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June 9, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 9, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, it's 35.
I've been waiting for you to give me the ghost signal 35 out there.
We're supposed to start at 30.
That's okay.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, the fastest.
Three hours in the media.
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I am Rush Limbaugh doing what I was born to do.
And so are you.
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Again, a reminder right there at the top of our homepage at rushlimbaug.com, a link to Newsmax video of my uh speech.
It's a short speech, 10-minute speech, accepting the uh Freedom of Speech Award at Talker's Magazine New Media Seminar on Saturday.
And it's uh it's there if you if you take time, just ten minutes won't take you long, but it isn't bad.
You know, there's a a bunch of people are are uh trying to analyze uh the European election results and what they mean.
And the uh American thinker Bruce Walker has a piece here today, the collapsing global left.
And he asks, was this a victory for conservatives?
He says it was in this sense.
It was a crushing defeat for the left, other elections in May.
Brought more gloomy news for the left and the enemies of the West.
India held elections in mid-May.
Polls showed that the left might well win control of the Indian government.
Instead, the ruling Congress party won a sweeping victory.
Very good news for the United States.
The global left is collapsing.
Well, I I have a uh a little bit different theory uh about this.
Because some people well, what what does this mean for us, Russia?
Does this mean that conservatism is coming back in the United States?
I think conservatism in the U.S. ever went anywhere.
It's the Republican Party that somehow wandered off the reservation.
Uh at National Review Online on the uh on the corner, Veronique DeRougi, uh hope I'm pronouncing her name right, in European parliamentary elections, capitalism triumphs in Europe.
And I I actually uh I agree with some uh some other people on this.
I think, folks, the correct explanation of what's happening in Europe is that those countries are scared to death of what they see happening here.
Now you may think that that this analysis uh grants the average European citizen as being too sophisticated, but I don't think so in this case.
See, I really believe that Europeans, citizens, forget the smug elitist leaders over there, although you could maybe throw them in this group of people as well, but they they could afford to live in that cesspool of socialism that they created with 14% unemployment, France.
They could afford to do all this.
As long as they could be sure the United States was there to defend them, to protect them, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, whatever.
Long as we were there, as long as our economy was driving the world economy.
This is the key.
As long as we were driving the world economy, then all of these people around the world had the luxury and the freedom to indulge their Namby Pamby socialism, high unemployment, government taking care of everybody, and let us carry the burden.
Now they look at what happens in the United States under a socialist leader, and they are panicked because they know that if Obama succeeds in destroying the U.S. private sector economy, that they're finished as well.
These people do not want China leading the world economy.
The Australians don't want it.
The Europeans don't want it, the Japanese do not want it.
So we created a cushion for them to go ahead and live their lazy lives.
They didn't have to spend money on their own defense.
They could invest in all these people causes and social programs.
Now they look at us.
Now they look at rising unemployment In the United States.
Now they see, it's on the news every day.
They see the destruction of American capitalism.
They see that our economy is tanking.
And they see the gravy train is over.
Selfishness is what's causing them to see what's happening here.
And that's why they're moving to the right.
I mean, there are other factors too.
I'm sure that like in France and Germany, there are a lot of people just fed up with the ongoing failures of open borders, massive government spending, lowering incomes, wages, lifestyles, and all of that.
But they could always indulge that as long as we were there to save them, protect them, and lead the world.
But if we're not going to do that, then it's pedal to the metal time.
I saw a picture the other day of a lone naval ship, a destroyer, I don't know what it was, a big, big Navy ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
The caption to the picture was that this ship was trying to find the black boxes from Air France Flight 447, that Airbus 330 that plunged into the ocean, we're trying to find out why.
And it hit me again.
Here you have Air France, you have the nation of Brazil, you have a number of South American countries, Venezuela's right there.
You've got France, you've got the European Union, and who the hell has the capability, the wherewithal, the ability to scour over 600 square miles of ocean that might be 12,000 feet deep to find the black boxes.
Us.
The United States of America, a lone naval ship.
Now, I'm not saying that there isn't cooperation or help, don't misunderstand, but who do they call?
Tsunami, who do they call?
Earthquake, who do they call?
Huge hurricane or cyclone, who do they call?
Any natural disaster around the world, who gets the call?
They don't call the UN.
They call the United States.
They still do.
If they see that that phone call, even if answered, is not going to result in anything, then they panic.
And that as much as anything else is why I think there's a move to the right, in addition to the general fatigue, it's a cyclical thing.
But the general fatigue with liberalism, socialism, because it doesn't work.
It's nice to indulge it for a while, makes everybody feel good, as long as there's somebody else, some uncle, some grandfather, some sugar daddy, it's going to make everything right when you screw up your own country, your own life.
But if we're not in a position to do that anymore, then it's as they used to say when I was growing up, come to Jesus time.
face reality.
There are many factors.
The question is not, will it translate to us?
The The question is, how in hell can the socialist left around the world see the error of its ways and start moving the other direction while we are moving in their former direction.
What has changed in our population that has turned enough of our citizens apparently, apparently, I say, enough of our citizens into people who enjoy sloth.
Just sitting around, let somebody else handle all the hard work.
It's government's job to make sure McDonald's has McNuggets.
It's government's job to make sure that when you go in and order whatever it is that McDonald's has it.
It's government's job to make sure that you've got a job, and if you don't have a job, you've got benefits.
It's government's job to make sure you've got a mortgage.
It's government's job to make sure you've got a house.
Government's job to make sure you're moving in the other direction.
Hopefully, hopefully we will be able to arrest our leftward tilt much sooner and with far less pain than Europe, which has been going leftist for years, decades, because we were there to prop Them up.
If we go away, as the United States has always been known, there's nothing to be anybody to prop us up.
Nobody in the world can.
Nobody in the world's close to being able to prop us up, which is why.
We cannot afford the destruction of the U.S. private sector economy that is being waged by Barack Obama and his administration and Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
And we come back.
I'm going to play these sound bites of Obama's press conference today where I think panic has set in.
Right after this.
Don't go away.
I believe the Obama White House is in full panic.
I am not exaggerating.
We go to the audio sound bites.
Obama flat out lying now.
He had a paygo press conference today.
Pago.
All of a sudden we got to pay for everything we spend after a $12 trillion in debt.
That's just a setup for tax increases.
Here's the first of four sound bites.
Several financial institutions are set to pay back $68 billion to taxpayers.
Stop the tape and recue it.
Several financial institutions are set to pay back.
They have been begging to pay it back for weeks.
And this administration has said no.
Finally, the administration has relented and say, okay, you can pay some of it back.
Here's the rest of it.
Several financial institutions are set to pay back $68 billion to taxpayers.
It's worth noting that in the first round of repayments from these companies, the government has actually turned a profit.
This is not a sign that our troubles are over.
Far from it.
The financial crisis this administration inherited is still creating painful challenges for businesses and families alike.
And I think everybody sees it in their own individual districts.
But just it is a positive sign.
I've said repeatedly.
Stop the tape.
I can't gutless.
The financial crisis this administration inherited is still creating painful.
$68 billion they're turning back, and we're going to turn a profit.
We just lost $1.8 billion jobs.
We are $3 trillion in debt, and he's talking about a meager profit on $68 million being turned billion.
And by the way, even though they're giving some of the TARP money back, he's still going to be able to regulate how much executives work or who work at these firms are going to make.
Now this business about what he inherited drives me baddie.
He keeps blaming it on his predecessor.
No president has ever done that.
This is childish.
It is immature.
It's narcissistic.
Let me tell you what Barack Obama inherited as president of the United States.
Barack Obama inherited greatness.
He inherited the birthplace of the individual.
He inherited the defender of liberty at home and abroad, the United States of America.
He inherited American exceptionalism.
He inherited the concept of equal opportunity and the right to fail and to try again.
Barack Obama as president inherited the financial center of the world.
He inherited the country that has successfully championed capitalism and widespread prosperity.
Something else that President Obama also inherited great responsibility.
He inherited the great responsibility to lead the world's loan superpower.
He inherited the responsibility to preserve and to strengthen free markets.
He inherited the responsibility to continue the philosophy and tradition of a country founded on Judeo-Christian morals, ethics, and principles.
He inherited the Constitution of the United States.
He did not inherit the right to unilaterally rewrite it or to remake it.
He swore to uphold it.
Barack Obama did not inherit a mess.
He inherited the United States of America where anything is possible, Where greatness has been delivered to the world time after time in the form of private sector inventions, innovations, and advancements in products that improve people's lives for over 200 years.
Barack Obama inherited all of that.
And a country of individuals energized by their liberty, individuals strengthened by their character.
Barack Obama inherited a country that liberates the oppressed.
Barack Obama inherited the greatest economy in the history of human civilization.
That's all.
Nothing more, nothing less.
There is nothing to apologize for what he inherited.
He may as well be a five-year-old crybaby spoiled brat.
I inherited this mess in my theater.
He has nothing to apologize for regarding what he inherited.
There is so much to be proud of.
Always a lot of work to be done to preserve it and to grow it.
But not in the way Obama is proceeding.
Obama is destroying what others before him created.
He did not inherit a mess.
He has created one.
And as the mess he creates deepens, so does his blaming it on his predecessors.
That is gutless.
It is childish.
It is immature.
It is unbecoming someone who serves as president of the United States.
I don't even want to listen to the rest of this garbage, but here it is.
Here's another soundbit.
No interest in managing the banking system.
Screw that.
Go to the next one.
I don't want to hear this.
Go to number 28.
In the next four years, the deficit will be cut in half.
Over the next decade, nondefense discretionary spending will reach its lowest level as a share of our national income since we began keeping records in 1962.
It's just a lie.
But we must go further.
And one important step we can and must take is restoring the so-called pay as you go rule or pay-go.
This is a rule I championed in the Senate.
Panic and called for time and again on the campaign trail.
Panic today with the support of these legislators.
Panic including the Speaker of the House.
Panic.
My administration is submitting to Congress proposal to codify this rule into law.
BS I hope that the House and Senate will act quickly to pass it.
Your party, your party's leaders promised us pago in 2007.
Your party has been running this country's economy for two and a half years.
Your predecessor didn't do diddly squat the damage this country's economy.
Your party did.
You want to blame people, blame Harry Reid, blame Nancy Pelosi, blame Chris Dodd, blame Barney Frank.
I'm sorry for shouting.
Pago.
Nancy Pelosi's byword, pago.
We haven't pay-goed anything.
And all this is now, this is panic.
This is a result of people starting to ask serious questions about why the Obama magic is leading to disaster.
More unemployment.
More reductions in standards of living.
So now we got to do pago after he's already spent twelve trillion dollars that he doesn't have, that hasn't even been earned yet.
Now we need pago.
He knows that people have caught on.
Enough people have caught on to know that this kind of deficit spending is unsustainable and will not work and is not working.
So all of a sudden now we're gonna do pago.
We're only gonna we're only gonna spend what we can pay for.
Guess what that means?
Hello tax increases.
That's the next phase in destroying the private sector economy.
You take as much money out of the private sector economy as you can, you transfer it to government so they can redistribute it to an Obama's case, the people who got him elected the first time and who are going to re-elect him the second time, the unions and the leadership, and whoever else, the civil rights coalitions.
Because you see, Barack Obama doesn't have a dime until he takes it from you.
Harry Reed doesn't have a dime to give anybody else till he takes it from you.
Nobody in Washington has a dime unless they take it from you.
And even when they print it, they're taking it from you.
Because they are devaluing dollars that you will earn and produce in the future.
They've got nothing to give anybody without taking it from you first.
And it's never been done on this grand a scale before.
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
L Rush Ball, the EIB network.
Coco informs me that the uh first hour and a half of yesterday's program has now been YouTube, and it's in ten parts.
The links to the uh the uh first hour and a half of yesterday's for DiddleCam on uh YouTube will be found at Rush Limbaugh.com, as well as the ten minute speech that I gave accepting the Freedom of Speech Award on Saturday at Talkers Magazine and uh new uh new media seminars.
So it's all at Rushlimba.com and now Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp, Fox News, 20th Century Fox, da da da da da the last night he was on the air with Neil Cavuto on Fox.
Cavuto said many argue that President Obama's building a totally different kind of government, a much bigger, some would argue, more intrusive government.
A lot of people either don't appreciate its magnitude or they look at all these czars or task agency heads, and they don't appreciate what's going on here.
What do you say?
What are you worried about?
I think he sees himself as a president for change, and that involves bigger government.
He's made no secret of that.
And I think that's dangerous.
I believe that low taxes and less government if possible.
The one place that's not affected by uh what's happening uh recession is is Washington.
It's just crawling with people.
Oh, getting a highly paid, whether they be lobbyists or whether they'd be going to new agencies and so on.
I envy people with real estate in Washington.
He's right.
Washington never goes into recession.
Very dangerous.
What's happening because of Obama.
So Cavuto says, well, you think that when this administration says the American people are on our side, our numbers prove it, support for what we're doing proves it.
Critics like Rupert Murdoch, they just don't get it.
We're on very early days yet.
Wait till unemployment goes 10, 11 percent.
I don't think that can be stopped.
Uh and they say, oh, we're gonna save 600,000 jobs.
How do they count what they save or don't save?
Unemployment is going to go up.
Nobody counts what they save or don't say.
They throw it up like I just figured out the other day using this uh formula from the uh economic advisor, uh, Jared Bernstein, that over the course of this twenty years I have saved over 45 million jobs in America.
You know how I did it?
Because I improved the attitude of employers.
I inspired employers who listened to this program, and their businesses grew.
They believed in the country because they listened to me.
They were optimistic, they were positive they hired a lot of people, and they didn't fire a lot of people that they would have otherwise fired.
Forty-five million jobs saved by me.
Nobody can say it isn't true.
Not one person can say it is not true.
It might be 55 million jobs that I've saved.
And created.
How many people grew their businesses in optimism about listening to me and this program?
We know a lot, remember when the white collar layoffs happened in the 90s, we did three straight shows, people in their 40s and 50s got laid off what they were gonna do.
Three very inspiring shows in the history of this program.
Those people started businesses.
They created jobs directly because of this program.
They said so.
Whatever.
I mean, 45, 55 million jobs created and saved, and nobody can say it isn't true.
To the phones.
Well, who's next?
Where are we gonna go?
Testing 123, Greenville, South Carolina, Terry.
Thank you.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Delighted to be here.
I'm sitting here actually contributing to the economy.
I'm not participating.
I'm actually here working so they can steal my money from me.
Appreciate that.
Some of these gotta do it.
You and I got to do our part.
Yes we do.
I have been doing medical billing for over 20 years.
What do you mean?
Medical billing.
You mean for doctors?
Uh-huh.
I've done everything from dental chiropractic, physical therapy, orthopedic, geriatrics, EMS, I've done it all.
And I can tell you, the gentleman yesterday at the second hour yesterday who said, you know, the government needed to have a pilot program and try this universal, you know, one payer ID.
Yeah.
They have.
It's called the Veterans Administration.
It's called Medicare.
It's called Medicaid.
You c if you can find me one vet who will state that he thinks that the health care he was promised and what he is receiving is so wonderful that he wants it for his grandchildren, he's probably a liar.
I mean, the VA is notorious for the kind of health care they provide.
Yeah, Medicaid's a big bamboozle too.
Do you know that Medicaid quarterly issues a list of drugs which they will allow you to prescribe to their Medicaid patients that they will pay for?
And it doesn't matter if a drug not on the list is far more effective for that patient.
It's not on the list, and you would not believe the loopholes that you would have to go through to get that and we're just talking about blood pressure medications.
Worse than that.
Worse than that is that if they get the single pay business, then people who can't afford not to play ball in the Medicare government health care route will still have to.
Well, see, that's just the point.
The government with Medicare for the last 40 years.
Now who who's been in charge for 40 years again?
Educate me.
It's been the Democrats, right?
That's right.
Okay.
It was so expensive that remember three or four years ago Bush put through this thing called Medicare Alternatives where the elderly.
New entitlement to where they can opt out of the traditional Medicare problem and you can't get into the alternative program.
And the reason they did that is because the one payer system was too expensive.
Well, you know.
And it didn't give the elderly the options that they needed.
Let me tell you your point is right on the money.
Thank you.
We got pilot program, Medicare, nobody likes it.
The VA, nobody likes it, and we're gonna take what doesn't work and is a is a is a cost boondoggle and build a national system on it.
And you know, he's saying I inherited this problem.
I love what you said earlier in your monologue about you know this problems.
But if you want to talk about health care, the debacle that he has inherited is a democratic one.
They established it.
They have stolen out of it.
You know, it it's just amazing to me.
You know, HIPAA, everybody's talking about gotta protect your privacy.
HIPAA is a prime example of a government trying to legislate common sense.
Uh yeah, you're so medical records privacy.
I don't want to go there.
I didn't think you would.
I kind of thought, you know.
Right.
You know.
So, you know, i in this whole thing, you know, I have successfully raised one rush baby, I've got two more who working their way up through the pikes, you know, and I think my twelve-year-old gets this.
Last fall, we went to the Ronald Reagan Museum.
Good for you.
And um, my twelve-year-old, who is my youngest, I came out and he reached up and he grabbed my hand and I said, Well, what did you think, honey?
He says, You know, you and Papa have been telling me for a long time what a great man this he was and how important he was and all the things he accomplished.
And I've listened to his speeches, and you know, we've read about him, he said.
But there's absolutely nothing like seeing the man.
And the kid was in awe.
He still is in awe.
It's been six, eight months ago.
And you know, that's what our hope is is that people remember you don't throw away what really works.
That's what's infuriating to me about the Republican Party right now.
They know what works, but they refuse to do it.
Yeah, let's not open that can of worms anymore.
Because I've got to go to commercial break pretty soon here and open that can of worms.
Look at your passion, Terry, is just great.
Did you hear her, folks?
You hear her speaking, nothing like seeing the man.
That's what makes a great phone call.
I can sit back here and just listen like you get to do.
I never get to hear this program, folks, because I'm always hosting it.
It's one pleasure in life you have that I'll never have.
I know people are telling me I should have heard the first hour yesterday.
Well, maybe I'll go watch it on YouTube since it's uh anyway, Terry.
Uh thanks, thanks much for the phone call.
She's she's exactly right.
I should have thought of it.
There are pilot programs.
And Canada's a pilot program, and the UK is a pilot program on the single payer health care.
Thanks again, Terry from Greenville, South Carolina.
You know, all this talk of uh the new iPhone coming out, the iPhone 3GS.
Have you looked at did you go to their website and look at the new features on this phone?
You did?
I mean, it is amazing.
And uh I I tell you last night I synced my iPhone.
Because I do it periodically, just keep the pictures on it up to date and the podcasts that I have up there.
Uh contact data and all that stuff pushes, but uh I have to sync for the other stuff.
And I noticed again that it backs it up.
The first thing it does before sinking is back up the iPhone.
And I was reminded, I gave a friend of mine who's not tech savvy about a year and a half ago, an iPhone, and she fell in love with it.
And she's running around taking pictures of her grandkids and just everything.
The construction site of her new house, taking all these pictures on it.
Something happened, and the iPhone froze, and she had to take it to the Apple store.
And they just assumed that, like everybody, she would have activated it on iTunes and synced it, and therefore it would have been backed up.
And so they, whatever they had to do, wiped all of her data.
She lost it.
They tried sending it to a recovery program for the hard drive inside the iPhone, it didn't work.
She lost everything.
She did not understand the concept of backing up.
She just was not tech.
And it was painful.
All the pictures she had taken, the grandkids and some other things.
Uh just it was it was tragic to listen to it.
I watched my iPhone back up last night.
Remembered I backed up my hard drive on the computers with carbonite, and I got an email last night from somebody who, you know what, Rush, I ought to listen to you.
The guy went out and bought carbonate.
He signed up.
But then he logged off the internet after only one and a half gigabytes had been backed up.
He tells me all this in an email.
And he turns off, turned up his uh Apple laptop, turn it on, something happened, the hard drive was uh not working right.
And so he tried to get it backed up, but he didn't get everything backed up.
He was able to restore what he had backed up, and thankfully it was a lot of stuff that he needed.
But the carbonite's great because you should never you know whenever you're connected to the internet, it's backing up automatically and constantly and updating.
And after the initial backup, it just does incremental uh changes, backs up to only the changes.
And it really is just it's worry-free and it's easy and it's smart because your hard drive is gonna crash at some point, somehow, somewhere.
Not your fault, but it's gonna happen.
And if you're backed up with carbonite, safe, secure, automatically, then you restore what you've lost, and you haven't lost anything.
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Another amazing story today from government run AP.
Yesterday they ran a story highly critical of uh Obama policies and how they're having the desire uh the exact opposite effect of their promises.
Today is this entry from AP.
President Obama assured the nation that his recovery plan was on track yesterday, scrambling to calm Americans, unnerved by unemployment rates still persistently rising nearly four months after he signed the biggest economic stimulus in history, and it was supposed to reverse it.
Obama admitted his own dissatisfaction with the progress, but said his administration would ramp up stimulus spending in the coming months.
The White House acknowledged it spent only 44 billion or 5% of the $787 billion stump because most of it is for 2010 and 2012 and Obama's re-election.
I added that.
Obama said we're we're now in a position to really accelerate.
And he also repeated an earlier promise to create or save 600,000 jobs by the end of the summer.
Speaking of that, I think I single-handedly have saved MSNBC and all the jobs there.
If it weren't for me, they would have nobody to talk about and no ratings.
So those jobs I've saved as well.
And nobody can say I didn't.
Neither the acceleration nor the jobs goals are new.
Both represent a White House repackaging of promises and projects to blunt criticism that the effects haven't been worth the price that do you understand?
AP wrote this.
Neither the acceleration nor the jobs goal are new.
Both represent a White House repackaging of promises and projects to blunt criticism.
So all of this, AP's putting the light of truth on it.
They're just trying to stop the criticism here.
All of the policies haven't worked.
AP writes that.
Something is going on.
This is tsunami-like.
AP has been loyal and state-run, government-run, and two days in a row.
They have run stories that contravene the propaganda.
The Obama people are putting out.
I don't know what to make of it.
I'm sorry, I just can't help but notice.
Stop and think of that.
You realize how unusual it is for a mainstream media outlet to criticize this president and this administration when the avowed purpose of mainstream media for my entire life has been we're going to hold people in power accountable.
We're going to snuff out the corruption, and we're going to make sure they don't get a win.
With Obama, it's been the exact opposite.
It's a stark contrast.
and When you have AP running stories I or any of you could have written.
Time has vanished.
Well, another exciting excursion into broadcast excellences in the can.
Again, two reminders.
First hour and a half of yesterday's program is on YouTube in 10 segments, so we can spread it out far and wide.
So send the link to all people that you know.
It's at Rush Limbaugh.com as well as the 10 minute acceptance speech, receiving the Freedom of Speech Award Saturday from the Talkers Magazine New Media Seminar.
That's at Rush Limbaugh.com as well.
Been great today, folks.
Fastest week in media tomorrow, Wednesday.
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