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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anger Man sitting in on the very last Rush Limbaugh Show of 2013, a brand new year of excellence in broadcasting kicks off live with Rush, the man himself, on Thursday, and tomorrow we'll have a best of rush for New Year's Day.
	But we're as it's the last show of the year, when we're not doing open line Friday.
	It's not that free form, but we are doing uh open year Tuesday.
	So uh we'll look back at uh the s big stories of the last year and look ahead to the coming year.
	And so whatever is your you think was the real big story of last year, uh, or you think is going to be the real big story of the coming year, uh you can talk about that.
	We'll take your calls.
	That's that leaves you to play the field from Putin to Mandela from Syria to Obamacare, whatever you want to talk about from the last year is fine by me.
	Whatever you think is going to be the big story in the coming year is fine by me.
	1-800-282 uh 2882.
	Uh it's worth it it's worth saying that this has been a pretty good year for conservatism, not because of anything conservatism did, but just because uh the the news taught the big lesson.
	Uh I mentioned yesterday, Mrs. Thatcher's great line, the facts of life are conservative.
	And liberalism depends on suspending the facts of life.
	And you can do that.
	If you're determined, you can do that.
	You can maybe do it for a generation or two generations, as they've done in many parts of the world, uh, where, as I was talking about before the break, if you're prepared to loot the future to bribe the present, uh then you can suspend the facts of life for a generation or two.
	But eventually it catches up with you.
	It catches up with you.
	And I think this was a pretty good year for conservatism.
	Not for anything conservatives did, but simply because we let we sat back and let the geniuses of liberalism uh do it to the American people.
	You you think back to where we were a year ago.
	I was actually here, I was guest hosting on the day of the Obama second inaugural, uh, which we we wound up accidentally covering live because it overran.
	So we had um we had like that poem guy, that poem guy who read that out that terrible, interminable poem that was longer than Obama's speech.
	We wound up taking huge chunks of that live, and we bound up uh having uh Beyoncé lip-syncing, well, uh Beyoncé wasn't live, she was lip-syncing to the national anthem, which is in itself was a fairly appropriate start to the Obama second term.
	Uh we wound up carrying Obama uh uh Beyoncé's lip-syncing live to the second inaugural.
	So we were here we came in at the beginning, and at that at that point, at that point, the whole story was Republicans are in trouble.
	Republicans need to do this and Republicans need to do that.
	And Republicans immediately began obsessing about well whether they should do this and whether they should do that, and Mario Rubio got involved with the uh the Marco Rubio got involved with the um the uh whole immigration reform thing and went down that path and other people did other things.
	But what what this year has been about is how big government has damaged its brand, and it's damaged it on two fronts.
	First, they sell themselves to us as technocrats, that you know, the Republicans and the Conservatives are the ideologues.
	They're the ones who are obsessed with ideology and ideological purity.
	Whereas Democrats, centrist moderate democrats, are the souls of prudence.
	They are merely uh trying to find workable solutions for the problems that confront the nation.
	This is the whole Democrat line, and this is how the media present them, and this is how the Academy presents them, and this is how the popular culture presents them, that they're just trying to solve the problems.
	And and uh what that generally means is that they solve them emotionally.
	So, for example, the justification for passing Obamacare is that it shows you care, because America has tens of millions of people without health insurance, and so if you support Obamacare, it shows you care about those people.
	And if you care about these people, then you can feel good about yourself.
	And If you feel good about yourself, that's such a nice fluffy bunny feeling that it doesn't matter that your lousy health care reform actually still leaves tens of millions of people without health care coverage.
	And it leaves millions of other peoples getting booted off their health care plan, even though this president told them that they would be able to keep it.
	And none of that matters because you have demonstrated your moral virtue by showing how much you care about people by supporting Obamacare.
	So you can look yourself in the mirror and you can look your uh uh your friends in the face at uh fashionable dinner parties, and you can look your nice fellow soccer moms in the face when you go to collect little Jimmy from grade school after the soccer match.
	And that's all that matters.
	That's all that matters.
	It's uh it's an exercise in self-preening.
	And nor and and we have seen all this before, you know, it th there's a long history to this.
	Uh the great LBJ's great society destroyed the black family, but it made uh white liberals feel good about themselves, so nobody cares.
	Uh there's a whole big track uh record uh for this.
	Head start doesn't do anything for school kids, but it makes white liberals feel good about themselves, so who cares?
	Uh and that's the whole point of it.
	That's the whole point of it.
	And they went a stage too far this time, because they didn't just do it to uh selected target groups uh who lack the uh lack the ability to make their voices heard.
	They did it to everybody.
	They overreached with Obamacare.
	And uh in it and they demonstrated, the so-called technocrats demonstrated that in the end they couldn't do it.
	They could come up with a hashtag, they could come up with a political slogan, if you like your plan you can keep your plan, period, but could they actually uh devise a functioning health care regime?
	And I'm not talking here about any uh comparing it with the the the greatest health care systems ever known.
	I'm just talking about comparing it with the cruddy mediocrity of the Canadian health care system or the Scottish National Health Service or whatever you care to name.
	It couldn't come up with any These guys, the smartest guys on the planet, couldn't even come up with something that cruddy.
	Uh they couldn't come up with anything that good.
	So so big government's brand took a hit there.
	I think it took a hit in a couple of other ways this year, too.
	Important ways.
	Um Obama revealed himself as a liar, as a liar.
	Now, he's lied on a lot of things.
	There have been lies about Benghazi and all kinds of other stuff.
	But most of us don't live in Benghazi, have no plans to buy a timeshare in Benghazi, uh, don't want to go to Benghazi, it's somewhere on the other side of the world, who cares.
	Uh but this time he lied about something that affects the real lives of uh uh uh of ordinary people.
	Uh if you like your plan, you can keep your plan, period.
	And uh when Democrats go on TV and they have their talking points and they say, oh, well what he actually meant was that um if you have an existing plan, uh we may be assisting you uh in transitioning to an even better plan that will cover you for contraceptives and what have you.
	We may be assisting you in transitioning you to an even better plan.
	So when the president said if you like your plan, you can keep your plan, what he actually meant was, if you like your plan, it may not be quite as good as uh the government happens to think it should be, so we'll be assisting you to transitioning to a better plan by canceling your existing plan.
	And when they go, when they go on and on like that, they can't they're actually they're actually asking you, the citizen, to go along with the lie.
	Uh and that's totalitarian, by the way.
	That's totalitarian.
	Everybody knows the lie is a joke, but they but but officially we all accept that the lie is the truth.
	That's the basis of totalitarian societies.
	That's what George Orwell wrote about in 1984, uh, that's what the Soviet Union was, uh, that's what Eastern Germany was.
	All these all the you the citizen had to be comp made complicit in the state's lies.
	So don't do it.
	Don't be complicit in the state's lies.
	He told a lie.
	He told the lie of the year, as Politife calls it.
	If you like your plan, you can keep your plan, period.
	Don't be don't get enrolled in the lie.
	If you want to get enrolled in Obamacare, that's up to you.
	But don't let him enroll you in his lie.
	It's his lie.
	Let's keep it his lie.
	And that's that's that's worrying.
	That's worrying and I think it's damaged him.
	Why should anyone believe him now?
	Uh Obamacare is damaged.
	This is where Sean doesn't get it.
	Obamacare isn't even accepted by the guy whose name it bears.
	Obamacare is named after a guy called Obama who keeps saying, oh well this bit of the law doesn't apply and that bit of the law doesn't apply and this bit of the law we're putting on hold for a year and that bit of the law where where so we're now in a a land without law.
	A land without law.
	You imagine if you're a liberal George W. Bush starts doing this to you.
	He starts saying the Patriot, let's let's say the Patriot Act.
	The Patriot Act was a big obsession with American liberals.
	They uh uh they all voted for it in the Senate and the House and then they suddenly decide they didn't like this and they didn't like that.
	Uh okay fine.
	Suppose George W. Bush had said, well this bit of the Patriot Act applies uh but that bit doesn't and this bit we're going to double down on but that bit we're going to suspend for a year.
	And uh this bit where we which made uh this illegal we're now going to say that it actually re-legalizes them and this other bit over here uh we're going to which says that certain things have to be in effect by December 31st we're going to postpone for another 18 months.
	In other words the Patriot Act, like Obamacare just meant whatever George W. Bush said it meant on the day he happened to say it.
	Liberals would be up in arms about that.
	Liberals would be crazy about that.
	So we now have a situation where principled principled lefties don't like all the NSA stuff.
	Don't like all the NSA stuff.
	How many of you lefties I'd love to hear from you on this by the way 1-800-282-2882 oppose the what the NSA is doing but support Obamacare.
	Because Obamacare is what licenses the NSA.
	Obamacare, if you accept that the president is in effect the emperor, he the pres I mean one of the fascinating things about Obama is that when he was a member of the legislative branch in Illinois and then in the United States Senate, he legislated nothing.
	He has no legislative fingerprints on anything.
	He's got no bills, no nothing.
	He voted present.
	He didn't legislate when he was a legislator he never legislated.
	Now he's the president in charge of the executive branch and he legislates every single day of the week.
	Oh no that bit of the law we're taking out and that bit of the law we're amending and this bit of the law we're increasing and that bit of the law we're downplaying.
	He legislates more as the executive than he ever did as a legislator.
	And if you say if you say oh I oppose what he's doing with the NSA I oppose what he's doing with drones uh but I support what he's doing with Obamacare, you're a chump.
	You're a chump because what he's doing with Obamacare licenses what he's doing with drones and the NSA and all the rest of it.
	Because if you you c if you accept the principle that the chief executive of the nation, the head of the executive branch, has the right just to say the law is what he says it is, the law on Monday is what he says it is on Monday and the law on Tuesday is what he says it is on Tuesday, why be surprised that he then decides on Wednesday that he has the right to read all your emails and see all your telephone calls and check all your credit card transactions.
	In other words if you go th my comparison between Obama's one man law rewrite of Obamacare and if George W. Bush had done the sell same thing with the Patriot Act is uh i is uh is a critical one because if you give the president the right to do this stuff on health care why you'd have to be uh the chump of chumps to think it's going to stop with health care because if he can do it on health care he can do it on immigration he can do it on taxes
	he can do it on national security he can do it on droning he can do it on anything he wants to do.
	So if you go along with one man lawmaking on health care you're going along with it on him uh on everything.
	Mark Stein for Rush we're taking your calls as we look back on 2013 and look ahead to 2014 more in just a moment.
	Hey Mark Stein for Rush behind the golden EIB microphone let's go to Steve in Rochester Michigan.
	Steve you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	How are you you undocumented talk show host?
	Oh, don't don't tell you never know whether uh uh customs and immigration enforcement will be listening.
	The border patrol could could kick the door down at any moment, Steve.
	Don't say that too.
	No, I'm a former cryptolinguist with the NSA, Mark.
	Good for you.
	Really?
	You still there?
	Yeah, yeah, no, I'm just I'm just about you spent you spent uh You spent eleven years just just uh just c just clarify that for me.
	You spent eleven years working uh on basically on North Korean issues.
	Correct.
	Wow.
	That's great.
	I've interviewed close to two hundred defectors.
	Right.
	Um I was in during the Huangjong interviews, he's the guy who helped build the North Korean constitution.
	Right.
	Uh he defected via Switzerland some time ago.
	Yeah.
	Um Yeah, you said a bunch of things today that just made me laugh.
	Uh first of all, the use of code words and code phrases like that uh host over on MBC.
	Um that's a common trait in North Korea.
	They've got little political ads.
	Uh they talk about don't use the word lighter in reference to a cigarette lighter.
	You have to say Son Burton, use the North Korean word, or you're jeopardizing this great nation and our and our traditions.
	Yeah, but um tons of little code phrases like that.
	Uh one of the most common features I experienced when interviewing the defectors is many of them would start crying uh when they realized that they had actually been lied to their entire life.
	Remember, this country has been essentially brainwashed since 1947.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	It's not even all generations who know nothing but the Kim family.
	Yeah, and it's not even like uh what we thought of as old school uh tyranny, which is like some medieval king or whatever.
	This is actually a one a one-man psycho state.
	I like to compare it to a combination of the uh Egyptian pharaohs at their height and P. T. Barnum with the side shows.
	Right.
	It it's a it's a miraculous job what they've done of it.
	It's pure evil, of course, but you have to admire the artistry with which they have committed this pure evil.
	And so when you hear people talking about oh code words this and code words that, where the use of one little word will betray to somebody that you're not quite sound, you're not quite solid, you're not quite on board with the ruling ideology.
	That starts to that whether if that's somebody saying it on a TV show out in New York, that starts to ring all kinds of other bells with you, Steve.
	That's precisely it, Mark.
	And the more I see that here in the US, oh you can't say golfer, you're secretly a white racist.
	Right.
	They're building these code words, and they're building them into our kids as well.
	I mean, my daughter came home, she's half Korean.
	Right.
	And they're one of her teachers brought up white privilege, and she comes home to me and says, Well, what about me?
	So I went to the teacher.
	I said, excuse me.
	That has no place in my daughter's class.
	She's a seventh grader.
	And the teacher kind of gave me a funny look.
	I said, Look, I speak two other languages fluently plus half a dozen others functionally.
	I've been all over the world.
	I'm not willing to sit here and have you teach my daughter white privilege.
	It's it's not good for you.
	And good for you, Steve.
	And by the way, I tell you, we often talk about solutions here on on this show.
	Uh, you know, it's okay, we we're great at identifying the problem, but what do we do about it?
	And should we uh give money to this or that campaign and get this or that congressman elected.
	What you did is what citizens do.
	Uh that if you've got your kid in the government school and they're doing this kind of stuff, you go down and you say to the school teacher, I don't want this.
	And if the school teacher doesn't back off, then you go to the school board and you go to the school superintendent and uh i i and you and you deal with it at the school level, and that way uh you you'll find uh twenty years down the line you won't have a problem with it at the congressional level.
	And when everybody should do Steve acted as a citizen here.
	When when they're doing this to your kids, go and see the teacher, and if you get nowhere with the teacher, see the principal, and you get nowhere with the principal, see the school board.
	Well d well done, Steve.
	That's that's the way to deal with these things.
	Well it it's uh it that is one of the ways you have to deal with the other way is people have to stop putting their heads in the sand every time somebody says, oh you can't say Merry Christmas.
	Oh you can't talk about this.
	Oh you can't speak of homosexuals because you're not gay.
	We need to tell them, excuse me, wait a minute, be quiet.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well and you need to say, actually, you know, I wasn't planning on saying Merry Christmas or talking about gays, but now you've told me I can't say Merry Christmas and talk about gays.
	I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about it ten times as much as I ever planned to until you learn the lesson that you don't have the right to tell me what I can say.
	Steve, thank you.
	It has been uh it has been an inspirational uh call.
	We didn't actually get around to talking about any of the stuff that Steve told Mr. Snurley wanted to talk about.
	But that that was an inspiring call.
	Steve acted as a citizen.
	Don't let them do it to your kids.
	Who cares about the Congressional district or the Senate?
	Don't let them do it to your kids.
	It starts there, Rush returns live Thursday, uh a little later in the show in uh whatever it is, ten minutes or so, going to be talking to uh Mallory Factor.
	He's uh an uh author and you've seen him on TV, uh professor, does a bunch of other things.
	Uh he's uh the author of a book called uh Shadow Bosses.
	Uh and that is a great title because it's about the Union movement and the Democratic Party and uh their relationship.
	And we're gonna be talking to Mallory Factor in ten minutes or so.
	Uh but uh it is open year Tuesday on the Rush Limbaugh Show and that means we're looking back and looking forward.
	Let's go to Sean in Bell Harbor, New York.
	Sean you're live on America's number one radio show.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	My pleasure.
	What's what's on your mind this uh Hogman A I want to give you uh my impression of thirteen and fourteen and then one question after that if you don't mind.
	Uh my my idea of the uh a high point that we don't know about just yet is that New York Times magazine uh uh Sunday article on the ghazi which I think is the re-education of the public when it comes to Hillary Clinton as she's starting her uh run.
	And I think in 2014 I wouldn't be surprised if Islamic terrorists take over Swiss canal to really throw things into flux.
	Yeah I mean this this is basically the high stakes going on in Egypt right now where uh where where the present govern government of Egypt under uh General Sissy, which is quite a name for a strong man, but that's the name of the strong man who's uh who's in control in Cairo, General Sissy basically takes a tougher line on the Muslim Brotherhood uh than the United States government does.
	And uh the uh the Cairo is now cracking down on on the Muslim Brotherhood and either that will work or as you say we might be in a situation uh where it rebounds on them big time and uh Mohammed Morsi uh uh uh and his ilk return to power uh far angrier than they were a couple of years ago and uh and Islamize uh Egypt entirely.
	This is the big story, the big foreign policy debacle.
	Basically, the United States government got into bed with people who hate America and people who we assisted in Libya, people who hate America.
	We helped them to overthrow Gaddafi.
	And the result now is that, Ben, you have ridiculous situations where a couple of days before an American ambassador is killed, diplomats are meeting with these guys who are demanding inward investment from America and they're demanding a McDonald's outlet and a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet investment.
	in Benghazi and two days later they're killing the American ambassador.
	That's it.
	They want the money, they want the KFC outlet uh and they want to kill Americans.
	It's a big it's a big package to them.
	Yeah that's uh and that will come to that that story will continue through twenty fourteen uh Sean what was your question by the way you said you also had a question.
	I did a lot of reading recently on the uh idea citizenship and Cape Cruz and Obama and what they come from.
	And if I'm correct, you being a Canadian or uh citizen of the British Empire.
	And if that my father was born in nineteen oh seven in Ireland before it was free.
	So he was uh citizen of the British Empire.
	Does that mean I went to the uh yeah now the the phrase you're you're searching for Sean is uh Her Majesty's Dominions.
	Uh the bas basically if you're born within Her Majesty's Dominions, you're a British subject.
	And uh the relevant bit of legislation here off the top of my head is the 1948 British Nationality Act, which declared that a quarter of the world's population were British subjects.
	And in effect, Canadian citizenship or Australian citizenship were subsets of British nationality.
	And uh and if you were born in colonial Kenya, like Barack Obama's father, you were just a British subject pure and simple.
	If you were born in Canada, until I think it was 1977, in a Canadian passport it used to say a a uh a Canadian citizen is a British subject and um and uh then the term the preferred term now is Commonwealth citizen, because it sounds less uh less imperialist.
	But you're uh but you're you're basically right that Ted Cruz, Barack Obama and I are all members of the same club, uh as was your dad, Sean.
	Okay, thank you very much.
	That's good.
	I didn't get...
	Do you know, I've had so much email about the Ted Cruz thing.
	I make no claim to be an expert in the constitutional requirements for president and also the American definition of natural-born citizen, which are controversial subjects.
	But it's interesting to me that, as Sean pointed out, if you were born anywhere within...
	And that's still true, in fact.
	If you look at Australia, for example, the new prime minister in Australia, Australia marvelous man strong uh conservative strong uh uh I would love for a guy like Tony Abbott to get elected president here but he can't.
	But Tony uh Tony Abbott was actually born in England and he's now Australia's Prime Minister and he succeeded Julia Gillard uh as Australia's Prime Minister and she was born in Wales.
	So if uh Sean is right to point out that if you were born within her Majesty's dominions you're all members of the same club.
	And by the way, as was every American president, uh they were either they were either a British subject or the child of a British subject until uh President Van Buren.
	I think he was the first president not to be either a British subject or a um uh or the child of a British subject.
	So I don't know whether Sean is trying to get some what bad birthday thing going here with uh with with the Ted Cruz phenomenon.
	I I some people I again I don't quite know the situation here.
	As I understand it, Ted Cruz's father was born in Cuba and he took uh U.S. citizenship I think uh six or seven years ago, something like that.
	But there uh I had some uh email to the effect that he uh actually also took Canadian citizenship uh while he was uh up in Canada.
	So Ted's so uh so uh I don't know where this is going, but the fact is that uh if you're born outside the United States uh you you have to uh meet that definition of natural born which I assume would mean you were born to U.S. parents uh uh uh of one kind or uh or another so so it's some so uh Ted Cruz there may be method to him renouncing her Majesty the Queen and all her ways.
	So we'll we'll see how that works out.
	Uh but that that was short Sean is right on by the way on the bigger picture which is uh he was talking about which is this business with what's happening in the Middle East.
	Uh the the New York Times is trying to impose a narrative on Benghazi that will get Hillary Clinton through primary season.
	I don't believe Hillary Clinton by the way is going to be the nominee.
	You know at this stage in the 2008 cycle we were told that Hillary Clinton was inevitable.
	And a lot of things that are inevitable never happen.
	And if they didn't happen for Hillary Clinton, Hillary Cl Hillary Clinton uh when you put her on stage with a more beguiling novelty who also checked all the identity group boxes and that's Barack Obama, uh the Democrat Party decided that they would rather go with Barack Obama.
	Hillary Clinton is not an effective campaigner.
	She's not her husband.
	And the New York Times may be investigat investing far too much money in trying to get into uh get get itself into uh a situation where it can drag Hillary across the finish line.
	They may be uh they they've they've damaged their own story uh and and just to deal with it in purely Middle Eastern terms by the way, uh they're asking us to be believe something ridiculous.
	Uh this guy Fitzpatrick who wrote the story, he was on the Sunday talk shows and he said it had nothing to do with Al Qaeda if by Al Qaeda you mean an organization founded by Osama bin Laden.
	That's not what Al Qaeda is.
	Yes, you can go through all the bodies of the dead guys in the compound and in Benghazi and go through their wallets and you will not find the official Al Qaeda membership card showing them uh officially uh designated as a grade D uh officer in the Al Qaeda cadre of jihadists signed by some guy sitting in a cave in Waziristan.
	That's not what Al Qaeda is.
	But Al 2013 is the year Al Qaeda made a hell of a comeback in the Maghreb and in North Africa and Syria.
	And not because they're taking orders from some guy in a cave uh somewhere in the Hindu Kush, but because the beauty of the organization is it doesn't depend on that.
	It's not the Cold War.
	It's not some Soviet control officer leaving you instructions in a dead drop underneath a rock in a park in Washington.
	It doesn't work like that.
	It's a very decentralized highly effective organization that shares the same goal.
	But Al Qaeda in North Africa, Al Qaeda in Syria, Al Qaeda in Iraq, Al Qaeda in Yemen, they're all affiliated and share the goals of the guys sitting in the caves in Afghanistan and the Pakistani tribal lands.
	Mark Stein will talk to Mallory Factor in just a moment.
	Mark Stein in for rush pleased uh to welcome to the show now Mallory Factor uh Mallory is uh an author he's uh professor at the uh Citadel in uh South Carolina uh the mill military uh college there and uh i b just so you can't stereotype him he's professor at the Military College uh but he was also on the Tony Awards committee for years.
	That's I've always wanted to be on the Tony Awards committee so I'm envious of him of that.
	Hello Mark how are you I'm uh I'm doing great uh Mallory you're thrilled to be with you.
	Well you've you've written uh you've written a book uh called Shadow Boss you got your new book coming out uh I think in a couple of months' time Big Tense but Shadow Bosses which is basically your book about government unions and uh it's a g th that title is great because uh it it gets to the idea of who really controls government.
	Why does government expenditure rise remorselessly no matter who's in power.
	Yeah it's really interesting.
	Uh it's funny right after the last election uh Trumpke, head of the AFFL CIO, um the str one of the big union shadow bosses, he came out and he said without the unions Obama would never have carried Nevada, Wisconsin, Ohio.
	He listed a whole bunch of cities and a lot some people thought he was bragging.
	Heck no, he wasn't bragging.
	He was right the unions registered more than four hundred and fifty thousand union household voters um just in the last several months.
	They got most of them to the polls they knocked on eleven million doors nationwide they put over a half billion dollars into Obama's campaign and they put four hundred thousand people volunteers on the streets, volunteers who got paid.
	Right.
	Now now Rush Rush uses a phrase uh low information voters but the way you present it is uh to look at it from the union's point of view or the Democrats point of view is that these are in fact low information donors.
	Who cares what they know about as long as they sign up to a union and effectively fund uh the Democratic party and big government and that's that's the point.
	Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa first of all I'm gonna use that low information donors but they don't sign up in over twenty states to keep your job you have to pay a union.
	You don't if you don't pay the union you can't keep your job.
	Right.
	Isn't that amazing Yeah yeah uh uh you have no choice you uh uh you have no choice into the pol as to the political contributions you make.
	That's amazing.
	That's pretty well they separate out quote unquote political contributions, but that's a lot of nonsense.
	Right.
	You're having really no choice.
	Um there's a major um Supreme Court case which is going to be heard on January twenty first.
	It's called Harris versus Quinn.
	And what it's gonna be about is a group of independent minded home care providers that have been that were redefined by Illinois's elected officials as public employees for the sole purposes of unionization.
	And what they're gonna do is they're challenging Illinois to define them as union uh uh as union members and uh and them being forced to pay dues and the national right to work legal defense foundation is take took on the case free.
	They're gonna hear it before the United States Supreme Court and basically what it is is do workers have the right to make a decision um about who's gonna represent them if they even want to be represented or do they have to pay tribute to a union boss um even without them uh voting on it.
	What w what's also what you also bring up is the way uh illegal workers uh can can in effect fund this machine too which means that they they have more say in the political process effectively uh than U.S. citizens going to the voting booth Absolutely see here is here's the big deep dark secret it's not that much of a secret really million members
	that the shadow bosses could force to pay dues is about a billion dollars a year in revenues for the union heads that's a billion dollars a year in revenues and they themselves say they only spend between twenty and thirty percent for membership representation.
	Where do you think the rest of it goes to it's going it's going basically well it's going on narrowly defined political activities but also more broadly defined political interests.
	Well it goes to them and it goes to the political process.
	Union bosses like to say they elect their own bosses.
	We go into this in great detail in shot in our book Shadow Bosses.
	I mean they're electing their own bosses in in the and it is even worse in the government employee sector.
	That is the worst in the private sector there's only about six percent unionization but in the government employee area and government employees forty over forty one percent are unionized.
	And the reason's real simple if you push a private company too far like hostis they go out of business.
	Yeah.
	But it's hard to put the government out of business.
	Yeah.
	And there's nobody representing our listeners, your listeners, Russia's listeners, the taxpayers because elected officials get huge amounts of money and support from these union bosses.
	And this is a and this is a recent development relatively it basically goes back to uh JFK at the at the federal level.
	Wow you're good you're right it it started with on the federal level it started with an executive order.
	Right nine eight eight if I'm not mistaken.
	And and basically we under but before that it was accepted that uh while you might need a union if you were working for some rapacious capitalist who owned the local mill uh the one guy who doesn't need uh uh a union is the is the government worker.
	There's no competition there.
	You can't say I'm gonna go and get another better job at the government across the street.
	We understood that somehow government's relationship uh to uh to uh labor management relations was different from the private sector and that's all gone now now it's the biggest source of union power.
	Yes these unions control far more of our political process than we like to even give them credit for or even realize.
	Do you realize that in every single congressional district be it a right to work state or not there's a union representative for the education our teachers and that the teachers unions, the two teachers unions alone take in over two billion dollars a year.
	That's that's worth talking about all all by itself, Mallory.
	This is a fascinating conversation.
	We could uh we could continue it for a long time.
	We gotta we gotta go, gotta take an EIB profit center break.
	We'll be back after this.
	Mark Stein in Farush behind the golden EIB microphone.
	That was Mallory Factor we were talking to.
	Uh he's the author of uh Shadow Bosses, uh which is a book uh th that basically explains the self-dealing relationship between government and government unions.

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