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April 25, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 25, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Where is that scalia thing?
Where is the scroll out of the can't find it?
Anyway, Scalia with another great question of the Solicitor General virility about sovereignty.
What is sovereignty if you can't protect your own borders?
Apparently, the oral arguments today in the Arizona immigration case were just as bad for the government as they were during healthcare.
And upholding the Arizona law is even more popular among American voters than striking down Obamacare, which is high.
Obamacare hasn't lost any ground.
This is just huge, according to a recent Quinnipi Act poll.
According to them, when asked should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn the 2010 health care law, voters said they should by 49 to 38 percent.
But voters say the Supreme Court should uphold the Arizona immigration law by 62 to 27 percent.
And I think that's a reason why Obama and his minions in the news today are barely even talking about this.
This is hardly being discussed at all in the drive-by media.
Commentators are not mentioning at all.
The news that I'm sharing with you is coming from the Washington Times.
The quotes from the Justices Sothomayor and Scalia in the oral arguments.
Here is Scalia.
So what does sovereignty mean if it does not include the ability to defend your borders?
Which is right up there with his broccoli question.
I have never understood why this is complex or why it's complicated.
The state of Arizona wants to protect its borders.
They want the federal government to enforce the law.
Federal government isn't, so Arizona wrote their own, basically replicating federal law.
Obama sues Arizona.
Obama doesn't want photo ID to vote.
It's clear what's going on.
I've had a lot of people email, what do you mean illegal immigrants are leaving the country as fast as they're coming?
Well, I got a story here from the Washington Times Charles Hurt, who used to be at the New York Post, and it's an opinion piece.
In this bad economy, U.S. needs border fence to keep Mexicans in.
Well, that's one way to stem the tide of illegal aliens streaming across the border from Mexico, jack up unemployment rates to near double digits, dunk America into a double-dip recession, put us so deeply into debt with the CHICOMs, it'll take generations for us to recover after long enough living and working and trying to eke out bare survival in America becomes even worse than trying to get by in Mexico.
A new study from the highly esteemed Pew Hispanic Center says millions of Mexicans who risked their lives crossing the desert to get here have given up on the U.S. Which is no small feat.
You've been to Mexico?
Not the Ritzy beach towns with the resorts, but Nuevo Laredo.
The dusty streets are filled with bony children selling gum and candy for just a few spare pennies.
Anyway, his whole piece, Mr. Hurt's whole piece here is about the exodus of illegals from America back to Mexico.
And again, you know what this puts a little bit of a lie to.
One thing that is not shrinking in this country is the welfare state.
One of the arguments has always been that the illegals are coming here because of the hammock.
Not the safety net, the hammock.
They're coming here to get on our welfare state, health care and so forth.
And clearly a number did come for that reason.
But wouldn't you think that if it were the primary reason, there would not be this exodus?
People do come to this country for opportunity.
They do come to this country to want to work.
And when the work isn't available, when the jobs aren't there, they don't come.
And that is happening.
This report from the Pew Immigration Center says that immigration is at its lowest point, even negative for the first time since the Great Depression.
Now, some might want to praise Obama for that, but nevertheless, it's not as attractive.
And folks, that is saying something.
That is, Hurt is exactly right.
Mexico is, their economy is growing at 5.5%.
There are parts of it that are doing fine and they're drilling for oil, but it's still racked with poverty and drug crime and pestilence and all that stuff.
And still, immigration is down.
And another thing about the Hispanic vote, the notion that Hispanics will come here and will vote Democrat for the opportunity to be taken care of, to be installed into the welfare system.
Well, if that's why Hispanics were coming here just to vote Democrat and get in on those goodies, then they'd keep coming, would they not?
You have to think that if Hispanics would be happy with the subsistence existence the Democrats offer, they stayed in Mexico.
So there are a lot of myths here that are blowing up right in front of our eyes.
And it's not good news for the Democrats.
It isn't good news.
The fact that these immigration numbers are down means to the Democrats that these people are not eager to come here and become wards of the state.
The Democrats, and I've mentioned this before, the Democrats need a permanent underclass.
Politically, no, no, no, wait, wait, don't, for those of you new to the program, don't overreact here.
I know saying something like that, so how can you possibly say that if you just listen to me for a second?
Look at me.
The Democrat Party, look at the story we had yesterday from Michael Barone about the nostalgia the Democrats have for union assembly line jobs.
You come out of high school, you go to work for Ford or Chrysler General Motors on the line.
Basically, the only job you can get because all you've got is a high school diploma, and that's America, as they see it.
The Democrats look out across this country and see teams of incompetent people, teams of inept people who need guidance, assistance, taken care of, and all of that.
So you work on the line for 30 years, then you quit, and you get your pension and your health care for the rest of your life, and that's America.
And that's the nostalgia.
And that's what Obama's trying to recreate, only this time with green jobs.
Well, of course, that's not America.
That's part of it.
But there are a lot of other people that want to do something other than that.
But those are the jobs the Democrats are trying to recreate.
But the Democrat Party must have a permanent underclass.
That's the voting base.
The permanent underclass is simply poor people who have no alternative but them to vote Democrat for a meager subsistence.
Every form of welfare, food stamp, whatever you can, whatever you want to call it, that's what the Democrats need.
They need people needing them.
And the Democrats want to use illegal immigrants to expand the underclass in a growing economy, which we don't have right now.
In a growing economy, people escape.
The fourth and fifth quintiles are the lower levels of poverty, and their lives improve, and they earn more money.
They become middle class than upper middle class, and they don't need government anymore.
Well, those people have to be replaced in a political world where all you care about is winning elections and you don't care what happens to the country in the process.
And you really don't care what happens to people who vote for you.
You need a certain kind of voter if your basic political position is that you're the king of the welfare state.
You're the king of compassion.
You're the guy going to take care of the little people.
You're the guy that cares about the little guy.
You're the party that cares about the little guy.
The Republicans, they only care about the rich.
The Republicans, they only care about big business.
That's the line.
That's the template.
The Democrats, they're the ones with big hearts.
They're the ones with all the compassion.
They're the ones that care about the little guy.
Of course, their policies keep little guys little forever.
They need a permanent underclass.
And the Hispanic illegals are who they have in mind to be their underclass and to expand it.
It's another reason why the Democrat Party is in full support of illegal immigration.
Once they're here, they have to eat.
Once they're here, they need health care.
And guess who's willing to provide it?
Using your money.
The redistribution of wealth.
And so this, whatever the number is, the number of millions a year who would arrive here illegally, that's the Democrat Party's permanent underclass.
The problem that we're seeing for the Democrats is that, guess what?
Many of these illegals don't want to be a permanent member of the underclass.
They come here like anybody else who comes here.
They're exceptions, of course, but they want to access the opportunity that exists here.
I know some of them don't learn English.
I'm not trying to paint a panacea.
But I'm also telling you that they're not all the same.
They're not all bad actors.
They're not all welfare state cheats.
They're not all this.
Some of them, in fact, I think the vast majority are decent human beings who want what every other human being wants.
Best life possible.
It used to be this is the place you came for that.
But if all the Democrats want from you, if you're an illegal Hispanic as a member of the permanent underclass and that's not you, then you might not be willing to stay.
If Hispanics are coming to the United States for a better life, they aren't going to vote Democrat for very long.
And I'll tell you, I mean this in the bottom of my heart when I say it.
If you're coming to the United States for a better life, you better not vote Democrat.
You're not going to get a better life.
You're going to get a life of dependence, and you're going to end up being in a permanent underclass.
And again, I'm going to go back to Barone.
That piece yesterday, I don't know if he knows how great that was in terms of portraying or painting a picture of the ideal job that Obama and Democrats have in mind.
The ideal job.
The best thing you can ever get is an assembly line gig.
30 years, you retire, and yet benefits and health care taken care of for you.
Low expectations because you don't think much of the country.
Plus, if you happen to be a wealthy Democrat, you don't want to share your money with anybody else.
You'll be glad to tax everybody else and share their money.
But if you want a better life, by the way, this is, I think, true, even for people who are not illegal immigrants or Hispanic.
If you're just a Native-born American and you want a better life, voting Democrat is not the thing to do.
Mr. Lumbaugh, that is so outrageous for you to say that.
I don't believe that you would have the gumption.
I happen to believe it, Mr. Newcastrotti, and I think the evidence is on my side.
And I think the way, just listen to your average Democrat talk about life in this country.
Listen to your Democrat, average Democrat talk about the future of this country.
It's not this great shining city on a hill stuff.
It's not filled with optimism.
It's not filled with the pursuit of happiness.
The Democrat vision of the future is filled with misery and suffering and discrimination and oppression and racism and sexism and bigotry and oppressive corporations who are trying to kill their customers.
Well, is it not?
Is that not the picture of this country you get after listening to a Democrat paint it?
The Democrat Party is not the ticket to a better life.
The Democrats need people to be dependent on government so that the people are dependent on Democrats.
People that move here, they start in the bottom rung of the ladder, but they want to climb.
They don't want to get stuck on that bottom rung.
But that's where you will end up if all you do is vote and invest in and depend on Democrats.
I mean, look at Obama.
They want a new WPA.
They want all these new Depression era programs, government-created jobs and so forth.
They yearn for the days when men would dig ditches.
What was the stimulus about?
Shovel-ready jobs.
The stimulus was about digging ditches, repairing roads and bridges.
That's the vision the Democrats have for you.
That's what shovel-ready jobs meant.
Are we better off now than we were before Obama?
Is life better now under Obama?
No way.
Not even close.
Okay, I just see this headline on Drudge, Marine Corps kicking Sargent out for criticizing Obama.
Well, has that story been around for a while?
Have you heard that?
Okay, it's the same Marine.
It's not a new story.
Same Marine who criticized Obama on his Facebook page.
And the story is Marine Corps, as Obama would say, Marine Corps decides to discharge Sergeant for Facebook postings criticizing President Obama.
Sergeant Gary Stein is going to receive other than honorable discharge for Facebook comments criticizing Obama.
He served nearly 10 years in the Marine Corps.
He posted comments on both his Facebook page and on the Armed Forces Tea Party Facebook page that he created, mocking the one.
On those pages, he referred to Obama as a domestic enemy.
He also posted as an active duty Marine.
I say, screw Obama.
I will not follow all orders from him for saluting Obama's commander-in-chief.
I will not.
Now, Alan West, Daryl Issa, Duncan Hunter have come to his defense, asked the Marine Corps to find a way to discipline him short of a dishonorable discharge, but they've been ignored.
He probably going to lose all of his benefits.
By the way, is this the guy that Ron Paul brought up and put up on stage?
Different one.
Okay.
This is not the guy you're thinking of?
His name wasn't Stein.
Oh, okay.
All right.
To the phones, Matt in Tyner, North Carolina.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Russ.
It's a pleasure.
I'm a big fan.
Thank you very much.
My story is a little interesting.
My job was actually exported to Mexico.
I work in the offshore oil industry, and I'm currently working for, you know, through certain contracts, Pemex.
Oh, yeah.
Where in Mexico is your job?
Off the Yucatan Peninsula.
Well, there's some resorts there.
Yes.
Well, yes, there are.
But there's also a lot of oil and natural gas.
And my point is that Mexico is ramping up big time to drill oil.
Oh, I know.
They're a huge find in the Gulf, didn't they?
That we heard about in the last couple of years.
By the way, did you used to work in the domestic oil business in the Gulf of Mexico?
Yes, I did.
So you were shut down because of the moratorium.
That's the real point, Rush, is that my job was exported from the United States to Mexico because of Obama's oil policy.
His moratorium?
After the BP spill, of course, a lot of contracts and drilling that was supposed to happen did not.
And my company had to think out of the box.
And now we're down in Mexico working for a Mexican company.
What are you doing in North Carolina?
Excuse me?
What are you doing in North Carolina?
Well, I fly back and forth, Rush.
Okay.
Well, I live in North Carolina, but I'm a captain on a vessel that is working down in Mexico.
Well, I didn't mean to be insulting.
Really, forgive me.
It's nothing more than When I worked at a radio station, it was there every day.
And so I thought maybe you might be on vacation or downtime or whatever.
I don't know how, for example, employees in the oil business are used.
So that was, I really meant, if your job's in Mexico, why are you in North Carolina?
I'm sure there's a reason.
Well, my particular situation, I fly to work, and I spent two months down there, and I'm home for a month on vacation.
Oh, do you remember the dredge that was working off your property down in West Palm about, I don't know, five or six years ago?
Yeah, it's out there now.
It was from New Orleans.
Yes, I was actually working on FSO at the time, and I saw you buy binoculars walking around your beautiful piece of property.
Let me tell you what he's talking about.
Let me tell you what he's talking about.
Now, my people on the other side of the glass, Matt, are calling you a stalker.
He's not a stalker.
The Palm Beach Inlet, which separates Singer Island from Palm Beach, has to be dredged so that cargo ships, cruise ships can get into the port of Palm Beach.
And you were on the dredger, right?
Yes, I was.
Now, what the dredger does, dredger dredge all the sand and does a couple different things.
But what it does is dump all the sand that it dredges on my beach.
That's correct.
I mean, I can sit there.
I'll be sitting there at 2 in the morning and I will see the lights that it looks like it's right in the backyard.
Well, the first time I saw that, I said, my God, there's a UFO out there.
You're right.
So you've been on that dredger.
Yes, I was.
And I remember you were talking about it on air some years ago.
Yeah.
And actually, I was on there when you were talking about it.
I had you tuned into the radio.
And yeah, and you were talking about the turtles on the beach, if you will.
Yeah, and I was hoping you were dumping sand on them.
I remember.
No, we actually had turtle observers on the boat to make sure we didn't kill them.
I know, I know.
Believe me, I know.
Folks, he's right.
They have turtle observers on the dredger.
Yes, we did.
But the thing is, you're fine.
The lights on the dredger on the water are fine.
That would attract the hatchlings to the water where whatever happens to them there is fine as far as the environmentalist wackos are concerned.
If they get eaten or crushed by your dredger, that's cool.
You probably don't know this, but when we do get a turtle on board a dredge, it's dead because it's come through the dredge.
Well, I figured that.
I'm not exactly sure what they're observing unless they want to see a dead turtle.
Well, what they're observing is the hatchlings.
See, the hatchlings are born underneath the sand.
They hatch out of the eggs underneath the sand and they burrow up, and then they're supposed to go to the ocean.
Now, folks, you've hit a source button here, Matt.
I just want to tell you, the last thing that they want is for the turtle hatchlings to head to the shore.
Yeah.
So we have to keep our lights off.
But you on the dredger, your lights are on.
That's fine if it's.
It's like a Christmas tree.
Exactly.
They're multicolored, and he's exactly right.
And if the hatchlings see light out over the ocean and are attracted, then that's fine.
The environmentalists are out there applauding.
That's nature.
If your dredger happens to suck them up and they end up being dredged, that's cool.
But if they go toward the shore, then they want to make all of us who live on the beach criminals.
Hey, Russ, can I get back to my point?
40-watt light.
I thought this was the point.
But okay, go ahead.
No, no, no, no.
No, I want to talk about Pemex, which is the Mexican national organization.
Sure.
All right, fire away.
It's a socialist organization.
Anyway, they are ramping up big time, and they are going to eclipse us in oil production if we don't get our act together.
What do you mean they're a socialist?
You mean it is government-run?
Yeah.
Isn't that socialist?
Yeah, but they're going to eclipse.
But you're not advocating socialism.
No, no, not at all.
I'm saying is if we don't ramp up our oil industry, believe me, no, I'm not a socialist by any point.
Yeah, and why do you think we're not, Matt?
Well, yes, Rush, I understand what you're saying.
It's Obama.
The reason that you're working in Mexico is the answer to the question.
Well, you're right, and I oppose it.
I wish I was working off Louisiana, Texas, which I have been for the last seven or eight years until we had to go down to Mexico.
I wish they'd discover oil off my beach.
I'd welcome you and your oil Derek out there every day.
I would glad to be there, and I would drill a well right through a turtle's head.
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
We're not interested in that.
I'm joking.
No, I'd just like a direct line of diesel right from the ocean right into my generator supply.
Anyway, Matt, I appreciate the call.
I get it.
I know your point.
He worked in the Gulf.
Obama's moratorium hits.
His company shuts down and they have to go to Mexico.
And the Mexican oil industry is thriving, even though it's government-run.
And it's all about this environmentalist.
The environmentalists are shutting everybody down.
Oh, they're not shutting everybody down except us.
We're even lending money to Mexico and Brazil so that they can drill.
Obama lent $10 billion to the Brazilians.
And I think to the Mexicans as well.
We're giving Pemex loans, which Frank Student loans will probably forgive them at some point.
But we are helping Mexico develop their oil while not developing our own.
That's why this stuff, folks, I just have a hard time believing that the economic choices being made by this administration are on purpose.
Stuff that's being done is being done purposefully.
Matt, thanks for the call.
I had this story yesterday and I didn't get to it.
There's the name James Lovelock ring a bell.
Do you know who that is?
James Lovelock was hailed as one of the giants of the global warming industry.
This is the guy who created the whole Gaia theory.
James Gaia, Earth is God, Gaia.
He was one of the original environmentalist wackos.
He was one of the original man is destroying the planet, guys.
And he has recanted.
He was one of the original alarmists.
James Lovelock, the Maverick scientist, a scientist, and they are infallible, right?
James Lovelock, Maverick scientist who became a guru to the environmental movement with his Gaia theory, or Gaia, of the Earth as a single organism, has admitted to being alarmist about climate change and says that other environmentalist wackos like Al Gore were too.
He's 92 now, writing a book in which he will say climate change is still happening, but not as quickly as he once feared.
He thought, he really thought that by 2020 that there wouldn't be a South Florida.
Be underwater.
And now he's recanting.
He overestimated.
In 2006, Lovelock wrote, before this century is over, billions of us will die.
And the few breeding pairs of people who survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.
In 2007, Time magazine called him a hero of the environment.
So in 2006, he says the only place we're going to be able to live will be the Arctic.
Next year, Time calls him a hero.
Today, he's recanting.
It's another one.
Another environmentalist wacko is, as he ages, he's 92, is coming clean.
It was all a ruse.
It was all a joke.
It was all exaggerated.
It was all made up.
He still believes it, but says it isn't occurring in any way like he had expected.
Got to take a break, folks.
Be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, so Obama is campaigning at some university in Iowa, and he is outraged.
Outraged, I tell you, that the current student debt, student loan debt, averaged $25,000.
He's outraged.
Fit to be tied.
Somebody needs to tell Obama that each American's share of the national debt right now is $50,000.
To be precise, $50,038 according to the national debt clock.
What's he going to do about this?
Obama outraged by that?
Student loan debt, $25,000.
Debt per taxpayer is $50,038.
Almost twice.
Folks, it's even better.
The amount owed by every taxpayer in this country to pay off the national debt is $138,000.
For every citizen, it's $50,000.
So Obama's in Iowa outraged that student loan debt's $25,000, but the amount of money every taxpayer owes, his share, her share of the national debt, it's $138,000.
And I don't see him outraged by that debt at all.
You have a good one.
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