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June 11, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 11, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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No, no, no, no.
I'm just sitting here thinking about kids.
Thinking about kids in not just here, but in Great Britain, I've got this amazing story, and I'm going to title it, Coming to a School Near You, Before You Know It.
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This is a story from the UK, but it's no, it's not.
Yeah, it's from the American Spectator, but it's about what's happening in the UK.
Just as you think Britain's local authorities have reached the edge of the envelope in vacuous bullying stupidity, that they can go no further in their efforts to create a society of politically correct sheep.
They excel themselves once again.
It's old news now that at Seagray in Wiltshire, children were banned from playing on a veteran steamroller, which had stood in the school's playground without accident since 1964.
It was deemed not proper playground equipment and failed to meet any required standards.
Something, there's actually a quasi-official national body called Sports England proposed eliminating games like sack races, three-legged races, and egg and spoon races from kindergartens and nursery schools in order to prevent children from learning a competitive ethos, proposing problem-solving exercises instead.
The government also supports banning games of musical chairs at nursery schools because they lead to aggression.
And of course, somebody's always left out.
In fact, we played musical chairs once on my TV show.
And Snerdley was the odd man out, called me a bloated bigot as he stormed off the set.
Anyway, they're taking anything that is normal behavior for children out of the realm of possibility or eliminating it.
At the village of Great Somerford in Wiltshire, playground swings were ordered demolished for being too tall.
A charity kite flying contest for children was banned by a Lancashire council on the grounds that they did not have health and safety insurance.
At Torbay, palm trees were condemned by the council because they have very sharp leaves.
They're not leaves, they're fronds.
They're called palm fronds.
Liberal Democrat Councillor Colin Charlwood is reported to have said in what sounds like dialogue from the day of the Triffids, what if one of those leaves caught a child in the eye, for example?
It's a little bit like keeping tigers.
They're beautiful to look at, but you wouldn't want them wandering the streets.
They're talking about trees.
They're talking about palm trees and comparing them to tigers.
Children at one, well, palm tree is a palm tree, but it doesn't attack.
Children at one primary school were prohibited from making daisy chains in case they picked up germs from the flowers.
Another scroll stopped children making hanging flower baskets for the same reason.
Playground pursuits like handstands, tag yo-yos, tree climbing, skipping have also been banned in various places in the UK.
And I say this is coming to a school near you.
I had this story in the stack today, and I was just thinking back.
Also, some places in the United States are already banning recess for many of these same reasons.
And I've always said when I got older, when I was a kid, I said, when I get older, I'm not going to be an old fuddy-duddy.
I'm not going to be one of these people constantly telling kids that I had to walk 10 miles in the snow to school every day.
It was not going to become that.
But I tell you, this takes me back.
You know, when we were all kids, the anticipation of the clock reaching that moment in time where we got to go to recess was one of the only decent things about school.
Well, for me.
But it was something that we all looked forward to.
We went out there, we ran around in a playground, and they did it, by the way, because, you know, a bunch of little kids, you got to burn them out.
You have to have them use up the energy.
Don't do that now.
Give them Riddlin when they got too much.
Oh, let them out and do recess.
Drug them up.
Dope them out.
That's how we control them today, instead of just letting them burn off some of this excess energy.
And the playground, I remember my playground in my grade school, it was big.
It was huge, but it was fenced.
Big chain ling fences and teachers were out there playing around too, making sure everything was okay.
But the fence, you know, provided a boundary.
And we were allowed to play safely inside the boundary.
And they had a teacher or two out there with a watchful eye, making sure everything was okay.
I remember snowball fights during recess, all kinds of things.
We'd go out there and, you know, try to get a, it was only 10 or 15 minutes, but kickball or something like that.
And when I see this story from the UK about all of these things being banned, because these liberals just have to control everybody's life and they have to assume that everybody's life is rotten, it's fraught with danger out there.
It's a dangerous world.
We must protect and shield our little children from all these potential dangers and hardships.
And in the process, they learn nothing and they are not learning boundaries either.
Because liberals don't want boundaries, folks.
They don't want guidelines such as right and wrong or morality or lessons that you might find in a Bible.
They want all of that wiped out.
They don't want there to be a framework for anything so that people can know where the line is that's not to be crossed.
And by the way, the reason for the line being there is so you do cross it now and then that's how you learn not to cross it.
It's how you learn where the line is.
They want to obliterate the lines.
They want to eliminate the fences.
They want to eliminate the boundary.
The guardrails of life is what they're trying to eliminate here.
And aside from liberals, they don't want anybody saying you can't do that.
The liberals are going to be the ones saying you can't do that.
And what they can't do is pretty much what are normal things for kids to do.
Human beings need boundaries, need guardrails, need to find rules and schedules and expectations.
Society needs these things.
And now they're being obliterated from schools all over, well, in the UK.
And it's starting to happen here too, and it'll spread.
Liberals are liberals.
It doesn't matter where they live.
Sri Lanka, the UK, liberals are liberals.
Look at what life is like for kids these days.
We just had a story in the first hour.
A charter school in Ohio is serving kids gin.
Gin with water.
It's an ancient African tribal thing that teaches honesty.
They give the kids plain water and then a teaspoon of gin, a teaspoon of water mixed, and the kids have to say which is which.
And when they correctly identify the gin, how hard's that?
If you're a sixth grader, then they say, oh, good, you have learned your lesson for honesty today.
Man, would I have loved to have gin when I was sixth grade?
Look at what all is happening now.
They've got cell phones.
Kids got cell phones.
They've got DVD players in their cars.
They all have a MySpace page out there.
They got PlayStation 3s.
Heck.
Teachers are even giving them sex, folks.
None of this was happening when I was in school.
None of it was.
Look at the things that they are doing for kids.
And look at what they are denying.
I mean, you telling me that the things that they are denying are more harmful than the things that are going on in school.
Snerdley was telling me, because I was talking to him about this during the break back in his office.
Well, you had a couple 16-year-old kids came over to mow your grass.
Yeah, they come to help you.
Oh, you do some of the yard work yourself.
Oh, oh.
Well, good for you.
I don't do yardware is how I was punished as a kid.
One of my objectives in life was to never, ever have to mow a yard.
At any rate, Snerdley says these two kids come over.
They're 16 years old, and it's summertime.
They're out of school.
And what did you ask them?
What was the question?
Oh, what are you doing at Summertime?
Oh, we're working on my MySpace page on the internet.
Snerdley said, what are you doing?
Oh, I've got this great girl I met on my MySpace.
We're going back and forth.
Snerdley was beside himself.
He said to the 16-year-old kids, there are real girls out there.
It's summertime.
They're waiting for you.
They are actually out there.
And you're involved here in a virtual relationship on a computer.
And I said, you're getting the wrong idea of this.
Mr. Snerdley, this is actually something I wish I would have had too.
Can you imagine if this 16-year-old marries this woman that he's having the virtual relationship with?
Perfect marriage.
You'll never meet her.
Never even see her.
No, I had a really blissful weekend.
Went back, Cape Girardo of Cousins member guest golf tournament there, Dalhousie golf club.
Great course, too, by the way.
But you know what?
I did not watch television.
I didn't even have my computer with me.
I had my Blackberry for emails.
I did not know until mid-afternoon yesterday when I got home that Paris Hilton had been put back in jail.
I did not know.
I saw that.
Whoa, what did I miss here?
And then I find out that the judge did not agree with the sheriff on this, didn't buy the medical excuse that she was, what does she say?
She wasn't eating or drinking anything because she was afraid to use the toilet because she's afraid that the guards would take cell phone pictures.
So that's why she was let out of supposedly.
Now she's apparently phoned into ABC from the psych ward that she's staying in out there in the new wing of the jail or whatever.
Says she's no longer going to act dumb.
Paris Hilton is no longer going to act dumb.
That's fabulous.
That's wonderful news.
I just don't know how we're going to tell the difference.
By the way, we need that latest Justice Brothers commercial.
Mike, if you can find that thing pretty quickly, I'm sorry for no heads up on this.
The Reverend Sharpton, one of the Justice Brothers, is in Los Angeles to meet with the sheriff, Lee Baca, to talk about these issues involving letting her out early.
And of course, if you were not with us last Friday when this story broke, the Justice Brothers, their big sponsors here, sent us an emergency commercial.
And back to the phone, Cincinnati, this is Patty.
Patty, welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you with us.
Well, hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Everybody seems to be upset about being labeled a racist for being against the illegals.
Well, hey, if I'm standing up for America's laws and the American way of life and that's what I'm protecting, I will gladly take that title.
You can call me a racist if that's what that means.
No, because that's not what racism means.
Well, I know, but they're saying that we're racist because of that.
And I say that I will gladly take the title because I want America to be America.
I want Americans to be Americans.
I want you to be legal.
I want you to come here the way our country was established.
Yeah, but maybe I'm not understanding.
You will take the racist label if that's what it takes to what?
To get Congress and the Senate to back down and to make us.
Look at it.
I understand the point you're trying to make, but that's the exact opposite thing that would happen.
The whole point of throwing the label out is to discredit you and everybody else.
The last thing you want to do is accept the label.
Hey, but if everybody's getting upset about it, everybody band together.
Take it.
Say, yeah, we're racist.
This is the way our country, this is what we want our country to be like.
Hey, I've been where you say you want to go, and you don't want to go there.
Oh, that's too bad.
Here's what, by the way.
I'm pretty deep in.
Mike, you got audio soundbite 18 in there ready to go.
All right, with this is Diane Feinstein.
This is her statement about those opposing the immigration amnesty bill.
I've listened to talk show hosts drumming up the opposition by using this word amnesty over and over and over again and essentially raising the royal of Americans to the extent that in my 15 years, I've never received more hate or more racist phone calls and threats.
Yeah, and you see, this is exactly what I told you at the beginning of this program.
Talk show hosts.
You know who that is.
Talk show hosts.
And she's not talking about a bunch of libs and she's not talking about people out there that are on television.
And so you are, in her mind, my non-draw butts.
You're just, you know, I'm the Pied Piper and I'm playing the song of racism and anger and you're soaking it all up and you're hearing what I say that you should say and what you should think and you are calling and you are making her mad because there's never been this kind of racism and hatred in her 15 years.
In the Senate, she's never received more hate or more racist phone calls and threats.
I say prove it.
I want to see them.
I want to see logs.
I want to see these emails.
I want to see what she's talking about here because it's a setup for discrediting all of the opposition to this for when they bring this bill back.
And it really isn't even aimed at you, folks, although it is.
But the bottom line here, it's to give other senators cover.
Well, yeah, we're hearing a lot of complaints.
That's just a bunch of racists, you know, the talk radio crowd, that audience.
We don't have to pay any attention.
That's what's being set up here.
And of course, this word amnesty.
They don't like amnesty because it works.
It fits this.
It is an accurate description.
Here's Jennifer in Canyon Lake, California.
Jennifer, one of the top 10 all-time favorite female names of mine, by the way.
Oh, well, thank you.
You bet.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor to speak to you.
My husband and I are huge fans.
He's been listening since he was like 12 years old and turned me on to you.
Thank God he did.
Wow.
Rush babies.
Yeah, definitely.
My comment is, you were talking about schools.
I'm actually a first-grade teacher.
And at my school, our school was a parent was attempting to sue our school because his little girl got stung by a bee on the playground.
Well, that doesn't surprise me.
Sue the school, yeah, for a bee sting.
Right.
The school's supposed to prevent that by not letting the kids outside, right?
Yeah, that's what I was thinking when I heard what you were saying, and I was thinking that's the way it's going.
We're taking everything away from our kids.
Well, that's just a money grab.
That's just a litigious parent.
Yes.
But it is, it is, that's something back in my day, quote unquote, it wouldn't have happened because it's asinine.
Yes.
It's really asinine to blame the school.
It doesn't be anywhere running around, especially outside.
Right.
I appreciate that news.
That doesn't surprise me.
Let's go to the Bronx.
Vinny, you're next in the EIB network.
Hello.
Ditto's great one.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, America has a rare opportunity here.
You're so right when you say we're being set up to be categorized and boxed in as racist and ignored.
I find it surreal what's happening as our representatives with their purposeful tin ear just completely ignore what 70% of the American people are saying, which is we don't want this immigration bill.
It's not right.
But now we have an opportunity.
We have liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats, and independents together on this.
I remember you once saying that conservatives, you know, we don't go out and we don't protest.
We're not a mob because, well, we have lives and we have jobs to do.
Well, I think that mob, along with all the other rent-a-mobs, need to go to Washington when the president comes back from the G8 and tries to resurrect this bill.
And I think we need to go out there and let him know that a broad cross-section of America.
You know, actually, that's a good point.
By the way, they know.
They all know.
And they know we're not racists.
They know how much anger there is.
They're just being obstinate about it.
They're going to try to ram it down the country's throat, regardless.
But this business about Ms. Feiston, you know, she's going to have to be very careful about this because she's calling a bunch of Democrats racists, and she's calling a bunch of moderates and independents racists as well.
She thinks it's all just a bunch of conservatives that are phoning her office.
And I don't think she has the slightest clue the makeup of those callers and what she's insulted them with.
A national treasure, America's truth detector.
Your guiding light.
All combined here is one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
There is other news out there, and let me touch on some of it here before we go back to the phones.
The nation's largest organization representing black Americans, the NAA LCP, that would be the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People, is cutting staff and closing.
By the way, this is not a story that you will see in the drive-by media.
This comes from the website lifeenews.com.
The NAA LCP cutting staff, closing down some of its regional locations in the face of declining donations.
Now, the moves come on the heels of a flip-flop on abortion.
And some black leaders saying abortion is distracting from civil rights issues.
The NAA LCP took an official position in favor of abortion in early 2004.
It's a stance that they had rescinded months later after significant backlash.
So they've flip-flopped on this.
A poll conducted by Black Enterprise magazine found that 60% of African Americans disapproved of the decision.
Then last year, the Justice Brothers, the Reverend Sharpton, and the Reverend Zach kicked off a three-day event in Dallas and said abortion has been used too much to block discussion of issues like voting rights and affirmative action.
Now the NAA LCP staff being cut from 119 to 70, and they're going to close some of the offices around the nation that it operates.
So they have rescinded their official position in early 2004, being in favor of abortion.
So I guess we're to assume from this that blacks are opposed to abortion.
Is that right?
Is that what we're to assume from this?
Because this is not written very well.
I'm not sure I get what their current position is.
Are they pro-life or pro-choice?
I don't know what it is.
But it doesn't seem to make any difference.
I know the NAALCP is losing money, but 90% of the black vote in the presidential race goes to Democrats.
We all know what their position is on abortion.
So this is not going to affect the way they vote.
It's just affecting the NAALCP's coffers.
Beyond a lookout out there, ladies and gentlemen, this is from La Crosse, Wisconsin.
The headline here pretty much says it all.
Health officials are looking for two dangerous mosquitoes.
Local health officials will monitor Monroe County and other parts of southwestern Wisconsin this summer for two dangerous types of mosquitoes that can carry both West Nile virus and encephalitis.
These are armed and dangerous mosquitoes.
This headline, when I saw the headline, I actually have two mosquitoes that they're looking for.
Two, not two types.
You have to read the story to get to the nuts and bolts of it.
How many of you people out there take lots of vitamins?
This is another one of these health stories that just has your head swimming.
Study released recently concludes that increased vitamin D intake reduces the risk of developing cancer.
The findings are the latest in a growing body of evidence suggesting that the current dietary guidelines for vitamin D may be too low.
Now, your body makes vitamin D when you are in the sunlight, ladies and gentlemen.
Same thing with vitamin C, but when your body makes it.
But we've been told we can't go outside.
The sun's dangerous.
Sun's going to kill us.
The sun has nothing to do with global warming, but it can cause cancer.
Sun has nothing to do with the temperature.
Sun has nothing to do with the climate.
But boy, you can have your sunscreen.
If you don't use that, you could sunburn really bad, get various forms of skin cancer and so forth.
And so the medical community, aided by the drive-by media, has scared us to death over the sun.
Maybe not being in the sun outside in the fresh air is what causes cancer, not a lack of vitamin D.
It's just so confusing.
I fully expect someday for them to say that being out in the fresh air, because it isn't fresh anymore, poses a health hazard.
And somebody started marketing fresh air pills.
What?
Well, you don't realize what a, that'd be like the bottled water scam.
Just get some capsules, gel capsules, and put nothing in them and sell fresh air.
Swallow this.
Kristen in Chicago, you're next.
I'm glad you waited.
You're on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, mega Midwestern, ditto.
Thank you.
Hey, my point is, I'm curious as to why Paris is so worried about being photographed in the toilet when she's pretty proud of her sex video.
Well, now, now, now.
Women, I don't think she's proud of the sex video.
I think the sex video upset her, gave her a few problems.
But look at now, Kristen.
I don't want to get all Lenny Bruce on you here, but you understand the difference in having pictures taken doing business on the bathroom.
No woman wants.
I mean, that's why every successful marriage is a two-bathroom marriage, minimum.
It's not going to be the pictures taken to that.
Sex is another thing.
Rush, I completely agree with you.
Well, that's sweet.
I know it's hard to disagree with me sometimes.
Well, if we were married, I would insist on two bathrooms.
So would I. You know, I'd get there first.
Thanks, Philip.
Oh, yeah, Kristen's in a top 10 list of names.
Kristen is absolutely in a top 10 list of favorite female names in mine.
Two of them so far today, Kristen and Jennifer.
Yeah.
Steve, in, did you spell this right?
Carrizozo, New Mexico.
Steve, nice to have you with us, sir, on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Good, sir.
I just wanted to correct the fellow from Sri Lanka who said that we didn't compensate the Mexicans for the land we took.
That's dead wrong.
We did.
We offered them $17.5, I think it was, million dollars prior to going in.
And then after we took it, we ended up paying them the money anyway.
They refused the money to begin with.
Then we had the war.
We won the war and got the land, and we paid them the money anyway.
And this is very important.
Most of the people that were living in this part of the United States were former, remember, this had only been part of Mexico for 30 years.
Prior to that, it had been Spain for 300 years.
And they were Spanish, you know, descended from the Spanish conquistadors.
And that's the thing.
That's right.
That's why they speak Spanish in Mexico.
Yeah, there you go.
A lot of people say they don't speak Mexican.
But anyway, that's funny.
But no, we let them keep their land.
Many of them collaborated.
They invited the United States to come in because they didn't like being governed by Mexico City, having been governed by Spain for all those years.
And they invited us in in many respects.
And Spanish land grants are all around me here in Carrizozo.
We have names like Ortiz and Vega and Zamora.
I mean, you know, the landowners, Galore have Spanish names.
I know.
We didn't take their land.
Furthermore, we continued to honor their heritage by building adobe houses in the part of the country where you live.
And we've maintained their architectural style.
Yes.
Many, many tributes to the Mexicans after we came.
Now, the Indians are a different story.
I mean, remember, the Spanish had been beating up on them for 350 years prior to us taking over and the Mexicans.
So we came in and we settled them in 50 years.
And in this county where I live, the Apaches, it's the Apaches, they have the juiciest land in the county.
They have a big casino and lake and all that other stuff right there.
And they're making money handover feds.
We're probably the most generous people.
And since our founding, what we've basically done is liberate people.
Very much so.
Who are oppressed one way or the other.
But I'll tell you what, the Mexicans don't have a clean slate on this.
They wiped out the Mayans, the Aztecs.
This is the way of the world.
Yes.
We've treated indigenous people better than any other country in the history of the world.
So-called indigenous, let's put it that way.
Yeah, yeah, because who's from where?
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, where did the original Native Americans come from?
Exactly.
I mean, they had to come here from someplace.
Well, 25% of them came from Europe.
That's just been discovered thanks to this DNA stuff.
How'd they get here?
They came across an ice bridge across the Atlantic Ocean.
An ice bridge?
Yes.
You mean when it was colder than it is now?
And it was much colder than it was now.
Well, but they were still able to make it?
Some of them probably did.
Probably not.
Well, they call them Irish now.
Yeah.
Well, anyway, I'm glad you called because that's all true.
But poor old David from Sri Lanka, he's a classic peace activist.
I think he's got the biggest heart in the world, and he's just suffering all this guilt and all the people that have been conquered, and they haven't been compensated.
And so to make himself feel better, if you missed a call, to make himself feel better, he believes that we ought to let any Mexican in here and have them whatever they want.
Give them back California because it was theirs.
And we took it from it.
It's nonsensical, but it's how he makes himself feel better.
Thanks much for the call out there, Steve.
And I got a quick time out here, folks.
Back with much more right after this.
You know, actually, everybody's got this whole thing right.
We did not invade Mexico.
We didn't go out there and steal anything.
We bought California, Nevada, New Mexico, parts of Utah.
We bought it from the Treaty of Guadalupe.
Look it up, folks.
I, as your host, know of this treaty.
And yeah, Treaty of Guadalupe, 1848, Santa Ana sold all that land for 15 million bucks.
Look at what we bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for.
The equivalent of 24 bucks and a pizza.
Ray's original pizza.
Well, I'm catching all kinds of flack now from the health nuts.
Dear Rush, are you saying you don't think the sun causes skin cancer?
I think you know not what you say.
My dad has skin cancer, and up until he retired at seven, he worked outside as a lineman for public service company and as an electrician.
Now he constantly has to go to the doctor to have biopsies done mostly on his face, arms.
No, I'm not saying that the sun doesn't cause cancer.
I'm saying that we have created a scare climate about the sun, and people are afraid to go out in it at all unless they're all covered up.
Some people have sensitivities to it and so forth, but I'm just saying the sun is where we get vitamin D. Keep all this in context.
The people out there taking a supplement.
And now I'm going to hear from the supplement vitamin crowd thinking I'm hurting their business.
You know, just like well, the compact fluorescent guys, they've been on my case now for months.
Mike in Fenton, Michigan, welcome to the EIB Network.
Rush, it's truly a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you, John.
What I wanted to say was that I think that the amnesty bill, the reason why it tastes so bad, is that it's just the essence of liberalism.
It's an accelerated case of liberalism.
It's all of it at once.
And adding pain to this is the fact that Republicans are helping push it along.
Exactly.
We're stabbing ourselves.
Like you say, it's the end of the Republican Party bill or something.
It's the comprehensive Destroy the Republican Party Act of 2007.
It's got all the ingredients of, you know, ignore the laws that exist.
We've got to make another one because that law didn't work.
People are just victims.
You know, the big guy's beating up the little guy, the whites against the tan-colored skinned people or whatever.
Racism, yes, racism.
Plus, don't forget this.
Don't forget the real reason the Democrats want this, you know, I keep saying this, and I know this sounds harsh to some people, but the liberal Democrats don't like many of the traditions and institutions, the guardrails, the fences that have made this country great.
They want to tear that all down and rebuild the country in their image, and here you go.
I mean, one of the things they believe in is a huge government, and they want people dependent.
They want low-skilled, uneducated, cheap labor.
Because that's their next class of victims.
As affluence in this country continues to increase, and it is.
I mean, one of the best-kept secrets in the country right now is the strength of the economy and the overall affluence and prosperity and the opportunity to achieve it.
It's never been better than it is today in this country.
And so more and more people are opting out of the total dependent cycle.
I mean, it's impossible almost not to with Social Security.
Somebody, 51 or 52% of the American people get a government check for something.
But they're always out pushing the food stamp program.
They're advertising for more people to participate in that.
Here you import these people, and they remain constantly dependent.
They will need access to the safety hammock, the welfare net, but the hammock, and that's made to order for raising taxes and then redistributing wealth, which is, you're right, everything that liberalism is is contained in this legislation.
It's sort of like a big concentrated dose.
And that's what's so frustrating about it to see the Republicans just dive headlong into this as though they haven't the slightest clue what will happen to them and their party and the country, which is what we're concerned about.
Anyway, here's Matt in Southern California, formerly Mexico.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Oh, thank you for having me, Rush.
You've been a longtime listener, first-time caller.
I had to comment on one point that's always being made by President Bush, as well as a number of others who are in support of the so-called comprehensive immigration reform, and that is the point that, well, individuals coming from the South are doing jobs that Americans won't do.
And I think that for the most part, everyone really should take that as both offensive and racist in nature because basically, in my view, I think it's inferring that the type of work which those people are doing is basically beneath those who are relatively affluent or who are white because, well, you know, we can't do that work.
It has to be done by someone who has brown skin.
No, but it's a crock anyway.
Well, it is a crock, absolutely.
What they're saying is that those jobs are beneath certain Americans wouldn't deign to go into the fields and pick apples and grapes.
And of course, you can put the lie to the notion with a couple of interesting numbers.
26% of the employees in the agriculture business are illegal.
That means 74% are legal, are Americans.
So the idea that they're doing jobs Americans won't do is often a puff of smoke.
Yeah.
It's insulting, too.
I mean, in many respects.
I'd like to make one other comment real quick because I want to make this point.
Now, I think, is probably one of the best times for the Republicans to garner favor with the Black Caucus, potentially.
And the reason I mention that is because they are probably not going to be very happy, rather, with the Democrats promoting, basically, slave labor wages and those individuals coming in and basically working and suppressing wages for various...
I'll see.
That's another dirty little secret, because what's going to happen if this...
Let's speak hypothetically, right?
I know what you're saying, but if this bill were to be signed tomorrow and all of a sudden these 12 million, 20 million illegals are legal, the next thing that's going to happen is that John Sweeney and his boys from the unions are going to be in there and they're going to try to unionize as many of these places and people as possible, start collecting dues from them, get their wages up, blah, which is going to create the need for more illegals.
The dirty little secret is to all of this is that we are never, but the authors of this legislation and the supporters of this legislation have no plan to stop the inflow of low-skilled, uneducated people in the workforce.
They are telling us that the future of our country and the future of our economy requires a certain percentage of the people who live here be uneducated and have very few skills and therefore will work for very low wages.
Like I keep saying, if that's the primary ingredient to a great burgeoning robust economy, Mexico would be running circles around us right now.
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