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Aug. 8, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 8, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yes, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
It's a thrill, and it's a delight to be with you here as we uh uh uh serve humanity on the EIB network.
People say, how did you name it, the Excellence and Broadcasting?
Well, we didn't have a network name when I started.
I said it needed one.
And I said, Well, I'll just name it after the high level of my performance each day.
And voila, uh EIB was born.
Great to have you with us, uh, folks.
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Uh I I I still I can't, I cannot get this montage of uh sorry questions uh asked at the uh debate last night, the Democrat forum with the AFL CIO.
Can't get it out of my mind.
And the reason I can't get it on my mind is because I'm beating a dead horse here, but it's just it it it sadens me that there are people like this in the country.
I know they're there, but it's so unnecessary.
Uh and I realized that some of you, when I when I went through those questions and answered them myself, as though they were asking me those questions.
Uh and the poor guy from the steel company.
I'm thinking about this during the during the whole break.
The guy, let me let me uh I'm not replay it, but just read you what he said.
After 34 years with LTV Steel, I was forced to retire because of disability.
Two years later, LTV filed bankruptcy.
I lost a third of my pension, my family lost their health care.
What's wrong with America and what will you do to change it?
Okay, well, let's take the timeline there.
The guys with LTV Steel for 34 years, obviously a union member here.
He had to retire because of a disability.
Two years later, uh the Steel Company files bankruptcy.
Now, I know union contracts are what they are.
Um, and I and I know that these companies agree to them.
But I the the fault here is on both sides.
The companies for making a deals and the unions for demanding this county.
I don't know about you, uh, folks, but throughout my entire life, my entire life, I never, ever, it has never even crossed my mind once that somebody I once worked for would continue to pay me after I quit.
It just I don't know if it's the way I was raised or I naturally looked at the world this way, and I have lived and planned my life accordingly, and I have strived for certain things accordingly.
Uh you know, this is to to expect somebody to pay, but Rush, it was in the union company.
Well, I know, but make additional plans too for crying out loud.
I uh we we keep hearing all these stories.
Look at what's happened to the unions.
These were these were once the tough guys of America.
These are the these are people that told the Democrats what to do.
Now they've been reduced to uh you know snivelling and and then whining and they're begging on hands and knees uh to the Democrats to do something for them.
Uh I uh this this um I've always said the early years of this program, you know, I remember a big controversy I got caught up in.
It's talking about the bricklayers union, they had a new contract.
New contract called for laying fewer bricks per work day with a big raise, more breaks and so forth, and a bricklayers in Chicago.
It was true.
And it was true.
And I get calls from union people upset with me, well, because that's all they had.
I'll never forget we had a sound bite from a 29-year-old auto worker in Detroit who said if a union laid him off, if if a company, if the car company laid him off, his life was over.
I hear these kind of things in utter disbelief.
And I know people are raised to have certain expectations that uh and people's horizons are obviously different.
Some people have vast horizons, others are very narrow.
But even those with narrow horizons can be inspired and taught and motivated to broaden their horizons.
Twenty-nine-year-old guy, because he loses an assembly line job's life is over.
What what must his household have been like?
The union guys would call me and they say, Why are you so down on a union?
I said, I'm not.
I just understand what you're doing.
Back when we first started talking about this union people, union employees were always the class envy.
They were upset when they looked around their communities and their cities and they saw people with better lives than they had, and they went to the Democrats to fix that.
The old class envy business.
And I said, Well, why do you be honest with you?
What are you complaining about?
You knew what was going to happen when you when you joined the union.
You knew when you joined a union that you were foregoing any opportunity to stand out and earn additional money based on your performance, based on your merit, because you're set you're letting somebody else negotiate your deal for a whole group.
Well, I didn't have any choice of it.
I know, but if you well, you did have a choice, but you and you chose to join the union.
So do you understand?
It's like if people who become teachers, this is this is tough too.
They join the want to give them teachers, thank God they do, then they teachers' union or whatever, but everybody becoming a teacher knows what it pays.
And so five, ten years down the road to start complaining and whining about it is not going to change anything.
And you know, some people in this country, I gotta tell you, are tapped out.
Everybody in this country's lost a job.
Everybody in this country's gone through a period where they've been worried about uh catastrophic illness or an accident and uh whether they got the health care to pay for it.
Everybody has gone through.
Everybody's gone through some sort of well, maybe Paris Hilton hasn't.
She's had her own version, I mean, except the Kennedy family, uh wealthy Democrats.
But I mean, for the most part, we're talking the average people, real people we're talking about, everybody goes through this.
Uh and and every every four years or every two years during a presidential or congressional campaign, we get this endless parade of victims who are demanding the rest of the country take care of them.
And of course, right there to assist them is the Democrat Party.
But guess what?
They don't get taken care of.
They don't have any of the security, they don't have any of the happiness that the Democrats are promising them.
All they end up getting is continued assaults from Democrats about how the Republicans want to ruin their lives, how conservatives don't care about them.
You know, conservatism is really the essence of compassion.
It seeks the best for everybody.
It has trust, it has confidence, it has faith in average people to overcome obstacles.
Liberalism doesn't, doesn't want people to learn how to do that.
Democrats don't want people to learn how to do that.
But if you uh you travel around and you look at the uh differences in lifestyles in your community, uh it all but a few rare examples, it's not an accident.
That uh some people do very well and others are not.
There are reasons for it.
And they can be tapped into by each and every one of us.
It just depends on how much ambition people have.
Uh but when you've got a major political party that for 50 years has been encouraging people to depend on it, the party, for all of these things, and when you somehow condition people to think that they're going to continue to get paid when they're no longer productive for a company for crying out loud.
I, you know, I understand, as I said earlier, the uh uh all these corporations make these union deals and do all that, but at some point the golden goose are gonna be tapped out.
At some point the money isn't gonna be there for it, and people ought to have Who in the world gets paid for doing nothing?
Where does it- where is the thought process that says that that is even possible economically in perpetuity forever?
And so and so I know it's called a new deal.
It's called Social Security.
Call this whole uh this whole this whole mindset.
So what happens is that the uh companies make these deals and the pension plans and all the health care for all these retirees who are no longer being productive, uh at some point, I don't care.
You know, when you when these companies that make these deals are in competition with other companies that don't have these obligations, guess what's gonna happen?
And so then we get the question well, what's wrong with America?
The answer to what's wrong with America is liberalism.
Just got a note from uh a subscriber, Rush Limbaud.com, who Googled LTV Steel.
Well, check this out ourselves.
But he says that uh LTV Steel uh went bankrupt in 2000, which, by the way, happened to be on the Clinton Gore Watch.
Why, how could anything bad economically happen during the Clinton Gore period?
And here we are seven years later.
Well, two years later the guy lost the benefits.
So here we are, five years later, and and the problem still exists, and yet he's got no health care, but he still is able to show up there in good health to ask this question.
This is a Renee in Woodstock, New York.
Renee, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
No, I'm not in Woodstock.
I'm from Woodstock, and I was born in 1964.
Grew up a Democrat and a liberal, and now I'm embarrassed by it.
I just um think that the answer to those questions should be uh elect a uh you know uh Republican, not a Democrat.
And that would answer the question.
Well, not to these people.
Uh uh that would have sent them off into orbit.
But I appreciate you used to be a liberal Democrat, you said.
Oh, I grew up in Woodstock.
I I just used to go into the voting and just hit all the Democrats and say that's the way to go, and these union people don't understand that they're voting for people to take their jobs away, increase their taxes, which takes away the increase that they voted for on their union.
So they're losing money by voting for Democrats, and it drives me nuts.
Well, what was it that turned you around?
Uh finally you.
I used to hate you.
I went to SUNY Kirchess, and one day I'm driving along saying, you know, Russia's gotten a lot better.
And then I went, wait a minute.
No, I've gotten a lot smaller.
So you were were were you a union person?
My father was a big time union.
And I'm and I live down the street from one of the schools, and I don't want to say it unfortunately, because you know you might get egged.
But these union people are voting for the Democrats, and I say to them, why are you voting for somebody who wants to increase your taxes?
What did you get on your last increase?
Five percent?
Guess what?
You know, here's you know that that's an excellent question, and I'm gonna answer that question.
They don't know that's what's gonna happen.
They think the Democrats are gonna raise taxes on these evil rich people who are responsible for the poor plight the union people find themselves in.
The Democrats have been lying to these people for 50 years.
They've been blaming the Republicans or whoever else for all of these economic problems, and so they they for 50 years, Democrats, uh unions go in there and they vote for the Democrats, thinking the Democrats are going to get even with those those rich people.
Uh uh and and I think a lot of it is is really rooted in class envy.
Uh and and the the of course it never happens.
It never ever happens as evidence by the fact that they continually are asked, the Democrats are the same questions by the same voters who, after all of these years, at le we're lucky that you found me because the light went on.
But it hasn't happened for a lot of them.
They just they they have no clue uh the potential that they're missing out on that that is that is there.
But when you've been raised, or when you have been uh barraged year after year after year, with uh the the uh message that the other political party and its voters are rich and mean and racist and sexist and bigot and homophobe, you grow up with a lot of hate.
And all you want is for those people to get theirs.
You want to get so even if the Democrats come along and raise taxes on the rich, which they will, uh, and they'll raise taxes on everybody, by the way, get ready for a new gasoline tax increase because of this bridge collapse.
I have that story coming up here, and even the Reverend Jackson is calling for it now, but he's doing even worse than that.
When they come along and raise everybody's taxes, these people do not stop to think or ask themselves, okay, you know, Fred B. Rich guy who lives down the street just got his taxes raised.
And the people who are angry at Fred B. Rich guy are sitting there going, well, all right, yeah, good.
Fred B. rich guy finally finding out what it's like.
I okay, maybe Fred B rich guy is, although I doubt it.
But tell me this.
How is your life improved with Fred B. rich guy getting skinned?
It isn't.
And it probably doesn't provide you any long-lasting sustainable happiness either.
Gives you a momentary, all right, right, Fred B. Rich guy just got screwed on.
How long does that last?
And by the way, if Fred B. Rich guy gets screwed, how come you hate him every year?
If Fred B. Rich guy is getting screwed all these times, the Democrats are really getting even with Fred B. Rich guy, how come you still mad at Fred B. Rich guy after 30 years?
How can there possibly be any Fred B. Rich guys after the Democrats have gotten even with all of them?
These are the questions these people don't stop to ask themselves.
Heyway, Renee, appreciate the phone call.
Back to some audio sound bites from the uh debate uh last night.
Here's the question.
Senator Obama, if you were president of the U.S. today, would you honor Barry Bonds at the White House?
Barry Bonds has been a remarkable baseball player, and I honor his achievement.
But I hope that all of us uh are focused on making sure that sports is something that kids can look up to, uh, not something that they start feeling cynical about.
We've got enough cynicism in politics without having cynicism uh in our sports teams as well.
Is that a no, sir?
Or yes.
He hasn't done it yet, so uh we'll answer the question when it comes.
Come on, can't even answer by the way, Bonds hit the uh hit the uh the home run last night.
And uh Hank Aaron uh just took everybody off the hook on this.
Everybody was just, you know, where were there in fact I got a question today from somebody?
You you talked about Barry Bonds yet.
I said, no, I haven't.
And I have to admit, I h I I have uh I've I've been affected by this never-ending barrage of coverage on the alligation of steroids and uh all the things that have come out about it.
It it has it has um tainted my appreciation for the achievement.
Uh but that notwithstanding, uh Henry Aaron last night, all of all the media people, oh, this is gonna be such a horrible day when, oh God, uh he hits a home run, it's gonna be oh tainted, it's gonna be horrible, it's gonna be a bad day of sports, the commissioner won't even be oh and then he hits the home run.
And in midst all of the hoopla last night in San Francisco, after the fireworks and all of the uh celebration, there appeared a video on the giant screen, and it was Henry Aaron, whose record had just been broken.
Congratulating Bonds, commenting on the uh uniqueness of the achievement, the uh romanticism in American culture with the home run in baseball.
Uh there are home runs and other aspects of life too, but we're talking about baseball.
Uh and it took everybody off the hook.
Because if if Henry Aaron, whose record has been broken, he didn't show up in person, that he sends a video out congratulating Bonds for this, and makes no reference in any way, shape, manner, or form to the uh controversy.
Uh then everybody's allowed to celebrate it now.
Every everybody with i is allowed to go ahead and and invest in it whatever they want, because Henry Aaron has paved the way.
Very, very, very class act for him to do that.
He didn't want to go and be there in person.
They brought Willie Mays out on a on a golf cart.
He's uh Barry Bonds' uh grandfather, Willie May's uh godfather, godfather.
And uh and he uh so it it ended up being a lot less painful than people thought.
Meanwhile, here's Obama who doesn't he wants to be president, he he has no problem inviting Chavez.
Castro, you name it the thug of the day to the White House for a meeting, and he begs off a question on whether or not he left Barry Bonds.
If there are any of you out there asking yourselves if Barack Obama is down for the struggle, I would say you've got your answer.
He doesn't appear to be down for the uh for the struggle.
Let me see.
Let's uh we'll squeeze one is Sid in Huntsville, Alabama.
Uh, welcome to the program, sir.
I have about a minute here.
Can you squeeze it in in that time?
I'll try, Ross, real quick, but uh this is in response to that fool that called uh about uh LTV.
Claimed he worked for uh LTV still 34 years.
That's impossible.
He worked for him uh for about maybe a year.
I was with LT back in uh 84-86, an aircraft tool designer worked on the B2 bomber.
And that's about the time they fought one of the uh that steel mill.
And it seems like it's Republicans deal.
You'll have to check on that.
I don't remember which one it was.
But anyway, they bought that mill.
And with it, they assumed the pension plan, which was dragging the mills down.
And I went back to LPV in in uh eighty-nine.
I think it was 89 or 90.
And that was when they declared bankruptcy.
It wasn't in 2000.
It was back in 89 or 90, they're not.
When we just Googled it, and uh are you saying LTD or LTV?
LTV.
Well, we've got we've got December 2001, U.S. Bank's bankruptcy court authorized an asset protection plan, and they filed Chapter 11, December 29th, 2000, according to our Google.
No, sir.
No, sir.
Okay, hey, we got a commercial break coming up here.
I knew this was going to happen, but you hang on to the break and we will continue this.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
We're back to Sid in Huntsville, Alabama.
Sid, we we spent the break here doing some research.
There are a bunch of different LTV units.
They did for the Steel Services or Steel Products Unit did file for Chapter 11, December 29, 2000.
In 1986, the aerospace and energy uh unit uh filed for bankruptcy.
You say they filed bankruptcy in eighty-nine.
Uh that's correct, Russ.
And the reason they did it is because they had bought those steel mills in that pitch in it just a year or two earlier in that pension plan from those steel mills had had drug and ban.
They just you couldn't, you know, they just couldn't honor it make it and and they went bankrupt.
And as a result of that, uh the the bankruptcy then uh uh uh was settled in in uh the early nineties uh under the uh when Clinton was in office during that period of time, that's when that bankruptcy was settled.
Northrop come in and took there was two two divisions of L T V located in Grand Prairie, Texas.
They had the aircraft division and they had the missiles division.
Right.
Aerospace.
Okay, well let me cut to the chase here.
You started up by saying that this guy that was at that asked a question at a Democrat debate last night could not have worked for for 34 years.
You said you said he could only work for him for one year.
I'm uh well, one or two years because uh uh because he but he retired in two thousand two, he said.
All right, then I then then I'm then I'm wrong on that.
When I first heard him saying it, I was thinking of the time I was there and and uh uh he was talking about him filing bankruptcy two years later after they bought or something.
All that all that occurred back in the uh uh mid eighties and and uh by nineteen ninety they had dec uh gone bankrupt.
So I thought that was a time frame he was speaking of.
No, no, he said he'd been there thirty-four years, he retired in two thousand two.
Uh L T V didn't own the steel mills for thirty-four years, though, Rush.
That that's what I'm trying to say.
Uh uh Well uh he didn't really say work for the steel unit.
Uh he just said he worked for LTV.
He didn't say how.
Uh is well yeah, he did say I work for L T V Steel.
LTV.
So he did work for all right, all right.
Well uh uh plot thickens here.
Um because i i if these questions were penned for these people, you know, saying you work for some place thirty-four years, then they threw you overboard.
Why, that's typical of the evil corporate management of America today and so forth.
So anyway, well, this is cool.
Getting to the bottom of uh of a lot of things.
Let's let's continue here with the audio soundbite.
So get more of your phone calls here in just a second.
Way back in May, ladies and gentlemen, on this very program, May the second, I uh presented to you the Democrat stat strategy when it comes to Iraq.
They would love for Bush to surrender.
You can't forget they would love to lose.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm not saying that they have uh given up on their idea of owning defeat.
They just don't want to own it themselves.
They want to transfer it.
They want Bush to surrender so that they don't have to surrender.
And they won't surrender when the time comes.
Absolutely right.
This is a precursor to my saying the dirty little secret is that if they do win the White House, they're not pulling us out of Iraq.
They would love.
I mean, they're on a mission to weaken the presidency.
They're on a mission to weaken any future by by the way, even a Democrat president, they're on a mission to weaken the ability of the office of the president to conduct his constitutional duties.
That's what this uh that's what this FISA stuff is all about.
That's what the surrendering in Iraq is all about, trying to own defeat.
But the point is they don't the reason they're not passing these resolutions is because they really don't want to be responsible and held responsible in the eyes of the American people for the American military losing.
That was my point back in May, and I've made it several times since.
Let's go to the debate last night.
I see I told you so here for Mrs. Clinton.
A question.
Senator, why'd it take you so long to uh hear how you were going to vote on the subject of that war supplemental on May 24th?
This is George Bush's war.
He rushed us to war.
He has mismanaged the war.
Finally, I just concluded that the only way to get a message to the Republicans and to George Bush was to vote against the supplemental funding.
We've got to force George Bush to begin to end the war that he took America into and save our young men and women and bring them home.
So one it's again, ladies and gentlemen, El Rushbo hits it out of the park.
It says George Bush's war.
We gotta force him to begin to end the war that he took America into.
Make it look like he lost the war.
Uh the next question, Senator Biden, what do you uh what do you do if we if we if we leave Iraq and uh Al Qaeda takes over?
It's time we tell the truth.
The truth is if Iraq, if Al Qaeda establishes uh base in Iraq, all these people who talk about going into Pakistan are gonna have to send your kids back to Iraq.
That's a little swipe there at Barack Obama still hasn't figured out if he would invite Barry Bonds to the uh to the White House.
You know, Biden has the potential.
It doesn't show it much, but he has the potential to be the only adult on that stage.
And what he was saying, let me translate this for you.
What he's saying was look, if we pull out of there and Al Qaeda establishes a base, we're just gonna have to go back and take care of it at some point.
But even Biden is among the crowd saying we got to get out of there now.
Um they're pandering to their base right now.
They continue to do that.
Next question of of uh Senator Dodd.
Last week, uh you uh you had said that uh Senator Obama, quoting you his assertions about foreign and military affairs have been frankly confusing and confused.
You added he should not be making unwise categorical statements about military options.
What in your opinion has he been confusing?
Words mean things.
We've got to be very careful about language that's used in terms of the danger and harm it can do to our nation.
Understand that while General Musharov is no Thomas Jefferson, he may be the only thing that stands between us and having an Islamic fundamentalist state in that country.
I think it's highly irresponsible for people who are running for the presidency and seek that office to suggest we may be willing unilaterally to invade a nation here that we're trying to get to be more cooperative with us in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Uh here's Obama's reply.
I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.
He obviously didn't read my speech.
What I said was that we have to refocus, get out of Iraq, make certain that we are helping Pakistan deal with the problem of Al Qaeda in the hills between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
If we have actionable intelligence on Al Qaeda operatives, including bin Laden, and President Musharf cannot act, then we should.
Now, you this may be scary, but in terms of playing to the audience watching this debate last night, this is good stuff.
Uh that line about making sure we're on the right battlefield and other.
I mean, these libs think that there's no reason to be in Iraq.
Even though Biden just said, hey, hey, hey, pull out of there and let Al Qaeda step.
They know what's going on.
Here's the dirty little secret again.
Obama knows what's going on.
Every one of these candidates knows what's going on in Iraq.
They know the surge is working.
In fact, we've even got Senator Durbin admitting the surge is working.
What sound is that number one?
Let me stick this down, but it is.
Uh, this is this morning on CNN.
Uh John Roberts talking to Senator Turbin, who is in Iraq.
Says, uh Brooking Institute scholars over there recently wrote an editorial New York Times said, yes, there's progress.
The progress significant.
Enough U.S. troops should stay on the ground at least till the beginning of 08.
Do you see any that progress that they were talking about, Senator Turban?
There's another side to the story that the Brookings institution shouldn't miss.
As we are seeing military progress, the political scene is very discouraging.
We have seen this Al Maliki government, which was once branded a government of national unity, coming apart.
But hold on, let me back you up there.
You said you did see military progress.
Well, what we find is that the surge has troops going into areas where for four and a half years we have not seen our military in action.
And naturally, they are routing out the Al Qaeda in those areas.
That's a good thing.
But there is no evidence of the government of Iraq in these areas.
There are no Iraqi policemen, no Iraqi soldiers.
I understand all of that, but Senator Durbin, uh everybody in the Democratic Party is saying that the surge has failed.
Yes, they are.
And he says it's working as well.
Well, it's a political process falling apart.
Yeah, you know all that.
We've been through it.
Um they know it's working.
They know what the enemy casualties are.
We know we don't we have a policy of not announcing enemy casualties.
Uh ever since the Vietnam War.
They they know what they are.
They know what we're losing versus what the uh Al-Qaeda and the insurgents, the terrorists are losing, and it's it's dramatic, folks.
And I tell you, uh, they all know how well it's going.
Everybody on that panel last night knows how well it's going.
All of this that Obama's talking about getting out of there and going into pa into Pakistan, that's just code lingo for Bush hasn't gotten bin Laden, and that means the war is a failure.
Because that's what this this fringe bunch of kooks that make up the Democrat Party base wants to hear.
Now, uh this is this is this is Mrs. Clinton.
She's she's coming in here after um uh Obama and Dodd and this this uh discussion of whether we should go into Pakistan, and she tries to act presidential here.
I do not believe people running for president should engage in hypotheticals, and it may well be that the strategy we have to pursue on the basis of actionable intelligence, but remember we've had some real difficult experiences with actionable intelligence might lead to a certain action.
Pakistan has nuclear weapons.
The last thing we want is to have Al-Qaeda-like followers in charge of Pakistan and having access to nuclear weapons.
So you can think big, but remember you shouldn't always say everything you think if you're running for president because it have consequences across the world, and we don't need that right now.
Oh, they booter.
They boot you shouldn't say everything you think if you're running for president.
Now, at some point down the line, I hope that the Republican nominee and his team bring this line back to life uh with some real world application.
So Obama gets a last word on this, uh, and this is what he said.
I did not say that we would immediately go in unilaterally.
What I said was that we have to work with Musharraf, because the biggest threat to American security right now are in the Northwest provinces of Pakistan.
And then we should continue to give him military aid contingent on him doing something about that.
But the fact of the matter is is that when we don't talk to the American people, we're we're debating the most important foreign policy issues that we face.
And the American people have a right to know it is not just Washington insiders uh that are part of the debate that has to take place with respect to how we're gonna shift our foreign policy.
Oh, she's gonna pay for this.
She's gonna pay for this that you don't say everything you think when you are running for president.
Yeah, we noticed something, uh uh Chris Dodd and his uh uh admonition to Barack Obama over unilateral uh invasion of Pakistan said words mean things.
You gotta be very careful here.
Words mean things.
Yes, they do.
Uh popularized phrase that um has been etched in stone in the second of my 35 undeniable truths of life.
There's a first 35, then there's a second.
And the second 35 truths of life, undeniable truths of life, number 34 is words mean things.
Amazing how these people steal my lines when it suits them.
But it wasn't just Chris Dodd.
It was Hillary Clinton's spokesman, and it was Barack Obama's spokesman, who also used the phrase during the debate and in the spin room afterwards.
Words mean things.
Words matter, words have implications, words do matter, words mean things.
We've got to be very careful.
They steal from Il Hosto.
All right.
You I'm gonna say I'm gonna save this for the uh monologue of the this whole business on the bridge, but I you just will not believe this.
There's a story.
In the Chicago Tribune is posted last night in the paper today, I guess, by E. A. Torriero.
Uh I was alerted to this story by our buddies at uh newsbusters.com.
Noel or Ken Shepherd did the piece.
Somali community hard hit by Minneapolis bridge disaster.
The point of the story is to say that uh George Bush is causing America to insult and injure immigrants, Somali immigrants specifically,
and that he is making this a third world country which has them traumatized because they left a third world country to come here, and now Bush has turned it into a third world country as popularized by the bridge collapse because Somali immigrants come here, and they're they're they're just saddened that uh America is unable or unwilling to build and maintain safe infrastructure.
That's what they left.
They've come here, they have found no difference or little difference in uh what they found here than what they left in Somalia, and they're terribly insh's fault.
And I, you know, this is this is not satire.
This guy is dead serious.
I'll give you details.
I'll read you select excerpts in the monologue segment of next hour.
George in Leesburg, Florida, glad you uh waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
George Maharashi.
Yes, George, welcome.
I was born a conservative, I'll die a conservative.
But I've been attending the uh Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Learning since 1988.
Well, good.
This is the first time I've called, and I've done sort of take issue, excuse me, with your premise about regarding pensions.
Uh I'm retired and living in a pension, but I consider that to be deferred income on my 32 years working in the auto industry.
Uh you look at the pension as deferred income.
Yes, sir.
Do you realize that the pension partly is your money that you had you had uh money donated from your own uh taken out of your paycheck to fund it partially?
Exactly.
That's why I call it deferred income and not a handout.
Well, I'm not saying it's a handout.
I'm not saying it's a handout, but but but but the the um you know the the the health care aspect uh which is what this guy was complaining about is what I was talking about.
He expects his health care to be paid by a company that goes bankrupt even after he's not worked working there, and then asks a question of of the Democrat candidates, what's wrong with America?
Oh, yeah, I understand that.
Uh you know, the uh the health care uh uh part of uh retirement is being reduced by all of the companies, uh, and it's something we have to live with as retirees.
Well, all I was saying, all I was saying was uh now don't don't take this personally.
I just I'm just I'm just sharing a mindset and attitude here.
I've I've never I I had to join a union.
In fact, I am a member of you.
We have to be members of a union in this business.
They just have to.
Uh and I I pay my dues and so forth, but I am not expecting a thing from I don't even I don't even know what the pension plan is.
I don't care what it is, because I'm not going to depend on it.
My whole life.
I I I grew up never once expecting that I would get money from people for whom I no longer worked.
Uh health care, uh just my attitudes of whatever I want and whatever I need, I better, and that's provided for myself.
It's the only way I know that I'm gonna get the best I can.
It's just it's just a mindset.
Now, I uh uh again uh I don't mean this personally, but there's a i the the thing I was talking about with this guy with his expecting health care.
That was the nature of his question.
And it just boggles my mind, it's so unnecessary.
Uh for these attitudes to exist, but they got a political party funding it and promoting it.
But here's the thing on the pensions.
Now this is not about you.
Here's the thing in the pensions that amazes me.
You, every teacher in California, every teacher of their pension funds for practically every public employee out there, and where are they invested?
They are invested in Wall Street.
And who's the biggest enemy of the Democrat Party?
Wall Street.
Your deferred income depends on Wall Street doing well, American corporations doing well, your investment's turning out right, and yet they are a target of the Democrat Party as well.
Want to raise all those guys' taxes now, too.
All right, the idea.
Company goes under.
The rest of us have to meet all the deals that that company made.
That's not true.
Where does this stuff end, folks?
Where does it end?
It ends with all of us being broke.
Which is what the Democrats want.
They want all of us to need them.
Ain't gonna happen here.
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