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RUSH: You remember the little brouhaha and the contretemps that erupted the week before I left down in south Florida? The Broward County commissioners led by Stacy Ritter who, by the way, still sounds angry as she can be, even though I acknowledged that she\u2019s a babe — at least from the neck up. That\u2019s all I\u2019ve seen. But anyway, as you know, the vote finally passed and they reluctantly agreed to stay on our blowtorch affiliate down in Miami, WIOD for hurricane news. I tried to tell these idiots on this commission, ‘If you really want to deal with me just announce a press conference every day.\u2019 Do a three-hour press conference on, uh-oh, it\u2019s going to be really hot today, sun warning, south Florida, and then announce what your preparedness features are in the speech. Well, lo and behold, from the San Jos&eacute; Mercury News ten days ago, ‘Scientists to Warn Public of Danger on Hot Days. San Jose officials have partnered with the National Weather Service to better understand exactly how hot, humid and sunny it needs to be in the South Bay for lives to be at risk.\u2019 Unbelievable. <\/p>\n

‘When they launch a ‘heat\/health watch warning system\u2019 later this month, officials hope to be able to alert the public whenever a potentially lethal heat wave is headed our way. During such an event, emergency services coordinators would open up local ‘cooling centers\u2019 – civic buildings with air conditioners – for anyone needing to cool down. &hellip; The warning system uses an algorithm that looks at several factors such as air temperature, humidity and cloud cover level to determine if an alert is needed.\u2019 In the meantime, we can\u2019t factor the sun into our calculations of man-made global warming. (Laughing.) ‘Scientists to Warn Public of Danger on Hot Days.\u2019 Do you realize we\u2019re just a bunch of children in these people\u2019s view? We\u2019ve got a column here in the stack and I can\u2019t remember right now who wrote it, but I\u2019ll find out because the guy deserves credit. The Breck Girl is running around out there talking about these two Americas, and this guy says there are two Americas, there\u2019s the politicians\u2019 America and then there\u2019s the people who work in America. The politicians\u2019 America is an America of legislation, regulation, limits, nanny state behavior, entitlements, welfare state, which destroys that segment of America, and there are details on how that has happened coming up on the big program today. Then there\u2019s the real America where things are fine and growing, and thankfully the real America is still the one propelling the whole country, but the politicians\u2019 America is one in which they have the power and the control and they\u2019re of course always attempting to acquire more of it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I mentioned this column earlier in the program and I told you I was going to look for the author — his name is Paul Jacob. It\u2019s at Townhall.com. Paul Jacob is senior advisor at the Sam Adams Alliance. That\u2019s at Townhall.com member group. This has nothing to do with the beer, for those of you in Rio Linda. Sam Adams Alliance is a think tank. It\u2019s entitled ‘The Two Americas.\u2019 He says, ‘Could Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards actually be right about something? Not where to go to get a haircut, mind you, I mean about there being two Americas. There is the vibrant America … and the stagnant one. <\/p>\n

‘There is the America of ever-increasing wealth, innovation, creativity, of a dynamic economy, new jobs, new products and services. Choices galore. Information overload. The abundant work product of freedom. And there is the politician\u2019s America: The regulated America, the subsidized America, the earmarked America. The failing America. In one America it is what you produce that gets you ahead. In the other it\u2019s who you know. In one America, to earmark some money means setting aside funds (into savings) for a purchase — a car, house, college. In the other America, to earmark is to grab from taxpayers to give to cronies. It is the highest rite of career politicians: buying their votes with other people\u2019s money. Oh, there have been reforms, sure. But a recent bill in the House contained 32,000 earmark requests. In one America, we decide what we pay for. We choose constantly about little things and big. We call the shots. Or we walk down the street and associate with someone else. So we have some faith in those we work with. In the other America we vote. But we rarely get what we vote for.\u2019<\/p>\n

It really is a great way of restating the ideological arguments that exist in the country today and the results that each ideology, conservatism versus liberalism, ends up producing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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