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March 22, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 22, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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One of the things in the president's press conference yesterday that just wigged out the media is this quote.
Our commitment to Iraq.
Well, that'll uh that'll that'll be decided by future presidents.
Uh future governments of Iraq, Mr. Bush said at his uh press conference.
Um if I didn't believe we could succeed, I wouldn't be here.
I wouldn't put those kids there.
So basically, the the Democrats and the media have been demanding that the president level with the American people.
Have they not?
He must level with the American.
Now what they mean by that, and what they've always meant by that is the president's got to tell the American people that we suck, that we're losing, that it was a mistake, we should never have gone there, and we don't have any reason to take this country at war and to bring the troops home.
That's what leveling with the American, that's their definition of it.
And what did Bush do?
He basically said, Hey, we're gonna be there through at least 2009, because that's when he leaves office in January of 2009.
And uh so basically, uh he just stuck it right to him.
Level with the American people.
Get out.
Admit it's a mistake, admit it's wrong, so we can impeach you.
No, we're gonna be here.
This is this and by the way, it's not news.
There was no news made yesterday in this regard.
He's always said that this would be a long entanglement and that it would probably outlast uh a two-term presidency of his.
Senate Minority Leader Dingy Harry Reed said that Bush was signaling an open-ended commitment that was never contemplated or approved by the American people.
Uh well, that you're changing the argument here, Dingy Harry.
Vote to bring them home, then.
I mean, that's you you can you really do this.
You can vote to bring them home.
You can vote to cut off the funding, sir.
If the president's lying about it, if he sees he's now got an open-ended commitment like this, and the American people were lied to, and they were never in for this, well, then cut the funding.
If you don't like the spy program, cut the funding.
Demand the program be pulled back.
Harris poll released last week found that 46% of Americans say the situation in Iraq is getting worse for U.S. troops.
10% more than in December.
The poll also found that 48% said invading Iraq was a bad decision compared with 37% who said that it was uh it was not.
And so the it's it's it's amazing that liberals and conservatives hear things uh differently, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Bush, for example, the president said at his at his uh press conference, it will be up to uh future presidents to determine when we leave.
Now, to people like me and most normal people in this country, what that meant was we're gonna stay the course.
We're gonna finish the job and we're gonna win.
That's what I heard the president say.
To liberals, when they hear the president say it's gonna be up to a future president to determine the Iraqis when we leave.
They hear that and they say that means we're gonna impeach this SOB and we're gonna cut and run a week later with dignity.
So I just it's amazing how these groups hear different things.
I'm sure you've heard about this, but if you haven't, the Bush administration yesterday appealed to Afghanistan to spare the life of a man facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity, but said the matter was one of the Afghan government and courts to decide.
In a case that has sparked international outrage.
The remarks of Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Nicholas Burns, were in sharp contrast to condemnations of the trial by lawmakers and by leading European allies.
Briefing reporters with Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah at his side, Mr. Byrne said the U.S. government was watching the case of Abdul Rahman closely, but added, this case is not in the competence of the U.S. government.
It's under the competence of the Afghan authorities.
Well, we need the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.
Use foreign law to decide cases here.
We need to use U.S. law to decide cases there.
You know, this really is uh it's it's an outrage and it's a shame, but it's also instructive.
Uh you convert to Christianity from Islam, and it's a death sentence.
It's the death penalty.
When you look at all the United States has done in recent years to ensure the safety and sovereignty of Muslims, not just in Afghanistan and Iraq, but Bosnia.
Look at the number of troops, human beings, American citizens that we have committed to the cause to free oppressed Muslims from oppression.
Uh it's it's striking uh when you when you when you see the uh extremism of that ideology.
I know that people get caught up in this being a religion, and it is.
I mean, there's make no mistake about it, but the people we're at war with are are masking their ideology as a religion to sort of protect it from uh being attacked or being criticized or being hit.
But uh this is this is something I think the United States ought to take a little bit firmer roll on.
Maybe we are behind the scenes rather than doing it uh publicly.
Have you um any thoughts, uh, Mr. Snerdley on uh Gallup and CNN parting ways?
Have you heard about this?
Well, let me explain what you know the the Gallup poll.
They've got two partners out there.
They've got CNN and they've got USA Today.
So that's why it's called the USA Today CNN Gallup Poll.
Well, yesterday, a fireworks storm of controversy erupted because a secret memo written by the CEO of the Gallup poll was released by an employee to some news agency, and it ended up on Drudge.
It was a leak.
It was a leak.
And the uh the upshot of it is that the the CEO of the Gallup group saying, you know, we don't have enough prestige being associated with CNN anymore.
They don't have enough audience.
Their audience has gotten so small, it's dropped so much that we don't get any impact.
Um in fact, the poll is not even thought of as ours.
It's thought as a CNN poll or the USA Today poll, and but it's not worth it.
Now we love USA Today.
They're the largest circulation paper in the world, including the journal and the New York Times.
They got plenty of international coverage.
We love that.
So we're gonna we're not gonna affiliate with just one network anymore.
We're gonna start our own e-network, and we're gonna send our polsters out to be guests on every network to discuss our poll to give our poll more prominence.
Well, this list lit a fire over there at CNN because they claim it's the exact opposite.
They claim that they've been in negotiations to extend this for the last four months, and basically they say that this guy is unprofessional and he's lying to his staff that the truth is that CNN was overshadowing Gallup, and that Gallup was upset that nobody knew it was the Gallup poll.
That when they watch Bill Schneider dissect the poll, they think it's a CNN poll.
CNN USA Today Gallup poll is how it's portrayed.
And the Gallup poll wants the credit for themselves.
They got this nice little argument going on between these two liberal companies, with one accusing the other of lying.
I guess they're both accusing the other of lying.
But now Bill Schneider's without a poll, folks.
Bill Schneider doesn't have a poll.
Uh and I feel so bad for Bill.
His job, he's the political side.
He's his job is to analyze the poll, the polling data, and he's been using Gallup, and now what are they going to do?
They're gonna have to form their own polling unit if he's gonna have a poll.
Bill Bill Schneider didn't have a poll.
It's like saying I don't have a microphone.
All right, folks, more news about Dubai.
I love This type of stuff.
Construction on a skyscraper, expected to be the world's tallest, was interrupted when Asian workers upset over low wages and poor treatment smashed cars and offices in a riot that an official said Wednesday caused nearly one million dollars in damage.
The stoppage triggered a sympathy strike at Dubai International Airport with thousands of laborers building a new terminal, also laying down their tools.
Well, we're even exporting liberalism over to Dubai as well as to China.
And I I wanted to pass this story on because I know so many of you people want Dubai to just get stuck.
So when anybody sticks it to Dubai, I'll tell you about it.
All right, Sonya is uh in Spring, Texas.
Welcome, Sonya.
Nice to have you with us.
Yes, thank you, Raj.
Uh Raj, I want to talk about maybe three or four points really briefly, and then maybe you could expand on them.
But the first thing is that the administration and howitz has been sponsoring the Shiats all this time, and they have not produced anything.
We have not seen any governments yet.
I think the pressure should be put on them so that all major and minor groups of Iraqis are going to unite, and we want one Iraq with nobody.
We need to discourage anybody that's trying to cut a part of this and a part of that.
I remember in the eighties when uh Iran was trying to uh interfere, and they are doing this now again, and it seems like it's amazing.
Nobody even cares anymore, and nobody is putting the pressure on the gro on this group and telling them that this not this is not a good idea.
You're talking about you're talking about the Shia.
Yes, because there's a misconception about the Sunnis, and not every Sunni is behind uh the criminal Saddam or behind his group.
Okay, very Sonya, very give me your other three points, because I I I'm I'm just waiting to launch here on the one you just mentioned.
What are you doing?
The other the the point was the misconception about the Sunnis and the other thing about the troops and when they should leave.
And the thing it boils down to uh another point, and that is what we always talk here about uh when is the best time to leave and what is the best thing here for the people here?
And I could understand that.
The other question is what's good for the Iraqis?
what is good has been happening to them and to their daily lives.
That is an interesting point because we've been talking all day today about media coverage of this war and how one-sided it is and you know the The media never talks about how good it is for the Iraqis.
Okay.
Yep, they they always talk about how the Iraqis are getting killed and murdered and uh these roadside bombs, and they they make it sound like the Iraqis have no desire for us to be there.
They want us to get out of there.
Um there's there's you're right.
There's no concern for the welfare of the future of Iraq as reported by the media, so it doesn't show up in the polls of the American people.
They do flavor it.
You're right.
What do we want?
Do you think we should pull troops out of there?
Let me say this.
Uh let's put the media aside, because people need to think for themselves.
People need to start thinking, and nobody has to point out this or point out that.
Because when you see what's going on, and when you hear, especially people that have families there, I know the administration, I know they're trying to encourage women and women in business and all kinds of things, and this is good.
But the reality there is these groups of people are gonna be forced to uh people are gonna open their eyes on them, they're gonna be targeted and maybe killed, and even worse.
Ferten and their family members.
There is a lot of things that are happening now that is making the families and their lives very, very hard.
Sadly, sadly, one uh one of the things uh that has been overlooked, and one of the many reasons that was stated for going to Iraq was the humanitarian aspect of it.
The liberation of a people that had been subjected to beheadings and murders.
I don't know if people have heard the stories of uh women in Iraq, uh two hundred of them uh total had been uh beheaded and their heads placed on the front doors of their homes, ordered by Saddam Hussein for sexual indiscretions.
And it was a warning to all other women and the men who lived in those homes, their husbands, and in some cases their fathers.
And so the the uh the humanitarian aspects of this have have not been much considered all because of the straw dog of weapons of mass destruction.
Uh there weren't any weapons of mass destruction.
Bush lied, that has become the the whole template.
But I want to go back to your first point, because interestingly enough, there is a uh fascinating little column today in the New York Sun by a man named Joshua Golertner, who is a hascruel student in Woodbridge, Connecticut.
And I'm gonna I'm gonna read excerpts of this to you because he's got a he's got a solution for what's going exactly what you tell you.
You say there's no statesman that has arisen amongst the Shia or anywhere in Iraq that can actually call us a government.
And this is going to serve, I think, as an interesting history lesson to people because I'm I'm convinced, uh, particularly if you're under thirty, that American history education, if you went to public schools, has not really taught you what I'm going to share with you from uh Joshua Gilertner's piece.
It's oriented around the concept of what do we do to establish an actual functioning government in Iraq?
Because there's a political crisis there.
After these recent elections, they formed a new government, but they had precious little representation for the Sunni minority.
And there are similarities to our own founding.
The puzzle of how to protect sovereignty where majority rule clashes with minority rights is hardly new.
Another group of political leaders went through a similar struggle in the eighteenth century, and the result was the United States constitution.
Many uh compromises had to be reached in order to bring the country together.
One seems particularly appropriate to the current situation in Iraq, the aptly named Great Compromise, which led to the creation of a bicameral Congress.
Delegates from every state but Rhode Island met in 1787 to draft a new constitution to replace the ineffective articles of confederation.
Shea's rebellion, which was an uprising of veterans who had lost their property during the Revolutionary War, showed that a strong central government was necessary to safeguard popular welfare.
The rebellion was put down not by government troops, but by mercenaries hired by the merchants who saw their businesses threatened.
At the Constitutional Convention, delegates argued over how strong the federal government should be and how to guarantee states' rights.
One struggle centered on representation in Congress.
Large states, afraid of being dominated by small states, wanted representation keyed to population and wanted majority rule protected.
Small states, afraid of being dominated by large states, wanted equal representation for each state and wanted minority rights protected.
Eventually the convention settled on a two-house Congress.
One house to protect majority rule, the other to protect minority rights.
Each house would have the power to keep the check, uh keep the other in check.
The same system might uh work well in Iraq.
One house would be organized as the Iraqi Parliament is today, with a member of Parliament for every constituency and all constituencies of roughly equal population.
In the other house, each of the three dominant religious groups would have an equal voice.
Each house would act as a check on the other.
Shiites would have their rights as a majority preserved, Sunnis and courage would have their rights as minorities protected.
Civil war might could be averted, and American troops could move on to Iran.
This is Joshua Galertner, again, a high school student in uh in Woodbridge, Connecticut.
Uh now, I'm sure you heard that, Sonya, and I don't know how familiar you are with uh uh our founding here and the establishment of our bicameral Congress.
But what how how did that sound to you?
Well, what it sounds like I we uh the I think every uh sincere Iraqi will reject and I uh can't say it enough, reject any thing that says this is the Sunni and this is the Shia.
I understand that uh this is the now there is uh they call it a majority Shia.
We need first to calm down everybody, calm down the the heart and calm down the minds, and tell everybody that and not tell I don't know which way they need to think about.
Well, but see that's the that's the call Iraq.
That's the point of this piece.
There was a lot of commotion and discord at the founding of this country, and it's taken us took us a lot longer to get to where Iraq is today.
Took us much longer than it's taken them.
Uh but the point is this is a way to calm down some of these uh hearts and some of the minds, because you do have a bunch of people scared to death they're not gonna be represented fairly.
They're gonna be trounced and dominated, and you have that in in every uh uh society where you have majorities and minorities.
And this is a way of dealing with it and giving them uh rep representation.
It's an idea, it's a high school student who obviously understands American history.
It's cool.
I wanted to pass it on to you.
That's right, my friends, a man, a legend, a way of life, learn it, love it, live it, serving humanity, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
And this show doing more than any other show to continue to ferret out news on Dubai and the port deal.
And when we find it, we are the first to pass it on to you.
Now, a lot of you on hold, and they've got great things you want to talk about, but I there's something, two things here that I have to mention.
Um about immigration.
President Bush yesterday said that illegal aliens, even longtime residents with families, should not get automatic citizenship as part of any new guest worker program.
He said if people in the party believe that, they ought to stand up and say it about the Democrats and the domestic wiretapping and so forth.
Uh and but he he made a point here as for the issue of what happens to the estimated 12 million illegal aliens already here, including longtime residents with families and roots.
The president said that they should not be able to jump in line ahead of those who have waited legally for citizenship.
And then this whole concept of a guest worker program comes up.
Now I've cited the work uh on several previous occasions on this program of the economist Robert Samuelson, who writes among other places at the Washington Post, he's a columnist, and he has an absolutely excellent piece today on this whole notion of guest workers.
And you know, this is this is one of the problems that for the Republican Party.
You've got half the Republican Party wants no part of illegal immigration and want to get tough on it and uh and and crack down.
It's illegal.
You have another part of the party, the uh the uh elements of the business community who keep saying, okay, look, if you get rid of these workers, these guest workers, this illegals, then the price of your food's gonna skyrocket, the price of this product's gonna skyrocket.
Because these are people that are doing jobs that Americans consider beneath them and won't do it for what we were willing what we're willing to pay.
Well, of course, the answer to that is then pay them more.
Rather than support an illegal immigration program at what are considered to be much lower wages.
But Samuelson tackles this whole issue today in an interesting way with some historical empirical data.
Economist Philip Martin of the University of California likes to tell a story about the state's tomato industry in the early 60s.
And by the way, this immigration I once my grandfather was born in the 1890s.
And when I first started this program back in 1988, uh I was home in Missouri and I was talking to him, and he said, What uh what's the big discussion uh what's going on on your program?
It's immigration.
And it was back.
I forget specifically what it was, but immigration was big back then.
He's he laughed at me, so you know, this is never going to change.
I remember my high school debate topic in the early 1900s, was resolved the United States should close off European immigration.
And I said, What was the uh problem?
Uh, the country thought that uh the Europeans coming into the country just were trash.
Everybody's white trash, didn't want them in the country.
This has always been the case.
We've had an immigration problem.
I said, but was it illegal?
Well, no, we were he said that that that's that's point.
We were talking about legal immigration there.
We didn't want that many, no matter how they were getting in.
Uh I said, well, it's become an argument about illegal immigration now.
Uh and and it's you know, and it's true, he's right, it's always royaled the country, and it will always continue to.
But even back then there was a process called acculturation.
There was a distinct American society, a distinct American culture.
Immigrants um wanted to be part of it.
The lure of America was that it was America.
People wanted to come to America.
What's happening now is that people want to come to America and balkanize.
They want to bring their culture to this country and exist here without a culture rating.
And when you add illegal status to that, then you have a roiling problem.
So in the early 60s, tomato growers in California relied on seasonal Mexican laborers brought in under the government's Brosetro program.
The Mexicans picked the tomatoes that were then processed into ketchup and other products.
In 1964, Congress killed the program despite growers' warnings that its abolition would doom their industry.
What happened?
Well, plant scientists developed oblong tomatoes that could be harvested by machine.
Since then, California's tomato output has risen five fold.
It's a story worth remembering because we're being warned again that we need huge numbers of guest workers, meaning unskilled laborers from Mexico and Central America to relieve U.S. labor shortages, quote unquote.
Indeed, the shortage will supposedly worsen as baby boomers retire.
President Bush wants an open-ended program.
Senators Kennedy and McCain advocate initially admitting 400,000 guest workers annually.
The Senate is considering these and other plans.
And Mr. Samuelson correctly says, gosh, these are all bad ideas.
Guest workers would mainly legalize today's vast inflows of illegal immigrants with the same consequence.
We'd be importing poverty.
Now this isn't because these immigrants are not hard working, many of them are, nor is it because they don't assimilate, many of them do.
But they generally don't go home.
Assilation is slow, and the ranks of the poor are constantly replenished.
Since 1980, the number of Hispanics with incomes below the government's poverty line has risen 162%.
Over the same period, the number of non-Hispanic whites in poverty rose 3%, and the number of blacks 9.5%.
So what we have now, and wood with guest workers is a conscious policy of creating poverty in the United States while relieving it in Mexico.
By and large, this is a bad bargain for the U.S. It stresses local schools, hospitals and housing, it feeds social tensions, witness the men at men.
To be sure, some Americans get cheap house cleaning or landscaping services, but if more mowed their own lawns or did their own laundry, it wouldn't be a tragedy.
Now that I'm not saying I endorsed all this, Nerdley's in there throwing his pencil around.
But the point about importing poverty and then export allowing Mexico to export it, the numbers here back up the contention.
The most lunatic notion is that admitting poor Latino workers would ease the labor market strains of retiring baby boomers.
The two aren't even close substitutes for each other.
Among immigrant Mexican and Central American workers in 2004, only seven percent had a college degree, and nearly sixty percent lacked a hascruel diploma, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Now among native born U.S. workers, 32% had a college degree, only six percent did not have a hascruel diploma.
Far from softening the social problems of an aging society, more poor immigrants might uh aggravate them by pitting older retirees against younger Hispanics for limited government benefits.
You know, I'm not so sure that the baby the Census Bureau had a story the other day that tried to dispel the notion that retiring baby boomers are going to put additional strain of of proportions that we can't deal with because the uh the point is that the baby boomers and a 65-year-old baby boomer is not a 65-year-old of two or three generations, gonna keep working.
Gonna remain productive somehow.
That's a that's just a side element to all this I'm adding in.
It's also a myth, writes uh Mr. Samuelson, that the U.S. economy needs more poor immigrants.
The illegal immigrants already here represent only about 4.9% of the labor force, the Pew Hispanic Center reports.
In no major occupation are they a majority.
They're 36% of insulation workers, 28% of drywall installers, and 20% of cooks.
They're drawn here by wage differences, not labor shortages.
Excuse me, 2004, the median hourly wage in Mexico was a buck eighty-six compared with nine dollars for Mexicans working in the United States.
With high labor turnover and the jobs that they take, most new illegal immigrants can get work by accepting wages slightly below prevailing levels.
Now let me just jump to the last paragraph.
It's said that having guest workers is better than having poor illegal immigrants.
With legal status, they'd have rights and protections.
They'd have more peace of mind and face less exploitation by employers.
This would be convincing if its premise were incontestable, that being that we can't control our southern border.
But that's not been proven.
We've never really tried a policy of real barriers and strict enforcement against companies that hire illegal immigrants.
Until that's shown to be ineffective, we shouldn't adopt guest worker programs that don't solve serious social problems, uh problems, but rather just add to them.
So we'll link to this piece, I'm sure it's at the Washington Post website as well, uh, Robert Samuelson today, but it's a great companion piece with the president rejecting automatic citizenship.
And it's it's well worth noting that Senators Kennedy and McCain working together on this uh immigration plan to do just that, allow for 400,000 guest workers uh each year, uh, which is just simply going to exacerbate the uh current problems that we have.
And the the notion, well, we we can't we can't we can't re- We can't deport the eleven or twelve million they're here.
Well, I don't know why we can't, but it said that we can't.
And we really can't control the borders.
We can't send the military down there.
We can't, we really're full of we can't on all this.
And of course, the Democrats, I don't want to leave them out of the equation.
The Democrats have their own explanations to give here and to be involved because they have no clue to make a statement on this.
The Democrats, like every other issue other than the war, the Democrats don't want to tell you what they really think.
They haven't got the guts.
At least the Republicans are out there having this internal battle over this, so you know what the different uh arguments and disagreements on the Republican side are.
The Democrats are simply looking at this as an avenue to get more voters registered Democrat, legal or illegal immigrant, notwithstanding, doesn't matter to them.
Rush, how do you know that?
Because I know the Democrats.
I know the Democrats like every square inch of my glorious naked body, not just the back of my hand.
Look at Hillary Clinton.
Look at the latest push that Democrats is to uh uh restore voting rights for for convicted felons.
Why do you think that is?
The Democrats are having no outreach.
They're not building their base, they're not adding, all they're doing is servicing their liberal kook fringe base.
They're looking at illegal immigrants and felons as a way to grow their voting base.
Now, that to me is pretty sick.
That's pretty desperate if that's your primary outreach program.
They'll never admit that's what it is, but they're not going to tell you what they really think about immigration unless it's a Democrat in a blue state or a red state or a red district whose reelection depends on satisfying red state, red district type voters.
But the fact of the matter is they want to stay out of it just like any other controversial issue because they want to avoid taking any position possible, hoping that the Republicans will self-destruct on it.
A quick timeout, your phone calls are next.
Stay with us.
All right, now let me let me uh uh just a couple of addenda, if you will, addendums for those of you in uh Rio Linda to uh Mr. Samuelson.
One of the one of the problems with uh analyzing uh uh economic circumstances in this country, such as they they generally separate income into into five groups or quintiles uh in this country, and uh poverty quintile is the bottom, maybe the bottom two, and then you get the middle class, upper middle class, and then the obscenely filthy, stinking, rotten winners of life's lottery rich.
Now it is assumed that if you are born into one of those quintiles by a lot of people, you stay there forever.
That there's no upward and downward mobility, which of course isn't true.
People move in and out of these income quintiles throughout their lives.
Uh it is not true that everybody born to poverty stays there.
Uh it's not true that everybody born rich stays there.
There have numerous cases of these trust fund kids blowing it all.
Uh the middle class is features constant upward mobility.
So the idea that immigrants coming to this country are forever going to stay poor if they take these uh jobs that pay less than what Americans would work for, it may be true in some cases, but it's not axiomatic that they will always only make that kind of money.
And then you also have to examine what poverty is in this country to say what it might be in Mexico.
I mean, in poverty in this country, the New York Housing Authority deals with poverty stricken people.
They have dishwashers.
They have washing machines.
Some of them have standalone freezers.
They have apartments, they have cars, and they have parking spaces.
Uh television sets, sometimes plasmas.
Uh cell phones.
Uh, you know, poverty in this country, and it I'm and there are pockets of poverty are very severe too, but overall, on average, poverty here is not poverty the way it is around the rest of the world.
So you have to factor some of these it's the old dynamic versus static scoring technique.
Uh for the longest time, Congress, when they would score the effect of tax cuts or tax increases, did it on a static basis.
There's just one pie, and they looked at it as a zero-sum game.
And of course, it's not true.
You have to score these things dynamically.
Cutting taxes expands the economy, creates jobs, increases tax revenue because there are more taxpayers paying income taxes.
Tax cuts, uh, tax uh increases, rather, do just the opposite if they're sustained and over a long enough period of time, and of course, on the right people and in the right areas.
Now, before I get back to your phone calls, runaway bird droppings in Orlando have prompted actual warning signs.
This is it's a mess, but the way the story is written is hilarious.
They actually have signs in downtown uh Orlando that say caution entering bird dropping area.
Now I'm sure you've been driving around, you've seen deer crossing signs.
In downtown Orlando, they have signs caution entering bird dropping area.
And they've got a picture here of a car that is literally covered in bird poop.
And here's why it happened.
The problem began when Orlando city workers removed cypress trees on Bird Island at Lake Iola in Orlando.
Uh and I've seen this happen in other parts around the world.
Birds gather.
There's a I forget where I was.
Oh.
Might have been when I was south of France or something.
There was this rock.
I think it was in the Mediterranean.
It was just nothing but bird poop.
That's where all the birds went.
Thank good it was it was it was offshore you could see it.
So they moved these trees because what happened was the uh the bird droppings are polluting the water.
Now the birds, to get even with the city of Orlando, have moved from Bird Island into the city.
They moved, they're covering anything and anyone between Lake Iola and Central Avenue with droppings.
Downtown resident James Taylor said, you have to brace yourself for the smell.
It's a really bad stench.
It's disgusting, it's absolutely disgusting.
I was walking the other day, and I got pooed on walking under these trees.
Somebody told me it was good luck.
Caution entering bird dropping area.
Don't sit on the benches unless you are very brave.
And this, interestingly enough, is where the uh National Football League owners' meetings will take place next week.
I don't know if it's on Bird Drop Avenue, but uh it's in Orlando.
This pr pr apparently you ought to see the picture of this car here.
It's obviously somebody's abandoned the car, and if this happened just in the normal course of one business day while the car owner was at work, it's it's uh it's quite stunning.
John in Kent, Washington.
I have about a minute, but I wanted to get to you.
Thank you.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor.
Thank you.
Um for everyone who thinks that we'll p we'll be paying ten dollars for a head of lettuce if we don't allow um the guest workers here.
I got news for y'all.
We're already paying ten dollars for that head of lettuce.
We're paying for it through uh border control uh enforcement, through uh the costs to educate uh illegal aliens through our uh emergency rooms.
We're already paying for it, Rush.
Um the other thing I wanted to say is those who tolerate illegal immigration, I think what they're looking for is uh they're busting wages.
It's a wage bust move.
Uh Americans will take the jobs if the wages are higher.
That's the point.
Yeah, that that that is true.
That's that but there are jobs that some Americans won't do that they consider beneath them.
And believe me, there are some jobs that you don't want Americans doing.
I don't have time to explain why, but I mean it's they're more trouble than they're worth in certain kind of jobs.
They end up presenting you, they end up presenting the job, and they end up screwing you.
Back in just a second.
Sadly, my friends, we are out of busy broadcast time, but there's always tomorrow, and we will be here revved up and ready to go, and we'll look forward to uh rejoining you then.
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