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June 17, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 17, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program are right, documented to be almost always right.
99.6% of the time, Rush Limbaugh schooling the chattering class.
For over 22 years, it's Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
By the way, we're gonna be in California all next week.
As the EIB network goes on the road, remember, my friends, as long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where here is.
Now the only thing significant, as far as you, the trusted and loyal audience is concerned about us traveling, is that there is no ditto cam out on the left coast.
And that's gonna cause major problems.
It always does people love the ditto cam.
They've got it's a habit.
People watch the program at Rushlimborg.com.
And we just we have not um well, it's because the studio we use in California is not a permanent studio.
It's uh we don't really own it.
It's uh it's used for something entirely different when we are not there.
And so we haven't had the ability to put a ditto cam in it.
Someday may happen, but I just want to give you a bunch of lead time.
No ditto cam next week, because we'll be in California.
Telephone number for our remaining hour here is 800-282-2882.
The email address lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
I'm keying off a column that my brother wrote is out today about the re-elect and what really we face.
Uh Obama, in a normal circumstance, the United States of America would be finished with this economy, with the destruction that's gone on, the policies that have failed miserably to do what Obama promised they would do or projected they would do.
I mean, houses, I mean, there's the destruction is uh is the swath of destruction is wide.
Home values have plummeted, people can't find work, the jobs they have are worried about keeping uh just it's horrible.
It is a it is just heartbreaking out there.
And we have a regime that is not in the in the slightest bit interested in altering their policies to do something that might work.
And so, we have to ask ourselves as we approach the election, just what kind of country are we?
Are there now people who are willing to settle for a second class country who want the government to be primarily the agent of redistribution of income and wealth, who are perfectly fine with America declining as a superpower, both militarily and economically, internationally and domestically.
And I've got a statistic of a news story out of California that sort of establishes why I'm a little worried about this.
But let me, before we get to that, let me go back to the last caller we had a good guy, a compassionate conservative.
He's looking rushed.
You and I we agree about things, but there are people hurting or out of work.
We gotta do something for them.
And as I say, you take a snapshot of America today and say, Yeah, what's wrong with this country?
This is not but you can't take a snapshot of the country right now, claim that America is not good, that it is wrong, that the systems we have are flawed, because where we are is the result of 50 plus years of liberal democrat planning.
That has in way too many ways come to fruition.
Look at the guy that called.
Our country, folks, we are more than broke.
Generations of future Americans owe trillions of dollars.
This matters.
This is not something in the abstract.
Just because it's government debt doesn't mean you forget it.
It's there and it must be serviced.
At the very least that debt must be serviced, if not retired.
We have a national debt of 14.3 trillion dollars.
It's incomprehensible.
The tax rates that people who are not yet born are going to face.
You add Obamacare to this, it the future is a is a real nightmare in terms of future generations of Americans even having a chance at prosperity.
You see it happening in Greece and the UK and throughout the European Union.
You see 15% unemployment.
You see people living in squalor in small spaces, narrow streets, tiny little cars with no hope for anything better.
And we had this guy on the phone still talking about a safety net.
As if we haven't done enough to help people.
The safety net has become a hammock.
And it's been a hammock for many decades.
We have spent money in the quest to alleviate the problems of people being out of work or underemployed.
We have spent and spent and spent under the theory that spending will alleviate these real genuine human problems.
But he calls here as though we haven't done anything yet.
We got to get through it.
We haven't done enough.
We have done more than any society in history has ever done for the underprivileged around the world.
But we're no longer talking about the underprivileged.
We are talking about the fully entirely capable who we now excuse for tuning out and not even trying.
One person gets offended over something in this country, and everybody must stop whatever it is they're doing that defends that one person.
And regulations are written to make sure that that one person will no longer be offended.
This is not about a safety net.
It's about the survival of our country as we know it.
It's about the left redistributing wealth and waging war on the private sector.
That is what's happening.
Not talking about a safety net anymore.
Safety nets dragging us down and strangling us because it's a hammock.
Our safety nets become a vacation destination.
Now look at this from California.
Let me go back now and set the table again.
I raise the question where are we here as our population?
With our population at this stage of our development and existence as a country.
Do we really think, do a significant number of people really think the purpose of the government is to redistribute wealth to take from those who have on the basis that it's not fair they have it in the first place.
And give it to those who don't, regardless why they don't have it.
And if that doesn't happen, we're somehow immoral and unjust.
California, this is LA Times.
California's economic recovery stumbled in May as employers shed 29,200 jobs from payrolls, a surprisingly large loss in a state that had been on the mend.
It has not been on the mend.
You think for a moment there has been any recovery in California?
The headline here, California loses 29,000 jobs in May, a blow to recovery.
The state's unemployment rate dropped to 11.7% from 11.8%, even though 29,200 new unemployed people.
And it went down because they simply reducing the universe of available jobs.
Now here's a state which has become essentially a welfare state, not just for Americans, but for illegal immigrants.
And yet, who wins the elections there?
The people who've made it this way, the people who have caused this.
This is why we wonder.
The people in California who object to what has happened to their state are in a minority.
Thank you.
The Democrat Party owns and runs that state, and they're destroying it.
Destroying it within the context of how we've always have defined prosperity and success.
It's stupefying.
The people that live there, though, continue to vote for this.
There's a reason for it.
These 29,200 people are unemployed, are going to be okay somehow, some way.
They're being taken care of.
They've got health care, welfare, food stamps.
They get everything they need.
They have a Hollywood left that makes great movies about them, has great sympathy for them.
Democrats are always going to win elections in welfare states.
That's why they want there to be more and more.
Welfare states.
That's a real question.
Another story, this is from CNBC.
How miserable are we?
Index says it's the worst in 28 years.
When it comes to measuring the combination of unemployment and inflation, doesn't get much more miserable than this.
In fact, misery is measured in the unofficial misery index.
It simply totals the unemployment and inflation rates is at a 28-year high, reflective of how weak the economic recovery has been and how far there is to go.
There ought to be no question.
Obama ought to be finished now.
Any other president would be.
Any other sitting president would be destroyed.
The media would have already made it certain that this president could not be re-elected.
If it were a Republican president and these economic events hadn't happened, the media would lie and say that they had happened.
And they would try to convince people that they were in a state of misery when they weren't.
So it we're getting to the point where it's not going to be red states and blue states, it's going to be welfare and non-welfare states.
That's how we're going to distinguish them.
And then there's this.
I don't care what stack I go to.
I can pluck something from one of these stacks.
Shows you what we're up against.
Again, this is the LA Times.
DVR, set top boxes, your TiVo, your direct TV receiver, even when not recording a program, sucks out the same amount of energy every year as is produced by nine coal burning power plants, according to a new report.
About 160 million digital video recorders and cable and other pay TV boxes in America eat up to 27 terawatt hours of electricity a year, cost consumers about $3 billion, according to researchers from the far-left Natural Resources Defense Council.
So now DVRs are evil.
They waste $3 billion a year.
Meaning you use it.
How can it be wasted?
You use it.
You derive pleasure and satisfaction.
You buy the product under the pretext it's going to provide this, it provides it, you use it, you pay for it.
Now you're wasting $2 billion a year.
Where would the money go otherwise?
This is my point.
Here you have the Natural Resources Defense Council doesn't like the fact that all of us are buying DVRs and cable set top boxes.
We're wasting the money.
They want that money to be spent somewhere else.
They want the government to come in, declare these things energy hogs, get them out of people's houses.
Don't laugh.
This is how the anti-SUV thing started.
Get them out of people's houses and free up that two billion for what?
What would they have it spent on that would not be a waste?
Is there any electricity if we don't make it?
Can't we make as much electricity as we want?
How do you waste electricity?
This is not the kind of thinking, this is not the kind of talk that is consistent With a great country with a growing, thriving economy.
Here we have people who once again want to take every shot they can at this country, take its economy back to the stone age.
For their own minority silly, stupid, snivelling little agenda.
Which is make the government all power.
Give the government the power to go in and turn these things off and make sure you can only use them X number of hours a day.
And then make sure you can only use them to record certain approved programs.
We'll be back.
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Southwest Missouri, as we go next on the phones to uh Kay.
Hi, Kay, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Since this is Father's Day weekend, I want to tell you, Rush, how your grandfather personally influenced uh one of our sons when he was a freshman in college.
Okay.
Well, we've been a fan ever since before, you know, Spatula City.
But about in 1988, he was coming home from um he was on a college break coming home to the Southeast Missouri area where we live, but he was listening to you and he said, I think Rush is going to be in Cape Gironde.
I just love to go over there.
He said, I I think it was your grandpa's birthday or something like that.
So he was looking up, you know, addresses and stuff, and he said, Well, now the grandpa lives on a road.
He said, Do you know where that is?
And I said, I sure do.
Millie lives on a lane.
I said, Yeah, we lived there years before.
We know I know where those are.
So he said, Well, go with me, Mom.
And I said, Okay.
So we went over to grandpa's house and he walked up the long driveway.
Housekeeper came to the door, and your grandfather was there and he said, You tell that young man to come in.
And they probably I sit out in the car, of course, you know, a long ways from the house, and um they talked for an hour or two.
He wasn't that long away from the house.
I mean, it was cool.
Well, it wasn't that.
I mean, I'm I'm not talking about Millie's house.
I'm talking about grandpa's house.
I know, but it still wasn't that far away from the house.
Okay, well, I mean, it wasn't set up on the road, you know, street like a lot of them.
But anyway, he went up there and talked to Grandpa and he was thrilled.
I said, you know, don't take papers, don't take anything, just be yourself.
So I'd say your grandpa was a very good judge of character too, but he came out and he said, he's brilliant.
Yeah.
But you know, I think you know he was so proud of you, but but you know, I think of the things your dad said, you know, everything influences us.
And I think he's really influenced our son a lot in his life.
He's an academia now, and he's he's even said, you know, I could do other things to make more money, but it's a calling to teach the next generation the truth.
He's a professor in the Midwest.
He gets to teach as well as do research.
But I wanted to thank you and let you know that just a little story about your grandpa, since it is grand you know, it's it's father.
Well, you know, I I uh I I really appreciate that.
You know, that uh one of the things that um starting in nineteen eighty-eight when when this program started, people would get off of uh I-55 driving through Cape Girardeau, and they would they'd drive through and they'd stop and see my mother and she'd open the door.
Oh, yeah, well he got we went by to see Millie too.
I mean, you're like you're calling her Millie.
You didn't know her before this.
No, I did not know her, but that's what that's the name I heard you call her.
No, I did not know her.
Well, we all became family, and then you but people go by to see my grandfather and and uh he'd walk him into the house.
It was it was amazing.
It was amazing that he let this young man come in, because the house keeps he said, You'd let that young tell that young man to come in here.
I want to talk with him.
And he did, and and he just said he said, Mom, he's brilliant.
Well, that he was.
He was.
And I wanted to thank you to have that legacy of, you know, just a grandfather.
You know, we never knew your father or your father.
Well, you know, every family has a uh a mythological patriarch.
Uh every family has a patriarchal figure about uh whom attaches a a bunch of mythology.
In my grandfather's case, most of it's actually true.
Oh it is.
Never smoked, never drank, never cussed.
Um uh did not I I don't honest to God, I don't remember ever hearing a critical word about anybody from him.
Now he we had people disagreed with and so forth, but I i around us uh uh there was it was i he lived up to that mythology that everybody attaches to their their family patriarchs.
And uh we all growing up were urged to uh emulate it.
Uh-huh.
And so it was he was a great role model, and it was uh uh once in a lifetime experience to have Rush Limbaugh as a member of your family.
I guess so.
And I just wanted to tell you again, thank you, because I really think you know all the bits and things at all and and inclines to to be you know the kind of person we turn out to be, and our sons turned to oh well our whole family, they're all the kids are great.
What is your what is your son teaching?
You say he's an academ.
Uh business.
Teaching business.
That's good.
That's crucial.
That's important.
Teaching business, and he teaches the truth, and um That's even more important.
It's very important, and um you would be proud of the way he teaches.
Very proud.
Well, I'm sure I would.
Well, I've I'm glad this is great that you call.
I'm uh I'm flattered that you uh made it.
There's something cosmic about the fact that you were able to get through today with all the other people trying to get through found an open line.
Yeah, so Father's Day weekend, but I wanted to let you know that.
What part of Southwest Missouri do you live in?
Um I live in Springfield.
Springfield.
Yeah.
But we didn't live in Springfield.
We lived in Southeast Missouri at the time.
Actually, we lived in Cape Toronto when you were in high school, too.
You were there in 67, weren't you?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, we're not going to be able to do it.
Sixty-seven was actually my first year as a disc jockey.
Yeah, we knew your brother, I mean your cousin Steven.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
And uh Oh, I'm no, that the Bible study thing, y that didn't happen on the radio, so I don't know.
She wouldn't know about the Bible study trick.
I don't know about the Bible.
No, no, no.
You would only have known about that if you're been watching the local news one night and and you you need an incredible memory.
Okay.
No, I don't agree with that.
Okay, thank you very much, and uh I really appreciate it.
Happy, happy uh uh founding Father's Day weekend to you too.
Okay.
All right.
It's open line Friday on the EIB network, and we're coming right back.
By the way, the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The people now claiming that your desktop or your your uh video recorder, digital video recorder, your cable box, wasting all this electricity.
Gotta get rid of them.
These are the people that were behind the LR scare.
You remember LR.
One night on sixty minutes.
One night of sixty minutes, the feature on LR.
They had Meryl Streep on there, the renowned actress who shouted, What are we doing to our children?
What?
What are we doing to our child?
You're poisoning the children with LR.
It was a hoax.
Like so much of what comes from the environmental left.
A pure hoax, damaging to the Apple industry, particularly in the great state of Washington, the uh in the in the in the great Northwest, and these are the same quads that are now focusing on your TiVo.
Or your direct TV receiver.
Same bunch of people.
Fred in Orlando, Florida, open line Friday as we keep on.
Hello, sir.
Welcome.
Fifth time down low black conservative ditto's rush.
Thank you, sir.
I teach business and calculus.
I tell my students that we need as many millionaires as possible because only millionaires can pay you thousands of dollars for your degree.
And the more millionaires we have, the more opportunity you have to actually get hired for thousands of dollars.
I tell them it's a factor of about a thousand.
Um millionaires can pay thousands.
I'm a thousand there.
I can only pay people in hundreds.
The in um NFL pays uh players in millions.
That's because they make billions.
Right.
You need as many billionaires as possible to have as many millionaires, and you need as many millionaires to have um thousandaires.
You say you are a college professor.
Yes.
What's so hard about what you said is just common sense.
What's so hard for people to learn that?
Because the students have learned it all backwards because when they hear me say this, th their opinion is that we have two million millionaires and they're sucking the money out of the economy.
Yeah, no.
They think it's a zero sum game.
They think if you get a dollar, somebody has to have lost one.
Yes.
And I have the um kind of unteach all that.
Well, uh what's your success rate, do you think?
Oh, my success rate?
Uh it's not that good.
Um, what what age y so you're teaching college uh students?
Yes.
So I'll I got eighteen to sixties.
Well, that's great.
But you know, y all you're doing is preaching common sense.
It's gotta sink in at some point.
Um, yeah.
Uh one of the things I don't get challenged very often when I introduce these new concepts of supply and demand.
I explain how actually the economy works.
Um, I explained that um there are about six about 50 or 60 um oil companies in the world, and we only have about four or five, and our four or five have to compete with all the rest of them as far as oil.
All is a national commodity.
Right.
It doesn't it doesn't just cost here, it costs in the world.
And they don't understand that.
They don't understand that when you give our oil companies a hard time, that gives them a hard time competing in the world.
Well, you know, you're right.
Because they've they've also been told that big oil, evil once they killed them.
All corporations want to kill their customers.
You know what the problem is, folks?
Fred, thanks for the call out there.
I appreciate it.
You know what the problem is?
The problem is that the left has the economy and government confused.
Well, they're not confused, but they have purposely made it confusing.
In the real world, if the government gives you anything, it's only because they first took it from someone else.
It doesn't work that way in a market economy.
But the people he's talking about his students, the uh the government is the source of what you have, not the private sector.
The private sector is the focus of evil and unfairness and mean-spiritedness.
Death.
Coffee that's too hot can kill you if you spill it.
The private sector.
That's where all the cheats.
And that's where all the sharks are.
They're gonna eat you up and spit you in.
A government is where all the love and compassion and understanding is.
So to people who've been miseducated, maleducated, ill-informed, brainwashed, what have you.
Government is where you get stuff.
The economy is where you get screwed.
Private sector is where you get screwed.
The government is where stuff comes from.
When did I first learn about supply and demand?
Um high school.
I first learned about maybe junior high, I forget.
But we was in uh certainly one of the two, junior high or high school.
That's that.
I know he knew concepts to college kids.
Supply and demand, new concepts.
That's why I say to these people, they have been taught that government is where stuff comes from.
Government is where you get stuff.
You don't believe I know you believe me, but just drive by any federal building, or for that matter, drive by a state government building, and you check and see, try to get a parking place at one of them.
And it's not all a DMV in there, folks.
They pass out checks in these places.
Guarandam to you.
That's that's where people have been uh have been conditioned.
And then when you try to use the private sector, did you see this out of uh U.S. Open of Bethesda, Maryland?
A county inspector ordered a couple of kids to shut down a lemonade stand up on persimmon tree road, right next to Congressional Country Club.
After they allegedly ignored a couple of warnings, the inspector fined their parents five hundred dollars.
Cute little kids making five or ten bucks is a little bit different than making hundreds.
You got coolers and coolers here.
The inspector responded to raise money for pediatric cancer, is what the defenders said.
But you had regulators go in and shut down a kid's lemonade stand, ultimately fine $500, shut down by Montgomery County, Maryland.
Liberals, Montgomery, Montgomery County.
I mean, isn't Montgomery County is where they tried to pass this no-smoking ordinance because somebody 200 feet away in a house could smell somebody smoking a cigarette 200 feet away inside their house with closed windows.
Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Montgomery County is sure enough to turn off all the lights.
Exactly right.
When you when you make a dollar from selling tea, like the eliminate stand.
You didn't take it from anybody.
There's a there's a there's a medium of exchange there.
And it's, of course, purchase by choice.
But when the government gives you a dollar, they had to first take that dollar from somebody.
It's just these are um these are these are really, I think, crucial and serious times.
Speaking of tea, I got I got this email.
It's it's it's very heartwarming.
Because I said earlier when it comes to two if by tea, that this is an important day in our rollout because this in uh for a lot of people is the day the tea is delivered.
So this is the day that people begin sampling it.
And so this is the day that we find out if they like it.
If they like it, then you have a whole new world of new avenue of advertising opens up called word of mouth.
Dear Rush, I ordered a 12-pack of your sweet tea first to see how good it is, and it lived up to your hype.
It was just slightly sweet, very smooth, one of the best teas I have tried.
But now it created a problem at home because I thought I would have it to myself since my wife doesn't really like sweet tea, but I was wrong.
She took a taste of yours and loved it, so now we're fighting over who gets it.
This is from uh guy named Guy Adams.
Don't know where he lives.
He's a subscriber at Rushlinbaugh.com.
So you know it the tea is gonna get blamed for divorce.
Uh who's next on this program?
Diana, Plainview, Texas.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Raj.
Hey.
Listen, I heard you last week say that um they said that uh sitting is more dangerous than cigarettes.
As dangerous, if not more so, yes.
Well, I was just wondering if there was any danger from secondhand sitting.
With the left, you never know.
That that is a that's a fascinating question.
Could well be.
Well, I just wondered because, you know, you never know what's going to be dangerous these days.
No, and whatever is dangerous that they can use to scare people into paying higher taxes, they'll use it.
Secondhand sitting.
It is a great folks.
Somebody did come out with that news.
I forget who it was, some medical bunch.
Sitting is more dangerous, actually, than smoking.
They actually said it.
Sedentary lifestyle more dangerous than smoking.
Brief.
Very brief timeout, an obscene profit center be back with more right after this.
Phil in Knoxville, Tennessee.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
I appreciate your patience.
Yeah, Rush, maybe you can explain this uh to me.
Yeah, we've always been told that the majority of jobs come from small businesses.
So we have this job panel, and the members are like from GE and Amex and Intel and the Xerox and all these uh smart types from uh college.
And I just want to know where's the owner of Bob's uh hardware and Darling's ice cream and the local lumber yard and those people.
Yeah, on the one that generates the jobs.
Exactly.
On the president's jobs council, you mean?
Exactly.
I'll tell you, they're nowhere because that jobs council is not about creating jobs.
Jeffrey ML doesn't have to talk to Barack Obama about creating jobs.
Jeff Immelt and none of the people, none of the CEOs that are on that council have to have a meeting about how to create jobs.
They know how to do it.
They know how the companies work, they're CEOs.
They don't have to teach Obama.
That's not what that's this is crony capitalism, pure and simple.
This is Obama forging deals and relationships with these CEOs to advance a political agenda, all the while making us think that there's some really heavyweight people getting together to discuss what's wrong with jobs in this country.
These CEOs are the creme de la creme.
There's not a single one of them that's going to learn anything from Barack Obama.
There's not a single one of them is going to learn anything from anybody else.
They all know why the economy is in bad shape and what it takes to get it out.
They all know that.
But they cannot, any of them individually single-handedly bring it about.
So this just another one of these phony get togethers designed to make everybody think that the regime is focusing on the problem so that these people out of work are being paid attention to and their interests are being looked after.
And it's not that at all.
It's a dog and pony show.
Pure and simple.
You don't need one meeting with one member or bureaucrat, any bureaucracy or government agency, and a CEO to talk about jobs.
Now, they may be talking about other things.
Okay, Barack, how much do you want to change regulations on my business?
Okay, Barack, what that kind of stuff might be going.
But these guys don't need to have a council creating jobs.
It's absurd.
It's just a bunch of show ponies up there creating an illusion.
Pure and simple.
Look, before I get out of here, I want to uh I want to thank everybody.
Uh the tea product that we rolled out on Wednesday, 2 If By Tea, and that's the name of the website, 2ifbytea.com.
Uh has uh it has it has it blown past all of our expectations.
And I am now getting emails from people who are attesting to how good it is.
And it is.
I'm not a fully accredited tea taste tester.
And we strive to find the absolute best tasting tea, and we've got other flavors in the pipeline, hopefully, that we'll release uh down the road.
But it's these teas, some are made with sugar and no fructose.
Genuine sugar, and some are calorie-free.
And the calorie free tastes just as good as the original.
Raspberry and uh and standard straight tea.
It's been uh it's been a learning exercise, and it's been a lot of fun.
Uh and Rush Revere on every label.
Founders' Father's Day is coming up this weekend, and we've just had a blast with it.
We've had a uh tremendous uh uh economic education in the process.
So I I can't let the uh the program end without a sincere and heartfelt thanks to all of you.
I mean, the numbers are uh uh blow us away, humble us.
To if by tea.com or 866-662-1776.
We'll be in California all next week.
We'll be in California.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence in the can, and soon to be on its way to the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, which is open.
The virtual limb broadcast museum at rushlimbaug.com.
And it's fascinating.
We're very proud of it, and it's a uh it it foretells the actual brick and mortars museum that will no doubt exist somewhere down the road.
Have a great weekend, folks.
Enjoy it.
Your Father's Day, Founding Father's Day, and so forth, and we'll see you back here on Monday.
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