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RUSH: Now, a week or two ago, one of the things that I shared with you was the problem in Russia. The average age in Russia, the average male life expectancy, 57 years. Their big problems are alcoholism, because what else you going to do there in the wintertime? Drink vodka. They drink it at work, plus AIDS via needles. Putin is worried about this. They\u2019re all worried about this. In fact, their population in Russia right now is 141 million. In 20 or 30, maybe it\u2019s 40 years, it\u2019s going to be a hundred million. They have a low birth rate replacement level, and of course they\u2019re not living very long. So, the Russian government has decided to give citizens a day off so that they can procreate. A day off to go out there and get it on, and they\u2019re even going to give them prizes. They found a novel way to fight their birth rate crisis. September 12th, the Day of Conception, they\u2019re calling it, and for the third year running, giving couples time off from work to procreate. Let me see, what are the prizes here? The 2007 grand prize went to Irina and Andrei Kartuzov, who received a UAZ-Patriot, a sport utility vehicle, so they can continue to cause global warming. So how do you win this? Let me read the whole thing. I got caught up here in the headline because I was talking about this two or three weeks ago. The Day of Conception, September 12th, well, it is pro-life, there\u2019s no question it\u2019s pro-life. But I want to find out what you have to do to win the prize.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right. Here\u2019s apparently how this works. The Day of Conception is September 12th throughout Russia. The hope is that nine months later there will be a whole bunch of babies born. June 12th is Russia\u2019s national day. ‘Couples who ‘give birth to a patriot\u2019 during the June 12 festivities win money, cars, refrigerators and other prizes.\u2019 So that\u2019s it. It\u2019s not how many you have, it\u2019s just that you do it, and then they pay you off. Refrigerators, cars, money, and other prizes. In fact, we have a guy on the phone here who has a question about this from Culpeper, Virginia. Hey, Paul, I\u2019m glad you called, and welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, hi, Rush. Mega dittos from the Blue Ridge Mountains.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I was just wondering, how do you think the National Organization for Women would take it if we had a conception day?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.) A procreation day in America, a Day of Conception, oh, the NAGs would flip. Oh, that\u2019s a great thought. (Laughing.) A pro-life day, conception day. Anyway, the great thing about the United States is that we don\u2019t have to have a procreation day. Everybody\u2019s getting it on in the lunch hour anyway. We do this without having to be told. Anyway, that would be fun, just to tweak \u2019em. That could be hilarious. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: To the phones, we go to Detroit, this is Mike. Thank you for calling, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey there, Rush. Let me get this straight. Russia is now more pro-life than the United States, they have a lower income tax rate than we do, and they\u2019ve retired their entire national debt. I don\u2019t understand this picture. I thought we were supposed to be the greatest economic engine, model, in the world.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You have got to be kidding. What is your point here? (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they\u2019re wanting us to go out and make babies, which is pro-life, which is a beautiful thing. Their income tax rate I think tops out at —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no. They don\u2019t want us to go make babies; they want them to go make babies.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I understand. I think maybe some American politicians on the left should be looking at some of the models of Russia.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I see what you\u2019re saying. The problem is that this is not the old Soviet Union. They\u2019re not the communists that they used to be. Putin, I think is asserting the kind of tyrannical control that there used to be, but he\u2019s got much bigger problems than that right now, and the problem is his population is dying off. They\u2019re struggling. They got alcoholism, and they do not have a roaring economy, plus, you know, Putin\u2019s starting to militarize up again. He\u2019s starting to arm up. He\u2019s flying all these military sorties that the Soviets used to fly, playing little cat and mouse games, some of our ships. Somebody caught a picture of one of the Bear bombers. We haven\u2019t seen a Bear bomber in the air since 1994, whatever it was. It\u2019s a propeller, jet prop bomber. It looks kind of like a B-52 but with huge props instead of jet engines. It\u2019s called the Bear, and he\u2019s been flying that thing around. Putin has an inferiority complex. He\u2019s a short, little guy. Nobody takes his country seriously anymore, at least not as the big threat that they used to be, and so that\u2019s why he\u2019s running around flexing his muscles and acting like he\u2019s going to do deals with the Iranians and cozying up to maybe Venezuela and so forth. This is just to get everybody\u2019s attention. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s former KGB. There is no such thing, actually, as former KGB. Once you are KGB, you are KGB. If you become former KGB, then you become what they did to that guy Litvinenko in Great Britain. They poison you with polonium B-212, whatever it is. He\u2019s trying to command a whole bunch more international respect, but he needs a population, and he needs a functioning, working, productive population, and it\u2019s going the wrong way. So they\u2019ve got huge, huge problems. They\u2019re the exact opposite of the Chinese. The ChiComs, their big problem is finding enough jobs for all their people. They wouldn\u2019t mind losing a half billion of them in a war. There would be a lot less problems for them. The biggest threat that Hu Jintao, the president has, is keeping those countryside people living in the countryside. If they flood the city, they got big problems controlling them. Anyway, I don\u2019t think that I get your point. I don\u2019t think today\u2019s Democrats are looking to the current Russia as a model. Now, if it ever goes communist officially, then they will again, and they\u2019ll be hoping and praying for better results next time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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