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July 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 11, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Open Line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
Rush is away.
He's having major dental surgery today, and obviously wise to get that in before Barack Obama is elected and it becomes socialized.
And we go back to getting the old pliers out or tying a piece of string to the doorknob.
Rush is having dental surgery.
He'll be back Monday, but it is Open Line Friday, and that means you get to talk about anything you want.
You know, we were talking about education with Linda Chavez just before the break.
And it amazes me that Obama didn't get it with this crazy answer he gave on bilingualism the other day.
He was asked a question about whether English first, people should learn English, whether English should be the language of the United States.
And that is nothing to do with whether Americans should speak a foreign language.
One of my colleagues at National Review put it very well.
He said, if an American is on vacation in Paris and he goes into a restaurant and he doesn't know what the French for filet mignon is, that's a mild social embarrassment.
When a kid in an American school doesn't speak English, that's a tragedy.
You're in effect denying him access to the opportunities this country has to offer.
You know, it is crazy some of this stuff because there's a big English as a second language bureaucracy that exists now in the public school system, you had crazy things like they didn't have enough Latin American students, Spanish students, so it became a target to identify people who could be potentially given Spanish language classes.
So for example, the British West Indies, which as the name suggests is not part of the Spanish-speaking world, were being designated by some school districts as part of Latin America.
So those kids, immigrants from the British West Indies, from Trinidad or Jamaica, had to go into Spanish language classes when they immigrated to the United States and go.
This is a terrible thing.
What I don't understand about this is why any country would voluntarily become a bilingual country.
Because it is one of the greatest destabilizing factors you can have in building a common society.
If you look at Canada, Canada is essentially a less stable society because they have two languages.
And the people who speak one of those languages are having referendums every 10 years or so, voting on whether to secede or not.
Apart from anything else, it means you're unable to share jokes.
That's why bilingual countries, for example, are notably humorless, Switzerland and Belgium.
I insulted, I think, members of the Mead community in the previous hour.
So I just want to make sure that for the purposes of the previous racial generalization, I do speak as a semi-Belgium, Belgian.
I'm half Flemish.
And that's simply the characteristic of Belgium.
It's basically two countries, two entirely separate societies speaking different languages, Flemish and French, that basically happen to have a king at the top of them who rules over both groups.
But it doesn't have that real shared common social glue that unilingual societies have.
And there's something crazy about the United States voluntarily setting itself up, turning itself into a bilingual society.
You know, I mentioned I live up in northern New England, where there are not a lot of Hispanics, you know, to be honest.
It's not the most diverse part of the world.
Vermont, I believe, has seven Hispanics.
I think Howard Dean drove around there once, counted them all, because he was being hammered.
He was the one who criticized the Republicans for not having a sufficiently diverse membership.
This is a guy who presided over an all-white state, all-white cabinet.
So he went looking around for Hispanics.
I think there were seven Hispanics in the whole of Vermont.
If you go to the payphone in the heart of Burlington, Vermont, the state's biggest city, it's got one of these no-name phone companies, has put up a payphone there, and it's got the instructions in English and Spanish.
That's not serving anybody who actually lives in Vermont.
That's fetishizing.
That's fetishizing a kind of phony baloney bilingualism for its own sake.
And why anybody wants to voluntarily, why any country would voluntarily want to turn themselves into a bilingual society, I do not know.
Obama chose not to answer that, but to concoct this cockamame business about how we all need to speak more languages.
It's Oberline Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I know we've had some people who've been waiting a long time.
Let us go to Paul in Cortland, New York.
Paul, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Paul.
Are you still there?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
He's stampeding to the phone.
Don't let me distract you.
If you're out in the yard doing the lawn or whatever, you know, next time, next time, take your cell phone.
My lovely bride kissed goodbye.
But actually, in fact, she's been interested in the question that I have as well.
It's regarding the yellow cake uranium that was recently, I guess, CNN reported in like a 30-second blurp, and then I haven't seen it on any of the other networks, and no one else really has had anything to say about it.
But apparently, Iraq, the Iraqi government, has compensated America back the costs associated with the removal of this 500 tons of yellow cake uranium and transporting it to a company in Canada.
And China has taken what would essentially be weapons-grade uranium and converted it for use in power.
Peaceful purposes.
The yellow cake uranium is being converted right now into the Celine Dion Christmas album.
And that's terrific news for world peace.
Actually, I don't know where they may drive millions of people into a rage, but no, you're right.
The yellow cake, wouldn't all the world's problems be so easy to solve if we could just pick them up and dump them in Canada?
It's a whole everything is easy.
But yes, you're right.
The United States moved all this yellow cake.
This is the yellow cake, by the way, that Saddam Hussein didn't have.
This is the one that Ambassador, if you remember Joe Wilson, he was a guy who was famous for 15 minutes, and the 15 minutes went on for six years.
He was the guy who basically was dispatched by the CIA to fly into Niger, and he came back and said, no, Saddam Hussein has not been seeking yellow cake from Niger.
So I would be interested to know if you turn the yellow cake and look at the bottom of it where it says it was made.
I would bet there is yellow cake from Niger that is part of what's been found in Iraq.
I guess that goes to the second part of my question then, because I don't understand why people are not.
I mean, this to me, I guess, seems like there's been this, you know, from the left, this continual, you know, banter that it was an unjustified war and that, you know, we were ill-advised and ill this or whatever.
I mean, well, to me, I guess that seems like perfect justification why we went in, and yet it's never really It hasn't become part of the everyday, you know, every person that you talk to on the street still thinks, well, no, there was no WMD.
But I think to me, that sounds like an awful lot of uranium.
Yeah, and I think you can fault the administration on this.
And these bird brains that like Scott McClellan, who are out there representing the administration for a long time, did not do a good enough job at actually stopping this narrative in the tracks.
The fact is, the media has only one story for Iraq.
It is that Iraq is a quagmire.
And so if Iraq is not being a quagmire, then they just don't want to hear about it.
it's no news that's why you've got nothing on the you fit for years you could switch on the evening news and they would have that thing uh that showed the burning car of the day uh from outside the baghdad green zone on They would be leading the news on ABC, CBS, and NBC.
All you had to do to get on the network news shows was light up some Subaru in the green zone in Baghdad, and you would be on the evening news in the United States.
It was like a regular thing.
I don't even know why they're bothered filming a new one every day.
There's a TV station up in Canada that when it closed down at about midnight, used to show this video of a crackling fire all night long till five in the morning.
And hundreds of thousands of people tuned in and watched this crackling fire every night because they found it reassuring.
That's what the blazing Toyota on the evening news on ABC, CBS, NBC was.
It was basically the equivalent of that crackling fire up in Canada.
It was reassuring.
What's happening in Iraq?
Oh, just more blazing going on.
When the story changed, when it turned out that America was capable of changing the facts on the ground, which is what serious nations do, and had the surge and effectively got a grip on the situation, the media lost interest in it.
Totally lost interest.
And that's what's going to happen to the yellow cake.
The yellow cake has just gone down the memory hole.
Huh?
I mean, do you think that McCain's camp as we draw near to the election, is there going to be some moment where suddenly, you know, the fact that there was some justification for this war, you know, it begins to sink into the people who do pay attention and who do.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute there, Paul, because you don't want to get into leftist views of the war.
When you talk about justification for a war, when you're in a war, it doesn't matter what the justification was.
You think people sat around in 1917 or 1944 and said, oh, well, what is the justification?
Remind me again what the justification of the war for the war is.
No, if you're in a war, once you're in it, the thing is to win it.
Because once you're in it, it doesn't matter what the justification is.
There's two options.
You can win it or you can lose it.
And the Democrats are invested in losing it, in effectively saying, oh, no, it's all a bit, you know, it's a bit of a quagma and it's complicated and it's all Bush's fault.
And there's none of this yellow cake anyway that we had, well, except for some up in Canada.
And anyway, who knows about that?
Really, it probably was planted there by Bush.
So we'd much rather lose the war.
The fact is, it doesn't matter what the justification is.
It's not in America's interest to be seen to lose a war, not just for Iraq's sake, but for every other nickel and dime dictator around the planet.
Because why would you take America seriously?
Why would you take America seriously when basically the view of all these big shot senators and congressmen you see traipsing in front of CNN International every day long?
And by the way, CNN International makes CNN Domestic look like the Rush Limbaugh show.
It's amazing.
I mean, that's what they're watching in all these presidential palaces.
And it's an endless parade of defeatist senators who basically were saying, oh, no, all is lost.
We've got no hope.
We're way out of our league.
We've got to surrender now.
That strikes at the heart of American credibility and credibility.
If you're a superpower, you're only a superpower while you have credibility.
Otherwise, you're just some kind of washed-up, cockamame-y, ludicrous basket case of a nothing, big nothing.
And that's the danger.
That's the danger.
I guess I agree with you totally.
It's just the scary part of it is, I guess, one of the defining issues, obviously, in this election being, you know, whether we're going to stay and fight and see this through until its conclusion or we're basically going to cut our losses and get the heck out of there as quickly as we can.
With that being basically, to a large degree, kind of the primary issue that's being debated, why wouldn't we want to make certain that that is being trumpeted to a degree?
Well, I think this administration is past the trumpeting thing.
I think when you talk to them, they think they're going to be vindicated by history, and that's what they're looking at now.
But I think if McCain wins, McCain will see it through in Iraq.
If Obama wins, who knows?
So one hopes sanity would prevail, but we don't know.
Thanks very much for your call, Paul.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Show, Open Line Friday, and more, straight ahead on the EIB network.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show on the EIB network.
Open Line Friday with Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
How bad are things out there in America today?
It's not just that the U.S. dollar is down.
It's not just that the value of your house is down.
The value of you is down.
The value of your life is down.
According to this story from the Associated Press by Seth Borenstein, AP science writer, a government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.
The value of a statistical life is $6.9 million in today's dollars.
The Environmental Protection Agency reckoned it...
Who knew they were...
Every man a king, 6.9 million.
That's not...
That's not good news, RF.
That is not good news because that $6.9 million is a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago.
Do you remember that?
Do you remember how it used to be in the Clinton era?
Life was great.
Life was great.
Your life was, life was not just great, but incredibly valuable.
Your life was worth $7.9 million.
And now it's worth, thanks to Bush, five years of Bush, it's $6.9 million.
It's basically junk bond status, your life.
It's your house, you're lousy.
You couldn't get a mortgage on your life.
You took your body to a bank, they'd foreclose on it.
You're down to a lousy $6.9 million.
I was stunned by this.
I was stunned by this.
I mean, what's $6.9 million?
How's it going to get you?
I mean, it is an arm and a leg to fill up your gas tank.
$6.9 million.
$6.9 million.
That is the value of a statistical life according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
I can't find it.
I've got my copy of the U.S. Constitution here.
I cannot find the clause in which it gave the Environmental Protection Agency authority to determine the value of an American life.
Is it?
It's in the footnotes.
That's good.
It's in the footnotes.
Okay.
Okay, just as long as it's in there.
So I wouldn't want to think this was unconstitutional.
I don't know whether it's everybody's life is 6.9.
I don't know whether, obviously, like Michelle Obama's life is worth $183 million and your life is worth 79 cents.
I don't know whether it works like that, whether we're all worth $6.9 million.
But the Associated Press discovered the change after a review of cost-benefit analyses over more than a dozen years.
Though it may seem like a harmless bureaucratic recalculation, they report, the devaluation has real consequences.
When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh the costs versus the life-saving benefits of a proposed rule.
So, for example, you know, this thing they wanted to reintroduce this 55 mile per hour national speed limit.
Well, what they do is they work out the number of lives it would save and then whether it's worth it.
So, because otherwise, you know, they'd say the national speed limit had to be 11 miles an hour and because that would save even more lives.
So, the value they place on a human life is critical to determining the size of government.
As this guy in the Associated Press says, the less a life is worth to the government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pollution.
God bless George W. Bush for taking a million bucks off the value of an American life.
That is the basis on which they decide all this big bureaucratic government regulation.
No, I had no idea that this was how they worked it out.
I didn't know that the government decides what each life is worth and then introduces the size of government programs that your lousy $6.9 million life can support.
I don't want that.
Now I know when you go into the Social Security Office why they got all those stupid leaflets for the stupid programs that nobody needs.
George W. Bush, to his credit, he has wiped $1 million off the value of an American life in the last five years.
He's still got six months to go.
And I say, go for it, Mr. President.
Let's see if you can wipe another half million bucks off the value of an American life.
We will get small government.
What was the value of an American life in Calvin Coolidge's day?
30.
30 bucks.
I think that's 30 bucks.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Okay.
30 bucks, value of an American life back in Calvin Coolidge's day.
It was $7.9 million under Bill Clinton.
George W. Bush, God bless him, has got the value of an American life down to $6.9 million.
If we had a small government conservative like King George III running in this election, we would have it down.
I think we would get it down, you know, basically to two bucks and we would have affordable government again.
Hey, great to be with you.
Rush will be back on Monday.
Apparently, in the last segment, I called HR.
What was it, RF?
RF.
I don't even know what that is.
It's not even like a good acronym, is it?
It's like lousy.
It's like, you know, it's like wins first prize and come up with an unmemorable acronym company.
It's, you know, RF.
It's like random constant.
I don't even know who HR was saying to me, well, who are you thinking of when it was RF?
And I said, I don't know.
I think it's, isn't it the head of the advertising agency in Bewitched?
I can't remember.
I think Darren.
Did Darren and the other fellow, did they have to, Darren and Larry, did they have to report to RF?
I can't remember.
I can't remember.
Anyway, I apologize.
I apologize to FZ.
I shouldn't have done it.
But at least I didn't call him FZ anyway.
Mark Stein in for Inforush.
We're talking about that story about the human life has fallen.
The value of an American life has fallen under the Bush presidency.
It's now down to $6.9 million.
Under good King Bill Clinton, it was up around $8 million.
And apparently, this is the basis on which they use to calculate government, whether government programs are worth it.
And if you're wondering, you say you said, well, obviously, and you look at any of these government programs, half of them aren't worth it.
And the reason is because they're evaluating your life at $8 million.
They basically, you have got, your life is like these houses that people have bought.
They bought them on mortgages for $2 million, and the house is worth $120,000.
So they have what they call negative equity.
Your life, under Bill Clinton, your life had negative equity.
They gave it a value of $8 million, but in fact, so they could create all these government programs.
The Associated Press guy says, consider a hypothetical regulation that costs $18 billion to enforce, but will prevent 2,500 deaths.
At $7.8 million per person, the old figure under the Clinton administration, the life-saving benefits outweigh the costs.
So they would introduce that program.
But at $6.9 million per person, the rule would cost more than the lives it saves.
So it may not be adopted.
This is great.
You want small government?
You've got to reduce the value of an American life to, if you reduce the value of an American life to 26 bucks, you would have small government.
That's the only way it's going to happen.
So forget about who's going to be president.
Forget about who's in the Senate.
Forget about who's in the House of Representatives.
The critical position in American government is this fellow who is the American life evaluator for the Environmental Protection Agency.
Did you even know this job existed?
Can you go to college?
Can you train for it?
Is there a school somewhere in, you know, I don't know, Indianapolis that you can train to become an American life evaluator?
Is it a competitive position?
When the president takes office and they say, well, look, we've got Secretary of State, we've got Secretary of the Treasury, we've got Secretary of Defense, oh, who's going to be the life evaluator?
Do they say, oh, well, we've got 20,000 applications for that.
You know, you're going to be interviewing all day.
Or is it just like J. Edgar Hoover type who has been the American life evaluator since the Depression?
And we've never heard of him.
I don't know.
Until this story from the Associated Press, from Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer, came up, I had no idea that the entire calculation of government, on the size of government, on the number of government programs, depends on the guy who puts a value on an American life.
This is clearly, I think, something that, I don't know, do they hold Senate hearings on it?
Do people like Barbara Boxer say, oh, but your plan is only to put a value of $2 million on an American life?
We need someone caring and compassionate who will put a value of $40 million on an American life and we'll have the world's all-time biggest government.
I had no idea that this was the entire foundation of this constitutional republic.
It has nothing to do with the Founding Fathers or anything like that.
It's to do with the guy who sits in the Office of American Life Evaluation somewhere in a basement in Washington.
And on that, everything depends.
So if you're listening, the guy who calls up and evaluates American lives, call up and perform an instant evaluation of mine.
I'd be interested to see how this whole thing works.
I'd be interested to try it out.
But I tell you something.
If the size of government depends on the value of an American life, then you can bet it's going to skyrocket during the Obama presidency.
If you think it's low now, by February next year, it's going to be way up.
It's going to be way up.
This is the critical position in the American polity.
I had no idea it even existed.
Let's go to Gene in Houston, Texas.
Gene, thanks for waiting.
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh show on the EIB network.
Bonjour monomie.
Oh, bonjour monomie, au si avu, auci.
Bon.
No, I was calling about, I think that Obama perhaps has really never left his zip code because you can get in a car in the Key West of Florida and drive for three weeks up to Alaska and you all become used guys or bubba and this guy needs to learn something.
English is a good language.
English is a great.
I've got nothing, I've got nothing against other languages.
I like French for certain types of things.
I like love songs sung in French.
I'm not so keen on love songs sung in German.
There's a lot of uses for language.
But I think for global business, global business, English is the language.
If you speak, that's the reality of the situation.
That is, if you speak English, you are speaking everybody else's second language.
For a start, there are basically, whatever it is now, four or five dozen countries in the world where English is the language.
The French, by the way, are the ones who are far more unilingual than we are.
You go into a room with Jacques Chirac and you ask him a question in English, and he'll fly into a big huff and storm off with a big Gallic flounce and you won't see him for dust.
Well, I was under the impression that there's a French automaker that uses English as their business language.
Yes, that's right.
And that was actually one, that was the meeting at which Jacques Chirac, I believe, Jacques Chirac reprimanded them for speaking.
You know what I love?
Thanks very much for your call, Jean.
You know, one thing I love about this language business, people say, you know, they're not like, they don't have bilingual payphones in France.
In France, everything is in French.
Nobody in France knows how Humphrey Bogart or Carrie Grant or Jimmy Stewart, any American icon speaks.
They don't know their voice because all those movies are dubbed into French whenever they're shown on French TV.
And the only exception is made for the songs in musicals, which they don't dub into French because they'd have to get an orchestra in to play along with them.
So if you watch, last time I was watching French TV and they had White Christmas on.
White Christmas came on and the guy dubbing Bing Crosby's beautiful American baritone had this squeaky little voice.
So he was going around saying to, I don't know, Rosemary Clooney or Danny Kaye, oh, bonfit, Russi, bonfit, Danny.
And then he'd start singing, I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.
And his voice would drop four octaves.
That's how crazy they are, how obsessed they are with dubbing everything into French.
You can't use any foreign words.
The Academy Française vetoes any French words.
The word for email, the originally invented email is five letters.
And the French word for email was like 137 letters.
It was the Calca shows, de Kelca shows, de Kelka shows, went on for ages.
And they took the word for email.
Eventually, they agreed to accept the Quebec word for email, Curiel, Curiel, which is only eight letters.
So it's twice as long, it's twice as long as the American version, but that is short in French.
They are the least open to languages.
They are the most unilingual.
They would think you were insane to voluntarily turn yourself into a bilingual society.
And that is, there's no precedent in history for that.
There's absolutely no precedent in history for a country that happens to be unilingual, then basically deciding out of some sort of misplaced, as I said earlier, fetishization, deciding to voluntarily become a bilingual.
But messy bien pour votre appelle, monsieur.
And it was very good, very good to talk to you.
Gosh, it's infectious, isn't it?
It's a bit like sort of like getting the Ebola virus.
You suddenly find yourself coming all over foreign.
It's kind of weird.
And this is Open Line Friday.
Still to hear, by the way, we still haven't heard from the government life evaluator.
He may be out on a call evaluating an American life right now.
He may be, I don't know how he does this.
I'm fascinated by this.
I mean, does he go to like some dirt poor hard scrabble farm in Appalachia and he sees some guy scratching a living there and he said, well, you know, clearly this guy's life is worth $37.28.
And then he goes and he spends some time, goes out to Malibu and he has dinner at Barbara Streison's beach house.
I mean, how do we calculate the value of an American life?
There's some guy in the government who does this, and on that, everything else depends.
That's the most important job in Washington.
We'll talk about that and much more straight ahead.
Open Line Friday continues on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
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Rush will be back.
Rush will be back on Monday.
And this is Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
And I'd like to say something sincere, sincere and heartfelt for a moment here.
Because when Rush interviewed me in the Limbaugh letter, he talked about this human rights suit I've been facing up in Canada where I've been on trial for being flagrantly Islamophobic and all the rest of it.
And when Rush spoke to me, I just spent a week in this crazy basement courthouse in British Columbia watching a parade of witnesses go on about my alleged hate crimes.
And the imam who's behind all this is the head of the Canadian Islamic Congress, a guy called Mohamed El Masri, who said on TV that he thought it was legitimate to kill any Israeli civilians over the age of 18.
So he's an objective supporter of terrorism, but apparently he's also the poster boy for a hate-free Canada.
So he's been prosecuting my hate crime of a book and for my views on Islam.
And it was a terrible week for me up there because I was, as someone mentioned earlier, I was born a British subject.
I was born a subject to the Crown.
And it's a weird thing to feel, as a felt up there, that you're losing your country.
And I was never more grateful than to get back south of the border and to be back in my home in New Hampshire.
This country has been incredibly good to me.
You know, there's no reason.
This is America's most listened to radio show.
And there are millions and millions of Americans out there.
This is not one of the jobs that Americans won't do.
There are millions of millions.
You do not need to get a foreigner to get in to do this.
You don't need to get an immigrant in to do this.
You don't need to get an undocumented guy in to do this.
There are millions and millions of Americans who would love to do this job.
And it is an enormous honor and an enormous privilege to be able to sit behind Rush's microphone and spend three hours with you.
And that is, I really feel we should have one of those orchestral accompaniments I was talking about in the last minute underpinning me.
Where's the guy who was supposed to do the violin obligato?
I need to take out my onion and start sobbing tears of gratitude.
But no, I am grateful.
This has been a wonderfully welcoming country to me.
And if you'd said to me the day I snuck across the border and stole some guy's ID, that I would ever be hosting America's most listened to radio show.
What a terrific country.
This is, I agree with Nicholas Sarkozy.
It's slightly worrying to me that you have to get foreigners who say this stuff.
When Monsieur Sarkozy came and spoke to the United States Congress, he said, this is a land of opportunity.
He said all the things that you would like to hear, if not from Democrats running for Congress and for the presidency, you would certainly like to hear from Republicans running for Congress and for the presidency.
And it's a tragedy that the greatest tribute to the opportunity of America was made by Monsieur Sarkozy, this French guy, French president.
Why should he be the one who gets America when half the guys running for president?
Well, actually, most of the guys running for president don't get it.
By the way, I said I was born a British subject.
You know who else is a British subject?
Barack Obama.
Someone said to me that under the British Nationality Act, he's what they call a British overseas citizen.
His father was a British subject born in Kenya.
So for all this talk about the change you can believe in, he will be the first son of a British subject to become president since the early days of the Republic.
So in fact, I think nothing is terribly radical and new about this.
We're basically turning the clock back to the early 19th century.
And Barack Obama, first son of a British subject, as Colin Powell would have been if he'd run in 1996.
And I don't want to add to Jesse Jackson's woes, but it is interesting to me that the viable black candidates, both Colin Powell in 1996 and now Senator Obama this year, come from outside the mainstream black experience as dominated by the Reverend Jesse Jackson all these years.
I don't know quite what that means.
Anyway, Mike in San Antonio, thanks for waiting, Mike.
You're live on the EIB network.
Buenos dias, Mark.
Buenos dias to use to Muchos Diddles from Edgewood District here in the hood in San Antonio.
Great.
In reference to Ms. Chavez's comments, it is my wishes that they don't lower the standards on these education tests.
I'm a product of Edgewood District and a dropout.
And then mainly because my parents didn't motivate me to complete school because of the environment here in the west side of San Antonio.
And it just chairs me up to this day.
And I've learned so much from Maha Rushi and his callers.
They have taught me so much that I'm 40 now.
And every day I strive to learn.
I drive a truck and I hold a dictionary like I do a Bible.
Well, good for you, Mike.
And thanks for your call.
And you're absolutely right, though, that what will happen when they get rid of the SATs is they will lower the standards.
And right now, if you want to be a burger flipper, you know, people say, oh, we need a college graduate because we don't trust the high school education that Americans are getting.
And once they have these things with the eliminate the SATs and 300 million people are going to college in America, then you're going to need to be a college graduate to do any, get any job in this country.
They will mean a mass lowering of standards.
That's one of the great problems with this whole kind of lowering standards and opening it up to people who don't meet even those minimal standards.
Mark Stein sitting in Forush on the IB network.
More straight ahead.
The Rush Limbaugh Show.
This is Mark Stein in Forush.
I've had a ball these last three hours, but all good things come to an end.
I gather the Royal Canadian Mounted Police got their extradition order and they're waiting for me downstairs.
So alas, I'll have to go with the Border Patrol and the Mounties and leave you for a while.
But have a terrific weekend and don't forget that the man himself, Rush Limbaugh, fully recovered from his major dental surgery, will be in with you this Monday.
Have a terrific weekend.
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