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March 31, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 31, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Uh yesterday, as you know, we we began the program uh by uh issuing a warning to terrorists to look out and be on the on the watch out because the Democrats uh have a security plan.
And we'll talk about the security plan here in mere moments, but before we get to that, uh this is funny.
The the Democrats uh 36 of them, 36 Democratic candidates are scheduled to gather in Washington Monday for workshops on national security and military issues.
And the scheduled speakers include former Defense Secretary William Perry, uh former Florida Senator Bob Graham, and retired three-star Army Lieutenant General Claudia Kennedy.
The event is being sponsored by California Representative Jane Harmon's Secure U.S. PAC, or secure us, I guess is how she probably pronounces it.
And the uh moderate think tank third way will include roundtable discussions and critiques of the candidate speeches on homeland security, weapons proliferation, and the war in Iraq.
They have to have a workshop.
They have to have a workshop on national security, and furthermore, if they're going to critique candidates' speeches.
Other tips, no doubt will be uh offered.
I can just see the classes.
Who is the enemy of the U.S. if you're gonna have a workshop on national security with Democrats, you gotta tell them who the enemy is.
Because most of them think it's Bush.
The others think it's Cheney.
And then the the and maybe combination of them think it's Rumsfeld.
So that'd be the first thing they have to do.
Who is the enemy of the U.S.?
Then they have to do a workshop on what national interest means.
And what national security means.
And then they'll let's say Harry Reid shows up, they'll critique you speech.
Hey, Harry, great speech, pal, but you might want to work victory into that speech.
Uh you might want to.
I wonder if they'll talk about victory.
This is just it's amazing.
And they're all excited about it.
They're all excited.
They they they've they've they've got their they've got their uh they're feeling their oats.
They're gonna take back security now, ladies and gentlemen.
It's it's something they have to take back.
And by admitting they have to take it back, it means they don't have it.
It means they're not anywhere on the issue, despite the ports deal.
And there's news about the ports deal today.
Yeah.
I'm not making up port deal news.
I am not.
They think I'm making up news about the port deal just to be able to say the port deal.
Anyway, I think it's fascinating.
These guys have to take back the security issue.
And of course, at the top of the list, if they win Congress, the Democrats say they are going to catch Osama bin Laden, the same Osama bin Laden that Bill Clinton let slip through our fingers two or three times.
They're gonna increase the number of spies.
They're gonna double the number of troops in special forces, and they're gonna be tough and smart, says their Senate leader, Dingy Harry.
Nancy Pelosi over in the house, and we're gonna be strong and smart.
She left out tough.
So they say they're gonna get Osama.
Well, how are they gonna do this?
It might serve us well to examine their track record.
Because they don't want to do any spying on terrorists who are phoning into America or phoning out of America.
They'd have no desire to find out what terrorists are up to.
They want to impeach and censure Oh, by the way, the big censure hearing today, Russ Feingold.
Who was Spectre was in this uh was he on the judiciary committee.
So Specter had to hold the committee.
They had more witnesses and they had senators.
And at the end of it, it was just Spectre and Feingold.
Feingold finally got fed up and walked out of his own hearing.
John Dean, they actually brought John Dean in there.
And uh he's just he he's he's off his rocker and he's talking all about himself.
Uh we have audio sound bites uh of that coming up.
So they're they're they're doing hearings about trying to censure President Bush for trying to find out the next time Al Qaeda might hit us.
And yet they are gonna be the ones to capture Osama.
They're gonna be the ones to get tough.
They're gonna be the ones to take back the security issue.
Now, Denji Harry, you know when he killed the Patriot Act, he all called applause, called a called a little press conference and and and they started laughing and applauding.
We killed the Patriot Act, even though they didn't.
They tried to.
I assume that if they're elected and uh win the White House, win Congress and so forth at some point, that they will kill the Patriot Act because that's what their orientation is.
Uh they want to cut and run from terrorists in Iraq.
And well, we're talking about here how they're gonna catch Osama.
And how they're gonna uh how they how they're gonna take back the security issue.
They want to they want to do what John Mertha's uh plan is, immediate withdrawal, because they think we've lost the war.
They're invested in us, losing the war.
These are the guys that claim they're gonna get the security issue back or take it back, and yet everything, if you watch what they've done, everything they've done is invested or an investment in defeat.
They're trying to give terrorists legal rights.
The Al Qaeda Bill of Rights, they want to make sure that Bush cannot mistreat them in tr in in uh in prison, can't torture them.
They want to make sure that they have access to our courts as full-fledged citizens of the United States have.
They want to make sure that we're not gonna be mean when we torture these terrorists, like making them stay awake during interrogations.
And the Democrats, why, they'll vote for funding the troops before they vote against it.
This is their track record.
This is all laughable.
No wonder they have to have a a national security workshop.
Can you believe this?
National security workshop.
It's like having a meeting behind closed doors to figure out what they believe.
This is supposed to look serious, ladies and gentlemen.
We're supposed to see this, and we're supposed to understand that these people are serious, they want to protect us, they want to protect the country, and they're getting serious and they have workshops on uh national security.
This is the way liberals do things.
Now, if if you if you doubt the their commitment to national security, if you if you doubt their commitment to all this, all you have to do is um uh look at what Democrat Congressperson Cynthia McKinney's going through.
She slugged a Capitol police officer who asked for identification.
There's gonna be a warrant for her arrest issued this afternoon.
Howard Feynman's on television last night saying, hey.
It's she was she was just she was just apprehended because she was black.
They're already trying to charge racism in this.
So bottom line is the Democrats will take back security folks to the stone ages.
If you are dumb enough, and some of some some people in this country are, if you are dumb enough to elect them, uh forget what they come out of their workshop and say, forget what their battle plan is, never forget what the last three years have been like.
Quick time out, we'll be back and continue El Quico.
By the way, let's let's not forget one of the reasons for the workshop out there, uh ladies and gentlemen, is that the uh the media is uh taking a look at the at the so-called take back security plan the Democrats have offered.
They don't like it.
They don't see any substance there.
Uh and I tell it was Ron Brownstein story yesterday.
That's only gonna be amplified.
And when that happens, as I said, it it it's it's gotta be bad.
I mean the whole drive-by media is worried and unimpressed with the take back security plan.
Let's go to audio soundbite number one.
The uh the president of uh George Mason University, Alan Merton, is uh on C-SPAN today and received this phone call.
I just want to know how a state funded school can be conservative and and even with the nickname Patriot, with Walter Williams playing the role that he does on Rush Limbaugh, it gives a real tank to the university as far as I'm concerned.
And so I just would like to know how a state school could end up being as conservative as George Mason University seems to be.
We have faculty all over the political spectrum.
We have you know faculty who, as you mentioned, uh Walt Williams that's you know clearly right of center.
Uh Roger Wilkins on our faculty, uh someone who's played a uh prominent role in civil rights activities and far beyond is also on our faculty.
If you look across our faculty, I can uh line up for you uh if you want enough that are on the left and match them up with enough on the right.
I think what's happened in a lot of cases, uh other universities don't have anybody at all from the right, or let's say relatively few from the right.
We have left wing, right wing, center, and that's what we should be doing in universities.
Unbelievable.
So here's the president at George Mason University, and he's on this weekend because you're in a final four uh this weekend, has to defend the fact that that Walter Williams is a guest host uh on this program.
That led to a another call.
Walter Williams.
I think that uh he's one of my heroes, and uh my perception is he's assembled a great group of people with him, and uh I think he has a gift for being able to bring economics to the everyday person, and uh I'm always delighted when he's on Rush Limbaugh and just want to compliment you on that.
Explain who Walter Williams is.
Uh Walt Williams is is one of the faculty members uh in in our in our economics, and he's nationally recognized his columns, uh his is participating on the Russell Lumbo show and others.
I really, you know, I love C-SPAN, but uh uh uh this poor here's this poor university president.
He has to have to sit there listen to dumb idiots.
Yeah, and he has to act civil, he has to act polite.
What a stupid question.
And I don't screen anything there.
I know they don't.
That's the whole whole point of C-SPAN.
They gotta sit there and act like every idiot that phones in is uh is worthy of serious analysis reasoned response and so forth.
That first guy is a that would just depress me.
It would just depress me.
But the president gave good answer.
Wall Street Journal today, Brendan Meneter, who's um one of the editors of their opinion journal.com uh website has a piece on George Mason University, Rodney Dangerfield University.
And there's some things in here.
I didn't know about this university.
Uh 28,000 students, it resembles many large state schools in that it provides an affordable education to a broad range of people.
For state residents, tuition's about $3,000 a semester.
For those out of state, it's $8,500.
Uh these amounts roughly correspond to a few weeks of classroom time at nearby Georgetown.
Uh George Mason has no intentions of being an elite institution, and it's a good thing.
Is anybody do you know who George Mason is?
I is he is one of the founders.
That's right.
George Mason's a famous, probably the the most unknown uh of the founding fathers.
He he is the that's okay.
Everybody wants to show me how smart this.
So I've show uh I'm getting all these people shouting at me in the IFB while I'm trying to conduct broadcast text, and I can do it because I am a highly trained broadcast special.
I'm gonna finish this specialist.
George Mason, you you m I I'm sure if you went to public school system uh in the last thirty years, you've not heard of him.
You probably think he founded the Masons and that he's got a school named after him or something.
But George Mason was a key architect of the Constitution.
He had written the Virginia Bill of Rights more than a decade before the Constitution.
But uh he was one of the three delegates to the Constitutional Convention who refused to sign the final document because it uh it lacked a bill of rights.
So that's but he's he's one of the key key uh key founding fathers.
One of the uh one of the pe actually served as the engine uh to get it all going.
Now all this attention on George Mason University is fine, folks, and you know I I'm I'm a big believer in higher education, but they're burying something.
We uncovered it yesterday on this program.
Uh I don't know that I don't know that uh uh uh well I'm I'm pretty sure that the president did not get a call about this, President Merton, otherwise Cookie would have given me the audio.
And I in Mr. Minater's piece I just read, there's not one mention of the real interesting thing about George Mason University, and that is they have they have a campus in Dubai.
They have a campus in the United Arab Emirates.
They do satellite transfers, they do satellite classrooms and so forth.
Now everybody's waxing eloquent.
Oh, they're getting so sentimental because none, not not no expert thought George Mason had any business even being in the NCAA tournament, the March Madness.
They didn't fight, didn't think they deserved to be chosen or selected for the tournament.
And so now that they've gotten to the final four, oh, the sentimentality, isn't it so wonderful?
The small, relatively small school from the from the small conference.
Yeah, can't fool me.
This this this school, there's something fishy here when you have a satellite campus in Dubai.
I mean, you know what that means, folks.
It means exchange of students and ideas.
All you got to do is get a student from the Dubai campus, uh, who is bringing, bring a terrorist in there.
We know they're all running around the United Hair members, and we learned that during the port deal.
They're they're all over the place.
Yeah, and you give courses and uh, well, not basketball court men, it's courses in court melee, how to manage yourself in court when you don't have to go to a military tribunal when you're a terrorist captured to battlefield.
Who knows what they're teaching at George Mason's campus at the UAE?
But all you got to do is get a bunch of your terrorists and a roaming around Dubai, enroll in the school, and then transfer them to the George Mason campus.
They probably do.
They teach port management, port security, how to buy ports, how to get around xenophobia and racism in other parts of the world.
Um I can't believe nobody's mentioning this.
I just I can't believe nobody's upset about this.
Well, it doesn't make any sense to me.
You look at the hysteria that was caused when this company wanted to buy a few terminals here in six of our ports.
Now, one of the final four schools has a satellite campus on nobody new.
And it's being covered up.
I hope, I hope Representative Peter King uh can follow up on this as as service to to his his people, a country, and this country, because this is something that I mean, it needs to be examined and looked into.
How can this arrangement even happen?
How can a major American institution have a satellite campus under all places Dubai and have nobody uh have nobody not?
I I guess it's too much to hope that George Mason would be disqualified from the tournament.
I guess it's probably too late for that.
By the way, uh I have an idea I'm gonna propose to you later on today, based on something Senator Kennedy said yesterday.
Senator Kennedy has compared the illegal immigrant movement in this country to the new civil rights movement.
Well, how do we deal with this?
Affirmative action for illegal immigrants.
If they're gonna I just want to take these people for their word, if he's gonna call it that, then we need to go all the way.
What did we do to help minorities in the past?
Affirmative action.
We gotta move them to the head of the line.
We're talking about moving people to the back of the line here with our guest worker program, then they've got to identify them.
That's not how you deal with a civil rights movement.
Civil rights movement, you've got to give them affirmative action.
You gotta move them to the front of the line, whether they're qualified or not.
Regardless who they bump, regardless who they replace.
If that's what Senator Kennedy wants to call it, and I have some information on immigration going back 40 years that you may you may not know.
And it will stun you.
There's also a raging controversy in Philadelphia.
If you know Philadelphia, one of our favorite towns, they're building a skyscraper there, the uh Comcast Center that is going to have waterless, no flush urinals, a hundred and sixteen of them.
This will be Philadelphia's biggest skyscrapers, or biggest skyscraper, and the unions, a plumber union up in Philadelphia, is fit to be tied because no pipes means no repair work.
No pipes means no work.
So the mayor's office in Philadelphia, I kid you not, this is right out of the story in the Associated Press, the mayor's office has stepped in to try to save the Urinals.
A new slogan and campaign for one of our favorite cities, Philadelphia.
Quick.
Time out back with more in just a moment.
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Billings, Montana.
This is Eric.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, what an honor to talk with you.
I understand.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Hey, I'm just kind of curious with the union not being against this whole guest worker program.
I guess that leads us to believe that they plan on organizing these people, these guest workers.
Well, I'm just kind of curious what some of your callers yesterday, these agribusiness guys.
Is there still going to be a demand for all these workers when they got to pay them a union scale?
Uh that's I you I don't I don't uh I'm not quite sure that that is the way this is going to work out.
That's the plan.
By the way, you may be more informed than I because I'm running on fumes today.
Where have you heard that unions support the I'm not going to be able to do that?
I've just been watching around the talk circuits and all that on TV, and uh, I've seen a few of them coming out.
There was, I think a lady on Hannity and Combs the other night, one of the uh the hotel workers unions, and they're all for it.
It just seems to me that you know they'll get them organized, and I'm just kind of curious when that pay scale goes up when it's not cheap subsidized labor.
Is there still gonna be the demand?
I don't think I my my uh my recollection here is that the AFL CIO, uh CIO is against it.
I've got a story here in one of my uh stacks about it.
Um I don't think unions uh unilaterally would be would be for this.
Well, like I said, I've seen two or three unions at the hotel workers' union, this lady was a representative, and I know she was for it.
And they she, you know, they she talked about a million and a half members and yeah, well, that's uh that's a decent number since there's only about twelve million of them left of unionized people in the uh in the country.
Twelve well, no, twelve percent.
It's twelve percent take it back.
Twelve percent of the workforce is uh is is unionized.
Down from fifteen, down from a high of thirty-seven uh back in the glory days of of the uh of big labor.
Well, let me check into that because normally, you know, like unions uh generally in much much in favor, they say they support raising the minimum wage.
And they and they do it uh that they try to sell their support on the basis of compassion for the poor and the downtrodden, the hopeless, the lost, the hungry, the thirsty, uh you name it.
But the only reason they want the minimum wage up is because it raises their wages because they've all got contracts saying they got to be X amount above it.
Uh it's it becomes the new ceiling or actually the floor uh on on which their new contracts uh are negotiated and uh and based.
Let me let me share with you uh this story.
You know, we we talk about that it's gonna shock you.
Immigration reform, and the word to the focus on here is reform.
Uh there's no such thing as immigration reform.
I mean, they sell it that way and they talk about it, but wait till you hear this story.
Do you have any idea just what we're reforming?
Because it's important.
Before we can fix a problem, we have to see what caused the problem in the first place, and we have to identify the problem.
And before we seek a problem solver, we have to find out who helped create the problem and find out if they're still on the job.
First, the problem.
The problem heart seller.
It was called Heart Seller or the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965.
At the signing ceremony of Heart Seller, President Lyndon Baines Johnson said, this bill we signed today is not a revolutionary bill.
It does not affect the lives of millions.
It will not restructure the shape of our daily lives.
Well, that's about 41 years ago.
We got a lot of hindsight that we can use.
So we have learned that this high-sounding liberal dream, Hart Seller 1965, worked out about as well as the war on poverty.
In other words, it was a disaster.
Well, LBJ is no longer available to face accountability, but I do know that the man who marshaled the bill through the Senate is still around.
The man who marshaled Hart Seller, Immigration Bill 1965.
Not only is he still around, he is leading the reform on the reform that he helped reform.
We're into our third or fourth incarnation of reform here, and the guy who's working on the third or fourth version was the first guy who got this whole thing started in 1965.
Now before I reveal his name, let me pass on to you some of his quotes.
In 1965, as he then led the reform we were about to reform.
Who do you think it is?
Here's what he said.
Snurdly thinks he knows who it is.
And I'm sure many of you think you know who it is.
First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually.
Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same.
Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset.
Contrary to the charges in some quarters, the bill will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia.
And in the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think.
The reformer then assured the Senate and the country and the media, quote, the bill will not flood our cities with immigrants.
It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society, it will not relax the standards of admission, it will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.
And if that weren't enough, the reformer, the man who started this whole thing with Heart Seller, the Immigration Nationality Services Act of 1965, and who is today leading the charge to reform his own error, to reform his own failure, to reform his own disaster, said no immigrant visa will be issued to a person who is likely to become a public charge.
All right, you think you know who this is.
The reformer who wants to reform that which he reformed is Senator Ted Kennedy.
These are the words of Senator Ted Kennedy, 1965, and he today is working on reforming what he reformed, what has been a total disaster.
How in the world can we fix it if the same people are in involved in fixing it who broke it in the first place?
We're not even being honest with ourselves about the failures of our past attempts at reform.
I know some of you are surprised that he's been around 40 years, but please, he's been around and around and around our necks for forty-four years.
Ted Kennedy is also the man as an as an ancillary little bit of information here, who gave us the health maintenance organization.
It was Ted Kennedy's impetus that created the HMO, and it's now Ted Kennedy who's trying he's bashing the hell out of them and saying they're stealing people blind and mistreating customers and patients and so forth.
He is the architect of at least two modern disasters, and that's probably scratching the surface, barely scratching the surface.
All you have to do is listen to his statements from his past records and do the opposite of what he wants to do.
Ted Kennedy is a disaster.
Ted Kennedy probably doesn't remember everything he said back in 1965 about the Heart Seller bill, but it promised us then exactly what we're being promised now, and it was an utter disaster.
And we tried it again.
Twenty years later, we had to go back and fix it.
Hello, 1986.
And it was Simpson Mazzoli.
This immigration business seems to run in 20 year cycles.
Now, here's the reality check.
You heard the quotes from Senator Kennedy.
Nothing bad's going to happen.
We're not going to be flooded.
We're not going to have these people become public charges, meaning welfare recipients.
That's not going to happen.
Political refugees, and this is the Center for Immigration Studies.
And this was back in September 1995.
This is 10-year-old stuff.
You know it's even more profound now.
Political refugees qualify for public assistance upon setting foot on U.S. soil.
The exploding Somali refugee population of Lewiston, Maine, 36,000, is largely welfare dependent.
Likewise, 2900 people to Wassaw, Wisconsin's 4200 Hmong refugees receive public assistance.
all.
21% of immigrants, 21% of immigrants receive public assistance, whereas 14% of native-born Americans do.
Immigrants are 50% more likely than natives to live in poverty.
Great.
This was exactly what Senator Kennedy 40 years ago assured us would not happen.
So Senator Kennedy and the Democrats want to pander.
Well, then it's time to get both feet in the water on this immigration vote scam and be honest.
To demonstrate their compassion and their sympathy for the millions of potential new voteritos.
Democrats ought to propose legislation granting illegal aliens the benefits of affirmative action.
If they're going to call this the modern civil rights movement, then let's take it right where we know it's going to go right off the bat.
Affirmative action.
Contractors employing more than 50% illegal aliens will get preferential treatment for minority contracts.
Illegals applying to colleges get equal status with African America.
Maybe in fact, no, they get bumped ahead of everybody.
And to really sow up the vote, new union job openings will go to illegal aliens.
They are the most depressed, oppressed, the people with the toughest road to ho.
This, my friends, is the only fair way of dealing with this never-ending discrimination.
If these underappreciated and undervalued, well-meaning criminals really are the backbone of our country, if they really do represent like Ted Kennedy thinks, and some of the other people on this, what is great about this country, then it's high time that Democrats, the wisest and kindest people in our planet, took the bull by the horns and did the right thing.
Ted Kennedy says the immigrants today are part of a great and noble movement.
Like the civil rights movement of the 60s.
Well, if that's true.
And if Kennedy's not just pandering and he isn't just treating his new amigos like idiots, and let's give these ne'er do wells a helping hand.
We gotta boost them up.
They can't get ahead of our own too much discrimination.
You can hear it out there all over the countries.
Racism and sexism and bigotry and xenophobia, all these being directed at the backbone of America.
And we in the American have learned how Democrats deal with this.
We know what they think about it.
It's affirmative action.
It's time to give them a liberal helping hand.
Let's help them achieve what they can't achieve on their own.
Let's take care of them like helpless children and get them first in line.
Affirmative action or give me death.
And give them something else to protest to.
We'll have an argument about it, so we'll start demanding affirmative action as they throw the marriage fly the Mexican flag up there.
I'm gonna wait for Senator Kennedy here to uh be consistent, and the rest of the liberals to be consistent.
If this is the modern civil rights movement, and we know what that means, and it's time for affirmative action for illegal and especially not just affirmative action, it's time for comparable worth.
The fact that they're being paid peanuts is insulting.
We'll be back after this.
And we're back.
It's open line Friday on the uh EIB network, 800-282-2882.
This is uh case in Stafford, uh, Virginia.
Hi, Case, nice to have you with us.
Hey, uh Rush, thanks for having me on.
Hey, uh, you know, I was kind of bumped out the other day when I heard you joined a drive by media on this immigration issue.
And I said to myself, I can't believe Russia's actually doing this.
You know, we need to change the policy, immigration policy, so we can handle more applicants and now we'll reduce it.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I know I'm running on fumes today, but when somebody I kind of wake up when somebody says I've joined a drive-by media and said, What what's what's that about?
What do you mean I'm d I've joined a drive-by media?
Yeah, because you uh you're not uh looking at this uh immigration issue, see what the root cause is, and we'll actually fix it.
Uh so that's why uh I just how can you say this?
Have you have you had the radio on?
I just told you what I I I heard you talk about the Sometimes That's how uh how can you say that?
I I just I just did a brilliant analysis of how the current problem came to be, and that the same guy who created it for us is now reforming it.
Uh uh where am I failing?
I don't see it.
Well well, that's a start, but uh where you're failing is is is this you know we'll never fix you know fix the immigration policies.
Uh we'll never fix the illegal flow if we don't change our immigration policy so they can handle more applications.
They don't handle more applications, we'll continue to have a large number of illegals coming across the border.
And that's just too much for the law enforcement to handle.
Change of policy.
Okay, all right.
So what you what you're saying is let's just make them all legal.
So we don't have to we don't call them illegal.
Let's just expand the number of legal immigrants by whatever number of illegals are here, so we don't have any problems whatsoever, and then bam, problem solved.
No, no, I'm not saying that's the same.
Yeah, that's exactly what you're saying.
I may be on fumes, but that's exactly what you said.
When you start talking, we don't have enough applicants, we don't have enough forms, we don't have enough uh we we don't have whatever you however you termed it.
Yeah, I mean you you you gotta automate the processes and and and push more applications through.
Uh alone automate the process.
It's a process, but the it's a bureaucracy, you just hold those applications up forever.
And as long as there's demand for employment over here and we're at full employment, and don't forget that we're at full employment.
We're a land of opportunity and hope.
So as long as we're a land of opportunity and hope and we're at full employment, there's gonna be demand for people to come across the border and work, but there's work for them.
We're full employment.
So the only way to capture capture that is you change your policies, increase your throughput, reduce your illegal that will automatically reduce the illegal population across the border to manageable level for law enforcement.
Okay, it's a good idea.
Well, no, I know, I know uh I know what you're saying.
Uh you're what you're suggesting is we don't even try to enforce the law.
You're just suggesting we give up.
That's that your method of enforcing the laws to not do it.
If I'll tell you what, you know that the natural the natural progression where logic dictates you take your belief is today we annex Mexico.
And we just we take it and we call it we make it a state.
Just make it a state, and they call it new New Mexico.
The way of a Nueva Mexico.
Just annex the place, and then when they travel from Mexico to New Mexico, New New Mexico to New Mexico, California, they're just moving from state to state, not illegal, problem solved.
I like the way you think.
All right, back to the phones.
This is Eric in uh in Flint, Michigan.
Hello, Eric, great to have you, sir.
How are you doing, Rush?
Never better, sir.
Good.
I've been a big fan of yours since I was a student at Bob Jones about 15 years ago.
Let me ask you a quick question.
Yeah, why is it do you think that you haven't heard hardly anything from Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton about the whole immigration thing?
I mean, the silence is deafening for the ACP.
They're busy.
They're busy.
Uh the uh Reverend Dax uh is uh in New Orleans, he's uh leading a big march there tomorrow.
The march is uh what is it called?
The the uh the uh march for the right to return, a protected vote and reconstruction.
So he's trying to they got problems down in New Orleans.
They don't have voter base and uh Sharpton's working on a New Orleans deal too.
He's trying to figure out how he can get involved in a deal down there at Duke with a lacrosse team uh supposedly you know raped uh some some uh uh hoes.
But I don't think they're very happy about all of that.
That that that has a possibility down that Duke thing's got a possibility of being a uh Tawana brawley situation that and Sharpton's got a balance can he afford another one of those um as in his life's going on.
Uh that in New Orleans a big deal to him.
And I but I sus I'm gonna tell you something.
Um you'll you'll see these guys some at some point they will get involved because when Ted Kennedy calls the new civil rights movement, that's Jesse Jackson's turf.
He owns it.
So um Yeah.
Anyway, I got to run here because of the uh the uh the constraints of time out there, Erica great, great question.
Uh exotic dancer, okay.
So whatever happened, you know what it is now, Duke.
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