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April 17, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2

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	Yes, America's anchor man is away as uh as you know, he's uh he's in California having surgery while you while you still can.
	Uh Rush Rush, by the way, does things the old fashioned way, and uh when he wants medical treatment, he goes to see a doctor, and at the end of seeing the doctor, he gets his checkbook out and and writes a check.
	That's the way he does that.
	There's a hospital in southern New Hampshire that has made that illegal that won't take you now.
	If you come in uh 'cause you've been uh shot in a liquor store hold up and you're bleeding all over the floor, uh and you they say, Well, what kind of insurance do you have?
	Do you have Blue Cross Blue Shield or Blue Shield Blue Cross?
	Which is it?
	And uh they say, uh I don't have any, but uh I've got a checkbook here, I've got a wallet full of cash.
	They won't take it.
	They won't take it.
	They won't take a gold bar, they won't take doubloons from the Pirates of the Caribbean treasure chest.
	Uh they won't even take Canadian dollars.
	They they're they're worried.
	Basically they're worried uh that they're gonna be in noncompliance with Obamacare if they accept paying customers.
	Paying customers.
	Don't let that idea catch on, or the whole system will go to hell.
	Uh so they won't even take so so what Rush does, like when he had his heart problems uh and they say are you Blue Cross Blue Shield or Blue Shield Blue Cross or Blue Blue Shield Cross or Shield Cross Blue Blue?
	They say uh no, uh he Rush says no, I'm just gonna write you a check.
	They're not gonna do that.
	They're not gonna do that this hospital.
	And this is it this is interesting.
	At some point it will be illegal just to break your leg and pay a couple of hundred dollars to the doctor to have him reset your leg or whatever it costs now.
	Uh so that but Rush is rushes away, he's itching to get back.
	He's itching once he's had uh this uh this new ear, this bionic ear attached, he will be here uh in the middle of next week.
	But in the meantime, I'm here, Buck Sexton's here for a good Friday.
	Uh what's the day they do the Easter egg roll at the White House that the IRS commissioner when he was asked why he'd visited the White House four hundred and seventy-three times, and he said he occasionally went for the Easter egg roll.
	I think they have the Easter egg roll on the is it the Saturday or the Sunday?
	I can't forget what it is.
	But he's gonna be it's the Saturday, Sunday.
	They do it on Easter morning.
	It Monday it's Monday now.
	They're doing the Easter egg roll on Monday.
	Okay.
	Well, I don't know, maybe he's uh maybe uh the IRS Commissioner will be just ho staying the whole weekend at the White House rolling Easter eggs.
	Who knows?
	Uh but on Monday, uh Buck Sexton's here for Good Friday for the Monday Easter egg roll, Mark Belling will be there for Easter Bank holiday Tuesday, uh Eric Erikson will be uh here, and then it's gonna be Buck or maybe Rush, depending on uh how fighting fit he feels.
	So we'll see how.
	Bit of unfinished business from the last hour.
	I was talking about the Ukraine, we were doing all these nineteen thirties comparisons and uh uh whether whether Putin is Hitler and does that make uh Obama Neville Chamberlain and uh I uh demured on that because Neville Chamberlain was an honorable man.
	Neville Neville Chamberlain, no one was ever in any doubt that Neville Chamberlain wanted to preserve British power in the world.
	Uh uh and he just he just made the wrong call in uh the late nineteen thirties.
	No one was ever in any doubt about that.
	Whereas uh Obama has, to put it mildly, an incredibly relaxed attitude to the decline and decay of American power in the world.
	Uh but th uh more nineteen thirties comparisons.
	Uh all Jewish people in Donetsk in the Ukraine have been told, over sixteen years old, have been told to register as Jews and supply a detailed list of all the property they own or have their citizenship revoked, face deportation and see their assets confiscated.
	That's in uh Donetsk, where uh the pro-Russian leadership of the area uh is now registering Jews over sixteen year old, they've got to provide documentation to all their real estate, including vehicles.
	Uh it seems like old times.
	That's uh Donetsk in the Ukraine, Jews registering there.
	Uh another bit uh another bit of news on the uh hiding emails front.
	The IRS is refusing to cough up its emails.
	And that's interesting because when the IRS uh asks you for anything, you've got to cough it up before the end of the month or you're in big trouble.
	You can't delay.
	I think every citizen should have the right to delay the way the IRS has delayed cooperating with Congress uh for a year now.
	They've just said, oh no, we can't do it.
	It would take us seven and a half years to compile the information.
	Try that the next time the IRS asks you for an IU one two and you say, Oh, I can't fill in that form for at least seven and a half years.
	That's how long it's going to take me to pull all the information together.
	Say it's going to take you seven and a half years and see how far that gets you with the IRS.
	But when the IRS is asked for information, they say it'll take us years and years to compile this stuff.
	I had a very traumatic tax day on April the 15th on uh Tuesday, because uh I'd had some back and forth.
	This again makes the Rumsfeld point.
	Nobody knows.
	The tax code, nobody knows what it.
	Uh my accountant had said to me that uh I need for some little itzy bitsy nothing sum, I need a 1099R.
	I'm ashamed of myself for knowing these numbers.
	You know, I've lived in various countries, the uh and I never knew the government form numbers.
	This is the only country where the government forms a household names.
	People say, oh yeah, well, I'll send you the W2, and then you send me the 1099, and that way we'll be able to uh fill in the 1040.
	Oh, wait a minute, I haven't had the W eight from you yet.
	This is the only country in the world where government forms a household names.
	Uh so I I was uh and it's not like there's just one 1099.
	I I apparently needed a 1099R.
	I never heard of a 1099R before, I don't think.
	That's a that was a new one on me.
	I thought it was like something the pirates had.
	You know, if you're on the in Pirates of the Caribbean and you're one of the scurvy lads on the deck and come April the 15th, you have to say to the captain, ah, Captain, you'll be issuing me a 1099, won't yeah uh and because he got like three groats for being on the ship.
	I thought that's what a 1099 are.
	But it turned out to be something I needed.
	The bank said uh I didn't need one.
	Mark Annan said I didn't need one.
	I looked at it, it seemed pretty obvious.
	So the bank uh the bank then we had some back and forth, back and forth, and I finally got the bank, the useless New Hampshire bank, to cough it up at like 417 p.m. on April the 15th, they finally issued this 1099R.
	So even the banks, this is just like federal paperwork.
	Even the banks don't know what they're meant to be issuing half the time.
	Uh as Ronshell said, there's no correct answer.
	Nobody knows, nobody knows, nobody knows.
	It's uh it's obscene.
	It's obscene that tax.
	I'm ashamed of myself for knowing the names of these government numbers.
	Uh but Lois Lana is refusing to cough up our emails and uh just to tie that in, my own case, I'm currently being sued for defamation by Michael Mann, the guy who invented the global warming hockey stick, which was the big thing.
	It showed, you know, basically the last millennium as the blade of the hockey stick completely flat and was known everything just a constant temperature for a millennium, and then the the s the so-called blade of the hockey stick shooting up for the 20th century and disappearing out the top right hand corner of the the uh the graph.
	And he's uh he is consistently, he's a very litigious man, he's suing me.
	Uh he's he was in court in Virginia and the Virginia Supreme Court just uh an hour or so ago released a decision uh that says that the he does not have to cough up his emails from the University of Virginia in that case.
	Uh and the reason that so I doubt very much, I mean they're probably already shredding them, they're putting probably putting them in the incinerator and pouring the gasoline and tossing the match in right now.
	Uh we've asked for them in my case as well, because this is this is public information.
	He's at a public university, and these are emails that were written and sent in the capacity as taxpayer-funded uh uh employees of a public university, exactly the same as Lois Lerner.
	And this Supreme Court in Virginia, uh, for what seems essentially political reasons, they didn't want to take heat from uh the higher education establishment and all kinds of people, has basically gutted the Freedom of Information Act in in Virginia and rendered it meaningless by by saying that if you're a powerful enough client, you don't you're not you don't have to respond to freedom of information, uh freedom of information requests.
	So uh now all these uh and the reason this is important is because it affects public policy.
	People want to see.
	If you're gonna be told that you have to pay massive carbon taxes uh because of the global warming scare, you want to know the science underlying that.
	You want to see the data underlying that.
	You want to see how this cockamami graph was created.
	Uh so there is a public interest in knowing that.
	Nobody Einstein didn't say, oh, I'm not showing my research for the uh for the theory of relativity.
	Uh Isaac Newton never said, uh, oh no, no, I'm keeping that all he didn't have email in those days.
	He had to write it uh with a quill with a feather on it.
	But he didn't say, Oh, no, no, no, my quill feathered uh parchment is not for you to see.
	Uh those guys weren't like that.
	And when public policy and massive and massive amounts of money depend on it, then there is a public right to know that.
	Now there's also that's the exactly the same principle at issue in uh in Lois Lerner uh refusing to cough up r refusing to cough up those emails.
	So these are these are serious these are serious issues about public access.
	And just to tie it back into the eighty-one percent of Americans who believe uh that they're being lied to, how can you know if you're being told you have to uh actually just to tie it into the urine in the Oregon uh reservoir, the thirty-eight million gallons of water because some guy was seen urinating into that.
	Wouldn't you like to have a toilet tank that big?
	Instead, everyone now has the new Clinton Gore toilet tanks, which Al Gore imposed on the nation in the interests of saving the planet.
	So we're told you can't and for a while they were illegally smuggling in man-sized toilet tanks from Canada.
	There's a whole thing, it's like bootlegging in the twenties.
	Cross the border, man-sized Canadian toilet tanks smuggled across the border, because you've got to have the new weenie-sized Clinton Gore toilet tank, because it saves the planet.
	So if your life has to change, if you if if uh you have to drive a smaller car, uh if you're not allowed to use so much water, if you can't do this, if you can't do that, all in the interests of saving the planet, you're entitled to know the basis on which those public policy decisions are taken.
	Uh if they think it's so serious that one guy urinates in a reservoir and thirty-eight million gallons of water have to be flushed out, why are they regulating the toilet tank in your house in the interest of saving the planet?
	These are public policy matters.
	And if and if there is no right to see the underlying data on that, then they're not a free society.
	That gets to the census business as well.
	You know, if there is no agreed data, if the census is politicized, if your tax return is politicized, if your health care is politicized, then what what is left?
	If in other words, if the basic agreed building blocks of a free society can no longer be trusted, you can't know that the IRS data is correct, you can't know that the census data is correct, you can't know that the healthcare data is correct, then there is no building block, there are insufficient building blocks for a free society.
	1800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for Rush, more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for us feeling uh feeling mighty pumped and uh and not just because I've been uh showering in wesh Welshman's urine.
	There's there's uh there's so much going on on right now.
	I um I don't know whether you've been following this uh this story about the uh the Bundy family on their ranch down in uh in Nevada, where they've got some dispute.
	They moved out there in the nineteenth century and and the reason the West was opened up was because people the government said you'll be able to graze your cattle on federal land.
	And then uh as uh so that's why they moved to Nevada.
	Otherwise, why would you move to Nevada?
	It's like nothing going on.
	It's big desert.
	So they move out there in the nineteenth century and they're gonna grazing their land, and then they change the the rules change.
	Like uh twenty years ago, uh and the Bureau of Land Management starts charging them these fees for keeping their cattle on this uh on this public land.
	And gradually the fees are not the the fees are supposedly management fees, but they're designed in fact to manage all these pesky American citizens off the King's Land.
	That's essentially what's going on.
	So where before there were dozens of ranches in the area, there's now just one guy left, and he's in this showdown uh with uh with with uh BLM snipers.
	Because like every uh minor tinpot bureau of compliance in the vast great alphabet soup of federal bureaucracy, uh the the the uh the the Department of Paper Pushers has more firepower at its disposal than the average European Union Army.
	There's way by the way, NATO's a waste of time.
	If you look at the firepower that the Bureau of Land Management has, uh, instead of d figuring out how whether we should send the French and the Belgians to protect Estonia from Putin, they'd be much better off sending the Bureau of Land Management.
	As a matter of fact, let's not even make it a foreign, let's not make it an even a NATO thing with foreign countries.
	If the Bureau of Land Management snipers had been stationed at the consulate in Benghazi, then that whole deal would never have happened.
	So that I find that interesting.
	But what I found m absolutely most astonishing about this story is that the Bureau of Land Management is that 80, over 80% of Nevada is owned by the national government, right?
	Owned by Washington, owned by the Fed uh it's not federal anymore.
	I mean, uh basically when it owns over 80% of the state, in what sense is Nevada a state?
	So uh so eighty-one percent of Nevada is owned by the federal government.
	That is and the Bureau of Land Management controls that.
	And that's about 90,000 square miles, which is like uh the entire land mass of the United Kingdom uh or about the size of Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic combined.
	So in other words, uh the entire heart of the Habsburg Empire.
	That's what that's what the Bureau of Land Management owns just in Nevada.
	Why?
	Why?
	Why does why does a government agency run 80% of Nevada?
	You know, as I said, equivalent to the size of the United Kingdom.
	Now, right now Scotland is having a referendum on whether to break up and secede from the United Kingdom.
	So Scots, a lot of Scots, they think the United Kingdom is too big.
	Uh that uh they'll they'll they want to become an independent nation of Scotland, which will be which which would be a tiny little country that would fit into about one third of the Bureau of Land Management's real estate just in Nevada alone.
	Now the the US government owns most of the West.
	I've no idea why, but that means that the Bureau of Land Management owns about an eighth of all the real estate in the United States.
	It's ruling an area the size of Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Portugal combined, just in Nevada, if you take the whole eighth of the country, it's ruling uh the equivalent of about three-sevenths of the G7 biggest economies on the planet.
	In other words, the Bureau of Land Management, one rinky dink nothing federal agency that most people have never heard of, uh rules over an area the size of France, Germany, and Italy combined, or about the the size of uh South Africa.
	And if you've heard all those things, Bush used to talk this way, Schwarzenegger used to talk this way.
	You know, when they say, oh, if Texas were a country, it'd be the twelfth biggest economy in the world.
	If if California were a country, it'd be the eighth biggest economy in the world.
	If the Bureau of Land Management were a country, it would be the twenty-sixth biggest country in the world out of about two hundred of them.
	That's why it's got an army bigger than Belgians, that's why it's got an army uh bigger than Italy's, uh, because it's this nothing agency, no one's ever heard of, rules over one-eighth of the United States.
	And in this little corner of Nevada, it's driven, you know, all the ranches off the land.
	What does it need?
	What why is one-eighth of the land mass of the United States owned by the Bureau of Land Management, controlled by the Bureau of Land Management, and they determine who has access to it when they when they have access to it, they can change the rules of access, they can change the terms of access, they can get the National Park Service to arrest Japanese and uh and European tourists as they did during the government shutdown.
	They arrested them for for illegally photographing King Barack's deer and uh held them in uh in in uh made them go back to the the the designated hotel and sealed off the hotel so these Japanese and European tourists couldn't go anywhere.
	Why does one rinky dink nothing little federal agency rule over with an increasingly iron fist one eighth of the United States of America?
	It makes no sense.
	And what all these stories have in common, the IRS, the Census, uh the Department of Health and Human Services, uh and the Bureau of Land Management, is they are increasingly open about their despotic nature.
	I don't use that term lightly.
	I'm not saying they're Hitler, I'm not saying they're Stalin, I'm not saying they're Kim Jong un or Saddam Hussein, but they are increasingly open about their despotic nature, that they are the rulers and you are the ruled, and they tell you what to do, and that is just the way it is.
	Mark Stein Inforush, we'll talk about that and lots more straight ahead.
	1 800-282-2882.
	Hey, great to have you with us.
	Rush is uh I always love reading my uh by hate mail on days.
	Where is that Rush?
	He's playing golf again, isn't he?
	Now he's actually undergoing surgery, you in you insensitive twitties uh he's having his uh he's having uh high-tech work done on his ear.
	And uh and he's itching to get back and all being well, he will be back here Wednesday.
	But don't forget, don't forget, if you are a Rush 24-7 subscriber, that you uh can go to Rush and you can get Rush uh at Rushlinball.com in any form you want him.
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	Now he's having his ear the uh work todd and the uh the joke here around uh around EIB is that he's uh you know, he's playing it by ear.
	Everyone's playing it by ear as to when he's gonna be back.
	And uh and it reminded me of my favorite uh political ear story, uh which was released I think about uh ten years ago in Liberia when uh President Charles Taylor's Ministry of Information released a congratulatory telegram, and uh it went like this, we say uh uh uh a congratulatory press release from President Charles Taylor's Ministry of Information in Liberia.
	We say well done to Mr. President and advise him to always keep the communication highway free and clear of any hindrance, so that a people-to-leader and leader-to-people approach can be adopted and maintained, so that everyone will at least have the opportunity to have the ears of the chief executive instead of a select few.
	And uh I remember Chuckley when I first read that because uh because a few years earlier only a select few had got the opportunity to have the ears of the then chief executive uh President Samuel Doe in Liberia, and he'd fallen into the hands of one of his successors' allies uh in the battle to unseat him, because when you have the president for life system, basically the only way the uh the president is leaving the presidential palace is when he's carried out by the handles.
	And in this case, uh President Samuel Doe was basically uh stripped to his underpants and uh tied to a chair.
	And uh then he was ordered uh to have uh his ears cut off and the guys cut off the president's ears and ate them.
	Um but uh but the uh they then had a big fight because they uh cut off the private parts of the outgoing president uh and then fought over them in belief that the powers and manhood of the person whose parts you're eating are transferred to the new eater.
	So again, this is part of the uh change of power in Liberia, that the outgoing president has his private parts chopped off and eaten by his successors part of the trans it's the equivalent to swearing the oath on the Bible.
	Um and uh uh and it's part of the ceremonial transfer of power.
	And frankly, you know, the last presidential inauguration I thought was so boring with Beyoncé lip syncing to the Star Spangled Man, I thought they could have done with a bit of genital eating itself there to perk things up a bit.
	But this is the way they do it in Liberia.
	But I I was thinking of that by the um by reminder of that by uh Russia's ear operation.
	Uh and uh he he's not having anything as drastic in the form of ear surgery uh as uh poor old President Samuel Doe did in Liberia, but uh it it is still a tough business and it's always a tough call when you're undergoing surgery.
	So we send our best wishes to Rush, and we want him back here, but we want him back here when he's in tip top shape.
	So don't begrudge him if he takes an extra day or two.
	Uh Buck Sexton's gonna be in tomorrow for Good Friday, and Mark Belling and Eric Erickson and a whole host of uh uh substitute host level excellence in broadcasting talent waiting to take you uh through until Rush's return.
	Let us go to Louise in Indianapolis, Indiana.
	Louise, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Thanks for waiting.
	Hi, Mark.
	How are you?
	I'm doing good, all things considered.
	How how how are you keeping?
	Well, I'm great, and I love it when you guest host.
	You are so smart and so clever and funny, and you always give me a good laugh.
	And these days I need a good laugh, so thank you for that.
	Well, you know, whatever comes next, uh the Russians, the uh the Mullers, the Chinese Politburo, the space aliens, they're gonna be laughing at us because we did this to ourselves, Louise.
	Well, the reason I call, it has to do with the census.
	And I figure that since this dishonest administration intends to use the census for political purposes, I have no intention of giving them honest answers.
	I don't know what the questions are gonna be, but I'm going to skew it as much as I can.
	And I gotta tell you, Mark, this is not like me.
	I'm a midwesterner, and like most people I know, I'm follow the rules.
	I try hard to be a good person and an honest person, but I have had it with these people and their dishonesty and their manipulations, and I tell you, they're laughing at us.
	Well, Louise, you you that's you put your uh finger right on the nub of it, right on the nub of it.
	Uh that that when a uh when your political class lies to you, they forfe they not only forfeit all respect, but they actually call into question uh the entire premise of the relationship uh between you.
	Uh because why should you give them an honest answer if they're not giving you honest answers?
	And and I'll tell you I'll just before you do that, by the way, and I I would be I would love to see uh m I would love to see people, for example, when they get the census, just filling in the the just doing the same thing that people did on when they donated money to Obama when he when he didn't have his website set up in 2008 with the proper control.
	So people were saying uh, you know, Adolf Hitler, the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany, I'm giving you five hundred dollars.
	And it didn't reject any of these people because they were giving money from out of the country or under fake names under Mickey Mouse or whatever.
	The the the I would love to see that.
	And it would be and it'd be a wonderful thing to do to say if the census is meaningless, if the census is being manipulated for political purposes, there's no reason why we should give honest answers.
	Uh the only thing is that if you lie to that they can lie to you, but if you lie to them, you go to jail.
	Uh Martha Stewart went to prison for lying in uh in a matter in which there was no longer even any underlying crime.
	But because she lied to a federal agent, they send her to jail.
	She lied to an employee of the United States Attorney General.
	The United States Attorney General, a man called Eric Holder, lies to Congress.
	And he is in contempt of Congress.
	And that's fine.
	So Eric Holder, the font of the American uh justice system, can lie to anyone he wants to.
	Uh but if you lie to a minor functionary of Eric Holder, you go to jail.
	So Louise, I would love to.
	I'll come and I don't know what the uh the penitentiary is like, the federal penitentiary in Indiana is like, but if you do that and they come after you, I will I will come and visit you.
	I will bake I will bake you a cake and uh I appreciate that.
	A cake.
	I love that.
	And I I'm old enough that um I guess I can just um declare dementia and uh tell them I didn't understand their questions.
	Yeah, but everything's politicized now.
	So like dementia is covered by Dementia is covered by Obamacare, but Lois Lerner will be targeting sufferers from conservative dementia.
	So it's it's it's not it's if you have the really extreme form of dementia where you think you're supposed to be uh living in a republic of limited government by self-governing citizens, Lois Lerder will come and uh and uh say that that's not covered by Obamacare and you've got to pay full freight for that, Louis, so don't bank on uh debate actually, you know I mean, just to make a serious point here.
	When a uh society loses its I mean, basically when when when you can no longer tell the truth about reality, uh a society does in fact descend into a form of uh collective dementia, as it were.
	And uh and uh if if you if you can't tell the truth about trillions of dollars of debt, if you can't tell the truth uh about tens of millions of i i ill uh illegal uh aliens walking across the border and then claiming benefits and receiving fast track to citizenship,
	if you can't tell the truth about out-of-control federal bureaucrats if you can't, if none of that, if if if reality can be sufficiently recreated, then society is living in a four- You're basically, Louise, it's the equivalent of like an early check-in to the old folks' home where the guy in the bed next to you thinks he's Napoleon and the fellow on the other side th thinks he's Mary Antoinette Louise.
	That's that's the way it's going on.
	Thanks for your call.
	Great to have you with us.
	1800-282-2882, lots more still to come.
	Mark Stein in for us on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	Uh the Food and Drug Administration.
	Uh we were t we were talking earlier about uh the the uh the insanity of this, the alphabet soup of Washington, the Food and Drug Administration uh for for for centuries, spent grain, which is what uh you have when uh the breweries are finished uh making beer.
	And uh so they don't need this stuff anymore because they're they're just in the beer business, so they don't need to spend grain, and so they give it to uh farms and the farms feed it to their cattle.
	This is goes on all over the world and has done for millennia.
	Uh but just because you could do it in the 11th century doesn't mean you can do it in America in the twenty-first century.
	The FDA has now decided that if you're a brewery and you give uh your spent grain to cattle, you're basically uh not just a brewery, but you're also in the livestock feed business, and so you have to process it and you have to do all the rest.
	So the farmers now who used to be able to rely on getting a certain amount of this unwanted spent grain from the breweries are not are not gonna be able to get that anymore.
	So in other words, the ranchers, the guys like this uh fella out in Nevada, uh are gonna are gonna have their profit margins cut back even more because the FDA.
	Now at some point, at some point, there has to be something that you can do in this sclerotic republic without having to fill in a ton of paperwork and comply with a bunch of stupid, wasteful, heavy-handed, increasingly onerous regulation.
	And that goes from the 1099R that I was talking about a few minutes ago uh all the way to whether uh a man and by the way, the 1099, if you just think about what is that?
	You need a 1099 for six hundred bucks, I think it is now, is that right?
	Six hundred bucks.
	In other words, it's illegal.
	It's illegal in a republic of limited government for one American to write a check to another American for more than six hundred dollars, which is crazy anyway.
	But the but this whole th the whole sclerosis of the Republic, the whole seizing up, the way everything is takes more and more time.
	Everything is slower and slower.
	Uh federal regulation alone taking up ten percent of GDP, just federal regulation.
	And they keep finding more.
	They keep finding more.
	Where are the Republicans on this?
	Where is the Republican Party on this?
	What agency are they gonna uh are they gonna abolish?
	What bureau are they gonna abolish?
	Where do you go?
	What's the point of electing anyone if all the laws are made by people whose names you don't know?
	The guy The guy who uh dispatched the snipers to Nevada.
	He's some pen pusher uh sitting at a desk somewhere in the Bureau of Land Management, and he's like a little generalissimo.
	He can order troops here.
	Who what's his name?
	Where do you go to to uh to to vote him out?
	The um the the uh the the new uh head of the Bureau of Land Management is somebody of Harry Reed's.
	He's the as I said, he rules a landmass that is the size of South Africa or of France, Germany, and Italy combined.
	No one knows his name.
	He's the he's the uh he's the sultan of the uh Bureau of Land Management.
	He's the the Sultan of the BL Emirates, in effect.
	Where do you go to vote him out?
	Where's the voting booth that his name's on?
	Nobody's allowed to set foot in his one-eighth of the country that he controls, and he's not on the ballot anywhere else.
	Where do you go to vote out the guy who decides that uh breweries can't give uh unwanted grain to farms anymore?
	Where do you go to uh vote that guy out?
	Where do you go to vote out the uh the guy who says it's not enough to have a 1099 R. Uh next year we're gonna introduce a 1099 R XY2PZ.
	Where do you go?
	What's the point?
	There's no point in electing people to Congress if they just uh basically uh uh the veneer of democratic accountability on top of a uh on top of a huge great uh they're the cherry, the democratic cherry, the responsibly elected cherry on top of a vast permanent, ever more onerous bureaucracy.
	Let's go to Nathan in Sonora, California.
	Nathan, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	I appreciate that, Mark.
	It's so good to talk to you, and I appreciate your articulate way that you speak for us conservatives.
	Well, thank thanks.
	Thanks, Nathan.
	The issue with the poor Bundy family, you know, it's just like the federal government to spend four million dollars to collect on a one million dollar and their word that you know, the gentleman owes.
	But we continue to see more of the heavy-handed thug, you know, uh advance of our federal government over its people, and they've long forgotten that they worked for us.
	Um, it's a good example.
	Um, to push a family like that and to push many people that came down to protest to the point of the second revolution is is crazy.
	It's ludicrous.
	Well, you're you're you're you're absolutely right, Nathan, to say that they've forgotten that they work for us.
	These are not a pro uh and there's a reason why they're willing to spend four million dollars to collect a one million dollar debt.
	Because what's important to them is not the million bucks.
	They don't care about that anyway.
	Who who cares about that?
	It's just gonna they're just gonna uh that'll slightly reduce the uh trillions of dollars they owe China.
	What difference does it make whether they get the money?
	Right.
	Uh it's uh it's to make sh it's to make an example of him.
	They don't care how much it spends to ensure that it won't do it.
	So it's effectively deterrence.
	It's what in the Cold War we call deterrence.
	So they're prepared to spend a ton of money, more than they'll ever recruit, uh deterring American ranchers, but they wouldn't spend any money to deter uh America's enemies in, say, Benghazi.
	They're not willing to spend uh expend any effort deterring, say Vladimir Putin or the Iranian uh Mullers, but they're willing to spend money to deter American citizens.
	And this is simply not appropriate in a free society.
	This style of policing, guys in the full RoboCop uh over a cattle standoff, you know, it's like some weird cop.
	What was that space aliens that Western with with space aliens movies that came out a couple of years ago?
	My my kids were bored stiff through it.
	Uh it's like that's where they took the the Western and put some space aliens.
	That's what this looks like.
	You got guys in cowboy hats facing off Robocop.
	It's not appropriate in a free society, and it shouldn't be happening.
	Thanks for your call, Nathan.
	We got more to come.
	I was uh trying to think what that movie featuring the cowboys and aliens was called.
	Uh and apparently it was called Cowboys and Aliens with Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig.
	Absolutely uh terrible movie, Cowboys and Aliens.
	It's like my disjockey days, people used to call up uh go, uh, Mark, that song you played, uh uh I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain, I'm singing the what was it called again?
	Uh it's the same thing here.
	That Cowboys and Aliens movie was called Cowboys and Aliens.
	And that's what it is at that Rajadavada.
	You got guys in cowboy hats facing American bureaucrats from the Department of Paperwork doled up in the full Robocop.
	It is not a it is simply not the way uh that policing should be done in free societies.
	And you see that all over this country.

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