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Aug. 29, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 29, 2013, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Great to have you on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
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There are no graduates and there are no degrees because the learning never stops.
And we're here at the fastest week in media.
Man, I'm already here at Thursday.
And it is great to have you with us.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen.
You know, we've we've been focusing on heavy stuff all week long, and I've got a really great lighthearted stack here.
For example, there's a study.
There's a study out there that has found that if you are a fan of a losing sports team, you have a greater tendency to obesity.
Because you eat not just you eat more, you eat sixteen percent more saturated fats when your team loses than if your team wins.
Can you believe that?
It's not that you just eat more.
It it because you're depressed and you're forlorn and you got nothing to hold on to, life isn't worth living.
Your team lost.
So now you've got to deal with the fact that you automatically somehow end up consuming 16% more saturated fats than you usually do.
And by the same token, fans of winning teams apparently are getting thinner.
The study found that the uh the winning fans ate 9% less saturated fat.
Fans have such deep attachment to their NFL teams that losing can trigger a food binge, the study said.
However, the fan central booth at the Minnesota State Fair, some Vikings fans don't whoa, whoa, state fair.
They still allow those.
State fair.
Well, you know what happened in Missouri at the state fair.
Did you hear the clown finally spoke up?
And I I no no no.
What h no, no, no.
It was a couple of days ago that the clown spoke up.
Actually, I saw the clown on TV, the Missouri State Fair clown.
And it was really good.
He said, Well, we've been doing this for years.
I I'm I'm not a political person.
We just it's a standard operating procedure.
You make fun of politicians at the state fair.
You make fun of the president.
We've been doing it only since I've been doing it, have been making fun of Reagan, Bush, and Bush, and Clinton, and uh and and so forth.
It was uh really good.
Anyway, the Minnesota State Fair, some Viking fans are not buying this.
One of their fans again if Steve Hansen said, Look, I don't know, the Vikings lost a lot last year.
I actually stayed the same weight, so I don't know if I actually believe it.
That's good.
I would hope that most people would instinctively think that this is absolutely a crock and worthless.
I just it's just a it's it's I don't want to make too much of it, but it's it's it's politics, folks.
There's a political agenda attached to practically everything that happens because the left has their hands on everything that happens.
If you doubt me, who is it that's worried about what you eat?
Who is it that wants to control what you eat?
Who is it that's out there trying to guilt trip you over what you eat?
At the top of that list would be Muchell Obama.
And by the way, the students at the schools where the Muchell Obama has been implemented are livid.
They're not eating the stuff.
They think it's horrible.
They're miserable, they're unhappy.
In fact, they're hungrier now than when the Republicans starved them with school lunch cuts back in the nineties.
I saw that in the news the other day.
They talked to a bunch of kids who were in school back in the 90s and are still in school today.
Okay.
And they said that the Republican school lunch cuts were bad back in the 90s, they're really starving, but it's worse now with Muchell.
It's not that she's starving them, it's the food's so bad nobody wants to eat it.
Speaking of food, fast food workers have gone on strike.
The uh the burger flippers, people that work at McDonald's, they want to increase in the minimum wage.
And here is a great example.
What they don't know is that the reason they are in the middle of financial strife and stress is Obamacare.
But they don't know it.
You know, folks, I have to tell you something.
When you look out over America today, there is discontent everywhere.
There is a MLAs.
This massive depression, this fog has just settled over the country.
I mean, even yesterday at that at the Martin Luther King rally, expecting a hundred thousand, barely twenty thousand showed up.
The most noteworthy thing that happened yesterday was Bill Clinton taking a huge swipe at Obama.
And the media today is out there saying, no, no, no.
Clinton didn't take a swipe at Obama.
But you know what Clinton said?
He said Martin Luther King didn't die.
I'm paraphrasing, I don't have it right in phrase.
Martin Luther King Jr. didn't die so that his heirs could complain about gridlock in Washington.
Who is complaining about gridlock in Washington?
It'd be Obama.
And who is he blaming for?
It means I mean, the Republicans won't go along with him, the Republicans won't talk to him, the Republicans won't agree with him.
It's because of me.
He says they're afraid of me.
Clinton is saying Martin Luther King Jr. didn't die so that his heirs could complain about Washington gridlock.
Who's complaining about?
It was obviously a slap at Obama.
And so the media is petrified, and they're out there.
No, no, no, that's not what was happening.
We've got the sound bites coming up, and you'll be able to hear.
Well, I know Clinton blamed me for the same thing, but but but they all blame me.
But Clinton hasn't been talking about gridlock for the past two weeks.
Obama has, or for the past five years.
Obama has.
And Clinton's not going to go up there and take a swipe at himself.
So who was he taking a swipe at?
Had to be Obama.
Obama didn't even know it.
He was so self-absorbed in what he was going to say.
You know, Snerdley told me, you know, the best thing you can do is don't even talk about that event yesterday.
Just ignore it.
And I fully intended to, but there are some things I just can't ignore.
And you know, the main thing, here's the here's the, I think if you want to sum up what's really wrong about all this.
Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights coalition of his era was about one thing, and that was integration.
Martin Luther King Jr., you know, he it was interesting.
If you if you read a lot of what he said or wrote, Martin Luther King did not blame the Constitution.
Martin Luther King acknowledged that the Constitution did indeed spell out the right thing for all people.
He said that it was just not properly applied at first, but eventually it was and has been.
He did not rip the Constitution.
He did not think the founding of the country was immoral or unjust.
He thought the implementation in the early days.
And that was real simple.
The 13 original colonies, in order to rebel, in order to form a union.
They had to accommodate the Southern colonies.
And some of them, you know, it was slavery was the was the thing for them, and they weren't going to give it up.
And a number of Jefferson, Adams, they all wrote this is going to lead to trouble down the down the down the road, but they had to talk about compromise.
They had to make compromise accommodation in order to found the country.
Martin Luther King knew all of this.
And he said that the founding was proper and actually a blessing of just improperly applied.
And he was about integration, not separatism and not segregation.
But that's what was on stage yesterday.
Everything about the civil rights movement today is back to segregation.
We've gone back to pre-Martin Luther King days, essentially.
It's about a never-ending race battle.
It's about segregation.
It's about wanting to be integrated, and then after the integration has taken place, then segregate.
It's a bastardization of what he stood for.
I don't think there's any question about it.
But regardless, um, I listen, I was driving home yesterday, I listened to Obama's speech on the radio.
And I look, I know that people don't have, don't attach much credibility to me when I'm commenting on Obama because they think my criticism is only political.
That's not true.
It's based entirely on substance.
And I just have to tell you, uh, based on the expectations of what I know people were expecting.
That speech yesterday was a disaster.
I mean, it was a disappointment.
I know media is all talking about seminal moment, greatest speech, but I mean, I was literally bored driving home listening to it.
Anyway, that's just a brief aside.
We've got discontent.
We had 100,000 people expected, barely 20,000 showed up.
African Americans in this country are fed up.
White people are fed up and depressed.
Hispanics are confused.
And Obama the Magnificent, who criticized Bush for not having a coalition in Iraq, seems ready to go help Al-Qaeda in Syria, but not too much.
We're going to do a limited strike just to show that you can't cross Obama's red line.
But beyond that, we're not going to do much.
American people are ticked off.
There's high unemployment, there are high oil prices, stagnant wages, growing debt.
Obama lives in a vacuum in Washington and Martha's Vineyard is living the life of Riley.
A lot of people are ticked off, but not enough of them are mad at Obama and the government.
The sad thing is that so many people, particularly young people, are losing faith in America.
The American dream.
And a lot of young people don't think the American dream is possible.
They're losing faith in it.
And there's nothing wrong with America, except who's running it right now.
America is, as we speak, the product of policies.
Not the product of evolution.
We're not trending downward simply because what came before us was a mirage.
America's greatness was not an accident.
America's greatness was not a coincidence.
America's greatness was not luck.
It was the result of a blessing and genuine substance.
And it is not in decline because of evolution.
It's not in decline because no nation can remain at the top forever.
The ingredients are all there for the United States to remain on top for as long as we want to.
But when you have leaders who have never believed in the goodness and the greatness of this country and its founding, when you have people who think that America is the problem in the world, not the solution.
When you have people who think the American military is the focus of evil and not the solution.
When you have people who think.
Do you know what Obama said yesterday?
He actually said that one of the great things about this country is ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
And then he said the sad fact is there aren't many examples of that.
There aren't many examples of that.
There are examples of it every day.
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
The first person I ever heard use that phrase was Senator Phil Graham of Texas.
And I immediately stole it and appropriated it as my own.
And only occasionally do I credit Senator Graham, as I am doing now.
I I don't think Obama's ever used it prior to yesterday.
But even when he used it, he didn't believe in it.
He said, There's no instances of maids becoming billionaires.
I'm paraphrasing.
No instances of I don't know what he used maids, housekeepers, this, you know, this kind of jobs that he's always associated with slavery, if I may be honest.
And he said, no, no, nobody has ever risen up, or very few have ever risen up from those jobs.
And that's a crock.
And that's what I mean when I say that we have people who do not understand this country, don't believe in it, have a totally, they have been taught a totally erroneous version of this country.
So now we've got a present who president who's uh the steward of decline, because he thinks it has to happen.
Because he said, and others have said in his party, that America's greatness in the past was just a coincidence.
We had the story.
Speaking of Obama and no maid is ever made anything of herself, no street sweeper.
May I remind you of the Martin Luther King speech at a junior high school in 1967 that we played yesterday.
In fact, Mike grab that again and have it handy.
I know you've got it there.
Speech where King said, if your lot in life is to be a street sweeper, be the best street sweeper there's ever been.
There was no dishonor in work in his world.
There was no job that was beneath any individual.
It's such a stark contrast.
But we've we have we have leaders who believe this country was unjust from its early days, immoral from its early days, undeserving of superpower status.
We have leaders who believe that we have a country that needs to be shown what it's like.
The way the rest of the people in this world live.
And the rest of the people in this world live substandard lives because the United States has existed and stolen everything from them.
And I am not exaggerating when I say that that is the kind of thing that informs radical leftists today.
That's what they're taught.
If their parents are radical leftists, it's what they grow up hearing in home, then we get to school, they hear the same thing.
And they get into adulthood and they believe all this stuff.
And then they end up thinking they're the smartest people in the world for realizing it.
And there's a virtue, in fact, attached to not thinking of America as great.
That's real honesty.
That's real virtue.
So we have a situation where a country is in decline, people losing faith in America, which is a crying shame, because the American dream need not die, and there's no reason other than these policies that we're being governed by for this situation to be.
Martin Luther King at a Philadelphia junior high school in 1967.
Listen closely.
What I'm saying to you this morning, my friend, even if it told your luck to be a street sweeper.
Go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures.
Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music.
We're like Shakespeare wrote poetry.
Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.
If you can't be a pine on the top of a hill, be a scrub in the valley, but be the best little scrub on the side of the real.
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a highway, just be a trail.
If you can't be the sun, be a star.
It isn't by size that you win or you fail.
Be the best of whatever you are.
Sounds to me like the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King believed in the American dream.
In 1966, 67, it sounds to me like he believed in the American dream.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
There is nothing wrong with this country that a change in leadership would not cure.
And I'm gonna say the time right now is ripe for anybody who doesn't like what's going on.
Stand up, and I'm talking about electoral politics leadership.
Who wants to stand up?
Make the case for the American dream.
Do a Norman Vincent Peel on everybody.
The American people are thirsting for it.
They're hungering for it.
They want to hear that the American dream is not dead.
They don't want to live in a nation in decline.
They don't want to have lost faith in their country, and it's not necessary that they have lost faith in their country.
Being purely political, what they need to lose faith in is the policies of the Democrat Party and radical liberalism.
It's no more complicated than that.
It's easy to say.
It's tough to change people's minds.
Give you an illustration.
Let's go to audio sound bites.
This morning in Los Angeles, the LA Times website, they posted video.
Fast food workers holding a strike and a rally outside of McDonald's, actually in New York City.
And we have uh it's about 15 seconds of a portion of the protest rally.
Hey, hey!
Ho, ho!
The 75s got to go!
Hey, hey!
Ho, ho!
The 75s got to go!
Hey, hey, hey!
Say, hey, hey!
Okay, now the question really is are these people doing this on their own or have they been organized?
And the obvious answer is they've been organized.
Once you hear them say C C Petty and attacking the minimum wage.
But it's Obamacare.
It's Obama's economy that they should be protesting.
Obama's economy, Obamacare is what is what has led to whatever circumstances making them unhappy.
And now we hear from the protesters, and again, this is a limbaugh theorem.
None of them blame Obama.
They're just, I don't know who they're angry at, but they're down on America.
And again, the LA Times website, video fast food workers outside of McDonald's in New York.
Here is a protester named Taisha.
Taisha Backs.
And she was explaining why she showed up.
Hello, my name is Taisha Bax, I'm 27 years old, and I've been in assassin industry itself for about six years.
And I'm here today striking for better benefits for fast food workers in fair wages and the rights of the union without intimidation.
Surviving not easy over 725 an hour.
It's hard.
Can you do it?
I can.
Uh 725 an hour is.
Is that intended to be?
It's an entry-level wage.
It's an entry-level job.
Minimum wage is not designed to be a wage that supports a family of one or four.
It's entry-level.
Anyway, Taisha Banks wouldn't think that her problem is Obama.
Wouldn't think that her problem is policies that come from an Overreaching, expansive, way too big and powerful government.
No, what she's doing is demanding the government fix something for her.
Well, she's had the government of her choice for coming on five years now.
And yet she's still mad at people who don't have any power to affect her at all.
At least not in politics.
This woman's obviously mad at the Republicans.
That's what she's been told to be.
But the point is that none of them blame Obama.
They're livid.
I guarantee you, if there were a Republican president in the White House, and everything else in this country were the same.
Everybody led by the media would be blaming the Republican president.
Well, no, I know it's not fair.
I'm just telling you what is.
But I don't my point is we don't have to sit here and accept this.
I, for one, don't want to sit here and accept the notion that we are in an irreversible decline.
I don't buy for a second that this country's best days are behind us.
I don't buy for a moment that this country's greatness has been an accident or a coincidence.
There's nothing wrong with this country that can't be fixed by unleashing the American people.
That's what is required, and that's all it would take.
You got a leader who tell people you're the reason this country is great.
You're the people that make this country work, and I am going to get things out of your way, and I'm going to get your taxes down, and I'm going to limit regulations.
I'm going to let you have at it.
And you go do what you want the best you can.
It's possible.
It happens every day in small groups of people.
It happens every day on sports teams.
It happens every day in schools.
It happens every day in clubs or groups of friends.
There's no reason it can't happen in a nation.
Especially when we know that it has happened in a nation before many times.
In this country.
Now, same website, LA Times, same video, fast food workers holding a strike and a rally outside of McDonald's in New York.
Here's an unidentified guy talking about how it feels to be part of the protest.
Today I came out as a whole bunch of us here.
It's a great villain.
Like to have so much support behind me.
Not you just being the only person standing up for what you believe in.
Everybody.
It does not work community leaders, attorney generals, councilman, councilwoman, from different states, everybody I have so much support of what they know is right.
And I'm I feel truly glad to be a part of it.
He feels truly blessed to be part of this.
And he's so grateful for the people that are surrounding him, the politician, the Democratic politicians who are with him.
And he hasn't the slightest idea that the people he's thanking for showing up are the people who are actually responsible for his anger, if his anger is real.
And I say that only because we must allow for the fact this whole thing is a staged rent of mob type event, which the Democrats are famous for.
This whole thing can be ginned up and illegitimate.
But to the extent that they're putting it out so that people, low information voters, will watch it, the very people they're upset about, or the things they're upset about, have been put in place by the very people they're thankful to for having shown up.
Thank you.
Well, let's go back.
February 10th, 2009, not yet one month into the regime.
Obama had just been immaculated some three weeks earlier.
It is a town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Florida.
Five years ago.
Well, four and a half to be exact.
Four and a half years ago, Ford Myers, Florida, a bunch of people, ecstatic, joyful, ebullient, happy, brimming with expectation and hope and change, had just elected Obama.
He'd just been immaculated three weeks ago, and they thought utopia.
four years ago, four and a half years ago.
These people protesting their McDonald's wages and demanding that Obama do something about it.
Need to hear what a guy's expectations were four years ago.
This is Julio Aseguida.
Oh, this is such a blessing to see you, Mr. President.
Thank you for taking time out of your day.
Oh, gracious Scott, thank you so much.
All right, what's what's the question?
Hi, Mr. President.
My name is Julio Aseguida.
I'm currently a student at Edison State College in my second semester.
And okay, I've been at the same job, which is McDonald's for four and a half years because of the fact that I can't find another job.
Now, with the fact that I've been there for as long as I've been there, do you have any plan or any idea of making one that has been there for a long time receive any better benefits than what they've already received?
Is this not ironic or what?
Four and a half years ago.
A McDonald's worker asks the newly immaculated Obama, what you gonna do for me, dude?
I've been in McDonald's four and a half years, and I can't make it, dude.
I can't make it.
What are you gonna do for me?
And it's four and a half years later, and the same McDonald's people are asking the same guy the same question, except they're not associating their plight with him.
And that is only going to change when the Republican Party decides to make it change.
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Okay, here we go.
Let's go to San Diego.
We'll start with Sean.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
I'd like to tell somebody.
I've got to try after 25 years, dude.
I'm not going to be living on there anymore.
Hang on, folks.
Hang on.
Hang on.
shh Snerdley, where's the caller?
We said hello to the caller five minutes ago.
Is anybody there?
Hello, testing.
One, two, three.
Hello?
Yeah, hello.
Am I on?
Yeah, you're on.
We heard everything that you were whispering to your buddies.
We heard every word you said to your buddies.
Oh my God, that's so embarrassing.
I just wanted to tell my friend I was going to be on the show with you.
Well long time listening.
I always try to get through and I never get through it.
Well, here it is.
There's your big showbiz break.
Hi, this is Sean from San Diego.
And uh I believe those workers at McDonald's and Burger King and stuff deserves some more money.
The shareholders are getting rich.
I watch every day on market watch, and the CEO is getting rich.
They're making their profits.
They can afford to pay the worker a little bit more money.
They're not asking for much.
They haven't had a raise in 25 years.
Uh really.
You mean the same thing.
In 1988, people at McDonald's are making 725 an hour.
Well, I'm not exactly sure of that, but that would be important.
They're not being paid fairly rushed.
They're not making what?
They're not making enough money to even buy buy themselves a dinner and pay their rent.
Well, then why don't they go get a job that does pay that?
I mean, that's maybe because they can't.
Why can't they?
Probably no other jobs out there in this bad economy.
Why?
They also make it a good idea.
Why aren't there any why aren't there any jobs out there?
Yeah.
The Democrats have destroyed this economy.
We all know that.
Okay.
Well, that the minimum wage, by the way, back twenty-five years ago was 335 an hour.
Just just to get the number up.
It wasn't what they're making today.
And we can I'll get the inflation and calculator out and take a take a look at it.
Well, they're asking for double their current wages.
Let me Sean, why why don't the McDonald's uh franchise just pay it?
You know, it why not just give them more money?
Oh, that's simple.
Greed.
Greed?
Is it competition?
Well why why should they if they don't have to?
And nobody's making them.
Government sets the minimum wage and they're they don't want to do it.
Well, okay, let's take a look at McDonald's.
Um and let let's say the McDonald's uh gives their employees a rate, let's just say ten dollars an hour.
Would that be enough?
No, I don't think so.
Okay.
Australia, for example, they're making fifteen uh something an hour.
In Australia making fifty okay, I have it up about how about this?
How about McDonald's raises everybody to twenty dollars an hour?
Would that be enough?
I think that would probably help a lot of people.
What about twenty-five dollars an hour?
Managers should probably get at least that.
They probably already do.
Okay, then uh what about thirty dollars an hour?
If that's the fair market rate.
Well, no, that's what seven twenty-five is.
I don't believe that.
Yeah, that's why it's seven twenty-five.
It's the fair market rate.
That that's it's seven twenty-five, not because it's arbitrarily true.
That's the fair market rate.
So why don't we what let's let's pay them fifty dollars an hour?
How about that?
Fifteen dollars an hour.
No, fifty fifty five.
Oh fifty dollars an hour.
How about that?
Yeah.
That should be the new fair market rate.
Right on, right?
Well, let's let's keep going.
How about seventy-five dollars an hour?
Let's pay them seventy-five dollars an hour.
Well, where are you going with this?
Well, uh that it's just I want to know what do you agree with $75?
I'm not going anywhere with it.
Just d if if fifty is good, sixty be better, right?
Well, yeah.
What about seventy-five an hour?
Uh-huh.
Where are you going with this, though?
I don't understand.
Okay, now I'm detecting $75 an hour, you think might be too much, right?
Well, I thought it was probably too much at $50 an hour.
Um, you thought fifty dollars an hour was too much.
Why?
Sure.
Uh well, the the value of our money is like, now, Sean, there's Sean, uh one thing.
I'm not trying to trick you.
I'm not playing a trick on you here.
Don't please don't misunderstand.
I'm not taking you anywhere.
I don't want you to misunderstand.
But my my point is that you have just said fifty dollars, but more than that doesn't make any sense, right?
I think the workers wanted fifteen dollars an hour.
That's what seems fair to me.
Okay, but if if fifteen is fair, how about twenty?
And you agreed.
And then I said how about thirty, and you said, yeah, that'd be workers, yes.
The management staff.
Okay, so you want to equal what management's making.
You want no delineation.
Oh, I think the entry level should be fifteen.
The entry level, that's what I said.
Well, why, but how about twenty?
Why shouldn't the entry level be twenty?
If it's if fifteen's good, twenty be better.
Why shouldn't the entry level be 20 an hour?
The point the point, Sean, is that you just said that seven twenty-five isn't the market price, and it is.
$7.25 an hour is what it requires for McDonald's to be fully staffed.
There are people who will work for that.
And therefore, that sets the wage scale.
Now, ten dollars would be better.
Yeah, you can keep going.
At some point, everybody who believes in a minimum wage will say, no, wait a minute, that's too much.
And at that point, you have demonstrated that there's no market relationship.
You're just talking emotion.
You're just talking fairness.
You're just talking being nice, and that's not how the market works.
People aren't paid a wage because they're being nice to, or because it's fair, or because in the market, the market rules.
And you can't, you if you can control it all you want, you could arbitrary numbers on you on it all you want, and all you're doing is delaying the inevitable.
The market will always win and will always rule because it is the market.
Hey Sean, I know you're still out there, San Diego.
Are you willing to pay $10 for a Big Mac?
So that the entry-level wage is $15 an hour.
You willing to pay that much for a Big Mac?
Three bucks for an order of fries?
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