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July 9, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 9, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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By the way, I have needed to correct something since the first hour, and I just remembered a minor thing.
But Ted Cruz's dad, Raphael Cruz's speech was Friday night in Salt Lake City, not Saturday night.
In the event that you are searching for it yourself, it happened Friday night, not Saturday night.
The information I was given was dead wrong and needed to be corrected by those in the know.
So it was Friday night.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
El Rushbo, serving humanity.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
And so our last caller, Larry in Albany.
Now, this that he said is a provocative thing because it is something that a lot of Americans will, without knowing anything, will just, yeah, yeah, that's damn right.
Damn right.
What Larry said was, he said, Rush, God bless you.
God love you.
You're the best.
Nobody, he didn't say that, but he meant to.
You're missing it.
Excuse me, folks.
You're missing it.
You're missing it on his immigration.
This isn't about anything you're talking about.
The dead fact is that with the entitlement society that we have in this country, we don't have enough people in this country who are willing to get up every day and go to work.
And American businesses need people to do work for them.
And Americans just won't anymore.
They're eating without working.
They're driving without working.
They're watching flat screens without working.
And they're making phone calls and texting and they're surfing without working.
So why work?
Now, I'm conflicted because I happen to know that those of you in this audience are not the people he was talking about.
And we don't want to think of our country that way, but a lot of people do.
But it's undeniable that more people than ever are being paid not to work.
That's simply undeniable.
I don't care.
It's not just unemployment benefits for 99 plus weeks.
There's stuff on top of that.
There's all the people on disability, SSI, any number.
I mean, the redundancy in our safety net programs is really obscene.
And the amount of money that we are paying under the guise of helping the unfortunate to people who could work but aren't, I'm sure is a staggering amount of money because it's a staggering amount of people.
And in fact, every year, we do hear stories about how farms can't get enough people to pick their crops.
And every year we laugh at these stories, but we still get the story.
Even today, with 11 million illegal aliens in the country, we have stories about the farmer unable to get enough people to pick his crops.
Farmers are among those who want more illegal aliens legalized.
There is.
There's a story about it.
The point is, we get the story every day, every year, every month, or whatever.
There's a story today about farmers demanding these people be legalized because they need work done.
And in this case, it's work that they've claimed for a long time Americans won't do, but it's not just agricultural jobs now.
It's not just service in the home kind of jobs.
It's other work that people claim Americans won't do.
It's not that they won't do it per se, they won't get up and go to work, whatever the job is.
The farmers want more illegal aliens, but once they get used to living in the good old USA, they too will stop working and won't like picking peaches and will need another influx of people who will.
So goes the theory.
Now, right now, Meiko, which has taken over from us, the number one country with the fattest population, had that news earlier today.
Mexico has a higher gross domestic product, 3.5%, than we do, 1.8.
Mexico has a lower unemployment rate than we do.
Theirs is 5%.
Ours is 7.6%.
So why do people who want to work come here anyway?
Because on the one hand, we're told there aren't any jobs.
On the other hand, we're told people won't work anyway.
But there's no question, folks, that Larry was right about how entitlements have changed the work ethic in this country.
And Obama just given us the biggest entitlement ever since Medicare, Obamacare.
In fact, Obamacare will eventually end up being Medicare and Medicaid for all, probably within 10 years.
That's how big and far-reaching it is.
Here's the story that Snerdley was talking about in the AP.
Farmers worry about fate of immigration bill.
For northern Michigan fruit grower Pat McGuire, the most potent symbol of the immigration debate isn't grainy TV footage allowing people slipping furtively across the border.
Instead, it's plump red cherries and crisp apples rotting on the ground because there aren't enough workers to pick them.
A scenario that could become reality over the next couple of months.
And it goes on to talk about this guy can't get any workers.
That is the story you were talking about, right?
That's how it is.
And they're legion.
Stories are everywhere.
Now, I don't quite know how to express this.
I'm thinking of it in these terms.
You're sitting at a place, I don't care where it is, with a friend, and you're really ticked off at your family.
You start ripping them to shreds, and you go down name by name.
If your friend joins in and agrees and starts telling you what a worthless bunch of fleabags your family is, you say, hold on a minute, pal.
You can't talk about my family that way.
And he said, whatever, you are.
Yeah, but they're my family.
So a number of us don't want to believe this.
We have been frightened for decades that this is where we're headed.
But some of us just don't want to believe it.
It's happened.
That the old American work ethic, the old American dream, get out there and start small and bust your butt and work as hard as you can and climb the ladder.
We want to believe that that's still the primary objective that people have.
And then, when hit with the reality that it isn't, some people want to defend it.
They don't want to bad rap their own country that way.
Other people can't wait to.
Other people can't wait.
Oh, yeah, this country.
And you've heard, I mean, you know how people bad rap welfare recipients in general and bad rap people on entitlements and this.
I'm not talking about seasoned citizens.
I'm talking about otherwise capable people.
And all these freeloaders on disability making it all up.
You know, the bad eyelash is a disability.
Can't go to work today.
Those kind of people.
That ticks you off.
But he's got a point.
I mean, it's worth considering.
But is that reason to support amnesty?
It's not.
Well, if you've got work that needs to be done and it isn't getting done, businesses are failing.
The economy is not growing.
All because Americans just won't get out of bed and go to.
Well, they get out of bed, but they won't leave the bar or Denny's to go to work, and you need the work done.
What are you going to do?
It is a whammy, a double whammy for businesses, especially.
And I want to reiterate this.
He had Phil Ginger on.
We played the audio sound of him with Greta last night.
And he told Greta that he wanted to know, when did Obama know it and what did he know?
And who's behind this?
Meaning the employer mandate being delayed by a year.
And Phil Ginger's, I want to know, did business call him up?
Did a bunch of senators call him up and don't want to run for reelection?
And what happened here?
And my point is, I need to reiterate it again: big business, not big, any business, could not have known this was coming.
Stop and think of all the money that these businesses have spent and all the things that they've done.
Look at it, it really's been turned upside down.
These businesses, in order to do what they think they have to do to comply with this stupid law, they've been turned upside down.
They've had to spend a lot of money to make the transition.
They have had to lay off people or they've converted full-timers to part-timers.
They've done all of this based on what they thought the law was.
There's already been enough uncertainty with the tax code and what was happening with the Bush tax cuts, uncertainty of what was happening with Obamacare, what the Supreme Court was going to find it constitutional.
Businesses in this country have not been able to plan like they normally plan ever since this guy was inaugurated.
There has been a constant level of uncertainty at every, except for the corporate cronies of Obama who are on the inside game of this.
But if they're not, then of course they're not inside and they don't have business, their business being supported by an association with the regime.
All they've got is havoc.
All they've got, unpredictability, a lack of Solidity, if you will.
They have not been able to plan with any kind of certainty for the future.
So look at what all they've done.
They've laid people off or they've converted people.
And look at what's happening.
It's not just feel for the employers.
Look at the people who have been converted from full-time to part-time in order for these businesses to comply with something that they now don't have to comply with until Obama decides that they do.
So we've got abject, total havoc and chaos in the wake of Obamacare, in the wake of the entire administration.
So we've got havoc, we've got chaos.
Now we've got waivers.
The uncertainty in the business sector is what's locked in.
And that's the antithesis of what they want.
And what they need, they need degrees of certainty to be able to plan, to grow, just run the business.
So a bunch of central planners made up of people who have never worked today in the private sector, who have never hired or fired, have never met a payroll, have never started a business.
There isn't anybody at the czar level, at the cabinet level, this regime doesn't have anybody.
They got a bunch of advisors, but they don't have anybody actually in the regime that has any experience.
A bunch of theoreticians who've sat around the faculty lounge at Harvard and MIT, Yale, you name it, theorizing as the smartest people in the world what really ought to happen and what would happen if they ever got control, if they were ever in power.
And now we're seeing it.
A bunch of theoreticians think they're smarter than everybody.
I mean, really, who is Barack Obama?
What is it about Obama that makes him more qualified than people in the healthcare business to run it, to shape it, direct it?
The same thing with anything to do with energy.
Who's the money?
Let's know beans about it.
Obama's just a government hack.
He's an agitator.
Never understood why people automatically blindly accept that some liberal do-gooder politician knows everything about the oil business and the people in it don't.
You know, it's even worse than that.
It's not just that Obama knows everything about the oil business and the people in it don't.
The people in it, the people in the oil business, just a bunch of pirates.
They're thieves.
They're cheaters.
They're criminals.
And the same thing in the healthcare business.
And the same thing in the coal business.
And the same thing in retail business.
The same thing everywhere.
Everybody in the private sector is a suspect.
And Obama and his buddies are the experts.
And they know how all these things should run.
So here they are.
They're in charge of it all now.
And look at it.
Abject, total chaos.
Central planners have created uncertainty, havoc, chaos.
They're forcing people to lose money left and right.
It's just, it's crying shame.
And on top of that, this interesting provocative theory that we need amnesty because there just aren't enough Americans willing to work.
Now, I know the other side of this.
The other side of this is that Obama's policies have killed the economy and there aren't any jobs to get anyway.
And there is something to be said for that.
nine million fewer jobs today than when Obama took office.
But it's undeniable, folks, that a majority of people not working for as long as 99 weeks or longer are still eating.
And when that's the case, when you don't have to work to live, then everything that you've always believed is out the window.
Take a break and be back and continue roll right on right after this.
Back to the phones we go.
Here is Jake in Knoxville, Tennessee, home of the University of Tennessee.
Hey.
More college football player arrests than you can come.
How are you doing, sir?
Pretty good.
How are you?
Good.
Excellent.
Hey, I just wanted to let you know today, I started listening to you back in February, and I came into it with a pretty negative attitude.
I figured you're just kind of out of touch, you know, not really aware of what's going on anymore.
And I got to say, the more and more I listen, you know, I agree with what you're saying.
You're right on pretty much every time.
You know, I appreciate that.
I do.
Can I share something with you, though, about this?
Absolutely.
And I really do appreciate it.
But I'm into my 25th year now.
Well, in August, it'll be 25 years.
And I know the way the world works, and I know the power of the media.
For 25 years, what's happened to you has happened to a lot of people.
They read the media or they hear this and that and they think that I'm racist, sexist, big at home.
Then they listen for a while and find it's not true.
And at some point in 25 years, everybody would find out it's not true.
In 25 years, I would think everybody would.
But here you are, just in this February of this year, you found out.
Correct, yeah.
Yeah, and I got to say, I'm pretty impressed.
And another thing I got to say is one of my great buddies is a pretty liberal guy, and he and I are frequently in political debate.
And he's one of the ones that is pretty far against you.
But what I've been doing is secretly using pretty much whatever you say on the show that day, I will use that as an argument with him.
Of course, I can't credit you for it because then he'd just discredit it.
But I got to say, I have not lost an argument since.
But you haven't lost an argument.
But do you think that you are moving him?
Are you persuading him at all?
I have gotten him to the point where he is a complete and total believer that Obamacare needs to be repealed, like 100%, not amended, not fixed.
But if you tonight happen to tell him, by the way, you know, all this stuff I'm going to tell you about.
I got it from Rush Limbaugh that he would, he would punt and go back to supporting it, probably.
Yeah well, I fear that that would be the case.
Yeah well, you it.
It's 50-50 right, 50-50 which?
What do you think that says about your friend?
Well, I think that he's kind of like a lot of the left.
He's very ideologically invested, but not very realistically invested, you know.
I think that he has a pretty good idea of what he wants to see happen and he kind of drinks the Kool-Aid a little bit too much, thinks that it's all going to happen and then bam, is very surprised when what happens every other time that we get a leftist promise happens and finds out about it has.
Has this friend of yours, to the best of your knowledge, has he ever taken the time to listen to this program as you did?
Um, I would guess no, and if he did, it was probably with a pretty pessimistic attitude which admittedly, mine was too when I was.
You were yeah, you were too, But something caused.
I don't know.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I am a Republican.
You know, you and I agree on a whole lot of pretty much everything.
And the things that, you know, I disagree with you on, it usually turns up that you were more right than I am.
Jake, I appreciate the story.
I'm glad you're out there.
I thank you.
And do whatever you can with the guy because you need everybody at some point.
And we will be back.
25 years.
We will end 25 years on August 1st.
We'll be starting our 26th year on August 1st.
That is 788,918,000 seconds.
That is 13,148,640 minutes.
That is 219,144 hours.
That is 9,131 days.
That is 1,304 weeks.
Which seems low.
That's using three hours a day with the standard 32 week work year.
Just kidding on the 32 weeks.
Scott, Los Angeles.
Glad you waited, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes.
I keep hearing this narrative out there that our immigration system is broken, and you did say something about this on your show earlier today.
I've never heard anybody explain what about our immigration system that's broken.
Now, I know the fence is broken where it exists, and I know the laws are broken by the illegal immigrants.
But I keep hearing, and this comes from Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, our immigration system is broken.
Our immigration system works fine if you follow the rules.
You know, that's so true.
It's like when they say our tax system is broken or anything else.
No, fix it.
It's not, it's not, or when they say politics, system isn't broken.
Capitalism, our politics works fine.
It's corrupt people that are the problem.
Correct.
No, you're exactly right.
I have the same reaction.
I think we need to say this because the deal is, like you said during your breaks, you hear that commercial running over and over again using conservative people that keep hammering home our broken immigration system.
Our immigration system is not broken.
And we can build walls, Rush.
In Los Angeles, we're building 50-foot walls all along the freeways to keep the sound out.
If we would take that money, we could build a fence and keep the people out.
Yeah, but you see, the people that tell you that our system is broken would say building a fence is exactly what we mean.
We shouldn't have to build a fence.
Civilized countries don't build fences, keep people out.
That's not what we've always done.
And what they mean when they say the system is broken, we've got 11 million illegals here, and they're just trying to sell people on the concept that we need to change something.
And that may be true, too.
But what you're saying, at least what I hear you saying, the only change we need is enforce the law that we already have.
Exactly.
The laws are there.
I mean, the laws are being broken.
That's part of the immigration system.
That is exactly right.
That's what's broken.
The laws are being broken.
The laws are being broken.
That is profound.
Yes.
Thanks, Rush.
You bet.
He knew it was profound.
You know what?
He's a smart.
He knew that he was uttering a profundity there.
And so when I said that's profound, he said yes and hung up.
He knew.
Here's Scott in Los Angeles.
Bill in Pensacola, Florida.
Welcome, sir.
Your turn.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
I've got to keep my nerves and my emotion in check here.
It's got to be serendipity or fate that I was able to get through because I called on the 3rd and then I got through up then, but not enough time and the same thing today.
So I was calling because I wanted to thank you and also, of course, your father.
This speech, The Americans Who Risked Everything.
When I heard about that on the 3rd, I went immediately, found it, printed it, read it, and it just touched me in a way that it was amazing.
Well, my great, great-grandfather, so it's with six great.
He actually is John Hart, was one of the 56 men who signed the Declaration.
And in your speech, your father actually summarizes his life after the signing.
So I took the speech home.
I've got three skulls of mush at home ranging from 14 to 18.
And the morning of the fourth, Independence Day, we sat them down.
And the first thing that I said, I asked them if they knew what happened after the men signed the Declaration.
And surprisingly, my youngest, my son, actually said, yeah, they were hunted down.
So I was very happy and very surprised that they knew that.
But then we went on to.
Did they know at this point that they were related distantly to yes, sir?
We've been my mother about 15 years ago, was on a huge big genealogy.
She's a member of Ancestry.com and everything.
And during that time, she let me know that my great-grand John Hart was my relative.
But she also said, well, also somewhere in the family tree is Mark Twain.
And she said, but that deep into the family tree, everybody's related to Mark Twain.
So I guess I took it with a grain of salt regarding John Hart, but just within the last two or three years, it's really struck me that, holy smokes, he was a direct grandfather to me.
So we've told the kids, we've last couple years, we've shared that with them, so they know it.
I've got an application completed, just not submitted for the Sons of the American Revolution.
So they actually went and did the genealogy trace for me.
My first grandfather was a son of the American Revolution.
So I've got my application filled out, just not submitted yet.
So my kids have known that, but you just don't hear, you don't think, I guess, is the big thing on an everyday level what these men put on the line back then.
It's easy just to kind of think about it in passing, but when you're reading the speech that your father wrote, it just puts it all in focus.
It's almost impossible to relate to it today.
It is.
You can appreciate it, and you can be dazzled and wowed and all.
But actually, relating to it, it's like when I was growing up, my father kept telling me about the Great Depression how horrible it was and what I had to do in case one happened again.
I couldn't relate to it.
Anything like that had ever happened to me.
And so I didn't take it nearly as seriously as he wanted me to.
But it was the formative experience of his life, that in World War II.
And so he just never stopped talking about how horrible it was.
And if it happens again, this is why he wanted me to go to college.
If you didn't have a degree, when that all was happening, you were a toast.
And so it's the same thing here.
I mean, you have a direct relation who was one of the signers of the Declaration.
And just doing something like that, demanding independence from a foreign government.
Nobody can relate to that today.
And then being pursued and families being taken and held prisoner and tortured in exchange for you renouncing your declaration.
People can't, I mean, they can read it, they can absorb it historically, but man, being able to actually relate to it, we're such a far cry.
But what you're doing is really great.
It's helping people to appreciate it.
If you can accomplish that, anybody, just a degree of appreciation, how this country came to be, it really is a miracle.
I don't think people stop to think, even when you tell them, that the history of humanity in the world is tyranny.
The vast majority of people that have walked this planet have been prisoners of one sort or another until this country came along, with moderate exceptions.
But people born to it years later can't possibly relate to it.
Still, I imagine that this has been talked about enough in your family now that your kids are impressed by it now.
I'm not sure.
You know how teenagers are.
Like I said, they're between 14 and 18.
My son, through my genealogy, check out, of course, all three of my kids are included on my application.
So if he wants to get involved...
Well, I'll tell you what's going to happen.
In 20 or 30 years, they're going to remember all this and they're going to be talking to friends.
And it's going to be, at some point in their adult lives, it's going to be a source or a reason for tremendous pride.
I think so.
And I've been taking my two older daughters, I had been taking them before the election to weekly constitution meetings where I live locally.
And I was involving the kids for that reason that, you know, because they know of John Hart.
So they are interested politically.
They're smart kids.
But yeah, so they kind of know now.
But I think, like I said, when my mom first told me 15 years ago or so, at that point, it's just so distant.
And so you look at the family line, and then it's great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, great-great-great-grandfather.
And it goes directly.
Right.
In Rio, Linda, that's your next door neighbor.
So it's tough to drill the appreciation into them.
But I'll tell you, I'm confident when they get older, especially your youngest one, if I remember your story, but this is going to be a source of great pride.
Because people get older, this matters more and more to them.
It does.
And I appreciate the call.
I really do.
Bill, I've got to take a brief time out here because I'm long.
We'll be back after this.
Well, my friends, another exciting, busy broadcast day brought to a screeching halt.
One thing.
Yesterday, the Broward County Sheriff's Office, this is the Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman trial.
The Broward County Sheriff's Office released a video calling on the public not to riot in the wake of the verdict, which is expected this week.
That's like saying, don't think pink.
What are you thinking of right now?
Hey, you people in Broward County, I'm going to help you.
Don't riot.
Whatever you do, just rally.
But don't riot.
When you see Al Sharpton, don't riot.
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