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Dec. 18, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 18, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying because the views expressed by the host of this program, not just almost always right now the eight point eight percent of the time, the views expressed by the host of this program are the result of a relentless, unstoppable daily pursuit of the truth, and we find it.
We always find it.
You need courage to be able to listen to this program without going nuts when confronted with the truth.
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Well, uh a Clinton judge.
Yesterday we had the story of the attorney general uh was telling uh Congress member, you get back off on this tape destruction business.
You just back off.
The destruction of the CIA interrogation tapes, everybody's still hot to trout over.
Those tapes that were seen, uh, and those those those techniques that were explained shortly after 9-11 to members of Congress who had no problem with any of it, until they thought they could turn it around politically to their advantage, which of course bombed uh in the it well didn't totally bomb, but it uh it didn't get them what they ultimately wanted was an end of the war.
Now a Clinton appointed judge, his name is Henry Kennedy, wants a hearing on whether his order was violated on the destruction of those interrogation tapes.
Now keep in mind, this is the same judge whose order only covers detainees at Club Gitmo, not overseas detainees.
which these were.
This judge is going to try to find a reason to claim that his order was skirted.
This Clinton-appointed judge, you watch...
His name is Henry Kennedy, and we will be keeping a sharp eye on it.
Get this headline.
This is the Associated Press, it's out of Kansas City.
Learning English especially hard for U.S. immigrants.
Oh.
Okay, well, if it's so hard, we should just not do it.
It's too hard.
Before Bob Jensen can teach English to the adult immigrants in his lowest level class, he has to show about 25% of them how to hold a pencil.
Adult education teachers like Bob Jansen are finding themselves starting from scratch as uneducated immigrants and refugees from conflict regions of Africa and rural areas of Mexico and Central America flock to the U.S. Uh an estimated 400,000 legal and 350,000 illegal immigrants are unable to read or write even in their native language, according to a report uh in July of this year.
Takes a lot of patience to teach this class, said Jansen, an instructor at the Don Bosco Community Center.
One of the students, uh, Rebecca Goop, did not attend any school in her native Sudan before she came to the U.S. in 2000.
She says, I need to learn English to talk to people.
Uh she is one of the most fluent students in the class, but speaks in broken English.
Asked in English where they are from, many of her classmates respond with their names or their addresses.
More states are looking at student performance as they decide how to distribute federal dollars to programs that provide English classes for adult immigrants.
Twenty-five percent of them have to be shown how to hold a pencil.
Speaking of education, chimpanzees performed about as well as college students at mental addition.
Uh U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that suggests nonverbal math skills are not unique to humans.
The research from Duke University follows the findings by Japanese researchers earlier this month that young chimpanzees perform better than human adults at a memory game.
Priorist, this is really comforting stuff, uh, is it not?
And you doubt me.
You people doubt me on my brilliant monologue yesterday on the evolution of American culture as it relates to aging women in politics, particularly women who want to be president.
Don't doubt me.
This is the first study that looked at whether or not they could make explicit decisions That were based on mathematical types of calculations, said Jessica Cantlin, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at Duke, whose work appeared in the public library of science journal uh Plause Biology.
It shows when you take language away from a human, they end up looking just like monkeys in tur in terms of their performance.
Her study pitted the ape the ape math team of Boxer and Feinstein, two female chimps named for U.S. Senators, Boxer and Feinstein of California, with 14 Duke University students.
We had them do math on the fly.
The task was to mentally add two sets of dots that were briefly flashed on a computer screen.
The teams were asked to pick the correct answer from two choices on a different screen.
The humans were not allowed to count or verbalize as they worked, and they were told to answer as quickly as possible.
Both chimps and humans typically answer within one second, and both groups fared about the same.
You know, I tell you, that's right.
If they can do this, that means they could make change.
Or at least handle a credit card receipt.
Get them a job at Starbucks if they can learn how to make coffee.
I mean, there's any any number of potentials or possibilities here.
Um, but that is that is really comforting to know.
There are a bunch of chimps can do basic math as rapidly as Duke college students.
By the way, I wonder if there have been any f blowback on these two chimps being named after U.S. senators, female senators.
You ever seen an aging chimp, folks?
Those things, when those things are y'all, you see them on television, it'll babies.
You know, they're infants.
When these things mature, they be they're they're among the meanest monkeys out there.
They do not look dignified even when they're young.
I've worked with a couple people look like chimpanzees, uh, and the chimpanzees actually end up being better looking than these two people.
Uh living in severely disadvantaged neighborhoods has a profound and lasting negative impact on children's verbal language skills, according to research published today.
This is important, Mr. Limbaugh, because language skills are a proven indicator of the later in life.
Said study investigator Robert Sampson of Harvard.
What's surprising, he said, is the durability of the effect continuing even when the child moves out of the neighborhood.
Study published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Science early edition.
Samson and colleagues focused their analyses on the 772 African American children in the study because they said almost one-third of the black children were exposed to high concentrated disadvantage compared to virtually no white or Latino children.
The results showed that by the end of the study, black children who lived in a disadvantaged neighborhood had fallen behind otherwise identical peers who did not live in these areas by about four points on an IQ test, the equivalent of missing one year of school.
So disadvantaged kids may be disadvantaged, and they have poor verbal skills.
And by the way, this obviously this is a blue state results.
So you'd have to say there's a blue state blues.
But I've I'll tell you there's there's there's some uh accuracy to this because I have always said, you know, people ask me, uh countless people constantly ask, Mr. Limboa, how what should I first of?
I want to get in a radio like you.
I want to be just like you and real.
What should I do?
And they all think I'm gonna say study up on politics and make nope.
Learn to speak the language.
The more you can speak the language, the better, the more confidently and more powerfully you can speak the language and write the language, the more you will fool people into thinking you're smart.
It is, these guys are right about this.
It does connote uh uh the perception of intelligence and IQ.
The greater your vocabulary, the greater your ability to use it, the greater your ability to communicate and and uh express yourself, exactly what you mean in as few words as possible is a very, very powerful thing, and because most people uh are not able to do that uh as well as they would like.
And if you do, if you're able to, uh, it will just joking, make people think you're Smarter than you are.
It will be an accurate portrayal of uh of your of your IQ and your your your thirst for knowledge or curiosity and quest.
Uh but it's a great skill to have, and it's something that's crucially important to practically anything.
That's why the English only argument is a serious one uh when discussing what do you need for success in this country.
You need the language.
You need to be able to speak it, articulate it, write it.
You need a large vocabulary, as large as you can get, and you need to be fluent in it.
Uh, and you be able to say what you mean when you mean it.
Don't say what you don't mean unless you're tweaking the drive-by media like me, but that's that's an advanced lesson.
Uh we're just talking about the basics at this point.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, before going back to the phones, I want to go back to this story uh about living in severely disadvantaged neighborhoods, uh having a profound uh lasting negative impact on children's verbal language skills, according to a research uh paper published today.
There is a uh a presidential candidate on the Democrat side, Mrs. Clinton, who claims that this is what she has been accomplishing, fighting for our kids.
And she'd been doing this for thirty-five years, ever since she met Marion Wright Edelman and joined the children's defense fund, which was supposed to make sure that disadvantaged kids got out of those circumstances and became advantaged, at least had the disadvantages taken away.
But now look.
We've got survey research paper after research paper decrying the decrepit conditions of the very schools where these disadvantaged children have supposedly been helped for thirty-five years by Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Edelman and all the others who claim that they have at the top of their agenda list getting it right for our kids.
And yet nothing gets done.
Nothing gets accomplished.
You see, with Mrs. Clinton, we're never supposed to analyze the results of any of her claims or the facts behind them.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's like everything else with liberals.
We are to examine only their good intentions.
When Mrs. Clinton says, I have been fighting for 35 oh, well, okay, well, that's good enough for me.
She's qualified because she's been fighting.
Because she cares.
She's done anything.
This is the salient point.
What has she accomplished?
Where is the track record?
It simply isn't there.
And it isn't there in practically every other social area of concern where liberals have been paramountly in control in formulating policy, coming up with the quote unquote funding.
You notice nothing ever gets fixed.
We have to come back and alter the program or create a whole new redundant program with new funding to help those who somehow fell through the cracks.
When in fact they're all falling through the cracks.
In fact, there's no floor.
Everybody's in a quagmire trying to get out, but all these liberals led by Mrs. Clinton are trying to help, have been fighting for them for 35 years.
Diddly squat getting done.
The people that are getting out of these circumstances, it's happening with their churches, it's happening with their families, it's happening with themselves.
There are success stories after success story after success story of people who have grown up in these circumstances.
I don't care what race we're talking about, and they have escaped.
And they've done it on their own.
They had a great mentor.
They had a couple of great teachers.
It wasn't anybody from the federal government, they cite, and it certainly wasn't a federal program.
I mean, I've never heard for all the children Mrs. Clinton's helped.
I've never heard one adult who was a child when Mrs. Clinton started helping her coming, yep, Mrs. Clinton saved my life.
Mrs. Clinton got me out of the mired quicksand I was never heard one person give her credit for it.
But she gives herself all the credit.
Yet these people, they are the true role models.
The people have escaped these circumstances, they and their mentors, they and their people, they and their their uh teachers, families, whatever.
That's a way out of this.
Uh for the most efficient way.
Uh let's see.
Doug, in uh in Greenville, South Carolina.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Well, Merry Christmas, Rush.
Same to you, sir.
Earlier you were talking about the whole tax issue and Tax cuts growing the income and whatnot.
One thing that never really ever gets talked about is small businesses.
And small business, as we all know, is the backbone of the employers out there.
And most all small businesses, be it a dry cleaner in your hometown or a car dealer, are either sole proprietors or sub-S corporations or limited liability corps, and they all pay taxes at the personal rate.
And those business owners, and I'm I work for in the automobile industry, and I'm a district sales manager, and I've called on car dealers that had two employees, and I've called on dealerships that have had 200 employees, and they all pay at the personal rate, and some of that money that they earn, you know, obviously is what they live off of, but a lot of it gets reinvested back into their business, you know, to buy equipment to expand their business and hire new employees.
And so when the Democrats stand up there and talk about how they're gonna, you know, tax, you know, want to get more tax out of people that make you know, whatever their the dollar amount that they're quoting, a hundred and fifty or two hundred or a thousand or more, they're talking about you know, the people that employ all the the lion's share of the people out there.
Exactly.
Look at I uh we we we do talk about this, uh, but it's like a lot of things, uh we don't talk about it enough.
Like I was thinking last week, we need to recycle the whole concept of it's your money, uh when we're when we're talking about taxes, because it's um you know the the the roots of liberalism very deep, the tentacles of liberalism are very, very entangled and woven in a web of deceit uh that's strangling the people of this country.
And even though government fails at most everything it does domestically, uh people still look to it as the final authority as uh good and just and uh the the place where health care should be taken care of, and the place where all these grievances should be uh addressed and adjudicated.
The thing about what what he's responding to is something here in the first hour.
I was talking about journalistic fraud, perpetuating uh myths, journalistic malpractice.
Before the Bush tax cuts, the top one percent of wage earners in this country paid 37% of the whole income tax bite.
After the Bush tax cuts, the top one percent now pay 39%.
Their percentage bites gone up two points.
Before the Bush tax cuts, the top five percent of wage earners in America paid fifty-six percent of all taxes.
After the Bush tax cuts, the top five percent now pay sixty percent.
Yet the Democrats continue to run around and say the rich getting tax breaks.
And the poor are not, and the middle class isn't, and it's bogus.
The percentage of income taxes paid by the top one and top five percent gone up dramatically in both categories after the Bush tax cuts.
So the reason for this is um is easy.
You know, but there is you can't look at this stuff as a zero-sum game.
There's dynamics.
You lower taxes and all kinds of great things happen.
New jobs are created, more productivity occurs, more wealth is created, people do get richer, they move up in tax brackets, and so there are more people in those brackets, and you are raising more money for the treasury and the and the and the government at large, which everybody thinks is the point, which it isn't.
As far as the liberals are concerned, it's control.
Now, the sub-s business, sub chapter S, sole proprietors are allowed to file their business return on their personal uh uh income tax return, and that means they're paying the personal tax rate on a business.
And those are people, small businesses, and it's it's cliche, but it's true, the backbone of America, they do uh hire bat small business hires vastly more than big corporations, uh, and they end up being targets, and not just of taxes, they end up being targets of uh overzealous regulatory agencies and others who want to penalize them uh and punish them for their success.
Uh it's a it's a vicious cycle.
Uh and it's it's uh it they're always the successful are always gonna be targets of liberals and and democrats.
Bob in Houston, uh, next to Up You R on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Bob, uh Rush, Merry Christmas from Houston.
Thank you, sir.
Uh a couple of quick points.
One on the story about the sports cars.
I'm proud to say my wife admires me for driving a 450 horsepower sports car that gets 12 bucks per gallon.
What kind of car is that?
Uh the N Audi RS six.
Uh Audi did you say RS six, and it's four hundred and fifty thousand dollars?
No, four hundred and fifty horsepower.
Four hundred and fifty horsepower.
I'm sorry I'm having so many audio problems here today, I apologize to you.
Um everything's sounding very muffled today, and I'm trying to fix it, so I apologize.
I've four hundred and fifty thousand dollar outy, I'd never heard of that.
Uh anyway, my my point that I called on was getting back to the top one percent of the taxpayers.
You mentioned that it was a two percent increase.
That's an increase in their share.
Uh, if you have a fixed revenue coming into the treasury, then that would be actually a five percent increase in the dollars they're paying.
And we've all acknowledged that the revenues to the treasury have increased.
I don't know what the numbers are, but let's say ten percent.
Uh then the rich uh top one percent are really paying, you know, somewhere around fifteen percent more dollars to the treasury.
Oh, there's no question.
These are yeah, we're just dealing in percentages, but that's a good point.
Absolutely right.
Back in just a sec, folks.
Merry Christmas from all of us here at the EIB network to all of you out there in EIB Audienceville.
Uh telephone number 800 282-2882, if you'd like to be on the uh on the program.
Uh let's see who's next.
Mark in uh in New Hartford, Connecticut.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Yes, uh, Merry Christmas, America.
Uh my point is simple.
The only reason that um Aspen newspaper mentioned you at all is to get the attention that you gave them.
And uh it's just you know, I got a kick out of it.
I got a kick out of the article, and uh to me it was just obvious why you were mentioned, you know, hook your wagon to the star and all that, sir.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I mean, I d I understand that I don't think the Aspen, whatever it is, Aspen News, Aspen uh Daily Press.
I forgot the name.
Whatever I don't think they mentioned my name, hoping they would get noticed.
I mean, I uh th th they had a it's a story, folks, about about people who name their babies certain things in the top ten baby names, and it says in this story that I, L Rushbow, am thinking of having a child fathering a child next year to put the name Rush in uh in the hopper for most uh most frequently named male babies.
Which, of course, is totally absurd, but as people are pointing out to me, Rush, you're missing the point.
Your denials are irrelevant.
Nature of the evidence isn't isn't what matters here.
It's the seriousness of the charge.
Harry in Naples, Florida.
Hello, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Hi, Harry.
Yes, hi, uh, thanks for taking my call.
I'm about a twenty year about a twenty-year listener.
Uh basically, my uh concern as a uh staunch Republican is that uh Huckabee has no chance of being elected in the general election because he is a Southern Baptist.
Uh not the uh so much the slavery issue, naturally, which went from nine eighteen forty-five to nineteen sixty-eight when finally the uh Southern Baptists agreed to uh repent for the slavery, but it's really a question of the issue of women.
And women are sort of equal but not in the Southern Baptist faith.
And for instance, they cannot teach men.
They can teach children and other women.
And I think uh once the issue of how women are equal but not gets brought up in any kind of a general election, then enough votes would be lost, so that there really wouldn't be a chance.
Well, interesting.
Uh you know, a lot of people are aiming a lot of fire at Huckabee these days.
Uh one of the uh one of the stories today is uh actually a press release from Americans for l for legal immigration uh by William Jean or Geen, it's G H E E N. Uh, and they are reacting to the uh the minute man endorsement of Huckabee, and they're stunned by it.
Uh and here's the uh here's the the pull quote.
Um The Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is considering commissioning a phone poll into 50,000 Republican households in Iowa to ask, do you support Mike Huckabee's plan to have illegal aliens leave and walk back in legally within a day?
Mike Huckabee was on all the networks last week crowing about the endorsement of Minuteman co-founder Jim Gilchrist.
We are rebuking that endorsement.
Huckabee's immigration plan with 80 organizational leaders uh.
Never mind.
Uh please review our press release below and the letter signed by 80 leaders, and let me know if there's any way you can help us warn the nation.
A major deception is underway here.
Um this is one of the uh uh attacks on on Huckabee, one of the many, and one of the complaints is that he is disingenuous and is uh sort of Clinton esque.
We'll say whatever he has to say uh to whatever audience he is uh he's speaking to.
Selwyn Duke today writing in the uh the uh American thinker.com, the Huckabee Hustle.
When uh evangelicals embraced Jimmy Carter during the 76th presidential campaign, they didn't know that he would repudiate the Southern Baptist Convention a generation later.
Today the very same constituency has glommed on to Mike Huckabee, and I can't help but lament how history truly does repeat itself.
One can see why Mike Huckabee would appeal to evangel evangelicals.
He's a pro-life Southern Baptist minister with charm, he's got wit, good old boy yuckin up style.
Yet this resplendent exterior only serves to obscure the stain of liberal sin.
Huckabee would be a disaster on immigration.
In fact, in 2006, he compared those who would crack down on illegals to antebellum slave masters.
He said one of the great challenges facing us is that we do not commit the same mistakes with our growing Hispanic population that we did with African Americans 150 years ago and beyond.
We're still paying the price for the pathetic manner in which this country handled that.
Uh outrageously it seems, Huckabee cannot distinguish between denying citizens the protection of the law and requiring non-citizens to follow it.
Uh and it's replete with quotes.
Uh he was an absolute disaster on immigration as uh as governor.
So, and and there's this line uh from Betsy Hagen, the Arkansas director of the Conservative Eagle Forum, key backer of Huckabee's early runs for office, said she was once his number one fan, but ended up bitterly disappointed with his record.
He was pro-life and pro-gun, but otherwise a liberal, just like Bill Clinton, he'll charm you, but don't be surprised if he takes a completely different turn in office.
Um other people, this is the stuff that happens when you're the front runner out there.
Uh and uh when you're at least the surging le uh surging into the lead, uh, and uh a lot of people are taking aim at Huckabee now, and it'll be interesting to see how he's gonna react to it.
One thing he's not gonna do is go unmeet the press.
You know, Russard has offered all of these candidates an option to appear for a full hour, and Huckabee has turned it down.
Uh he doesn't want the media scrutiny right now.
He's going to run his TV ads and do whatever.
And Ron Paul has run in, he said, okay.
If Huckabee doesn't have the guster go and meet the press, I will.
I'm not afraid of Tim Ruster.
I'll go on meet the press, or Ron Paul's gonna be there instead of Huckabee, who's gonna continue to rely on his um TV ads.
Here's Ron in Sterling, Virginia.
You're next, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Uh hello, Rush.
Yes, sir.
Earlier, you you earlier you had said that you were uh student and observer of culture.
Yes, sir.
Uh Tom Brokaw has a new book out called uh about the sixties generation.
Yeah.
And his prior book was The Greatest Generation.
Yeah.
My my question for you is how did the greatest generation produce in their children the sixties generation?
Oh, that's a great question.
And I, of course, have the answer.
Here's the answer.
Do you take a look at the greatest generation?
Took a look, take a look at what they did.
Most of them endured the Great Depression.
Either when they were young, young adults, then along came World War II, Korea.
These are people uh that lived in a country at that time much, much, much less affluent than it is today.
They had to learn very early in life that there were things far larger than themselves, far more important.
Hell a country was attacked.
We had a depression.
You had to go to college to get an education to have a chance at uh at a decent job.
It was, you know, those of us alive today, we don't we can't even relate to a depression.
We're in the we're in the most robust economy in the history of mankind.
We got the drive-by media trying to tell everybody we're on the precipice of a recession, and everybody's panicking about we don't know what hard times are.
They did.
They understood commitment duty on her country.
They united, all came together, whatever differences they had were put aside, were fighting World War II all over the world, and there weren't any major dissenters in Congress of a major political party.
We were totally unified.
After that, Guess what happened?
Nikina Khrushchev shows up at a UN, bangs his shoes, says, We will bury your children.
My parents and grandparents took him seriously.
They had to look at what they had been through already.
Then they had to gear up for what was what that portended, the Cold War.
Then you had Korea thrown in there.
And they they had a rigorous, very difficult, very hard life.
They did not want their kids and their children to have to live that way.
Every generation wants better terms of economics and opportunity and all kinds of things for their kids than they had for themselves.
That's human nature, and it's always been that way.
In the 60s generation came along, the baby boomers, uh, and I'm one of them.
We've life has been a piece of cake.
We've had to invent our traumas.
Attention deficit disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder.
We haven't the slightest clue how tough life really was.
We've had to make ourselves think it's tough.
Now, in our minds, it's been hard.
I'm not saying that the the stress that people today go through is any different or less than the stress of previous generations.
Doesn't matter.
Fact is, we all feel the stress.
My point is we've had to manufacture most of the reasons for it.
Uh as such, we have had affluence, opportunity like our parents and grandparents they couldn't dream of.
And as such, we've had all this time on ourselves to do what?
Think about ourselves.
And to be concerned about ourselves.
Some of us are 56, some of us are 55, and on certain days we still feel like we're 18.
When my dad was 40, he was 40.
And when he was 45, he was 45, and he felt 45.
When he's 50, he felt 50.
He'd been through hell.
Every one of his friends the same way.
We, at 56, 55, we can go around and pretend like we're in high school on a weekend if we want to.
We don't think of ourselves, I'm 56, it's the last thing on my mind that I'm 56.
I don't feel it.
I don't feel it physically, psychologically, emotionally.
I I feel young and spry, and we all, and this is because we didn't have to learn to grow up real fast.
We didn't learn as soon as our parents did that there were things much larger in our lives than us.
And part of the 60s generation still hasn't.
And that's why they're who they are.
The left-wing 60s generation crowd, the godless bunch, the atheists, the people who think man is the beginning and end of all things, uh, people that believe in this global warming hoax, so inwardly focused, so self-focused, so so uh unable to realize that there are things in fact,
people who do realize there are things much larger in life than themselves, people who realize there are questions that we can all ask, that we will never on this earth be able to answer, those kind of people who have that faith and those beliefs provide a threat to certain elements of the 60s generation.
Uh because their faith is in themselves.
And that kind of uh faith with no boundaries frightens people who have not yet learned that there are things much larger and more important than themselves.
You say, how did that generation, the great generation produce?
The baby boom generation and some that have followed, simply because they wanted their kids to have a better life than they did.
They didn't want them to go through a Great Depression.
They didn't want them to go through a world war.
They did that's why when Khrushchev banged a chair, that's why they took the Cold War seriously, and they look at the money these people paid and taxes, uh, everything else that it cost them to fight all these wars and go through the Great Depression.
They didn't want that for their kids.
Lo and behold, at the same time the Cold War's going, we have an economic boom coming into the 50s with Eisenhower, then JFK, and we started uh uh a an economic renaissance, a technological renaissance in this country that produced more and invented more in 50 years than the prior thousands of years of human civilization.
Um a lot of reasons for that.
I mean, the freedom that we have to be creative and inventive in this country.
Uh, but but it it really the root of it is that they just did not want their kids to have to go through what they did.
So it was sort of a hands-off uh laissez-faire type of um of parenting in some cases.
And in other cases, by the way, that you know, the some of the some of the anti-war leftist kids in the 60s were actually obedient to their parents, and when you say that, what do you mean they were radicals, they were protesting authority?
No, they were just their parents, they were they were being obedient in the sense that their parents were telling them don't be hemmed in, you know, don't accept convention, go out and you know be fruitful and multiply and all this sort of things that their parents wanted to do when they were young or growing up, but didn't have time for because there were too many serious things on the table.
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Here at 800-282-2882, Dave in Chicago, your next sir.
Great to have you with us.
Rush, listening to your comments about how our generation became the way it is, truly earns you the title of the great Maha Rushi.
If I may have the similarity to add one thing.
How effectively our generation was sold, socialism and communism.
And if you how uh uh uh how effectively some of our generation was sold, socialism.
And liberalism.
That's true.
Not all of us.
Some of us, some of us had great parents who made sure that that stuff didn't seep into our crevices, deep dark crevices of our cranial cavity.
Yes.
Yes, and I am one such person whose parents uh would never have allowed me to behave that way.
Also growing up in the Archdiocese of Chicago, uh, none of the nuns would have either.
Yeah, but you know, it's uh it's a good point.
You know, you're the reason why uh in the in the in the 60s, and socialism, by the way, uh worldwide history, it's it goes back as far as human um uh civilization goes.
It's it's failed every time it's tried, but that doesn't matter to anybody because the people that want power over the people keep trying new ways to sell it.
But I still maintain to you that one of the reasons why it was so attractive is that because of the way sixties generation people were raised, in some cases had so much time on their hands, and their parents are afraid to say no.
They didn't want to distort their growth or stunt anything about them, and and uh so it it it gave rise to all kinds of of things that if you've if you when you've got time on your hands you can be concerned about.
Uh and we've had time on our hands.
I I I cannot I know a lot of you think I'm nuts because you think, my gosh, Rush, what are you talking about?
I've worked hard all my life.
I know you have.
But at the same time, you've had a lot of time to think about yourself.
I mean, you had you we've had the choice to grow up doing what we want, if we're fortunate enough to know what that is.
A lot of our parents and grandparents had no choice.
They had to take whatever they could get and try to make careers out of it.
Then that got interrupted with the war, the depression before that.
Grandparents and parents as well.
So I'm just saying we've had a lot more freedom, and with a lot more freedom comes a lot more affluence, a lot more time.
Um so you uh plus you cannot, you can't ignore that the uh after after World War II and so forth, and the advent of the the creation, if you will, of uh uh the so-called Soviet Union, uh, they had a purpose, and they infiltrated the education system, and they had people that were taking these young skulls full of mush and molding them and shaping them, and it still exists today.
And that that's actually one of the last areas remaining to be successfully uh challenged in terms of its uh monopoly.
And we've successfully busted up the drive-by media monopoly uh and uh and and some others.
Uh but education, particularly higher education, I mean, it's pervasive even at the lower grades as well.
We keep hearing horror stories about things being taught to kids and you know, all the way from first up to the tenth or eleventh grades.
A brief time out here, folks.
We've got a lot of audio sound bites I want to get to in the uh in the next hour, a little bit behind on that, and we'll do that.
More of your phone calls away uh as well as the EIB.
Folks, I'm I want to apologize.
Everything sounds so odd to me today that I'm so distracted by how it sounds.
I think I feel like half of me is not even here.
I'm so focused on what this sounds like rather than what I'm saying.
I hope my usual brilliance is nevertheless permeating uh your airwaves and your super heterodyne receivers back after this.
Today's health item designed to scare and depress you to death.
Women with short legs may have a higher risk of liver disease, with both probably caused by diet or other factors early in life, according to British researchers reporting on Monday.
I don't know what the definition of short legs is.
I guess if you've got them, you know it.
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