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I\u2019m on a short fuse, and you start telling me that we\u2019re not taxed enough, we\u2019re not paying enough, I\u2019m going to explode on you. Here\u2019s the telephone number: 800-282-2882, the e-mail address Rush@eibnet.com<\/a>. So I saw this. I don\u2019t know, it was sometime recently; it might have been over the weekend although I, frankly, don\u2019t remember watching any news over the weekend. So it might have been Friday during this program and I saw it up there. I don\u2019t remember. It\u2019s recently. It\u2019s not the first time I have seen this. There\u2019s some drug out there that is currently prescribed, but there\u2019s no reason for it not to be available over-the-counter — except <\/emphasize>for one reason. If the drug is over-the-counter (long sigh) people will have to pay for it. As a prescribed drug, their health insurance pays for it, where of course they don\u2019t think they\u2019re paying for it. Remember, this happened with Prilosec when the makers of Prilosec upgraded it and came out with Nexium. Prilosec, as a prescribed drug, was pretty expensive. Prilosec was…uh, well, it wasn\u2019t obsoleted, but they came out with an improved version called Nexium and they decided to take Prilosec over-the-counter. So you could go out and buy Prilosec over the counter, didn\u2019t go to go to the doctor for it, didn\u2019t have to get a prescription, didn\u2019t have to mess with any of that, but<\/emphasize>, ah, <\/emphasize>it was going to cost people, and there was hell to pay. A furor erupted among people. <\/line>“What do you mean I have to pay for it?” And I\u2019m sitting here, I\u2019m about to blow a gasket then. It cost three times as much<\/emphasize> as a prescription than it costs over the counter, and people were mad because they thought for the first time they were going to have to be paying for it, and there\u2019s some other drug. I don\u2019t know what this drug does. It might be a cholesterol drug. It could be an impotence drug. I don\u2019t know what the drug was, but same thing now — and knowing the anchorette that I was watching do the story was totally, totally sympathetic to the fact that people would have to be buying the drug for the first time in their lives and thought this was terribly unfair of the company to actually put it over-the-counter where it\u2019s available to one and all. It\u2019s a good drug, I guess. But what struck in my craw was this notion that somehow it is a crime. It\u2019s an insult. It\u2019s a conspiracy to force people to have to buy their own drugs! When did this get started? I know what it got started. Thank you, FDR. This whole notion that life is a free lunch got started with FDR and Social Security in our attempt to come out of the Depression, the New Deal — and of course the New Deal didn\u2019t do anything but exacerbate the effects of the Depression. It wasn\u2019t till World War II that we really rebounded, and now check this headline. Where is this from? Reuters. Figures. <\/line><\/p>\n

“UN Report Urges Rich Countries to Double Aid.” Oh, this is a great day for me to see this! “More than 500 million people can be lifted out of abject poverty; 250 million people will no longer go to bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved <\/emphasize>from dying <\/emphasize> [italics added]if rich countries double development aid over the next ten years, a new UN sponsored report said today. In a 3,000 word report, some 265 experts came up with long term…” This is just like global warming.; We\u2019re going to have this reported. Everybody is going, “Whoa, all these experts, 3,000! Why, it must be true.” This is gobbledygook; this is BS, and you know how I know it\u2019s BS because we\u2019ve been doing this for how many years? How many year have we been told, “If you just give a little bit more, we\u2019ll wipe this out and we\u2019ll wipe that out. Just give a little bit more,” and the more we give in our own domestic situation? The Great Society, the war on poverty has resulted now in over $6 trillion being transferred from the producers of this country to the recipients of the aid, and guess what? We still have the same people who authored the program complaining about the same problems. We still have abject poverty. We still have people going to bed in the country hungry. We still have children that are in dire straits, blah blah blah, despite six trillion dollars. What\u2019s missing in this?<\/line> What\u2019s missing in this is an adult admission that this isn\u2019t the way to fix this. Self-reliance is the way to fix this. Capital is the way to fix this. If you want to fix Third World poverty, export capitalism <\/emphasize>to them, not just raw dollars which their Third World thug dictators are going to steal it all. Those Third World pimps, we\u2019ve sent enough money over there. These people ought to be driving limousines and living in houses encrusted in gold for all the money the world has sent to the poor all over the world in all of our years. But no! The poor are still poor. They\u2019re still dying in famines caused by communist governments or Islamofascist governments as in Ethiopia or now in the Darfur section of Sudan. If you want to save people, get rid of tyranny; get rid of communism; get rid of Islamofascism; get rid of dictatorships. Don\u2019t prop \u2019em up with all this whining and moaning and bellyaching and false tears about how the rich aren\u2019t doing enough, especially this country. I have about had it<\/emphasize>, folks, with this notion that we\u2019re not doing anything. Listen to some of the stuff that\u2019s in this report. (sniveling liberal voice) “Poor nations were to reorder priorities such as eliminating school fees and drawing up realistic development plans. Rich nations were to step up funds for specific projects, forgive debt, and promote trade, but few have lived up to their commitments.”<\/line>Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University professor who probably hasn\u2019t been in the real world in 30,000 years, was lead author of the report commissioned by Kofi Annan. Well, there\u2019s somebody clean and pure as the wind-driven snow! You know how to make this money really count? I\u2019ll make one concession. It will never happen so I feel free making this concession. Let\u2019s go ahead one time to give them all the money they want but take the UN out of the equation. Get rid of the middleman so they don\u2019t siphon 80% of it for Kofi and his corrupt son Kojo! Just get rid of the middleman. Why do we need a middleman? Why do we need to give away a dollar to somebody and have the UN take 78 cents of it? Why do we need to give a dollar to domestic welfare and have the Social Security administration take 78 cents of it? That was just five years ago. That was the administrative cost on every dollar of welfare was 78 cents meaning 22 cents of every dollar got to the poor and got to the needy and the intended. Well, hell\u2019s bells, folks! Anybody wonder why this stuff isn\u2019t working? Not only that it\u2019s just enough to keep them poor, just to keep them in dire straits but nobody is teaching them how to get themselves out of it. Now we come to the Social Security problem, and what\u2019s the liberal solution? Raise taxes! Raise taxes. “That\u2019s all we need to do: raise taxes.”<\/line>No, the solution is go-to-get more people oriented to providing as much of their retirement as possible because current examples — go look at your average retiree who lives only on Social Security and ask yourself one question: “Is that how you want to retire?”<\/emphasize> and then this same person is going to say, “Hell, no!” So what do you do, if you want to have a better retirement than what currently exists, people have been relying totally on Social Security? You figure out a way to provide it yourself. “Oh, easy for you to say.” Well, I made this decision a long time ago that I was not going to be dependent. Does it make me silly, selfish or smart? The only downside is that everybody else wants to put their hand in your back pocket, so you have to turn into a little bit of a meany <\/emphasize>to say “no,” but nevertheless, it\u2019s patently obvious here, folks, that we just cannot keep raising taxes and giving money away in numbers and levels that are going to promote people in a retirement that they would like to have, it simply isn\u2019t there — not and fund everything else we\u2019re going to fund. We can\u2019t do that and give all these poor people in the world enough so that they can live and we can\u2019t do that and win the war on terror and we can\u2019t do that and all these other commitments that we\u2019ve got. <\/line>We\u2019ve got to give health insurance to the 43 million uninsured, all this stuff, all this money that we\u2019re taxed, do you realize, the budget is $2 trillion now? The Federal budget is $2 trillion maybe higher. Is it three? $2.5 trillion? Do you have any idea how much that is? The adult population…? Forget the adult population. What\u2019s the whole population of the country now, 280? Do some quick math. Divide 280 million into two and a half trillion and find out how much we could give every person in this country if it all just came back or better yet how much each person just in a purely average sense is being taxed. We know that most of them aren\u2019t. I don\u2019t think people have the slightest idea how much this is, and when anybody comes along and says, “We\u2019re not spending enough and we\u2019re not taxing enough”? I tell you what, it\u2019s time for some of you people out there to stop just playing Simon Says and Follow the Leader and start thinking about some of this stuff. I don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s global warming or whether it\u2019s the UN report urging rich countries to double aid. My whole life I\u2019ve been hearing the rich don\u2019t pay enough of anything. We\u2019re not funding enough foreign aid, not funding enough domestic aid it. Got even worse than that: The rich get rich by stealing money from the poor, that\u2019s what they said during the eighties. Brian, I just knocked the clock off and I didn\u2019t even touch it. I\u2019ve just been banging this desk so much that the vibration sent it tumbling to the carpeted floor. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s okay, but you better get it before I run around the desk and stomp on it.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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