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Sept. 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 18, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you.
This is Rush Limbaugh on the EIB network, Limbaugh Institute, Advanced Conservative Studies and all that.
A thrill and a delight.
To have you with us.
Grab the printer, hear me right back.
Okay, I want to close the loop on this Will Smith business, this Jaden Smith.
Something I did not know.
That Will Smith's 15-year-old son's out there tweeting everybody that school is a brainwashing tool.
And the best thing to do is to get out of it.
And there is a um an ABC news story that uh hit yesterday.
Jaden Smith says there might be best known for the as the star of the remake of the karate kid, and for his role as the son of Will Smith and Jadap Pinkett, but he's also starring in his own online controversy after sounding off against America's education system, calling school a brainwashing tool.
Now, here's a 15-year-old kid who's caused a stir with this.
Now we, you and me, and Mudgel, we we've thought this for the longest time, but here's a kid as a student who's dropped out of it, is homeschooled, which I did not know.
Jaden and his sister Willow are both home schooled.
Jaden had attended the New Village Leadership Academy, a private scruel that his parents founded in California five years ago until it closed its doors in June because of a lack of funding.
The Academy used study tech, a teaching method created by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Something to which Will Smith alluded on live with Regis and Kelly in 2007.
There are powerful educational concepts that we believe in.
But Jaden, so some of this may be rooted in Scientology.
That's why we spend the time to dig deep here, folks.
And get beneath this surface.
Something might sound really, really cool, and you find out that there's something at the root of it that you may not have figured on.
So here are Jaden's tweets that caused all this.
People used to ask me, what do you want to be when you get older?
And I would say what a stupid question.
A real question is, what am I right now?
All the rules in the world were made by somebody no smarter than you, so make your own rules.
School is the tool to brainwash the youth.
Education is rebellion.
If newborn babies could speak, they'd be the most intelligent beings on planet Earth.
If everybody in the world dropped out of scroll, we would have a much more intelligent society.
Everybody get off your phones and go do what you actually want to do.
So those tweets ended up causing a firestorm out there, understandably so.
And here's the story from 2007 about Will Smith intending to start his school, having immersed himself in education theories while home screwing his kids.
Will Smith says that he and his wife plan to put that knowledge to greater use by teaming with like-minded parents and creating a full screw.
Now, this is six years ago.
The institution could launch next year, Smith said.
Didn't offer any details, but said the idea came out of his family's experience in grouping homeschooled kids together.
Yeah, we started homeschooling our children probably six years ago.
We found about eight or nine other parents at home school, so we put them together.
There's this very powerful educational concepts that we believe in, and we feel like I want to design the system that revolutionizes public education.
So we did.
Using some of the tenets of Scientology.
Now the school has gone out of business since for lack of funding.
Which means there were no customers.
That at least not enough to pay the freight.
However, the freight was defined here.
What?
Well, no, there wasn't any government.
He didn't get any government.
There's no way this regime was was going to fund homeschooling, not even for Will Smith.
There was no way that was going to happen.
There is no way that this president's going to sabotage his school union buddies in that way.
So there weren't any subsidies, and the scroll didn't make it.
But Will Smith did home screw his kids.
Okay, let's move on to health care.
Now see, this all started because a caller threw that line away.
He said, No, I heard Will Smith say the school's the stupidest thing.
When did he say that?
Now we know.
Maybe more than we thought we would learn.
Now we have you guys had any luck in there yet with uh IOS 7.
Okay, s all right, Snerdley got his.
So it can be done.
There's uh I just, you know, I sent, I sent a note to one of my good friends here.
I said, okay, IOS 7's gonna be uh available at one o'clock.
I just got a note from him five minutes ago.
It's not here yet.
I said it is.
Yeah, isn't it my fault?
It was my fault, even though it's uh even though it's some folks, there's something else you're gonna have to do.
You can download iOS 7 over the air via the uh Wi-Fi network software update, but you're gonna if you want to connect it, your phone or your iPad to iTunes to sync it that way, or look if you get a new phone, one of their new phones, and you have to restore to that new phone, you're gonna need iTunes 11.1, which is also out today, because the current iTunes is not compatible with uh with the new phones or with iOS 7.
So you're gonna need 11.1 i2 from your Mac app store, whatever the number is on Windows, same same thing.
Okay, from the Daily Caller, they say that they have learned the Republicans' new plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.
And this, by the way, is from the Republican leadership.
This is not Mike Lee and Ted Cruz.
This is the leadership.
These are the people that we have thought did not want to do anything to oppose.
That they were we we've been thinking that the leadership's problem was with Cruz and Mike Lee over in the Senate and whatever friends they have in the House.
It turns out that the Republicans have an alternative to Obamacare.
200-page budget neutral bill that would provide $20,000 in tax deductions to families, $7,500 deduction to individuals, so that they can buy insurance from vendors in any states.
It's sort of like medical savings accounts.
It would also allow Americans to keep the money they save by picking lower cost providers.
Now they'd they'd better try to advertise this.
Now, you know, you and I are saying, why don't they just vote to defund?
Why do they always have to come up with an alternative?
Why can't they just say no?
And the theory theory in this case, well, they did say no, but it still passed and has become law.
And they really, folks, they don't want the Republican leadership, I know, they don't want to defund it or delay it.
There's two mechanisms.
One is the fight over the continuing resolution.
The other opportunity is the fight over the debt limit.
Those are two separate things.
And the Republican leadership, there's the in well, in in conservative inteligencia and the elite scholarly sectors of conservatism.
Uh some of the think tanks, uh, some of the some of the quote unquote real brains have decided that it would make more sense to make the stand in the fight over raising the debt limit instead of the continuing resolution, which is the end of this month, on the theory that most people don't have any idea what a continuing resolution is.
But they do know what raising the debt limit is.
That the debt is one of the primary reasons the Tea Party came into existence.
So there are two competing views here On where best to try to actually defund or delay Obamacare.
And it looks like if I've got this right, I may have these things reversed.
And if I do, I will fix it.
But the thing that you have to think that they're thinking of doing is making the move on defunding or delaying Obamacare during the debt limit fight.
Because everybody understands that.
Rather than a continuing resolution, which nobody knows what it is.
I don't – I think I've got that delineation right now.
I don't know how fervently committed to it they are.
This is not the House leadership.
This is the Republican slash conservative intelligentsia which is trying to influence the uh the House leadership on this.
In an effort to contend with one of the more popular aspects of Obamacare, the Republican bill, which was drafted by a committee subgroup headed by Phil Rowe, doctor, would create a 10-year, $25 billion fund to lower costs for Americans afflicted with pre-existing conditions, such as cancer.
So what this means is that the re there there are certain aspects of Obamacare the Republicans don't want to defund.
There are certain aspects of Obamacare they don't want to end.
They don't want to repeal.
And one of them is insurance for pre-existing conditions.
Those are called high-risk pools in the language of the bill.
And it's been remarkable how few people have signed up for high-risk pool insurance.
You know, this is one of those things everybody, and the Republicans still believe it.
Everybody believed that one of the most attractive aspects of Obamacare was insurance for a preexisting condition.
And why do they think that?
Because the media made a big hullabaloo out of it all the time.
And the media created this impression that the only thing Americans care about is being able to get insurance in a pre-existing condition.
Because then the theory further goes that everybody has one.
And in the insurance companies are really unfair because they didn't.
We're not even talking about insurance.
If you can go get homeowners fire insurance after your house catches fire, we're not talking insurance, we're talking welfare.
Anyway, the Republicans don't want to do anything about, they don't want to repeal pre-existing coverage.
They want their own version of it.
They want credit for that feature of Obamacare hanging on.
Additionally, the Republican bill would let people carry their insurance with them from job to job, not lose it if they lost the job or if they quit the job.
They also have a provision to cut wasteful legal costs with tort reform.
We've heard all of this before.
This is there's nothing new here philosophically.
This is uh but it's been assembled here as a Republican alternative to Obamacare that's actually an alternative to defunding it.
The bill transfers authority, the Republican proposal transfers authority from Obamacare's regulators to citizens because it says there we think people are smart enough and will find the best plan for their family.
We don't have to have a government in charge of that.
Via a reform national health insurance market, Americans will be able to buy many of the provisions in Obamacare that are lauded by the White House, such as coverage for children up to age 26.
Adult children in the 20.
So you see in crafting an alternative, we find that there are two or three things about Obamacare the Republicans like.
Pre-existing conditions, insurance for that, and being able to keep your um your kid on your policy until your kid is 26.
So it seems here that Republicans have an alternative.
It is not a plan to repeal.
It is a plan to replace it.
Now I'm going to make a wild guess that most of you don't want any of this replace business.
What you want let's repeal this and then start from scratch.
That's just a wild guess on behalf on my behalf, my part.
I could be wrong about it.
But look, I'm gonna take a timeout here because uh we've only had chance for one call because of our phone system malfunction today, so we'll come back after the break and get back to the phone, so don't go away.
All right, back to the phones as promised.
This is Janice in Baltimore.
Janice, I am glad you waited.
Thanks very much.
Hello.
Hi Hi Rosh.
I think you're great.
I'm very nervous, but I want to talk to you about Michelle Obama went to cut back on advertisements for sweet and salty products.
Yeah.
I think she should start with the food stamp program.
Think about it.
With government allowing you to buy sweet and salty products with food stamps, they're making poor people fat.
Do you agree?
I do.
And so I think we should all call Michelle Obama and suggest starting there.
I want to just tell you a little story.
I went into a corner store and a lady was in front of me.
She bought a two-liter soda with a food stamp card and then bought five dollars in lottery ticket.
And I'm thinking, here I'm paying for her two late liter soda, and she's spending her money on lottery.
I mean, it just makes me mad, very angry.
Well, there's one thing you're misunderstanding in all this.
And that is that these people with food stamps live in neighborhoods where they don't have any choice but then to buy this junk, because the healthy food makers hate minorities and don't put decent food stores and grocery stores and restaurants in the neighborhoods where they live, so they've got no choice but then to buy junk with their food stamps.
It's part of the unfairness and a natural discrimination of capitalism in America.
But isn't it awful funny how they can get to uh casino into a bingo hall, but they can't get to a grocery store.
What would you do if you were poor as a skunk and had nothing else to do to have fun?
You're looking at this all wrong.
People on food stamps are virtuous.
We got it we we we're gonna ex we're gonna extend them all kinds of latitude because their lives suck to begin with.
Because they're born in America and they're poor.
And so if they want to have a coke, so be it.
But you shouldn't because you don't have to, and you're smarter.
And I wouldn't pay two dollars and fifty cents for a two-liter of soda at the corner store, and I make pretty decent money.
Well, neither are they.
You are you're paying for them and your own.
I know.
I know, it's crazy.
But I think we should start there.
I think we should start with the food stamp program, cutting all sweet and salt salty products out and they'll just go buy the Budweiser people.
Whatever, they'll just buy beer if they that that cigarettes.
I've seen someone buying cigarettes.
Well, somebody has to, or the kids aren't gonna have any health care programs.
Okay, I know what you're saying.
I know what you're saying.
You're you're trying to highlight uh Michelle's hypocrisy.
And it's everywhere.
No question about it.
But I ain't lying.
I ain't lying.
I'm telling you, the food stamp people have wide latitude.
They're they're they're not gonna be condemned of the poor.
They they they have no choice but to eat and drink that junk because they have no other options because America is so unfair to people like them.
And these big box and other grocery stores, bunch of racist pigs, they don't want to have their stores.
All this is a lie, by the way.
Other this food desert stuff, it's all a lie.
It's all made up.
It isn't true.
But Michelle asserts it and the media reports it.
Everybody ends up thinking it's true.
Just it's just so much pap.
Anyway, uh Janice, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
Daniel in San Antonio.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Sex and size of Ditto's from a millennial.
Uh thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
Um, so the just yesterday actually, my wife went to uh uh hospital, and they actually asked her those uh questions that you did with uh Bill Clinton.
The sex questions?
Yeah.
Sex life questions.
Yeah.
And I didn't know that was part of Obamacare because while my wife told me yesterday she got all those questions, she thought it was kind of funny.
But and I thought it was odd, and then I found out it was part of the Obamacare crap.
Now I'm just pissed off.
Well, um, congratulations.
You should be.
Yeah, um, I thought it was because my wife is expecting, just found out like uh a month ago that she's gonna she's pregnant.
So how did she answer the multiple sex partners question?
Uh she laughed and was like, uh definitely not.
I just thought I'd ask.
You know, yeah.
You're having a party there.
I can tell every time you say something, you're leaning over to your buds and you're laughing, and you're having a good time out there.
Yeah, but I didn't found that out.
No, it's not.
You don't sound old enough to be married.
Now that's just me and hearing voices on the phone.
You don't sound old enough to be married.
I'm 26.
26.
Well, you're not uh but but you are anyway.
Just kids in there laughing again.
They got you know, people are huddled around the phone there, and they're and the biggest time.
You know, you know what they do.
Let's call Russian.
Let's just let's say, let's see what we can make him believe.
They're out there just having the the grandest time.
Anyway, it's great to hear from you, Daniel.
I'm I'm glad I know you got ticked off about it.
There's even more coming that you don't know about that's gonna enrage you if that made you mad.
Man, oh man, you you want to talk about a turnaround.
The chairman of the Fed, Ben Bernanke, announced a decision that quantitative easing will continue.
And a lot of people did not expect this.
They they they thought that they sensed from all the indicators that they thought they had that there would be a tapering off of quantitative easing, which is printing money.
Except in this case, it's not actual currency that's printed.
They just add figures to ledgers on computers, spreadsheets.
They digitize it, they just add money in various accounts.
So what has happened as a result of this is that interest rates, if if I didn't know they had any room to collapse, but they have collapsed.
The dollar is tanking, but stocks have exploded because they are the beneficiary of quantitative easing of all this new money.
It's eighty-five billion dollars a month.
Bernanke really wants to keep this job, although he's not gonna keep it.
But I mean he's he's really it's going out in a in a blaze of glory here.
The um the Federal Reserve's uh FOMC statements out, and and that's the statement that contains the news about quantitative easing.
Eighty-five billion dollar large scale asset purchase program.
That's what quantitative easing is, and it just means money goes to buy stock and securities.
And so, and all of nobody expected this to continue at this level.
So the stock market overnight went the Dow industrials went from minus 40 to plus 63 in a blink of an eye.
A 100 point shift in a blink of an eye.
The standard and poor's index went from um or got to 1,718.
That's an all-time intraday high.
And the result of this, the dollar, the value of the dollar is tanking and interest rates have collapsed.
Nothing new.
That's been going on as well, too.
But the institutions in the stock market just are eating this up.
And Obama's out there demanding more debt.
Obama's pushing for more debt.
He's pushing for this, and Bernanke did it.
And the New York Times has a companion story that not only do you want to put much belief in this, but that the Democrat Party is starting to get worried about all of it.
I kid you not.
That the Democrat Party is starting to to to distance themselves from Obama.
That's just a surface interpretation.
I have not yet read the story.
What is the dollar tanking mean?
It means inflation, Snerdley.
I'm sorry.
I thought that's a good point.
What is the dollar tanking mean?
It means inflation.
It means your $3 a gallon or higher gasoline is going to stay there.
As one practical result of this.
You ought to call this QE infinity, not QE4.
This is QE for every QE for all time.
It's there's nothing backing this up.
There's no substance propping this up.
This is just money that doesn't exist that they're creating.
And they're directing it to one place.
Look, it's a circuitous route that it takes.
I don't when I say it ends up in the stock market, it does, but it's it's not as though a few select clients or traders or financial houses get the money.
That's not how it happens.
It just ends up there, which is its purpose.
It takes a circuitous route, but it ends up this money ends up being used to buy stock and uh and securities.
And that's why the Dow Jones Industrial Average of the Standard Poor is skyrocketing today.
It's not because mom and pop like the new iPhone and are buying Apple and raising the stock price, or because they're buying it as a stock, it's simply the Fed.
Basically finding a way to put more money in the stock market.
Kevin, Rockford, Illinois, glad you called.
Great to have you.
Hello, sir.
Good afternoon, Russia.
You are the ultimate truth campaigner, and I am a high information voter.
The reason I'm calling is you were talking earlier about uh different groups and uh the Asians.
One of the earliest books that Thomas Sowell wrote, I believe it was called uh Civil Rights and the Politics of Race, took Social Security Inform and the data, and he looked at different groups that came to the United States.
And one of his theses was that those groups that came to the United States and used politics.
For instance, the Irish that got into city governments and police, vice those people that stuck together and created their own economic uh uh endeavors.
The people that went with government were stunted economically.
And he looked at different groups, he looked at whites, he looked at blacks, he looked at Asians and the subgroups within them, and he came up with the data that basically, and even back in the 70s, the Asians were the highest income earners.
And one of the things that you should know is that he looked at black women with college educations and blacks that came from uh Britain and those areas, and they actually had higher per capita income than white women.
So uh you you can't go by what the government's telling you.
This is something that has happened for the longest time, and it supports if you want to make it, you have to make your own way.
Well, that's a great point, and you're right about Seoul.
Well, and and you know, the great way to summarize the point is that there are numerous ways that people seek economic success and power.
Some do it through politics and some do it through hard work.
And it's it's not even arguable.
The people who are trying to find their way through politics are the ones that dependent on somebody else in government taking care of them or or are doing something for them.
And the black population in this country sadly is one of the most glaring examples for 50 years.
They have been waiting for the Democrat Party to quote, make it right, unquote, to level the playing field, versus the Asians, as you cite, who don't care.
They don't have there's nobody looking out for them.
There's nobody running interference for them.
I mean, they have, you know, special interest groups that they themselves belong to, but they're they're not making their way by by making government make sure they're treated okay.
They are just finding their way via hard work, industrial industriousness and all that.
And I I remember when Sowell wrote that book, and I remember reading it.
It was I thought it so much like so much he does, it's just brilliant.
It was that that I think is a brilliant way of saying it.
People seek power through politics or through hard work.
Now, hard politics could be hard work too, but by what he means by this, if you're seeking power through politics, you're asking for vengeance to be meted out somebody else.
You're you're asking government to level the playfully.
You're asking government to take care of whatever you think's been unfairly done to you, versus just to hell with it and go out and make your way.
Absolutely.
I'm glad you read it.
I uh Thomas Sowell is uh is is such a such a well it's well read the book inside American Education and you'll really get an air fall.
And I know.
And I there's no question.
He's just I I want to call him a national treasure, but that's kind of cliched.
He just is really special.
He's he is uniquely insightful and uh and intelligent, and he's fearless.
Yeah, I just uh I got to meet him one time, couple three times, and it's always been a uh great thrill to talk to him.
By the way, speaking of this, there's a little story here in the AP.
Dutch king.
Say goodbye to welfare state.
Hello to personal responsibility.
Amsterdam.
King Willem Alexander delivered a message to the Dutch people from the government Tuesday in a nationally televised address.
His speech basically was the welfare state of the 20th century and his country is gone.
In its place is a participation society.
That's what's emerging, in which people must take responsibility for their own future and create their own social and financial safety nets with less help from the national government.
Can you imagine such a thing happening here?
Oh, my friends, does it ever need to happen?
The Dutch King.
Now, this is this is Holland, it's Amsterdam.
Now, obviously we're not talking about a as many people as there are in this country, but still those people have become accustomed.
He can't afford it anymore.
They just they can't afford it.
And and uh the Dutch can't do a QE three times.
They don't have the uh world power to to actually corrupt themselves.
That way they have to they have to live by the laws of the market, and they're just out of money.
And they've got so many people dependent on government, they don't have any productivity.
So it's gotta end it.
And he's uh last I checked, he was still alive.
Let me grab one quick call here.
Uh this is Todd in uh in Hope, Arkansas, Clinton Country.
Hello, Todd.
Great to have you here, sir.
Rush, thank you for taking my call.
I've been listening for many years and tried to call in, and this is my first time getting through.
Thank you so much.
You bet, sir.
Um seems like Obamacare will make it illegal for me to pay cash to my medical providers like I am now.
And it also seems like any time the government makes anything illegal, there is a group of people who will step in to facilitate that whatever's been made illegal continuing.
Who would do it?
Wait, wait, wait, wait, who who would who who would they be?
Oh, I don't know.
Somebody from Northern New Jersey or Las Vegas or you're talking about uh organized crime.
Organized crime.
Let me tell you something.
From from my stand, organized crime is already running it.
Good point.
Do you think they'll uh they'll take it more private, though, and uh and be a growth opportunity for illegal medical care.
Well, any time any time you go all cash.
Yeah, you you have a point.
You you you have a point, you really do.
Anytime you go all cash, you also become all target of um of the regime.
Yeah, if you if you get a if you get a death panel verdict that you don't like, you want to live, and you've got the money.
You imagine making the regime mad at you for doing you're supposed to be dead, dammit, and we're gonna see to it that you die.
We can't have our death panels being undermined like this.
Anyway, Todd, it's a good point.
It's uh it's a good point.
Because there are going to be people that are gonna try to beat this.
There always are.
We're made up of a nation of creative entrepreneurs.
And people are just not gonna be controlled.
This thing is gonna be such a mess.
Um I don't I'm not sure Obamacare outlaws cash patients, the payments yet, because they're they're too dumb to figure out that's where it's gonna go.
But once they figure it out, then they're gonna make them make their move.
Folks, I gotta go.
I have a super secret uh meeting that I gotta head off to.
Be back tomorrow, though.
Everything hunky-dory, everything cool.
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