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May 30, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 30, 2008, Friday, Hour #2
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You'll see the price of crude oil out there, ladies and gentlemen.
$127.27 right now.
That's down eight bucks.
The oil price is declining.
Inflation is leveling off.
I told you both things were going to happen.
Great to have you here.
It's Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And here's telephone number if you want to be on the program.
It is 800 282-288-2, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
We go to the phones.
The program is all yours.
And as you know, on Friday, we try to take more phone calls than we uh normally doing our Monday through Thursday presentations.
Another Rushland boss summer spectacular unfolding before your very eyes and ears.
During the break here at the top of the hour, ladies and gentlemen, uh a noted climate scientist and specialist posited to me, and he's just guessing, of course, like all the other uh climate scientists are doing in the drive-by media, but he suggested to me that there may be an unexplained reason,
a very understandable one though, for the crane collapses in New York City in March and this morning, and it could very well be all of the carbon dioxide that we are pumping into the atmosphere has led to air pressure in the upper atmosphere, like 30 stories up, 20 stories up.
These cranes just can't handle it.
The cranes cannot handle the additional air pressure.
Just speculation here, of course, of all of the CO2 that has been pumped into the uh into the atmosphere.
I gotta I gotta hear this again, Michael Flager, because I'm watching this at the top of the hour after I got off the phone with the climate specialist.
I'm watching this guy, and I'm you know, the the congregation here at uh Reverend Wright's church at the Obama's church.
This congregation's going more nuts for this guy than I ever seen him went nuts for Jerry Wright.
And I'm watching with Snerdly, and Snurley says, Yeah, traitors, traitors, and congregation cheering the white pastor more than the black pastor.
Anyway, here's Michael Flager.
This was uh oh, what's the visiting reverend, and this was last Sunday.
When Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on.
I really don't believe it was put on.
I really believe that she just always thought this is mine.
I'm Bill's wife, I'm white, and this is mine.
I just gotta get up and step into the plate, and then out of nowhere came, hey, I'm Barack Obama, and she said, Oh, damn!
Where did you come from?
I'm white!
I'm entitled to the black man stealing my show.
She was the only one crying.
There was a whole lot of white people crying.
Listen to this guy.
He sounds just like Jeremiah Wright.
Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.
Hillary ain't never been called the nigger.
Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky.
He was riding dirty in white America, US of KKKA, black men turning on black men.
I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it.
Not God bless America, God d America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.
God America!
And now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards.
America's chickens are coming home to roost.
When Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on.
I really don't believe it was put on.
I really believe that she just always thought this is mine.
I'm Bill's wife.
I'm white.
And this is mine.
I just gotta get up and step into the plate.
And then out of nowhere came, hey, I'm Barack Obama.
And she said, Oh, damn!
Where did you come from?
I'm white.
I'm entitled to the black man stealing my show.
She wasn't the only one crying.
There was a whole lot of white people crying.
That is the visiting Reverend Michael Flager at Obama's church this past Sunday.
If I if I am this church, I mean I are they trying to sink this guy?
Are they trying to sink Obama for crying out loud after all that has happened?
Do you think maybe they'd take the cameras out of there or at least shut them down?
And make sure that there are no audio recorders that the congregation can bring in there.
You gotta stop and think about this.
This this is this is stupid.
Unless there's a plan here.
They must be out to sink Obama at this church.
Because they know the whole world's wide.
Well, that could be too.
Maybe they're just selfies trying to increase intendedness to hell with Obama.
The thing is, this flagr guy, he's right.
He stole that from me.
I didn't say it quite that way, but we all know that the Clinton is sitting around, you know, what the shell shocked.
What the hell happened to us?
So anyway, after this, Obama went out there, and he said that he was deeply disappointed.
Hillary has now responded to Obama.
Obama said he's deeply disappointed in the preacher.
Hillary is disappointed in Obama's response.
It's not even Jewan yet, folks.
It's not even Jew.
We've got the bylaws committee tomorrow on the rules committee.
If I'm the Democrat Party, I'm looking at this, and I'm saying, how can we do this?
Do you they have to know what lies ahead?
And of course, there are these rumors circulating.
And I don't know if this is true, but there are a number of people suggest, and I first heard this, by the way, when I was gone those uh Monday and Tuesday of last week, that there's a video, and that the Republican Party supposedly has it now, of Michelle Obama speaking from the pulpit in this church talking about whitey.
I don't care if it's unacceptable, snurkly.
I mean, I'm just reporting what's out there.
I'm reporting on a rumor that is out there.
I'm I'm no I'm not allowed.
I cannot mention, okay.
I will forget I said Michelle my Bell Obama, just his wife.
Obama's wife is out there in the church.
There's a rumor that there's a tape in Republicans have it, and they're waiting to use it in October of Michelle going nuts in the church, too, talking about whitey this and whitey that.
You know, if if I'm if I'm the Democrats, I'm looking at this and I'm saying, this they've got to know they're sitting on top of a powder keg here.
And somebody in this party, Howard Dean or somebody, has got to send somebody up to this church and say, Will you people take the next five months off?
Or move this congregation.
So move it to Reverend Wright's house.
It's a negated community, so nobody can know what you're doing in there.
Just give us five months, will you?
And shut up.
This is, you know, the Clintons are gonna make hell out of this.
They're gonna make hay out of this as they um lobby the uh the rules committee and so forth.
Uh Lauren Hutton, the uh former model, sometime actress on the Today Show today.
And she was talking about this, uh, the movie, Sex in the City, based on the TV show, The Sex in the City.
She says she's never seen it.
You ever seen Sex in a City Dawn?
Did you you never watched it?
What about you?
Yeah, but you what because Mitzi watched it, right?
You had to watch it because she was watching it.
Is that right?
Yeah, okay.
What about you, Sterling?
Have you seen it?
I watched a couple of episodes, and I just, you know, this uh quickly discovered that this wasn't for me.
This woman says she's never seen it.
Kathy Lee Givard, uh, the hostette, and said to Lauren Hutton, what do you make of the movie Sex in the City?
My guys who happen to be gay who are sluts.
Most men are sluts.
That's what testosterone is.
And I lived with hunters and gatherers all over the world for the last 40 years.
They don't have them anymore, but that's what testosterone is supposed to do.
So whoever you are, you're trying to get the best sperm, the best masterpiece.
You have a bunch of guys who are sluts writing for women and telling them they're supposed to act like this.
Get Michael Patrick King on the phone, please.
I know you saw the show.
Are the girls like that or not?
She's never seen the show, but she's assuming that a bunch of gay male sluts are the script writers for this show.
You know, she's got a point here, and she may not even know it.
When she said that uh she's lived with hunters and gatherers all over the world the last 40 years, they don't have many more.
That's what feminism's done.
Feminism gave us.
We started out with real men.
You know, we had we had from the cavemen forward, and the birth of butt sisters and so forth, the troglodytes and all the Neanderthal guys, and we moved forward and we're pretty much stayed consistent here.
Big time male uh heroic, genuine strong guys.
And then all of a sudden feminism came along.
Oh, that reminds me.
Gotta get that story.
Big government began when women got the vote.
I promised the audience yesterday.
I've got to get to that.
Anyway, that we we feminism then created a bunch of linguini-spined men.
Uh, and and the theory behind this was they didn't do the dishes enough, didn't do the housework enough.
So a bunch of guys, okay, because you know, guys will do whatever it takes to get where they want to go.
And so if it meant doing the dishes, doing the dishes.
If not playing golf and not going out and hunting and gathering, that's what they did, and it became a bunch of Michael Kinsleys.
And then that started to change.
It came metrosexuals, which meant that they got facials, manicures, pedicures, uh started waxing the hair off their chests and their backs and so forth and so and that didn't fly well because that's not what women want, Lauren Hutton, even though that's what the feminists created.
Lauren Hutton said they don't have those kind of old real guys anymore, but that's what testosterone's supposed to be.
You're trying to get the best sperm, the best masterpiece, and what women are searching, you know, for the the right mate to procreate with, to have strongest kids and so forth.
So forth, and and and men, you know, were willing to make any number of attempts in that regard to find the right woman.
So we went from metrosexual to wuss.
And now there's a story in one of the UK papers about retrose, the reemergence of real men.
So she's right, and she doesn't even know it.
Now I don't know gay guys wrote the script for sex in the city.
But apparently she's never seen the show, but she says, I just a bunch well, there was there was uh a bunch of women on the set.
One was Kathy Lee Givard, I don't know who the other one was, but all three of them are laughing, yeah.
About sex in the city.
They're laughing about sex in the city.
Gay male sluts and so forth.
Now, this is in the fourth hour of today, which nobody sees, which is why I played you the uh soundbite from.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Back to the phones we go now.
This is uh Summer, who is in uh Auburn, Alabama.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Hey, thanks for having me.
You bet.
Um, so I am about to graduate from Auburn, and I just got my final assignment from one of my professors, and it is basically to go into great detail and pl plan my funeral, and I was just wondering kind of your take on it.
Uh what wait a second here, uh Summer.
Uh first question I have when do you graduate?
Uh well, I finish classes in June, I walk in August.
Oh, okay, so it's late semester.
So you get summer term, yes.
Your final what class is this?
It is strategic marketing.
Strategic marketing.
Your final assignment you got a good grade in it so far?
Yes.
Strategic marketing, and your final assignment is to plan your own funeral.
Mm-hmm.
Um, and what's your question To me, uh whether you should do it, protest or how would you do it?
What's the question?
Really, I'd just like to get kind of your thoughts on it.
I've had I've just talked to a lot of different people and kind of get different reactions to it, I guess.
So I was just I know you're really interested in like what they're teaching in the classroom today, and so I was just wondering what you thought overall.
Of the assignment or how to do it.
Of the assignment.
Um I've got mixed emotions about this actually.
Uh I'll tell you why.
Uh you obviously at age you're you're it says you're 22, is that right?
Yes, sir.
Okay.
Well, twenty two.
No, you don't have to call me sir.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Call me dude.
Okay.
Um at twenty-two, you're not thinking about this.
So this assignment's kind of broadsided you.
What a minute.
My o you want me to think about my own death and then how the funeral's gonna be and so forth.
I that that's that's that's morbid.
I'm sure you're reacting to it that way.
Right.
Uh and when I was twenty-two, I mean, this kind of assignment would have blown me to smithereens too.
I was like, what the hell is this?
I don't want to think about my own death, and hardly anybody does until they approach it.
Right.
And when you get older when you start approaching it, and when you have a lifetime of accomplishments, and a lifetime of friends, and a lifetime of family, and understand that the funeral is for them.
And the funeral is um some people think funerals are pagan.
I uh that's a bit extreme.
But regardless, you can have any kind of funeral you want.
You can make it a celebration of your life.
And you can make it a very upbeat occasion.
Uh if you have religious beliefs that suggest that you believe in heaven and you've uh you've transcended and gone, then it's every reason in the world to celebrate, uh, to help the people who miss you uh mitigate their sadness.
Uh it's also a way to recount uh your achievements and your accomplishments, and it is a way for you to let people know what was important to you in terms of so when you s select the music, uh the setting and this kind of thing.
I well it wouldn't be, I don't think a bad exercise.
Right.
And I I think one of the one of the things you the way you ought to look at this, and I don't know what the purpose of your professor here is, but you're not gonna die tomorrow.
She doesn't want you to write a f uh your side don't is it a she or a he?
It's a he.
It's a he.
I don't think that he's wants you to write or plan your funeral as though you're gonna die tomorrow.
He he wants you to think about you live the life expectancy, which for women 76, 78, maybe it'll be higher than that by the time you get there.
So maybe he's trying to get you to think about your life and what achievements and accomplishments you expect of yourself.
What what are the goals and so maybe you can sit down and when you do this, you can pretend um well not pretend, but you can it's sort of like a goal setting exercise.
This is what I want to do in my life, this is what I would hope to accomplish, this is where I hope to.
And you when you when you then plan your funeral, uh the funeral would then be a celebration of those achievements and accomplishments, the people you've met, the people you've grown to love, the family that you have, uh and and of course the i important artifacts of your life that you want on display, pictures and this sort of thing, uh, and basically save your family the trouble of having to do this themselves because they're in the midst of grief.
Right.
So it could be it could be an interesting exercise.
And and if if you if you don't if you don't focus on the morbidity of uh of your own death, other than the fact it's going to happen at some point, it happens to all of us.
Nobody is yet, other than one person that we know of.
Um beaten it.
But it's I think it can be fascinating exercise.
It's a little weird, it's a little odd, but I can see where a marketing person, marketing professor, might have this.
By the way, I'm giving this guy the real benefit of the doubt.
He could be a total kook, is he?
He's pretty off the wall, but I don't think he's a kook.
Okay.
Well, look at this a learning opportunity.
Uh and and you know, you probably end up dazzling the guy with what you put together.
Right.
Um what were you thinking about it?
Well, I'd kind of gone back and forth depend uh, I guess depending on who I started talking to, because at first I got it and I was like, okay, it's different, but uh it you know, I'm a very organized person, so planing just kind of made sense.
But then I started talking to people and getting their reactions surprised me because they seemed so just mortified that someone would even assign this and would think that that was a good thing for a twenty-two-year-old to be thinking about and whatnot.
And so then I was like, well, maybe I'm not looking at it correctly.
And Yeah, I think your friends, your friends are having they're your age.
Close to a little older.
Well, but uh th they're younger than thirty.
Yeah.
Well, well, there's th you know, they're looking at it.
My gosh, he wants me to write about my death.
No, don't do that.
Write about your life.
Right.
Write about your life.
Plan your funeral according to your life.
Well, excellent.
Well, thank you for having me.
I appreciate it.
Well, I'm you know, this is fascinating.
Um, can you hang on through the break?
I want I want to tell you a little story.
Yeah, I think uh about this to try to explain why I'm looking at it this way.
Yeah.
This is Summer, who's 22 years old from Auburn, graduating in June and walking away a free woman in August.
And we are back.
It's open line Friday, and we rejoin Summer, graduating from Auburn University in uh June, has one final assignment from her marketing professor, and that's to plan her own funeral.
Now we've already discussed if you're just joining us, I've already given her my advice on this, but I wanted Summer, I want to explain to you why I'm thinking about it this way.
Okay.
Um you may know if you've listened to the program somewhat that Bill Buckley was a friend of mine, and I was uh with him the couple weeks before he died.
And I never asked him, I never never talked about his uh his death and and funerally plan, but I just knew as a as a great man, he had to have done it.
Uh he was the type of person who would in most people uh who have survived a catastrophic death, of course, and and are you know running against the odds of life expectancy.
Uh and once you get a certain age anyway, you plan for it, uh, even to account for a catastrophic death that might take you out before you reach the life expectancy.
At the funeral they had for the family was private, uh, but there was a memorial service at St. Patrick's, and his son Christopher got up and actually admitted during the eulogy that he and his father had talked about it and that his father had made specific requests to St. Patrick's Cathedral uh for the memorial service.
And so I know people think about it, and and this the memorial service had only two eulogies.
One was by Christopher Buckley, the other was by uh uh Henry Kissinger.
The rest of it was a about an hour and forty-five minute mass, and it was just beautiful.
Uh and it was exactly what was called for.
It was a celebration, uh combined with a religious service.
And it's a r it's it's really it's it's it's uh it's a way for people to remember you the way you want to be remembered.
Right.
I I actually I think I think this is a great exercise regardless what the motivation of your professor is.
Right.
I think sorry.
No, go ahead.
I was just gonna say he discussed it.
We were assigned the project yesterday, and then he spent about forty-five minutes talking about it today.
And to be honest, the reasons that you were giving pretty much sound exactly like his guidelines.
Like he wants it to be something that we get out and start at least discussing because it is a reality that all of us are gonna deal with.
And so, you know, should you heaven forbid, you know, surpass or die before my mom or whatever, she'll know what I want and things like that.
But don't do this.
The frame of mind here is important, and I I don't know what the frame of mind he thinks you're going to have do it, but don't do this from the standpoint of your death.
Do it from the standpoint of your life.
Of your life, right.
And the funeral is for those who survive you who love you.
Uh for for them to feel good about you.
They're gonna be sad you're gone.
And they're the you know, the they're they're gonna be devastated, and this is a way for for their uh uh grief to be mitigated somewhat by them and your family not having to plan all this because you've done it.
But it doesn't have to focus around your death.
Fu you know, focus around your life, what you've accomplished, what there is to celebrate.
Um and by the way, my North Carolina mistress sent sent me a very caustic email during the break where you were on hold admonishing me for telling you you didn't have to call me sir.
She she thinks that she thinks let will young people want to call you sir, let them because they're exhibiting good manners.
So I think my dad would appreciate it.
She may be right.
So you you now have permission to call me sir again.
Well, thank you.
Now I want I want I want to I'm really curious about this.
I'm gonna put you on hold if you will let us.
I want Mr. Snerdley to have a way to get back in touch with you.
Because when you present this and you get your grade on it, I'd like to know how you did.
I'd like to know what you did and what the professor thought of it.
Okay.
All right, so don't hang up here.
All right.
Thanks much.
Set Summer from uh from Auburn, Alabama.
This is Edward in Greenville, South Carolina.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Hey, I've got a question for you.
I've been listening to your ads about the uh the AB stakes, the Allen brothers, and uh been hitting my wife up for 'em for Father's Day coming up.
Uh and I told her about it, I've been dropping hints, and she uh got online last night and went to look at the Rushmore pack, and she came back and said, Now, what makes these steaks so much better than the other male steaks we get which are named after a uh city in Nebraska?
We'll just say that.
And I'm just trying to tell her that this is you know, I listen to you every day, and you really uh are adamant about these steaks.
So I'm really curious as to how I can convince her to Well, you know, you're putting you're putting you're putting me in a little bit here of a touchy situation because I don't I don't want to be critical of of anybody else in the steak business.
Of course.
Um I I've tasted the steaks you're talking about from the city of Nebraska.
This is really tough.
Um but I just have to be honest.
I've tasted them.
I like 'em.
But the first time I got that sample pack of stuff from Allen Brothers, and I had a Super Bowl party.
And I just I had I had uh there was some jumbo hot dogs in there.
I said, just prepare those, just to g use some of this stuff.
I mean, I I just to me that's the steak's a steak.
I mean, you best steaks are in a restaurant, you just put up with what you can get at home.
The hot dogs were better than anything I've ever had, and everybody was raving about them, so that made me try the other stuff.
There were a bunch of strips and some fillets.
Now it's it's key how you prepare this stuff.
I mean, you can't put it in an oven.
You can't put it on the front.
You gotta grill it outside and you've got to grill it under a high flame, you know, charbroil them.
But I had never I uh the only place I tasted stuff like this was in restaurants, and I found out that this is what this place does.
They supply restaurants with their steaks.
And what it is of all of the beef that's produced in this country, well, maybe around the world too.
If you throw out Kobe, because it's its own special kind, but genuine U.S. prime, obviously the most expensive, and the rarest.
It is no more than two and a half percent of the entire beef market.
And that's why it goes to restaurants because there's not enough of it to uh mass produce.
It's just the way the steers and the cows are grown where they're slaughtered.
It's just it's just the highest quality.
And so they Allen Brothers, after servicing all these restaurants, has opened up a uh a retail business as well with this.
And I'm uh there's a there's a club that I'm a member of here in Palm Beach.
And it wasn't long ago the guy, the president of the club's a good friend of mine.
And on Thursday night he instituted steak nights at this club, and it's Allen Brothers, and it's sold out every Thursday night.
They have a limit because of how much they can get and how much they can serve.
I went there last night.
Uh and I could not taste the difference.
I mean, this is a this is club, and it's it's a good professional chef and restaurant.
There was no difference.
I had a New York strip last night.
It's just as good at my house as it was in that restaurant.
And that's you cannot say that you eat a steak in a restaurant, and you go to a grocery store and buy a steak, it's not the same no matter how well you're prepared, it just isn't.
Because of the quality.
It's a it's very rare stuff, and that's why it's more expensive at what you're gonna find in a grocery store.
Okay.
So how can I convince myself trying to throw that out to my wife and see if I can I've been a good enough husband and father's here to see is your wife a fan of mine or not?
Uh she's really not a political, she doesn't listen to any talk radio.
Okay, but does she know who I am?
Of course she does.
Does she have an opinion of me?
I really don't think so.
We don't really discuss.
I mean, I I listen to you uh most of the time.
See, that what you're up against, what you're up against here is the husband's always wrong.
Yes.
You've got to find the the hus your the husband's always wrong.
You're suggesting this, and she's the well, why?
Now you go tell her what I've told you, she's gonna say, Who told you this?
Rush Limbaugh.
Well so forth.
Um But I was just hoping in that.
This is this is you know, this is the here look at Edward.
Yes, sir.
How old are you?
You mind my asking?
Uh thirty-three.
Thirty-two?
Thirty-three.
Thirty-three.
Edward, yes, sir.
It's time for Something in your life.
What are we talking about here?
Father's Day?
Yes, sir.
Put your foot down.
It's Father's Day.
You get on one day a year.
You should get what you want without having to fight for it.
Yes, sir.
There's a saying there's an old country guy that I work with, and he said there are two types of married men.
They're impegged and they're liars.
They'll ask you which one you are.
So whether that's good or bad.
Two types of two types of married men, henpecked or liars.
Yes, sir.
The way the way of the world.
Well, listen, it's it's it's it's Father's Day.
I mean, you really just Edward go in there and say, look, honey.
One day a year.
One day a year.
I will give it a shit.
Can you just can you just call them?
One day a year.
Here, use my credit card.
Just call them.
Well, I really appreciate it.
All right.
I hope you enjoy it, Edward.
I know you'll get it.
I know this is gonna this phone call is going to work magic for you out there.
We'll see.
Thanks much.
Quick timeout, folks.
Be right back after this.
Stay with us.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh and Open Line Friday.
What a bunch of great open line Friday phone calls that we have had today.
They really are.
All right.
Before I forget this, I've been mentioning this a couple days.
This was published on May 26th, which was Monday, which was Memorial Day.
And it was on the Fox News Channel website by John Lott Jr., L-O-T-T.
And it is about the the he's he's the author of a book called Freedom On Freedom Nomics, Senior Research Scientist University of Maryland.
Is there really a bias against women in politics?
History suggests otherwise.
Starts out here with the premise that women are so underrepresented in elective office.
And is it sexism that's keeping them out?
No.
It's that they don't run in as great a numbers as men do for public office.
But then he tackles this whole notion, is there really bias against them?
Are women really discriminated against in politics?
Hillary Clinton seems to think so.
Indeed, she thinks this year's presidential campaign has shown that sexism limits women's influence in politics.
Well, let's look at this, shall we?
In 2004, women made up 54% of voters.
At least through early February of this year, women made up a much greater share of Democrat primary voters, accounting for between 57 and 61% of the vote in Democrat primaries in Calcutta.
But whatever difficulties Clinton might be having, it seems that the policies adopted are much more important than who puts them into action, and the evidence indicates that women have long gotten their way in politics.
Academics have for some time pondered why the government started growing precisely when it did.
The federal government, aside from periods of wartime, consumed about two to three percent of gross domestic product, GDP, up until World War One.
That was the first war in which government spending did not go all the way back down to its pre-war levels.
Then in the twenties, non military federal spending began steadily climbing.
Roosevelt's New Deal really just continued an earlier trend.
The New Deal's looked at as the genesis of big government, but big government actually began before the New Deal.
What changed before Roosevelt came to power that explains the growth of government?
The answer is women's suffrage.
For those of you in Rio Linda, we don't mean it means vote when a woman can vote.
Women's suffrage.
This is what happens to R. Kelly's house, the 50 Cent's house.
This is not what we're talking about here.
Thank you.
For decades, polls have shown that women as a group vote differently than men.
Without the women's vote, Republicans would have swept every presidential race but one between 1968 and 2004.
The gender gap exists on various issues.
The major one is the issue of smaller government And lower taxes, which is a much higher priority for men than for women.
This is seen in divergent attitudes held by men and women on many separate issues.
Women were much more opposed to the 1996 federal welfare reforms, which mandated time limits for receiving welfare and imposed some work requirements on recipients.
Women are also more supportive of Medicare, Social Security, and educational expenditures.
Studies show that women are generally more risk-averse than men, and this could be why they are more supportive of government programs to ensure against certain risks in life.
Women's average incomes are slightly lower and less likely to vary over time, which gives single women an incentive to prefer more progressive income taxes.
Once women get married, however, they bear a greater share of taxes through their husbands' relatively higher incomes, so their support for high taxes understandably declines.
Marriage also provides an economic explanation why men and women prefer different policies.
Because women generally shoulder most of the child rearing, married men are more likely to acquire marketable skills that help them earn money outside the household.
If a man gets divorced, he still retains those skills.
But if a woman gets divorced, she's unable to recoup her investment in running the household.
Hence, single women who believe they may marry in the future, as well as married women who most fear divorce look to the government as a form of protection against this risk from a possible divorce, a more progressive tax system, and other government transfers of wealth from rich to poor.
The more certain a woman is that she doesn't risk divorce, the more likely she is to oppose big government and transfers.
Has it always been this way?
Can women's suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries help explain the growth of government?
While the timing of the two events is suggestive, other changes during this time could have played a role.
For example, some argue that w Americans became more supportive of bigger government due to the success of widespread economic regulations imposed during World War One.
Anyway, he goes on to make the point here.
During the early 1970s, just as women's share of the voting population was leveling off, something else was changing.
The American family began to break down, rising divorce rates, increasing numbers of out-of-wedlog births.
Over the course of women's lives, their political views on average may vary more than those of men.
Young single women start out being much more liberal than their male counterparts, and are about 50% more likely to vote Democrat.
As previously noted, these women also support a higher, more progressive income tax as well as more educational and welfare spending.
But for married women, the gap's only one-third as large, and married women with children become more conservative still.
Women with children who are divorced, however, are suddenly about 75% more likely to vote for Democrats than men.
So as divorce rates have increased to in large part to changing divorce laws, voters have become more liberal.
Women's suffrage ushered in a sea change in American politics, it affected policies, aside from taxes and the size of government.
The uh it's interesting uh uh theory here that basically women are the uh nurturers, and they have to have insurance against deadbeat husbands are gonna leave them at some point, or for women who look down the road and don't see a prince charming for a while.
And so the point is that when women got the right to vote, the growth of government, whether it's by accident or by design, started at the same time.
Because women need a fallback position more than men.
Now, if there's any truth in the Anne Coulter jokes about this all the time, Ann Colt, you want to reduce the size of government, take away the right to vote from women.
She says this on college campaign just to irritate.
Well, she knows it's never going to happen, don't misunderstand.
She says it to make a point.
That women, some women, as this story points out, end up becoming dependent.
And if nobody else but than government to depend on, well, then you'll depend on it.
Look at all the phenomena.
The soccer moms, who were they?
They were married.
And they were so busy, and their husbands were worthless.
And they were doing everything.
Getting the kids to bed, getting them up, fixing breakfast, taking them to school, picking them up, going to soccer practice.
They thought Bill Clinton cared more about them and their kids than their own husbands did.
That was something big what That was tried for the second term election in 1995 campaign.
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