard Store while the Coast Guard's busy coasting guard, whatever it is, I love that song.
Um so there's some guy, C SPAN 3 is covering uh a guy in uniform testifying on sexual harassment in the United States Coast.
I so I don't know whether there's any more.
If you if you've got C SPAN 4, C SPAN 5, C SPAN 6, uh I understand it wasn't being covered on any of those channels too.
Apparently this uh IRS hearing it's uh I think it's on C SPAN 27, which you can only get with the really specialized porn cable packages.
Uh so it's it was hard to find, hard to find.
Uh and I don't know whether I love, don't get me wrong, I love C SPAN, uh always uh enjoy it when I I get to be interviewed by C SPAN.
I don't quite understand why they weren't covering this hearing.
So I I managed to find, as I'm just uh tootling around, I managed to find uh um get a bit of it, and here one of the witnesses, and this is really compelling stuff.
You know, we had all the we had all the officials the last few days.
We've had all these guys who are interchangeable.
Uh there's uh we had the former IRS Commissioner, Douglas Shulman, then we had the former acting IRS Commissioner, Stephen Miller, then we have the current acting IRS Commissioner, you know, whatever his name is, and they're all like the same to me.
They're all the same kind of shifty weasel.
It's like they're producing them off uh they've got some big clone factory out in Shanghai, and the Chinese are producing uh these shifty weasel androids to be put up at congressional hearings, and they all say the same thing.
You know, th they ask an interesting question, and they have a cupped hand conversation with a member of their entourage, and then they say, I do not recall.
And uh you've got all these indistinguishable shifty weasels, you've got former Weasel Shulman, you've got former acting Weasel Miller, and then you've got the current weasel, whatever his name is, and they're all the same.
Well, this morning we had real American citizens, and and they're as various as the population of this great republic, and their testimony was immensely compelling.
I don't know why C SPAN would want to cut away from that to show Dick Durbin in a room talking to himself, but that's what they that's what they did.
We have a new uh report that is out today about what IRS officials have been spending on whooping it up at their so-called training conferences.
Uh by the way, the training conferences work out great because they spend four point one million dollars on training conferences training people to go and hound you uh over over your lousy uh eighteen hundred dollar expense claims.
So this 4.1 million dollar training conference, it was in Anaheim, California.
One official stayed five nights.
This uh report is about to be released sometime during the show.
It'll be released to uniform non coverage by the American media.
Uh one IRS official stayed five nights in a room that regularly goes for three thousand five hundred dollars a night.
Another stayed four nights in a room that regularly goes for one thousand four hundred and ninety-nine dollars a night.
Now these are like perks.
These would be the sort of things that if you were getting this kind of treatment, uh if you were being put up in thirty-five hundred dollar a night hotel rooms uh as a business perk, you would be expected to declare it to the IRS, but I would be surprised.
Call me cynical, but I would be surprised if any of these senior IRS officials uh declared any of this stuff as a payment in kind uh on their on their tax return.
So on the one hand we have this.
We have these guys partying, holding pointless conferences where they do their lame Gilligan's Island videos, the terrible leaden plonking, witless so-called training videos, uh, where they all pretend to be characters in a sitcom and uh and they're and they're enjoying these thirty-five hundred dollar a night hotel rooms.
And then on the other hand, we have the uh voices of American citizens.
Uh Becky Gerritson of the Watumpher Tea Party in Alabama uh was testifying uh about an hour ago.
And it and she and it was very moving what she said.
And I'd like to quote one thing she said because it gets to the heart of it.
She said and she began to tear up as she said this.
She she she began choking, she got a throb in her throat and uh she began tearing up as she said this.
I am not here as a serf or a vassal.
I am not begging my lords for mercy.
I am a born free American woman, wife, mother and citizen, and I'm telling my government that you have forgotten your place.
I am not here today as a surf or a vassal.
That's not true by the way, under under the law as it stands we are all serfs or vassals of the IRS.
H.R. made made the point just before the end of the show yesterday that under the IRS you're basically guilty until until you can prove yourself innocent.
They invert law.
They invert the basic the core principle of English law and turn it on its head.
And if they inv they in fact invert the balance of English law as it's been for eight centuries, which is the balance between the prosecutor, the judge and the jury.
Because when the IRS determined that they're going to take out a lien on your house or they're going to freeze your IRA, they're acting as prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner, all in one, all in one person, all in one person.
If you if you consider if you remember for example, Eric Holder Nobody likes Eric Holder.
He's the Attorney General, he's the chief lawmaker of the United States.
But when he wants to read James Rosen's emails at Fox News, when he wants to bug the telephone of James Rosen's parents, even Eric Holder has to go and find a judge who's willing to sign off on that.
These Ms Richards to name one of these ladies at the at the cancerous IRS office in Cincinnati, Ms Richards doesn't have to find a judge.
She isn't doesn't have to do what Eric Holder wants to do when he just wants to read James Rosen's emails when she wants to destroy the life of an American citizen by taking the home they live in, by uh freezing the bank accounts of their uh of their pensions, of their savings, by freezing their children's bank accounts she decides that herself.
She doesn't need a judge because she is prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner.
So in that sense we are all serfs and vassals of the RS.
And one thing that should change by the way, I'm not just sounding off when I say the IRS should be dissolved.
For start its name is rubbish.
It's not the internal revenue service.
Most revenue services around the world revenue agencies are actually internal.
In Britain it used to be called the inland revenue because i i it referred to uh it referred to income that you brought within the borders of the United Kingdom.
And when uh when countries have revenue agencies called inland and internal it refers to the fact that you bring it within the borders of Sweden or you bring it within the borders of New Zealand.
The IRS claims global jurisdiction.
It's one of only five countries.
I think there's uh it's like uh it's like Somaliland and uh Somalia and a couple of others uh th that uh that also do it claims global jurisdiction so there's nothing internal about it.
So they should disband this agency and they should replace it with the American revenue agency and they should remove the powers of Lois Learner or any low level agent simply to uh act as prosecutor judge jury and executioner and require them when they decide they'd like to take a lien on your house or they'd like to freeze your savings they are required to go to a judge not a special judge,
a a regular all American judge who will decide whether or not he is he they should at least be required to do what Eric Holder wants to do has to do when he has to re wants to read James Rosen's emails.
That's the first that's the first most basic reform that is required because that's the that's why everybody jumps when they get the IRS Because they they they know when somebody in Cincinnati calls you and asks for your Facebook posts that if you don't send them your Facebook posts, she's going to be freezing your IRA or taking out a lien on your property.
That that's the stage that comes next.
So they have to have that power removed from them.
And if Republicans can't get that small tiny reform just to make bring these people within the accepted norms uh uh and accepted conventions of a land of laws, then this whole thing is a waste of time.
Mark Stein, InfoRush, 1800-282-2882, lots more straight ahead.
We may need to put Charlie Wrangell in charge of uh reforming the IRS.
He Charlie is steeped about this.
Uh he he says uh he says a phone call from the IRS is not pleasant.
He explains to one of the he's telling one of the witnesses.
He's with her.
Now with the IRS, most of us know that this is an experience.
A telephone call from the IRS is a very, very uncomfortable feeling, says Charlie Wrangell, as well he should know.
Um we may have to have uh it may we may have reached the stage where Charlie Wrangle has to be the next deputy acting associate commissioner of the IRS.
Uh I was I was saying earlier that Becky uh she she was testifying about an hour ago, Becky Gerritson of the Watumka Tea Party in Alabama.
Absolutely, absolutely terrific testimony.
I mean, th these are real American citizens.
This is what the enemies list is now.
The enemy's list isn't this rich guy uh in California and this rich guy in New York and this rich guy at his beach place uh Adam Martha's Vineyard.
The the enemy's list now is half of the American people.
That if you happen to have a political disagreement uh with the ruling party, the ruling party will sick the permanent government on uh permanent bureaucracy on you and make your life hell.
Here's here's the facts of uh Becky uh Becky Gerritson's case.
Uh she applied, we applied, she said, for our 501c4 in October 2010.
Our eight hundred and fifty dollar application fee was cashed seven days from the date our application was mailed.
That's the thing that doesn't take any any time, the eight hundred and fifty dollar application fee.
We received a letter dated November the second stating that our application and user fee payment had been received, and it stated that we could expect to be contacted within ninety days, nine zero.
The IRS did not initiate any contact with us for another four hundred and fifty-nine days.
And that was when I received a letter from the Cincinnati office dated February the third, twenty twelve.
Now, in other words, this woman applies for her 501c4 application in October 2010, before the 2010 elections, and for a year and a half, they say they'll get back to her within ninety days, and they do not and they do not hear a word from her for a year and a half.
Now, as I said, that's the complete opposite of Malik Obama, the president's brother, when he mailed his application in from Nairobi in late May, and he was approved in June, uh and she very obligingly, Lois Lerner herself personally backdated it three years, personally backdated it three years.
So uh she she took care of him.
He got excellent quest uh customer service.
Now, when they did hear back a year and a half later, Becky Gerritson was called uh was told that the application could not be completed unless they filled out the enclosed questionnaire, which requested approximately ninety pieces of additional information or data, and that if the additional information was not returned by February the twenty-fourth that the case would be closed.
Now again, this is your Americans.
What was the point of your revolution?
Right?
Right?
What was the point of your revolution?
You've had a year and a half.
You wait a year and a half for the bureaucracy to get back to you.
They say they're gonna uh they tell that by their own standards, they they're supposed to get back to you within ninety days.
They take a year and a half and then say that you have to get back to them within three weeks or the case will be closed.
What what was the point?
What was the point of the revolution?
What was the point of your revolution?
You might as well have stuck with George the Third.
Uh 'cause uh George the Third, like if you'd said if you'd send him the Declaration of Independence on July the fourth, seventeen seventy-six, a year and a half later, he'd have sent you a reply saying he'll think it over.
You know, th th three weeks, you've got three weeks to reply.
Uh They they take a year and a half to reply to you, but you've got to take three weeks to reply to them.
This has got to stop.
This has got to stop.
This agency, it's not a cancer in the Cincinnati office with respect to Charlie Ang uh Wrangle.
This is a sickness, a systemic sickness in the heart of one of the core responsibilities of government.
There's there's lots of things government uh is monkeying around with in this country that it shouldn't be doing.
It's wasting money on.
It's doing this and it's doing that and it shouldn't be doing it.
But r revenue collection uh is one of the core functions of government.
Even small government people believe there there has to be a revenue collection agency to pay for the few things the state should be doing.
And when the revenue collection agency is as out of control as this organization is, it actually has uh it has to have a stake driven through its heart and it has to be replaced by something that is fairer and has fewer powers.
Yes, Rush returns live tomorrow to take you through the end of the week with full strength excellence in broadcasting.
Uh you remember yesterday I was uh I was talking about Richard Windsor, the the fake uh identity of the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson.
Uh she she isn't a man, apparently she's a woman, but she likes to play a man in her email interchanges with other members of the Obama administration, like Cass Sunstein.
This is apparently normal behavior now in the in the in the United States government.
Cabinet uh members have uh fake identities that uh they use uh to flirt with uh Obama's head of regulatory reform uh like Cass Sunstein.
Uh it turns out that this is this this is fairly widespread now, and the Associated Press applied to find out the names of all the other um uh secret identities.
Uh I think uh uh Lisa Jackson had said that she'd picked her name because it was the name of her the first name of her dog and the last name of a town in New Jersey.
This is like, you know, when you pick your porn star name.
You pick the name of your pet and the name of your favorite town in New Jersey.
Uh so as I said yesterday I worked for the 70s in the 70s uh for a period in uh straight to video gay porn as Butch Weehawk, and but apparently Lisa Jackson's been doing it too, and she was Richard Windsor, which is a much classier name because it sounds like a minor member of the royal family.
Uh apparently this is widespread now throughout the government.
And the Associated Press, uh digging themselves out from being bugged by Eric Holder, applied to find out about the other fake identities and email addresses of political appointees under the so-called Freedom of Information Act, uh, under which they're entitled to this information.
The lab the Labor Department uh replied that it could provide them with the names uh with these uh email addresses and uh the information it was seeking if the AP paid them one point zero three million dollars.
In other words, they char they wanted to charge a one for the under the Freedom of Information Act, the information is free, but the processing will cost one point oh three million dollars.
You know, it's like uh it's like the infomercials.
Uh you apply for you can if you order now uh for one set of uh Freedom of Information Act information, we'll find a second act of Freedom of Information Act information, and you'll just play processing and handling.
But in this case, the processing and handling costs one point oh three million dollars.
This is your government laughing in your face.
Let's go to Kate in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
Kate, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us today.
Oh, hey, Mark.
It's so lovely to talk to you.
My my pleasure.
What's on your mind, Kate?
Well, I just have to say something, because I've heard of uh a lot of people say the same thing.
Whenever Rush says he's going away, millions of us just go into a deep, deep depression and a funk, and the only antidepressant that works is when I hear that you're coming in for him.
Well, that's that's that's very sweet of you, but uh but there's millions more who are like itching for the for the real deal who will be back uh live tomorrow.
It's a pleasure, but I just want you to know that I'll sponsor you if you ever want to give up being an undocumented.
Oh gosh, don't do that.
Right now I'm not within the right now with I'm in Canada.
I'm worried you're thinking about it.
No, no, I'm not I'm not in the great advantage about being undocumented and living in the shadows is you never have to worry about the IRS having you in the database.
For God's sake, don't ever don't don't bring me out of the shadows, Kate.
it's just between us.
But listen, I have to talk to uh about uh Congressman Wrangle.
I think it's very prophetic.
Um and I'm gonna refer to him to doc as Dr. Wrangell, because I think what he's saying about the IRS investigations is a metaphor or foreshadowing of what we're going to see in Obamacare.
First of all, Dr. Wrangell seems to have made a very shotgun diagnosis.
Um he didn't worry about tests or hearings or anything.
They've just started, but he's already identified that we have a cancer in uh Cincinnati.
So he's uh quick to jump to a conclusion.
He's ig ignoring all the new data.
We've already now seen multiple letters and emails that have come from other uh IRS offices in California and DC, but he's ignoring that.
And his solution, probably like Obamacare, isn't to cut or to act or to resolve the thing or even to try to prevent it.
He's gonna look at it.
So I think what we have here is a foreshadowing of the prototype for how Obamacare is going to work too.
Yeah, you're you're you're right that uh that this may be th this in fact may be more significant than we thought that is uh but but but you know you're you you're right too in your larger point that that that in a sense Charlie Wrangle is a week behind the story here.
And that's not an accidental.
Right.
Uh the the Democrats want it to seem like it's rogue agents in Cincinnati.
And we already know that that isn't the case, that it goes way, way, way up.
And and Kate, what I've I find it interesting about this is that uh when when the uh when the IRS call you up, if they call up Kate in Valley Forge and Pennsylvania and they ask for something, they can go back, I think you've got to keep all your stuff for seven years.
So they can well, what are we now?
Twenty thirteen.
So they can call you up uh this afternoon and ask for something from two thousand and six, and you're expected to be able to put your hands on it immediately and and give it to them.
Uh we're not nobody's asking to go back seven years here.
We're just asking for paperwork that goes back two years.
And they keep saying that they're unable to tell us the name of the person.
At some point, a human being in uh the uh internal revenue service issued the order that this thing was a go.
And uh that and and that Tea Party groups were to be stonewalled and certain Tea Party groups were to be referred from Cincinnati to Washington for additional stonewalling.
And there's a paper trail.
They've got the paperwork on this.
And when when they call you up and ask for your paperwork from 2006, you're expected to be able to produce it in nothing flat.
When you and your representatives in Congress ask uh these guys for their paperwork from 2010, mysteriously nobody knows where it all went.
Nobody knows who signed off on this.
Nobody know there's no piece of paper with the signature on it.
Uh if you would have if if they call you up and say uh, oh uh you transferred a million dollars out of your bank account uh to the Cayman Islands and you didn't tell us, you'd be expected you're you can't say, Oh, I'll look into that and I'll try No nobody in my house knows how that happened.
Nobody knows who actually did it.
The IRS wouldn't accept that excuse from you, but you're expected to accept it from them.
Well, and I think the backdrop is how is it that people who are intelligent are watching this and accept it that nobody remembers anything, no one was there, you know, it was at an Easter egg hunt, that's why he went.
Um I agree that this response like um Charlie Wrangell is scripted just like those hearings, the questions for the Democrats were.
And even if Cincinnati was closed down and turned into uh Dunkin' Donuts, that doesn't solve the issue, which frankly I think like even if this long kabuki of um A. G. Holder, if he ends up resigning, that's not the end of it.
They're all little pieces of it, but there's a great big picture that's blooming.
I mean, like with all the stuff that went on, and Fox is the only TV station that talked about Benghazi and IRS and AP, etcetera.
Isn't it a coincidence that their reporter has been, you know, brought up on these Trump charges or all of that.
There's just big pieces that have to be put together, and I'm afraid we're concentrating on a small little crumbs.
Yeah, that's that that's uh that's true.
That there there is a there is a re They don't they don't want people it's not because they're big fans of MSNBC uh or anything like that.
They'd rather people didn't follow this stuff at all.
You know, I was just like tuning around the dial last night, and you can I come across all kinds of things didn't even know were out there.
I came across a celebrity lookalikes edition of Family Feud of all things.
I don't think I'd seen Family Feud in uh I was shocked to find Richard Dawson wasn't still hosting it.
But apparently it's still out there and they have a celebrity lookalikes edition of Family Feud.
And then there was Katie Courick who was interviewing former child stars who were now doing good work.
And that's what they want.
They don't actually want people even following the left wing version of the story.
They just rather you had no idea there was a story.
There is a story.
They'd rather you watch the celebrity look-alikes edition of Family Feud.
Uh than thanks for your call, Kate.
And you're right.
I think uh Dr. Wrangell was a bit hasty in his misdiagnosis.
And uh uh Kate's uh in honor of Kate, uh I think we we should uh adopt that and now refer to him as Dr. Angle.
If uh if Joe Biden's wife can be Dr. Jill Biden, everyone refers to her as Dr. Biden, Dr. Biden this, Dr. Biden that.
Dr. Jill Biden will see you now.
I think the least we can do is start referring to Charlie Wrangler as uh uh as Dr. Wangle.
He he diagnosed a bad case of Michael Douglas disease in the Cincinnati office of uh the IRS.
Uh Mark Stein in for Rush, following the IRS hearings, which are live as we speak, you you you may be able to find them out there somewhere.
I think they're on C C SPAN twenty-seven, which if you have really recherche recondite, abstruse porn tastes may be in your cable package.
But it's uh that's all you can see them on.
C SPAN twenty-seven.
Uh the live IRS hearings, there's some very compelling testimony from them, and uh we will continue to follow that and lots more of the day's news straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Breaking news, uh James Holmes, the Colorado movie theater, has just had his insanity plea accepted by the judge.
Uh Lois Lerner will be trying that in a a couple more weeks.
Let's go to Stephanie.
Stephanie is calling from New Jersey, the same the very same state uh which uh which Lisa Jackson uses to construct her fake identities from at the EPA.
What what town are you calling from, Stephanie?
Hi, I'm calling from a little town called Metuchin.
Metuchin that is a great porn star name.
I was saying that uh what whatever the formula was for porn star dames, your favorite dog and your your favorite uh New Jersey town.
So I want to be Butch Matuchin now.
That's a great That is the all-time great New Jersey porn star date.
Great to have you with us on the show, Stephanie.
What's on your mind today?
Well, I'm calling because every time I hear on television in regard to the IRS scandal, or really basically anything that's happening in the world these days regarding government officials, they always trot out the old term public servant.
And it's always applied to the people who are in the positions of power, that they're the public servants.
Right.
But in reality, I feel like we the people are the public servants.
I think we really are in a vassal or feudal system, and the term public servant is being misapplied.
You know, somewhere along the line it's kind of gone upside down, and there is public servitude, but it's but it's all of us.
You know, we're the public servants.
And I'm just hoping that someday, you know, someone actually in a position of power admits to that and and really gives a true definition of the word.
Well, you see it in your state and other states uh across the nation, uh because the most uh y you're right.
These are the th this whole term public servant is outmoded because what it means is that you can have two people living next door to each other, and the so-called public servant doing the government job uh will retire in her fifties and have fabulous pension And fabulous benefits.
And the guy next door, who uh is running the hardware store, uh has to go and work till he drops dead at seventy-eight or seventy-nine to pay for the so-called public servant's lavish benefits.
In in uh Illinois, in the state of Illinois, uh the public the shortfall in public pensions is alone is one tenth of a trillion dollars.
In other words, that's the size when we talk about these various European economies that are in trouble.
That's the size of a developed nation state's uh budget shortfall, uh, and yet it's just for one pension fund in Illinois.
They've awarded themselves such a lavish pension fund that they've managed to r this year they've got a one-tenth of a trillion dollar shortfall in just one public pension fund in one American state.
And that that's yeah, there's nothing very, you know, self-sacrificing uh about public service when you're awarding yourself those kind of benefits, Stephanie.
Yes, I actually know somebody, well, pretty much everyone in my town, aside from myself and a few others.
Almost everybody who lives in this town does work for the government in some capacity.
There are a lot of people who work for the schools, a lot of people who work for the public works department.
Right.
And I know one friend of mine, uh, you know, a very nice woman, her family is lovely, but the father had worked for the railroad.
Um he worked for twenty years, but he's been retired now for forty.
Well, he's been retired twice as long as he worked, and he receives full benefits.
Right, right.
And that's basically what what public service is.
You it's not a great job, you know, unless you're unless you uh have all the fun of uh chastising and flaying uh conservatives applying for 501 C4 status.
It's not terribly interesting work.
Uh but the great advantage is you get the last three decades of your life as a long holiday weekend with very lavish benefits.
And that whole and that whole idea, as you say, it's backwards, it's backwards.
And it came out of a particular idea, Stephanie.
You know, w once upon a time, pub what we can now call public servants were were servants of the crown.
They were servants of the king.
They were literally the king's servants.
And then when uh as democracy took over, we we adopted the idea that they were the people's servants, public servants, which is what they are.
They work for us.
They what we pay them.
They work for us.
Yet somehow we've managed to to turn the thing on to it onto its head now.
Uh so they're they're in they're in fact just like the sort of paramilitary wing of uh of of the uh of the bureaucracy, where they have immense powers to to to basically kick your door down and ruin your life.
Uh and you're right, we ought we ought to stop this whole idea, oh, uh a lifelong career in public service, a selfless devoted public servant.
You're right, Stephanie, we need to stop doing all that stuff.
Yeah, do I mean do you think any politician will ever be able to actually speak the truth since they're always voting themselves raises on the public dime.
I mean, who in who in his right mind would ever actually state the obvious?
No, and when you do, you're the you're the you're demonized.
I mean, that was one of the most depressing things of a very depressing election campaign, is that Mitt Romney is is demonized.
Somehow a guy like uh Bill Clinton, who has lived in public housing all his life, except for whatever it was, six months in the early nineteen eighties when he didn't have a public job in uh in Arkansas.
Uh he he's been a devoted public servant all his life.
And yet mysteriously now, he's a multi-gazillionaire.
Nobody know nobody know nobody quite knows uh how that happened.
Harry Reid, Harry Reed, again, has become a multimillionaire, even though he's been a selfless devoted public servant all his life.
Uh I gotta run, Stephanie, because uh because we're not in public service, so we've got to uh make time for an EIB profit center break here.
Uh but thanks for your call, and that's a very good point.
We'll discuss that and lots more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein Infrarus.
I mentioned uh a moment ago this uh sh pension shortfall.
It's a story in the Chicago Tribune today out of Illinois.
Uh in Illinois, uh Barack Obama's home base.
The public pension shortfall there is a hundred billion dollars.
Uh in other words, that's about the same as the uh as the total finances of Greece.
Greek revenues are about uh eighty-six billion euros.
Uh That's like a hundred billion dollars give or take.
And their budget deficit, the Greek budget deficit is uh just under 20 billion euros.
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