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March 5, 1996 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Rush Limbaugh.
Thank you.
Way to follow instructions.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
All right.
Down we go.
Thanks very much, lively crowd.
We hope uh hope we can keep this intensity up.
Ladies and gentlemen, now I think we will.
We have an interesting show coming up.
I uh mentioned at the close of yesterday's program that transnational transglobal scientists are conspiring, ladies and gentlemen, to destroy the sovereignty of the planet Pluto.
Now I don't know.
See, right away, you think I'm making it all up.
I'm not taking a look.
This was in the Monday issue of USA Today.
They are gonna do demote Pluto.
It's not a planet, ladies and gentlemen.
Somebody has just said it's an ice dwarf.
It's just a chunk of ice floating around, and it was discovered.
Here's it, it was discovered by an American.
What was it?
66 years ago, 76 years ago, whenever it was, 1930, so it'll be 66 years ago.
The only planet in the solar system discovered by an American.
And now they're saying it's not even a planet.
This is an attack, ladies and gentlemen, on the sovereignty of the good planet Pluto.
At least we still have Uranus.
And you know how they used to discover planets back then?
They had thousands of pictures of outer space taken with an Earth telescope, just black and white specks.
And some guy would sit around with a magnifying glass and look at each picner picture and try to track the movement of a particular speck.
And if they tracked it, it was then proclaimed a planet.
What they're now saying is that Pluto has no solar origins like it has to have if it's to be actually a planet.
I just thought you'd like to know with all of the charges that the United States is losing its sovereignty now, the only planet in the solar system discovered by an American they're saying is not a planet, it's an ice dwarf.
Don't let this happen, ladies and gentlemen.
America's heritage depends on this decision.
We had a question during the audience uh briefing before we started the program about the press and why they're so hard on uh Buchanan.
And that the press is being really hard on Buchanan, I think largely because he's he's conservative.
Um, but I also wish to remind you I'm the one who told you that all of these Republican candidates, long before the primaries began, I told you that they would all undergo the media anal exam.
The press wants to get even for how tough it's been for Clinton, so they're now gonna spread it around and and uh and give it to all the Republicans.
And look at this story.
This is from the New York Daily News on Tuesday.
I didn't know this.
Buchanan has one, two, three, four, five homes that he uses as rental properties.
They are in Gathersburg, Maryland, Bethesda, Maryland, uh, Washington, D.C., and Silver Springs, Maryland, and they rent generally, here's one that rents for 830 a month, another one for 1200, another for 1295, and one for uh uh thousand seventy-five dollars a month.
And he's owned these things since 1969.
Um71.
He's bought them over a period of years.
He owns them out right now, and he simply uses them as as as rental properties, and no doubt hires a management firm to manage them.
He probably doesn't do this himself.
And the whole story here is basically about how Buchanan is a slum lord.
And they cite some of the horrid stories from tenants who live in these dwellings.
Uh one one guy said, the guy who lives in his house in Bethesda, Maryland says, We have a lot of mold growing on the bathroom ceiling.
Excuse me, it's called comet, you lazy creep.
Why don't you go clean it yourself?
mold in the ceiling.
Shit.
So you look up and there's a little mold, and it's Buchanan's fault.
It's the it's the owner's fault.
Here, here's another one.
Last week, the tenants said this is another place in Bethesda, they spotted mice running across the floor.
It's called traps.
And I'll tell you something else.
If you people would probably be a little bit more hygienic and stop throwing your food on the floor, you'd stop making an attractive environment for mice.
It's Buchanan's fault.
You got mice in the house.
Hey, I've had mice in places I've lived, places I owned.
You know what I did?
I got rid of them.
I didn't complain to whoever sold me the house.
One time a mouse in this is a brand new house I had out in Sacramento, too, and I was really proud of it.
It was a model home and a development.
It was a $90,000 house.
I was, I was just, it was, I was prouder than I've ever been of anything.
And I hear this noise.
And I said, oh no, what's this?
And it's in a laundry room, which is right off the garage.
So I went out there.
I'm looking around and I don't see anything, but I keep hearing it.
So I turn around and I localize the sound, and it's coming from a plastic trash can that does not have a trash bag in it.
And I said, Oh no.
I went over and I looked it, and there was a little mouse trying to find its way out.
So I went and got a can of Pam.
And I sprayed the mouse with Pam.
I thought somehow maybe I could poison it, maybe I could give it.
Cancer, I don't know what I was trying to do, but I, you know, all the stuff that's bad.
I just almost half the can, and the stupid thing liked it.
You know, it started licking itself.
I said, this is not working.
So by that time, the inside of the can is slick as hell.
Mouse cannot get out of there, which is a mission accomplished in one regard.
It's stuck there.
It's trying to climb up and it slips back.
I just, folks, I just grabbed that trash can.
I didn't know what to do.
I didn't want to dump it out in the yard, he'd just come back in.
It was there for a reason.
And I didn't want to dump it in the street.
I wanted to get rid of it.
So I just grabbed the can, knew that that Pam was in there.
Shook it back and forth.
And that was it.
It was it.
And then I went and threw it out in the street.
I didn't, not the front yard, the street.
And I sat there and waited till the car came by.
And uh I know you animal rights people are gonna hate me, but the point is.
The point is you got a bunch of helpless waifs living in a Buchanan property blaming him for the mice.
And it's a it's a classic example.
If you got a problem, you fix it and deal with it yourself.
Don't blame the tenant.
This story is this is why people don't run for the presidency, folks.
Uh, you wonder why your favorite candidates are not really running.
Who wants to go this through this kind of examination?
Everything you've done, everything you own, everywhere you've been, go out and try to find a bunch of people who don't like you to say a bunch of stuff about you that isn't true, so it gets printed.
It's just, it's ridiculous.
And and it's a classic example of uh of media piling on.
One other thing here before we go.
A lot of people think that uh Clinton is unbeatable.
They hear all the polling data, his approval ratings are up over 50%.
53%.
President riding high, Republicans destroying themselves, eating themselves alive, destroying any ability they have to win.
Clinton, above it all, looking down, surveying the scene, liking what he sees, feeling safe and secure.
Ah, not true.
CNN, USA Today Gallup poll, January 96.
This escaped us.
We only came across this today.
This is March.
This is a poll from January.
Take a look at some of the things in this poll that was not, were not widely publicized.
56% of the American people do not believe Clinton can get things done.
55% think him dishonest and and untrustworthy.
53% think he doesn't share your values or theirs.
61% believe he doesn't keep his promises.
Why, that's not a hundred percent, I don't know.
But that's that's a tough number here.
Now look at this one.
41% think he does not deserve to be re-elected, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you.
And oh, listen to this applause.
Which it's the loudest line of applause anything's gotten on this show all day.
The fact that Clinton doesn't deserve to be re-elected.
Any of you Republican candidates watching the show learn from this.
Start hitting Clinton, leave each other alone.
Clinton's the enemy, go after him.
Right?
And then they go again.
Rock us.
Loud.
Uncontrolled rage out there.
Well, in the March 5th issue of the New York Post, you know, Newt Gingrich endorsed Dole.
And the New York Post has a story about that.
And I wanted to show here's the story.
We've copied it from the paper.
Here's where the story begins.
And all the way down here is this little bitty paragraph about another piece of poll data.
And it's a Lewis Harris national poll.
Here's what the paragraph says.
You can read along.
A new Lois Harris national poll found Clinton's favorable rating has fallen steadily since the fall to 46%.
Quote, no sitting president with a negative job rating just before an election has ever been re-elected, said polling company chairman Humphrey Taylor.
So, those of you who think that Clinton is unbeatable, and it is hopeless and lost unless certain things happen.
This, I think, bears out what is.
I I'll bet you this pretty is is pretty close to White House internal polling data, if you ask me.
They have to be in trouble up there.
You can't get away with the stuff he's been doing for three and a half years, uh, even with people who don't pay attention.
It's not a slam dunk for Clinton, and that's why the sooner they start taking him seriously as the opposition, the better everybody's gonna feel, and the more positive and upbeat people are going to be about the chances of actually getting him out of office.
We'll take a break and be back with some economic news that may not be as bad as you think right after this.
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Beginning Sunday, the New York Times was uh running in a big 14, 13, whatever, 12 part series on how there are no jobs left in America.
Uh did we have put together was that the montage montage was that it?
Seven part series, seven part series, whatever.
Seven, fourteen, twelve, it doesn't matter.
Any more than one is is is off the beaten path.
Sunday said on the battlefield of business, millions of casualties.
Monday, the company is family no more.
And on Tuesday, big holes where the dignity used to be.
I've been reading the series.
Frankly, I didn't even think I should bother showing up here today to do the program because I thought there wouldn't be anybody here.
I thought the place had been shut down.
Somebody's applauding that there.
Somebody's applauding the fact that there would be nobody here.
So anyway, I was I was stunned.
This I hate this negativism.
This is this is I you know, the this look to the future to see doom and gloom.
Uh, and and to sit there and say I'm helpless, I can't do anything about it unless somebody helps me or a government program comes along.
It bothers me.
Because folks, you are what make this country work.
Not a government program, not a bunch of people in Washington coming up with solutions to problems.
You make it work.
You always have.
And if you get in a mood that says, oh, I can't do anything about it, and jobs are going overseas, corporations are mean, I don't know, you're not gonna make the country work anymore.
We went out on the street today.
I wanted to find out what the people randomly selected on the street would say.
We asked them two questions.
First question is about this New York Times poll.
Uh, do you feel pessimistic or optimistic about your career in the future?
And here's what they said.
Well, with uh the current downsizing in most corporate America, it's uh a little uncertain as to what the future is.
Very concerned.
I'm the source of whether it's good or bad, and I want to be positive, and so I'm gonna create it to be positive.
Good.
My personal future I feel optimistic about.
Uh the up the uh future of this country and the world.
Feel more pessimistic about.
Um at this point in my life I feel pretty optimistic, but more about my personal future.
Um, because in terms of where the country's headed, I guess we'll see what happens with this election, see what's gonna happen with that.
Well, personally, I feel optimistic about my future, but the future of the country?
That's another question.
Well, I feel that people make their own future.
Amen.
I myself have lost two jobs in the past, and I've always gotten a better job every time I got laid off.
It depends on the individual.
That's it.
That is it.
We found one guy.
Now, note something, except for the first guy who's obviously a Clinton voter.
Everybody said they're doing fine, and they think their future's gonna be okay.
But I'm worried about everybody else.
I'm worried about America.
You know what I think that is?
I think that's the result of being pounded every day by network news about how rotten it is by looking at polls like the New York Times is running, everybody being told how rotten it is.
But in their own lives, people's futures, they're pretty optimistic about.
They're worried about everybody else.
Uh I it's it's fascinating.
The same thing in 1992.
You go ask Clinton's running around saying, worst economy in the last 50 years, you go ask people.
Well, I'm frankly doing fine, but I'm worried about my neighbor.
You know, it's this clearly is is uh by the way, what your neighbor's doing is none of your business.
Stop it.
Second question.
Second question.
Should the federal government get involved in the dispute over corporate job security?
This is key.
Robert B. Rice, and Buchanan, and an and Ted Kennedy, and a number of people think that the government ought to sit there and look out over corporate America and say, good corporation and give them tax breaks.
Bad corporation.
You're not getting tax breaks.
And there are people in New York who think it's a good idea.
Watch this.
If you can ensure job security, yeah.
Uh, but I think making that promise just to receive a tax break would be uh in the unethical vein that we see corporations acting in this day.
Yeah, I believe they should uh simply because uh they make enough money, large corporations, so uh if they get tax breaks, it should be to make sure people remain on their jobs.
Sure, our job security is a great thing.
I believe they should.
Uh jobs are the key.
Uh big companies need incentives to build their business and be able to hire more people.
Sure, I mean that's an idea Bob Rice, I think, has talked about.
And uh I think I tend to agree with that, sure.
No.
I don't think so.
And then a lot of the corporations that are given tax breaks don't live up to their end of the bargain anyway, so I don't see why they deserve any more.
Give the tax breaks where they're needed.
APPLAUSE Thank you, ma'am.
Glad we found a woman in this list, somebody to finally make sense.
All these people, I don't even think they know it.
They're asking for government to be involved in the in the in the corporate and business structure of America, and it's just the absolute wrong way to go.
When we come back, some statistics that will indicate the economy is not nearly as bad as most people think it is.
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Our good friend Jim Glassman has a great column in the Washington Post.
Far from Doomsday is the title.
I've culled some statistics that he cites in this.
I want you to look at this.
Since 1979, 43 million jobs have been lost in America, but 70 million have been created.
Since 1982, the trough of the last serious recession, the number of working Americans has increased 32%.
The gross domestic product has increased 3% annually since the 1990-91 recession.
U.S. job growth in 1994 was the highest in a decade, and inflation is lower than in any other five-year period since the early 1960s.
Now look, we've all heard about the ATT layoffs of 40,000 workers, but check this out.
MCI Communications employment figures.
They had 12,000 employees in 1985.
Today, 48,000.
Sprint communications, other phone company.
Employment figures.
1985, 27,000 employees today, 52,000 employees.
Cable operators and programmers.
1978, they had 24,000 employees.
Look at this today.
112,000 workers.
I mean, we live in a fluid economy.
Things change all the time.
Technological advancement, invention.
Consultants at the WEFA group predict that the new telecommunications deregulation bill alone will add 3.4 million jobs to the U.S. economy in the next 10 years.
Um also was pointed out by Mr. Glassman in this piece.
James Madison in the uh Federalist number 10.
There's nothing wrong with different people earning different amounts of money or having different degrees of wealth as long as there is a good chance for everyone else to rise.
And study after study shows in America still to this day, there is that chance.
Now, here's another great series of statistics.
Social mobility.
Most people think if you're in a middle class, you're there for all your life.
If you're poor, you're poor forever.
If you're rich, you were born that way, and you're gonna stay that way.
It's not true.
People move in and out of these categories all the time.
Americans in the bottom quintile, the lowest fifth of income earners.
1979 versus where they were in 1991.
Only 5% remained at the bottom from 1979 to 91.
59% moved to the top or to the next top quintile.
Over the same 12 years, three eighths of those in the top quintile dropped at least one level.
This is a stunning figure, this one.
Only 5% remained in the same quintile from 1979 through 1981.
There is all sorts of upward mobility.
Now about ATT, it is true that they laid off 40,000 workers.
Are they bad because they laid off 40,000 workers?
Well, look at some of the other things about ATT that you might say is pretty good.
They sharply lowered the cost of making long distance calls.
They've contributed about two billion dollars a year to the treasury in taxes.
ATT has invested billions more in buying equipment from U.S. suppliers, and they've made 2.3 million shareholders more economically secure in their old age.
It is it is the incorrect thing to do to look at layoffs at one company like ATT and to ignore all the other evidence.
To think that this is a static economy that once you start welding, you weld for the rest of your life.
Once you work on an auto assembly line, you do that for the rest of your life.
That is not the U.S. economy.
Never has been.
There's never been the promise that you got job security or a guarantee of a job for the rest of your life.
Never has been, there never will be.
Don't be pessimistic.
You have more control over your destiny than you think.
Most of the limitations that you face are self-imposed, folks.
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