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July 22, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 22, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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Great to be back with you.
Folks, you will never ever know just how much I cherish and appreciate every one of you.
Being there each and every day, you will never know.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800 282-2882 and the email address Ill Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
George Zimmerman in hiding in fear for his life in hiding since the verdict in his trial.
On Wednesday, July 17th at about 5 45 PM.
Sanford, Florida police responded to a single car accident in the area of I-4 and State Road 46 in Sanford.
Blue Ford Explorer SUV ran off the road and it rolled over.
There were four occupants in the car, two parents and two children.
The deputy reported that when he arrived on the scene, one of the two men there was George Zimmerman.
According to Sanford Police, Zimmerman had a fire extinguisher and helped assist the family to get them out of the vehicle.
Zimmerman was not a witness to the crash, which was why he was not referenced in the police report.
A Sanford police spokeswoman told Breitbart News.
He left after making contact with the deputy.
There were no reports of injuries of any of the vehicle's occupants, in large part because Zimmerman helped him out.
An eyewitness to the accident told Breitbart News that people on the scene recognized Zimmerman and thanked him for his help before he left.
Zimmerman's location has been unknown since he was found not guilty of second degree murder and manslaughter, Trayvon Martin recently.
So how long is it gonna be?
How long is it gonna be before the story gets out that the whole accident was scripted and planned and even rehearsed and then performed for real so that Zimmerman could come upon the scene supposedly coincidentally and be a hero.
I will guarantee if it's not already out there, snerdly, you don't if it's not already out there, it's gonna be a running theme on Twitter.
I'm telling you the left is insane, and they are not that this just can't be Zimmerman a hero.
The Zimmerman haters are gonna say this whole thing was staged.
It was set up, probably rehearsed.
Look, nobody was hurt were they?
This was a setup so Zimmerman could look good.
Why didn't Zimmerman just stay in his truck?
I wonder if the family was white or black and if Zimmerman knew their race beforehand.
You know, all these qu I guarantee you.
I guarantee you folks, it's gonna happen.
Food stamp recipients are shipping welfare funded groceries to relatives in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
This is from the New York Post.
Food stamps are paying for transatlantic takeout, with New Yorkers using taxpayer funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican welfare recipients are buying groceries with their EBT cards and packing them up in giant barrels for the trip overseas.
They're just doing the food exporting regular American companies won't do.
The practice is so common, hundreds of forty-five to fifty-five gallon cardboard and plastic barrels line the walls of supermarkets at almost every Caribbean corner of the city.
The feds say the movable feasts go against the intent of the eighty-six billion dollar welfare program for impoverished Americans.
Oh, really?
The feds say that this goes against the intent of the food stamp program.
The hell you say.
Now they tell us.
Come on, we can't let the people of Caribbean go hungry.
You know, I am I'm only surprised the USDA doesn't advertise this as a good idea for people to do.
I mean, they're trying they're advertising food stamps.
Why not, as part of the average Do you have starving relatives in Jamaica?
Get on the U.S. food stamp program.
You have starving relatives in the Caribbean anywhere.
Get on the U.S. food stamp program.
And put out a pamphlet detailing how they do it in New York.
They are advertising food stamps.
Why not advertise this if they want more use, if they want more recipients?
What do you mean send them a card?
Oh, give the people in Jamaica their own cards, and the people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Just send her own EBT cards.
You think of the money it would take to put in the machines that you got to use the EBT cards, the scan.
Now, this way there's personal contact between family members.
This way the Jamaicans and the and the Dominicans and the Haitians understand it's their family members feeding them.
And Obama.
And so hey, folks, it's it's uh it's what it is.
Now I mentioned at the top of the program, we talked about Detroit and the statistics of how great Detroit used to be.
And it was.
Detroit was one of the four greatest cities in this country and one of the greatest cities in the world.
It was one of the most productive.
It was a city that had one of the highest per capita incomes in the world.
Back in the 1950s and the 1960s.
Detroit was a model city.
However, an interesting, I I find it fascinating.
Detroit was the place where the whole concept of health care benefits to employees was created.
During World War II, there were wage and price controls.
Companies therefore needed ways to attract really qualified employees.
And so they couldn't pay them any more money.
They had to come up with something that wasn't controlled.
And that would have been something they had to invent.
So they invented the benefit.
In this case, the health care, the health insurance benefit.
And it's one of the things that ends up doing Detroit in.
That and unions.
That and the pensions.
Detroit is a city.
I think the last Republican mayor in Detroit was 1957.
Detroit has been run unchecked by liberal Democrats for 40 plus 50 years.
It's bankrupt.
But there are some facts about the fall of Detroit that will have what will just stun and amaze you.
Every one of these facts comes from a news story about the subject.
Every one of these 25.
I'm going to take a timeout here, we'll come back and I'll run through this list.
And I will review some of the statistics about Detroit's greatness in years gone by.
Sit tight, much more straight ahead when we get back.
Talent on loan from God.
It really is almost unimaginable what has happened to Detroit.
Easy to forget that not that long ago, Detroit was the richest and most successful city in the country.
It was the envy of the world.
And now it's the biggest city in the U.S. to ever go bankrupt.
And it's because of the Democrat Party, liberalism, and the unions.
Detroit was where companies first started offering health care benefits and other perks in order to compete for skilled employees during World War II when there were wage and price controls.
And now those very benefits, I find it poetic justice, those very benefits have killed the city where they were born.
Whatever else Detroit is, it is the epitome of everything wrong with the Democrat Party.
Detroit's been run exclusively by the Democrats for over 30 years.
The last Republican mayor was elected in 1957.
Only one Republican's been elected to the City Council since 1970.
Sixty years ago.
Detroit had the highest per capita income in the entire nation.
Sixty years ago.
More people earned more money in Detroit than anywhere else.
Sixty years ago, Detroit was the fourth largest city in America.
In the last sixty years, Detroit has lost sixty-three percent of its population.
Now give you some fascinating facts compiled here by the economic collapse blog.
Every one of these facts is the result of a news story.
There is a link to every one of these stories.
Or every one of these facts, a link back to a news story.
Detroit at one time had 1.8 million people, highest per capita income in the United States.
Now it's a decaying hellhole for about 700,000 people.
At this point, the city of Detroit owes money to more than 100,000 creditors.
Detroit is facing 20 billion dollars in debt and unfunded liabilities.
that breaks down to more than $25,000 per current resident.
I keep saying this.
I'm going to say it again because it's, It's amazing.
Back in 1960, the city of Detroit had the highest per capita income in the country.
In 1950, there were about 296,000 manufacturing jobs in Detroit.
Today they are less than 27,000.
In sixty-three years, we've gone from two hundred and ninety-six thousand manufacturing jobs to less than twenty-seven thousand.
Between December 2000 and December 2010, 48% of the manufacturing jobs of the state of Michigan were lost.
There are lots of houses available for sale in Detroit right now for $500 or less.
Dennis Rodman owns about 25 of them.
Just kidding on that.
At this point in Detroit, there are about 78,000 abandoned homes.
About one third of Detroit's 140 square miles is vacant or derelict.
Stop and think about these things now.
An astounding forty seven percent of the residents of the city of Detroit are functionally illiterate.
But they know how to say Obamastash.
My gosh, folks, nearly half the city can't read.
Less than half of the residents of Detroit over the age of 16 are working at this time.
If you can believe it, 60% of all children in the city of Detroit are living in poverty.
I believe all the well, it's not a question of believing it, it's true.
Detroit was once the fourth largest city in America.
But over the past 60 years, the population of Detroit has fallen by 63%.
The city of Detroit is now very heavily dependent on the tax revenue it pulls in from the casinos in the city.
Right now, Detroit's bringing in about 11 million dollars a month in tax revenue from the casinos, while 60% of the children live in poverty.
And less than half of the residents over the age of 16 are working.
They're all eating, by the way.
And they've all got their Obama phones.
And they're all probably driving.
There are 70 Superfund hazardous waste sites in Detroit.
40% of the street lights don't work in Detroit.
Only about a third of the ambulances are running, and some ambulances in the city of Detroit have been used for so long they have more than 250,000 miles on them.
Two-thirds of the parks in the city of Detroit have been permanently closed since 2008.
The size of the police force in Detroit has been cut by 40% over the past 10 years.
When you call the police in Detroit, it takes them an average 58 minutes to respond.
I know in New York that sounds like a lot.
Due to budget cutbacks, most police stations in Detroit are now closed to the public for 16 hours a day.
The violent crime rate in Detroit, five times higher than the national average.
The murder rate in Detroit is 11 times higher than it is in New York City.
Today police solve less than 10% of the crimes that are committed in Detroit.
Folks, if this if this town were run by a Republican or had been, do you think anything would have been done about this?
Do you think you would have even you think you would know about this if a Republican or if the Republican Party had anything to do with this?
Crime has gotten so bad in Detroit that even the police are telling people enter Detroit at your own risk.
Now, as this website says it's easy to point fingers and laugh at Detroit, but the truth is the rest of the country's going down the same path.
Detroit just got there first.
All over the country, there are hundreds of state and local governments also on the verge of financial ruin.
Everybody's gonna say, well, come on, just Detroit.
I thought it was already bankrupt.
But Detroit is not unique.
It's the same in Chicago and New York and San Diego and San Jose.
It's a lot of major cities in this country.
They may not be as extreme as Detroit, but a lot of them face the same problems.
All over the nation.
Our economic infrastructure is being gutted, debt levels are exploding, poverty is spreading, we are consuming far more wealth than we are producing, and our share of global GDP has been declining dramatically.
We've been living way above our means for so long that we think it's normal.
But an extremely painful adjustment's coming, and most Americans are not going to know how to handle it.
And this idiot judge, the bankruptcy judge just made it worse.
The bankruptcy judge in Detroit said, wait a minute.
You can't do none of this.
Why, the Constitution of Detroit, or Michigan, whatever, says that every benefit recipient will continue to receive their benefits, no matter what.
And then this judge said something about we've got to do this in honor of Obama who saved Detroit by saving General Motors.
I'm paraphrasing, but it was something like that.
Get this.
Only 7% of Detroit public school eighth graders are proficient in reading.
Folks, uh this is just this is just unacceptable.
And there are reasons for this.
This is what happens when there is capitulation to the Democrats.
This is what happens when everybody goes along with them.
It's what happens when their power is unchecked.
This is what happens when all you have is Democrat liberalism running whatever it is, a city, a union, a country, any other organization.
You end up with abject misery, despair, and total annihilation.
That's just what they do, folks.
It's not me saying it is Detroit living it.
So I said, and a lot of people snerdly, I checked the email.
A lot of people think this is profound.
That Obama has more in common with George Zimmerman than with Trayvon Martin.
They're both mixed race.
Far more in common.
But now Obama probably not like Zimmerman all that much because I don't know if Obama has ever rescued a family from an overturned truck.
Do you?
I don't know if Obama's ever done that.
Bob Dole is out there.
This kind of stuff just infuriated.
Bob Dole says that GOP must broaden its outreach.
What about Senator Dole, what about the Democrat Party?
Should they ever have to broaden their outreach?
Should the Democrat Party ever have to change?
Should the Democrat Party ever be challenged or should the Republican Party just do everything like the Democrat Party does?
What is this?
The GOP must broaden its outreach.
What the GOP must do is embrace conservatism.
I'm sorry to shout.
I'm not shouting, but I am yelling.
And I'm sorry either way.
But that's all that has to be done here.
Conservatism is for everyone.
And it doesn't know racial or victim or gender or sexual distinctions and classifications.
Because it's about the Constitution.
It's about every citizen.
It's about everybody.
What is this Republican must broaden itself?
To who?
You know, all of these defensive Republicans, it's apparently the Democrats are doing everything right.
Everything they're doing is hunky-dory and fine, that's who we must emulate.
For God's sakes, the Democrat Party's destroying this country.
Can't one Republican stand up and say that the Democrat Party has to be stopped?
Instead of saying the GOP the GOP doesn't control anything, Senator Dole.
All the GOP can do right now is say no in the House of Representatives.
That's it.
That's all they can do.
The Republicans don't control anything.
What Is this?
The Republicans must broaden their outreach.
I feel like Tommy LaSorda.
I wish you people could hear Tommy LaSorda when he is a manager of the Dodgers.
Some pitcher threw a no-hitter against him.
And some sports writer after the game asked LaSorda what he thought of this guy's performance.
And La Sorda went on a 10-minute rant about how stupid the question is.
What did I think of his performance?
You think I care a rat's wreckdom about his performance?
You want to know what I think about his performance?
Well, I feel like I'm Lisorta here.
The GOP must broaden its outreach.
The Republican Party's reaching out to everybody.
They're begging everybody.
Subtly and directly.
The Republican Party's running around with signs say, please love me.
The Republican Party is running around with signs, I don't hate you.
And somehow, God bless them all.
Somehow McCain has ended up in a prominent Republican leadership position here.
I swe McCain's out there praising Obama's speech on Friday from Trayvon Martin.
McCain's out there praising Obama on this.
He's out there praising Obama on that.
Why do we even have a party?
I'm sorry, why do they even have a party?
Senator Dole, a GOP's doing just fine trying to be Democrats.
I don't know what you're unhappy about.
I've seen GOP must broaden outreach.
It seems to me it's doing a damn good job of it.
Every day I get up and I do show prep, and I see a little bit of evidence there, a little bit of more evidence over here that the Republican Party is trying to be more like the Democrat Party every day.
Broaden its outreach.
You know what that really means.
Take a stab at it, Brian.
You look like you know what it means.
What is what does Dole really mean when he says the Republican Party must broaden its outreach?
What it means is we've got to shut talk radio up.
What it means is we got to stop all these conservatives from from from from from mouthing off.
If we get people like Limbaugh to shut up, more people would like the Republican Party.
That's what it means.
Isn't it?
Yeah.
Well, yeah, of course.
Bob Dole says we need more Hispanics.
Bob Dole said we need more Hispanics.
Bob Dole says we needed more Hispanics.
So Bob Dole says a GOP must broaden its outreach and we need more Hispanics.
What about women?
Do we need more women?
Stop the you got to stop the war on women.
GOP.
Bob Dole says they're gonna reach out, broaden the outreach, uh, be uh get more Hispanics and get more women.
What about blacks?
Bob.
Bob Dole thinks we should stop talking about Trayvon Martin.
Okay, well, on that note, let's let's go back to the phones.
Ricky in Kansas City.
Great, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh.
I've been listening to you for a long time, first time caller.
Appreciate that, sir.
I mentioned to uh Mr. Snerdley during the uh preamble here that um I hadn't ever voted uh in a presidential election.
Matter of fact, I've never even registered.
But I do pay my taxes and I perform military service, so I feel like I've done my part.
Um, I've raised my wife and I have raised nine children and you know if in fact this is a truly free society.
Here's what I see as a fundamental issue in that Trayvon Martin case.
And I haven't heard anybody really address it from this angle.
And it is that just as you and I, or everyone, we have the right to walk the streets unmolested.
Unchallenged, unhindered, no matter where I go, because I pay taxes, my children have the right to walk the streets unmolested, unchallenged, unhindered.
That's not what happened with that Trayvon Martin case.
He was in an area where someone thought he didn't belong, and it escalated from there, where one person challenges another person's right to walk the street unmolested, unhindered, challenged, and thus we know the result.
So it's really not an issue as much as people have made it about race and you know whether George Zimmerman is a white Hispanic and all of this.
It's simply about the mindset of I want to say America, that certain people don't belong where they are, and that if you sense that is the case,
that someone can use extra legal measures to challenge them, molest them, or cause them to be hindered in their motion because the Constitution does state clearly that I have a right to be secure in my person.
And I take my person everywhere I go, and Trayvon Martin took his person everywhere he went.
Um as do you, Rush and Mr. Snerdley and everybody else.
So I sometimes my person doesn't go with me, Ricky.
Well, it should, and it probably catches up with you, Rush, knowing you.
But um, but uh I you know that's that's really what I think, you know, people are trying to make it the uh, you know, a stand your ground law and all this and that.
I don't think that has anything to do with it.
And it and this is what concerns me is because the same thing happened over in uh Nazi Germany during Kristallnacht.
People were suddenly denied the right to walk the streets unmolested.
And the people who protested were in the minority I've got time dwelling, and I want to comment on what you said here, and I've got a thick, I'm gonna say a couple of things, probably gonna surprise you.
Okay, but in in the first place, I I you may be speaking generically, but Trayvon was not in the customary sense walking the street.
He was walking in a neighborhood where the residents had been uh faced with a rash of burglaries and crime, and that's why they established the neighborhood watch organization that they did.
It's called a gated community, but it's not when you it's not the stereotypical gated community.
This is a really lower middle class neighborhood where where people they were just barely hanging on to what they've got, and there were people making moves to steal it, and uh, and so this unfortunate circumstance happened.
But here's here's the thing.
I like you, I'm troubled by something here, Ricky.
I'm troubled by the fact that a guy got killed and nobody is doing any time for it or being punished for it.
But you know whose fault that is.
Once this case is charged, and remember the cops didn't have any evidence to charge this.
This is a nation of laws, and while you say we've all got the right to walk the streets, nevertheless, something happened here.
But there wasn't any evidence for this case to be charged.
Nobody, other than he said Zimmerman's word, and the witnesses, there weren't really any witnesses.
So there wasn't any charging in this case until the civil rights coalition got in gear and pressured the local law enforcement people down there to charge and arrest for murder and manslaughter, whatever it was, and then they they turned the case over to the prosecutors, and that's where this broke down.
There was the the prosecutors failed to make the case.
The American judicial system is what it is, and it worked.
There was not enough evidence to convict Zimmerman of what he was charged with.
It was not that Trayvon Martin was disturbed while innocently walking the street.
It was that Trayvon Martin had been manslaughtered by George Zimmerman.
Okay, well, if you're going to charge that, if you're going to say that's what happened here, then you better have evidence for it.
And if you don't, and you take it to court, you better have some other way of getting the verdict that you want.
They didn't.
The prosecution was inept in this case.
The prosecution, uh, you can argue about it all day long about whether the case was overcharged or whether there should have been any charges based on the absence of evidence.
There are so many circumstances here that are filled with gray area.
Because nobody really knows.
So we had a situation where nobody knows what happened other than Zimmerman.
And Zimmerman told his version.
Well, some people said I don't believe that.
And the reasons for it, then, well, because he's a white Hispanic and Trayvon's black, and here came the stereotypical assumptions that people started to make.
But when you strip it all away, the prosecution was unable to make the case that Zimmerman wantonly killed the guy.
And I don't know what you do beyond that, other than it, you know, it it's it it I can understand anybody being ticked off.
Here we have a 17-year-old killed, he's dead, and at the end of the day, there isn't any punishment.
But OJ got away with it.
Uh this stuff, it happens.
And I that's why I think Obama entering the fray the way he did is a little irresponsible here.
Because this case, you can't blame the defense.
They've got a client who's charged.
Their constitutional role is to defend this guy the best way they can.
And their constitutional role does not say they have to prove anything.
They don't have to prove he didn't do it.
The guys making the accusation have to prove it.
And they didn't.
And they couldn't.
Because they were looking at it from the wrong angle.
All they saw was race.
Because that's what they were being forced into seeing.
Sorry, we can't make that case here.
They charged it wrongly, overcharged it incorrectly, and the defense, given the way the charges were made, were able, it turned out, to prove he didn't do it.
To the jury, anyway.
Even though that's not what they have to do constitutionally.
The defense never has to prove anything.
It's all up to the prosecution, and they didn't make the case.
And I think that's unfortunate.
If there was a case to be made here, and if there was a guilty verdict to be had, the prosecution is who blew it.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Thanks so much for being with us, friends.
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