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	Yes, the last Rush Limbaugh show of 2013.
	We are in the final hour.
	We are we are counting down the final moments when we uh ring out the old and ring in the new uh in uh approximately 54 minutes time uh and we wrap things up at the EIB network for 2013.
	This is uh Mark Stein, old Langstein, as I like to think of myself at this time of year.
	And uh Rush will be here with the best of Rush tomorrow, and the man himself returns live uh for a brand new year of excellence in broadcasting uh on Thursday.
	Uh uh so don't miss that.
	I've had uh I've had a couple of emails uh d Mr. Snurdly was kind enough to ask me to clarify my forthcoming Florida tour where I was appearing, uh and then he distracted me because he said people are coming from other states, so uh I mentioned some other states, and now people think I'm touring Georgia and Idaho.
	I'm not, I'm actually I'm just gonna be in Florida in the week beginning February 9th.
	Uh I'm in uh Jacksonville, I'm at uh the Mahaffey Theatre in St. Petersburg, I'm at the uh Sunrise Theatre in Fort Pierce, then I'm in Fort Myers, and then I'm in Miami at uh the Olympia Theatre.
	And that's it.
	And no, no carpenter squirrels then Mr. Surley has got uh all excited about carpenter squirrels.
	I'm I'm I mentioned I I'm basically broadcast, people don't know where I broadcast from uh for security reasons.
	The only the only people who know is NSA and the local drone operator, but nobody else knows where I broadcast from in Northern New Hampshire, and it is in effect a an abandoned building.
	So we heard hammering here at the start of the show yesterday, and uh I said rather carelessly off-air, oh they they're the that's the notorious New Hampshire Carpenter Squirrels.
	And uh and and uh Mr. Snerdley was very taken by this.
	So it'll if it'll help to sell tickets for my Florida tour, yes, I will have basically the Radio City Rocket line of New Hampshire Carpenter Squirrels hammering away behind me in the uh in the course of my Yeah, they're they're unionized Carpenter Squirrel.
	Are you joking?
	Of course the carpenter squirrels are unionized.
	Uh don't be ridiculous, that's why they retire at 47.
	Uh the carpenter squirrels, so the carpenter squirrel, they're way better than the carpenters, by the way.
	The carpenters.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Karen Carpenter, but if uh if they'd had Carpenters Karen Carpenter and the Carpenter Squirrels, that would have been a much better act.
	Anyway, uh the Carpenter Squirrels will be uh with me uh live on the Florida tour.
	They'll they come out behind the air.
	They do about 20 minutes of an opening act.
	People are amazed by this.
	Way better than the singing dogs.
	Uh and uh and then I come on.
	So that's uh that'll be in Florida in the in the first week of February.
	I want to t I want to return to something else.
	Oh, tell people how to get the tickets, Mr. Snodley says.
	I hate that.
	I have I got a 1-800- I don't know.
	Go to Snyderby.com, S-T-E-Y-N-A-M-I-T-E dot com, and that will connect you to all five theatres.
	Or you can go to my website, Mark Stein.com, uh, or you can go to STIDOTLine.com uh and uh you will get full information there on how to get tickets for this uh exhilarating uh exhilarating tour.
	Now I'm gonna move on to actual cease promo.
	You know I I don't want to get on.
	I'm not doing Rush does a great job, by the way, but he's talking about uh Rush Revere and everything, the way he seamlessly integrates it into the content of the show, and I haven't uh I haven't uh developed that knack yet, so that's why that's why Liberty the Talking Horse is gonna be the next guest host on the show.
	Anyway, we have got uh uh a story I mentioned yesterday, and this was in a German magazine, German liberal magazine, De Spiegel, about how the NSA, it just revealed this en passant, this fascinating uh de Spiegel article uh about uh about um the NSA surveillance state.
	And it revealed that the NSA intercepts newly purchased computer products mid-shipment and installs NSA surveillance software into the computer before it's then shipped on to the person of interest.
	And I mentioned that I rather casually said, so if you read that ostensibly innocent story about how all these millions of dissatisfied customers of FedEx and China and UPS failed to have their Christmas presents delivered in time for Christmas Eve uh as promised and in fact they were not delivered until December the 26th after Christmas and it and they say oh well you know sometimes we fall down on the job.
	Unfortunately for them this story came up on the very same day that Spiegel revealed that the government of the United States when certain people buy computers and the computer is shipped from Best Buy to, you know, third cave on the left in wherever it is they intercept the shipment along the way and install government surveillance software.
	This is called something uh called the TAO, the TAO, TAO, Office of Tailored Access Operations, can divert the shipping delivery to its own secret workshops.
	And we at these load stations, agents carefully open the package in order to load malware onto the electronics so that they can see whatever it is that the jihadist or whoever it is, the national security threat is typing as he types it.
	Now, FedEx, the Daily Caller reports today that FedEx and UPS haven't said much since it was revealed Sunday that the National Security Agency intercepts electronic packages to install spyware.
	But what they have said implies that they knew what the agency was up to.
	In response to inquiries from the Daily Caller to shipping companies, UPS and FedEx, asking whether they had knowledge of such a program and if they cooperated with the NSA, FedEx Media Relations Scott Fiedler responded with the following the answer to your questions about permission cooperation, etc is no.
	Now notice what he's not saying there.
	He's not saying it doesn't happen.
	He's not saying they don't do it.
	What he's what he's oh he's only saying that they do not give their permission and they do not cooperate.
	UPS declined to comment on repeated requests.
	And again it is what it is worth is worth thinking about the point of which technological power rises to meet a government's uh a government's needs.
	Tockville wrote about this two centuries ago.
	It's one of those passages of Tockville that people don't pay a lot of attention to but he may he points out that in medieval Europe in theory a king had absolute power over every aspect of your life.
	The king had in as a point of law the king had absolute power over you and every aspect of your life.
	But in practice he couldn't actually do much about it because you were hundreds of miles from the palace you were sitting there in your broken down old farm getting on with your life and the uh king could not actually intrude on daily aspects of your life even if he wanted to.
	So like once every couple of years he might send some pantalooned twit prancing into your uh dooryard to say you've got to pay 15 GOATs for the bovine flatulence tax or whatever.
	But he was not he was not other than that he couldn't actually interfere with every aspect of your life.
	We now have a situation where technology can enable the state to examine every aspect of your life.
	And again it's like the Obamacare thing where basically the the left doesn't care about Obamacare, all these fixes on the fly, all these uh sh changes in the law that Obama and Kathleen Sibelius make on a day-to-day basis.
	You know, they wake up on Tuesday and they're thinking they're gonna cut uh those guys in the individual market a break so they change the law on that and then they uh wake up on Thursday and they decide uh they got a problem on the small business front so they change the law on that.
	Uh what powers if if the if the king has those powers for health care, uh why do you assume it stops with health care?
	We we now have a situation where FedEx and UPS are not prepared to deny that the government of the United States stops computers in mid-shipment and adds government surveillance material to them.
	And we know this stuff exists everybody's got it in their car.
	I had a car crash the other day uh fairly serious car crash like four seconds later the On-Star thing comes on and the On-Star guy wants to have a conversation with me about the crash.
	And uh I'm all concussed and hallucinating and uh uh and uh bashed up and I'm saying, hey, look, can you give me ten minutes to collect my thoughts?
	I don't want to speak to you after after four seconds.
	That technology is already in your car.
	The the uh Daspiegel in Germany says they put it in the in the computers uh of people they consider persons of interest.
	And we think, oh well, that means like they're putting it in the computers of Yemen guys in Yemen and they're putting it in the guise of uh the computer of that guy in Benghazi who's walking around even though he takes full credit for killing an American ambassador.
	But what if they're just putting it in the computers of everybody?
	Why wouldn't that be easiest to do?
	What's to stop them doing that?
	Um the Panoptican state.
	That that's that that's the word I use to describe it.
	The Panopticon was a uh a type of prison uh designed by um the uh uh Jeremy Bentham, who was a um English philosopher in the eighteenth century.
	And it was basically a prison where one guard could see, it was designed so that a single watchman could observe every aspect of life in the prison.
	In other words, the prisoner was never out of sight of the guards.
	And uh they built prisons along that design.
	I went down uh to uh Philadelphia to see the old state penitentiary there, and that is built as a panoptican prison.
	It's the one where they uh put Al Capone there.
	Uh my kids were my kids and I toured Al Capone's jail cell and they were thrilled by it because he had all this plush red carpet and they they they've maintained the cell exactly it was when he was uh in there, and he had all this plush red carpet.
	It looks like a Martha Stewart has decorated his jail cell.
	He's got this fantastic uh radio that he could uh that's playing the station he liked to listen to uh and all the rest of it.
	But basically that thing was constructed uh in the early 19th century as a panoptican prison, where no matter what you were doing, no matter where you were, you were never out of sight of the watchman watching over you.
	And we are now building a panoptican state uh where law-abiding people, again, it's uh it's it's if you don't if you're using a fake social security number, uh if you're basically living in the shadows, uh if you're if you've opted out of that, you can still live a life uh free from the 24-7 scrutiny of the state.
	But when when uh De Spiegel says that the govern the United States government is putting software in computers after you order them, uh that will enable them to see everything you're doing as you do it.
	And FedEx and UPS don't deny that this is happening.
	The Panoptican State is being erected before our eyes.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on open year Tuesday, 1-800-282-2882.
	Anything you want to talk about from 2013 or anything you think is going to be big in 2014.
	We'll take your call straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for rush on America's number one radio show.
	Let's go to Jeff in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
	Jeff, it's great to have you with us.
	Happy New Year to you.
	Oh, thank you very much, Mark.
	Uh now now as far as uh this year's concerned, the biggest story that came out is Mark Snowden and the NSA, and I'll tell you why.
	Uh I call the the I call the the NSA the American Stasi, along with another person, Angela Merkel, who said it way before I did.
	You see, the East German Stasi, what they did is was they kept track of all the East German citizens and those who spoke out against the East German communist leadership, which we do have a communist Muslim as our president.
	Uh will took took people off the streets, put a black bag over their head, and took them away for criticizing the leadership of that country, and that's going to eventually happen in this country.
	The end of the world.
	Yeah, the Stasi in East Germany, basically uh the East German state uh had this had this network of people spying on everything, and they even uh they would even get your kids to spy if you if you were a family and you were suspicious they'd they'd uh they'd they'd entrap your kids and get them to spy on you the uh you're exactly right mark uh mark you're one of my heroes I love listening to you when when you replace Rush Limbaugh w when you um replace Rush limb when he's
	gone and as far as where this country's heading towards we're heading to in the exact same direction as every communist country on the planet and we're heading in the same direction which is the 330 knock at the door the police will grab you put the black bag over your head probably foreign soldiers and and all distance will be carted away.
	Well, Jeff, that is an interesting point.
	But you know, the one advantage that the communist Eastern Europe has is when the communists took over, people understood that these guys were control freaks and that they were now living in a state where every aspect...
	Totalitarianism is, in its modern political sense, essentially, it was developed by Mussolini, that everything is within the state.
	Uh, that is what,
	Italian fascists believe that is what German Nazis believed uh that is what Russian communists believe and it's it has a great clarifying simplicity about that uh because when you're talking about jack boots uh and when you're talking about the 3 a.m knock on the door it's all it's i everybody understands what that means what is happening here is something more insidious and and for that reason it's harder it's harder for millions and millions of your fellow Americans Jeff to see what's going
	on because you you m you you might not need to slip the bag over the guy's head.
	You might not need to knock him on the door at 3 a.m if you can just destroy his life in other ways.
	This surveillance state, for example, which is apparently necessary to the NSA, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, he lied to Congress.
	He was asked a direct question by Senator Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, about whether the agency is collecting data on millions of Americans.
	And he denied it.
	He said it wasn't, Clapper said.
	Uh this guy Clapper is uh is uh a contemptible man and has actually entirely representative of of the uh of the lifetime hacks who infest uh far too much of the intelligence community in Washington.
	And this guy Clapper he said not not deliberately, not wittingly and subsequently explained that that was the least untruthful answer he could give in a non-classified setting.
	In other words he lied to the people's representatives and he admitted he lied but said he would have lied less to them if they'd been in some classified setting.
	That's a serious thing.
	That's a serious thing.
	Now when you take it together with what we learn from the IRS, we learn that the IRS, through a chain of command that cannot be discerned, we know that the head of the IRS, this is the most powerful agency in the government, because it's the only it's the agency that is given the powers to seize everything you have.
	Some some bureaucrat whose name you don't know can make a decision to freeze your bank accounts, to take out a lien on your house, to seize your car, to to freeze your kids' bank account if necessary.
	If your 12-year-old kid has got a little bank account because his grandma gave him some money and he's put some money to save up there and he's uh gone and done a he's he lives in one of the few remaining jurisdictions in the United States in which it's legal to sell homemade lemonade on the front lawn and he made 28 bucks selling homemade lemonade and he put that in his little account.
	The IRS can seize that too.
	And so when you then have what was revealed to us in the Lois Learner scandal that the IRS for political reasons does not apply the laws equally but applies the laws according to who enjoys the political favor of the regime.
	And if you don't enjoy the political favor, they come after you and torment you and tie you up in paperwork and tie you up in bureaucracy and tie you up in hyper regulation.
	And if you do that effectively enough if you know if the NSA gives you the power to know uh who are your your political opponents are and the IRS gives you the power to torment those political opponents, torment them into bankruptcy if necessary.
	Then maybe you don't need to do then midnight knock on the door and the bag on the head.
	Because you can just ensnare them in bureaucracy and destroy their lives that way.
	And this has been a this has been a watershed year for both the totality of government power in America, the revelation that government sees everything and knows everything, except, you know, which uh crazy Chechen Dagastani jihadists are planning on uh blowing up the Boston Marathon.
	That they don't know, no matter how many foreign intelligence agencies point it out to them.
	That they don't know.
	That they don't have a clue about.
	But they know everything about you and the IRS gives them the power to get you.
	This has been a deeply disturbing year for the integrity of government in the United States.
	Hey yeah happy new year to you happy Hogmana the uh the season of uh guest hosts is drawing to a close where we're uh kind of in the uh what is it the eleven Lords of Leapin phase of the twelve days a guest hosts uh Best of Rush tomorrow Rush returns live Thursday uh to start a whole new year of excellence in broadcasting.
	Mayor elect if by the way if you're spending New Year uh in Times Square tonight and you're watching uh uh Sonia Sotomayor drop the ball she's been invited to uh drop the ball in Timesquare Sonia Sotomayor, America's Chief Justice in waiting uh and you want to do something romantic with your loved one you should go and have a horse-drawn carriage ride in Central Park.
	Uh you've all seen these like uh if you've been to New York uh midtown Manhattan seen the uh the the horse drawn carriages plying their trade but Mayor de Blasio incoming mayor Bill de Blasio has promised to abolish them.
	They will no longer be seen in Central Park or on the streets of Manhattan.
	He's going to get them alternative, so-called alternative means of ferrying tourists around Central Park.
	I don't know what that means whether it's going to be uh the Chevy Vault I'm not sure whether uh a fully charged Chevy Vault is actually capable of uh doing a quick tour of Central Park.
	Uh maybe the equine flatulence issue that we were talking about yesterday that has caused Bill de Blas maybe the horses of Central Park responsible for global warming.
	Uh but we don't know but he's gonna uh arrange some alternative means of transportation.
	You know Idia meen I don't want to give Mayor de Blasio ideas, but Idi Amin when he uh ran the show in Uganda uh for uh for for one uh on one occasion I can't remember what it was he was uh maybe he was inaugurating himself or something and he got uh six British businessmen from Kampala to carry him around through the streets in a sedan chair.
	So maybe given the tax rates in New York City, maybe Mayor de Blasio could actually have teams of Manhattan businessmen pulling the uh carriages round Central Park.
	Uh well I don't know what's going to happen to the uh the to the horses there uh I think in theory the horses are going to be enjoying an upscale retirement for a union unionized horse farm uh up s up on the Hudson River in beautiful scenic upstate New York uh but i uh i i uh w well if the reality may well be uh that they're gonna be in the frying pad or uh or part of some part of the last working glue factory in New York.
	I don't know.
	But anyway, these horses are heading for the knacker's yard as uh as they say in British English and uh and uh they're gonna be replaced by something else.
	So maybe the six businessmen maybe you can adopt the uh Idie Armin model.
	Let us go to Michael in Knoxville, Tennessee.
	Michael, thanks for waiting.
	You are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Happy New Year's taking my call.
	My pleasure.
	I suppose of all the scandals and flaws, etc that's happened this past year.
	It's hard to pick out one particularly I guess the most amazing thing that's happened to me this this year is the fact that nothing's been done about any of them.
	Nobody so much has lost their jobs.
	But uh No.
	And and you're right, don't don't let that go, Michael, because it's you're you're right.
	There's it's and it's beyond losing the jobs.
	The IRS is institutionally corrupt.
	Uh you need someone to collect taxes in uh uh uh uh you need an agency for that but when this agency has revealed the level of corruption then it needs to be replaced by uh by something else.
	Nobody's willing to do that.
	Uh that's that's kind of uh where I'm concerned uh because I'm a Republican and uh uh I'll admit it I voted for Obama in uh in 08.
	Oh I despise Bush so bad because uh well because of things like well you brought up earlier the Patriot Act and that's what really fuels the NSA that everybody's up in arms about because to people that didn't pay an attention when George Bush W signed the Patriot Act that gave the NSA the power to do these things and so the fact that it came up as such a shock this year um you know blows my mind as well and yeah but let's let's walk let's walk this back a bit.
	You voted for Obama in two thousand and eight because you were anti-Bush.
	It also living one exactly do you feel on balance that worked out for you that vote?
	Absolutely of course see to me Obama just continued what I believe George W would have done you know which you know I'm I believe that George W and his buddies separated the Republican Party by how he handled the situation in 01 and uh you know and everything's kind of spawned from that and Obama even though he's well wait a minute my Michael let's let's go let's go back to that.
	I oppose the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
	You said something very interesting nobody's been fired.
	You know what was the most disgusting thing about uh the political aftermath of nine eleven uh and I wrote about this.
	If you sum it go deep in the bowels of the actually if you buy my book, Face of the Tiger, there's there's a piece in there that I think appeared in the Chicago Sun Times and a bunch of other papers uh about two weeks after nine eleven where I said why has no one been fired?
	Because it's absolutely you had a failure of all the big hot shot money no object acronyms.
	They all failed the INS the immigration guy the s uh the State Department those guys got into this country on joke visas.
	Uh the the the the visas they used were uh uh were revealed under Freedom of Information Act request and they'd put down on there uh a d address in the United States uh and they had written Hotel America that's it address in the United States Hotel America but the State Department and the INS and everybody gave them the visa and let them in.
	And an an octagenarian snowbird uh from Toronto who's been going to his condo in Orlando couldn't get away with writing that uh on his uh on on his US immigration paperwork but a bunch of guys in Saudi Nobody got fired for that.
	Nobody got fired for that.
	The FAA, if you listen to the transcripts and somebody at some airport or other is trying to get an uh trying to get an uh uh uh uh an instruction on what to do and the woman says well uh sorry everybody's just left the room they froze in place at the FAA and they all left the room uh every single big hot shot money no object acronym of the federal government failed on September eleventh and not a single person got fired for it.
	And so now it's no wonder nobody gets fired for anything.
	Why why would you if you don't fire anyone for what happened on September eleventh if you just give them a whole you know if you just check the INS got changed uh to uh that it got put in the Department of Homeland Security and uh is uh now part of uh what's it called Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.
	So it's now you know three different letters same lousy service.
	They gave them new cap badges.
	The the US government response was to create a whole lot of new departments and bureaus and agencies same lousy staff who got the buildings blown up but now with hot new cap badges.
	That is what that was what the response was, Michael on September 11th.
	And uh and none of that th the the United States government had the power to wage war against the terrorists on September the tenth, 2001 and it did not need It did not need these vast blundering, bloated behemoth bureaucratic reforms that gave us the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA and all the rest of it.
	So you're right about that, Michael.
	Question is now, what do we do next?
	Where do we go now?
	How do we roll this stuff back?
	Well, I guess my my question to you would be uh uh well The news.
	Does government have uh any unfortunate relationship with them because today I watched the news and they the headline well yesterday the headline was oh uh Obamacare enrollment soaring at 1.1 million enrollees.
	Right, right.
	You know, but but five million policies get cancelled, most of those policies covered multiple people.
	It's a blatant disregard for obvious fact to push some agenda that you know hopefully I think W would have tried to do the same thing, though.
	I think it is an agenda that government is trying to impose on us.
	Well, you you know uh th you you can make you can make that you can make that argument and we have a two-party system, and it's difficult to get a third party going here.
	This is not a parliamentary system.
	Um in uh in in continental countries, parties go and come and go with amazing frequency.
	Um even in the uh Anglosphere in the uh British Commonwealth system, uh new parties can start and uh succeed.
	The Conservative Party, the old Conservative Party in Canada collapsed uh twenty years ago, was reduced to two seats in the House of Commons, and a uh uh uh an aggressive Western reform party started up uh and eventually that wound up swallowing the rump of the old Conservative Party, and you now have a Conservative government in Canada again.
	But we don't have that fluidity.
	We've just got these two behemoths to work with in.
	And the and the fact is that the Republican Party is still at least nominally committed to reversing that stuff, and you have the advantage, you have the advantage in this system, which is different from almost anywhere on the planet, is that you just you get not just to vote for the party, uh, but for to vote for the candidate, to choose the candidate you want to represent the party.
	So it doesn't matter whether it's in the in this uh in my state in New Hampshire where we're trying to find uh some some guy to take back the Senate seat uh and some guy to take back the second congressional district, uh uh, or in uh your state in Tennessee is that the unique s aspect of the American system is that you uh the voters pick the candidate who represents the party.
	And uh and if you do that right, you've got to get people in who are serious about this stuff, serious about reining back the spending, and that means abolishing uh a lot of these useless agencies, bureaus, department, and a lot of the useless activities and damaging activities that they engage in.
	So it's not just a question of saying, ah, pox on both their houses, both these parties are useless, both of them are going nowhere.
	Uh the the Democrats uh the the left are brilliant at using the Democratic Party to advance their will.
	And the right do not do the same as effectively with the Republican Party.
	Now the left are assisted by this because they also control the culture.
	And that's why far more important than getting the right guy elected on a Tuesday in November is is changing the culture.
	We saw that with this latest uh the the gay outrage from GLAAD over Phil Robertson.
	Basically in 2008, gays uh gay lobby groups were in favor of gay marriage, but President Obama wasn't, and nor was John McCain.
	Uh President Obama catches up to the gay lobby group, and now the Republicans are playing catcher, because it's more important to change the culture.
	The culture, culture leads politics.
	Uh once the culture has changed, it's asking an awful lot of squishy jelly-spine politicians uh to to stand up for principles.
	So the culture is where these real battlegrounds are being fought.
	Mark Stein for Rush, more in a moment.
	Mark Stein uh in for infrarush, Cadabit uh tweets uh re uh the the story I was talking about, uh Mayor de Blasio uh abolishing the horse carriage rides in Central Park.
	Uh Canamit tweets, so does this mean the end of the buggy whip industry as well?
	No, no, no.
	The fact that there are no horses in New York City taking tourists around Central Park anymore is actually all the more reason why we need a federal bailout of the buggy whip industry to enable them to, at the moment, because they've lost their horses, they have nothing to whip.
	But if we have a federal bailout of the buggy whip industry, then we will be able to invest in training, and that will enable them to use their buggy whips to whip.
	uh different kinds of creatures such as Republicans, conservatives, Tea Party members and so forth.
	So it does not mean the fact that we've gotten rid of horses in New York City does not mean that we don't the buggy whip industry is not vital to the American economy and not deserving of a federal bailout.
	So I want to I want to make that absolutely clear.
	I also had a couple of uh queries from people who wanted to know the name of the book we were talking about with Mallory Factor in uh in the last hour.
	The book is called Shadow Bosses and it's about the uh the influence of unions on government and it's a it's a fascinating it's it's a fascinating read because it explains so much.
	And uh it's called it's called Shadow Bosses and that's Mallory Factor uh and that's who we were talking to in the last hour.
	Speaking of which let's go to Dick in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
	Dick, you're the last caller on the Rush Limbaugh Show for 2013.
	What's on your mind?
	Hey Mark yeah shadow bosses I wanted to pick up on that and just talk about the power of the unions and the hypocrisy of the of the leadership unions are coming out strong for immigration which would seem to backfire for the workers that they're supposed to be interested in in supporting.
	Well that I think there's a very simple answer to that, Dick, is they're not really interested in in advancing the economic health of the industries they're supposedly engaged in.
	They're they're principally interested now in in transferring what I called low information donors getting access to their funds and using them to fund big government and the Democratic party.
	So if you can get in uh millions and millions of illegal immigrants and persuade them uh to fund big government and the Democratic party and the union machine who cares what it does to the health of the industry or or to uh low-skilled uh low-wage workers in America that's not a priority for them Dick.
	Well I think that's interesting and I think that I agree with what you just said.
	It's really a push for the one party rule.
	They they believe they're going to be part of the elite and the political class in the in the one party rule and so immigration while it's bad for workers um somehow they're in favor of it.
	And I think this connects a little bit to the other word for 2013.
	For me the big word in 2013 which you hadn't heard in years is or or George Orwell, the whole notion of Orwellian and the whole notion of just how you know the lie and and the the uh speak how the words are twisted and so connecting the dots between um leftists who support unions internationally and unions bring policy from the left through their funding of the Democratic party.
	And so we end up with a Democratic Party which is really um facilitated by unions and what do they bring to the party they they demand the implication of leftist policy.
	You're absolutely right Dick it's a somewhat dispiriting uh note to end on uh for 2013 Orwellian or wellian that's uh that's the word that came back in 2013 with the NSA and other things.
	Thanks for your calls.
	We'll wrap it up after this.
	Okay for new we'll take a cup of cane this year for the sake of old lagside.
	Uh this has been old Langstein sitting in on America's number one radio show, the Rush Limbaugh Show and uh who is who is that Mike?
	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians?
	Oh of course Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians.
	Uh this is this is Mark Snyder, one man Royal Canadians.
	I've had a blast uh sitting uh in for the last couple of days but the age of guest hosts is drawing to a close uh rush will be back with the best of rush tomorrow and then live on Thursday I'll see you down in Florida in a few weeks time and a happy new year from one and all to you and yours.

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