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May 10, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 10, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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I mentioned something on Friday on this program that uh one of the worldwide lending agencies, the International Monetary Fund, had advised Greece to get out of the health care business.
The government to get out of the health care business.
Over the weekend, the New York Times did the same thing.
Yes.
You heard correctly.
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Another reform high on the list.
This is from the New York Times over the weekend, is removing the state, i.e., Greece, the Greek government, from the marketplace in crucial sectors like health care, transportation, and energy.
And allowing private investment.
Economists say that the liberalization of trucking routes where a truck license can cost up to $90,000.
And the health care industry would help bring down prices in these areas, which are among the highest in Europe.
I'm not making this up.
The New York Times, one of the biggest advocates of socialized medicine in this country, one of the biggest advocates of Obamacare, is suggesting that one of the things Greece can do is get out of the health care business, privatize it, privatize transportation, and privatize energy.
You gotta have a truck license.
You got a $90,000 for a truck license.
A trucking license costs up to 90 grand.
The point here is we are headed where Greece is.
The IMF, uh European Union, and the European Central Bank have all said that New York Times agrees with this.
You gotta get out of the health care business.
The only way to get out, the only way to lower prices in energy and health care and transportation is to get the government out of it and have private investment.
So to fix, is this is it buttresses my point to fix what's wrong?
We need conservatism in Greece.
We need to get rid of socialism and liberalism.
But where are we headed?
We're headed right down the path that Greece is on.
And nobody in this country, the New York Times and all the libs are advocating that Obama take over energy, that Obama take over health care.
That more and more people ride public transportation.
Among the most significant features of the plan, a Greek government official said would be a measure making it easier for the government to lay off some of the many thousands of public sector workers whose low levels of productivity and high wages are a big contributor to Greece's debt problem.
Until now, the government has not been able to lay off civil servants whose employment rights are in effect constitutionally guaranteed.
I know it it sounds like it sounds like the Twilight Zone here.
Union and government officials said that Greece had also uh pledged to raise its VAT tax to 25% to freeze civil servants' wages and to eliminate public sector bonuses amounting to two months' pay.
They said the government intended to increase taxes on fuel, tobacco, and alcohol.
But get them out of health care, get them out of transportation, get them out of energy, and make it easier for the government to lay off some of the many thousands of public sector workers whose low levels of productivity and high wages were a big contributor to Greece's debt problem.
I'm stunned.
So the solutions are well known to everybody.
The solutions are known to the people who create the problem.
The people who got Greece in this mess know what the solution is.
And the solution is to get rid of liberals and their ideas.
The solution is conservatism.
At some point, the same thing is going to be said in this country.
It's just going to be very interesting to see who says it outside of uh of this program.
Now, President Obama delivered a commencement speech at uh Hampton University in Virginia.
Is that an all black school, Mr. Snerdley?
It is.
Now, this guy, Obama, I'm sure that the youths of America who voted for the guy thought he was Mr. Tech Wizard.
He was on the cutting edge.
This guy was, I mean, he was post-racial, he was post-partisan, he was post-accomplishment, uh, and and he was post-analog.
This guy knew everything.
He was top of the top of the mountain when it comes to technological smarts.
U.S. President Barack Obama lamented yesterday that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy.
My friends, Fidel Castro, Nor Hugo Chavez could have said it better.
In fact, they probably have said it exactly the same way.
Now, this is a uh French news agency story, and they leave out a device that Obama included in his rant, and that was the iPod.
The other news agencies include Obama's inclusion of the iPod and the iPhone.
Obama, who often chides journalists and cable news outlets for obsessing with political horse race coverage rather than serious issues, told a class of graduating university students that education was the key to progress.
Your coming of age in a 24-7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content, exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter.
With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, none of which I know how to work.
Information becomes a distraction.
Now let me repeat this because this is very salient.
Our dear leader has just admitted that information is a distraction.
Like Pelosi, the health care bill, we have to pass it to know what's in it.
You know, information.
He said that information is a diversion, a form of entertainment rather than a tool of empowerment.
But ladies and gentlemen, Obama says here that he doesn't know how to work any of these things.
None of which I know how to work, he says.
Uh let's see.
Uh Barack Obama, I still have Michael Jackson on my iPod.
U.S. President, this is July 3rd of 2009.
U.S. President Barack Obama has revealed he still has all of Michael Jackson's music on his iPod.
Obama is also known to include hits by Stevie the Boy Wonder, J-Z.
Said Jackson will go down in history as one of our greatest entertainers.
Well, was he lying then or is he lying now about never having used or knowing how to work an iPod.
Remember the Obama campaign mocking and making fun of McCain for not knowing how to use email and not knowing how to when McCain can't type because of his war injuries.
But they made fun of him.
It was an old phogey.
He was an old dude.
He didn't know how to use email.
And now here's Obama.
I don't know how to use an iPad.
I don't know how to use an iPhone.
I don't know how to use an iPod.
All this information, it's just horrible.
All this is not only putting new pressure on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy.
What that means is that it is putting pressure on liberals who wither under the lights of information.
Because the dirty little secret here.
We have always known that information is a problem for liberals and for Obama.
And he admits it in an in his speech at uh at Hampton University.
Contradicts himself all over the place in this speech.
He admits he's not the super cool techie.
And all of his swooning young fans thought that he was.
Be it our cell phones, and there's still an all-out assault on cell phones.
You're going to cause cancer.
They're not crazy about you using cell phones.
You can talk to each other that way.
You can spread information about the regime.
You can get information you want other than that which the regime wants you to know.
You see, folks, information is king.
And Obama can't be king if we have information.
That's what bugs him.
What bugs him is that there is dissent.
What bugs him is that there is uh opposition.
And make no mistake about it, we've got sound bites backing this up.
He also mentioned talk radio in this and a number of analysts who are on cable shows to discuss this.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He still got he's still bugged by Rush Limbaugh.
Two of those companies, by the way, are American giants, Apple and Microsoft.
They make the Xbox.
Sony makes a PlayStation.
Why does he always criticize our best companies and their products?
Why?
Why does he do this?
Plus, and they vote for the guy.
They give the guy money.
He's dumping all over Steve Jobs and Apple.
He's dumping all over Bill Gates in Microsoft.
And if he could get rid of these devices, he would.
He did say, look, we can't the genie's out of the bottle.
We can't stop.
We have to learn to adapt to it, which means you have to know who to ignore.
And I will tell you who to ignore, Obama is saying.
In the meantime, folks, a quick uh quick time out.
Uh I've really said all you need to know about cake.
Well, not all of it.
There are a couple of interesting things that only I have dug up about Elena Kagan that you should know.
We'll get to that, plus your phone calls when we get back.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh to the audio soundbites here is Obama from uh his uh commencement speech at Hampton University today, or yesterday.
We have two soundbites here.
Here's the first one.
So many voices clamoring for attention on blogs and on cable on talk radio.
It can be difficult at times to sift through it all to know what to believe, to figure out who's telling the truth and who's not.
It ain't you.
Let's face it, even some of the craziest claims can quickly gain traction.
I've had some experience uh in that regard.
Yeah, and what he really wants here is the elimination of all these information devices so he can get away with his lies.
He doesn't want people to be able to counter his lies.
Um, this is where he says that uh information has become entertainment, not a means of emancipation.
You're coming of age in a 24-7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank that high on the truth meter.
And with iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, none of which I know how to work.
Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment rather than a tool of empowerment rather than the means of appancipation.
Now, uh, this is a commencement speech, and the guys up there B.I. itching about there being too much information to a bunch of students who are all about collecting information, ostensibly and learning from it.
I don't know emancipation from what.
I guess we'd have to ask Jeremiah Wright what does he mean here when he says that um information is no longer a means of emancipation, but rather it's just entertainment, none of which I know how to work, okay?
From the New York Times, January 9th, 2009, for Blackberry, Obama's devotion is priceless.
This week Michael Phelps signed a deal worth more than one million dollars to advertise Mazda or Mazda in China.
Jerry Seinfeld earned a reported ten million dollars to appear in Microsoft's TV campaign.
But the person who may be the biggest celebrity pitchman in the world is not earning a penny for his work.
President Barack Obama, President elect Obama, has repeatedly said how much his BlackBerry means to him and how he is dreading the prospect of being forced to give it up because of legal and security concerns once he takes office.
And he did not give it up.
He still has it.
So as usual, it's do as I say, not as I do.
They can have all the fun they want.
They can have all the conveniences.
Look at Al Gore.
Three 30-inch computer monitors.
Too much information for Al Gore.
They can have all the safety, all the efficiency, all the information supplied by technology they want.
But when they are being gored, when they are being exposed, they want to shut that down for us.
The little people.
Barack Hussein Obama.
Mmm.
Now, Sunday unreliable sources on CNN, Howard Kurtz had this exchange with State of the Union host Candy Crowley about Obama's remarks.
He has a number of occasions talked about Rush Limbaugh by name.
Is he pushing back against conservative opinions or all opinions I sometimes wonder?
Well, this one, yes.
Well, I mean, mostly it's been, you're right, very targeted towards those who are criticizing him.
This was more blanket simply from the statement, but it fits in with the broader, I think, push that they've had, and that has been aimed at conservative radio and conservative 24-7.
Yeah, so what's he want to get rid of?
He wants to eliminate your access to uh to people who uh who criticize him.
AP had a story on all the artists on Obama's iPod.
Bob Dylan, Yo-Yo Ma, Cheryl Crow, Jay Z. Back to the phones.
This is Fred in Homer, Alaska.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
It's great to be here, and greetings from Alaska.
You bet.
Hey, hey Rush, clear something up for me.
I was at Dan's Bakesale.
And I was just far enough away from you.
You were elevated in the crowd.
Were you riding a horse when you came into town?
No.
I was walking behind a horse and almost got kicked by the son of a gun.
The crowd, I was riding behind a uniformed police officer on a horse.
I was walking behind.
And the crowd was uh uh descending upon the uh the entourage walking.
That horse got spooked, and it I was afraid it was going to start kicking.
Well, I rem I remember being there, and it's that's always been a puzzle in my mind if you were on it, or what?
No, in fact, I think at the time Colorado Senator Hank Brown actually got kicked by the horse.
If I'm not Yeah, it was Hank Brown who got kicked by the horse.
I almost did.
Well, I'm glad you didn't.
Anyway, my question is kind of a two-part one.
What if we just had everybody forgive their debt, and we all just start it over, and then it would give us an opportunity to have how many decades to get back in the current situation we are now?
And the other side of that is my grandfather who died in 1964.
I was nine then, so I don't know how old I was when he told me this, but he said if you took all the wealth and the land and you distributed equally amongst all the people, those that had it before would have it back again.
Your thoughts on that.
Yeah, that's true inside a certain time frame.
Um if you took a take it, take the money away from entrepreneurs, they'll find a way to get it back.
Uh that's just that's just who they are.
Well, now this forgiving debt, that's that's really magical.
That's that's a wonderful idea.
Ah, just forgive the debt.
They aren't going to pay it anyway.
That's a great idea for everybody except those who lent the money.
You know what?
What?
Yeah, you get to keep the house, you get to keep the car, you get to keep everything you've bought on your credit card, but nobody's gonna get paid for it.
Nobody's gonna even get the interest on it.
Uh, at so with as much indebtedness is as there is if we forgave every loan out there, we'd still be in the same economic circumstance because even more people would be in trouble.
Who have zero income companies.
I mean, there are people who lend money as a business.
There are people who finance other people's actions, lifestyles, purchases as their business.
So we're gonna say to the consumers, guess what?
Everything's been free for the last 30 years.
You don't have to pay a damn thing anymore.
The people lent the money, sorry.
You gotta start over.
Well, the lenders are evil, and this is why this this argument is is uh has some traction with people because the lenders deserve to take it in the shorts.
The lenders deserve to get kicked in the gut.
The lenders deserve to be poor, the lenders deserve to be out of money because that's the way they've made all the rest of us, goes the goes the uh goes the theory.
Uh there's no there's no magic out of this.
There's there's just no way a lot of people don't get hurt here.
And your solution honors the irresponsible.
Your solution, forgiving the loans, rewards uh those who have been irresponsible and penalize it.
Now, you might say, well, some of these people have lent money they shouldn't have lent.
People they knew couldn't pay it back.
Yeah, because that's the people Chris Gott and Bill Clinton and then the brothers made them do it.
But yeah, forgive all the loans, forgive all debt, and just start again.
Anyway, yeah, it's like Christmas.
Health care for everybody, no charge.
Welcome back.
It's L Rush Bows, serving humanity simply by showing up while having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Since we're talking about money today, and since we are talking about commencement speeches, there's another one that I would like to clue you in about.
J.C. Arenas, the American thinker, reminds us that the AP reported on Ben Bernanke's commencement address to the newest class of graduates from the University of South Carolina.
On this special day, when graduates officially transformed from kids just trying to amass credits to earn their respective degrees to grown-ups just trying to earn a living, they were treated to Bernanke's pessimistic anti-prosperity theme.
Money can't buy you happiness.
Said Bernanke, we all know that getting a better paying job is one of the main reasons to go to college.
But if you are ever tempted to go into a field or take a job only because the pay is high, and for no other reason, be careful.
Having a larger income is exciting at first, but as you get used to your new standard of living and as you associate with other people in your new income bracket, the thrill quickly wears off.
What would you think, Don, if your daughter went to a commencement speech and a chairman of the Federal Reserve basically said, don't try to earn a lot of money.
You're only going to be miserable when he himself is a multimillionaire.
What I would think is that this guy knows where we're headed and is trying to set me up to understand I ain't gonna earn a lot of money any ground ever again.
Because we're just in too much debt.
Bernanke then went on to cite a study conducted on lottery winners to substantiate his claim.
And of course, he can speak from his own experience.
He is a millionaire.
Now, comparing college graduates to lottery winners doesn't quite work for me.
I mean, we've all known lottery winners who win the big bucks and they've blown it inside of a year.
Well, there's even a group down here, some group of people that formed to start a business to help lottery winners manage their new wealth while taking some of it at the same time from them.
Of course, for the advice and the service.
As chairman of the Fed, Bernanke earns just over $200,000 a year, in addition to his earned income.
He receives passive income from between $150,000 and 1.1 million from royalties for two textbooks, he wrote, and portfolio income between $25,000 and $80,000 from two annuities.
So Mr. Arenus writes, well, I'm I'm sure the polite graduates were thankful to have such a successful and powerful individual address them on their special day and applaud him accordingly.
They should have flipped him the collective bird.
As Fed chairman, Bernanke has helped navigate this country's sinking ship as it continues to steer itself into one financial iceberg after another.
This class of graduates, among many others, will suffer for it.
They will have to prepare themselves to live in a country where high unemployment becomes normal, especially among 18 to 24 demographic.
And when their government decides to service its out-of-control debt, they will see more of their hard-earned money yanked from their wallets following the implementation of higher taxes.
Ultimately, many of these graduates will face the reality that they will not be able to provide their children with the same quality of life that their parents have been fortunate enough to provide them.
Bernanke knows this.
His message is preparing them for it.
He's conditioning them to not worry about high earnings, because after all, they'd be unhappy anyway.
I mean, you can trust Ben, even though he's rubbing his success in your faces.
He's still trustworthy because he's speaking from experience.
So the question is if Bernanke is so unhappy, why doesn't he give up his wealth?
It is right about one thing.
If you pursue the dollar and only the dollar, you probably aren't going to be happy, no matter how much of it you earn.
But that's not, I don't think that's the point he was making.
He didn't, he didn't get specific enough on that point to convince me that's what he was really talking about.
So I think that Mr. Arenas here, the American thinker, is uh is right.
He's just preparing them for the likelihood that they're not going to have the same opportunities their parents did.
And so take it from me.
I'm the guy in charge of all the money.
You're not going to have much, and you'll be happier for it.
Trust me.
Trust me, I have a lot of money, and look at me.
I'm miserable every day.
Although I'm not giving my money back, I'm still miserable.
You would be too if you had my job.
I'm the sole architect, along with the regime of bankrupting the country.
And Greece.
And we're doing it for you.
More money.
The Associated Press.
The headline really says it all.
For more low-income children, dinner is coming from Uncle Sam.
We have school breakfast, we have school lunch, and pretty soon we're going to have government dinner.
This is a story from Brattleboro, Vermont, while other preschoolers were warming up to the vegetable pesto lasagna.
Three-year-old Avery Bennett dived in with no hesitation.
Can I ask you more than you?
She said from her booster seat.
I will have a watchable.
She moved on to her seconds.
The other children at the evening care program in Brattleboro were also chomping down on the dish made of spinach, peppers, carrots, tomato, basil, and cheese.
More low-income scrual children could soon have access to free, nutritious dinners like the lasagna that Avery loved.
A U.S. Department of Agriculture program in Vermont and 12 other states, and the District of Columbia provides reimbursements for the suppers served at after-school programs for at-risk children in communities where at least 50% of households fall below the poverty level.
What it allows us to do is to provide these kids with an extra nutritious meal before they go home, because some kids go home to nothing.
Said Susan Eckes, director of child nutrition programs for the food bank of Northern Nevada in McCarran, Nevada.
Around the country.
Around the country, well, we'll get to that in a minute.
Around the asking what the what are the parents eating?
It's called Dr. Schmirnoff.
Around the country about You can't say that, Russ.
You can't say that.
Around the country, about 49,000 children benefit from the after-school meals each day.
The program's expected to cost a total of eight million from 2009 to 2013.
The USDA said to me you can triple that and be probably closer to the real cost.
With more families losing jobs and losing homes, the need is growing.
As the economy gets worse, we're seeing more and more kids, said Beth Baldwin Page, executive director of the Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro, Vermont.
This place does not sound like some place you want to move to, folks.
The kids have to be fed dinner at school.
Who knows what the parents are eating, but it's pretty much assumed when the kids go home, there's nothing there.
In East Prairie, Missouri, not far from where I grew up.
This ought to be interesting.
Children who may have skipped the meal from time to time are coming every day now, said Lester Gillespie, youth director at the Susanna Wesley Family Learning Center, which serves 150 meals a day at Tuesday.
This is Obama's America.
Who would have fought?
Post-partisan, post-racial, post-accomplishment.
We now we're in such bad shape.
Parents are so irresponsible that the government has to feed kids dinner?
Parents are so irresponsible that the government has to feed kids.
Where's that laser-like focus on jobs?
I thought everybody was going back to the workforce now.
Trying to find a gig.
They're all so excited.
A lack of nutritious food, especially in the first three to five years of a child's life, can have lasting effects on the health and development of children.
Filling their stomachs with nutritional meals helps them learn and concentrate, the fishless said.
So even parents are becoming unnecessary.
They're just the breeders.
And then uh Uncle Sam takes over with raising them and feeding them.
Programs in Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Mary.
I would be so embarrassed.
I I I don't know.
Just don't know.
I can just see myself being married.
Catherine, take the kids to school at six o'clock.
Why?
So they can eat.
I just can't see myself in this.
Programs in Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin, the District of Columbia, now Vermont, are eligible for reimbursement for suppers.
USDA requires the sites to offer nutritionally balanced suppers with milk, a protein, fruit, vegetables, and bread, or a grain item.
And did you know?
Somebody actually did a survey here.
The creative leaders, the advertising, creative advertising leaders behind the 67 commercials that aired during the Super Bowl.
Of those 67 jobs, 52 of them were held by white men.
White males held 52 of the 67 created jobs at advertising agencies that produced the 67 commercials, the Super Bowl.
Well, the problem here is that football is uh ethnically diverse.
The coaches and players are ethnically diverse.
Uh, the audience is diverse.
Uh, but a report released today in a press conference of the NAALCP New York office, the roster of creative directors behind Super Bowl advertising is anything but diverse.
So if you felt more racist after the Super Bowl, this is why a bunch of white guys produce the commercials that you want.
I mean, this is actual news story.
It's an it's an ad week.
That's not a football game, sturdily, the Super Bowl.
Who's supposed to Well, we're supposed to have, it's just like we're doing the Supreme Court here.
By the way, you know, it's just speaking of that, you realize.
If she gets configured, it's gonna be John Roberts.
You know who's behind this school dinner program?
No, not the USDA, the SEIU.
The Service Employees International Union is behind this.
They represent the food service workers who will prepare these meals.
Here from their here for from the SEIU website.
Tell Congress, strengthen our child nutrition program, successful, cost-effective child nutrition programs, school lunch and breakfast, child care, and wick.
Summer feeding after school snacks and meals play a critical role in helping children achieve access to quality nutrition, child care, and educational enrichment activities.
It's all there on the SEIU, the Service Employees International Union website.
Provide fair wages and health care for food service workers.
Food service workers are often paid poverty wages with few benefits and no paid sick days.
The AP in this story does not give the name of this program anywhere in the article.
They don't want people looking it up.
Because that would be a distraction.
It's called Campaign for Quality Services, Renew a Stronger Child Nutrition Act.
But the AP doesn't publish that.
It is a union-led initiative to feed dinner to as many kids as they can enroll in the program.
Food service workers.
Well, you know, can or chefs, you know, the people uh not chefs, cooks, dishwashers, packagers, people at work in the food services industry.
People that s well yeah, but there's not going to be Yeah, people that slop it on the plate when you go through the line, right.
Except this is vegetable uh lasagna with pesto sauce.
Not exactly slop, snerdily.
Stephen Middleburg, Virginia.
Welcome to the EIP.
Yes, of course, with government cheese and government government butter.
Well hell, who else do you think is providing it?
Certainly not the parents.
They're probably gonna show up and eat too.
Bringing along Dr. Schmirnoff to have a little party with the SEIU food service employees.
All right, uh, Steve in Middleburg, Virginia.
Hi, and welcome to the program.
Russ, how's it going?
Pretty well, sir.
Thank you.
Hey, I wanted to uh provide a graphic example of what you were talking about about technology the new technology, enabling people to essentially circumvent uh the uh administration.
Any and circumvent the uh state controlled media if you like to call it.
Uh one is and how it relates specifically to your show.
One is the uh the iPodcast that you do.
There are there are a lot of people, millions probably, who are, you know, Republicans, independents, conservatives, who who would like to listen to your show, but just under in the daytime, they're working to support liberal freeloaders.
And uh the iPodcast allows people to actually download your show and listen to it at their convenience.
Exposing your your words, thoughts, ideas to a lot of people that may normally not be able to listen to your show.
Everyone's not as lucky as I am, and millions of other people and can listen to you live.
I was wondering what you thought about that.
Well, I think it's a good point that one of the reasons why we started the podcasts of the radio show is because of the high mobility of the audience and and the portability demands that they have for all of their media, music, uh talk shows, uh television shows, whatever it is, and we uh the the podcasts are ready for download via our website or via iTunes.
If you're a member at Rush 247, every afternoon by 3.30.
And I know I'm people, hundreds of thousands of people are listening to this show via the podcasts sometimes the next day when they're on the treadmill uh while taking time out uh from working in order to feed the freeloaders uh in society.
But it yeah, it's it's uh it's it's a it's a Great illustration of the problems that Obama has.
Because even people who can't make time during the live broadcast of this program can access it at their leisure via a device Obama detests.
An iPod or an iPhone, and now even the iPad.
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