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Aug. 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 21, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Ah, geez.
Ah, darn it.
Oh, I didn't know my golden EIB microphone was on.
Let me try one more time here, okay.
That's just disappointing.
But I have to deal with it.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, folks.
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The Reverend Odak has weighed in on the shooting in Dunklin, Oklahoma.
Duncan, Oklahoma.
This would be the Reverend Odak Sr.
I don't think the Jr. is a Reverend anyway, right?
Jesse Jr.
So here we have the statement here on the shooting of Chris Lane in Oklahoma by a couple of black teenagers.
Here it is from Twitter.
The Reverend Odak has tweeted the following.
Praying for the family of Chris Lane.
This senseless violence is frowned upon and the justice system must prevail.
And that's it.
This senseless violence is frowned upon.
That's not, I mean, frowned upon?
That's kind of like mildly objecting to something, isn't it?
It's less than a slap on the wrist, and when you frown at somebody, there's no physical contact there.
Senseless violence is frowned upon.
It's very moving and heartfelt, isn't it?
We don't know if it's a Jesse tweeter, his staff.
Whoever tweeted it, I'm not feeling a whole lot of moral outrage there.
Frowned upon is not strident.
It's not really powerful, moral.
Is that how we're supposed to judge it?
At least it's not a smiley face?
I just, okay, so it's not a smiley face.
He's frowned on it.
All right.
What?
You mean that's sufficient?
So the Reverend Odax has officially frowned upon the violence in Duncan, Oklahoma.
No, I'm not going to keep on with this millennial stuff.
I've spent the better part, let's say, an hour yesterday and an hour today.
And I don't want to overdo this.
I do think, however, it's important.
This is the millennials and the generation prior, but particularly the millennials, they're really, they're being encouraged to lose faith in the country.
They're being encouraged to accept a transformation into a lesser country that's just unnecessary.
They're being trained, indoctrinated, what have you, into accepting lives of so little potential.
And the insulting thing is that they're being told to feel virtuous about that.
You know, the left, the left wants everybody just to give up everything.
Except the leaders of the left don't give up did the least squat.
The leaders of the left, they're the ones that go out and spend $50 million traveling around on other people's 727s, like Bill Clinton.
They're the ones collecting $700,000 a speech and traveling thousands of miles using jet fuel to get there to make the speech to accept the money.
And they're the ones driving around in big cars and flying in private planes while telling their minions skateboard, that's fine, Zach.
In fact, that's virtuous.
You keep it up, Zach.
You've got a real future with us.
So unnecessary.
From Reuters, an analysis piece, it says here: Obamacare and tepid U.S. growth fuel part-time hiring.
The hell you say.
Reuters has finally jumped on the bandwagon, folks.
Even Reuters is now admitting that Obamacare is causing employers to only hire part-time workers.
Now, Reuters had to blame the faltering U.S. economy first, but remember, Obama has no responsibility for that.
Obama's not in charge of the economy.
Obama's policies have nothing to do with the economy.
So even though they usually tell us that the economy is going like gangbusters, in this story, they talk about the economy as tepid and faltering.
And that's the first reason employers are only hiring part-timers.
And then the second reason is Obamacare.
But even in this piece, Reuters claims: quote, U.S. businesses are hiring at a robust rate, which is preposterous.
Businesses are not even hiring at a rate that keeps up with the population increase in this country, and that's even down.
We are barely at population replacement levels, birth replacement levels, that would keep the population where it is.
We certainly do not have businesses hiring at a faster rate.
In fact, most businesses are not even hiring at a rate that keeps up with population increase.
There is no economic recovery going on.
So it's disingenuous to say here that U.S. businesses are hiring at a robust rate.
Then they say, some economists, however, say the surge in reliance on part-time workers will fade as the economy strengthens and businesses gain more certainty over how they will be impacted by Obamacare.
So you see, American businesses are so stupid, they think it's a bad thing to have to pay the Obamacare penalty for not offering health care.
Eventually, these businesses are going to figure out that they have to spend a lot more money and they're going to be fine with it.
And then once they become fine with spending more money with it, then they'll start hiring more people.
And it's all going to be magic.
It's all going to work out.
But as we sit here today, tepid U.S. job growth is fueling part-time hiring.
Oh, and a little bit of Obamacare thrown in as well.
It's just utter irresponsibility, journalistic malpractice.
I was just thinking, if we can't even reach out to the millennials, our own children, how can we reach out to the Hispanics?
Now, if you're a Republican Party and you can't even reach out to your own kids and turn them around, if you can't even reach out to your own millennial generation and give them the truth about things, how in the world are you going to reach out to Hispanics?
You know, Moynihan, Senator Moynihan, Daniel Moynihan, came up with this phrase defining deviancy down.
And what that meant was that as crime and malfeasance and general cultural decay continued to get worse, our inability to stop it caused us to just claim it to be normal.
So increased murder rate, normal.
Increased crime rate, normal.
More bank robberies, whatever it was, teenage births, the new normal.
We can't stop it.
We can't deal with it.
So we just define deviancy down.
So what used to be deviancy is the new normal.
Well, what we are watching in real time here is the future of our country being defined down by virtue of the fact that so many people are losing faith in it.
And I know you know you agree with me that what's maddening about that.
There's nothing wrong with the country.
It's what's being done to it that is wrong.
And if anybody needs to be losing faith with anything, it's with policies that come out of the Democrat Party.
That's what people need to lose faith in.
But if the Republican Party isn't going to stand up and say that, what do you expect to happen?
The Republican Party is an opposition party.
The Republican Party ought to be standing up every day and telling people what's wrong with Obama economic policies.
But they can't get past Obama's race.
They're just, they're cowed.
They're scared to go anywhere near criticism of Obama because of his race.
In normal times, you have a Democrat Party trying to remake and transform the country with these idiotic policies.
The Republican Party would be standing up and telling people what's idiotic about them and pointing out alternatives and giving people something to think about.
It isn't happening.
Another story from Reuters.
What is this?
Low prices scene luring young adults to Obamacare.
Study.
If uninsured young Americans shun the new health plans offered under Obamacare, it'll be because the insurance costs too much and not because they don't expect to need much medical care, according to a study released on Wednesday.
So in other words, folks, the headline here is completely misleading.
It should read, low prices would lure young adults to Obamacare.
If uninsured young Americans shun new health plans offered by Obamacare, it'll be because it costs too much.
So they've got survey data which concludes that young people aren't buying it because it costs too much.
Now, the conventional wisdom is that young people don't buy it because they don't think they're going to need it.
They don't buy health insurance because they're young and robust and they're thinking of terms of immortality.
They're not sitting around thinking about nursing home days and stuff in their 20s.
There's no reason for them to be buying health insurance and they don't.
That's what we're always told.
But this survey purports to tell us something else.
Young people don't buy it because it costs too much.
And then the story goes on to point out that 82% Of these young people could qualify for Obamacare subsidies.
And that would then inspire them to buy Obamacare insurance.
Now, if the young people get subsidies, who in the hell is going to pay for the elderly?
Because you remember the real reason that costs were going up with no subsidies for young people is because there's a lot of them, and they're not a net cost on health care because they're healthy for the most part, and they don't require health care.
So everything they spend on health insurance is profit.
And that profit is what was going to pay for health care for the seasoned citizens.
But if they're going to offer subsidies to the youths, doesn't make sense.
By the way, the study was done back in March.
I don't know why we're hearing about it now.
I guess this is just part of the news media's full court press to try to roll more young people into Obamacare.
Let's take a brief time out.
I've monopolized quite a bit here.
We'll get to your phone calls.
People have been patiently waiting on hold.
We'll get to that.
We get back.
Don't go away, folks.
Be right back.
And as promised, we go to the phone somewhere in Georgia.
This is Jess.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Ross First On Caller.
Thanks for having me on the show.
You bet.
There's been a lot of talk over the last couple of days on your show about millennials and how they've been staying at home in record numbers and haven't been able to afford cars and haven't been able to afford to save.
And I want to tell you a story that I think kind of plays into that a little bit.
I'm a 24-year-old police officer in South Georgia.
And my first year on the job, I paid around $6,000 in federal taxes.
And my tax return that year was, my federal tax return was for $23, which I just couldn't believe I expected a lot more than that for how much I paid in.
No, wait, wait, wait, hold on.
I just lost you.
Your first year on the job, you paid $6,000 in federal taxes, and your tax return, you mean your refund?
My tax refund, my federal tax return.
Oh, I think it's a tax return.
So the refund was $23, and you paid $6,000.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
So I was expecting a lot more than that.
I was disappointed.
But anyway, the second part of the story is that a little bit after I received that check, I was at work part of a team that executed a search warrant on the home of a known burglar and drug dealer.
And part of the scope of that search warrant was any documents which would help to tie the suspect to that particular residence.
So when we went in, he was not there, but lo and behold, we found his tax return there.
And upon opening it, I saw that this individual had made an income of $3,000 legally that year, not to include any money he made from drug dealing or from the merchandise that he stole from others and sold it.
Which, of course, would be unreported.
Of course, unreported income.
Right.
So he had $3,000 reported income.
And his tax refund was for a little under $1,000.
A little under $1,000.
And that to me, it's obviously outrageous that he got back more than he paid in.
Not only that, but he's a criminal and he's gotten back more than I got back as a police officer.
I didn't think that that was right.
I think that young people are seeing a trend there that they don't feel like hard work is paying off.
And they feel that they could do just as well by sitting at home and collecting some sort of assistance.
And we had the story yesterday.
had two stories yesterday, Jess, on how in Connecticut and New York, respectively, you can earn $33 and $50,000 a year tax-free accessing all of the various duplicate 126 welfare assistance programs.
If you can access them, you can earn 50 grand or 33, depending on where you live, tax-free.
And this guy, you're talking about the drug dealer criminal on whom you executed the search warrant, what got him that refund was the earned income tax credit.
Correct.
But you know, you have a really good point.
This is where virtue and I don't know.
I don't want to be syrupy here, morality, whatever, but this is where this kind of thing comes in.
You've chosen honorable profession, you're a law enforcement professional.
You want to protect the law-abiding in your community.
You want to do all that.
You knew what it paid going into it.
You knew that.
You know what your future earning possibility is.
And there's no question you're going to run into people that do far better than you do breaking the law.
And they're not going to get caught in many cases.
Or if they get caught, they squeeze out of it somehow.
It's got to be a – but I know it's frustrating.
But this happens to – everybody at some point in life runs into this circumstance where people less qualified, they think.
or they know somebody in their family gets them a job and they don't have a connection.
It's these kinds of inequities that the left uses to preach socialism and fairness to people.
And people who have less resolve than you apparently do fall for it.
Are you still there?
Oh, yes, I'm here.
I know people get dazzled when I speak, and sometimes they can't.
You're done with me yet.
No, no, no.
Well, I would absolutely agree with that.
And I think that a lot of young people, you know, the majority of young people on my age group voted for Barack Obama.
And I think that they feel that they did it because all of these programs represent doing the right thing.
They still have this idea that we are caring for people who are less fortunate or have fallen upon hard times.
And I think that if they want to carry our aid group in the upcoming election, that they have to find a candidate that can effectively deliver a message to young people that there is pride and dignity to be found in hard work and that there is virtue in that, and that there is virtue in being independent and in being able to take care of yourself.
I agree.
I agree 100%.
That message, by the way, is conservatism.
And it's not hard, but there just doesn't seem to be too many Republicans that are willing to articulate it as a policy alternative or as a way of life.
It's both.
And it works.
But you're exactly right.
Of course, the left has found a way to young people, helping others, helping the discriminated against, the aggrieved, you name it, the promise of utopia, the promise of painless existence, and so forth.
And it all sounds good when you promise it.
And if you've got a clever spokesman, can make it believable like Obama was, it's hard to rebut.
But after five years of abject failure on the part of this clever spokesman, the time I would think is ripe to blow it up.
Pat in Fort Carson, Colorado.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, how are you doing, Rush?
Megadittos.
Thank you, sir, very much.
First time caller, but long-time listener.
Been trying to get through to you forever and finally did.
Well, anyway, I guess you can put me, I had my midlife crisis in 2008, and you put me in with those millennials a little bit.
I bought into the soup and Kool-Aid that Obama was throwing out.
And now I'm getting ready to retire from the Army.
And now look at the economy, no jobs or anything.
It's going to be tough.
Let me take you back to 2008 and that campaign.
What was it, and be honest?
I mean, there's no wrong answer here.
What was it that you now think you fell for, bought into?
What did you believe he meant?
What did you think was going to happen?
Everything he had to say, his hope and change for America, that America is bad, that it's time that we turn around and become good.
And we need to apologize for all our actions and all that.
And it's coming down hard on everybody.
And I should have just gone with my heart, which my dad always taught me.
Hard work comes good success and not have it handed to you.
But you heard Obama talking hope and change, and you bought it.
And you heard Obama say the country is not respected and liked and needs to be.
And you heard all of that gobbledygook that he was saying.
You just bought right into it.
I bought into it, hook line, thinker.
And I'm getting ready to retire from the military here in a couple of months.
And I'm looking at the job market.
Everything I wanted to do that I had dreams of doing when I got out, I can't do anymore.
In 2008, Pat, would you describe yourself as being ideological in any way?
I mean, did you think in terms of liberal or conservative or Republican versus Democrat?
Or did that kind of stuff not matter to you?
No, I fell into the Republicans versus the Democrat, and the Democrats talked a good game.
They talked a good game, and the Republicans just, I don't know, they lost their fight.
See, they need to get their spine back.
This is what fascinates me.
I'm probably not going to express this well, but I'm going to give it a shot.
But you didn't say anything wrong.
Don't misunderstand my tone here at all.
It's not directed at you.
I intellectually do not understand falling for Democrats.
I understand what they do.
There's a 50-year track record of Democrat policies and what they mean and what happens.
There is evidence all over the world that if Democrat-type policies are in place, what happens to people and what happens to countries?
I am ideological.
It is all about conservative versus liberal to me.
I would never, I can't ever see myself falling for a Democrat campaign.
I can't see myself being seduced or sucked in by Democrat promises.
I don't care who it is.
And what's hard for me is to, hard, it's just disappointing.
There are so many people who just don't look at political parties that way, and they don't look at things that way at all.
And that, to me, has always been the task has been to try to get people thinking more along those lines so that an Obama would come along and nobody would be fooled.
I mean, everybody voted for the guy who's been fooled.
Everybody, now you do have some true believers, and you've got some people who voted for him because they want to be close to power, you know, the Hollywood people and the Wall Street rich and the crony capitalists, but rank and file, everyday normal people has to know now, in my mind, that it was all smoke and mirrors.
Except they don't.
That's the frustrating thing.
They're losing faith in the country, not Obama, because of the Limbaugh theorem.
I mean, the failure of the Democrat Party and the failure of Democrat policies.
Pat finally saw it after five years, after four years.
But my guess is another Democrat 10 years from now could suck him in.
He will not remember this.
Me might.
Don't take it personally, Pat.
That's why the learning never stops here at the Limbaugh Institute.
When it comes to party politics and worldview, I don't understand having to relearn it.
The only way I do understand it is people just don't look at it that way.
Well, this guy's saying, I like it.
He's got some good ideas.
I like what this guy is saying, this Democrat.
You mean you believe it?
Oh, yeah, it sounds good to me.
Plus those Republicans, what a bunch of racist bigots.
Of course, that's a factor, too.
It's the way Bush was portrayed and never any defense, never any response to any of those allegations and stupid charges.
It's, I don't know.
I'm being a little childish here, I know, because this is like a kid wishing for Santa Claus every day.
It isn't going to happen.
But it's still, some of it to me seems so obvious.
I don't, oh, I do understand being fooled by it, but then I don't.
I wouldn't be.
I would never be fooled.
A John Kerry would never fool me.
A Barack Obama would never fool me.
A JFK would never fool me.
But, I mean, obviously, tens of millions of people are every four years.
I got to take a brief time out here, folks.
If I had unlimited time to develop this, I could probably get to exactly what I mean by this.
I'm probably sounding a little contradictory, and I don't mean to be, but I'll stick with it till I get it right.
Don't go away.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Snerdley just reminded me of something that is really relevant to this discussion.
And I think this is probably what cuts through all of the thinking that I'm doing.
He said to me, you don't want anything from government.
You don't want any other than to be left alone.
You don't want anything.
You want your taxes cut and you want your regulations and you want to be left alone.
He said, Rush, most people want something.
And I have to admit that's true, and that's the result of 50 years of being promised things.
It's gotten to the point now where the wants have become expectations.
So it's a relevant, it's a relevant aspect.
Some of it's how you raise them.
And there was no, in our family, in our town, there was no, you know, government wasn't where you went to get anything.
It just wasn't.
But you go to any federal building today or state building and you take a look at what's going on.
I mean, they're swarmed with people.
Not people at work there.
They're swarmed with people going to sign up for this program or that program or pick up a check.
They're literally swarmed.
The parking lots necessary for state and federal office buildings dwarf those or are similar to those of stadiums.
But he's right.
I mean, it's a big difference.
Government was never where you went for anything.
In fact, I'll never forget.
We had a good friend who was a farmer.
His name was Norman Weiss.
And he ended up somehow producing butter that ended up in the welfare program.
And he brought some of it by.
And the government butter that ended up, this is in the 50s, folks.
I'm at the single-digit age.
I remember my mom and dad looking at this butter and tasting it.
It is unlike anything they could buy in a store.
It was delicious.
It was just great.
It was prime butter.
And it was government, but it was the kind of butter that's my first memory of government-provided stuff.
And my parents going on and on about how much better it was than what they could buy in a store.
And I guess that's why Norman brought it over, you know, just to show us that.
But it was government is never where the last place anybody looked for anything.
And today, that's, of course, massively different.
We had a caller wanting to know if pressure at the tea party, at town meetings by Tea Party people would matter.
Don't miss tomorrow's program.
We have news about Tea Party and town meetings and whether or not it matters.
We'll see you then, folks.
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