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May 28, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 28, 2012, Monday, Hour #1
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Greetings and welcome back.
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Quick little story.
Spring fling started Wednesday night.
The first guests, first four guests arrived on Wednesday, the other guests arrived on Thursday afternoon.
At dinner Wednesday night, the guests were saying, yeah, trying to listen to your um today on the on the flight coming in.
And I was having trouble.
Well, what do you listen to it on?
Well, uh trying to stream this station and this is what you don't have my app?
What app?
It got me to think, you know, I don't.
I never talk about my own stuff here.
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Not enough anyway.
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Um talking about Oprah a couple of weeks ago.
I I raised the question.
How can Oprah have been so popular on TV have her network not do well?
And there are two answers for this.
Some of this may be a little inside baseball, inside broadcasting baseball.
But when it comes to radio and television, people watch shows, not networks.
That's number one.
People watch shows, uh, be they ensemble entertainment shows, dramas, or be they talk shows.
They watch or listen to shows.
It doesn't matter what network it's on.
So an Oprah leaves her syndicated network and phones her own network called Own, but isn't on it, uh, and in it in her place is uh Rosie O'Donnell talking about whatever's fascinating to her at seven o'clock at night.
Sorry, you got a big problem, but I'm gonna tell you what Oprah really blew it.
I'll be glad and this is pure broadcast opinion, and this is a broadcast professional opinion.
Oprah Winfrey, if you if you check Oprah's numbers, why did Oprah give up that syndicated show?
She gave it up because the numbers were declining, and it's the old thing you want to get out on your terms.
You don't want to be Willie Mays dropping fly balls in short center field.
A year or two beyond when you should be playing.
So she made a wise choice she got out before the bottom fell.
But why did it start falling out?
It's very simple, folks.
The minute Oprah endorsed Obama is when it ended for Oprah, because up until that time, Oprah did not have a racial identity about her.
Oprah was whatever her audience wanted her to be.
She was for women.
She was concerned with women.
She was a supporter of a uh uh uh uh a calm shoulder for whatever.
But when she endorsed Obama, well then it's like why Michael Jordan doesn't political.
He won, you know, he's he's a big Democrat, but he didn't, he's not gonna run around get involved in politics for two reasons.
A, the good press coverage will stop, and B, Republicans will stop buying Nikes, and he can't afford that.
He wants Republicans to buy tennis shoes, too.
So well, Oprah violated that.
Well, she endorsed Obama, then that gave her an entirely different identity that she didn't have.
And that's when a sizable percentage of the audience said, okay, Oprah I'm gone.
She eventually said that political matters and racial matters mattered more to her than the stuff they thought mattered most to her, meaning her uh her audience.
Now, I want to do this New York Times video one more time.
I asked Snerdley, you know, we we've got new people here, and and I am I'm hellbent on being persuasive and understood.
And I understand that sometimes things have to be done more than once.
I hate to be Repetitive.
When I am repetitive, it's strategic.
It's not because I'm out of other stuff, because I'm by no means out of other stuff.
But to me, this is so instructive.
Another teachable moment.
Around the world and in this country, union benefit packages are unsustainable, particularly those offered to people who retire and are no longer working.
You can't pay them for their health care the rest of their lives.
You can't pay them 80% or full salary the rest of their lives.
When they can retire at age 45, when they can retire at age 55, you just can't do it with the actuarial tables.
It's what brought down General Motors.
It's what brought it it's going to bring down every city government and state if they don't do something about it, which is what Scott Walker brilliantly fixed in Wisconsin.
And the and the unions there are livid, and that's why the recall election.
But it's happening in Greece, it's happening in Spain, it's going to happen in the UK.
It's happening everywhere.
It's happening in our little town here at Palm Beach.
They've had to make all kinds of changes in the contracts with the police and firemen, because it's just not sustainable.
Especially in this economy, there just isn't the revenue to pay people who aren't working anymore.
But Rush, but Rush, the deals were made.
Yeah, they were, but what good's the deal when there's no money?
What what good's the deal when the business goes bankrupt?
What's good and out of business?
What good's the deal when the city defaults?
It there has to be that favorite word of people compromise.
Unions don't want to compromise.
Now the New York Times is in the same situation now.
They have a defined benefit plan, which allows people to retire and pay them health care and salary till they die.
Now what's fascinating about it, the New York Times editorial position is to rip these companies that make these changes in order to stay in business.
The New York Times editorial position is to crucify Scott Walker.
The New York Times editorial position is to rip to shreds anybody, any business, any government, any state government, city government, which needs to renegotiate these union contracts because they don't have the money to pay all these people who aren't working.
They just don't have it or they'll go out of business.
The second thing about this that's funny is that these reporters, and that they they made a six minute video.
It's a very slick looking video.
We will link to the whole video at rushlimbaugh.com.
Oh, we might tweet this thing out too, just to have it go viral.
But we'll link and it's it's byline reporters, it's its editors and art directors and so forth, and they're whining and moaning about how mean the times is and how they're going to end up eating dog food, maybe cat food, sleeping in card forward boxes.
What's funny about they're covering this stuff, they're reporting on it, and yet their sense of entitlement is such that they expect to be immune from it.
The second thing that's that's a teachable moment, who are they?
They're newspaper people.
What is happening to the newspaper business?
Have you seen what's happening to circulation?
Ad revenue at the New York Times, both are plummeting.
In fact, in 2002, a share of stock at the New York Times was 48 bucks.
It's now six dollars thirty-four cents.
That's one-tenth, almost one-tenth, of what they were worth just ten years ago.
And it's this liberal bias.
It's the way these reporters have reported, it's the way they've voted, it's the way they've earned urged everybody else to vote, this this never-ending support of bankrupting liberalism that got them where they are, but now they want immunity.
They want the Times to keep paying them no matter what.
They're threatening to go on strike.
Now there's a part of me, I must be honest.
There's a part of me, a part of me that's on the side of the union here.
No, no, no.
Follow me, Snergly.
There's a yes, yes.
Let the union hold tight, have the times go out of business.
That might be one of the best things ever happened to country.
Stop and think about that.
The U.S. should be a better place without the New York Times.
And if these young if these writers and all these people you hear in this video, if they get their way, if they don't buck, if they don't buckle, force the New York Times into bankruptcy.
Well, I asked the other day.
Can you imagine what a different country we would be if we had a media that actually was as the founding fathers envisioned it?
Guardians of democracy, suspicious of power.
We now have a media that protects power, that wants to be part of the power structure.
We have a media that's not doing its constitutional duty as envisioned by the founders.
So the union wins.
No New York Times.
I know it's not going to happen, but we can sit here and dream.
So now set it up.
Let me take a break.
We'll come back.
I'll play this video again, or the audio from it.
It's six minutes.
It's when you know the context and you know the history, you listen to these people.
They are they have the most amazing sense of entitlement.
They want immunity from the real world conditions everyone else is subject to.
Yeah, I'm telling you it is a wonderful teaching moment.
They got themselves in their own situation by advocating by the way they wrote, voting the way they voted, for all of these bankrupted liberal policies for all of these years.
You could say that they are responsible for their own plight, given their liberalism.
Take a break, I'll play it one more time, now that you know the full context, and then we'll get to your phone calls and lots of other great stuff and the stacks of stuff.
So sit tight and don't go away.
Coming right back.
Okay.
New York Times reporters, six minute, five-minute video, whatever it is, complaining and whining about proposed cuts to their pension plan.
Which is what people all over the country, all over the world are dealing with right now.
And maybe if they hadn't worked so hard getting Obama elected, maybe the economy would have grown.
Maybe there would be some prosperity going on, and maybe the time stock price wouldn't be falling, and maybe they wouldn't have to be renegotiating the deal.
But here it is one more time.
I'm horrified.
I'm sickened by what's been going on at the Times.
They would take away $350,000 between 65 and 85.
$350,000 is a lot of money.
$350,000 is worth fighting over.
This does mean a threat to what I thought my retirement era was going to look like.
Even if it's like a couple thousand a month or whatnot, at least it's there for me in my old age.
If I hopefully I won't find myself, you know, scruffling around looking for a cardboard box to live in, for God's sake.
If the pension was not frozen and I worked here 30 years, I would collect $58,000 a year until the end of my life.
If the pension is frozen, I will collect $15,000 a year.
I would be one of those elders covered in the Times who's living on food stamps.
What am I gonna do?
Am I gonna eat cat food?
And am I gonna move in with my kids?
Am I gonna commit suicide?
It's a very ugly choice to stick people with.
Well, what do you think is happening all over the country?
And by the way, the New York Times editorial position is to rip companies and cities and states that are doing just exactly what the New York Times is.
I just I find this delectual.
Michael Barone, interesting piece, somewhat related.
Liberal nostalgics don't understand the jobs of the future.
Michael Barone, I don't know how many times I've seen liberal commentators look back with nostalgia to the days when a young man fresh out of high school or military service could get a well-paying job on an assembly line at a unionized autofactory that could carry him through a comfortable retirement.
As it happens, I grew up in Detroit.
For a time I lived next door to factory workers, and I know something that's eluded the liberal nostalgics, which is that people hated those jobs.
Boy, this is such a good piece because he's so right.
The nostalgia is for these these uh labor union assembly line jobs out of high school all the way to retirement, and suppose people loved them, and that's what Obama's all.
That's what he that's what he envisions this green job business to be.
The assembly line work was boring and repetitive, and that's because management imbibed Frederick W. Taylor's theories that workers were stupid and couldn't be trusted with any initiative.
It was also because the thousands of pages of work rules in United Auto Workers' Contracts, which forbade assembly line speed ups, also barred any initiative or flexible response.
So that's why the UAW in 1970 staged a long strike against General Motors to give workers the option of early retirement.
30 and out.
All those guys who had gotten assembly line jobs at 18 or 21 could quit at 48 or 51.
The only problem was that when they retired, they lost their health insurance.
So the UAW got the Detroit three automakers to pay for generous retiree health benefits that covered elective medical and dental procedures with little or no co-payments for the rest of their lives.
It was those benefits more than anything else that eventually drove GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy and into the ownership of the government and the UAW.
The liberal nostalgics would love to see an economy that gives low-skill high school graduates similar opportunities.
That's what Obama seems to be envisioning when he talks about hundreds of thousands of green jobs.
Folks, this is so good.
This is exactly the way to understand when Obama talks about workers, when the Democrats talk about workers, green jobs.
They're talking about uh they they look at everybody as woefully inept and incompetent.
You come out of high school, you're not good for anything, but get an assembly line job with a union, and then you get a job and you get the rest of your life and you get health benefits, and that's prosperity to them.
That's as much as most people should hope for.
That's that's one of the things that so offends me about liberalism is how limiting it is.
A little bit more of this, and then your phone calls are coming up.
Okay, your phone calls are coming up, but I want to finish with the Barone piece because this is really, really good.
Liberal nostalgics, the way they look at good jobs.
And by the way, nothing wrong with this.
It but to them, this is the epitome.
This is the peak.
You come out of high school and you're not trained to do anything.
You're just dork.
And you get on the assembly line.
And you uh and you work there and you retire at age 48 or 50, and you get your lifetime benefits.
And that's cool.
And that's what Obama wants to create with the green jobs, and that's what the Libs are looking at.
That's to them.
When you and I, as conservatives, look back at nostalgia, we look at entrepreneurism.
Uh we see a massively growing United States economy, with people able to participate in it however they wish.
The only limits on people are those that they impose on themselves.
And I've often said philosophically, most of the limits that people face in life are self-imposed.
Greatest example is somebody who grows up in a well, small or medium-sized town and wants to do something in life that doesn't exist in that town.
That business isn't there.
And they say, well, but I really don't want to leave.
You know, my family's here, it's secure.
Okay, fine, cool.
But it's not anybody else's fault that yours.
You could have moved.
You could have followed your dream.
You chose not to.
You chose to do something else.
It wasn't the country that held you back.
It wasn't anybody else that held you back.
And I don't mean this as a criticism, it's just it's tough love.
Most of the limitations that people face are self-imposed.
Not by the man, not by the system.
The system's not keeping you down.
There's all kinds of people work their way around it.
Many do, and that's what we advocate.
We advocate the pursuit of excellence.
We advocate being the best you can be, whatever that is, using whatever ambition you want.
Getting whatever education you think you need.
But look, Barona's right.
Liberal nostalgics look at jobs in an entirely different way.
Practically mass production jobs, assembly line, join the union, get your benefits and your pension, and That's it.
And if that's what you want, that's fine, by the way.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just saying that's how the people you are voting for look at you.
It's important to understand this.
If you're a liberal Democrat.
So the liberal nostalgics would like to see an economy that gives low skill graduates, and that's what they think of most people, low skill, incompetent, need the government to guide you and help you.
That's what Obama seems to be envisioning when he talks about hundreds of thousands of green jobs.
Those green jobs haven't come into existence despite massive government subsidies and crony capitalism.
Jeff ML, with all that crony capitalist GE still doesn't have a whole lot of these green jobs.
They're all shutting down, they're all going out of business.
There isn't any business.
There is no wind business.
There is no solar business.
It's not there.
There is no energy alternative to oil.
That's producing all kinds of wonderful jobs.
It's become apparent that the old Detroit model was unsustainable and cannot be revived even by the most gifted community organizer and adjunct law professor.
And boy, does that not nail what Obama's trying.
Look what he's trying to revive.
The 1930s in every in every way you can imagine.
Obama is retro.
The liberals are retro.
Anti-progress.
Back to the days before all this progress took place.
For one thing, in a rapidly changing and technologically advanced economy, the lifetime job seems to be a thing of the past, particularly lifetime jobs where you work only 30 years and then get supported for the next 30 or so years.
Sorry, can't do it anymore.
The money isn't there.
The template isn't there.
You just is not possible anymore.
You don't go to work for some place for 30 years, retire, and make the same thing until you die that you were making when you work.
Today's young people cannot expect to join large large organizations and in effect ride escalators for the rest of their careers.
The new companies emerging as winners in high tech, think Apple or Google, just don't employ that many people, at least in the U.S. Similarly, today's manufacturing firms produce about as large a share of the gross national product as they always used to, but with a much smaller percentage of the labor force.
Moreover, there's evidence that recent growth in some of the professions, law, higher education, has been a bubble.
It's about to burst.
I've got stories in the stack.
Two out of one, or one out of two, two out of three graduates, nothing to do, no jobs.
Hang on, that's coming up.
As Walter Russell Mead writes in his brilliant blog, referring to young people, the career paths that they've been trained for are narrowing, and they're going to have to launch out in directions they and their teachers didn't expect.
They were bred and groomed to live as house pets, but they're going to have to learn to thrive in the wild.
The future is filled with enterprises not yet born, jobs that don't yet exist, wealth that hasn't been created, wonderful products and life-altering service not yet given form, but it isn't going to come from the government.
All that magic never has come from the government, and it won't.
Now you can have ten stimulus programs, you can have all these new regulations from all these agencies.
That's not where the magic has happened in this country, and it's not going to happen there ever.
What can we be, or what we can be sure of is that creating your own career will produce a stronger sense of satisfaction and fulfillment.
Young people who do so won't hate their work the way those auto workers hated those assembly line jobs.
That's a key point.
The nostalgia the left has for those union jobs.
You know, nostalgia, as is a s in a psychological sense.
I've always believed nostalgia.
For the most part, when people get nostalgic, they're thinking good things.
It reminds them of all the wonderful things in the past.
And that's with when the left gets nostalgic for jobs.
Look at the kind of jobs they're thinking about.
The jobs that nobody wants anymore.
They're jobs that don't have the same structure as they used to have.
They're They're dinosaurs.
They're just the left is a bunch of of Jurassic Park people.
They are not progressives in any sense of the word.
What they do is retard people.
They retard growth.
They retard the creation of opportunity.
This is a shame.
This is one of Baron's best columns ever.
He may not even know that, but it is.
So we will link to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
Here it is from the AP.
One in two new graduates are jobless or underemployed.
Young skulls full of mush, devoid of job prospects.
Maybe the best education they can get is that liberals lie.
Liberals want people dependent.
They want you in those nostalgic jobs because you're going to end up depending on them for your pension.
You're going to end up depending on them for your health care.
That's what they want.
They don't want you entrepreneurial.
Don't want you creative.
They don't want you taking care of yourself.
They don't want you being self-reliant.
There's no need for them if you pull that off.
This is another teachable moment in 2008.
Parents were told by their children why Barack Obama was the future.
In 2008, children told their parents why Obama was the answer.
In 2012, parents can tell their children.
Barack Obama has heaped so much debt on you and us, combined with your student loans, that the future is unraveling everything Obama did.
That's what must happen.
Our future must be devoted to unraveling everything Obama has done in these three and a half years.
That's what your future is, graduates.
That's what you need to learn.
And guess who's in charge of the student loan program now?
Obama himself.
Nobody ever intended for college graduates to be 200,000 in debt coming out.
Nobody ever intended that, but now it's happened.
And guess who's not disappointed by it?
The people hold the loans, i.e.
Obama.
You're indebted to them.
That's exactly what they want.
It's a shame.
Debt is not good, public or private.
And the only way out is to cut spending, like a lot of Republican governors are trying to do.
Grow the private sector.
That's the way out.
One in two new graduates are jobless or underemployed.
The only way that's going to change is to get government out of the job market.
Pure and simple.
In fact, it's funny, most of the news today is on how Obama once again running around promising to find ways to help college students pay their tuition loans.
Is that what you want your life to be?
Obama, he's got the answer for you to pay off your student loan.
What?
A life goal.
Pay off your student loan.
He ought to be focused on the real problem.
There aren't any jobs for college graduates, thanks largely to his policies.
But this story from the AP, one in two new graduates are jobless or unemployed.
They in this story they have an analysis of government data shows that about one and a half million or fifty-three point six percent of bachelor's degree holders under the age twenty-five last year were jobless or underemployed.
The highest it's been in eleven years.
This uh AP analysis found that while there's strong demand in science education and health, arts and humanities are floundering.
Imagine that.
The humanities and the arts are floundering, which is also no surprise.
But what kind of courses does the left encourage?
Arts and humanities and conflict resolution and political correctness and all that.
And none of this story will you find any blame for the left or for Obama or their policies.
It Just the job market.
You know why it's private sector sucks.
That's what this story is all about.
One in two new graduates are jobless or unemployed because the private sector sucks.
Capitalism sucks.
Let Obama take more control.
It'll get better.
That's the point.
And then there's this from MediaIt, young voters trending more Republican, according to a new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Georgetown University's Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.
Young voters trending more Republican.
We got a break.
Your phone calls are next.
Don't go away.
Look at here.
What a coincidence.
Barack Obama just warned the students of the University of North Carolina that interest rates on federal student loans will double if Congress doesn't act by July 1st.
They'll go from 3.4% to 6.8%.
Word for word, what Sandra Fluck just tweeted herself.
And of course, she is represented by operatives inside the White House.
So here's the guy in charge of student loans who let me just tell you something.
Let's talk a little politics.
I don't care what Congress does in July.
I don't care.
or By October, Obama is going to announce forgiving student loans or the interest.
You watch, as a re-election ploy to get the youth vote, he'll do something to wipe out student loan debt, forgive it, or whatever, saying it's unconscionable it should ever happen.
You wait.
He's president, he can do that.
That's one of the things we're up against.
If he wants to forgive student loans, if he wants to forgive uh uh underwater mortgages, he can do that too, folks.
He can he can say he wants to, and then if the Republicans fight him on it, guess what?
He's president.
This is what we're up against.
He can do this kind of stuff.
Sandra Fluck just tweeted don't double my rate.
Many students will see the interest rate on federal student loans increase if Congress doesn't act by July 1st.
That's an exact tweet from Sandra Fluck.
Obama just said the exact same thing, word for word to the students at University of North Carolina.
Sandra Fluck is just seeing a poor uh isolated, alone little college student, worried about her contraception at Georgetown.
But now she's represented by the flax in the White House, uh, Hillary Rosen, Lanita Don, and they're coordinating with Obama, scaring students about the interest rates on their student loans.
Okay, as promised, here's uh here's Rod Saginaw, Michigan.
Rod, your first great to have you on the uh EIB network today.
Hello.
Hey, Mega Mega Diddles Rush.
Uh, I've been a longtime listener since 1990, and it's a true honor to speak with you right now.
Thank you, sir.
Very much.
You are the man.
Hey, listen, uh, I need your help on something, and I and I I mean this very sincerely.
I'm in a I'm here I'm really in a true pickle right now that I think you are the only one that can help me.
All right.
You know, and you teed it up perfect earlier.
Earlier in the show here, you explained about the effects when Oprah endorsed Obama, the effects of that situation.
And as you know, mixing politics with business can be a slippery slope.
And this is where I need your help.
Um I need to know how you can continue to support the Pittsburgh Steelers, even though you know that Polar Art Rooney dedicated the last Super Bowl trophy to Obama.
The reason why I need to really embrace this and understand this is because I'm in a very similar situation here in Michigan.
I've been a full season kick of all the pretty Detroit Tigers for close to ten years.
And I've been a fan my whole life.
I grew up in the Detroit area.
I used to take my paper out money, go down to Old Tiger Stadium and buy some bleacher seats.
Um I did that my whole life.
I've been a fan my whole life.
And Mike Illich, he owns the owners Will Caesar's Pizza, for some of you that don't know that.
Mike Gillich, he owns Will Caesar's Pizza, and he's also the owner of the Detroit Tigers in Detroit.
Okay, I'm down to one minute if you could get to the nub of it.
All right, now here's the deal.
Um Gilch has been a great owner, but his daughter, Denise, who is extremely involved in the business, um, and probably will take over, invited Obama to her house last week for a fundraiser.
Um Mike Gillies is great.
I support him.
He's done a great job with the Detroit Tigers, and he's revolutionized the city of Detroit, brought back the Tiger Baseball.
People are excited about it.
But I'm personally having a problem supporting the Detroit Tigers organization, if they are Obama.
So you got the owner's wife doing a fundraiser for Obama.
You're a big Tigers fan.
It's sort of depressed you.
You don't you don't really uh you don't you don't feel right being a Tigers fan anymore, right?
Well, it's not that I don't feel right about it.
I don't know how to handle it moving forward.
Like I said, Mike Gillich is a great owner.
I have tremendous amount of respect for him.
But this kind of threw me a curveball.
You know, I'm a true conservative, and uh it it's kind of mixing my health.
Do not need your help.
Let Barack Obama destroy the love you have for the Detroit Tigers, because it's the team that you like.
Owners come and go.
The team is the Detroit Tigers.
That's the way I would look at it.
I wouldn't pay it any mind.
You can't you're you're not gonna be able to avoid this kind of stuff throughout life.
By this time, you ought to never ever go to a movie, by the way.
Fastest three hours in media.
Two of them are already theme.
But there's another exciting big broadcast hour to go, and it's coming your way in mere moments, my friends.
Just sit tight.
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