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May 24, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 24, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
All right, is everybody ready in there?
Are you ready up in New York?
All right.
Well, wait a minute.
I don't see H.R. sitting there.
Well, good.
Well, we're almost ready.
Actually, we only need me to do this, so let's go.
Rush Limbaugh, America's anchor man truth detector with another three-hour excursion into broadcast excellence.
A thrill and a delight to be with you today, folks.
Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program today, 800 282-2882, and the email address, rush at eIBNet.com late night last night.
One of those could this could be one of those giddy days, uh, folks, when I get not much sleep.
Uh up late last night uh with some friends consuming adult beverages.
And uh well, the the uh friends are at a couple.
Uh yeah, it but it was it was a great, great, great time.
Anyway, about three or four hours sleep last night that always makes me a little giddy.
I actually feel quite uh quite good.
The president today with the press conference, uh, most of the questions on Iraq.
He uh his prepared statement started out with Iraq and then uh went into uh his emigration bill.
Uh and I I waited uh wanted to see what the questions were primarily focused on.
They were primarily focused on Iraq.
Uh we have one with David Gregory here.
We're gonna play for you in in mere moments.
But remember uh yesterday on this program as we opened up, we had the shocking, stunning news that female sharks can fertilize themselves.
News which, of course, was not a surprise to me.
We have more shark news here today.
Scientists desperate now i i given the news yesterday, sharks can fertilize female sharks can fertilize themselves.
So this next story is a bit puzzling.
Scientists, desperate for reluctant sharks to mate, plan to pipe the romantic music of Mozart, Beethoven, and Puccini into their Northwest England aquarium tank.
Uh no, this you how can you call this Mozart, Beethoven and Puccini porn?
This is not shark porn, this is a romance.
Well, display supervisor Carrie Duckhouse, somebody named Duckhouse, runs the shark tank, says 20-year-old male brown shark blood nose has spurned the advances of 15-year-old Lucy since they were introduced a year ago at the Blackpool Sea Life Center.
She says other sharks have also turned out to be cold fish.
And we want to play them the kind of soft and emotional music that inspires powerful emotions in humans.
Uh we hope it's going to put them in a passionate frame of mind and get them uh mating.
What a bunch of idiots.
These are sharks.
Have you ever tried to play music for your pets?
They're clueless.
They haven't the slightest.
This is this ongoing effort to humanize uh animals is hilarious to me.
I just had to mention this to.
By the way, the Sacramento whales, the whales that are out there in the uh in the Delta, uh scientists can they tried that with well, they played humpback music and so forth.
They uh did everything they could to get those whales back to saltwater, back to the ocean.
They're still having trouble.
You know, and I I I can't help but but uh but wonder we have all this power to destroy our climate or to alter it, uh, and yet we can't find a way to get two whales back to their natural habitat.
I guess that's because of uh global warming as well.
Mrs. Clinton, uh, a staffer puts out a memo that it was unsolicited, they all say, that she ought to just bypass Iowa because she's not doing well in Iowa, and Hillary says, I'm not gonna bypass Iowa, I'm gonna be in there all weekend.
I'm gonna so she's she's uh anyway.
That the the the point of this is is that the inevitability of Mrs. Clinton's candidacy is starting now to uh be felt uh in uh in real terms.
She's polling very poorly in Iowa, and you don't want to go in there and lose.
I mean, that's what happened to Howard Dean, if you'll recall, and uh he never recovered from that.
And that gave us uh John Francois Carrie, who served in Vietnam, as you uh might uh might remember.
Anyway, let's go to the president's press conference.
The first question I want to play for you of some David Gregory, who I have a new nickname for, Brave Dave.
Here is the question from David Gregory.
It's about Iraq that happened mere moments ago at a Rose Garden press conference.
Mr. President, After the mistakes that have been made in this war, when you do as you did yesterday, where you raise two-year-old intelligence talking about the threat posed by Al Qaeda, it's met with increasing skepticism.
Majority in the public, growing number of Republicans appear not to trust you any longer to be able to carry out this policy successfully.
Can you explain why you believe you're still a credible messenger on the war?
Where we have brave Dave, brave Dave Gregory, who uh man who supports the troops as much as he supported Don Imus.
When I've got in trouble, I must help make him a star.
When I must uh got in trouble, there was Gregory running for the hills.
Now we talked about this uh this yesterday.
This business that the two-year-old intelligence dump uh that the president referenced yesterday uh is regard is receiving the American people with skepticism is absurd.
It's it's received with skepticism by people like David Gregory.
In the media, uh here's the president's answer to the question.
I'm credible because I read the intelligence, David, and make it abundantly clear in plain terms that that if if we let up, we'll be attacked.
And I firmly believe that.
Uh, you know, look, this has been a long difficult experience for the American people.
I can assure you, Al Qaeda who would like to attack us again, have got plenty of patience and persistence.
And the question is, will we?
Uh yeah, I talked about uh intelligence yesterday.
I wanted to make sure the intelligence I laid out was credible, so we took our time.
Somebody said, Well, he's trying to politicize the thing.
If I was trying to politicize it, I'd have dropped it out before the 2006 elections.
I believe I have an obligation to tell the truth to the American people as to the nature of the enemy.
And it's unpleasant for some.
I fully recognize that after 9-11 and the calm uh here at home, relatively speaking, you know, cause some to say, well, maybe we're not a war.
I know that's a comfortable position to be in, but that's not the truth.
You know, I we we talked about this yesterday, too, and I I I'm still stunned uh that that more people I can understand the media.
The media, by by virtue of the number of questions they asked on Iraq today, is still interested in uh forcing the president's surrender, admit defeat.
Uh they want they just want to blow this up uh prior to the 2008 elections.
Uh we talked yesterday about the fact that the uh uh people after World War II, our generation, the baby boom generation today said, look how how could the German people have let that happen?
What what what what what went on?
And you can ask the same question about what's going on today in America.
How could the American people not understand what's going on?
It's not as though 9-11 didn't happen, it did, and you've got Ahmadinejad who today again has threatened Israel.
Uh threatened to wipe them off the map.
He's done this frequently, bin Laden Ahmadinejad, uh Al Zawahiri, it matters not who it uh is on the enemy's list.
They're telling us plain as day what they're going to do.
We've got intelligence here that backs it up.
Uh and they people in the drive-by media just don't want to believe it.
It's uh it's stunning.
And you know my theory on this, and I think I well, we know the media is who they are.
But in this country, why are so many of the American people?
I'm not sure what the percentage is.
Uh why are they so uh uh seemingly removed from this?
And the answer is we've got so much prosperity, we have so much affluence that uh people don't have to pay attention to this if they don't want to.
And it's tough to pay attention.
You pay attention to it and act like something's wrong, then it requires you to take action or be vigilant or what have you, and some people just don't want to think of it uh as themselves or their neighborhoods of their country or various cities being threatened uh on a daily basis.
And so I've always thought it's gonna take a couple more attacks to uh wake uh everybody up.
The president continued, by the way, the answer to David Gregory with this.
They are direct threat to the United States, and and I'm gonna keep talking about it.
That's my job as the president is to tell people the threats we face and what we're doing about it.
And what we've done about it is we've uh strengthened our homeland defenses.
Uh, we've got new techniques that we use that uh enable us to better determine, you know, their their motives and their plans and plots.
We're working with nations around the world to deal with these radicals and extremists, but they're dangerous.
And I can't put it any more plainly, they're dangerous.
And uh we will but I can't put it any more plainly to the American people and to them, we will stay on the offense.
It's better to fight them there than here.
And this concept about, well, maybe, you know, let us kind of just leave them alone and maybe they'll be all right, is naive.
These people attacked us before we're in Iraq.
They viciously attacked us before we're in Iraq.
And they've been attacking ever since.
They are a threat to your children, David.
And whoever's in that Oval Office better understand it and take measures necessary to protect the American people.
Throwing down the gauntlet to the American people, throwing down the gauntlet to the Democrat Party, throwing down the gauntlet to David Gregory.
Your children are threatened, David.
Now, as to this notion that uh the November elections express the will of the people and get Oh, by the way, the kook fringe of the Democrat websites is going nuts today.
Move on.org has finally gotten in gear.
Uh a number of people are are suggesting reading Pelosi are total failures, exactly what I knew was going to happen because they retreated from retreat, and they surrendered from surrender by removing a definite time uh frame for withdrawal of U.S. troops.
So there's there's all kinds of problems out there on the Democrat side.
The drive by is that I'm going to tell you about.
This notion that the November elections were about the will of the people, and the will of the people wanted us out of Iraq.
I've had this in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers for a couple days, sitting on this.
It's a poll from the Investors Business Daily.
Great, great publication.
And they're just uh there are nine simple questions here.
Question one how important is a U.S. victory in Iraq?
All Americans, this is this month.
Sixty-one percent say it's it's important.
Uh Democrats, 44% say it's important.
Republicans, 84 uh percent say it's important.
How hopeful are you the U.S. will be able to succeed in Iraq?
All Americans, 56%.
Break it down by party, Democrats 42 percent, Republicans 80 percent think that.
Who would you like to see the president rely more on for advice on the conduct of the war?
Field commanders, 72 percent.
The Congress, 21%.
Now, what is this?
How can this possibly be if the results of the election in November were that the will of the people was expressed to get out of Iraq?
They don't want the Congress involved in this.
Which of the following must be a higher priority for the United States?
Immediate troop withdrawal, uh, forty-six percent, winning in Iraq, forty percent.
Now that doesn't make sense with any of the other questions, but it's in there.
Um would you agree that the war is lost in Iraq?
Percent who disagree, all Americans, 54% disagree that the war in Iraq is lost.
Would you agree the U.S. is fighting a global war on terror?
All Americans, 64%.
Even 52% of Democrats say so.
81% of Republicans.
There's a couple other questions here, but you get the drift.
We'll be right back and continue.
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I got a lot of emails today.
Uh after the president's uh press conference, his opening remarks on immigration.
One of those emails stood out.
They were all of the same variety, saying had the same theme.
Rush.
You know, I can't dislike the president on this.
I mean, I got a lot of those who say they do, but uh the ones that intrigue me.
Well, I I just can't dislike the president.
He seems to really believe that this is the right thing for the country and the right thing to do, and it's hard for me to to to work up any animus against him because he's uh he's sticking to his guns and so forth and so on.
Uh as we talked about this yesterday.
Well, actually last week, I offered you my theory as to what is behind the president, and it's a pure wild guess.
Uh, just like your weather forecast every day.
But uh the president's a man of deep faith.
Uh that's the source of his strength.
That and the close circle of friends that he has.
And if you're not in that close circle of friends when he was in Texas, you're not gonna be in it anywhere else.
You're you're not gonna be in it, period.
And I uh I I think that that to him this is a matter of good works.
He's leading a flock.
I don't want to use religious lingo because that's not how I really mean this.
He's he's helping uh in his mind uh uh people who are downtrodden make a better life.
And he's proud that his country offers the opportunity.
I also think uh uh in independently of that, and perhaps this may be a part of this political calculation in this, as you know.
Trent Lott has come out just now and said, uh we need to pass this bill.
I want to warn you people, he's going to be the drive-by media's new favorite Republican senator.
He would he's gonna he's gonna be able to uh uh recapture all the lost respect over that Strom Thurman joke that he uh told and Prant got run out of Washington for.
Well, yeah, he got run out of why essentially he was a Senate Republican leader and it got stripped from him.
But this will bring him back.
The drive by he's grown, he has matured, and he is right on the issue.
But I'll tell you, folks, there's one thing to consider here, and it's it's it's a flawed flawed calculation on the part of those making it.
But you one thing you cannot take out of this immigration debate.
Let's say you're in Washington, let's say you are a uh a senator or a member of the House, and that you understand, we all know they understand, and we understand that there are going to be tremendous pressures on our social safety net in the next 10 years, 20 or 30.
Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, you name it.
And uh the efforts to reform those programs have failed.
It's like touching the third rail.
You get electrocuted and you're dead if you try to mention any reform of these entitlements.
And these guys don't want to touch the third rail, people in Washington.
Now, next you have to realize that we have uh a replacement birth rate in this country that just isn't it it ain't it ain't cool.
And nor do the Canadians.
I have a story.
And one of the one of the common reasons in both countries why the replacement birth level is not what it should be is abortion.
What you figure since 1973, 1.3 million abortions a year.
Uh that's that's that's taxpayers we don't have.
That's that we are we are we are I think these guys in Washington are deathly afraid of the of the explosion straight ahead of us, of the tax rates are gonna be necessary to pay all these benefits.
Uh the baby boomers are gonna retire, and I think they're scared to death of it.
They are scared to death that people are gonna revolt and not pay a 70% tax rate.
Right now, the number of workers that it takes taxes from workers to fund just the social security benefits of one recipient is three.
So the burden of paying the taxes necessary to support a single Social Security recipient is three workers.
With the birth rate being what it is, uh and everybody living longer, and the retired age retirement age not uh not adjusted at all, uh that burden's gonna be down to two workers.
It's gonna take the taxes of two workers in order to fund fully a single Social Security recipient's benefits.
I don't want to hear from you social security recipients who think you're only taking out of the system what you put in.
That that that ended long, long time ago.
And I think they're looking, and they don't dare say this publicly.
They're not gonna come out and say we've aborted too many kids and we need new taxpayers to keep these.
They're not gonna say that.
So they cloak it in all of this other rhetoric that they think will sell the jobs the American people won't do and so forth and so on.
That's why, plus the Democrats want these voters.
They want the tax, they want they want as many warm bodies in here to be able to fund future retirement benefits and Medicaid and Medicare benefits, because we simply aren't reproducing faster.
Well, we are, but we're aborting way too many.
Now, here's the problem with that.
It's flawed because the people that we are letting in are not skilled workers who are not going to take well-paying jobs.
These are poor people, uneducated, who are going to be coming in as cheap labor.
And there's a lot of people who look forward to that too.
Big business, a lot of other people of cheap labor.
This notion that uh uneducated, unskilled labor is The future of this country is absurd unless you are a person that thinks we need all these new taxpayers.
Fifty million new taxpayers would overcome the number of citizens we've aborted since 1973.
But here's the here's the ultimate problem why that won't work.
We're importing a bunch of unskilled, uneducated, and therefore they'll be low paid.
The transfer payments to them are going to wipe out whatever benefit their taxes, their social security taxes and income taxes will generate.
So it it it's it this is it it's bad.
It it is it's not going to account if that's what they're thinking.
We need all these new warm bodies to pay taxes to cover these entitlement programs that aren't going to be reformed.
These new arrivals are themselves going to be participating in the safety net programs.
So the net is going to be a greater outflow to them than what they are contributing in taxes.
But I will bet you a dollar to a donut that that's why some of these people in Washington are for this, but they don't dare say it.
A man, a living legend, a way of life, also known as the scariest and most dangerous man in America to the American left, and that's because I'm right.
And they've tried and failed to take me out.
800 282882, if you want to be on the program, let's go to Crestwood, Missouri, outside St. Louis.
And uh Martha, great to have you here.
I love that name, by the way.
Martha, one of my top fifty feet uh uh favorite female names.
Actually, it's in a it's in the top ten.
Well, I would hope so.
Um, I'm calling about the monologue you gave yesterday, which was brilliant and um, which one they all they all are, and I w well I'm I'm trying to remember which one are you talking about.
Oh, well, one of the many.
Um the one that really explained how dangerous the terrorist threat is to our country and that people better wake up and realize it before it's too late.
And you know, the people and you've been saying the same thing today, and so has the president that that the threat is so real, people better wake up to it and hope that there's um somebody in the Oval Office election.
You know, I I I I'm very flattered that you would uh that you would say this.
Uh you mentioned the president did talk about it today, but you know, everybody asks me, everybody, because they know that that uh that I know him personally, and I've made no bones about it.
When you get him personally, he's a totally different guy.
Put him behind the camera.
Everybody marvels at at the difference.
Um I was talking about this the other day when talking with the Republican elites and so forth, uh uh versus Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan had the ability to connect to people.
He had the ability to make a you know, 25 million people listening to him on TV think that he was speaking to them individually.
And then I I think that's what Bush misses, because he said, he said all of those things that well, many of them that I said yesterday, but he didn't personalize it.
He didn't, he didn't he didn't say it in a way any differently than he has, and he didn't reach through the television uh in such a way as to make people stop what they were doing when listening to it and and reflect.
Well, he was probably trying to copy you because you do that.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That's that's but can you uh will you let me ask you my question?
Yeah.
I mean, I just didn't want to be able to do that.
Well, you have to look at even though I'm giddy and I'm working on little sleep, you inspired a whole bunch of little brain movements there.
I apologize.
Yes, go ahead and ask the question.
I I'm sorry you didn't get um very much sleep because this is a serious question.
Um but anyway, um along with your brilliant monologue yesterday, I've heard you say a lot of times that the Democrats are eventually gonna be sorry because they're digging their own graves and they're um you know gonna self-destruct.
And when that happens, the Republicans are gonna be right there waiting to to, you know, retake their control and their power, but that it might not be in two thousand and eight.
That's right.
It might be later than that.
And in view of what you have told us about the dangerous threat in the president too, it just seems to me that that's not much of a consolation.
And we should, you know, not be taking I I don't find much comfort in that thought that maybe after half of us are dead, um, the rest of us might live to take back power.
What's the question?
Well, why why you made me stop another brilliant monologue for a question, and you made a monologue.
You didn't have to What's the question?
I'm saying I've heard you say many times as if we should all feel better about the way um you know the way that the Democrats are beating up on Bush.
Oh, no, no, no.
Drive by media is always, you know, telling us lies and stuff that we should feel better because we're eventually going to get our power back.
But maybe not in two thousand and eight.
And I'm saying, isn't that going to be much too late?
That's not what I've said.
And it's interesting that that's how you heard it.
What I said was that the Democrats are sowing the seeds for their own landslide defeat.
Now, in you know, part and parcel of that is that the Republicans win.
But but but I I I attach, you know, depends on who the Republicans are at that point, whether that makes any difference.
I'm not assigning automatic improvement if the Republicans win.
I can't predict this stuff.
I'm just giving you the You've also said there's a pretty good chance Hillary's going to be our next president.
Yeah, I've said 80% chance as we sit here today.
And I was every day rush, I know what you said.
Not that you don't know what you said, but I know that's what are we arguing?
I guess so.
I'm sorry.
Our first fight.
I apologize.
Not even married.
We haven't even um had a lot of sleep.
But no, I'm serious.
I do listen to you all the time, and I know that's what you say.
I'm not denying it.
But I didn't I didn't ever say the Republicans will be back in power.
That's not the point of it.
Uh I was just offering an analysis of where the Democrats are going.
I was I was I was not saying what that's going to mean.
Yesterday I did.
If I if if they do win in 08 in the context of this monologue that you uh are referencing from yesterday, we're in deep doo doo because they do not want to admit what we face.
They're out there actively the past six years denying that we face it.
Remember what the peg was.
The peg was the brick girl at the Council on Foreign Relations saying the war on terror is nothing more than a bumper sticker slogan.
Exactly.
Well, all right.
So so th I th it scares me.
I am frightened to death if these people, if somebody like that, with that attitude about the uh the United States is a great nation at great risk in a dangerous world.
And if if we elect somebody doesn't understand that, then it's it's uh it frightens me.
Well, that's exactly what I'm saying.
I mean, we can't we can't feel good about maybe we'll get somebody in the White House other than Edwards, you know, not this election but the next election.
We have got to get one in this election.
Okay.
Well, I I wasn't suggesting we're not going to try to make that happen, but but I I don't know when they're going to implode.
I I just know they are.
I don't know when the effects of their implosion are going to be felt could be 08.
Uh we'll we'll wait and see.
It's still a long time off.
But my question for you, as as an American citizen sitting out there near St. Louis in Crestwood, Missouri, what's your daily attitude about the country?
Are you worried?
Are you wringing your hands?
And I this is not a setup.
There's no wrong answer.
I want to know how you're how you how you really feel.
Do you think the country has lost some of its oomph?
You think the country's not as great as it used to be?
I think this it breaks my heart every day because I think this is the greatest nation there ever has been and exists today, and I think it's going down in flames.
And I think there are things that we could be doing about it that we're not.
And it frustrates me every single day, and I'm terrified.
Literally?
I mean you you you're terrified?
Exact I am.
I am always terrified.
Every time I listen to the news.
How much uh how much news do you watch, would you say in the course of a twelve-hour day?
Well, um I I listen to talk radio and I watch, you know, Fox.
I never listen, I never watch CNN.
I just um but I know what's going on every single day.
And I know what the drive-by media is saying as opposed to what actually happened uh is actually happening.
So I know what's happening.
Well, the reason the reason I ask you is that uh while I agree with with uh with your assessment uh that there are warning clouds on the horizon, the immigration bill portends a tremendous uh amount of destruction demographic demographically or change.
But uh despite all that, you know, people ask me constantly, how do you stay optimistic?
Uh and I don't it's not something I have to try to do.
I I uh I go through, you know, periods like everybody else does of uh feeling well not helpless.
I never feel helpless because I have this I have this microphone.
But I still look at this country, as you just said, uh as as the greatest country on the face of the earth, and while we hear stories about Iran's building up and the Russians are starting to beat the drums again and all the stuff going on in the Middle East, there still is nowhere in the world it can compare to us.
Uh and the the we're we're fed the daily notion that we're the only nation in the world in trouble.
We got Venezuela, it's going great guns.
We got China, man, their economy is growing.
They're in trouble.
China isn't don't let anybody tell you they're not.
Um the Russians, they've got everybody has problems, and they are far worse than ours.
Uh the problem we face is not from these external threats from these well, I can't say that because there are always going to be those those external threats posed by uh nations that think that we're enemies.
The thing that concerns me most about the country and its future is the uh American people.
When I see 35% of Democrats, uh 35%, that is a huge number of Americans think that George Bush knew about 9-11 before it happened, and you have to conclude then that they also might think he let it happen if he knew about it, and then what you conclude after that, you need somebody that studies the insane to be able to tell us.
But uh aside from that, you know, we people like you, you're there there are more people like you than you know who are willing to fight for the country to maintain the institutions and traditions that have defined it and have uh have made it great, and there are more of you than you know, and it's you know, we're we're we uh we still have uh an opportunity here for a for a rosy future.
The nation has always been threatened from outside and from within.
It has always faced these threats, and it's because of our freedom.
It is because the freedom that we I asked somebody the other day over the weekend I was out in Los Angeles, and I was stunned this person had never, this person around in the late forties or early 50s, not even considered this question.
I said, I remember how we got onto this.
I said, if you ever ask yourself, you've traveled to Europe, right?
Oh, yeah, I've been if you ever ask yourself how a country 250 years old runs rings in virtually every way you can imagine around countries that have been around thousands of years.
How is it we are the nation's the world's lone superpower?
How is it that we come to feed the world?
How is it that we Americans, the United States of America, is is the economic engine, the technological engine of this world.
How is that possible?
What we're no different.
We came out of the womb as human beings, just as everybody else around the world did, those of us lucky enough to make it out of the womb.
Uh what's the difference?
Uh how how can this be?
What why what what and the answer to it is freedom.
There is and has been more free and our Constitution, our founding documents.
The founding documents, the the Declaration of Independence, the independence is so crucial.
Uh we are all endowed by our creator.
Uh they these guys can spend all the time they want telling me that our founding fathers were theists, agnostics all day long, but ain't gonna fly with me.
We all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, included among them the right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
That's the opening of the Declaration of Independence.
We have enshrined in our founding documents our definition, our foundation.
Uh and then the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, it's freedom.
We have had more freedom than the rest of the world combined, so that individuals here have been allowed to pursue their passions with as much ambition and application of excellence as they like.
Now, a lot of people think that we have lots of restrictions on our freedom here.
We do, as the government grows, so do restrictions on our freedom.
Uh this is one of the things that really worries me today.
And I've got a story coming up in the stack about Al Gore, who is out, he's he wants censorship in the media.
He considers a balanced media to be only liberal media.
Anything else is unrealistic.
You will not believe this.
Well, you will believe it when you hear it, and I'll get to it, I promise, before the program ends.
But there are constant assaults on freedom in this country, particularly freedom of speech and expression, political correctness, and when if those freedoms are truly ever infringed upon, where people are afraid to be who they are, if they're afraid to say what they want to say, if they're afraid to pursue their passions because they're going to offend somebody because they're going to make somebody mad if they're going to get in trouble or what have you,
if people surrender the basic freedom to be Who they are to pursue their passions and so forth, and I'm telling you, there are there the American left would love to stifle that.
Uh individual freedom on the part of more and more Americans is a direct threat to their whole worldview of a big central state that runs and controls everything and views average Americans with contempt, average people with contempt and condescension.
And that that threat to me is is as large as any we face.
So when I, you know, you get calls like this and people concerned about the future.
Be vigilant as well about about what's happening.
How many of you?
How many of you now will only say certain things to certain people when you know there's nobody around listening?
How many of you might want to come follow me to the bathroom, I gotta tell you something.
Or when you're in public restaurant wherever you want to say something and you pause.
Gee, I wonder, can I say this?
You don't say should I?
Can I say this?
You're you're letting them win if you do that.
That's what happened in the old Soviet Union.
Not that bad yet, but uh, you know, this this is also scary stuff to me, which is why I uh am not going to allow it to happen to me uh conducting this program or anywhere else uh that I happen to be venturing out.
I gotta run.
Martha, thanks for the call.
A little long here said next segment's gonna be short.
I apologize for it in advance.
Hot damn.
I knew it.
I absolutely knew it, and I ran across this story today, and I didn't read the story because of the headline.
It's USA Today.
Chertoff to immigration bills critics.
Get real.
Well, what else are they gonna say?
He works for George W. Bush.
Uh is he's the Homeland Security Secretary.
Had dinner with him with a nice guy.
But I'm why read this?
I know what he's gonna do.
He's gonna say we don't know what we're talking about.
So I passed it by.
And uh somebody, a friend of mine listening to the program, said, Boy, you hit the nail on the head and sent me the story and highlighted a couple of uh passages and quotes in this.
Listen to this.
The U.S. needs more foreign workers as baby boomers retire.
The Commerce Secretary said who the Commerce Secretary is Carlos Gutieris.
Uh and uh he was, I guess this is a story before the uh appearance before the USA Today editorial board.
The U.S. new uh U.S. needs more foreign workers as baby boomers retire, said the Commerce Secretary.
His department's figures show the population uh between 25 and 54 growing at 0.2% a year while the workforce is growing at 1.2% a year.
Oh.
The reality is we don't have enough people, he said.
Well, I knew it.
I knew this had to be a fact.
They don't mention abortion in this, but why why do we not have enough people?
There's one reason.
And then there's the the the uh the the rest of the quote from Mr. Gutierrez is this the reality is we don't have enough people.
He added that many of the U.S. economic competitors, France, Germany, Japan, and China will be facing similar demographic shifts.
And the big challenge of the 21st century is who gets the people?
Who gets the immigrants, he said.
We don't appreciate today that these people are coming in for free.
So we view our apparently our government leaders.
I knew this was the case.
I knew it.
It's all about entitlements.
It's all about making sure there are enough people here to pay taxes for the baby boomers to be able to retire and get their social security and Medicaid and Medicare, and I knew that's what it had to be a component.
So now what what Mr. Gutieris is admitting is that we are in a worldwide competition for the world's immigrants.
They're coming in free.
Why can't we we can't rely on them to come in free?
We need to pay them to come in.
Well, actually, we are.
That's why they're coming.
We're gonna pay them uh whatever they need to live that they don't earn.
So we're in a competition.
We don't want them to go to France.
We don't want them to go to China.
We don't want them to go where else did he mention?
Uh France, China, Japan, Germany.
We don't want them to go there.
And they're coming in for free.
It's a bargain.
Do you people understand what a deal we've got here?
These people want to come into our country and they'll come in for nothing.
You really think they're gonna face fines now?
You will you will not see one fine paid.
Um by the way, it looks like in the Senate that they're gonna get 60 votes for this.
Uh look, it looks like it's gonna sail through the Senate when they get back from their uh Memorial Day break.
So I knew it.
I just I I always trust my instincts on this stuff.
Uh so for if we need these, why don't we go out and find the world's educated immigrants?
Why do we go out Well, I've answered the question that's asked and answered.
Never mind.
Back back at this.
We have another one here, folks, from the Chicago Tribune headline Blacks debate impact of Obama's race on campaign.
We have another.
I am not mentioned in this story.
Unbelievably.
I am not mentioned.
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