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Sept. 6, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 6, 2013, Friday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program are still documented to be almost always right 99.7% at a time.
I'm beginning to wonder whether the Sullivan Group is even working anymore.
Well, I saw one of their guys on CNBC talking about private islands.
And I'm not paying them for that, so I don't know.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I think they may be a little distracted out there.
Anyway, great to have you here, folks.
So we're gonna get to the phones really soon here because it is open line Friday.
And I am your host, L. Rushbow here at the one and only EIB network.
8282-2882, the email address.
L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
U.S. job growth less than expected in August.
The unemployment rate hit a four and a half year low as Americans gave up the search for work, complicating the Federal Reserve's decision on whether to scale back its massive monetary stimulus later this month.
In that paragraph, that's a Reuters paragraph.
And in that paragraph is everything, it's amazing what they put in that paragraph, what they're admitting.
The economy is stagnant.
It's not growing.
It only looks like it is because the Fed is engaging in a massive monetary stimulus, which they might stop.
Job growth less than expected.
Unemployment rate, four and a half year low, doesn't mean anything.
All of that in the first paragraph of a Reuters story.
And then, ladies and gentlemen, here is a Ben Castleman, economics reporter for the Wall Street Journal for the 40th consecutive month.
Get this statistic.
More unemployed workers left the labor force than found work.
More for the fortieth consecutive month.
It's over three years for those of you in Rio Linda.
That would be three years and four months in a row.
More unemployed workers left the labor force, gave up looking for work than found work.
There is no recovery.
There is no positive economic activity, except in...
Well, the two or three areas.
I mean obviously high tech is doing well and fracking and oil.
Other than that, traditional areas of economic growth can't count on them, not happening.
Manufacturing, you name it.
In the tank or stagnant.
And here we've got an administration touting all of its hard work and great policies.
And we've had three years and four months in a row.
Every month, 40 months in a row, more unemployed workers left the labor force than found work.
Just a hundred and sixty-nine thousand new jobs created in August.
Not only that, previous numbers were revised downward.
Big.
June, for example, revised down 172,000 to 188,000.
Last month, July, was uh uh August was revised sharply.
162 to 104,000.
This is ominous.
Uh as this is uh this is being reported from from from Texas.
152,000 new jobs.
There were 180,000 expected.
Uh and the and the numbers in the previous months have not been right.
They've been made worse.
That's what the revised Downward means.
From Brightmart.com in a report released Tuesday, Bloomberg reports that black homeownership has collapsed to an 18-year low.
Now, Bloomberg buries that fact under a headline that makes it look like a local Chicago story.
Black homeownership dying where Obama revitalized.
That's that's the Bloomberg store, which originally reported this.
That's their headline.
But four paragraphs down, we not only learned about the collapse in the black homeownership rate, but that it's now almost half that of whites.
We have the first African American president, and everything for African Americans economically has worsened.
And there still is that unbreakable bond.
The Democrat Party for the first African America.
I mean, I can't tell you how depressing this is.
I sit here uh 25 years, and every time I've met it, or said it, I've meant it from the bottom of my heart.
We want everybody in this country doing well.
This is the one spot on this planet that affords that opportunity for the vast majority of people.
United States of America, then the one place where people's dreams actually can come true, at least in greater numbers than anywhere else.
And the United States has been a place where average, ordinary, and I use those terms simply in a descriptive, not a classification way.
Average ordinary Americans can end up doing and accomplishing extraordinary things.
It's the history of this country.
It is the true history of this country.
And we're led by a president and a political party which want to bury that and try to convince people that, yeah, that might have happened, but it wasn't real.
It was fake or it was it was uh it happened uh in a in an unfair, unjust way because the people that got rich actually stole it from other people, they didn't do it with hard work.
The old you didn't build that.
I can't tell you how frustrating it is for me to be led.
I mean, I understand we've got people in the country who don't like it and think that everything about this country is a lie, but we've never been led by people who believe that.
And we are now.
And their friends, their sympatical friends run Hollywood and they run the schools and they run any number of pop culture institutions.
And it's gotta stop.
It just has to bottom out and start rebounding and reversing itself.
There literally is no future in telling anybody that it's hopeless.
There's no future in telling anybody they get no chance.
There's no future in telling anybody that the best days of this country are behind them.
There's no future.
There's no good that can come of it.
Not for the people.
The only people benefit from everybody being depressed and down in the dumps and hopeless are the Democrat Party.
They're the only people, or Washington, let's not say them.
Let's say Washington.
Washington, which wants everybody to turn to it for sustenance.
They're the only ones.
And they're not sitting out there wallowing in misery, and they're not giving up on themselves, and they're not giving up on their future.
They're not giving up on prosperity.
They're not giving up on doing better next year than they did this year.
They want you to, or they're comfortable with you doing it, or they're perfectly fine telling you it can't be done.
And people don't want to hear it.
Simply don't want to hear it.
People are troubled.
They know this is not how this country has always been.
This is not how things got done.
This is not how things get done.
This is not how the country works.
People want leadership.
They want clarity.
They want inspiration.
They want to be told that things are possible, not that they can't happen.
And this black homeownership, black unemployment, black teen unemployment.
You know, you can talk about racial problems all you want, but if that doesn't change, nothing else is because economics, I don't care what people say, money, lifestyle, it matters.
It matters.
It's in the top two things of everybody.
Important list.
And when you have this kind of disparity and this kind of economic failure and this kind of economic hopelessness, all the rest of it is academic.
They're going to go about trying to get by somehow.
And if they don't think that playing within the guardrails and following the rules and taking the path that has been laid out by tradition is going to get them, they're going to do something else.
Everybody will.
Anybody would.
It's so unnecessary in the greatest country on earth.
Lower incomes have now been linked to migraine headaches.
Did you know that?
This is from Reuters in a large new U.S. study, migraine headaches were found to be more likely to happen to people with lower household incomes.
But they tended to go into remission at the rate for people, the same rate for all income levels.
This is, you know, this is almost a companion piece.
We had a story yesterday I didn't get to, that lower income leads to lower IQs.
Or yeah, I I had that in the stack and I just didn't get to it yesterday.
Or maybe it's lower IQ leads to lower income.
one of the other.
But what it is, it's all part of the left's push to end income inequality.
So if migraine headaches are found to be more likely to happen with lower household incomes, well, we must do something.
We must have more wealth redistribution and take care of migraines by upping people's incomes.
Exercise is not likely to be your ticket to the Weight Loss Express, U.S. News and World Report.
I could have told you this.
In fact, I I have been telling you this for 25 years.
Exercise, fine.
You want to go do it, fine.
Feel better doing great.
If you like it and you look forward to it and you feel good during it, you feel better afterwards, and you think it's improving your life, go for it.
But it's not the way to lose weight.
And it's improvable in any number of ways.
And here yet another story among the most commonly held misconceptions about obesity.
Perhaps none does more harm than the notion that exercise is responsible for the lion's share of weight management.
Sure, it's true that exercise burns calories, and yeah, if you burn more calories, you ought to lose weight, but it isn't that simple because you cannot burn enough calories exercising to make a difference.
You can have a snow cone and end up consuming more calories than you just burned running your marathon.
What?
You don't know what a snow cone is.
It is the thing you practice the silken swirl on.
They call them, they call them ice something or others in uh in in Hawaii.
It really is, you can't you cannot burn enough calories via exercise.
You have to eat less.
The exercise alone is not.
But see, the thing is, the difference is if you want to exercise fine, The exercise Nazis are the people that demand you do it because they think you should do it and they do it themselves.
So you should do it, and you're gonna lose weight and so forth.
See, that's where I differ.
If you like exercise, fine.
I don't care.
I'm not gonna talk you out of it.
I don't want to just because I don't do it doesn't mean you shouldn't.
But with the same token, just because you love it doesn't mean you ought to make everybody do it and nag them and hassle them or whatever, just like the vegans.
Just like the militant vegetarians.
Did you know, you know, there's a there's the Batwoman has uh is is split off into its own franchise.
It's not part of the Batman franchise, and there's a major controversy.
Two writers have left the franchise because DC Comics, which owns Batwoman, refused to agree to a lesbian marriage in the next storyline.
They said that's not there is no gay lesbian marriage with Batwoman or catwoman, whatever name is.
That's not we didn't create lesbians and all that.
Then the new writers wanted to incorporate a lesbian marriage for Batwoman or whatever.
And the creator said no.
So the writers walked off.
That's what I'm talking about.
Their way or the highway.
And so now the creators are intolerant bigots.
And something is going to have to be done to punish them.
That story from yesterday was poverty causing lower IQ.
It was not low IQ equals low income.
It was low income equals low IQ.
And it dovetails with this.
Low income.
So see, we've got to do something.
As a society, we've got to do something about this, which means higher taxes and more transfers of wealth.
Talent on loan from God.
It's open line Friday, and here we go back to the phones.
Well, not back because we haven't been there yet.
So we are starting in Charleston, South Carolina.
This is a charity, and it's great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
Hi.
Oh, I'm fine.
Thanks very much.
I didn't understand what you asked me at first.
I just have a question about the football players that are suing about concussions.
Um that's their job.
They get paid for that, right?
Oh, they didn't know.
The league, the league was not upfront and honest with them of the uh about the potential dangers involved from concussions as a result of playing football.
Well, um, I I've had plenty of concussions at my job, and you can trust me when I say that nobody warned me about the dangers of concussions before I got hired.
What did you uh what what what did you do in your job that caused you to get concussions?
Um I gallop racehorses and um I work at a training center, we break babies and gallop horses.
Wow.
So you've had concussions dealing with uh with with you've probably fallen, you've been kicked, that kind of thing.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
When you're breaking babies, it's pretty much a given.
Well, um, I look at the the things that need to happen, and if if I if I even go there, I'm gonna get creamed and it it it just I would have to recount the history of the concussion lawsuit in the NFL.
And that would make people mad.
That don't want it just you you don't have an organization.
Have you had anybody commit suicide that works in your business because of a concussion?
Commit suicide, yeah.
What about Chris Antley?
Plenty of people.
But Well then you need to organize and and you need to go get some trial lawyers and and you need to uh go to the media and and claim that your employers never told you about any of this.
That's what we should do because there's no such thing as common sense to be.
Everybody knows that horse owners are filthy rich.
You see them, they drink mint julips at the Kentucky Derby while you're drinking what beer down in the in the paddock.
We break horses for plenty of football players.
So they should be sympathetic to our cause for sure.
Well, I think because of the Well uh you it's I I look I under the the point that you're making is look, there are a lot of people getting hurt.
Why why are why are they suing?
And that's because there's a big pile of money there.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh and the excellence in broadcasting network.
Here's Ron in Pensacola, Florida.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Ditto's from the back of the class since about 92 or 93, right?
Well, it's great to have you here in the front row today.
I remember when you used to have to bang on the printer to get it to work.
Still do.
Uh I just I just do that in private now.
Rush, with iOS 7 and the Apple event next week.
I was thinking, I don't recall you talking about jailbreaking Apple devices before.
Are you for it or against it?
Most people are pretty passionate about it.
Well, it's not there are not a whole lot of people to do it in terms of the universe of owners.
I mean, m most people uh wouldn't know the first thing to do to jailbreak their phone and be afraid of breaking it if they did.
Um I I have been tempted to do it a few times, but only to give myself a little bit more control over the the system functions, uh not for apps, but I've always not done it, decided not to do it.
Uh because uh Apple knows.
They know who is jailbreak.
They they can break your phone if they if they want to.
You you blow your warranty out sky high if you do it, and I'm not, you know, I'm I'm not that kind of power user.
And I've uh as I say, there the interesting thing about what's coming next week, iOS 7, is that there aren't going to be a whole lot of reasons to jailbreak the phone anymore.
Once once people get a load, two things are gonna happen with this.
A lot of users are gonna be totally confused by the new look.
The function remains the same in large part, but it looks all different.
Things are in different places and operate a little bit differently.
It is a humongous technological advancement.
It is beautiful, it's layered.
Um it's it's it just is it's state of the art.
It it's light years ahead of iOS six, but people have gotten comfortable with iOS six and five and four, they've gotten used to it, and this is gonna be a tremendous I don't want to say shock, but it's like you get accustomed to anything in a big change like this.
Um but most of the jailbreak items that people really liked have been incorporated here one way or another.
I'm not gonna say that the jailbreak items have been stolen, that's not what I mean, but the system expandability that jailbreaking gave you, those kind of things like multitasking in the control center and um uh all kinds of uh streamlined workflow advances are in iOS 7.
And I don't think there's gonna be as big a need to jailbreak.
The people that are gonna continue to do it are just the nerd geeks that love doing that kind of stuff.
And God bless them.
I mean, there's a let me tell there's a new app.
I don't know how into this you are.
But if you ever wished that you could get a video from your iPhone to your computer without having to email it, without having to go to AUCA.
There's an app that has just been put on sale in the app store called Desconnect, and it was created by a uh uh early jailbreaker, kid that's 17 years old, I believe, has has invented this app, and it does more than there there's a new Apple uh app in iOS 7 called Airdrop, but it only works between iOS devices, iPhones and iPads and iPod touches.
This enables you to transfer what I mean, it could not just a video uh pictures, documents, you name it, any kind of file.
And uh this guy was a jailbreaker, and he's a hacker.
Uh but he loves iOS.
He was not doing any of it to corrupt Apple.
He just wanted to learn it.
It it was it was uh mind expansion for him.
I was reading a long story about this.
Now his last name is Weinstein, and uh he's he's uh now written this app.
So that the jailbreak community, it's it's got its positives.
I it's just not something that I have ever I've not wanted to quote unquote.
You're breaking your phone when you do it, and it has nothing to do with cell service, folks.
If you're wondering, you know, you got your phone on ATT and you want to use it on something else.
That's not what this is.
Um this just takes out the the walls that Apple has put in in the operating system, breaks them down, and you can do with it whatever you want, or whatever you can buy on their store, the jailbreak store, which is called Cydia.
Uh I just have never really wanted to get into it that much.
I I'm I'm a user.
Well, privacy is one of the issues that concerns me.
So there's an app on Cydia that you can get that I won't name, but it prevents uh any program from sending your contacts or accessing the internet or turning on the camera unless you give it permission to do that.
Uh well now I I don't know what the name of the app is.
Wouldn't be hard to find it.
But you're talking about uh privacy encryption.
No, I'm talking about accessing certain parts of the iOS.
So when you start up almost any program, I've seen this written up in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
There are a lot of apps that download your contacts or your individual ID number.
They want to track what you do.
It's sort of like a cookie to an operating system, but they get your information.
And this program that has the word privacy in it, it it protects that from happening.
Well, I will just tell you that I don't know how much I can talk about this because there's an NDA associated with it.
But I'll I'll just I think Apple has written this up on their website.
There is now a uh let me put it this way.
You have uh that ability in three different areas here to shut your phone down so it doesn't share data with sponsors, potential sponsors, uh Apple, maps, this kind of thing.
You can I don't know if it's as comprehensive, this app that as you're talking about.
Those things I I don't really.
I've got enough control turning off things.
I in well let me just leave it.
I I don't want to give away too much here because I'm a public figure and a target, but those concerns are not that great.
I've I've dealt with them in other ways to me.
I wouldn't have to jailbreak, in other words, to be able to protect myself.
I've done other things that we powerful influential members of the media must do uh that are outside above and beyond any single device.
But I I I appreciate uh where you're coming from.
I a lot of people are obsessed with um thinking they're being tracked everything they do uh as that's somebody watching them, keeping track, getting ready to exploit them somehow.
And it is amazing how much can be tracked and done, but I don't it's like the NSA doesn't actually have somebody monitoring your keyboard as you input data and tracking it.
It's not it's not that despite what Snowden says.
It's too massive.
There's too much data.
It just it just it's like our sponsor iDrive.com.
I mean, look at all the data.
They're the premier backup service for computer hard drives and And iPhones, iPads, uh you you name it.
There's uh people ask me, well, what if, you know, the data is all on their servers.
What if they want to go get my data and look at my They couldn't find it.
They encrypt it anyway.
And much of what is on your phone anyway is encrypted.
But it's too massive.
They couldn't go get it.
It's just the amount of data would boggle your mind.
Same thing with ENSA.
It's a I think I've read, and I'd have to get this confirmed by literal Intel experts if they would.
But I've read that of all the, say, email data that the NSA collects, that maybe, and this is still a large number, but the odds are it doesn't include you.
5% of it is actually tracked.
They do target specific people based on criminal activity.
There's there's now we did learn, because things are possible.
What was it?
The NSA, certain NSA employees were targeting ex-lovers to find out if they were dating other people yet.
Spying on their access.
So the ability clearly exists.
I I'm I'm not trying to uh to diminish it.
But the um the the look, I I need to be very careful how I say this.
I don't want anybody to be insulted.
But for the vast majority of us, nobody cares what we're doing.
And with whom.
For the vast majority of us.
300 some million people in this country, the vast majority, nobody cares.
And so it's not and it's a genie that you're not going to be able to put back in the bottle.
I think I think the app he's talking about on Cydia, which is the jailbreak app store, is called iProtect.
Just a wild guess.
I think that's what he's talking about.
If you in the audience are wondering, we're a full service show here.
I gotta take a brief time out, sit tight, back with more after this.
Okay, the NSA, National Security Agency has the capacity to collect 75% of U.S. email, and they are probably actually collecting less than one tenth of 1% or 1% of 1%.
It's a very small amount that they are collecting.
And yeah, they can they can store it, they can keep it.
But folks, this isn't anything new.
How long has the NSA been around?
The NSA has been monitoring things for as long as they have been around.
That's what their purpose is.
It's uh it's part and parcel of technological advancement.
It's part and parcel of to go out, read some of these uh old guys like Alexis de Tokfu.
He warned of all the various disruptions to the way this country was founded, the things that can make government grow, the things that can make government become more powerful and more uh desirous of becoming more powerful.
And and one of the things that makes this possible is technological advancement.
It's not just consumers who um who benefit from it.
Anyway, I I know it's it it troubles a lot of people.
I'm just telling I don't I don't really worry about I can't t tell you why.
I mean I don't worry about a whole lot.
I don't let very much offend me.
Um just I don't worry about this.
If something happens, it happens.
But what?
Well, no, I'm not I'm not talking about the IRS.
That's that's uh that's a different thing.
I'm I was speaking specifically about wanting to take steps to make sure what I'm doing on my phone stays in my phone.
I'm not that that stuff.
The IRS, That's that that's that's not technological.
That is strict statism.
That is nothing more than a political agenda being uh used at the IRS against the enemies of a particular political party.
That's not what the NSA is doing the possibility for it exists, of course.
But no, I don't I'm the the IRS s scandal and the situation was that outrages me, like it does everybody.
Big government, no matter what it's doing, bothers me.
But I mean I when I say I don't worry, I'm concerned I just don't sit around and fret over it.
I don't let it ruin my day, and I don't start concocting conspiracy theories.
I uh you know I have this phrase, it is what it is, and remember I'm the mayor of Realville, and there aren't too many people that live there.
That's why I've been elected mayor.
It doesn't take too many votes.
Mine and a few others.
Anyway, people have been waiting patiently on the phone.
Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Thomas, you're next.
It's great to have you here.
Hello.
Thank you, sir Ditto's rush.
Thank you.
I was listening to you yesterday talk about your book, and I it just sort of hit me as I was driving down the highway.
There's one word that that is the reason for your success, and I think the big difference between conservatives and liberals.
And that word is gratitude.
You have uh you've conquered television, you've obviously conquered radio, you've conquered magazines, you've conquered speaking, you've had more success than most of us can dream of, and yet you can still hear it in your voice that with every phone call and with every book that's sold, you are genuinely grateful for those of us that like you and look into you and purchase your products.
And I think the difference is uh the liberals and sadly many of the Republican politicians think we should be grateful that they're there doing what they're doing.
Oh, well, in that sense that you're exactly right about that.
There is there's way too little humility among people who have real power over us.
You are exactly right.
You know, a real leader has humility, is humble, and is is not somebody who expects to have gratitude shown or appreciation shown to him or her.
Now you're right, we've got a bunch of imperial people in politics today, uh almost some of them, not all of course, but some of them actually do have exactly what you're talking about.
A sense that we should be for Anthony Wiener has it, guys like Elliot Spitcher, they think that we should sincerely appreciate them for who they are and what they do, and excuse whatever foibles they have, because they really run around thinking they are better people than everybody else.
And you know where I think that starts is I think just in my life, you know, it and you mention it all the time, talent on loan from God.
I think when you take God out of the equation, you lose all perspective about humility and again you've hit a home run.
Without God in your life, it is impossible to understand that there are things larger than yourself.
And that's and people, people who think that there's nothing larger than themselves, are some of the toughest people to be around and live with.
They're arrogant, they are condescending, and many of them, I'll guarantee, because they are missing that, are profoundly insecure, which is what they're trying to cover up.
But you know something?
I I want to go back to your your point about uh about gratitude, and I'm I want to thank you for for that because I have it.
I um every Thanksgiving and Christmas, I spend a a few short minutes here thanking the audience, and I mean it from the I mean you you say I've conquered all this and conquered all where would I be without all of you?
I wouldn't be anywhere.
It's it's I haven't conquered anything.
Um I have I've just I've had a lot of assistance and a lot of support.
The um uh I call it the bond of of of loyalty.
It's almost like a familial relationship to me.
And I've uh you know, I know when I haven't had it in my earlier days in broadcasting.
But I am, I am profoundly appreciative.
And uh that's I know there are a lot of people like me who are really troubled over where this country's going and what we're trying to erase from this country's past, and that's not good.
We need to bring it back and make it prominent again.
So I appreciate your comment.
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