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Aug. 20, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 20, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane, more broadcast excellence, hosted by me, L. Rushbo.
Remember, if I don't talk about it, it's not worth you knowing about.
If I do talk about it, it is worth you paying attention.
It's just that simple.
Well, sometimes I get emails.
Rush, why didn't you mention it?
How do you know I didn't mention it?
Well, I listened all three hours.
Well, then if you listen all three hours and I didn't mention it, it's not worth you knowing about.
I mean, it's just that simple.
Telephone number, and we're gonna get to the phones quickly in this half hour.
800 28282.
Email address L Rushbo, EIBNet.com.
Coming up on the one year anniversary of Benghazi.
And pressure is on John Baehner to do something.
Could we have some investigations into this?
It's going the opposite way, actually.
Again from the Daily Beast.
I mean, this is uh Tina Brown, you know, gossip Maven.
This is her website, but our inept Secretary of State, John Kerry, has determined that the four State Department officials were placed on administrative leave by Hillary after the terrorist attack in Benghazi don't deserve any formal disciplinary action, and he has asked them to come back to work at the State Department starting today.
Now these are the four people, remember they testified, they were put on administrative leave by Hillary, they got paid during this entire time.
So this was nothing more than a show.
It was nothing more than optics.
It was nothing more than the regime trying to make people think that they were taking it seriously.
When they take this no more seriously than what we've learned at the IRS and the scandal there.
The whole thing's a cover up.
The whole thing is optics.
The whole thing is a distraction.
Now let's put aside for the moment whether these people were scapegoats or not.
What it means is that not one single person has been punished for what happened in Benghazi.
Not one person, if there was ever an event where heads should have rolled, that is it.
Last December, Clinton's staff told four mid-level officials to clean out their desks, hand in their badges after the release of the report of its own internal investigation into the attack at Benghazi.
That that that report was compiled by the administrative review board, led by former State Department official Thomas Pickering, and the former Joint Chiefs Chairman, Admirable or Admiral Mike Mullen, the four officials says here have been in uh legal and professional limbo, not fired, but unable to return to their jobs for eight months until today.
But they got paid.
Paychecks kept rolling it, so they were they were essentially on an eight-month paid vacation.
And they also know now they had better not speak out of turn.
So everything we know about Benghazi, and we don't know nearly enough, but we know that four Americans died.
We know that there were a lot of CIA personnel on the ground.
We know that it wasn't necessary.
We know there was something else going on there.
We know that it had nothing to do with a video.
We know that it had nothing to do with protests earlier in the day in Cairo.
We know that it was a planned, organized, scripted terror attack.
And it was known in advance, it was suspected in advance.
Nothing was done to stop it from beginning.
I mean nothing stopped it to take place, and once it started, nothing was done to stop it.
Four Americans died needlessly.
And at the end of ten months, eleven months, nothing.
Nothing to see here.
Meanwhile, the parents of the victims and and others are still suffering in great pain, seeking answers that are not forthcoming.
This is just, it's absurd.
It is at it's ridiculous.
And it is it's Orwellian.
It's it's it's great illustration.
What happens with an all-power government with no checks and balances, one that's out to protect and shield itself at all costs.
There's more sad, disappointing news.
This is uh kind of an offshoot of the general theme that there is a malaise that's just a haze of fog that's just hanging over the country, and it's down to the surface, it's at street level.
Even people who are doing well are not happy.
Even people who are succeeding in doing well, there's something wrong out there.
It's everybody senses it.
Even people on the left, or the people on the left are miserable because they know that everything they believe in fails.
Nothing works.
You realize after four and a half years of Obama, we're supposed to be in utopia here.
Four and a half, almost five years of Barack Obama.
We are supposed to be in eternal bliss.
Total happiness.
Everybody who wants a job is supposed to have one.
Everybody who wants a house is supposed to have one.
Everybody who wants to be able to afford to live however they want to live is supposed to be able to.
None of it's happened.
Now the left, just in general, is unhappy.
No matter what they get of what they want, it's never enough.
But they really thought that this was it.
Finally, they're Messiah.
Utopia, everything they believe in.
National health care, you name it.
The only thing they haven't gotten is the official sanction of gay marriage and gun control.
But pretty much everything else they wanted, they got it, they're on track for it, and they're just as miserable as everybody else.
And I would contend you, they're miserable because they're incapable of happiness.
I think the ideology, liberalism, does not permit happiness.
You have to be mad all the time to be a liberal.
You have to see unfairness, injustice, depression, recession, bigotry, racism, homophobia everywhere you look.
To be a good liberal, you can't be happy.
It's one of the many reasons why I don't think these people should ever be trusted with power.
There's no optimism, there's no good cheer, there's no laughter, there's no happiness.
By virtue of who they are.
They run around and they talk about all the uh anger on our side and extremism and this.
These people, no matter where you look, are enraged.
In general, they're enraged, but they're really mad now because they're living amidst incontrovertible proof that everything they believe doesn't work.
Now, I don't know that they have the maturity to actually admit that.
But whether they admit it or not, I mean you can see it, you know it, it isn't.
There isn't eternal happiness.
There isn't universal bliss.
The opposition's still there.
You know, part of the success of Obama and this utopia was the elimination of any opposition.
Well, we're still here.
They have failed to get rid of us.
So they're not happy, but neither is anybody else.
I mean, even, you know, people I Know who are demonstrably really profoundly successful.
They care so much about the country, they're not happy.
Some of them even feel a little guilt, which I promptly try to start talking them out of, because that's the last thing we need.
You know, that's that's one of the problems you millennials are facing, if I may give myself a head start here.
You know, in the millennial world these days, there is mostly Malays, indecision, failure, no opportunity.
But even within that generation, there are pockets of successful people.
And those people feel guilty.
Because there aren't that many others who are succeeding.
And that's horrible.
Never feel guilty for succeeding unless you're cheating and stealing and all but you know, normal flow of events if you're having success.
Spread it.
Teach it.
Be proud of it.
Let it be infectious to other people.
But we've got people so trained in this country that it's unfair to be prosperous.
It's unfair to be successful, that the successful try to hide it, and in hiding it, they become unhappy.
In hiding it, they can't live their success.
They have to portray themselves as something less than what they are to avoid criticism, to avoid sharp forms of disagreement, or to avoid being isolated.
And I think this is something that is uh prominent, profound even, within the millennial generation.
Remember, these are people coming out of school that have all of this debt, and they're looking at 39 and a half hour a week jobs.
There's no careers every place that they want to work is downsizing.
And there aren't places to go to have a career, other than you know, trying to be entrepreneurial.
And let's face it, most quite a lot of people are just not oriented that way.
Most people are comfortable being employees.
Well, fine and dandy, nothing wrong with that.
But employees' hours are being cut back.
No matter where you look, there isn't any happiness.
There isn't any optimism.
And all of that gets processed by people, I think, by them saying and feeling this just isn't right.
This is not the country they thought they were growing up in when they were in high school and heading into college.
And don't forget, too, these people, 60% of the millennials voted for Obama because they thought they were getting this utopia panacea.
They thought they were getting all the stuff in the past that they didn't like shut down.
All that was going to be fixed and thrown away.
We're going to have new systems and new ways of doing things and new kinds of jobs and all kinds of creativity and you know, whatever utopia panacea meant to them.
And there isn't any.
We don't have any optimism coming from any sector of leadership in this country.
You may find an individual politician here or there who is optimistic, and that politicians out, by the way, in a wood in a good way.
But overall, people who are perceived to be running the country, they're not happy either.
And all this Obama vacation time, don't think for a moment that people don't see it and are affected by it.
Do not think, folks, I'm I'm warning you here, do not think that most people look at Obama's vacations and think, man, I'm glad my president's doing what it takes to get some needed time off.
Most people are not looking at it that way.
They may not be openly critical, but they're not, they don't respect it.
They don't admire it.
In fact, I think that's another thing that has millennials and leftists in a bit of a quandary in addition to their depression.
Look at the lofty hopes and expectations that they placed on Obama compared to what he is.
He's just another guy out there.
He's not particularly good at anything except talking.
But he doesn't make anybody feel better.
He doesn't comfort anybody.
So all of that hope that they invested, it's not manifesting itself.
Nothing's working out.
Nothing's going right.
And when you do succeed, when you do feel happy, others make you feel guilty about it.
So it makes you pull back on either being successful or hiding the success or prosperity that you have.
That is not healthy.
It isn't good.
It's not inspirational.
It's not infectious.
We're just we're being swallowed up by negative negativism or negativity or pessimism, what have you.
And it's affecting everybody.
The only people that seem to be in any way enjoying life are the dumbest among us.
People with reality shows that couldn't spell cat if you spotted them the C and the A and the T. The people that low information voters want to be.
They're the only ones that seem happy, so it maybe it makes sense to be dumb and stupid and surface and all that.
Maybe that's the key.
Maybe the key is don't get all involved in this stuff.
All it's going to do is make you unhappy.
You know, just be a space cadet.
All the wrong things are providing inspiration today.
And it is a real shame.
Now, two stories here, one from the Cato Institute report welfare pays more than minimum wage, discourages workers.
Let me summarize this for you.
The Cato Institute has found that the equivalent wage value of welfare has increased in 33 states since 1995.
Cato found the benefits in the District of Columbia expanded by nearly $7,000 to a total package equivalent to $50,000 in wages.
You can get on welfare in Washington if you access everything available to you to the tune of $50,000.
Why work?
Now the people doing this, they no doubt think they're in on something good.
This is not good, folks.
This is not the kind of thing happening in a superpower country.
Where not working and basically being worthless pays you more than a job you've spent tens of thousands of dollars being educated to learn to do.
All of this has a deleterious effect.
New York Post, when welfare pays better than work.
Here's an offer for you.
$38,000 per year tax-free, no work required, apply at your local welfare office.
The federal government funds one hundred and twenty six separate programs targeted towards low-income people, seventy-two of which provide either cash or in kind benefits to individuals.
And they say we have no room to cut the budget.
That is just absurd.
We're going to get to the phones that come back from the break here at the bottom of the hour.
And I still got the millennial stack.
We'll get to it when I feel it.
I'm not teasing you with it.
When I feel like getting to it, we'll do it.
I mean things happen by virtue of improv here.
There is no schedule.
I just want to say one thing on this optimism business.
Folks.
I know given the circumstances that success, however you define it, prosperity, it's tough.
It's a more challenging thing to achieve than ever.
But don't stop.
There are fewer people.
More people have been beat down into submission.
There's less competition for success right now.
That means there are more open doors.
Go for it.
And while you're going for it, do not apologize for it.
In fact, be just the opposite.
Be proud of what you're trying to do and let everybody know it.
You'll fail a couple times maybe, but you'll hit it eventually.
But don't fall prey to this notion of being a fraid of success or afraid of your own success, or thinking it's not warranted or unjustified because nobody else is.
Don't do that.
Pursue it.
Seek it.
When you find it, be proud of it.
Let that be infectious and inspiring to others.
That's how you can make a difference in one way.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you.
Telephone number 800 282-2882, the email address Ilrushboard at EIB net.com.
Just one more thing on this.
And many of you in the audience know this.
I'm addressing this to I know that there are millennials listening to this program.
I know they're young people.
I just want to give you some truth.
There is always going to be inequality in any group of human beings.
A neighborhood, a home, a country, a state.
No two people are ever the same.
Particularly when talking about results or outcome in life.
Do not ever feel guilty.
Well, that may not be possible, but don't let your guilt trap you.
And don't let don't ever, don't ever let anybody convince you that your success is the reason for somebody else's failure.
Because it isn't.
Success, life are not zero sum games.
You know, the Democrat Party looks at taxes as a zero sum game.
They look at money as a zero sum game.
And by that I mean a lot of liberals, a lot of Democrats think that if somebody gets a raise, somebody had to get fired.
Somebody gets a raise, somebody had to get a pay cut.
No, it's not the way it works.
The history of this country has always been an expanding economic pie.
The reason the pie isn't expanding is because the government is taking more and more of it.
One sixth of the U.S. economic pie has just been taken by Obama and the Democrats.
It's called health care.
So opportunity in the healthcare sector is dramatically reduced because of who's running it.
The people running it don't produce anything.
They don't make a profit, and they don't have to make a profit, and profit is what pays people.
But don't ever think that your success is the reason other people's are fail people are failing.
Don't ever feel guilty about this.
And don't ever think that things are fundamentally wrong when there's inequality out there.
Because there's always going to be.
There's always going to be unfairness.
You can't get rid of it.
You can't and you cannot allow yourself to be imprisoned or shackled by it.
Even when it happens to you.
Happens to everybody.
Everybody is dealt with unfairly every day.
The difference is how people deal with it.
Some people use it as an excuse for failure and for doing nothing.
Other people use failure as a motivator.
Another illustration of how we're all different.
But there but the whole concept of social justice is impossible.
There can't be social justice.
There can't be everybody the same.
It's been tried since the beginning of time.
Country after country, leader after leader, socialist after socialist.
They've all attempted it.
It never works.
The main reason why is all of them are rich.
They take as much as they can from all the rest of the people.
And then they try to mandate equality over what's left.
Never feel guilty because you're making the most of the one life you've got.
You've only got one.
There's not a do-over.
Now there are do-overs when you screw up, but you only have one chance.
Every day you spent wallowing in self-pity or depression is a day you cannot get back.
It's a lost day.
Every day that you spend feeling offended at something or outraged at something is a day you have given up.
The power of your own determination.
And you're letting others determine how you feel.
And that is the prison of liberalism.
That is the prism of statism.
It's to spread misery equally and to convince as many people as possible that overwhelming success just isn't possible, and when it is attained, it's unfair and unjust.
More people were taught not to fall for that.
That's why everybody's in a state of malaise and depression.
One of the many reasons why.
We're guilt tripping everything that ought to be celebrated.
We're guilt tripping everything.
It ought to be applauded.
We're guilt tripping everything.
It ought to be used as inspiration, role model.
We're guilt tripping all the wrong things.
Also certain people can feel better or not have their feelings hurt, or so they won't be offended or whatever.
It's their problem.
It's not yours.
You do more for them by setting a good example than you do by trying to be as miserable as they are.
It's not doing either of you any good.
Back to the phones or to the phones, because we haven't been Columbia, Maryland.
We start with Jim.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi.
How are you?
I am good.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to ask you about the bipartisan 9-11 Commission.
What happened to them?
We never hear from them anymore.
Remember, W couldn't pass wind and they wouldn't be on TV discussing how it affected national security.
That's a good point.
That's an excellent point.
Throughout the Iraq War, I mean, how many times what was this guy's name?
Romer.
Timothy Roomer.
He's one of the Democrats on the 9-11 Commission.
You couldn't keep that guy off television.
Ripping Bush, ripping Cheney.
Old Jim here is right.
Now you don't see these people.
And some of you might say, well, come on, Rush, the 9-11 Commission.
9-11 was 2001.
We're way beyond that.
Where's the Ben Gaza Commission?
That's not the point.
The point is we have some people after 9-11 that set up, they formed a commission and supposedly gave us guidelines on how to prevent that from happening again and how to behave in the in the Middle East and how to how to comport ourselves so that we weren't attacked again.
And here U.S. vital interests are being laughed at.
The supposed desires of the United States in areas of the Middle East are being ignored.
We got a powder keg.
He's exactly right out there.
What was that that just came in?
Is that for me?
What is it?
Who's it from?
I just love getting boxes.
What is it?
Just tell me real quick.
Otherwise I want to be distracted.
Looks like an IMAC box.
Ooh, really?
Can't be an IMAC box.
It's too narrow.
Where's it from?
Oh, it's a picture to you.
Oh.
Did you s right?
I'm I'm sure it's for me.
Everything here is for me.
We'll get to it.
Anyway, Jim has uh got a point, although, Jim, you might be interested in knowing the 9-11 Commission officially shut down in 2004.
The 9-11 Commission officially closed on August 21st, 2004, and they issued their final report.
But that didn't stop those people from showing up on TV every day during the Iraq war.
And he's got a great question.
Where are those people?
Because all they were doing was ripping American foreign policy.
And and and by extension, Bush.
Great point, Jim.
Dave, somewhere in Illinois, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Yeah, thank you very much.
I just wanted to uh tell you a story that happened.
Um my uh dad uh worked at a large distribution warehouse uh for three years, and uh uh he'd uh never been late, never been disciplined, um, worked there full time.
Um he uh a couple months ago he started noticing that um some of his uh fellow co-workers, the full-time co-workers, were being let go, and uh he didn't really know why, um, but he did notice that they were being replaced with uh temporary employees, part-time temporary employees.
And uh, you know, he was always talking to management and stuff, and they had actually started talking to him about um maybe possibly bringing him into a leadership role within the company.
Well, Monday they said, Well, we need to talk to you in the conference room, and so he thought, well, it's been three years, it doesn't do for a raise, or maybe that promotion they were talking about, and uh they told him that they caught him and three other employees on a security camera.
They were clocking in to start their work day, and one of the uh four employees clocked all four employees in at the same time, you know, just grabbed their time cards, clocked them in for them, and then they all went to work.
And this was about a month ago.
And they said, Well, we we saw that happen, and that's against company policy.
You're fired.
And so he he said, Well, you know, dis you know, discipline me or something first, write me up, something, don't don't fire me.
And they said, Well, it's it's it's above us now.
And so, you know, he's sh of course shocked, so he goes home and and the first thing he does is he gets online and he starts looking for jobs, and he notices that um that company that uh he was just let go from was hiring, but not full-time positions.
They were hiring through the temporary comp the temporary worker agency.
And that's when it hit him.
Uh they're getting rid of these full-time jobs in order to avoid these new health care restrictions, these new health care laws that are coming in.
They are not alone.
But you see, the problem, Dave, is that in in the uh in the world I I call the low information voter, they are blaming the company where your dad worked rather than the policy that's dictating the behavior by the company.
Right.
So the companies are taking the heat on this.
It's the limbaugh theorem.
Obama's policies are causing this, but he's not getting any of the blame.
The companies are.
Right.
So your dad, your dad and his three co-workers, they just decided for the economy of time, one guy punched them in at the same time.
They were all there, they were all going to work at the same time, just one guy punched them all in at the same time, and all of a sudden that I'm sure it had happened before.
Sure that wasn't.
And I and I don't know, I don't know if it's happened before, but this is a distribution warehouse that has several cameras.
I mean, they handle tons of merchandise.
They're looking all the time.
They have to be looking all the time for people, especially if they want to keep their you know their their bottom line uh uh you know in the black, they're going to be making sure that nobody's stealing anything or anything like that.
And my my dad said that he he knows of situations where people have have you know lifted stuff, um, and he's brought it to the supervisor's attention, and the supervisor says, Well, we'll let the cameras, you know, if if anything happens, the cameras will find it, and our security team will get it.
So why would they spend why would the security team spend their time firing four employees that were on time for work in instead of uh maybe looking somewhere else for you know the answer to that?
Uh I do know the answer to that.
I just it's it's extremely frustrating how the answer they needed cause.
They they were firing your dad and the other guys because of Obamacare.
But they're not gonna say that because that opens them up.
If they fire them with cause, then it gives them at least one layer of insulation against action that your father and the other guys might take in uh it in in getting some sort of compensation for being unjustly let go.
And initially, you know, he his first response was, well, I'll get a lawyer and sue him, but after about an hour of that, he thought, you know, it's not worth it.
I got bills to pay.
I'm going to find another job, and he's actually already applied to other places.
And this just happened yesterday.
So, you know, he's he has never been one to stay down on himself.
And uh, and so he'll find something and he'll be just fine.
But I I just I appreciate the message that you're putting out there, um, you know, letting people know that.
Well, this breaks my heart, though.
Because you know, I f I'm uh I say it all the time.
I th I think people like your dad.
I mean, you're calling from someplace in Illinois.
You're you're in what the elites call flyover country.
Your dad and people like him.
They go about their business every day, they show up on time, they do the job, then don't make trouble for anybody.
I I people like your dad are the ones that make country work.
Uh not the Harvard faculty and not all these theoreticians in academia, not these, you know, eggheads at the Department of Treasury and stuff.
And, you know, you you're unappreciated, taken for granted.
Your taxes get raised, you get let go like this uh in order for the company to stay in business.
They've got no choice.
That's the sad thing.
It's either do this or run the risk of no profit and shut down, and that's not uh responsible on their part.
So uh it's just it it all of this is so unnecessary.
This all of this simply to satisfy the selfish want and desires of a bunch of liberals to control everything.
And what really galls me is that while all this is happening, they try to tell everybody that they're doing everything for the little guy, that they're the guarantor of the little guy, the protector of the little guy.
They're gonna protect the little guy from these evil Wall Street people, these evil Walmart people, these evil Republicans and so forth.
And the truth of the matter is they're the ones killing the little guy with their quest for power at lip just it's maddening.
Back to the phones, Maple Grove, Minnesota.
This Chris, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, mega optimistic dittoes from my wife Jan and six budding conservatives.
So wanted to let you know that.
Thank you very much.
Hard as they try.
Hey, I was listening to you talk about the Lehi leak and the aid to Egypt and and it's that it's a president's way of voting present, and it struck me.
Remember what came out last week about playing cards during the Bin Laden raid.
Yeah, that was from Reggie Love told us about it.
Yes.
So let's think about this.
Obviously, that was a leak they didn't want to get out.
But if he steps out of the room, No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I take that back.
No, no, no.
He wanted it out.
Reggie Love wouldn't have gone out there.
Reggie Love misplayed it, but they had what they were trying to do with that.
Um, Reggie Love was trying to invoke empathy.
He was trying to make people feel sorry or or they he wanted people to know how hard Obama was so hard he had to take a break and play cards.
He's just just he can't watch that.
He can't be in that room all that time.
It's two, he's just he's gotta take a break.
He's got to recharge.
They were not that that was purposefully done.
Okay, maybe purposely done, but just think about this.
If he's out playing cards, and and we probably wouldn't may not have known that, if the Bin Laden raid goes wrong, it's the CIA and the Navy's problem.
If he's not paying close attention.
It's again, I think it's your same way of him playing it both ways.
He had it set up.
So he could play win or lose, it's all him, or it's CIA.
They they just, you know, I gave me okay.
I mean, I wasn't even around.
I don't think that there is any doubt that Obama is fully aware that he has managed to be able to insulate himself from anything that goes wrong.
He's got media assistance, he's got his own behavioral techniques.
So I don't I think you're right.
I think He's totally confident that whatever goes wrong, he can see to it.
He's not held accountable.
And when it goes right, he's out there claiming he pulled a trigger while dealing a hand of spades.
That's essentially the limbaugh theorem.
I can't agree with you more.
Okay, well, tackle this uh this millennials stack that I have here in the stack of stuff when we get back from this top of the hour timeout.
So be patient.
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