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April 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 3, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hiya, folks.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Here we are, three more hours of broadcast excellence hosted by me, El Rushbo, naturally talented, and also your highly trained broadcast specialist at the same time.
The talent was honed over many, many moons.
Happy to have you here.
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I just want to give you a heads up.
We're getting into tea season now.
It's April.
And at T season, new iPads are coming, new iPhones, and a new two if-by-tea sweepstakes to announce today.
So hang in there and be taught.
And this is going to be ideal for the current economic circumstances that many of us find ourselves in.
800-282-2882 is the phone number.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
So I ended the program yesterday.
The last 30 seconds of the program, I mentioned how that morning, yesterday morning, when I got up and fed Punkin, I couldn't feed her because she had to go to the vet and they had to do a procedure that required her to be anesthetized.
Those of you in Rio Linda means knocked out.
And so she had to fast from midnight the night before.
And I knew it was going to happen.
And it did.
Got up.
First thing, she makes a beeline to her food balls, which weren't there.
Cat was totally confused and looked at me.
She's got the biggest eyes.
I mean, the captivating eyes of an owl.
And she looked at me, her head just slightly cocked with a look of confusion.
It was obviously, I mean, if an animal can be confused, she was.
And then she clearly looked into me to fix what was wrong.
And it just broke my heart because I couldn't.
And I wanted to feed the kennel.
We humanize our pets.
And we assume they feel and think the same things we do.
So I assume she's cursing me out, telling me to go to whatever and demanding food and this kind of thing.
But she's not.
She just didn't know what was going on.
It's probably in the 12 years she's been alive.
We've done this three times.
Three times in her life, and the food hasn't been there.
She's totally conditioned to it.
And my heart's breaking because I want to give her some food.
I can't.
I know I can't.
So I go about the routine and she finally starts following me around, yipping and nipping at my ankles.
She doesn't meow much.
She never makes much noise.
And sometimes when she does, it sounds like a video game.
And she started making noise.
So I just had to get out of there.
Well, anyway, I told the story yesterday.
She did fine, by the way.
Went to the vet and it's fine.
It was just mostly a checkup.
But I got an email note.
And I thought I'd share the email note.
So Rush Pumpkin was looking at you.
You are the source of her existence, the way all people on welfare look at politicians.
Now, your heart was melting.
You were crumbling when your cat was looking at you.
Can you imagine yourself being a liberal Democrat politician, any politician, being any less sympathetic to all of those needy, hungry people?
And just as you didn't want to deny your cat food, can you imagine these politicians not wanting to deny people sustenance?
How can they deny those sad, wide eyes, even when we know it's good for them in the long run?
And I thought, you know, I bet a lot of people had that reaction.
Here's the answer to it.
The difference is Punkin is an animal, and she has been conditioned to not be able to take care of herself.
If she were feral, had she never become a pet, she'd be out there fending for herself one way or the other, and the laws of nature would prevail.
But a human being is different than an animal.
And a human being can be taught.
I mean, I appreciate the analogy, and I understand how people get weak.
Oh, we got to take care of them.
Oh, my God, look.
In fact, we've got poverty news.
We are in worse poverty in America today.
It's as bad as it was in the 60s.
Everybody has to assume that it was bad in the 60s, but that's not really the point.
The point is that the poverty reality is as it was in the 60s, and the 60s is when it was so bad that the Democrats created a new entitlement program called the War on Poverty, which we're still fighting and which we have never, we're losing.
We haven't won it and we never will.
The percentages of people in poverty today match exactly the percentages that they were in the 1960s.
Numbers changed because the population is different.
But between 1960 and now, there has been incredible prosperity in this country, overwhelming prosperity, not so much the last five years.
But there's been overwhelming prosperity, and yet people as a percentage in poverty hasn't changed.
In fact, there's this new group of people in poverty that are on disability that now numbers 8.7 million people, the size of New York City.
And they are not counted, for example, the unemployment roles, but they're on welfare.
They're on various SSDI, SSI, food stamp programs or whatever, because they're depressed, because they're bipolar, because they limp for whatever reason.
And so the numbers of people who have become entirely dependent in this country skyrocketing, even in the midst of all this prosperity.
And it got me to thinking of what, and we've been talking about the family a lot lately and the family structure and the future of the family, what the family is, what it's going to be.
And it got me to thinking about something.
In-home, taxpayer-paid education that is undermining the country for years to come.
Oh, another, by the way, I'll get into details in just a second, but I've had a number of people say, hey, Rush, did you hear Leno's joke?
She was a great lie.
You're what Leno said and suspects AP is not going to be calling them illegal immigrants anymore.
We can call them undocumented Democrats.
Yeah, we invented that term back in 2010 here on the EIB network.
In fact, in April, July 1st was the earliest use that we can document at our archives at rushlimbaugh.com.
But I think April 27th, it might have been.
But we've been using the term undocumented Democrat for who knows how many years, now, 13 years.
Nothing against Leno.
We love Leno.
But I just wanted for all of you right, hey, Rush, do you hear what Leno?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm not accusing Leno of stealing it from us.
I would never accuse anybody of theft.
That's not the point.
Just wanted to let you know we're at a cutting edge of societal evolution.
We've been calling them undocumented Democrats here off and on for three years.
Anyway, this is for you adults out there who have learned to game the welfare system.
Not intended for those who legitimately have hit a snag in their lives and need some short-term help.
I don't want you to be misunderstood or to misunderstand what I'm talking about here.
Because one of the things that becomes crystal clear is there is so much fraud going on in the entire what is called the safety net.
There's so much fraud in that it would make you sick.
For example, you realize we're going to do a concert for the sequester.
A, I kid you not, White House concert.
Well, I'm calling it for the sequester.
It's really not, but I think it sounded funny and good.
Concert, Justin Timberlake, I hope Obama doesn't diss his latest CD.
Justin Timberlake is going to perform at the White House in a concert despite the sequester, in the midst of the sequester, the White House concert with Justin Timberlake.
So I'm just calling it the concert for the sequester.
Because we have concerts for the starving in Biafra.
We've had We Are the World.
We've had Madonna and Nicrude concerts for all kinds of people with flies buzzing around their heads.
Today we have a concert for the sequester.
Headline by Justin Timberlake.
My point is the social safety net, we are being ripped off.
And of course, the polite thing to do is to pretend that everything's okay, that it's a minority of people and it's a standard operating procedure.
In a country this large, a certain percentage of people are going to learn to game the system.
It's going to be a fraudulent-based thing, but it's by no means, by no means, is it a significant number of people?
I think the angry white man, quote unquote, has been intimidated into thinking it's not even okay to be angry about that.
You're not supposed to even get mad about the fraud.
You're just supposed to accept it as, well, you know, what are people going to do?
If they can't get a job, they've got to find a way to live somehow.
So if you get angry about this, you're just an angry white man.
So we're expected to shut up and let the fraud go on uninterrupted.
But you know what's taking place?
I'm convinced of this.
I think there is a taxpayer-paid education in America that's not talked about, and it's happening in millions of homes and apartments all across the country.
And the education I'm talking about is the one that children who are living with a single parent who fraudulently takes welfare or unemployment or food stamps or disability, the children of those people learning how it's done.
A massive education taking place in defrauding the system.
And I'm talking about people who are able to work.
I don't want anybody thinking that I am aiming this at the legitimately disabled and the legitimately incompetent, legitimately incapable.
I'm talking about people for whom work is possible.
Work is available.
But some people have decided to take money from government agencies rather than from an employer.
And the children of these people, the children of these families are learning at an early age and well into their teenage years how to beat the game of the multifaceted and complex federal welfare system.
Do you know all that's involved in receiving unemployment?
Food stamps, a free cell phone, welfare.
Do you know, I mean, if you had to go out today and access, could you do it?
I couldn't.
I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do to get on the welfare rolls.
If I fired myself today, I wouldn't know where to go to get unemployment.
If I bought a health insurance policy and then canceled it, I wouldn't know where to go other than to call an insurance company.
But I wouldn't know what to do to get on a government insurance plan.
I wouldn't know how to get an Obama phone.
Would you?
Any of you on the other side of the globe, would you know any of this?
You don't.
Of course you don't.
Food stamps?
Do you know what you did?
I don't either.
I have no idea what you have to do to get food stamps.
Have you been through a disability hearing?
This is harder than fourth grade math or the mislearning of American history.
Numbers of people have no clue, but all kinds of people do know.
And the education their kids are getting is important to consider.
And the way to get food stamps, the way to get unemployment, the way to get an Obama phone, the way to get on the welfare rolls, the way to get through a disability hearing, the way to massage and manage 10 different prescriptions at four different pharmacies.
There are people being taught how to do this.
They're learning it at home.
Young skulls full of mush are absorbing all of this.
And it's being passed down from generation to generation.
How to take the easy way out.
And then how to rationalize taking the easy way out.
How to rationalize taking what hasn't been earned.
Do you realize the cat calls?
I'm going to get you being so cold-hearted.
How could you look and talk at these people, especially after the experience with your cat?
Well, that's my point here.
Some of this stuff is, we hear about all the people that are engaging in this fraud.
And we hear about it, and we just assume that it's snap, crackle, and pop, easy to do.
And I got to thinking about it.
I don't know how to do any of it.
And a child doesn't know how to do any of it unless the child happens to be taught.
And it's being taught at the expense of other things.
If this kind of thing is being taught, hard work, self-reliance, rugged individualism, all of those things are not being, odds are.
This is not passing the torch to the next generation the way it's always been understood.
And this education obviously is going on every day.
Some of it can't be helped, but a lot of it we have to acknowledge is fraud.
We've got 50 million Americans.
50 million Americans on food stamps in what we are told is a recovering economy.
There haven't been a series of earthquakes that have caused that many millions to go on disability, and yet they are.
We have millions of children learning how to navigate this leviathan, this labyrinth of bureaucracy after bureaucracy after bureaucracy in order to survive and sustain themselves.
And it's far more difficult than most video games and far more lucrative.
You learn how to answer questions in ways that won't jeopardize free money.
You figure out how much money government benefits bring in.
You weigh that against income from a job.
And then you learn the value of free time and the wonders of Netflix.
You figure it all out.
The lessons being learned in American homes today is quite interesting if you look at it this way.
I take a brief time out, my friends.
Sit tight, much more straight ahead.
We're just getting started here on the EIB network.
Don't go away.
So I got a note from somebody here during the break.
He says, yeah, Russia onto something here.
Dependency has to be taught.
And it doesn't.
Now, I don't want to get too deep here, folks, but since we're talking about family and its importance, and I brought my cat into this, I want to try to make a couple of points here.
We're not born.
Human beings are the only mammals that are entirely, totally helpless.
For how many years after our birth, an animal, depending on mammals here, is ready to leave its mother in weeks.
A horse, for example, is born able to walk and run.
Dogs, cats, lions, tigers, you name it, six weeks, they're ready to split.
They're on their own.
A human being, no way.
A human being is born entirely into dependence.
A human being, you could say, is born entirely into socialism.
A human being knows nothing of morality, of right and wrong, knows nothing.
All of those things in humans have to be taught the importance of the family.
Where does morality come from in a human being?
Where does self-reliance come from in a human being?
Where does rugged individualism come from?
Well, we're all different and some have instincts.
We're not any of us the same, but there are similarities.
And it's parents and family that teach so much.
My family happened to teach big-time self-reliance.
My family was big on morality.
My family was big on right and wrong.
I couldn't escape it.
Some kids grow up, never hear a thing about that, don't know anything about it.
Some kids grow up and never get out of the dependency cycle that they were born to.
Anyway, here I am just getting revved up, and I have to stop again.
It's Rushlin Ball, your highly trained broadcast specialist, have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Look, folks, all of this that I'm discussing is why the Bible thumpers out there are so concerned with family values.
Well, look, I'll give you my dog as an example.
We have three old English sheepdogs, and the oldest one is Abby.
And it eventuated one day that we went back to the breeder to pick up the second or third one, took Abby along, and Abby met her mother.
She had no clue it was her mother.
Well, don't tell me that, Dawn.
Abby had no idea she was meeting her mother.
Six weeks and the dog's gone, and they have no, she didn't even know she has a mother.
It's like does a fish know it's in water.
Has no clue.
So my point is that human beings are born into total dependency.
Human beings are incapable of everything of importance has to be taught.
Being raised properly is what it's always called, but it's being inculcated with right and wrong, a sense of morality, a sense that there are things in life bigger than you.
This is why parenting is so important.
It's why education is so important.
It's what gets passed down.
But none of this matters anywhere else in the mammal world.
None of it's relevant.
None of it has anything to do with anything.
It doesn't matter is any morality right and wrong.
There are no such thing as animal values to animals.
Turn on a wild kingdom one day, watch, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Well, human beings, it's entirely different.
They have to be taught self-reliance.
They have to be taught individualism.
They have to be taught how to excel.
They have to be weaned off of dependence.
How about little kids that still sleep with their parents till they're 10 years old?
Because the parents don't have the guts.
The child cries or whatever.
I mean, every family is different.
But my point here is that it matters a lot about family structure, and it matters a lot what goes on in families.
And that's all of that, I think, is inseparable from what has defined the greatness of this country in one sense, not totally.
We don't have any exclusive on this.
But when there was a central American culture, when there was a dominant American culture, these were things that were part of it.
And over the years, the evolution of the country, that's been chipped away.
And now it's judgmental to have values like this.
It's discriminatory.
And if people don't do it your way, then you criticize them and you can't do that.
People fire back at you.
And there's no standard.
And there's no manual.
Some people are better at it, obviously, than others.
And in a country, the world is filled with people who've had no guidance.
And look at them.
And as a roll of the dice, some of them end up fine.
Some of them triumph.
Some of them do great.
In many cases, there's no explanation for it.
And by the same token, some who are what would be called raised properly go off the rails just to rebel.
But my real point here is that a human being is entirely, totally dependent from the moment of birth until now, age 35.
Well, at least 26 for health insurance and 35 with as many people, kids moving back in with their parents and so forth.
So what gets taught is it matters.
And that's why family values, that's what all that really means when you hear the Bible thumpers talking about that.
That's really what they mean.
Now, here, the number of Americans living in poverty has spiked to levels not seen since the mid-60s.
20% of the children in this country are in poverty.
That's simply unacceptable.
And it comes at a time when government spending...
Oh, oh, folks, get this.
This...
This story is from the U.K. Daily Mail.
And normally I love this paper, but this one ticks me off.
Listen to this.
The number of Americans living in poverty has spiked to levels not seen since the 1960s.
It comes at a time when government spending is cut by billions.
And they're talking about the sequester.
They're talking about 85 billion.
It's not even 85.
They're talking about, in truth, this year, $22, $24 billion.
So the headline says, U.S. sees highest poverty spike since the 60s, leaving 50 million Americans poor as government cuts billions in spending.
And so what is referred to in the story as the sequester is now being blamed for the poverty rate.
It's an out-and-out lie.
And if it's not a lie, if they're just wrong, it's just it's brazenly, brazenly wrong.
But the attempt, nevertheless, this is the UK Daily Mail.
Domestic media trying to draw the same conclusion.
Now, here's a related story.
This is the AP out of Baltimore.
Headline, help shrinks as poverty spikes in U.S.
And it's a fascinating read here because it points in one direction and then cuts another way.
Antonio Hammond is the $18,000 man.
He's a success story for Catholic Charities of Baltimore, one of a multitude of organizations trying hard to haul people out of poverty, where one in four residents is considered poor by U.S. government standards.
Antonio Hammond says he ended up in Baltimore three years ago, addicted to crack cocaine and snorting heroin, living in abandoned buildings where the rats were fierce and financing his addiction by breaking into cars and stealing copper pipes out of crumbling structures.
18 months after finding his way to Catholic Charities via rehab center, the 49-year-old Philadelphia native is back in the workforce.
He's clean of drugs.
He's earning 13 bucks an hour cleaning laboratories for the biotech Institute of Maryland, and he's paying taxes.
He's a great guy.
Catholic Charities, which runs a number of federally funded programs, spent $18,000 in privately donated funds to turn this guy's life around through the organization's Christopher's Place program, which provides housing and support services to recovering addicts and former prisoners.
Now, this is, no question about it, an incredible success story.
But then it cuts the other way.
Such success stories are in danger.
As $85 billion in federal government spending cuts begin squeezing services for the poor nationwide.
So you see, there's an onslaught, UK Daily Mail and now the AP.
And all of a sudden, now the sequester is why there is poverty at record levels in America.
But wait, this particular program through Catholic Charities used a combination of federal and private money.
And it used that federal and private money very successfully.
But then AP whines and moans that the money has been cut.
And if you read further in the story, it's because the Republicans won't compromise.
It's because the Republicans are inflexible.
So what do we have?
We have poverty on the rise.
50 million Americans unseen since the 60s because of the sequester.
And we have the sequester because the Republicans won't compromise.
And that's the news of the day.
Poverty soaring, Republicans to blame.
They caused the sequester.
They want people to starve, don't you see?
The Republicans want people going hungry.
The Republicans want people suffering.
The Republicans want people to suffer because they vote Democrats.
They want people to find out how tough life is when Democrats are in power.
That's the news of the day.
Wherever you look, the goal should be that we need to find the programs that work and expand them.
And then cut the funding.
Cut the funding to programs that don't work.
That's what we ought to be doing, but our sense of compassion won't let us cut.
And there aren't $85 billion of sequester spending cuts anyway.
And the concert for the sequester is going on.
And the Obama vacations are going on.
And the tours of the White House are still not happening.
And yet, all of this is the Republicans' fault.
Nobody who gets any government money ever has to prove that it's being used to do the job it was intended to do.
There's a story, a companion story.
The U.K. is going to start demanding tests, tests of people on disability.
They're going to have to prove that they're disabled.
They're going to have to prove a number of things in order to qualify.
You know what's happened?
Half the people on disability in the UK have left disability programs with the threat that they were going to have to document that they were disabled.
Illustrate why.
Explain it.
Go through the hoops to qualify for the money.
They say, you know, heck with it.
And the disability rolls in the U.K. dropped 800,000 people or maybe 400,000.
Whatever they dropped in half simply because they were going to have to prove it.
Nobody getting any government money in this country has to prove how they are using it.
Therefore, nobody has to demonstrate that the reason they need the money is the reason they are using it.
And it's just one of many reasons why we get so much bloat in spending.
And nobody would deny here that the program run by Catholic Charities of Baltimore helped Antonio Hammond.
Nobody would say that that money was wasted or that that money should be cut.
But there's another program mentioned in this story called Head Start, and nobody can document its success.
Head Start is a purely emotional buy.
What are we doing?
We are helping the children, Mr. Lumbo, the poor and the young, and we are helping them get acclimated to life early on.
We're helping get a head start in life, Mr. Lumbart.
Okay, that's all we're doing.
Whether it works or not after that is irrelevant because we're good people because we care and we're trying.
Never mind that we don't analyze it to see if it is working ever.
So I now double back to the education that highly trained welfare specialists are passing down to their kids as the poverty rate continues now to skyrocket.
Brief time out.
We'll be back and let me see.
Yeah, we'll grab a couple phone calls when we get back, so don't go away.
Anyway, we're back.
Great to have you here having more fun than human beings should be allowed to have.
Janet, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I'm calling to let you know as a health care advocate, I'm against the way the welfare system is calling.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold it.
Hold it just a second.
What is a health care advocate?
It's done through like a charity type program.
If somebody lost their medical coverage and need care, we help them get care either through welfare or charity programs.
Okay, and you represent them as they go through the process?
Yes.
Okay.
And what I'm calling to say is the process.
People don't realize what you're giving up to even get on there.
And you lose your health insurance.
You lose so much stuff that you gained in the past just to get coverage.
And the minute you get coverage, if you're a dollar over an amount, you're automatically kicked off right away.
And when you get any kind of settlement, be car accident or lawsuit, they take half, up to half of what you have coming back to pay for what they took.
Yeah, yeah.
My point is there people know all this and know how to keep all those disqualifiers from happening.
Well, what they have to do is hide their income, get gifts through other people.
Exactly right.
At four different pharmacists over ten different days.
There's all kinds of tricks that you can play.
And you're out there advocating for them while they do this.
Well, I don't advocate for that.
I advocate like if it's middle and upper class and they lost their insurance and we have to get medicine and medical.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You advocate for middle and upper class Americans?
Yeah, that would be somebody in the car accident that went down, lost their insurance, and had to lose everything they have in the bank, and they have to get medical coverage to get care.
Wait, wait, wait.
They lost everything in the bank because of a severe car accident and they lost their insurance?
Or an illness.
Yeah.
Or an illness.
And because they had made too much money, they're not qualified for anything, but there are programs.
What is making too much money?
Can you give me an answer?
Too much money is a single person in working age is $462 a month.
If you're handicapped, one person is around $872 a month.
Wait a minute.
You're calling those the qualification resource limits.
No, but they're economic rank.
You call them up middle class and upper.
Those are upper class.
No, this is the limits to get on help.
Upper class would be, I helped somebody that was actually a stockbroker making a lot of money, but due to hepatitis and other illnesses, they had to lose everything to get help.
You mean get coverage?
Yeah, get traffic.
Any kind of medical coverage.
But they had to get everything.
Do you mean a Wall Street guy lost everything because of hepatitis?
Yes.
Well, some people would be happy about that.
Yeah, especially if they got wrong advice.
So you advocate for the well-off as well.
Well, only in that situation.
Well, don't feel guilty about it.
I just didn't know that.
I didn't know they.
But what I'm telling you is the system is set up to keep people in there.
Yeah.
They don't promote any kind of getting off the system.
That's exactly.
I hear you.
One dollar over and you're gone, so make sure you don't earn anything.
And it's unfair because I was stressing to all my politicians back here, Republican, Democrat, make it where at least keep them medical until they get medical on the new job and then put them over.
But if you kick a family off that has children, that's keeping the family on the system.
By design.
Yep, by design.
Same with the education system.
Classrooms are set up to fail because they get more money by failing.
Because the number of students expands because the students never make up, Rush.
They're putting 36 students.
A third of them don't speak English.
A third are special ed.
A third are regular education.
There's no teacher that can teach that classroom.
Well, you say that you object to welfare.
Did you say that?
I object to welfare.
I object.
I'm upset that I have to fight for them for it, but I'd like to.
What are some of your objections?
My objection is somebody that lost everything through a car accident.
They get a settlement and they're just starting to get on their feet.
They lost their home and everything.
The state has a right under third-party liability.
They will take a half of that settlement right up front for the money they paid out.
But yet, if I didn't get them help on the welfare, the hospital would have charged them 100% of the bill.
Crying out loud, all people want to do is go to the doctor.
Well, that's it, my friends, for our first exciting, busy hour into broadcast excellence.
The White House, Dan Pfeiffer, spokesman for the White House, complaining again about the drudge report and chastising reporters for using it and then asking him about things on the drudge report.
It's been a horrible thing to happen to news, the White House says, in America.
Yep.
So that's ahead and much more.
So don't go anywhere.
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