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July 8, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 8, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi, folks, and welcome back.
It's great to have you here, kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence here on the EIB network.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address El Rushvo at EIBNet.com.
In response to criticism arising from the Aaron Hernandez case, the NFL is considering a change that ultimately, well, I don't think it's going to have any impact.
What they're going to do, the NFL is considering barring academically ineligible prospects from the scouting combine in Indianapolis.
This is the meat market.
Do you know what the scouting combine is, Snerdley?
You did.
You watched it?
It's all these college prospects show up in Indianapolis in their underwear, and they put them through all kinds of physical exercises that are related to the positions they play.
They run the 40.
They do push-ups, the bench press, any number of things.
And you don't have to go to the thing.
It's one of these things.
If you do, supposedly your prospects are enhanced.
But if you do show up and don't do well, then your prospects are not enhanced.
Like some of the college quarterbacks show up and don't throw at the thing.
They go.
They do the interviews with the team, but they don't throw any passes.
They don't have their receivers and so forth.
Anyway, the league is now getting tough on the fact that a lot of graduates can't read their diplomas.
And so now the NFL is considering disallowing academically ineligible people, players, from the scouting combine.
Source here says that the possibility is being discussed because of the increased scrutiny on the maturity and commitment of the prospects entering the NFL.
The combine, it's not going to matter.
If you really want to do something about this, academically ineligible means you can't be drafted.
But they never do that.
Snerdley, what do you tell?
It's literally the one they cut to the chase and ban hoodlums.
Sorry, you're a hood.
You can't play.
That's never going to happen.
Some teams want them.
Some teams want the badass characters.
Like hockey teams want their enforcers.
Some teams want them.
I'll tell you the NFL, we talked about change last week, and the change happened.
You can't stop change.
And a lot of people are afraid of change.
Change is a really tough thing for a lot of people.
And when you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand, you've got tradition.
On the other hand, you've got change.
In many people's mind, change equals modernization.
Tradition, however.
I'm a big tradition guy.
Traditions and institutions that made the country great.
Like marriage is a tradition.
I mean, it's an institution.
And of course, it's changing.
Some say it's modernizing.
The national football, any sport, take your pick.
There are traditions.
The Redskins have always been the Redskins.
Uh-uh.
There's a small number of people who don't like it and who want actually don't want change.
What they want is something to be imposed.
And that really is the key.
A lot of people who advocate change really aren't advocating change.
You know, organic change is evolution in one sense.
But the kind of change that people instinctively object to isn't really change at all.
It's imposition.
See, if you look at the Redskins problem, this business, Redskins' name, it's really a small number of people who want the name, who care even.
But that small number of people knows they're small and they don't have the power to get this done.
So they are appealing to other powerful forces, i.e. the government.
And they want what they want imposed on people.
Just like Mayor Doomberg, it's not enough that he eats the way he wants to eat.
He wants to impose the way he eats on everybody else.
He wants to impose.
And people who do this, people who orchestrate imposition, disguise themselves as advocates of change when we're not talking about change at all.
And I would suggest to you, ladies and gentlemen, that most of liberalism is an imposition.
Liberalism has to be imposed on people because most people would never, if they knew what it was, vote for it.
The liberals themselves know this.
This is why they always camouflage and mask themselves in campaigns.
In fact, they're doing that less and less now, again, a little bolder with Obama, but even Obama, Limbaugh Theorem, even Obama acts like he's not really attached to his own administration or government because he doesn't want what's happening to be attached to him because it's all bad.
For example, I mean, the economic news came out Friday.
We haven't talked about that yet, but let's do.
Let's talk about the economic news.
Oh, you know, I got a funny tweet.
You may have seen this.
I don't know.
When I joined the military, it was illegal to be homosexual.
Then it became optional.
And now it's legal.
And I'm getting out of the military before the Democrats make it mandatory.
Change.
Supposed change.
No, no, this is imposition.
Liberalism isn't change.
It has to be imposed.
I've always laughed when the left says that we impose freedom on people.
Our foreign policy imposes freedom.
Freedom isn't an imposition, by the way.
It's the exact antithesis of imposition.
You cannot impose freedom.
All you can do is grant it or liberate them from whatever you want to call it, bondage, tyranny, oppression.
But freedom isn't an imposition, but liberalism is.
What Obama's doing is essentially imposing all this stuff on us.
Nobody wants Obamacare.
The vast majority don't want it.
Once they found out about stimulus, they didn't want that.
Most people do not want amnesty.
It's going to be imposed on us.
And they're calling it change.
Well, Republican Party has to change with the time.
The times are not changing in that regard.
And this is what people are instinctively objecting to.
All this crap is being imposed on us.
Liberalism is an imposition.
And it's just, it disguises itself as change.
And change is always modern.
And change is always progressive.
And change and the people advocate change, they're always the hipsters.
They're the ones that are cool.
And the people that are focused on tradition, it's a tough argument.
I mean, not an argument.
It's a debate on whatever is being discussed, the traditions of the National Football League versus the so-called change that's occurring.
But is it really change or is it a series of things being imposed?
The concussion rules, all of these things that are happening under the guise of liberalism, which can make life better and safer and happy and all that.
And of course, it never does any of that.
Liberalism spreads misery.
The thing is, it spreads it equally.
So they can say it's all fair.
Now, the release of the June jobs report happened Friday.
And it was just like all these other jobs reports.
It's dismal.
Labor Department reported that the economy gained 195,000 jobs in June, which beat expectations, which means our expectations are horribly low.
We need, just to replace, to go back to 2008 employment levels, we need to be creating 600,000 jobs a month.
Did you know that, Rachel?
600,000 a month.
We're nowhere near that.
And we're still going the wrong direction.
Now, the Labor Department also said that the economy gained 70,000 more jobs in April and May than they originally estimated.
However, the June jobs report also provides evidence that we are splitting as a nation into two.
Only 47% of Americans have a full-time job, and those who don't are finding it increasingly out of reach.
So of the 144 million Americans employed last month, I'm going to tell you, this is we've got a population, I know there's kids in this number, children, we have a population of over 300 million people and not even half of them are working.
I'm sorry, this country cannot stay a superpower, cannot stay great.
The economy cannot continue to grow with those numbers.
Of the 100, and then it gets worse from there, 144 million Americans employed last month, only 116 million were full-time.
Friday's report showed that 58% of the civilian adult population of 245 million was working.
Only 47% of Americans, not this is all Americans, not the labor force, only 47% of Americans have a full-time job.
Part-time jobs, which is the majority of the jobs created in that 155 or 195,000, the majority of jobs created are part-time jobs, and that's Obamacare.
The combination of Obamacare and the economy and Obamacare in the economy are almost inseparable.
The market's positive reaction, stock market, and a positive reaction to Friday's jobs news is another sign of how far our economic expectations have fallen.
If today the same proportion of Americans worked as just 10 years ago, there would be almost 9 million more people working.
You know, I spend a lot of time on this every time the jobs numbers come out.
The labor force participation rate, in addition to the unemployment number that's expressed as the percentage.
The fact of the matter is that we have lost 9 million jobs.
Forget people for a second.
There are 9 million fewer jobs to have in this country.
So of the people who are unemployed, their ability to find a job is limited by the fact that in 10 years, we have lost 9 million jobs.
Or think of it as job opportunities.
They just don't exist.
That is how bad the Obama economy has been.
Just in the last 12 months, 2 million Americans have left the labor force.
Well, in light of that, 195,000 jobs created.
Big whoop.
2 million Americans left the labor force.
That means 2 million jobs ceased to exist.
So the unemployment number of whatever it reported, 7.
Whatever it was percent, it's meaningless because the universe is shrinking.
And then you add with a majority of the population not even holding a full-time job.
Is it any wonder our economy isn't growing?
And another way to look at a full-time job is a career.
Now, there's all kinds of work.
There's entry-level work, which is minimum wage, where you enter the workforce and just learn what it's all about, getting a paycheck for showing up on time and all that.
And then there are jobs you do to help supplant your existence when you're in school if you do that.
But then at some point in your life, you figure out what you want to do.
At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you learn what you love.
A lot of people never do.
So their job never is any more than a job, something they have to do.
Some people actually find out what they love.
And that takes on a whole different meaning to them than just a job.
It's a career and it's the definition of who they are.
Other people find full-time work and it is a career in the sense that there is advancement if you do well, but they may be not doing what they love.
And that's the group I'm talking about.
The opportunity, you know, a job is one thing.
A career is another.
Because a career is where you devote yourself to improving and advancing, climbing the ladder, as it were.
I'm sorry, with only 47% of working adults working full-time, we're not even developing careers for people to exploit and to experience and to conquer.
Now, this is massive change from what the American jobs universe used to be.
The American jobs universe contained all the jobs and types of jobs that we have today, but there were certainly far more career opportunities than there are today.
And the career opportunities are directly relatable to the number of jobs no longer exist.
Now, with Obamacare and companies converting full-time to part-time, you can wave goodbye to a career as a part-timer.
You're not going to conquer anything part-time.
You're not going to climb a ladder part-time.
And you're not going to get health care part-time.
And that's why you're being converted to part-time.
Because Obamacare is so expensive that companies are weighing staying in business or going out of business.
Staying profitable or not.
And contrary to low information beliefs, a company is not there to provide you health care.
It's there for a whole lot of other reasons.
I got to take a quick time out.
We got much more.
Don't banish.
And it's back to the phone, Zel Rushbo, serving humanity.
This is Marcy in Chesterfield, Michigan.
Welcome.
Great to have you here.
Hi, thank you very much.
So great to talk to you.
I've been trying to call you for years.
Thank you.
I'm glad you made it.
Thank you.
The reason I called, as I told your screener, is that I just wanted to thank you for your show.
And I know you hear from a lot of people, but I'm so sincere.
I just love your show.
You get me through the day.
I'm a mail carrier, and I've been listening to you since 1986.
Whoa.
86.
So you had to be, were you at one time to live in California?
Pardon me.
Did you at one time live in California?
No, Michigan.
Michigan?
Yeah.
Okay.
I believe you were, it might have been 86.
It was 88 if you lived in Michigan.
Who's counting?
Pardon me?
It was 88 if you lived in Michigan.
Okay.
But who's counting?
It's still a lot of years.
We're coming up on 25 years next month.
Yeah.
And that's mainly why I wanted to call.
I'm very nervous.
I've been on hold for a while.
Well, you don't sound nervous at all.
You just sound in awe.
I am.
This is so great because this is the last day I'm going back to work tomorrow.
I've been on vacation, and I've been feeling kind of down having to go back to work.
And I thought, well, I'm going to try giving Rush a call if I cut through.
Really?
I know how you feel.
We just had a four-day weekend here.
And, of course, I was charged.
I was ready to come back today because of the stuff that I knew I had here to talk about.
But I can imagine how you feel having to go back to work.
Well, I'm sure you enjoy your job a lot more than I enjoy mine, but it's a job, and I'm happy to have it.
Well, I know.
In this day and age.
Yeah, especially I was listening to the numbers on the employment and its, or unemployment, I should say.
Yeah, the bad thing about this is that people are going to give thanks just for even having a part-time job.
I mean, everybody's expectations are going to be so lowered.
Yeah.
So you've been listening 25 years for all intents, and you're not bored yet.
No.
With the show.
I look forward to it.
I was listening to you for a few years, and I was talking about your show all the time with my husband, and now he's listening to it.
His name's Al.
I told him that I called you.
Well, I hope he's listening now.
I bet he is.
I bet he is.
And I know it, how it makes the day better, and it makes the day faster.
And I'm so thankful that you're out there, and I'm so thankful you still find it interesting.
I can't tell you, I really am.
You have a good rest of the day.
We'll see you back in just a second here.
Here's a couple more interesting facts on the jobs situation.
The nation's number one employer is, what do you think, Sternley?
Walmart's right, the second largest employer.
Kelly Services, a temporary, temporary workers agency.
Kelly Services is the second largest employer.
Kelly Services, which provides temporary workers, part-timers, second largest employer after Walmart.
We're talking exactly what I was talking about before: the absence of careers.
Kelly Girls, the same company, is not called Kelly Girls anymore.
It's a Kelly Services.
It's Kelly Girls back in the days of madmen.
In addition to the second largest U.S. employer being a temp agency, there are 101 million Americans receiving food aid from the federal government.
That is a number larger than the number of private sector employees.
Now, you and I, this is not a new picture to you and me.
We've, on top of this, seen it coming.
We've seen it develop in the past five years.
But this is a damn tragedy.
And I'm sorry, this is not a foundation for any growth.
This is not a foundation for goodness.
This is absolutely, this is embarrassing.
The second largest employer is a temp agency, 101 million Americans getting food aid.
That's a number larger than the number of people who have jobs.
And this is why, folks, some people have said that I sound like I'm a little cold-hearted when I talk about unemployment in America.
You've got your car.
The way to put this, the unemployed are still eating.
And so, what's the problem?
The unemployed have their cell phones, they have their cars, they've got their flat screens and food.
Being unemployed is not what it used to be.
When you were out of work, you were in dire circumstances.
And your unemployment compensation didn't come close to substituting what you had lost when you lost your job.
Now, it's an entire.
I'm just, no, I'm talking about incentives.
What's the incentive to work?
Is not nearly, there isn't anywhere near the necessity.
And I'm telling you, I can't emphasize enough.
You take away the whole notion of careers from the American jobs experience or universe, however you want to, whatever you want to call it.
That's this is massive, massive change that is not In this case, good.
Now, 50 years ago, here's some more.
50 years ago, 1960, all but three of the top employers in the country produced goods.
The other three provided services.
Now, since 2010, it's been reversed.
Only three of the top 15 employers produce goods, things, products.
GE, Pepsi, HP, Apple, this kind of thing.
The rest provide services like Walmart.
So that's just a picture of how the work situation or universe in the country has changed.
Here's Tony in Tampa.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you here.
Yeah, thanks, Rush.
Could you imagine if a Republican had this miserable, destructive record that Obama has with the unending golf, the never-ending vacations?
You could imagine what the likes of Chris Matthews, that sleeping beauty, Bob Beckle, knee-jerk Giraldo, Juan Williams, Alan Combs, they'd be crawling the walls.
They would be threatening to gas themselves right on the air.
It'd be a billion-man march.
Every street would be clogged with people.
You wouldn't be able to get your car out of the driveway.
You'd be eating pinto beans for weeks on end.
Yeah, that's true.
Let me tell you something else, Rush.
The worst thing that's ever happened to the working poor, people above the poverty line, below the poverty line, on small fixed incomes, are these current Alinsky-ite Obama Democrats, steeped in Leninism with their global warming, their windmills, and their solar panels.
Now they're going to be closing more coal-fired plants.
That means everything is going to get jacked up at the supermarkets, department stores, everything is.
Why do they want to do all this, Tony?
Why do they want to cause all this damage?
I'll tell you why, because it's ideology, uberalis, and they couldn't give a rat's backside about the poor.
Did you say rats backside or rats ass?
No, I said rats backside.
You can say rats rectum.
That has more alliteration to it.
Yeah, and it's a whole lot smoother.
Well, yeah, that would be too.
No question.
But it seems like anybody with common sense would know that their policies are causing this destruction.
Why don't they care about it, Tony?
You know, Rush, I was watching Julie Roginski.
She was on Cavuto with the great Charlie Payne.
And she's talking about, here's what the coal was brought up.
So she goes, coal, oh, that's horse and buggy stuff.
Coal is 43% of all the electricity we get comes from coal.
But that prehistoric Stone Age windmills and solar panels, oh, let's spend billions on that.
And you only get 1% of the electricity comes from windmills and solar panels.
But that's the thing, man.
Let's take billions of dollars out of the working men and women out of their pockets.
And let's take care of business with windmills and solar panels.
But coal that has kept this country alive and driving for years, oh, that's horse and buggy.
Tony, who is Julie Roginsky?
She's a Democrat, Obama-Alinsky-Ice.
And she's on that panel, and she's trying to fake it like she's like, oh, for the business.
What panel?
The panel with Charlie Payne, Cavuto, and somewhere on Fox.
That's right.
That's right.
You know, you need to stop watching these people because they're not going to change.
Tony, and I really care, but you've got to stop watching these people.
All these names you mentioned, they're not going to change, and you're exactly right.
If all of this were happening with a Republican president, which it wouldn't, it couldn't, by definition, we don't believe in these policies.
But if it were, you're right.
They'd be raising holy hell about it.
And they'd be calling the president cold-hearted, mean, extremist, exclusionary, the rich.
I mean, they'd be all over a Republican president.
But that isn't going to change.
So you, your blood pressure is going to suffer if you keep watching these people.
I mean, they're designed to get you ticked off.
They're designed to make you question your sanity.
You're going to watch these people and you're going to say, how in the world can we have such idiotic people?
And you're going to think, maybe they're not, and you're crazy.
And I assure you, Tony, you're not.
Trust me on that.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
We have a Triple Seven pilot on the phone, Ted in Chicago.
Ted, I'm glad you got through.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing today?
Very well.
Thank you.
Good.
Well, first, very tragic accident.
You know what?
I'm thinking that maybe other people have said this, but only two people died.
That's kind of remarkable.
Well, that is.
It's a fantastic thing.
But how much of that's related?
This is a really modern design aircraft.
It's a solid airplane.
I fly the Triple Seven, and I'll tell you, it's a dream to fly.
I mean, you can land the thing in a 50-knot crosswind.
It's tough.
Now, wait a minute.
People may not get the impact.
A 50-knot crosswind?
Yep, it has no limit.
Wow, that's amazing.
It's the only plane I've ever flown that it has.
Normally, when you go to the manual, it says, you know, you can only fly at 30-not crosswind or whatever.
The triple seven has no designated crosswind.
I mean, it can, it's a flying marvel.
Okay, now you said there's some misinformation out there, and I've got to back it up.
Well, the misinformation is, and I, well, first, I think, you know, I feel for the pilots that were flying the airplane.
I personally think what happened, you know, they were above the glide slope, which means they were above flight plan, so you pull the throttle's tidal, and then they, you know, they dive towards, you know, descend towards the glide path, and they descended through it.
With the triple seven, normally you always use the auto throttles.
And even if you don't, if you get below airspeed, they kick on automatically.
Unfortunately, in their situation, they got so low that the airplane thought it was in basically landing mode, so it's not going to bring the throttles up.
Well, they must have been coming down like a rock then.
Well, not really like a rock, but they blew through the glide path.
So you started way above it, and then they went right below it.
And even though the ILS was turned off, Runway 28 left has a GPS and an RNAV would normally have set up.
But the plane.
So they were eyeballing it, basically.
Well, basically, that's all you have to do.
And normally it's just kind of click, and you just kind of aim at the runway.
But then you're expecting the auto throttles to be there for you.
And if you remember, about 10 years ago, there was an almost identical accident in Frankfurt with the Airbus where it just drove it into the trees because they were going to show how the plane would just take over automatically.
And it went into landing mode.
And so it just assumed they were landing.
So it decided to land in the trees and destroy the airplane.
Well, that's scary.
I know that when that kind of override happens, but hey, it's an Airbus.
Yeah, well, yeah.
If it ain't a Boeing, I ain't going.
Anyway, Ted, let me get, I want to talk to you further, but I'm out of time.
If you will, give Mr. Snerdley a number where we can reach you because there's going to be more news.
The NTSB is still revealing information about this.
And if there's anything more, we can get in touch with you later tomorrow, maybe, if that's okay.
If not, no sweat.
We got to take a brief time out here, though.
We'll be back in mere moments.
What a great start to another busy broadcast week.
I cannot thank you all enough for being with us today.
I appreciate it.
I have my deepest gratitude for you each and every day.
Be back here 21 hours, folks.
And we'll be even better tomorrow.
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