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May 2, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 2, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Well, there are elections going on in parts of the country today.
As you know, there's a big primary election in uh in Durham, North Carolina.
The uh district attorney there, Mike Nifong, up for re-election.
He's running in the primary today to try to get a nomination to run for another term in uh in November and Slate.com.
Uh no conservative rag here uh has a really devastating piece on this guy.
I have some pull quotes from this.
Duke and cover.
When election time politics overtake the pursuit of justice, and here's here's one of the more profound pull quotes here.
Mike Nifong has exposed a reality of the criminal justice system that can often escape our attention.
Prosecutors captured captivated by the beneficial glare of the media spotlight are often ready to ignore convincing evidence of innocence in the politically motivated pursuit of criminal defendants, and they focus exclusively on what's going on at Duke and uh uh down in Norum, uh Durham, North Carolina.
Nyphon granted somewhere around 70 media interviews, appeared at a violence against women rally at a local black college.
It doesn't take much more than these facts to conclude that as a prosecutor, Nifong was exploiting a sensational case, not just to bring about justice in a specific dispute, but also in an attempt to spread the news of his tough-on crime ways with the voting public.
Prosecutors tend to be a cautious lot, particularly about public announcements concerning an unresolved case.
With their enormous power to charge and jail people, they tend to let their actions speak for them, and rightly so.
Although prosecutors in pursuit of the votes necessary to retain their jobs regularly stretch and occasionally flout some ethical dictates, uh, the fact that Nyphong's 70 interviews and his public endorsement of the stripper's claims of rape haven't seemed to generate either a formal ethical complaint or an official investigation into his conduct may suggest just how widely accepted the practice of writing public condemnation of criminal defendants to electoral victories has now become.
I'll tell you who else I think about when I read this is Ronnie Earle.
Uh in Travis County, uh, Texas.
And who wrote this a slate?
This is uh by David Faige, F-E-I-G-E.
Uh I think maybe it's some yes, David Faige.
Uh, as Nyphong, I'm just giving you excerpts here.
As Nyphonk's case began to collapse, having publicly dug himself in, the DA did what electoral victory seemed to demand.
Bush-like.
He not only stayed the course, but actually ratcheted up the pressure on the players.
First he executed seemingly frivolous search warrants, and then in the most egregious ethical laps of the case, he dispatched cops to the dorms where the lacrosse players lived in an attempt to procure statements from them.
And of course, he sought and secured indictments against two players, charging each with rape and kidnapping.
And then the author says after all that in a move reminiscent of Rudy Giuliani, he refused to let the defendants voluntarily surrender, insisting instead on an arrest with no legal purpose beyond more tough guy posturing and obvious perp walk photo ops.
And that all happened at what was it, 4 30 or 5 o'clock in the morning.
Uh, when that happened.
Mike Nifong, this is a closing comment.
Mike Nifong has exposed a reality of the criminal justice system that can often escape our attention.
Prosecutors captivated by the beneficial glare of the media spotlight are often ready to ignore convincing evidence of innocence in the politically motivated pursuit of criminal defendants.
The Durham DA's actions raise the question of whether prosecutors really are willing to win elections at the cost of wrongful prosecution.
Sadly, for Durham and Duke and for all of us, the answer in the Nifong case seems to be yes.
Now, I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea here.
I am I I share this with you only because this case is percolating, and you've got you've got a town down there that's a powder keg right now.
And if you talk to people that are there or have friends who live there, you will you will learn just how high the tensions are.
Because you've got you've got the template here that the mainstream media, the drive-by media loves, racial clashes, cultural clashes.
The nature of the evidence is irrelevant to the drive-by media because this is a great story.
And you've got Malik Zulu Shabazan down there with the new Black Panther Party marching decked out as a bunch of green berets in all black.
They are not, they're not armed.
Uh they sometimes go to their protests armed, but uh they're making their lists of demands and so forth.
And you you couple all that with uh with an election, and you think about Ronnie Earl uh and and his pursuit of uh of Tom DeLay.
Uh you have much the same thing, politically oriented.
Now, in this case, Knife Wong is not is not trying to destroy these defendants for their political uh characteristics.
And in the delay case, I think clearly what you have there is the attempt to criminalize political differences from one party to the next, and as Delay said on this program.
Uh the dumbest thing the Republicans in the House ever did was let the Democrats write the rules on who leaders of the Republican side can be.
And you know, that takes us right back to Shelby Steele's column in a way, because the Republicans have this rule, but the Democrats don't.
And the rule is that if you uh are in the leadership and you're indicted, you have to step down from the leadership position.
And why do they put that in there?
They put that in there to try to appease the Democrats.
They put that in there to try to show the Democrats we'll play fair, we'll share our power, we will, we will, you know, we'll we'll do what you want.
Just please like us.
Please like and so all they had to do was finally convince Ronnie, you'll go out and find some grand jury anywhere and indict this ham sandwich delay, and and and it'll get him out of the leadership, and then we can go along with our culture of corruption.
And of course, uh Ronnie Earle complied with it and went went right along.
All for a rule that the Republicans put in on just inviting this, knowing full well who the uh Democrats in Washington are and what they're capable of.
And yet, some sense of guilt, maybe the Republicans are guilty they won.
Maybe the Republicans are guilty they have power.
Maybe the Republicans are guilty over the who knows what it is.
But why in the world you would you would you would hamstring yourself with such a rule when the other side doesn't have the same rule uh is is beyond me.
Elsewhere in election news in Ohio, you know, there's a primary going on in Ohio today, and two interesting stories about that from Cleveland.
A sixty-one-year-old man was arrested after an alleged poll rage incident, according to Cleveland's news channel five.
Officials said the man was arrested after breaking a voting machine.
He faces disorderly conduct, obstructing official business, and resisting arrest charges.
It took several people to restrain this guy who was trying to vote at 4330 Jennings Road.
It's unclear what caused the man to become upset at the machine.
But he took poll rage.
We got a new term here.
Poll rage.
Guy just busted up a voting machine.
Now it's easy to speculate about this.
Uh, but I won't.
I will wait.
I will wait for Mr. Snurdley, I'm gonna write down, put it in an envelope for you what I think actually happened here.
And we find out if this story continues to be covered, and if we can find out why this guy else did what he did, we will open my envelope and we'll see if I'm right.
Will you participate with me in this?
Because I, you know, it'd be easy, folks, to sit here and say, I know what this is all about, and then after we learn it, I can say, yep, that's exactly what I thought it will.
I want to have proof for you that I uh uh made my wild guess uh before we actually had news of it.
And a Mason Dixon poll reported on the Senate race in Ohio, featuring the incumbent Mike DeWine, the Republican, and his Democratic challenger, the Congressman Sherrod Brown.
DeWine leads Brown by eleven points in the Mason Dixon poll.
Um, Mason Dixon analysts say that this is not a sizable margin.
It's not.
Uh It is significant that the well-financed DeWine is ahead by double digits.
Not sizable, but it's significant that it's double digits.
Whatever.
If DeWine portrays Sherrod Brown for the extremist left-wing liberal that he is, DeWine could win by a significant margin, and if he does that, he might pull vulnerable Republican House incumbents across the line with him.
So already heating up in Ohio as the Democrats make plans to impeach George W. Bush and begin with their subpoena power to investigate the corruption of this White House after they win the House in the November elections.
And underage drinking is worth nearly $23 billion a year to the booze industry, or about 17 and a half percent of all money spent on booze in the U.S. annually.
This, according to researchers from New York's Columbia University.
Abusive drinking by both underage people and adults may account for nearly half of all the money spent on alcohol every year.
Do you see where this is going, ladies and gentlemen?
Here is uh Susan Foster of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia.
She said, What we see here is that there is a large conflict of interest for the alcohol industry between profitability and public health.
All right, so uh uh big adult beverage.
Uh you're you're next.
You are next, just it was big pharmaceutical, big tobacco, big food, big oil.
Uh you are next.
If we uh if we if we have the same pattern followed, attorneys general in several states will file suit against all these uh horrible things caused by big adult beverage, uh, and we'll have this massive, massive uh settlement.
Now, I think the big adult beverage clowns, uh, they've they've they've got a much better lobbying apparatus than big tobacco has.
And I don't think there's uh uh transcripts or video tapes, records of big adult beverage execs uh going before Congress and lying about the effects of their product uh as they claim the big tobacco executives did.
And this, a dozen nieces and nephews of civil rights icon Rosa Parks have filed an objection to her will in hopes of gaining control of the use of her name and her image.
The family members who've been feuding for years with the people Parks appointed to handle her affairs, file a legal challenge last Friday.
Frederick Toka Jr., attorney for the family members said we uh were still very open to talk settlement in this case, if for no other reason the both sides have a deep respect for Ms. Parks.
Uh may I interject here?
Uh if if they truly do have a deep respect for Ms. Parks, I think they'd honor her choices and wishes and uh not be involved in this.
And we are back.
L. Rushball, the EIB network, Indianapolis, uh and Adam, welcome.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush Megadiddos.
Uh been listening to you since I was a teenager.
Thank you, sir.
Needed you to explain something for me here.
Uh, how are the left able to get by with justifying this program of amnesty and and basically stealing our social resources simply because the illegals want to come over and make a better life for their families with the opportunities that the U.S. provides, but at the same time every day they attack our system of capitalism that provides that very opportunity.
Well, no, no, no, no.
You're taking this one step too far.
Um they're not worried about the hypocrisy because they know that nobody's gonna point it out uh in in their favorite place of drive-by media.
You have to look the overriding concern for the Democrats here is these are potential future voters.
And that that's all that matters.
I mean, if if they get caught accidentally promoting capitalism as a way to improve these oppressed people's lives, eh, they'll deal with that later.
They'll call you an idiot for thinking that uh at some point.
Of course, you're right on the money.
We can we can spend all day pointing out the hypocrisy of Democrats and the left.
But it's it's it's if you understand what's behind it, in this case, they're cultivating voters.
There's a voter outreach.
They're recruiting in these in these marches.
They're printing pamphlets up, they're running out recruiting voters.
All over the place.
Uh and by the way, uh they can even score points and make headway with these people by ripping the capitalist system of this country by claiming and telling them you are in your predicament because evil Republicans don't want you to have the opportunity that exists in this country.
They're gonna keep you down and keep you illegal and keep you this and keep you that.
We want you on our team.
So they've even they've even got a uh a way around that if they if they bother to take time to explain it.
But your question right on the money.
Tommy in Chicago, you're next.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Russ, first of all, I want to thank you for taking my call.
Second of all, I think you you left out the DA's name who was fooling around with you.
I think these people are absolutely absurd.
But wait, wait, wait, wait, wait hold hold it.
Just a second.
Tommy, uh I d uh I'm glad you brought this up because uh the when when reading the knife long piece uh and I'm not gonna take away from the rest of your call time here, but uh reading the night knife long piece, I don't want anybody to to infer that there was anything other than uh the stuff about knife on.
I was just reading what somebody else wrote that it was in Slate magazine.
I was I was treated uh in the end of this in a in a far more fair way than knife wong or Ronnie Earl is dealing with uh uh with with their cases.
Uh there was no perp walk.
We came in we came to an agreed settlement in my case, and there it everything's fine.
Uh the w both both sides think this is the best way to end this in my case, the state attorney's office and and me think this is the best way to go with this, and I've got no criticism of them on on the way this this uh was handled or went down.
So don't don't don't infer anything from that, please.
No problem, Russ.
But Rush, you know what?
I want to say this to you.
You were talking about uh uh white guilt, and I think this is a perfect opportunity uh uh for uh for white people to uh uh come to a simple conclusion.
What we're dealing with now with this immigration is is not about racism.
It i it is not about uh uh uh uh whites against uh Mexicans or anything.
This is about a legal issue.
And the bigger issue on all of this is Rush is that when you follow the money trail, you you you remove the illegals, and then you'll start finding out that it's Republicans and Democrats who who have prospered from all of this nonsense, which is why they're simply telling us to uh give uh uh passes uh uh workers' visas because we can't get twelve million people uh uh out of our country.
Well, I would like to remind everybody that there were some individuals that were threw down in cargo holes that didn't ask to come here to this country.
There were individuals who marched down the street that only asked to be Americans, and no n nothing ever happened uh with those individuals that beat them.
No nothing ever happened with those those individuals who who actually uh killed marchers, who who was just in a simple uh uh uh peaceful march.
But here's my bigger point, Rush.
My bigger point is simply this.
This is a great opportunity to wipe out uh uh uh uh guilt.
There are things wrong in this country, but I'm a black man living in the greatest country on on the face of the earth.
I once rolled an automobile uh with some friends, and I didn't know that they were gonna rob a store, and they did.
And from doing that, 30 years I've carried it in in in my life the fact that I cannot work for the city, I cannot work for the state, I cannot work for the government.
There is no ammunity.
I cannot vote.
And for uh and for any politician to sit up and tell me some some crap about well, these people here are only trying to uh uh uh better their economic condition, I wasn't trying to rob anything.
I was just out joyriding.
And I say to America that this is an opportunity for all of us to stand together as white, blacks, Hispanic.
I don't care where you come from, if you come to this country uh uh legally, it is an opportunity for us to stand up and say enough is enough.
And if we are called racist simply because we're dealing with with the uh issue uh uh of legal and illegal, I leave you with this, Rush.
I ch I d I dedicated my life to find an individuals who were like me who just made a mistake, who society said on a on on an application that have you ever been convicted and they hold their heads down and they go back into this uh because they don't think they they can make it.
Well, I was one of those people that worked for restaurants.
I was one of those people that would that worked uh uh in the hotels.
I was one of those people that cut grass.
I was one of those people that did anything I possibly could legally, Rush, that that that I could get ahead.
And now I own my own business in the greatest country in on the face of America.
And I say to all Americans.
Let's stand up because all that happens is that when good people stand by and watch this stuff that's going on, attacks on people like you, attacks on the president, attack on our military.
It is a shameful act for a politician to stand up and say, I will pay you fifty dollars an hour to go and pick cabbage for a season.
Not for one day, but for a season, but yet it didn't happen.
God bless you, Russ.
Tommy, uh uh that was powerful.
That was really, really powerful.
He has identified.
By the way, I would disagree with you on one thing.
The guilt of racism is causing us to hamstring ourselves on this immigration debate.
But listen what he he's he was Joy Rodin got convicted, he didn't participate, and he can't do a lot of things in this country now, and yet others illegality is swept under the rug.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have here on the one and only excellence in broadcasting network.
You people may have heard about this story, but a bunch of seals are flummoxing uh the Army Corps of Engineers and a bunch of environmentalist uh wackos and animal rights types.
A particularly crafty sea lion is befuddling the Army Corps of Engineers who have come to believe that the 1,000 pound mammal is either from hell or from Harvard.
The uh sea lion and his ilk have been camping out at the base of the Bonneville Dam and munching salmon who are trying to migrate up the Columbia River to spawn.
Last year they ate about three and a half percent of the migrating salmon at a time when salmon numbers were down and demand was up.
This year's run began uh in earnest in uh in April.
One particular sea lion, named C-404, because of a brand deplied by a state and federal programs in a class by himself.
He's figured out how to get into fish ladders that help fish past the dam where the endangered salmon and other fish become his easy prey.
The engineers have used everything legal to get rid of him.
They've installed gates, they tried huge firecrackers, rockets, rubber bullets, and noises that sea lions don't like.
But C-404 has given them the flipper.
The California sea lion and his kind are not endangered, but a 1972 law protects them.
Incorrigibles, however, can be singled out for lethal removal through a long complicated process, said uh Robert Stanzel, a fish biologist with the Corps at Bonneville, about 40 miles east of uh of Portland.
All right, now let me I want to take you back to a period of time in this program years ago.
This happened, late 80s or maybe early 90s, drive-by media all vexed over dolphins that were getting caught in the tuna nets.
Remember, we even came up with a little parody, dolphin free tuna.
And the environmentalists and the animal rights were demanding that dolphin-free tuna only be uh available because these giant nets were being let out there and they were catching a bunch of uh a bunch of uh little flippers.
Uh and then a little chunks of flipper to show up in the cans of tuna.
And, you know, I at the time everybody's worried about what's happening to the to the to the to the dolphins.
I asked a very simple question.
What about the tuna?
I mean, yeah, we make an occasional dolphin may end up in a net, but look at all the tuna that we're wiping out.
Nobody cares about the tuna.
Well, now here we're gonna by the way, it's news to me that salmon are endangered.
That is news to me.
Salmon's all over the place.
You got certain salmon you can't fish for uh during certain times of the year, but this is good.
This is this has gotten a little bit out of hand.
I this doesn't surprise me.
I've been I've been salmon fishing one time, went with some, but it's where I met the Hutch.
Went with the Hutch and Paul Westfall and Howard Slusher.
We went up Vancouver Island up in Canada.
And we're out there fishing, and I'm I'm I'm trying to reel in my uh my second salmon of the day.
And the uh idiot boat operator was having trouble positioning the boat so I could reel a salmon in.
And we got real close a couple times, but the salmon uh escaped uh his net, his uh clutches.
And then the salmon started running, had to let the line out a little bit, and all of a sudden, where we're just about to nail this salmon and bring it aboard because I've caught the thing, out of nowhere Pops up this giant sea lion and just in one bite that salmon is gone.
And the sea lion had just been out there, lazy bum, making us do all the work, catches dinner for him, and at the appropriate time pops up, chomp down, and there goes my salmon.
So this this doesn't surprise these things are smart.
But what what w now we're do we can't do anything about it uh because the uh these these sea lions are outsmarting the engineers.
They're not outsmarting the engineers.
We just we can't do anything to 'em because they're they're they're protected even though they're not endangered.
Uh when we start trying to manage nature, we just we make so many mistakes and misses.
It's j it's just breathtaking to uh to behold.
This this sea lion apparently is immune to any action taken against it.
Rubber bullets, bad music.
I wonder what it uh what did what what can speaking of bad music, didn't didn't the United States get a little grief for playing rock and roll music uh in at Abu Grab.
What was the uh what was the artist we were playing at either Club Gitmo or Abu Grab uh to irritate them and it got everybody upset.
If it upsets a terrorist, it would certainly upset maybe it was a Dixie Chicks.
We ought to play the Dixie chicks and just scream them real loud.
We tried this with Manuel Noriega when he was down there holed up in uh in Panama.
We've we started playing loud rock and roll music trying to irritate him when he was inside some building.
Peggy, Sun City uh Center, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
How do you do, sir?
I'm fine, thank you.
Thank you.
I need your adult beverage.
I'm mad.
I'm livid.
A year ago I wouldn't have been.
Today I'm furious.
I got totally unsolicited today, a telephone yellow page directory, all in Spanish at my front door.
Now you wouldn't have thought anything of it.
Do you speak Spanish?
Absolutely not.
I wonder how this happened.
I speak English, American.
But just in the last week or so with all this stuff about the illegals and the shutting down the economy and changing the words to the national anthem, and now they want me to have a yellow pages in Spanish.
All right.
The jump the shark moment has occurred.
Everybody has their tipping point, and yours has been reached.
Oh, I'm there.
A year ago, you wouldn't have cared.
You didn't care about any of this.
I would have just thrown it away.
But now you get this phone book coupled with all this stuff going on and finally your consciousness You bet I've had it.
I'm absolutely livid.
I've had it.
It's it's gotta stop.
Well, what's now what but I have to tell you, but when you go to any uh DMV to get your driver's license, go to any any government bureaucracy for any reason at all, you'll see I've got to admit it's always bothered me that I can I have to go and I have to read it and and if but if I speak Spanish, someone else reads it to me so I can take the test.
I've seen that happen.
No, but I mean they've got signage that's posted in Spanish in all these places.
Well, sometimes they can't read.
Yeah, but then you've still seen it.
Whether they can read or not, you're still so what was it about the phone book, the yellow pages in Spanish.
I think I heard someone play the national anthem this morning in the Spanish version, and they told us what they were saying, and that just I wanted to pull my hair out, and then this showed up.
There's a last straw.
There's just a last straw.
And this is it.
See, I I think I totally understand.
Everybody has uh has has their their breaking.
It was Metallica, but it was a metallica we were playing for Al Qaeda terrorists at the Club Gitmo.
Oh, well good.
Play out play Metallica for these uh these clown seals.
I thank you for letting me scream and yell.
Pardon?
I thank you for letting me scream and yell.
All right.
That's fine with me, gringo.
Uh and I really could care less whether they speak Spanish or English.
It's just too much has happened right here, and I I've just had it with all of it.
It's gotta stop.
Tell me the work.
I'm sorry, it's this isn't Mexico.
And there's a whole whole huge section in this phone book with all the Spanish speaking consulates.
A huge section of it.
Starting with what's the first analphabet that it's a good one.
Wait a minute, how do you wait a minute?
How do you know if you can't read Spanish?
Well, I can see Venezuela.
You know, I can read that.
That's pretty much the same in English or Spanish.
But it it starts out with Colombia and goes all the way to Venezuela.
No, it starts out with Argentina.
And that is, you know, they pretty pretty much most of them are spelled similar.
Yeah, okay.
But it just and and there's a whole section on services and how to get them because I can tell.
I uh just in English, you can tell enough to know what they're talking about.
Yes, yes.
IRS.
I think I think what's happening to you is happening uh all over the country to people and has been for a while.
You're just you're you're one of the later rivals.
Uh but everybody everybody has the breaking point uh on this.
And uh in Peggy's case, it's uh it's uh Yellow Page's phone book all in Spanish.
Peggy, you are you still there by I've got to ask you a question.
Yes, sir.
Where is Sun City Center?
It is in Hillsborough County, just south of Tampa.
Just south of Tampa.
Uh-huh.
All right.
Great place.
Oh, I'm sure.
No state income tax there either.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, thanks for the call.
It's great to talk to you.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
George in South Windsor, Connecticut.
You're next.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
I mean, it's clear what the Liberals are doing here.
I mean, the the number one minority group used to be the African Americans.
Now they're being surpassed by the Hispanics.
They kept the Liberals kept the African Americans dependent.
Now they're just making the Hispanics dependent and locking up that voter block.
I can't, I can't believe referring to this as the next civil rights movement.
Absolutely.
Well, there's no you're no question you're uh you're right about this.
I by the way, you remind me, I want to go back to something Tommy from Chicago said.
He was right.
But but uh it he was right in the in the sense, but it's not the reality.
He said that the immigration issue in this country has nothing to do with racism.
And it does, in the sense that it was racism and slavery that provides the foundation of guilt that people have over the uh people of color or people who are in minority status or people who are of uh you know lower socioeconomic circumstances.
Oh, who are we to tell these people they can't seek a better life in our country?
Why we to kick them out?
Well, that would we were we would be bad people if we did.
I don't care about our laws.
We must do the morally right thing and so it whether it it it I know it's not a uh a racial issue, but the the the foundation for uh the stigmatization of how we would think of ourselves, and I'm talking about the people who don't want to get tough on the uh illegal side of immigration, because they would just feel bad about themselves.
They're overcome with the stigma.
Uh uh this is a nut for them, this is a great example, great opportunity to show just how imperialistic the United States is and just how arrogant and just how contact and how uncaring and how we lack compassion because we have all these people from oppressed countries and we want to keep them out and keep them poor, blah, blah.
And it dovetails very nicely with the standard Democrat template in describing Republicans on this, which is one of the reasons they gravitate to it so automatically.
Let me check the Dow here to see what uh Okay, Dow Jones industrial averages of sixty-five uh points.
It was up as high as seventy-six uh about twenty minutes ago.
And I mention that because here we have a story in Bloomberg today, the Bloomberg Newswire.
U.S. productivity springs surprise growth.
We had all these economic stories yesterday, which all said confounding the experts, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Makers of goods from Campbell soups to the springs in Harley Davidson motorcycles are keeping a resurgence in U.S. productivity going longer than most economists thought possible.
For the past five it's because they're doom and gloomers.
Most economists' careers are based on predicting doom, so they can be and they're gonna eventually be right at some point.
We are gonna have slowdowns.
Uh and it makes more news when you predict uh hell in a handbasket than if you predict rosy times.
For the past five years, productivity, which is a measure of employee efficiency raced ahead at an annual rate of three point three percent.
That's almost double the rate of the previous quarter century, twenty-five years, uh, for those of you in Rio Linda.
Based on past economic expansions, that trend should be uh about played out by now as companies run out of the ways to bring more output from their workforces, but not this time.
Instead, after falling for the first time in five years at the end of 2005, productivity came roaring back in the first quarter, according to economists, and they expect a labor department report this week to show just that.
And the uh the pace may last another ten years.
This productivity pace may last another ten years.
According to research published in April by Harvard University economist Dale Jorgensen.
Merrill Lynch chief economist David Rosenberg said bizarre is not a strong enough word.
We have never seen productivity growth this strong-headed into the fifth year of a business expansion.
The efficiency gains are allowing U.S. industry to produce and export record volumes of goods, even with spare factory capacity at a five-year low and the smallest workforce since 51.
Well, that that would manufacturing we're talking about here, produce and export record volumes of goods, may last for ten years.
Makes perfect sense to me.
We're running out of victims for the Democrats to cultivate here.
Worker productivity is up.
We know that unemployment is down at uh at a at a near record low level.
Uh core inflation, not yet skyrocketing.
Signs are good.
Of course, Nancy Pelosi will reply to this or react to it, and uh she'll say something.
Well, uh that doesn't cover most of Americans.
That is faint hope uh for uh a majority of Americans who are being punished by the Bush economic policies.
And here's an accompanying story from Investors Business Daily.
Is Mexico writing the tales of an expanding U.S. Since we're Mexico's largest trading partner, of course, they're benefiting from our strong economy, said Martin Schultz, the director of international equities at Legion Asset Management.
Uh Mexico's also doing quite well in its own right.
They've instituted economic reforms and overcome huge debt problems.
So we're bringing the economy uh along.
But that's right, there is a new threat out there, folks.
Despite all this good news, don't believe it.
It's time to go cower in the corners.
In total fear, the new threat is the dollar, supposedly going down.
Could stay down for years to come.
The value of the dollar in the currency exchange markets.
George in Indianapolis, hello, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello, Rush.
What uh what an honor and a privilege to talk with you.
Thank you, sir.
Um, I just wanted uh to bring maybe another point of view to this uh discussion about the white power article.
And first of all, just want to say what a great article.
Uh that's you know, I I got into a discussion and at a college class, uh, it was a human factors class, and somehow we got off talking about power.
And I could tell right away the negative connotations that the conversation was carrying towards power, and I didn't understand why.
Um, but now after after having heard the discussion about this uh piece and hearing the piece, my gosh, it just makes so much more sense to me.
Uh, yeah, it I mean, uh the all kinds of lights go off uh when you when you uh really get into the Shelby Steel piece.
Again was the uh focus of the first hour of the program today, and we have linked to it at the top of Rush Limbaugh.com.
It's up there now.
And if you do if you go get it, read the whole thing, folks.
Uh don't stop halfway through.
There are parts of it that get put uh placed into context later on that you could misunderstand and maybe get angry about.
Uh, because when you read about white power white supremacy, this is this is not a racial criticism or comment.
He's making a social, cultural, political analysis and observation.
It is a great, great piece.
And it it like it did here with George, it'll it'll just turn on all kinds of lights and explain so much of the left to you.
Uh it's really valuable piece.
Got to run a quick time out.
We'll be back and wrap it up in just a sec.
Hi, we're back.
I don't have time to take the call, but uh I think I can summarize it.
It's uh Tom from South Holland, Michigan.
Tom, pardon me, I don't want to burden you with having to say what you want to say in such a short period of time.
But he is uh uh has a friend who is uh uh Hispanic businessman, and uh this friend is is upset that politicians uh in this country are making non-assimilation easy.
Because this is it it's become now I know what he's saying, it's not about it's not about immigration really at all.
And we're making non-assimilation easy because the politicians don't have the guts to deal with this.
Uh his his friend employees uh uh Spanish speaking people have sent them to English class and they quit it.
They refuse to finish it.
Uh so you do have some people out there concerned about this.
I'm telling you, the jump the shark moment has been reached, that there's a there's a backlash occurring.
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