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June 25, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 25, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Americans hate their jobs and perks don't help.
If you hate your job, you're not alone.
And having an in-office access to catered meals, a ping pong table or free massages may not make you any happier at work.
Only 30% of employees are engaged and inspired at work, according to Gallup's 2013 State of the American Workplace Report.
Get this.
Have you ever heard of this?
The Gallup State of the American Workplace Report, they surveyed during 2012, last year, more than 150,000 full-time and part-time workers.
That's a lot of people for a survey.
You've got a sample that big.
You'd have to say that the extrapolation's pretty accurate.
A little more than half of workers, which is a really great communist term.
Workers.
Little more than half of workers have a perpetual case of the Mondays.
They're present, but they're not particularly excited about their jobs.
The remaining 18% are actively disengaged, or as Gallup put it in a report, they roam the halls spreading discontent.
Worse, Gallup reports that those actively disengaged employees cost America up to $150 billion annually in lost productivity.
So they say it's no wonder that companies have been looking for ways to make workers happier.
One trend that's taken off is cushy office perks, said the management consultant Bob Nelson.
For example, Google boasts a roller hockey rink and uh and and and nap nodules, among other amenities.
Such benefits are attractive, particularly to younger workers.
They're often looking for things that they can brag about to their peers.
There's a lot of research out there that says, although it depends on the employee, the perks come out as less important as job satisfaction, says Randy Allen.
In other words, the free massages or the beer on tap in the office kitchen don't make up for having a boss is a jerk.
Everybody's boss is a jerk.
And then that's been standard operating procedure for who knows how what?
You don't you don't agree?
You don't agree.
Well, then you haven't.
Well, no snurkly say, I'm not a jerk.
I'll bet you I am to some.
You would be surprised.
I wouldn't be surprised if I were to learn what's whispered about me in the hallways.
But I mean.
Well, I've just been told nobody says I'm a jerk.
Okay, I mean, so no.
Nobody says I'm a jerk.
They just make gestures that indicate I'm a jerk.
Uh okay, I'm not a jerk, but I mean the it's it's it's rather common in America.
The boss is not popular.
That's nothing new.
But the idea that only 30% of people like their jobs, when you couple that with the story we just had that 75% are living paycheck to paycheck, and you couple it with all these college graduates with all this student debt coming out with no jobs and certainly no careers that they can see, so forth.
And then you couple that with the active economic policies of this administration.
And whether people realize it or not, even low information voters who think Obama's just cool with just so many things he can't fix, he's really trying to.
Even with that, there is a level of discomfort.
There is, I believe that, I think throughout every strata of our society, there is this feeling, subliminal to some and very conscious to others, that this just isn't right.
Things just aren't something this is not how things have happened, not how things get done.
This is this what's happening?
This something about this is not right, but nobody put their finger on it.
Low information crowd, the last thing they'll do is blame Obama, because this couldn't be.
So they chalk it up to things out of their control that they can't explain that are just changing and evolving.
The last thing they will do is say that there's any specific policy or policies that might be responsible for this.
Have you seen this story?
I don't know when this.
I guess it was yesterday, so you may have uh already heard about this.
I mentioned what was it?
Uh might have been yesterday somewhere.
Might have been at the Vince Flynn funeral.
Somebody asked me.
Um if I'm a Steelers fan and football fan in general.
I actually said to this person, and they were stunned, I said, you know, they're not that interested in football anymore.
They couldn't believe it.
And they said, why?
I said, the game is undergoing political pressures now.
The game is being politicized.
Cultural political forces are being forced upon this game by any number of people and organizations, and it just it isn't gonna be the same anymore.
And it may take a while to fully manifest itself.
It's like Lem Barney.
Great cornerback for the Detroit Lions back in the 60s and 70s.
In fact, Lem Barney and Mel Farr were a great duo in the backfield, defensive backfield for the Lions.
Do you remember the Marvin Gaye song, What's Going On?
In the chorus line of that song, there's a bunch of guys shouting in the back, war hooping.
That's Lem Barney and Mel Farr.
They were great friends of Marvin Gay.
Just a little trivia there.
Lem Barney came out and said he doesn't think football is going to be played in 20 years.
Now, you have to balance that with the fact that I think he's part of this massive lawsuit of thousands of players suing the league for head injuries that they say the league didn't warn them that they could suffer.
So you have to balance it.
But he did say that he doesn't think it's going to be around in 20 years.
Now there's this.
White House recruiting Hollywood stars for Obamacare rollout.
And then Kathleen Sibelius in talks with the National Football League on promoting Obamacare insurance plans.
And then there's this from Bloomberg, NFL in talks with U.S. to pitch health law to young fans.
First story, the White House working to recruit Hollywood celebrities to promote Obamacare.
The top celebrity advisor told the Hill.com.
Trevor Nielsen, the veteran of the Clinton White House, that he's in talks with the regime and that his clients are looking at ways to be involved.
He represents Eva Longoria, John Legend, and many other stars as president of global philanthropy group.
His past clients have reportedly included Shakira and Madonna.
He's got close ties to Bono and Bill Gates.
I think the White House very wise to identify partners to help market the Affordable Care Act.
So after years of the Democrats trying to make us love the unlovable.
Nobody.
The support for Obamacare is now down to 35%.
So what are they going to do?
They're heading to pop culture, folks, and now that they're heading to Hollywood stars.
They're trying to get us to finally change our minds about it by having the dumbest rich people in the country hit us over the head with how much they like it and how good it is.
And it's a full court press.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sabilius said yesterday that she's in discussions with the National Football League to help promote new insurance options under Obamacare.
Sabelius said that the NFL has been very active and enthusiastically engaged in discussions about a partnership to encourage people to enroll in newly available insurance plans.
Attracting young healthy people will keep premiums from rising dramatically.
Let me tell you young healthy people what's what's really going on here.
And please do not doubt me.
We had the story last week.
Young people, young healthy people in this country, don't spend very much on health care because they don't have to.
They don't get sick, they don't have terminal illnesses yet, and outside of emergencies, accidents, and catastrophic things, you don't need daily, monthly, yearly health care outside of a little checkup.
And so the average expenditure of somebody under 35, I think, is about $800 a year.
Well, guess what?
You people are going to face minimum $5,500 insurance premiums or pay a fine.
And the reason that they're going to take so much money from you is that they're going to use that money that you spend and treat it on people who are older than you who do need more constant medical treatment and attention.
Now let's add something to that.
Last week, was it the Wall Street Journal or was it I forget the source?
I'll find it.
Oh, Investors Business Daily.
Betsy McCoy, in an editorial at the Investors Business Daily, uncovered the real purpose of the Obama Exchanges.
And I will bet you, I don't know this yet, I haven't seen any rollout, but I will bet you that it'll be the exchanges that the NFL is goaded here into promoting.
Encouraging you youngsters who watch the NFL to make sure you head to the nearest exchange and sign up.
And by doing so, you will help to ensure that everybody has coverage and that everybody has affordable coverage.
And I can just see it all now.
PSAs, little drop-ins by game announcers.
Full-fledged commercial rollouts about the Obama exchanges.
Well, we know what the Obama exchanges are.
They're massive get out the vote mechanisms for the Democrat Party.
And the people that run the exchanges are going to be from the Service Employees International Union, the NAA LCP, the AFL CIO.
California is getting $910 million to implement its health exchange, and it's all being run by the Democrats.
The NAA LCP is getting $600,000 from that $910 million.
The Service Employees International Union is getting $2 million of the money appropriated for the health exchange, a union, which is loyal to Obama, is just being given two million.
Ostensibly for community outreach.
When you go to the exchange, wherever the hell it's going to be and sign up for your mandatory insurance policy that's going to cost you $5,500, you're going to be talking to a union person or a Democrat get out the vote expert.
And you're going to be presented with a voter registration form.
If you are not registered yet.
And if you are registered, you're going to be given something else that's going to steer you to voting for the Democrats.
And so now Hollywood actors, the NFL and its players, probably the NBA as well, is going to be incorporated during their seasons when viewership is At a peak, and all these loyal fans are going to be steered, inspired, motivated to head to the exchange.
That's exactly what's going to happen.
The NFL is going to be asked to promote the exchanges.
Here it is, right here from Reuters.
The NFL's campaign's expected to target 2.7 million younger consumers between 18 and 35, mostly male, non-white, whose participation in new online health insurance exchanges is vital to the success of Obama's health care reform law.
Young, healthy adults currently spend an average of $854 a year on health care.
Obamacare will require these same people to purchase policies expected to cost roughly $5,800.
The exchanges.
When you boil everything down to what last remains, the exchanges is really what Obamacare is.
That's where you're going to have to go to get insurance.
If your company offloads your policy, if the company reduces your status to part-time and you're no longer covered, if you don't get your insurance where you work, and if you don't have the money to buy, guess where you got to do?
You're going to have to go to the these exchanges.
Now, at first, for a couple years you can pay a fine, which will be less than the cost of a premium, but that doesn't last very long.
It won't be long before the fine's going to be much larger than the policy.
But make no mistake, you're going to be steered to the exchanges, and the exchanges be online, or for people that don't trust online, there'll be brick and mortar places that you can go, but you're going to have to.
You're going to have to go there.
And now we know the NFL is going to be participating in a campaign to target people to go to the exchanges.
I'm sorry.
I don't want to watch this when I watch football.
I don't want to see a bunch of propaganda for something I disagree with in the first place while watching football, even if it isn't a pregame show.
I just don't want to see it.
But they are targeting young people, 18 to 35, who aren't going to know any better.
And they're going to, they're they're relying on brand loyalty that people have the NFL.
The NFL says it, you got to do it.
The NFL's for it.
It's okay.
If the NFL wants me to do it, it must be really cool.
Wow.
You mean Ben Rothburger is going to go to well, sign me up, or however they're going to do it.
I mean, I might see Evil on Gori if I go there.
Oh, wow, where is it?
NBA gonna do the same thing.
Push the Obamacare exchanges.
Maybe sign up during one of the 30 or 40 timeouts they have in the last two minutes.
Let's grab some telephone calls.
People have been waiting patiently.
I've got the crowd hammer and Bob Beckle reaction I was telling you about, so get to that here in just a second.
Eric Holder, upset that the Supreme Court's doing what Congress should have done, and that's exactly why the court did it, because Congress didn't have the guts to do it.
Anyway, here is Julie in Reno.
Julie, great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thanks, Russ.
How are you doing?
I'm fine.
Thanks very much.
Good.
Hey, I I don't agree with you, or I don't agree with you.
I don't disagree with you very often.
Matter of fact, I can only think of one other time.
But I think you might be mistaken with Obama and his uh assessment of Putin and you think this is how Obama wants it to be.
I think Obama is not used to having somebody uh not do what he.
With all due respect, and I understand.
I understand that you think Obama's ego is such, and everybody should bow down.
May I remind you of what he said to Dmitry Medvedev in the summer of 2012.
He said, Look, tell Vlad, just hang on on this nuclear warhead stuff, and I'll be I'll have a lot more flexibility after the election, meaning, tell Vlad I'll be able to get rid of a lot more nukes after I win re-election.
So it's clear that he wanted Medvedev to pass on a Putin that, hey, I'm doing what you want, pal.
Everything's cool, we're gonna get there.
Um I understand, you know, your your assessment of Obama's egotistic or egoistic actually personality that he just he can't stand being publicly disrespected like this.
He's got a huge ego.
Yep.
And I just I just think when Putin is stumming his nose at him.
I think he takes that more personally than anything else.
Well, you could be right.
But even if that's true, the fact that uh uh Putin is indicating that he doesn't care what Obama wants or what this country wants, uh where uh Snowden and anything else is concerned.
I mean do you disagree with me when I say that Obama presiding over the decline of the United States as a superpower is something he wants I believe that is exactly what he wants.
Well, this is it.
I mean, this is what happens when we decline to be a superpower and we cease to be respected, this is exactly what happens.
But what do we put first his ego or what he wants to do to the country?
What does it matter?
What is the reason matter when you get right down to the fact it's happening?
The fact is we got this guy out there giving up our secrets, and we make the claim.
We want this, you give us back, and they say to us, what is it difference to make?
Why?
I don't mean to be yelling at you, please don't misinterpret my tone of voice.
I've been listening to you long enough, I I know how it works.
Great.
Thank you very much.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
How are you?
Welcome back.
It's great to have you here.
This is a Ruben in Lafayette, California.
Hi, Ruben, great to have you on the program.
How about?
Hello, Rush.
Hey, I'm just an average guy.
I'm so frustrated with this immigration bill, and I'm just lost.
And I'm just looking for direction, something that you can do to, you know, to give me hope.
Because right now, they don't listen to me.
And hopefully you can, you know, lead us and show us where we have to go.
Ruben, I know we've we've we've we haven't yet got to the quote unquote immigration section of the program today, but it's coming up in the next hour.
And I just no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm not no no, no, no.
I'm I've I'm just telling you there's there's some news to pass on that we haven't touched on yet.
Um as far as your look, man, in in the first place, nobody listening to this program is average.
True.
I know what you mean.
What you mean is, hey, you're just a nameless, faceless guy out there, or what can I do?
I know what you mean.
Exactly.
But nobody in this audience is average.
By definitely you can't possibly be.
And unless.
Now the second thing is we had Senator Cruz on this program last week who said, just burn up the phone lines.
I said, does that still work in 2012 or 2013?
He said, yeah, it does.
He is continuing.
Senator Cruz is continuing to oppose this and try to alert everybody to what's happening here.
And the uh his his suggestion was for as many millions of Americans as possible to let people in Washington know how they feel about it.
And look at here's the Ruben, I man, I know exactly how you feel.
Here's here's the thing uh about this.
This is what I think bothers you and and bothers me and and bothers everybody else.
We have in this country some assumptions that we make.
We assume that there are rules that govern the powerful.
We assume that the Constitution limits the powerful in this country, that the rules are something that they will pay attention to, That the limitations on them are something that they will respect.
And when that breaks down, and when that isn't happening, you feel powerless.
And you feel like every institution that's in place to protect you and to protect the country is worthless and falling apart.
And you wonder what in the world can you do about it.
I'm sure that your unease increases.
You get more uneasy every news story that reports the government's doing this or that on your behalf.
They say, for example, this immigration bill that you're talking about.
They say that the amnesty bill is going to make your life better, the economy better, the country better.
But that isn't rational.
It isn't logical based on what's known about it.
They say that Benghazi, nothing to worry about.
They said some obscure filmmaker remains in jail without bail for having absolutely no role in this.
They say they're not spying on us or spying on the media.
But that's not what their own warrants say.
And they say that the IRS scandal was a one-time deal, it's been fixed, and it wasn't that big a deal anyway.
When you get down to this immigration business, it just seems like none of the protections are working.
The law doesn't matter.
The Constitution doesn't matter.
And so you're wondering, what can you do?
And what you have to realize is that it's not about you anymore.
This is about what Washington wants.
It isn't about what you want.
And that, again, is a little disquieting and unnerving because people have always believed that we have a representative democracy or a constitutional republic where the will of the people is respected and followed in expressions of majorities with due protection for people in the minority.
And this just doesn't seem to be the case whatsoever.
And so you're what can you do?
You feel helpless.
Well, you're you're you're in the middle here of what Angelo Codovilla wrote about a couple of years ago.
The ruling class versus the country class.
And you and me, we are the country class.
And the ruling class right now wants this.
And the ruling class is the elites in Washington, and it doesn't matter what party they're in.
And so the reason you're panicked or unsettled is that the normal limitations, such as the Constitution or other law, doesn't seem to matter.
They're just ignoring it or rewriting it without your consent.
And that's frightening.
That's the kind of stuff that that's not how we've always done things in this country, at least as far as people's perceptions are concerned.
Now we've got Senator Schumer talking about riots if we don't pass this.
There are going to be riots if we do.
He's out there saying there will be unrest.
He means riots if this isn't passed.
Schumer is threatening this.
Unless we give illegal aliens their civil right to live in the U.S. So I think, Ruben, you just keep saying no.
It's the same word in English and Spanish.
You don't need to know English or Spanish exclusively to understand the word no.
National Journal just did a random act of polling.
They found that Republicans are against amnesty, as are independents.
The conservative base is especially opposed to amnesty.
But only 35% of the country is in favor of Obamacare and is not much higher on This.
But we've got Obamacare, don't we?
There wasn't a whole all you can do is just continue to say no, Ruben.
To the right people.
It isn't over.
And another thing to keep in mind, Reuben, is that all the news stories, every damn one of them, have an aura of of inevitability about them.
And if it were inevitable, it would have already happened.
If they had the votes for this, they would have already taken them.
So there's still time for your no to be heard.
That's what Senator Cruz said, and we have to believe that.
You know, I don't have this right in front of me.
And I didn't print this out.
And I don't know what just made me re uh reminded me of it.
It was the phone call from Ruben.
And the idea that what is it someday is something gonna happen that is going to turn low information voters against Obama.
We've all speculated on kind of thing it'd be.
Now, last night or recently, the Rolling Stones were at a concert somewhere, and Mick Jagger stood up there and made fun of and dissed Obama on something, and the place erupted in cheers.
Yeah, and I'm having trouble remembering right now what it was about.
Uh Leno is getting brutal on Obama jokes, by the way.
And his ratings are soaring past that idiot Letterman and some of these other people.
Uh I I can't remember what it was in page six, thirdly.
It's page six of the New York Post.
It was over the surveillance program.
It was yeah, the NSA surveillance program, spying.
You know, the uh the hippies of the 60s don't like the idea they're being spied.
That's one of the reasons that one of the things that uh caused them to organize.
Jagger said that Obama was probably listening in, even if he wasn't in the audience.
And the audience uh just erupted.
So it was a joke about Obama spying on people that the aud the audience did not boo make jangger.
All right, here is Krauthammer.
This is last night on special report with Brett Baer on the Fox News Channel.
This is the all-star panel.
And they're talking about the difficulty Obama's having in getting Edward Snowden back from wherever he is.
And Bret Baier said, you have China, the Chi-Coms, and you have Russia not offering a hand.
Looks like Ecuador has offered asylum.
Yet Iceland weighing in early, Cuba.
There's all kinds of countries adding to the mix.
The fact that people don't like the United States is not new.
What's new is that these non-likers have no respect for the United States.
Nobody worries or cares about what Obama says because it carries no weight.
If there's no element of respect or fear, and you saw it in the summit with the uh head of the United States and head of Russia and China within the last two weeks, they care nothing for what Obama says, and they know that when he makes a threat, it carries no weight behind it.
I would add to that can anybody remember any time Obama has taken it to Putin and chastised Putin for any stood up to Putin never happens.
Anyway, so there's Crowdhammer.
That doesn't care any weight.
Nobody worries or cares what Obama says.
So this morning on Fox News, America's newsroom, Martha McCallum spoke with Beckle and uh uh uh well we Mary Catherine Hamm.
And McCallum said those are very strong words, Bob.
You uh you disagree with that?
With all due respect to my friend and colleague, Dr. Crowthammer.
I was uh assistant secretary of state, and uh I know a little bit about foreign policy.
I think Charles should stick to psychiatry in the Middle East, which he knows.
When you say something like that about the President of the United States, what did he expect we were gonna do?
All it's doing is perpetuating our enemies.
Saying the United States is weak and you can be run all over.
Well, I would never do that to George Reagan.
I wouldn't do it to Ronald Reagan, and it's an insult that they would do it to Barack Obama.
I wouldn't do it to Ronald Reagan.
Of course you wouldn't do it to Ronald, because nobody nobody would ever have said it about Reagan for crying out loud, Bob.
That's the point.
Nobody would have ever.
They did say it about Carter.
And now they're saying it about Obama.
I wouldn't say that you disrespect the pretty nice.
He's just a psychiatrist.
So that's what that kerfuffle was all about.
I I wanted you to hear it.
I've referenced referenced it earlier, and I didn't remember the exact words everybody had used.
That's it to the phones.
Grant Bakersfield, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
What a pleasure to speak to you, Rush.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
My point is that uh I was raised a Democrat.
My entire family was Democrat.
And because of you, and I don't I'm I'm not here to pump you up or stroke you, but the truth will set you free.
And you have taught me truth.
I'm sitting here in the middle of the oil fields rush.
I'm a one-man operation.
My wife is a school teacher, went back to school in her 30s, and we are living paycheck to paycheck.
Uh just a side point.
I bought I went out and I bought my wife a computer, uh, an Apple notebook last night, and somebody broke into our home and they stole it.
I called the local sheriff's department, and because of budget restraints, eight hours later, they came out and asked me to file my report online.
I have read things about this kind of thing in California, where things, the crime and everything has gotten so bad that this kind of report, not even worth it for the cops spend any time on because there's so much worse that they got to deal with that your computer being stolen.
Ho hum.
That's right, Rush.
They didn't didn't even want to make a report.
And like I said, we live paycheck to paycheck.
And it may not be important to them, but it was important to us.
And I'm just a frustrated American who is now a a powerful conservative who listens to you each and every day, and the truth will set you free.
Well, you know, I I appreciate that.
I really do.
Guys in the oil business, and his wife had to go back to work.
One man oil operation.
Grant, I appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
Brief time out backward more after this.
All right, we get back at the top of the hour afterwards.
Uh get into the latest we have on amnesty immigration again.
Chris Salizza in the Washington Post piece uh from yesterday.
The Latino vote doesn't exist.
Not really.
There isn't any monolithic Latino vote yet.
That's the sole reason, ostensibly, the Republicans are doing this.
So we'll delve into that.
We got some audio sound bites as well.
So stand by, folks.
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