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RUSH: Carroll, San Antonio, Texas, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How you doing? My comment was that I think it\u2019s a lot bigger than anti-establishment that\u2019s going on on both sides. I think what\u2019s really going on is that the American people, not directly knowing, but they are rejecting Keynesianism, because Keynesianism prevails in DC because it is a economic mind-set that allows for the growth of government on both sides, but Keynesianism doesn\u2019t really work with us regular folk out here. We can\u2019t spend more than what we take in —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s it. You know something, Carroll, I think for a caller, you\u2019ve come close to hitting a bull\u2019s-eye today. Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal today, his column is: ‘It\u2019s the Spending, Stupid.\u2019 That\u2019s what Carroll means here by Keynesian. Keynesian economic theory is spend, spend, spend, government spend, that\u2019s how you stimulate a stagnant economy, spend, spend, spend, and spend some more. This is more control. Command control economy. You spend money on the stimulus, if it doesn\u2019t work, you didn\u2019t spend enough. You spend, spend, spend and Henninger points out and Carroll is pointing out here, the American people, they may not know Keynesian, some might pronounce it Keynesian if they saw it written, but they know what it is, spending, and they know that it\u2019s out of control, and they know it\u2019s destroying the future for their kids and grandkids. They know at some point some of this is going to have to be paid back. They know it. It is the spending and they also understand that because of all this debt that\u2019s being racked up, that freedom is imperiled as a result of it. <\/p>\n

But even without that, how can these intelligentsia suggest that freedom is not really at risk here after they\u2019ve read Obamacare? I mean just today New York City has announced further places you cannot smoke, and they\u2019re all outdoor places. You can\u2019t smoke in a park. You can\u2019t smoke at the beach. You can\u2019t smoke wherever. It would be easier for New York City to publish a list of where you can smoke. It would take one page. Now, we\u2019re talking about a legal product. We\u2019re talking about a product whose taxes fund health care for the children. And here\u2019s the do-gooder nanny governor, or mayor, ‘Can\u2019t smoke it here. Can\u2019t smoke it there. Can\u2019t smoke over there.\u2019 This is not incidental, this is not insignificant. It\u2019s a legal product and yet they\u2019re telling us what we can\u2019t do and can\u2019t use it and where we can\u2019t use it. And, of course, a lot of nonsmokers will go along with it, oh, yeah, \u2019cause they hate smokers. I can prove it by using one of my e-cigarettes in a bar, in an elevator, you ought to see the panic. It\u2019s fun. Bring out the e-cig and people just freak. <\/p>\n

I told you about in Hawaii a bar manager came over, ‘Mr. Limbaugh, smoking is not allowed.\u2019 ‘I\u2019m not smoking, it\u2019s an e-cigarette, it\u2019s water vapor and I blew it in his face.\u2019 ‘Ah, smells like vanilla,\u2019 he says. ‘That\u2019s right.\u2019 He came back later, ‘Mr. Limbaugh, people don\u2019t like the sight of it. It\u2019s making them uncomfortable watching you pretend to smoke.\u2019 I said, ‘That\u2019s their problem. I\u2019m not hurting anybody. Why don\u2019t you go tell them to move?\u2019 Don\u2019t tell me we are not losing our freedoms. Don\u2019t tell me this is some abstract concept. Go read the health care bill. Obamacare. Go look at the financial regulatory reform bill. Folks, I joke about this, but I can\u2019t turn on outdoor lights eight months a year on property I own because state and county ordinances, which are multiple, threaten me with fines and imprisonment? In a couple years we\u2019re not going to be able to have a Thomas Edison light bulb in our house. Light bulbs! We\u2019re gonna lose American jobs on the basis of a hoax. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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