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April 10, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 10, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Well, couple things here about the weekend.
First off, Brian did it.
I tried to stop it at the last minute.
It's over.
I tried to stop it at the last minute.
It was a feeble effort, I must admit, but he got married down at Duck Key down in the Keys on what night was it?
It was Saturday night.
He got married on Saturday.
That's right, because Friday night I had the Marine dinner.
Tell me about that here in just a second.
We don't have the pictures from the Marine dinner yet.
We hope to get some today or soon.
But one of the photographers taking pictures of the Marine dinner was a member of the military, and he was with Secretary Rumsfeld's entourage.
And he gave me his business card.
He said, you got to get to me by 2 o'clock this morning.
I'm leaving for Iraq.
I said, 2 o'clock this morning, I'm not going to be home by 2 o'clock this morning.
I said, I don't, how many pictures you got?
Tons of them.
I don't need a server to put them on.
I didn't have our server address with him to give him, you know, and I didn't want to wake anybody from the website up.
They go to bed at midnight or so.
So I wasn't able to establish contact with that young man, but there were plenty of other people taking pictures.
We get those pictures.
We'll put them up on the website as soon as we get them.
Brian Johnson, our esteemed and loved broadcast engineer here, married his sweetie on Saturday night.
And it was really go.
It was outside.
Everybody was, Brian was the only guy wearing a jacket.
He was wearing a, was it a tuxedo?
It was okay.
It was a tuxedo, but even the groomsmen were in these untucked Tommy Bahama shirts.
It's a great way to do a wedding.
I've finally figured out, I have learned, I have discovered that God did not put me here to have fun while being choked by a necktie and a tight collar.
So I've got a new policy.
I wear it as little as possible now.
And Brian's wedding was great in that regard.
He was the first to pop up before anybody else, the beginning of the ceremony.
He was stood up there with the gentleman conducting the, and this was very wise.
You know, Brian went on got a lawyer to conduct the ceremony instead of a preacher.
Did you know that?
It was a lawyer, and it's perfectly legal.
I thought, wow.
So, anyways, just one short, it was a beautiful ceremony.
The whole night was a lot of fun.
But Brian is walking up to the little gazebo, and we are seated in the second row on the groom's side.
He's walking up all alone, and he stood up there about 10 minutes before anybody else showed up.
So he's waiting for the, and as he's walking up the steps, I shouted out, there's still time.
He looked at me.
He looked and just rolled his eyes and chuckled and smiled.
And everybody else did too, because they knew the totally loving spirit in which the comment was intended purely as a joke.
So anyway, everybody had a great time down there.
And Brian is off on his honeymoon and will be back.
When's he going to be back?
Next week?
Is he gone for a week or so?
Next Monday.
So we still have our management trainee doing Brian's job here today, folks.
So you just stick with us if things go wrong.
Now, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Scholarship Foundation, dinner Friday night, was everything that I expected it to be and more.
Secretary Rumsfeld arrived about 6.15 for the reception that took place beforehand, and he had his wife with him, Joyce, who I had not met before.
I actually hadn't met the Secretary.
I've spoken to him on the phone a couple of times on this program, but I've not met him.
And it was, he was, these people are good.
I mean, before I had a chance to say a word, he was thanking me, and his wife was telling me how much their son-in-law loves the program.
And I mentioned him a couple of times.
I said, you know, he was president, by the way, of the G.D. Searle Corporation when they introduced Equal, Aspertame.
He has been in public service and in the corporate sector all of his life, and he's been a tremendous public servant.
And I told him a couple times, as many of you in the email and on the phone last week, I passed along as well as I could convey it the amount of absolute love and admiration and support so many of you in this audience have for him.
And he genuinely appreciated hearing that.
And he asked me to say thanks back.
So I'm saying thanks back at you.
But he was in fine form, laughing, jolly, had a great time.
I told him I was just impressed with the way he takes the heat because he doesn't need this.
I mean, he's 70 years old.
He could be on the beach.
But instead, he's choosing to serve his country and institute and implement policies that his president, he believe in, sticking to it, doesn't back down.
He's a great man.
Enjoyed his wife immensely.
And he was seated at our table during dinner.
He was on the opposite side of the table from me.
And crowded rooms like that present hearing challenges for me.
So I didn't get to talk to him much.
But he came up warmly after he finished his speech, and then he left because he had other things to go do, but made it a point to find me and shake my hand and leave.
And I was just flattered beyond my ability to express it to you, as well as the time we had with him in the reception.
He delivered just a tremendously uplifting and inspirational set of remarks, as did the commandant of the Marine Corps.
The commandant of the Marine Corps is there every year, and he told the story of four Marines who have served in Iraq, some injured, all behaved, and performed with valor.
The stories just melt your heart.
And these are their leaders, the secretary.
I sat next to General Pace.
He was my dinner partner on my left during dinner, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
And when we sat down, I said, General, where did you grow up?
And he said, I will tell you when you call me Pete.
So I looked at him and I said, I can't call the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Pete.
He said, you're not going to get one answer to any question unless you call me Pete.
So I said, okay, Pete, where did you grow up?
So we started the conversation, and I bent his ear a little bit about my troop visit to Afghanistan and the times that I've had the opportunity to run into the troops and talk to him about the treatment that uniformed military personnel are receiving in this highly charged political atmosphere and my admiration for them all being volunteers.
And I talked to him a lot about the country and where we are as a country.
This is not like World War II.
We don't all have to band together and ration things and unify in order to fight a war and win it.
We have such an amazing country now.
We have people who can put their head in the sand and pretend that nothing's going on, run around and do things without any care or concern or even knowledge, if they choose, about what's happening across the Pung and around the world where U.S. forces are at war.
And yet, despite, and this is because of our prosperity, it's because of the unlimited economic opportunity and freedom that we have in this country.
And the, for lack of a better word, this has become a dirty word to me because I don't like the way it's applied, but in this case, it fits this diversity.
We have such a diverse population combined with such freedom and prosperity and opportunity that even if half the country chooses to say, I don't want to pay attention.
I don't like this bad news.
I'm just going to go out and do my job or I'm going to go to blockbuster and be first in line Friday or whatever.
I don't want to pay attention.
That's fine because we have hundreds of thousands of young people who sign up and do the job without conscription.
And it's a source of great pride to me.
It was to him too.
But it was thrilling for me to be able to have some really personal one-on-one conversations with all of these people and get to know them outside of the way they appear in the media.
It's always different when you get to know people personally.
And they're just some of the finest people you'll ever run into.
Let me ask you a question, ladies and gentlemen.
When you see all these people out marching today, all over the place, what's the first thing that enters your mind?
What's the first thing that enters your mind when you turn on the television or you look at a website and you see all of these pictures with these hundreds of thousands, and they hope it'll reach a total of a million today, marching and demonstrating and demanding.
What's the first thing that enters your mind?
Well, I'll tell you what the first thing that enters my mind is right after this.
Don't go away.
500,000 people at Loan in Dallas, Texas.
And they're all over television.
And when you see these people marching, what's the first thing that enters your mind?
I can guess that some of you say, don't these people have jobs?
Then you say, yeah, look at all the yard work not being done.
Look at all the bathrooms in Los Angeles not being cleaned today.
Don't they have jobs?
You might also be saying, who's paying for this?
You might all be saying, where's the INS?
You might be saying, how can they just show up?
I thought they were in the shadows.
How can they show up, brazenly demand to be against the law and allowed to be against the law, and nobody does anything about it?
Some of you might say, surround them with INS agents.
My first thought is anger, folks.
Anger and disgust at our government's refusal to do its job.
It is obvious these people have no fear of any enforcement whatsoever.
And as I said, they don't look like they're in the shadows to me.
They look to me like they're totally willing to come right out of the shadows into the sunlight.
And here's the thing.
You have to know the Democrats are encouraging all this.
The Democrats are encouraging this.
The Democrats are doing this to win back the Senate, to win back the House of Representatives.
Ted Kennedy is actually going to speak at 4.30 this afternoon in the Washington demonstration at the, where is it, the Washington Monument or wherever it's going to be.
He's going to be there.
He's going to be there with John Sweeney.
Attention, union members, are you paying attention to what's happening as you're being sold out by your party?
But Ted Kennedy is going to sit there.
He's going to stand up and he's going to say In his remarks today, that the House bill on illegal immigration is wrong because it'll make America less secure.
This is, and by the way, Sensenbrenner is bearing the brunt of the blame for all this because he's the guy who has put in the House bill that if you're here illegally, you are a felon.
And these people, we're not felons, and we're not Democrats are spreading the word throughout.
They've co-opted along with other loony left members.
They've co-opted this whole business of the marches.
This is a new civil rights era.
In fact, I look at this.
The Black Panthers have come out of the woodwork.
The Black Panthers, the Che Guevara crowd, the Che Imate.
They're all over this.
It's like the 1960s, all over again.
Some people reliving their youth and the whole thing being cast about illegal immigration, but it's not about that, folks.
And this isn't bash Bush either.
Because Bush is frankly not, he doesn't disagree with any of this.
This is simply a mechanism whereby the Democrats think they're going to win back the House and win back the Senate.
This is nothing more than the Democrats attempting to secure their power.
The circumstances, the details here have not changed.
Businesses love the cheap labor.
It's not because Americans won't do it.
They do it because it's cheap.
They import this labor because it's cheap.
There's a reason for this.
It's not the typical reason, well, they're this big business and they want to pay people nothing so they can maximize their profits and have their 15 homes and all of that.
That's not the primary reason behind this.
The lies, nothing's changing.
They're all being perpetrated.
They're in the shadows.
Americans won't do the work they do.
We can't deport all of them.
And nobody is suggesting that they be deported, by the way.
People need to remember: liberalism advances by little steps, and this is what you're seeing.
You're looking at a demand for the recreation of the welfare state.
You're looking at a marched demand, a protested demand for the recreation of statism, big government, socialism.
You have people marching today basically for socialism.
Liberalism advances in small steps, one behind another.
Look at the, and I mean, liberalism advances, and we all go backwards.
That's why I say one step behind another.
They don't move forward.
Look at the last 65 years, how socialism has become central to government's role.
First, mass amnesty.
That's what's in the Senate bill.
Then more illegals will pour across.
In fact, I will bet you, I don't know the number, I'm just going to guess, but I'll bet you the number of people pouring across the border at night is doubled since this debate began, two or three, especially since the Senate bill contained what is essentially amnesty.
I'll bet you the numbers of people coming across the border from Mexico have increased in the last two weeks dramatically, precisely because of the legislation.
And it makes perfect sense that it would happen given how that bill shapes up and what the people who want to get into this country are being made to understand about that bill.
So you got mass amnesty, then you have more illegals, then voting rights for illegals.
That's been proposed.
Oh, yes, and that's what the Democrats see.
And the Republicans, the Republicans are on the wrong side of this issue.
Think, like McCain and whoever, that they can pander to the Hispanics to get their votes.
Hell's bells, folks.
These people are being promised socialism.
These people are promised they can vote, and they're being promised benefits.
They're going to be able to suckle the giant teeth of the federal pig.
And that's what they know.
And that's one of the reasons, not all, but there's a good number of them that are coming for that reason.
The electoral system is under assault here.
The Democrats want to legalize felon voting.
They want to now legalize the voting of illegals, voting rights for illegals.
Go, well, they're here, Rush.
I mean, they ought to be able to have a stake in the society and the culture in which they live.
So we have the electoral system under assault here, and it could be forever changed to ensure the election of liberal Democrats.
Meanwhile, while you do all that, you continue to expand entitlement programs, national health care, and those who qualify for it.
Because, of course, illegals are people, too.
And as people, they're human beings, and human beings have certain rights.
And one of those rights is health care for all.
The proof of the strategy, you think I'm over-exaggerating?
I don't think so.
The proof of this strategy is clear.
The left refuses to build any barriers to illegal immigration, either physical, like walls, or through the punishment of businesses who hire illegals.
And they also know this.
The Homeland Security Department, which they attack over Hurricane Katrina, is incapable of following or enforcing any of the phony mandates in the proposed bill, such as you got to learn to speak English, you got to show up and pay a fine.
There's not going to be any enforcement on that.
And the Department of Homeland Security is supposed to do this after being maligned.
I mean, figure this out.
These guys in the Senate and Congress who have spent a year maligning Homeland Security and FEMA and say, you guys are incompetent.
You can't do diddly squat, are going to empower them with enforcing elements of a piece of legislation on, well, perhaps 11, 12, or 20 million people.
It's a joke.
It's a laugher.
And they all know it.
There's no intention for enforcement to occur.
This bill, in other words, if it passes, if some version of it passes, would institutionalize incompetence and failure.
And that is precisely what it's meant to do.
It is meant to do the following thing.
You put in a bunch of enforcement measures that won't be enforced.
They got to pay a $2,000 fine.
You got to learn to speak English.
You got to show up and not show up depending on how many years you've been here.
It's all bogus.
At the end of the day, when it's not enforced because it can't be, the conclusion will be, hey, you know what?
We just can't control this.
The best and brightest minds among us in the U.S. Senate came up with a brilliant piece of legislation, but it just didn't work out.
There's nothing we can do about it.
It is meant to institutionalize the failure to control the border.
And when I say it is meant, I said it's meant by the Democrats and the left who are sponsoring this and providing the energy behind it.
Because you see all of these hundreds of thousands today, the Democrats see votes.
And those votes to them translate to the reacquisition of their power.
And that's all this is.
It doesn't matter if it's the war on Iraq or the war on terror or illegal immigration.
The Democrats will gut the country in order to get their power back.
And then they'll do what they think they have to, if anything, to fix it later.
Brief time out.
We'll get to your phone calls.
I've got a couple of other thoughts left on this that I wish to share with you.
And we'll be right back and continue.
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Now, let me ask you a question about all this.
It's clear that the Democrats and the American left, and some Republicans, they want to get behind this movement.
They want to be seen by the people protesting today as friendly.
Despite the polls on the issue nationwide, Ted Kennedy, the Democrats are just ecstatic.
They're excited about this.
They see all these new voters.
It gives you an idea where their outreach is.
They have to target felons and illegal immigrants in order to have a chance at reacquiring power.
Now, do you think that these protests are going to get the Democrats anywhere?
Do you think these protests will advance the Democratic cause?
Do you think they'll advance the cause of Republicans who are behind them?
Because I know they think they do.
Ted Kennedy thinks he's going to benefit big from this.
Ted Kennedy and the boys, the Democrats think, oh, this is Nirvana, folks.
They got their new civil rights.
They think this is just, this is heaven sent.
I wonder.
I think they're going to be dead wrong.
I think that this is another jump the shark moment, if you will.
It wouldn't surprise me if the more this stuff happens, the more a sleeping giant will be awakened in the form of the American people.
My sense is that when you people look at these crowds, you say, what the hell is going on?
Say, how can our politicians and government allow tens of millions of foreigners into the country like this and not want to do anything about it?
We don't know who these people are.
We don't know whether they're criminals, what their medical conditions are.
And yet we all end up paying to subsidize them.
And the liberals, and this including the Republicans, they could use whatever taglines they like in trying to spin what's occurring, but the American people are not stupid.
I mean, you can see what's going on with your own eyes.
And it wouldn't surprise me if there's going to be a backlash on this soon, that this is a huge wake-up call.
And notice that all the media coverage talks about immigrants now and immigration.
Narrowing a word about illegal.
It's not put there.
And that is more intentional propaganda.
It is intended to upset legal immigrants.
As I said earlier, this is not about bashing President Bush because he's with them on this.
This is purely an opportunity to advance the causes of socialism and winning their power back.
And the sad thing here is that the Republicans who are on the same side as the protesters, the McCain's and the others, have now helped to unleash forces that could doom 06 electoral prospects for Republicans.
You just can't keep ignoring your base like this and expect them to understand and come out and vote for you.
If you are upset about this, what are you going to do?
You're going to rush out and vote Republican tomorrow?
No.
I mean, there's some solid Republicans out there.
Don't misunderstand, but not in the Senate leadership on this.
And I don't know where the White House is on this.
Kennedy's dead right about this in one sense.
And this is why I get frustrated and damn frustrated.
I'll be honest with you about this.
It seems that we are reluctant.
I talked about this on Friday.
We've got so many Democrat necks stuck out, ready for the guillotine because of scandal on their part.
And we don't pursue it.
We don't ignore it.
And the same thing here.
We don't use this to undermine their base with blue-collar workers in the civil rights movement.
The civil rights movement is being splintered here.
You're not hearing about it in the mainstream press, but the civil rights coalition, the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, there's a little bit of unease here at how eager the Democrats are to make this, the illegal immigrant population, the new civil rights movement.
There's a sense of competition here.
And of course, when you are a constituency of the Democratic Party, what's the competition for?
The competition is for their attention to make you the number one minority so that you get the largest or the majority of it in both policy and money.
And there are people who think they own that right.
They are the permanent minority.
They're the number one minority.
They're the chosen minority.
And the Democrats had better not abandon this.
This is the same thing with big labor.
Blue-collar workers are being totally ignored.
There's a fissure occurring in big labor.
Some organizations of big labor, not all, are uncomfortable watching the Democrats on this.
You've got big companies.
You've got the Chamber of Commerce in Washington pushing hard for this bill for illegal immigration.
And it's not because they care about Mexicans, but it's because they want cheap labor.
And let me tell you one of the reasons why corporations want cheap labor.
And you small business operators and large business operators will understand when I say this because it affects you both the same way.
Cheap labor is a way to circumvent all of the socialist big government regulations that have been imposed on employer-employee relations for the past 65 years with the ascendancy of liberalism since the days of FDR.
It's a hassle to start a business.
People do it, but it's a hassle.
There are regulations.
You got to hire certain people, can't hire certain people.
You've got to hire the incompetent just to make up racial quotas, all these kinds of things.
The paperwork is unending.
And so after a while, folks, things seek their own level.
And so cheap labor is one of the ways of dealing with all of these mind and since put it to you this way.
Not only cheap labor, but illegal.
If you know that they're not going to track you down and fine you and get rid of your workforce, then what do you have to worry about?
And who cares if they're paying Social Security taxes or not, or if you have to as a businessman, because if you don't have to, that's one less burden on you.
And if you know that people are not going to come after you from the government, then what's to stop you?
And this legislation with no enforcement in it whatsoever can say anything and it's not going to change anything.
Kennedy sees this.
Ted Kennedy sees this.
He's okay.
We're going to get these people into our country.
We're going to make them citizens.
We're going to get them used to entitlements.
We're going to get them registered as Democrats.
He's right that the Democrats will win here if open borders continues as a policy because the Republicans can't, Republicans cannot win.
The Democrats will get the votes.
Republicans will not.
There are some Republicans that think if we pander to this group of people, they'll vote for us.
If we act like we care, we're going to treat them as the backbone of America.
But unless we're prepared to get into an actual war over who can give away more benefits the best and fastest, we're not going to get the vote because these people are being sponsored by Democrats.
This is a total Democrat and leftist move, and they are being encouraged to do this.
There is a support system in this country for people, legal or not, as you well know.
And whether it be it health or unemployment, food stamps, I don't care what it is.
The Democrats are simply the ones who are going to promise this.
And why would you vote for people who are simply pandering to you, as in Republicans, when you can vote for the real socialist ideal in the Democratic Party candidate?
It's nuts.
So in essence, what do we have here?
We have these businesses and Republicans laying the foundation for a near-permanent liberal Democrat majority in decades ahead.
That's apparently what's going on here.
And there's no better place to look at that.
And I'm not trying to scare you.
There's time to stop this.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm not trying to be negative, but you got to be realistic at the same time.
And if you think I'm a little bit, shall I say, exaggerated when I say that the Republicans, by playing along with this, and along with the Democrats, are laying the foundation for a near-permanent liberal Democrat majority, take a look at California.
Take a look at what's happening in California.
Schwarzenegger's success there is due to his fame and personality.
He's abandoned whatever conservatism he had for the most part.
Now, what's happening?
Citizens and businesses are pouring out of there.
Citizens and businesses are pouring out of California, a whole host of reasons.
Taxes have to be high in order to support this permanent underclass.
But there comes a point when illegal labor becomes so oppressive in terms of subsidizing social services that even those who may have once benefited from it are forced to run and leave.
Yeah, you may be hired illegal to clean your bathroom and not pay them very much, but when the influx of such people gets to be so large that taxes have to be raised to pay for their social services and so forth, then the money you're saving hiring cheap labor is long wiped out, and you end up fleeing too.
It's beginning to look like a circus, like in Latin America and in Europe.
Now, let me ask you a question.
I was trolling around on the internet today, and I went to this place called whizbangblog.com.
Wiz is W-I-Z, and there's a picture along with the article.
And here's the headline of the article, Democrats recruiting at illegal immigrant protests.
A number of photos were taken at yesterday's Dallas illegal immigrant protest, including this one of a Democrat recruitment flyer encouraging Mexican immigrants to vote for Democrats in 2006.
Now, they've got a picture on this, a graphic on this thing.
At the top of the voter pamphlet, it says, your voice matters.
Make sure you are heard.
Vote Democrat in 2006.
Then there's a circular icon logo.
The center is a map.
The map has, have you seen this?
Texas and Mexico as one.
Let's work together.
Vote Democrat in 2006.
Texaco.
Texas and Mexico as one entity.
Now, remember, this march was in Dallas.
They probably had another book for marches in Arizona that shows Arizona, then another one for New Mexico, which shows, and then one for California, which shows California and Mexico as one.
Now, the fact that the Democrats are recruiting at these protests, I mean, it's not a surprise.
It fits into their big picture of race and politics, which is why the flyer's visual puts Texas and Mexico together.
The Democrats do.
You know, they look at people and they see groups.
They look at an individual and they see a group.
They classify people based upon race and then work to corner the racial voting collectives in every group.
At this point, the white vote's already split down the middle, half voting Democrat, half Republican, basically.
Let me ask you this.
The Republicans want to pander.
Republicans want these votes too.
I assume that's why we have Republican sponsors of this silly legislation.
So Republicans want these voters too.
That's why we're pandering to them, right?
So my question is this.
Are there Republicans recruiting at these illegal immigrant protests?
Have the Republicans put out a pamphlet?
Is anybody from the RNC recruiting?
Of course not.
You know why not?
Because they're not welcome.
They wouldn't be.
Can you imagine if a bunch of Republicans went into this crowd today and said, vote Republicans started handing up, there'd be violence.
They'd get stomped on, beat up.
There'd be busted heads all over the place.
And yet somehow the Republicans think that they can get these people's votes by pandering?
Democrats out there recruiting?
This is a huge, big Democrat effort.
All these protests are.
This is what they excel at.
And I guess the Republicans and McCain and all the, I guess they're blind to it.
And you've got the usual suspects behind this, the radical left, the anti-war left, the hate America crowd joined by the Democratic hierarchy, and they're all going to be showing up at various locales making speeches to these people.
Anyway, I got to run a quick timeout.
Sit tight.
Back with more in a moment.
So if you're watching television today, you're reading websites, you're going to see that immigration marches are taking place all over the country.
And since the word's gone out to the protesters this time to wave your American flags and leave the Mexican flags at home, then what you're going to see on television are immigrants with nary a word about illegal waving American flags around.
And then probably later this week, we're going to get a poll that says something more than 55% of the American people support.
the immigrants in their marches.
I know how these people in the drive-by media work, folks.
And when you understand that all of this is oriented around the reacquisition of power by the Democratic Party and the liberal left, you'll understand everything that's going on.
Some people said in the email, hey, Rush, that flyer that the Democrats are handing out, they handed out in Dallas yesterday with the map showing Texas and Mexico as one entity.
How come it wasn't printed in Spanish?
It was.
It was on the back side, it was in Spanish.
On the front side, it was English.
Got to be able to media has to be able to read it, know what you're passing out.
And the American people have to see it too.
So anyway, you watch, there'll be a poll.
Oh, yeah, we love immigrants in America.
We love the way they have become the backbone.
We love the way they love our country.
So we're waving the American flag.
Yes, there's a wonderful series of protests.
Not one mention of the word illegal in any of this.
Kathy in Gainesville, Florida, will take you first.
Welcome to the program today.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Go right ahead.
My comment on the protesters, he asked, what is the first thing that we thought of?
And the first thing I thought of is why aren't they doing this in their own countries?
Why don't they go back to their country and protest to their government to improve the economic conditions in their country?
Well, because the Mexican government's not like the French government, which caves inside of two weeks, the Mexican government is not going to, the Mexican government has, they want, they believe in a permanent underclass doing junk work.
That is one of the ways they maintain their moneyed elites maintain their status.
And we've got people in this country, it's not a bad idea.
We ought to bring it to influx.
It's a way to keep wages down.
I'll tell you something, folks, if people without high school diplomas and junk wages were the route to economic prosperity, the Mexicans would be running rings around us.
A lot of the other Latin American countries would too.
In some of these Latin American countries, not all, if you protest, you get shot, you get put in jail.
But at the same time, it is a way of life.
They do protest.
They do protest in a lot of places in Mexico.
In Mexico City, they protest over economic circumstances quite a lot, but it's never going to change.
And they're not interested in reviving their economy for that sector to build it up so the people will stay.
That's not what they're interested in.
Pure and simple.
But the Democratic Party sees votes here.
And the Republican Party, for some asinine reason, thinks that they've got votes out there too.
But the Democrats see votes.
I don't care.
Nothing else matters.
Union people, some of the union guys, they see potential new members.
Well, yeah, bring these people in.
We'll make them members of the union.
We'll collect more dues.
We'll pass out more goodies to the union bosses.
And we'll get the percentage of the workforce that is members of unions on the increase because it's been declining.
Some union members or union leaders don't see it that way.
They look at it for what it is, seeing the organized workforce continually undermined.
But the Democrats know where else Jesse Jackson is going to take his people.
We're not going to vote Republican, they think.
And same thing with big labor.
The Democrats, they're not going to abandon us.
Where else have they got to go?
There's a lot of calculating going on out there.
A lot of it miscalculating.
Just going to take time for it to materialize in ways that we'll understand.
Back in just a second, my good buddies.
My friends, I'm not kidding you.
We have a new study out on the ugly.
And it says that ugly people tend to lose their kids more in malls and movie theaters and so forth because they're too busy being preoccupied with their own misery at being ugly to pay attention.
I am not making this up.
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