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May 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 21, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
One of the one of the two biggest movies out right now.
The two biggest movies is anime.
Well not well, Shrek 3, Shrek 3's big, and number 2, Spider-Man 3.
Spider-Man 3 was number one before Shrek 3 came along.
And it just made me think we don't do sequels on this program.
We don't do three quels.
When you get the news, it's the news.
We don't do the same news over and over and over.
Hollywood losing its creativity.
Great to have you back, folks.
It's great to be back with you.
We are at the EIB Southern Command, Rush Limbaugh, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila the Hun chair here behind the golden EIB microphone.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today.
800 282-2882, the email address Rush at EIBNet.com came in this morning, asked snerdily, because I didn't see it.
And I knew what it was going to be.
I didn't I was zapped.
I got it late last night from Los Angeles.
Played golf yesterday.
Why tell you what a weekend out there?
Filmed a couple of um nine hours in a studio, two locations on Saturday for the half hour news hour.
And then uh played golf yesterday with a couple buddies at Bel Air.
Rolled in here about 10:30 uh last night.
Had to do some work because I'd been out of pocket on the news uh for most of the weekends.
I went to bed about 1.30 or 2 o'clock.
So I didn't get up to see what the Today Show did today, but I knew what they were going to do before they did it because I predicted it to you on Friday.
We sent them, I just want you to know what happened.
We sent them reams of data.
HR spoke to the producer three times.
Friday afternoon.
They interviewed Michael Medved about it to get a voice agreeing with my side.
They didn't use him at all.
They just used this hack from the George Soros funded uh uh front group for the Democrat Party, Media Matters for America.
And it was it they it was it was pathetic.
You know, they're posting the lowest ratings they've posted in years.
They're just barely ahead of Good Morning America.
It's bad.
They've got a smaller audience than we do.
Uh and and I it it's just they had to try to get this wrong.
There's no other way this could happen.
This and they don't even understand the point of the parody, Barack the Magic Negro.
It's a piece on Al Sharpton.
It's not it's not even a hit piece on on a on Obama, and it's uh everything in it was originated by Liberty.
You know all this.
Here I am, I'm doing a three-quel now.
We're what this is about a 14-quill trying to explain this, and they just don't want to get it right.
I've I've got the piece here, the audio of it.
I don't even know if I want to play it.
Well, it's just it's just it's just it's just giving more attention to today's show and the stupid reporter that they used.
And it it's all it's just a smear.
I mean, this hat's every day to me.
Um all right, well, I'll think about it.
We got the emigration bill going out there, the the um here, get this.
Get the while NBC today is airing two and a half month old news, which the Barack the Magic Negro controversy, of which there is none, over on NPR, Koki Roberts is doing a story on the immigration bill, and she quotes Democrats, she quotes Republicans, and she quotes Rush Limbaugh.
And the quote from me that everybody's using is that this immigration bill is the comprehensive destruction of the Repart Republican Party Act of 2007, which it is.
It's not only the destruction of Republican Party, it it has a chance.
If this thing were to ever uh be signed into laws that exist now, it has a chance to effectively eliminate the conservative movement as a powerful relevant force in this country.
And I will explain that as the uh as the program unfolds.
Now, the uh people of today's show, as you will hear, speculate.
Well, how come nobody's mad about this?
Limbaugh getting the free pass, how come nobody's mad about this?
They conclude that with my audience, which they also get wrong, they have it 15 million, the audience is a little over 20 million now.
They they uh they conclude it's a niche audience.
It's a niche audience, and you people out there, your racist sex is biggest two.
And that's why you didn't have any objection to it.
It's a niche audience.
In other words, nobody outside my audience has any idea what's happening.
It's so niche, it's so odd.
All these uh excuses, but clearly they're trying to stir it up out there, and and they think that that's what I'm trying to do.
Like last week.
Well, if there's Rush trying to get noticed.
Like I don't have that problem, folks.
Have you seen the pictures on the Drudge page of Al Gore and his office at his uh at His uh little mansion there in Nashville.
Uh, folks, if you haven't seen this picture, you gotta go look at it.
He's telling the rest of us how to live our lives, telling all the rest of us how we have to cut back on our carbon footprint.
He's telling everybody what we've got to do to eliminate all the pollution and so forth, while he's doing the exact opposite.
He's shown there sitting at his desk.
He's got three huge flat panel computer monitors.
He has a flat screen TV hanging on the wall.
All of them are turned on, all of them sucking energy.
Look at how crowded and busy the desk is with all of that paper.
You know how many trees had to be cut down to make all that paper.
The only people who need three 30-inch monitors turned on at the same time are people like me, radio hosts, stockbrokers, and the men and women at the CIA's op center.
But a guy like Gore does not need all that, plus, and he's got a big deal about the windows being open, the air conditioning turned off, saving energy that way.
Of course, this picture was taken, I don't know what it was taken, but uh uh the the amount of heat being produced by all that equipment's gotta be that that room he's in, it's gotta be a sauna.
No wonder he's um losing all that weight.
Now that's a total snipe.
Yeah, that's not slobby when you no, no, no, that's busy.
That's relevant.
That's he's look at all he's got going on.
Let's the that's the image of that picture.
Look at look at look at what Al Gore's got going on.
But anyway, when you look at the picture, this from the guy that wants us to unplug all of our cell phone chargers when we're not using them.
Talked about this last week.
How prescient am I?
This is this is what I mean when I say you are on the cutting edge societal evolution poll.
American satisfaction at new low.
It's an AP story.
It's gloomy out there.
Men and women, whites and minorities.
It's not women and minorities.
It's whites and minorities.
It's gloomy, men and women, whites and minorities.
Oh, and there's a piece in the stack, a feminazi from Salad.com just takes out after Michelle Obama for giving up her job and giving up her career to become his official hostess.
Oh.
Does this this when I share the details of this with you?
You will understand exactly why.
I have said what I have said about all this in recent weeks.
Only 25% of Americans surveys say things in the U.S. are going in the right direction, according to A.P. Ipsos this month.
This is about the lowest level of satisfaction detected since the survey started in December of 2003.
Uh rarely have longer running polls found such a rate since the even gloomier days of '92 ahead of the election of Bill Clinton.
Uh it's uh uh widely blamed on public discontent with the war in Iraq with President Bush.
It is striking for how widespread the mood is among different groups of people.
Yeah, they break it down here.
Uh 9% fault of the economy, 8% a loss of moral values, 5% gasoline prices.
We need to get out of war.
We need to get our economy back up.
We need to quit spending money outside of America and bring it here, said Democrat Lisa Pollard, 45 and insurance company analyst in Arlington, Texas.
Let me tell you something, folks, I'd be gloomy too if I was stuck at home talking to a pollster on a landline.
If that was my life waiting for the phone to ring for a polster to ask me questions, who are these people talking to?
The pollsters.
Doesn't matter, I guess.
This is their poll.
They are creating this poll to create this news.
Uh and and by the way, who's responsible?
Who is it that I was watching, I was having breakfast this morning, and I I did turn on the Today Show.
I knew the piece had already run.
So I just had turned on.
See if there's any late breaking news out there.
And why?
When did those shows in the morning stop doing news, by the way?
You know what I was watching?
I was watching some woman, some expert, telling people how to lose weight.
And if you have if you have to have crunch in your diet like potato chips, go out and buy the little small bags.
That'll help you with portion control.
And go out and buy little small bags of Oreo cookies that only have 100.
And I'm thinking, what a bunch of children they think we when it snows, they send a reporter out there to stand there telling us it's snowing, and it remind us to drive carefully and put on the chains if Necessary.
And every year it's the same thing.
Now we're going into summer.
Now it's the requisite obligatory diet stories.
And so, and and and uh they routinely pepper people with all of this doom and gloom and chaos.
It's no wonder that everybody out there is uh is glooming.
So here you have the lying associated press telling us that uh you and I that we're unhappy with our country.
And these are the same people that criticize their own country, then tell me the rest of the world has lost respect for us.
Who is it that's out there bashing this country each and every day?
The drive-by media, the Democrat Party, then they give the world has lost respect.
Anyway, uh Hillary Clinton, the New York Times story, two candidates to roll out domestic proposals.
Have you seen what Hillary wants to do?
Something like uh five billion to ten billion uh for pre-K four-year-olds.
I had head start, I know, but this this is this is this is universal babysitting.
She is touting universal babysitting here.
It's all because it's because you don't know how to raise your kids, folks.
Only schools and the government.
That all this is, Hillary and the Democrats want one more year than they already have with your kids.
Having them from K through 12, and then if they go to college all those years, that's not enough.
Now they want to get your kid at age four.
And how many of you, uh how many of you out there are still fretting, fuming, bothered uh in angst, gloomy and doomy over gasoline prices.
Well, try this headline.
Frozen federal gas tax leading to more toll, fuel levies, fund to build and fix highways near shortage.
AP again.
A cash crunch is fast approaching for the government trust fund that pays to build and repair highways and bridges.
The federal tax on a gallon of gas is not risen in 14 years, Congress reluctant to increase it, people demanding more fuel efficient vehicles, which means fewer dollars in the fund, people using uh uh getting more miles per gallon with these little lawnmowers they're drying out there.
States are looking for other places now for road building money.
And uh they're talking raising the gas tax.
You just aren't driving enough now.
You just aren't that we've this story's been done before, too.
You know, they did all this great work, they thought in California to get all this increased gas mileage and the new formulations of gasoline that found out that it worked and that people bought these new cars that got more mileage.
The state realized, hey, we're getting short-shrifted here on our tax revenue.
Can't can't, it's like people quitting smoking.
If everybody that smokes actually quit smoking, you realize what panic there would be at uh at state, in state capitals and so forth.
So I just want you get ready, folks.
And this idea that there's a shortage of money anywhere is absurd.
2.9 trillion dollar budget.
We're not short of money anywhere, but the idea here that the gas tax now is not is not uh enough to fund road and bridge repair and building and so forth.
So uh, and of course, when this tax goes up, and it will, this is a precursor to it, the tax will go up, the gasoline tax will go up.
The Democrats are going to raise taxes all over the place.
That budget that they submitted, the 2.9 trillion dollar budget is the largest tax increase in American history, and it's not just on the rich.
Uh they're gonna go out and tax uh other income levels.
We're gonna raise the rate on capital gains.
This is they get the White House if they get in power, that's what they're gonna try to do.
But for those of you all there just you're you're you're wringing your hands over the price of gasoline, uh prepare yourselves for down the road the gasoline tax to go up, and that'll be your government once again profiting without one penny of investment.
We'll be right back.
Stay with one more little thing here based on uh story I have in a stack of stuff today about Al Gore, a true visionary, right?
Al Gore is said to be the creator and inventor of the internet and a visionary on a number of things.
The man who sees the future.
And what did he do?
He went out there and he made a huge deal about wiring all the schools for internet.
And when did he do it?
Right before Wi-Fi came along, right before wireless networks came along.
It wasn't necessary to wire all the schools.
The wiring of the schools has been rendered pretty much well, maybe it's not irrelevant because story from uh the UK telegraph, Wi-Fi risks in schools must be reviewed.
The head of Britain's leading health watchdog today urgently calls for a review of potential health risks linked to wireless internet scruals.
Uh Uh networks in uh in Scruals.
Sir William Stewart, the chairman of the health protection agency, spoke after emissions at a school were found to be three times those of a mobile phone mast.
The Stewart report concluded that while there was no current proof of health dangers, some studies suggested possible risks, and that precautions should be taken with children because they are more vulnerable to radio frequency radiation emissions than adults.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, do you do you understand something?
Do you know how many radio waves are bombarding us on a daily basis?
Let's say you live in New York.
The television stations, the radio stations, every one of them is broadcasting radio waves.
Your brain just doesn't have the necessary ingredients to and understand it.
That's why you need a radio.
It's why you need a television.
In addition to that, who knows what other kind of broadcast or non-broadcast you've got the cops, you've got the fire.
I mean, it's limitless.
The number of times, number of gazillions of radio waves that you are being cell phone radio from the cell tower, not from your phone.
You're being you were being hit with these radio waves like you can't believe.
Now all of a sudden it's been happening since radio was invented.
Now all of a sudden, Wi-Fi with no evidence whatsoever is going to pose a tremendous health risk to our children.
Philip Parkin, General Secretary of the Professional Association of Teachers in the UK, said, I think school of parents will be very worried about VIF Mr. Limbaugh.
I'm asking for school to consider very carefully whether they should be installing these Wi-Fi networks.
And it even says here uh radio waves, other non-ionizing radiations have been part of our lives for a century or more, and if such effects were occurring, then damage or other untoward effects would have been recorded and studied.
So once again, just a great example, how they're trying to get you all worked up.
Your kids gonna die, your kids are gonna get sick, Wi-Fi, wireless internet, all the other um radio wave, no damage.
That's something about Wi-Fi.
We've got audio sound bites of Mrs. Clinton here on this on this uh universal baby city sitting idea.
Uh she was on the Today Show today with Matt Wauer, and he said, let me see if I can paraphrase the initiative.
Basically, you're gonna call for universal pre-K, universal babysitting.
My term.
You're uh you're going to say that states need to spend a lot more money to expose students, particularly low-income children, to high quality pre-K because studies show that the greatly enhance the uh education experience down the road.
Is that accurate?
Well, that's right, Matt.
I want every four-year-old, regardless of parental income, to have access to high quality pre-K because it not only enhances their uh academic preparation, they stay in school longer, they have fewer behavioral problems.
And you know, Matt, there's uh a lot of evidence that uh this saves money over the long run, and economists and others have validated what uh experts in early childhood education have told us for a long time.
What evidence?
We don't have this.
What if what what evidence is she citing that this is going to help out?
And by the way, what does this say about you parents?
Hillary doesn't like the way you're raising your kids.
Your kids, if you listen to the next bite, your kids are turning into human debris, riffraff, and there do well because you are horrible at raising your kids.
You need to turn them over to a government-run babysitting place sponsored by Mrs. Clinton.
Here's Lauer's next question.
Isn't there another study or group of studies that says, hey, if you spend this money on high quality pre-K, but you don't then invest more money on high quality education down the road, fourth what?
We are already doing that.
It's not the money.
Anyway, that some of the results of the pre-K are lost, isn't that true?
No, because if you don't invest early, uh, you don't get the results that you need in those later grades.
You know, there's a lot of uh corrections officials who use uh reading scores from third and fourth grade to make predictions about how many prison beds they're going to need.
Uh we know that the dropout rate goes up if kids get to third grade and they don't feel comfortable in school and they can't read well and then they just feel like their failures are going to be lost.
Timeout, stop the tape.
So we're gonna fix the reading problem with K4 or or yeah, whatever, K4 babysitting.
We're gonna fix the reading problem.
What do you she's indicting the education system here, and she's indicting parents and claiming that the only solution to this is um is the uh is the government.
So folks, uh just be on the lookout.
The liberals are prowling and they're doing it out in the open now.
They're making no bones about what their agenda is.
They're no longer fearful of hiding it like they were before the election last November.
They want the government to be as large and in as intrusive as it can possibly be.
They want to get a hold of your kids now one year earlier, uh so they can have a little bit of a head start, if you will, in indoctrinating them, despite the fact that there already is a program called Head Start.
This is just going to be another redundancy.
Uh, and of course it'll work if they ever get into power because the people know oh, education.
Education, we must be concerned about education.
Of course we should, but uh there are many problems with it now, and the people have screwed it up, and the ones telling us how we want to fix it, and it makes no sense to listen to the failures, and we get solutions.
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Let's move on to illegal immigration here.
And where we stand today.
Uh we know that we've had the McCain Cornen blow up, and McCain, by the way, in that blow-up, typified precisely what I pointed out to you in a brilliant two-hour analysis last Friday.
McCain wants to get this thing done.
He wants to have no debate on it, because the extracurricular politics will stand in the way.
This thing needs to be put together behind closed doors in a back room with activist groups v giving uh uh Democrat activist groups having veto power.
Nobody will ever be able to see the whole thing.
He needs to be rammed through.
McCain doesn't want you getting involved.
That's what extracurricular politics is.
He doesn't want you debating it, he doesn't want anybody having a chance to stop in the way, and I keep hearing this phrase, it's the best we can get.
What a way to sell it.
It's the best we can get.
I mean, it's this has got an email.
Why would you go to a Motel 6?
I'm just assuming that's where most people who would ask me to stay with their wife, their son, their daughter, and their pets would stay.
I wouldn't.
You know, I at any rate.
The bottom line, ladies and gentlemen, is that this cannot stand scrutiny.
It cannot stand the light of day.
Uh it does not have broad-based support in the Senate.
I think that uh all of you have been heard, and you will continue to be heard uh on this.
It's clearly amnesty.
It is giving up, it is caving in.
Now we can talk about the Republican side of this uh all you want, but frankly, that's not the side of this that interests me the most uh because it's it's probably easier to sum up.
They're stupid.
They're just blind on this.
They have no clue what the result of this, if it were enacted as written, would do to them.
They have no idea what it would do to their party.
They can't.
They can't have any idea.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be supporting this.
They wouldn't be for it, they wouldn't be out the Republicans who are, wouldn't be out there trying to push it.
The interesting thing to me on this is the Democrats.
And I have a piece here from the American thinker.com today by Stephen Woshowski.
And a fascinating paragraph that I happen to agree with totally.
Because we mentioned last week on this that the big all these numbers that are being thrown around are very low.
Twelve and a half million illegals, you look at their family members they're allowed to bring in, 400,000 new every year.
There's no stopping this if it if if this were to signed and be signed into law as it is, the numbers are so significant.
We're talking about a total demographic shift in this country.
And here's the pull quote for uh pull quote from Steve Worchowski's piece.
The demographic Changes wrought by this bill.
And this is the Democrats.
This is what Teddy Kennedy's after.
This is what all of the Democrats and the Liberals who are for this know.
The demographic changes wrought by this bill are likely to make a meaningful conservative movement in this country, one dedicated to the traditional American principles of limited government, private property, free enterprise, personal responsibility, strong national defense, and patriotism, a practical impossibility.
There's simpl we are going to import so many people who will be by their economic necessity, and they're going to be pursued and they're going to be tied up, they're going to become Democrat voters.
And this brings about, in these great numbers, were this to happen, a genuine threat to the viability of a conservative movement in this country as having any practical reason to exist.
It would be so small.
And I, you know, this is the thing the Republicans don't see.
This is precisely why the Democrats are for this.
If you look at it the way they look at things, they look at this like they look at everything else through the prism of politics and how it can best benefit them, secure their power, and keep it for many, many, many moons, little Indian lingo there.
And the point of this is to make it just impossible for the conservative movement to have any practical reason to exist in terms of a majority uh movement in this country.
Some of the some of the uh highlights of this piece, out of control immigration represents the greatest existential challenge of our time.
And by existential challenge, I mean a public policy problem that goes to the heart of what it means to be American, and which threatens to fundamentally and perhaps permanently alter American society for the worse.
Everyone agrees that something needs to be done, quote unquote, about the immigration problem.
Yeah, there are strong disagreements over what that something should be, but few Americans believe that what we need to do is enshrine the current broken situation into law and then expand it.
Yet that's exactly what this comprehensive destruction of the Republican Party Act of 2007 will do.
It's uh folks, it isn't, it is an utter disaster.
And it must be defeated.
There's there's there's no middle ground here, and the best they can say, well, it's the best we can get at the time, something has to be done, and that is perfect Washington mentality.
Something has to be not the best, not something smart, the unintended consequences of the Mark Stein has a column, and there's the best he has written the best uh definition of legislation that I have ever come across.
Um you can look at the I'll tell you what, this this piece of legislation is going to erase America.
That's the word of Selwyn Duke writing on a blog.
It will erase America as we currently know it.
And the Democrats are fine with that.
They're trying to remake the country in their own image anyway.
They're gonna process of tearing down as many of the traditions and institutions as possible, and they don't want to rebuild the country in their own image, once and for all.
None of this debate stuff, none of this argument stuff, none of this having to win elections.
Let's get all these people in here vote Democrat and make this something that's just a fait accompli every four years.
Here's Mark Stein's definition of legislation.
As John McCain declared, this is what the legislative process is all about.
Meaning you get behind closed doors, nobody knows what you're doing.
When you finish it, you ram it through so that nobody can see what you've done, and you tell people, no, we don't have time for this.
This is so important.
Something must be done.
We don't have time for the usual procedures.
We've got to get this done now.
That's what the legislative process is all about to people like McCain, not letting you know what's going on.
Also, legislation, in the sense it's a sloppy, drafted, bottomless pit of unintended consequences on a potentially cosmic scale, whose sweeping reforms will inevitably require even more sweeping reforms of the reforms in a year or two's time.
This is what happens, and this bill is full of the question is would the reforms take place?
Look at any look at look at the Simpson Mazzoli.
It was supposed to fix the problem.
The first time Senator Kennedy talked about fixing this in 65, is supposed to fix the problem.
Anything they come up, tax legislation does, look at all the unintended consequences.
ooh, gee, we didn't think, ooh, we got to go in and reform the legislation.
And it's just a cycle that keeps repeating.
And people think that when legislation's passed that progress is taking place.
This ought to show you that that's not the case.
We got enough laws.
We have more, we have more than enough laws, just adding to it.
This is to fix a mistake.
This this is exactly what this is.
The unintended consequences of Simpson Mazzoli.
Now we got to go and reform that reform, comprehensive immigration reform.
This is going to create so many mistakes.
The question is, are they are the mistakes, quote unquote, the Democrats are eager to see made?
I think they are.
Delray Beach, Florida, this is Martha.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
It's my pleasure.
Oh.
Well, here, uh the the with the new Z Visa.
It's my understanding they have to go in and they pay a thousand dollars to get their visa at up front.
Is that correct?
It's irrelevant.
It is.
They're not going to be paying anything.
Two weeks after this, we're going to speak hypothetically.
If this became law, a week or two, I think it's 5,000 in fines, a thousand, whatever it is, they're not going to have to pay it, because then we're going to hear people like Senator McCain and others.
By the way, it warmed my heart to see Lindsey Graham get booed out there in South Carolina.
Warmed my heart.
Stand up for yourself, Lindsay.
Strap to stop trying to be McCain Jr.
It's going to hurt you.
But anyway.
McCain Graham, all these guys, this is we we made a mistake.
They can't afford a thousand dollars.
They can't, they can't, they can't uh it this this is taking food out of their children's mouths.
We we must be more compassionate, and they'll waive it.
There is no There's no incentive here, ma'am, to keep the immigrants out.
There's no ins the incentive here is to get them in here and get them in here yesterday.
Exactly.
But here's my point.
Even if they had to pay a thousand dollars, what who of us can invest a thousand dollars and get back ten thousand dollars in interest in a year, which they cost us every year.
Each one of them.
That's a pretty good return on your money, even if they did.
Well, but okay, you've just you've just nailed another thing, but I want you to give another uh look at this.
I want to give you another way of looking at this.
You're looking at it in a dollars and cents way.
What you have to look at is what is this ideologically or politically.
This is precisely the redistribution of wealth.
Even if we did charge them a thousand dollars for their Z visa, they're not gonna be able, when they arrive here, to fund all of their necessary needs and wants themselves.
You will.
You're gonna be paying for that, because we're compassionate people.
We can't let these people starve.
We can't leave them hanging on the street if they can't find a job even if they're here.
And so your money, my money, your tax money gonna be redistributed to these people.
It's it's it's classic liberalism.
Uh right out in front of the open, right?
Right right in front of our eyes.
And remember this about your $1,000.
Everybody's missing the point.
It's not about citizenship.
This is not about they are legal.
The minute this is signed into law, they are legal, and the courts have said they're entitled to all these things that will require the redistribution of wealth.
They're they're they're entitled to it.
So uh forget citizenship, and and as I as I mentioned, this is an important point, and there are very few people that I've seen anyway talking about this.
And that is how this era of immigration differs from most of the previous eras where it has always been controversial.
And that is there's no, nobody talking about assimilation.
The immigrants are not talking about assimilating.
The uh the government is not talking about having them assimilate.
There is no focus on that whatsoever.
In other words, becoming quote unquote American.
In fact, we got systems in place to stop that bilingual education, affirmative action, there's no need to assimilate.
So uh it's folks, it's bad.
It is a horrible, horrible piece of legislation.
And the very fact that these conferees negotiated this in secret behind closed doors, don't want anybody to see this is all the proof you needed.
Back in just a sec.
Talk about the Selwyn Duke piece, also on the American Spectator great website today on the uh illegal immigration stuff, Selwyn Duke, uh, talking about why they won't assimilate.
And there's one key paragraph here.
The whole thing is good, but the one key paragraph traditionally, Americans never relied on government to achieve most of their goals, and ensuring assimilation was no exception.
Many years ago, For instance, if a person insisted on dressing like an advertisement for the middle ages, didn't learn the language or sought to impose strange beliefs in the workplace, he would have been fired or not hired in the first place.
What this means is that the Moslem clerks and the cab drivers who respectively won't ring up pork and won't pick up passengers with alcohol or seeing eye dogs would either have to change their ways or they would have had to return to where ways don't change, have to go back to their own home countries.
This enforcement of tradition through individual initiative is what almost every non-Western country doesn't make sense.
If you're so enamored of your native ways, stay in your native land.
But if you tried this today, though, you'd receive a treatment from the proctologist of government bureaucracies, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Yeah, because freedom of association has been trumped by lawless judges.
Citizens have lost control over their businesses, rental properties, and in many cases, organizations.
Privately owned and financed entities can no longer determine who receives payjacks, who'll be served, who'll be rented to, thus removing the social pressure to conform that the common man would naturally apply via the exercise of his values in his castle.
Likewise, local scroll boards have been robbed of the right to set dress codes and behavior standards reflecting the surrounding community.
What this means is now that you can't refuse to hire a cross-dressing Colombian from Cartagena.
It sounds almost Jeffersonian.
Almost we now traded liberty for perversity.
America is being erased.
And in the sense that the distinct American culture is being erased because we don't have the guts to stand up for it.
We don't have the guts to insist like we did in the past when it came to massive numbers of immigrants.
Paul to State College, Pennsylvania, I'm glad you called.
Thank you for waiting, and welcome to the EIB network.
Professor Lindaugh.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, I wanted to comment on the uh Hillary Clinton uh taxpayer-sponsored babysitting service.
Yes.
Um I uh another example of classic liberalism.
You know, I the point I would make, and as you probably know, is that over the last few years a lot of schools have gone from traditional half-day daycare to full day or to kindergarten to mandatory full-day kindergarten, and this is really just the next step.
Yeah.
And the point I'd make to Mrs. Clinton is what kids need at two, three, and four years old is not to be an a state-sponsored daycare with uh 22-year-old fresh out of elementary education school teaching them and among six or seven other kids at the same time.
They need to be with their parents.
And until somebody comes up and with a bill that tells me that we're gonna get spots, we're gonna get help to stay home with our kids.
I just don't buy it.
I don't see it as being.
Well, wait a minute.
Do you realize what you just said?
I don't know.
What did I do?
You're a conservative guy, and you're waiting for a piece of legislation to say that these kids have to stay home with their parents.
We're going to turn that over to the I know you're reacting because things are out of control.
Let me tell you what the problem is.
And Mrs. Clinton knows this, but doesn't dare do anything about it.
Where we are losing kids educationally is in the second grade to third grade, the fourth grade, when they're not being taught to read, they're not being forced to learn how to read, they're being passed from one grade up to the next without uh requiring the necessary components of passing.
And so they the reason for this is liberalism in the public schools.
It's all there's all I mean, problems are myriad.
But what is a liberal look at this and see?
Liberal looks at this and sees, oh my gosh, we've got we've got K through twelve, we got but if we're losing them and they can't read, they can't grant.
Well, we we we need even more education.
The idea that we might want to reform a busted public school system never occurs to them.
Because I tell you, I hate saying this.
I really I really do.
But there's a there's a part of me that believes a lot of this is true.
I don't think that they're that upset about this at all.
The more dunces there are out there, the more people are going to be incapable of taking care of themselves.
And liberals think most people can't anyway.
And so when kids go to school, screw up and don't learn to read, that's just the way people are.
They're fulfilling liberals' own low expectations.
You've heard of the phrase of soft bigotry of low expectations.
Liberals think kids are going to go to third and fourth grade and can't read for whatever reason.
So rather than fix that, you can't do that.
You'd anger the teachers' unions and all.
No, let's add another year of school.
And let's let's make the country think we really care about children and so forth.
Then let's start talking about how the Wi-Fi wireless internet networks might be provoking health problems and so forth.
And uh and you, because you you you think that they really mean all this, they'd be glad to surrender your kid to another government-run babysitting operation.
This time at age four, rather than age five or six.
And get this: there's a there's a new group of people who are bulking at the new immigration bill.
You know who it is?
Employers, big business.
They don't like the responsibilities that have been shoved off on them.
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