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Dec. 30, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 30, 2005, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program here at the EIB Network at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We are here on the last broadcast day of 2005.
I'm almost reluctant to let go, and I did find out today that this day, this last day of our year, will be longer.
Well, by one second.
But still, you'll have to endure one second more of uh 2005 than you thought on the last day.
This is not the actual last day, but it is the last broadcast day.
And it is uh been a remarkable year.
Now, what I'd like to do today, in addition to the fact that it is uh Friday, and I believe, Mike, that uh we have a s special little song we sing on Friday, right?
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
We're dancing out here, telling you.
I just saw the news in LA.
Twenty feet, twenty-foot surf.
No, don't tell me this is news.
At the beach there's surf.
Hello.
I think we're angling for that federal money.
Declare an emergency.
Surf at the beach.
Ah.
Anyway, welcome to the show and to open line Friday.
Now, here's what I want to do on Open Line Friday today.
I want to focus it because it is the last broadcast day of the year on those stories that you thought and why.
And I'd like to get just get a blast from you on this, uh, were under-reported, not reported, misreported, etc.
Or a story that you liked that was reported that we should remember about 2005.
So let's give it the whole spectrum of stories, from stories that were great stories that should have been uh reme that should be remembered and that you want to emphasize.
Uh bad stories that were reported that we ought to remember as well, maybe bad stories or negative stories or some kind of uh story that was underreported or misreported.
So all of that.
I did get a bunch of interesting feedback from yesterday's story.
We talked, of course, about New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.
Uh Zeb writes, Roger, are you as surprised as I am, Senator Ted Kennedy has not been in New Orleans following Katrina?
He has experience with drowning victims.
Of course, the experience wasn't very positive, is the problem, I guess, uh with that particular observation in this listening audience.
Uh also on the same subject from uh Ralph and Charlotte uh he says, I think the Superdome would have been restored in New Orleans by now if it was privately owned.
I believe if the owner of the Saints also owned the stadium, he would have fixed it by now.
The only reason it hasn't been fixed yet is that the government owners have to come up with plans and schemes to get money.
They will argue about what should be done and where will they get the money and who will be in charge and all of that.
And if it was privately owned, the Superdome, the owner would just get the work done and get his tenants paying rent again and use the facility to make money.
He says, I'm tired of government ownership of things that should be privately held.
Government paralyzes everything it touches.
Hard to argue against uh that.
Um self-serving.
Uh the the best next to rush is this email's title.
Always hope to hear you as you fill in, Roger.
Wish you were national in our area and our future destination, Florida.
Good luck on that move.
The uh New York Times is always entertaining to me because I always know how to read it.
Like I used to know how to read Pravda in the old Soviet days, the Moscow newspaper, where you read between the lines, Pravda means truth in uh Russian, and it's kind of the most ironic title for a newspaper because of course it was an organ of the uh spouting the line of the Communist Party of the uh of the Soviet uh Union.
But uh the uh the New York Times, in a much uh less way, is also the organ of a certain political agenda uh called uh infantile liberalism.
And so their uh their uh you know, their s every day their agenda is on display.
If you know where to look for it.
So here I am.
I love I start actually in the New York Times.
This is a little seek insider's secret here on Talk Radio.
I start with the business page.
Because they don't Understand business, don't like business, hate capitalism, hate Bush, hate everybody who has anything to do with the free market that has produced their prosperity, and therefore I start with that page because it is the page they are least able to mask their agenda.
So here I was not disappointed today.
Here today is this is classic.
Front page of the business section, New York Times headline.
U.S. growth may hinge on businesses.
Now just take the enormity.
Get your arms around the enormity of this statement.
U.S. growth may hinge on business.
Duh.
What did you think it hinged on?
Pluto?
Government?
Michael Jackson?
I mean, what was it that you thought the government that the vis the economy hinged on?
Economic success.
This could only be printed in this kind of infantile liberalism paper.
U.S. growth may hinge on business.
No.
So I read the article because I thought this is going to be something new.
So of course they start out with the liberal agenda.
The housing market is gradually fading as a prop for the economy.
A prop.
An economy that's growing by more than 4% a year.
Nearly the rate, by the way, on average, since Bush came in after 2003, that uh the late 90s produced when the New York Times was trumpeting the best economy ever.
Lower unemployment rate than during the Clinton years.
So they go on.
The bond market is an inverted yield curve suggesting the economy is headed for a sharp slowdown, perhaps a recession.
So then here's this.
So why do most forecasters predict that economic growth will remain relatively strong next year?
In other words, here's the times.
What are they thinking?
We're going into a recession.
It's the Bush recession right before the congressional elections.
It's on my agenda.
It's on my script.
It's got to happen because the Democrats have got to win.
The natural party of power has to get back into power.
That's the script for this year.
So who are these forecasters?
How dare they say that the economy might remain strong?
So they go on.
I just got such a kick out of this.
Reading now from the article.
So how do most forecasters, why do most forecasters predict economic growth will remain relatively strong next year?
Perhaps because they're counting on other sectors that have been relatively weak, particularly stepped up business investment to help sustain the robust expression expansion of the last 30 months.
By the way, the phrase robust expansion in connection with the last 30 months and the economy, that's the first time that has ever been printed in the New York Times.
Okay.
Robust expansion in connection with the economy of the last 30 months.
What are they talking about stepped up business investment?
It's been stepping up now for several years, big time.
So they quote Richard Burner, chief domestic economist for Morgan Stanley, quote, I think the surprise will be that housing prices and housing sales will decelerate, but the economy will do just fine.
How can this be?
The Times cites 53 economists surveyed by blue chip economic indicators, predicting the growth rate in 2006 will drop will not drop much below the 3.7% average so far this year, by the way, it's closer to four.
Then they go on to say, but this outlook also assumes that consumer spending, deprived of the lift from rising home prices and mortgage refinancing will not drop very much.
They just can't get it.
They can't stand it.
Business, those evil businesses are investing.
They're producing more jobs, they're producing more wealth, and they're depriving us of the recession that we need to get Democrats back into office.
You could tell while I was laughing.
This set off my whole morning.
And this put it all in perspective.
Something you won't read still in the New York Times.
An op-ed piece I got emailed to me by a friend by a doctor serving in Iraq.
Captain James Eady, MD in the U.S. Air Force.
A captain.
He is a Harvard Medical School trained emergency Physician.
He's stationed in San Antonio in the Air Force in his home base, currently deployed to the three hundred thirty second Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Flight, Balad Air Base, Iraq.
He writes.
The emergency rooms in Iraq can be eerily quiet or can suddenly explode into a flurry of action, like the day a Bradley troop carrier was hit by a roadside bomb engulfing the occupants in flame and twisted metal.
As an emergency physician, these are the days I trained for but dread to see.
The tent hospital shook as the Blackhawk helicopters landed with seven injured soldiers.
They had blast injuries from the explosion, shrapnel wounds, and extensive burns across their arm, arms, legs, and faces.
The sight was horrific.
I focused on one soldier who was the most severely injured.
His face, arms, and legs were severely burned.
His gloves were welded to his fingers by the heat, though he remained conscious and able to talk.
His concern was for his men.
He asked over and over, how are they doing?
I encouraged him to hang on.
I told him his men were in good hands and getting the care they needed, everything would be all right.
I desperately wanted to believe that, but my experience as a physician told me otherwise.
Before he was placed on a ventilator, he recalled that the Bradley had been hit.
The large troop door was damaged and could not be opened, trapping the men inside, the only escape through a small front door.
What he didn't tell me, but we later learned was that he had gotten out with minimal burns, but went back into the vehicle to rescue his trapped comrades.
This soldier had suffered severe burns in the process of single handedly saving the lives of his fellow soldiers.
Despite our efforts, he died days later.
He had given his life to save others.
As one of the doctors later captured it, we met a hero last night.
This doctor goes on to write, I often reflect during the holidays on the classic story of George Bailey in the movie It's a Wonderful Life.
I too find myself standing at that metaphoric bridge, wondering if I've made a difference here in Iraq.
Is the poignant story still valid?
The answer for me is a resounding yes.
I met the first of many heroes on the night of that Bradley incident.
The courage and sacrifice of this soldier is not isolated.
It is the norm here, a daily occurrence.
What I have witnessed has profoundly affected me, and I was completely unprepared for it.
Why had I never heard these stories back home?
As a physician in a stateside military hospital, certainly I should have heard these stories, but either I had not listened or more likely, they were not told.
The news that I was accustomed to at home seems but a shell of what I see before me out here.
Every day here, I meet ordinary men and women displaying profound compassion for each other and doing extraordinary things.
I cared for a Marine who dived on a grenade, shielding his men from the blast and saving their lives.
He lost his hand, took multiple shrapnel wounds, and was in critical condition, yet all he wanted to know was how his comrades were doing.
I spoke with another Marine who stayed on patrol during the Iraqi constitutional election instead of seeking medical attention for a gunshot wound in his arm inflicted two days earlier.
When I asked him why he had delayed medical attention, he said the election was the next day.
He had a job to do and he would not let his men down.
His arm could wait.
Before I deployed to Iraq, I opened the newspaper and saw little of these kinds of heroic acts.
Where are the front page stories on my fellow soldiers and marines?
I wish the public and the policymakers could look into the eyes of these soldiers.
Um, he writes.
Uh and sailors and airmen and marines and see what I see, hope and commitment.
I see it every day.
They have burned hope behind their eyes, deep compassion in their hearts, and a steadfast belief that each one is here making a difference.
As I celebrate the holiday season here in Iraq, he finishes, I am filled with a great sense of wonder and appreciation for what our men and women in uniform have volunteered to do.
They have answered the call of their country, and they have served with dignity, pride, and honor.
This holiday season I do not need to watch.
It's a wonderful life.
I've come face to face with many George Bowser.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, filling in for Rush and taking your calls right after the Andre.
Uh Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush Limbaugh back next week, of course, as we open up uh here at the Limbaugh Institute, yet another great year in uh radio broadcasting in two thousand six, and what a great year it's gonna be.
You need to be right here for all of the information you're gonna need to negotiate these uh these waters.
By the way, uh, even though Arnold Schwarzenegger's name has come down off of the gym in Graz, Austria, as a result of their unhappiness at the execution of uh Tukey Williams, you remember the uh anti-death penalty folks.
I guess they're pro-death penalty when the criminals kill people, but they're anti-death penalty when we seek justice against the criminals.
That's sort of the Austrian mindset.
Uh but uh Arnold did the right thing.
He sent him a letter saying, Take my name off it.
You want to object to it?
Tough.
Take my name off and stop using me to get tourists to come to your town and spend a lot of money.
Done.
So they had to.
The name is still on, however, at the Arnold Classic Gym in Baghdad.
The Arnold Classic Gym in Baghdad.
There are apparently a number of these gym across across uh you know, you can tell when things are starting to return to normal.
When guys show up for their workout.
You know, that you can tell it's just one of those little things that tells you that things are getting back to normal.
All right, two your calls and uh what you think about the stories of two thousand five and where you think of going in two thousand six.
Here's Bradley and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Hi, Bradley, welcome to the Rush program.
Hi, thank you for having me.
I'm uh first time caller.
Thank you.
Um I I wanted to uh uh just mention that I I think uh being a conservative, I definitely recognize like most of your audience does that there's such a lack of reporting in regards to the lot of the hard work that's being done uh both in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as down in uh New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina.
And as a National Guardsman, I had the opportunity to go down and help for a month uh with the cleanup efforts down there.
And uh I recently saw a report on ABC uh talking about the Coast Guard and how they they do roughly fifty, five hundred rescues a year, uh, and that's on average.
And after Hurricane Katrina, they had done uh well over thirty thousand.
Wow.
And uh it's just a small example of the hard work and dedication of the people that are down there helping out.
And it's such a you know, there's so much work to be done, but there's still people working and giving everything they have to help.
You mean you expected that to be reported.
Say again.
You you expected that to be reported.
Absolutely, but uh I mean I I until I was turned on to your show, I really couldn't stand watching or hearing any kind of news because it it it was politically motivated and not based on facts.
Yeah, I think that's a good thing.
And I get that listening to your show.
Well, I appreciate that because uh when Russia's here, obviously we all get that.
Uh and I I tell you what, uh uh w if you only listened to certain outlets of the media that we've discussed here, uh, you would think that Bush deliberately murdered black people uh down there, that he blew up the levees, uh that he withheld uh water, uh that uh people were murdered in the Superdome because Bush couldn't get there in time, that he flew over and just looked down like some Louis the the 14th figure waving at people dying.
Uh that's that would have been the story.
Except of course, it wasn't the story.
Not even not even close, not even on the same uh pr uh planet.
So Bradley, I appreciate your coming to that conclusion.
The purpose of this program is to get more and more people to come to that conclusion that there is a lot more than what you see in the elite media, and now there are alternative ways to get information where you can get around that liberal agenda, that infantile liberalism, and come to uh, you know, some kind of fact-based news uh on this program, on a lot of other programs on uh the the net uh in the blogs, etc.
Anyway, Bradley, welcome to the program.
We appreciate you and appreciate your being here.
Here's Chris in Overland Park, uh, Kansas.
Chris, welcome to the Rush program.
How are you doing, Roger?
Good.
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year to you, sir.
Thank you.
Uh, I would just uh, you know, with the internet, it's kind of interesting to me why uh there and and here's the the here's the point.
Uh there's this is a new uh place for an opportunity or make a bunch of money.
Uh come up with a newsmax type internet site.
Only have uh uh soldiers tell their story.
I think that's a great s that is a great idea.
And you know, why it hasn't been.
And and you know, get the word out.
And you know, then they start branching out into all sorts of areas that the elite media just won't give us.
Now You know, that that's a heck of an idea.
A number of blog sites, of course, have come up uh in the last couple of uh years, and one of those on which we had nothing but just letters from the troops would be a heck of a sight, I think, but based on this letter I just read, which I could hardly get through, of course, without without being emotionally involved in it, I gotta tell you that uh that is an absolutely great idea.
Okay, so we will do that.
Um and uh we'll talk about that.
Hey, a lot more news going on today than I figured there would be.
So we're gonna get to it on the border on the economy on the cloning scam.
Where do you hear this one?
So stay with us back after this.
Welcome back to the EIB network, the Rush Limbaugh program.
Roger Hedgecock at KOGO Radio in San Diego filling in today, the last broadcast day of the year, and we're looking for you on this open line Friday.
What do you think about the stories of 2005, the individuals who stood out, the uh stories that were underreported, misreported, uh the stories that were that we should that were reported that we should remember the good stories and the bad as well.
So we're opening it up to you and maybe your best prediction for 2006 as well.
Here's BJ and University Place, Washington, is it?
Hello there, welcome to the Rush Program.
Good morning, Roger.
Hi.
Um one thing that just has me steamed, and I think it's uh just been really under reported, is the problem with the leaks within the administration.
And I think the Valerie Flame thing, I think it put them on the defensive and I I'm worried that they're not they're not investigating them because they're worried it's gonna come and it's gonna be some one of their own.
And I don't really think that it's their own if it's somebody that's leaking and it's a national security threat.
And I think people haven't been really pushing the issue.
Well, there's breaking news on this.
Uh in fact, uh, in the last couple of moments, the Justice Department uh has announced it has opened an investigation regarding the recent leaks about the classified domestic surveillance program run by the National Security Agency.
The leaking of that program to the New York Times, their story first ran on December sixteenth, uh, and uh then CNN and others were uh were uh going with it as well.
There will be an investigation now of the unauthorized disclosure of classified uh information here and uh the Bush administration is opening it up.
In fact, they should have a statement from the Bush administration here during the program, so stand by what about the uh prisons?
And that's the other one, the uh Well, they're already in they're already investigating that, and the prison thing was w was pretty funny.
They the the media, the Times and others had figured out that there was a Romanian air base where the CIA was torturing people.
And they flew they flew over and dropped in on this airbase unannounced, and of course the airbase has got a couple of people on it that they're going, the what the who?
And of course there was nothing there.
So no, there's already an investigation of that.
Uh but in terms of the leaking of it, I don't know.
But the the the leaking the the more serious leaking here, because the the the torture thing was made up, the rendition issue was kind of made up since the first rendition that is taking people to allowing them to be taken to other countries for torture or or uh uh you know interrogation.
Uh that's that's been done throughout the Clinton administration, apparently, and again, no no excuse if it's illegal, but it isn't.
Yeah.
If another nation has an interest in the person and requests, just like we do all the time in the U.S., we request people to be sent to the U.S. for trial or for interrogation because of the our interests are involved as well as some other countries.
Yes, it's never been if it's right or wrong.
It's uh somebody's leaking this information.
Somebody's leaking, I agree.
Yeah.
And that's and I'm hoping that even though the the Bush administration got hit hard with the plane thing, that they're not going to and it sounds like they are investigating it now, which I'm it's the first I've heard about it because it's it's just driving me insane that just got to share up their house.
I agree.
No, it just came over the wire and it is going to be investigated.
Uh there is gonna be as much uh emphasis put on this as was put on the other one, because uh and I don't know I don't agree with you that the plane thing made uh the Bush administration uh look bad.
The fact is that uh well the other day, just to show you where I think this plane thing actually fits in the news of two thousand five, one of their five year old twins while uh Mr. Wilson was being interviewed in a in an airport, uh one of their five year old twins, a young boy, piped up and said, uh, my daddy's famous and my mommy's a spy.
Uh to the interviewer.
So I don't I don't know, I'm kind of just put that in that uh perspective.
Now, look, I want to look ahead to 2006 as well, and uh and give you some of my and see if you think my predictions will be on point.
First of all, I believe that this is going to shake up both Democrats and Republicans, the front runners for the presidential nomination of 2008, and uh, you know, this will be the year when all of those things start to gel, 2006 will be, uh, will be Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
Now I'm not saying which party.
But but I am saying I think it's Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
Um Iraq is still going to be the central issue in 2006, no big predictive powers on that.
But whatever happens in Iraq, civil war, Islamic State, uh fledgling democracy, capitalism, whatever it is on the spectrum of possibilities that have been raised about the future of Iraq, I think what'll become clear in 2006 is that it'll be up to the Iraqis.
It's going to be up to the Iraqis.
And that's going to be something very important.
Now, what will Bush get as is increasingly lame duck, and of course there'll be a big push to make him more lame duck than than anybody's ever been in a second term.
But I bet you, I think Bush does get tax reforms.
He does get spending restraint because how else are Republicans going to win elections in 2006?
We will get illegal immigration, strengthened borders with Mexico, and a lot more on the Canadian border as well.
And I think that uh the Republicans will hold the House and the Senate.
And uh let me go way out on a limb here, because I've been wishing and uh beyond wishing, I think it's factually possible, more than likely this year than ever, that uh Fidel Castro may finally shuffle off the stage in Cuba and give that oppressed nation its first chance in uh forty-five years for freedom.
So a couple of my uh 2006 picks.
Let's see what yours are.
Jeremiah in Kansas City is next.
Jeremiah, welcome to the Rush program.
Hey Rogers, good to talk with you.
Hey, thanks for calling.
Yeah.
Um my point, I I just wanted to uh kind of compare uh the press and how they they responded to uh Clinton uh with how they're responding to Bush.
Um the the few military operations that that Clinton was involved in, I I don't remember all the names of them, but I I do seem to remember the press uh using the same names and uh and kind of being on the same page with Clinton.
However, with Bush, one thing that I I hear a lot, but I haven't really heard anybody talk about was how every time you hear Bush talk, you hear him refer to the war on terror, and uh when you hear the press, every time I turn on the evening news, it's the war in Iraq.
And as if it's you know, not a worldwide effort.
Well, there was a world of difference.
Look, I mean this been documented by Rush so many times here, there's a world of difference because we go into Kosovo, there was no United Nations approval, number one.
There was n there was no there was no even NATO approval.
Uh we go in there unilaterally, uh the press loves it.
Then we pull all our punches trying to help the poor Kosovars who then turn around and burn down all the Christian churches in in Kosovo.
I mean, it was just a complete uh foobar all the way around, okay?
So Jeremiah, I gotta tell you that uh uh it's it's absolutely correct, and we better learn to live with it.
We're not gonna change the infantile liberalism of the uh of the elite media.
What we are gonna do is change the information that average Americans get because here and elsewhere, uh there's going to be alternative information that you're going to be able to get as a consumer of information and make up your own mind.
Yep.
Yeah, I appreciate the call.
Uh now on the economy, I did get feedback as well.
Here's this from Bob.
Subject Economy Sucks.
Quote, I am in software and this has been the worst year in a long time.
The worst this has been the worst years in a long time.
The work is not plentiful, not are people willing to pay anything but the bottom of the barrel prices.
Now, obviously, Bob is a recent graduate of the public school K-12 system and does not have spell check.
Or grammar check.
Or uh if he's writing code, I bet there's a reason why nobody wants to buy it.
I'm gonna read this sentence again, Bob.
The work is not plentiful, not are people willing to pay anything but the bottom of the barrel prices.
Good grief.
He says, I have not seen a salary increase more than the cost of living in years.
I have even had to endure a ten thousand dollar pay cut after 9-11 and have not recovered.
So when I hear about the great economy, all I think about is weight.
Huh.
Uh all my expenses have gone up and my salary stays flat.
I measure inflation at about 10%.
Um everything from taxes to milk have gone up.
Everything from taxes to milk have gone up.
Look, uh, there's a reason, Bob, why you aren't making any money.
You're adult.
You are adult.
You are a semi-illiterate adult, and in any uh society, you're not going to be getting ahead.
However, as you look around, you understand that people who paid attention to grammar uh and class and are literate are doing much better.
I did get feedback as well from Longa Sai, I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly, Longisai Ecuador.
Ludwig writes, and I got this call yesterday from this farmer in Oregon, the wheat farmer member he was so down, and I even counseled him to change careers.
I mean, I didn't like to see the guy be so negative and pessimistic.
So he says, uh Roger, that farmer from Oregon is right about the environmentalists.
As far as the wheat market, what you should tell him is that he should diversify his crops.
He has to continue farming.
That is his life.
Well, if he's going to continue farming, you better find some way to make wheat a paying crop for him or diversify, because he's stuck now in a rut and very pessimistic, and I'd uh it was it was hard to listen to that conversation.
If you're pessimistic this year, in the best economy that probably this country has ever experienced, I don't know what's gonna happen when a recession inevitably does come at some point in time.
There'll be some combination of goof ups by somebody that'll lead to some uh overreaction, underreaction, whatever, so that you get uh some kind of recession.
It's inevitable.
That's the way the business cycle works.
We haven't repealed it.
What are what is you know, there's look, here's the bottom line for me.
There's no survival, there's no survival in pessimism.
It isn't the American way.
If you're in a rut, if you're stuck, here's a resolution for you for New Year's.
Get out of it.
Get optimistic.
Get new training, get new job, get new you know, get get yourself going.
And and first of all, get an attitude that you can do it.
Oh, by the way, we had a request on the uh starting a military blog to get all of these letters from uh our soldiers and sailors and marines and airmen in the in the front when they send these uh incredible letters like the one I read in the last segment uh back to the U.S. There is one.
I have to go up and look at this, but I just got this flashed to me.
Military blog directory at millblogging.com.
Millblogging to G's, millblogging.com.
So if you want to check that out and see if that's uh sufficient or we should start our own.
But I agree with you, these messages from these soldiers are so right on.
There ought to be some way we can access them in an organized way.
All right, Roger Hitchcock in for Rush with a short break back after this.
I love this story out of Dallas, Texas.
A new Dallas public library code of conduct has been enacted, and homeless advocates are upset.
That's because in case you've noticed, haven't noticed, uh downtown or central libraries in most American cities are giant homeless shelters.
In Dall, at least they are here in San Diego.
The Dallas rules prohibit a variety of activities, including sleeping, eating, bathing, loud talking bathing in the library, loud talking on cell phones, fighting, bare feet, and having sex.
Now, you know, there's a there's some there's got to be some kind of right to privacy of these homeless people to do whatever they want to do.
The urban outdoorsmen have rights too.
You can just see this lawsuit coming a mile away.
We've got uh what, a 200 million dollar central library in San Diego when we don't have any money to fund anything else that they're still promoting in San Diego when uh all it is, of course, is a glorified not all it is, but too much of what it is is a glorified uh homeless shelter, and I think Dallas is having apparently the same problem.
Let's get to Jack and speaking of callers from San Diego, here's Jack.
Hi, Jack, welcome to co to the uh I was gonna say Kogo, where you usually come.
Hi, Jack.
Oh, happy New Year's Roger.
I want to give you my uh prediction for two thousand six.
Shoot.
On uh or about March twentieth of next year, there will be a preemptive strike on Iran.
And here's the part that we have to worry about.
It's been almost four years since Iran has been labeled as part of the axis of evil.
That's given them four years to plant sleeper cells inside the United States, and state sponsored terrorism can be a lot more devastating than terrorism by rogue agents like Al Qaeda.
Well, there's no question about that.
Well, because they would have access to the material to make say a dirty bomb.
I understand.
What you're suggesting, Jack, is that there will be some kind of preemptive strike and the Iranians have a the capability of striking back.
Well, and they've had four years to prepare, and and the reason why I pick March twentieth is because that's the date that Iran has announced that they're going to start selling oil for Euros, not dollars.
Interesting.
Well, I don't know, and you know it's an interesting, we will put this down, by the way, in the uh great uh uh projections for two thousand six and and and I guess my only feeling is that I think there is a nation more immediately threatened by Iran than we are,
who has uh made some statements there, military people made statements in Israel uh this week with regard to uh the likelihood of a bomb in Iran, an atomic bomb being uh ready to go and missiles that could strike Israel.
Uh I think they're going to act before we do.
Well, and you may be right.
Uh the preemptive strike will come, uh maybe from Israel, it may be by the United States, it may be joint.
Interesting.
Well, it's a chilling thought, Jack.
I appreciate the call.
Something obviously does have to be done.
Here's Bill in Trumbull, Connecticut.
Bill, welcome to the Rush Program.
Hello, Roger.
How are you?
Good, and you.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Uh well, it's what it's called about.
I go back and we can step back uh a couple of callers to the uh news media and the Clinton administration and how they reported or should I say not report on any of the military actions that Clinton was involved in.
There was little or no information that you ever saw in the major media concerning what they were doing in Bosnia for all those years, what was going on in uh Haiti.
I know we had a military presence there for most of the Clinton administration.
Never knew what the people were doing down there, never saw any interviews, never saw anything from the military uh people there, and we had no idea what Clinton was doing uh in Iraq.
I mean, every once in a while you hear that he bombed somebody.
Yeah, well, but there was there was coverage, Bill, but I think what your point is there wasn't the skeptical coverage.
There wasn't this coverage that starts with the presumption that the Dolt in the White House doesn't know what he's doing and he's probably uh doing something illegal, and it's our uh uh duty to find it out and expose him before the public.
They didn't have that frame of mind in terms of uh Clinton, and in that respect you're absolutely right.
Yeah, that's true.
You're a correct I appreciate the call.
We're gonna take a short break on the Rush program, back right after this.
I know most of us hated to face it, but George Bush in 2005 was even right about social security.
In just a couple of years, the revenues from Social Security tax will not cover the overpromising we have done uh in this fund over the years, we Americans through our Congress, uh both parties.
And it is a uh sh it is a monster that's gonna just chomp us in a couple of years when uh we realize there's no surplus of social security.
We've been using the surplus to fund general fund things for so many years.
That's kind of fading now, and there will be in a few years uh the need to take all the Social Security revenues to meet the promises we've made.
And then in a few years after that to have to dip into the general fund to go back the other way in terms of and how are we gonna do that?
With where we have promised everything else, too.
So the um John uh James Lockhart, who's the Deputy Commissioner of Social Security Administration, has said, quote, we have overpromised.
Duh!
No kidding.
Uh I got time for Jim, don't I?
In Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
No, I don't.
Jim, you you hang on, Jim, because I'm going to have time for you in the next hour.
And we're going to get into this.
My favorite story of non-reporting, under-reporting, misreporting is the economy, and I want to get back to that and what's going on in it.
And take your calls too at 1-800-282-2882, as uh Roger Hitchcock sits in for Rush Limbaugh, who'll be back, of course, next um next week as we begin, all of us here at the Limbaugh Institute, as we begin another great year in 2006.
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