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Nov. 8, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 8, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, folks.
How are you?
Rush Limboy and the EIB Network.
And we are here on Friday, making it happen.
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By the way, if you are a young person who has read or is listening to or is reading Rush Reverend the Brave Pilgrims, you want to talk about that?
I mean, we've had calls from kids and we're happy to put them up.
We're thinking about doing in an upcoming Open Line Friday a solid hour of just young people that have read the book.
Somebody said, why don't you do a whole show of that?
Well, that might be a bit much, but maybe a whole show of interspersed, but we're thinking about doing a solid hour.
There are other things happening out there, ladies and gentlemen, in addition to Obama and his fake apology.
Sorry that you heard what you heard when he said you could keep your plan.
When I was out in California, I got to mention this to you.
I was out in California a couple, three weeks ago, and I hadn't seen some of my buddies for a year and a half.
And it's amazing.
If you lose touch with people a year and a half, I mean, they can change and you don't know about it.
I mean, sometimes you got to stay in close contact with people to keep them on the rails.
So one of our haunts, we go to the Grand Havana room in Beverly Hills.
It's great.
I mean, they've got TVs in there.
If there's a football game or basketball, baseball game on, it's in there.
You can smoke while you have dinner.
It's just, it's, there aren't too many places in the country you can do that anymore.
And they've got balconies outside, little patios and decks.
If you want to go outside, keep doors open.
It's just heaven for those of us who appreciate fine adult beverages and cigars.
And I'm in there with some of my TV buddies, producers and writers of famous TV shows.
And, oh, by the way, they all were just gung-ho for Christie.
And they were just, remember I told you this, they were just, and they were mad at anybody who'd been critical of Christie.
Well, they didn't, if they were mad at me, they didn't specifically say they were mad at me, but they got their point across.
Look, Rush, yeah, I'm supposed to, look, there's who else are we going to win with?
There's nobody we can win with.
What a cruise, you kidding me?
And I said, I think Cruz could clean up.
Come on, you got to be kidding.
You really, come on, Rush.
You know, Christie's the only chance we got.
So I just, I sat there and I'm listening to it all.
I'm just telling you, it's a learning, it's an absorbing thing for me.
And they're passionate about it, serious about it.
But then one of them said to me, Rush, I got to tell you something.
And it was like he was not afraid to tell me, but he was of the opinion that I was going to jump down his throat.
He said, Rush and buy an electric car.
But I'm not buying it because I'm an environmentalist nutrition.
It's not none of that.
No global warming.
It's just the greatest car in the world.
It's just the finest car.
I'm going to buy a Tesla, Model S. Just rush.
I go 300 miles on a thing with a single charge.
I said, well, does it have a gasoline engine if you run out of juice and there's no...
No, but at 300 miles, I'll never run out.
I said, well, where do you charge it?
My house.
Overnight.
300 miles.
Hell, it's only 40 miles to and from work.
My commute is great.
And it's the finest car.
Rush, it's the biggest selling car in California.
It's right now one of the most popular cars in the country.
And I, well, I said, that's great.
If that's what you want, I don't care.
You don't have to justify it to me.
I'm just if you like it, that's cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it's not because I'm an environmental nutrush.
Don't think I'm doing this because I'm trying to save the planet.
I just, I went up to San Francisco and I test drove one and I ordered it.
I said, you don't have it yet?
No, no, it's coming in December.
So with that in mind, I have two stories.
The third Tesla caught fire the other day in the past month.
And the third, I don't know what, they're not sure what the cause of the latest fire was.
I don't know if it's the battery, some such thing.
They're doing an investigation of it.
And I didn't call the guy.
I didn't say, hey, did you see where a third test?
I mean, I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it now because people love the car.
And it has its evangelists.
I'm a big Apple guy.
I'm a big phone.
iPhone.
It's got its fans.
And no matter what, you're not going to talk him out of it.
And I wouldn't try to talk him out of it.
Well, look, I don't.
No, sir.
You don't mind fire in the cabin.
It's a great car.
My point is: if somebody wants one, that's fine.
I'm into free choice.
The thing, as I've said over and over again, is that I think a lot of people buy these things the same reason they wear a red ribbon to say they care and they care more than you do about it.
And they're great, and they're socially conscious and they're saving the planet.
I just hate, I hate people being hoodwinked by that stuff.
But if why is it that I'm afraid to bite on that?
Why is it that no?
Because if I ask the question, then I'm going to be compelled to announce your answer.
And I'm not here to begrudge Tesla at all.
See, this is the big difference in me.
The pro-electric car people, they're close to demanding that all of us drive these things.
I mean, the leftists on this, you know, they end up liking the electric car.
They want everybody in one.
They like vegetables.
You have to eat them.
They don't like 32-ounce soft drinks.
You can't have one.
They don't like trans fats.
You can't have any.
And that isn't me.
If somebody wants to buy a Tesla, what are you going to say?
Your car can become the grill and you can grill your food when you're camping.
Right.
Yeah, campfire jokes.
I think it's this Elon Musk guy who's the CEO of Tesla.
He's actually quite entrepreneurial.
He's got all kinds of great entrepreneurial ideas in space and ramping up mass transit highway travel and this kind of thing.
I mean, he's a forward thinker.
And I applaud entrepreneurs ever, like this guy in New Orleans that I've learned about today, Larmondo Larmo, what is his Larmo Flair Allen, a great, great treasured entrepreneur in New Orleans, sadly died in 2004 in a housing project, a gunfight over drugs.
But they finally found the guy that killed Larmondo sometime later.
The guy that killed Larmo also killed Armando's friend, chocolate.
30, 30 rounds in this guy's head.
Yeah, big, big drug deal.
Anyway, the entrepreneur aspect of Larmondo Flair Hill is he's 25.
He's got nine kids, and they each earn about $100,000 a year, and they don't have a job.
It's a fascinating story.
Anyway, I was thinking about this, the Tesla news, and my buddy telling me he couldn't wait to get it.
I'm just wondering if he's affected by this.
And then there's this story.
This is from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The TV station there, Channel 13 Watchdog News, WZZM.
The Watchdog News team started out to do a story prompted by viewer questions about the use and the cost of public car charging stations.
And they investigated.
They found that the charging stations were just one very small part of what is, when you add it all up, a massive government effort to get everybody to drive electric cars.
And I'm reading to you from a TV station report.
President Obama set a goal to have 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015.
We're now at 10% of that number.
And despite that, the government continues to prop up the manufacture and sales of electric cars, beginning with lithium mines and ending with electric vehicle charging stations.
The bottom line here is that this TV station in Grand Rapids, Michigan, now, granted, this is in auto country, and you might find an allegiance to the standard automobile industry there.
So you have to account for that in the story.
But they claim that $5 billion is being wasted on this whole electric car program.
I mean, they chalk this up as yet another massive failure by the Obama regime.
And it's just another in a long and never-ending list of failures.
Perhaps the most definitive indicator that electric car sales are not where the government wants them to be, President Obama has asked Congress to increase the electric car tax credit from $7,500 to $10,000.
To date, the federal government has spent $28 million on lithium mines for the batteries, $27 million on lithium salts, $2 billion to battery factories, $3 billion to automakers, $7,500 credit to car buyers now up to $10,000, and $15 million to install car charging stations.
Now, the point is that the government is spending all this, not the electric car industry.
And that they have, you know, the regular car industry is not getting this kind of government help other than GM being bailed out.
But the point of the story is that nobody, in terms of real numbers, wants these.
And yet it's true, Obama does want everybody drive with it.
This is my point.
Why does he care?
You know, Al Gore dreamed of everybody an electric car.
Do these people not understand that you cannot have an electric car without massive coal-powered coal-fired power plants?
Where do you get the electricity to charge them?
This is, this is, I'm sorry, this is where things break down for me.
Just sort of common sense thing.
People think that electric cars, well, where do they start from?
They start from, well, the regular cars pollute.
Oh, yeah.
Greenhouse gases, CO2, and C2O and C3PO, and they've got cattle of it converters and gasoline and fires, and they stink and it smells as pollution and oil.
It's yuck, it's just oil, and it's polluting, and oil spills, and it's profit for the oak.
They get lost in all this.
And then they say, now the electric car, now that's clean.
Yes, sir.
There's no pollution, there's no noise.
Where do you get the electricity to power the car?
You get it from coal, which Obama is trying to do away with.
So how are they going to power these things?
That's why I don't understand.
People think they're buying an electric car and saving the world, and yet it takes their number one enemy, coal, to have enough electricity to charge these things.
Sometimes I don't know how people think, but that's why I think there's this political attachment to it, sort of like wearing the red ribbon for AIDS, that you care more than other people because you're driving a Prius or what have you.
It just shows how malleable people are and how susceptible they are to doing things.
First, you can guilt them into making them think they're responsible for climate change and pollution.
And then you say, but here's a way you can say you're sorry.
Here's a way you can make amends.
Here's a way that you can be forgiven.
And you go out and buy one of these hybrids or an electric car and you agree to pay higher taxes and accept your portion of the blame for everything and you'll be forgiven and you'll be a good person.
And I don't understand that working on people, but it does.
The psychological play is profoundly successful.
Got that quick timeout.
You sit tight.
Back with your phone calls in just a moment.
Hi, folks.
Welcome back.
Open Line Friday here on the EIB Network.
And this is Patrick in Norman, Oklahoma.
Hi, Patrick.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Mega Dittos from a slightly dejected Sooner Nation brush.
Slightly dejected.
What did you say?
Sooner nation.
Oh, Sooner Nation.
Yeah.
I hear you.
I wanted to talk about the president's apology last night.
He seems to have this pattern where he basically says, oh, I was crossing my fingers when I said that.
So don't worry about when I said that.
I didn't really mean that.
And then I also wanted to say.
Wait, wait, no, no, actually.
Actually, he did.
He meant to lie.
He meant for people to believe that their policies and doctors wouldn't change and are premium to get cheaper.
He meant that.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
But what's happened now is that people are learning that they're being canceled.
They don't get to keep any of that.
And the focus group data, I'm convinced, is so bad that they had to arrange this phony apology appearance on NBC last night.
I agree, but that's what his apology was, was that, you know, yes, I said that, but I was crossing.
You can't hold me to that.
I didn't really mean it anyway.
Well, I mean, technically, what the guy, what he said was that he was sorry for the way you feel.
He's sorry you feel the way you feel.
He's sorry that you heard him say what he said.
But he's not sorry about this in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Nobody's going to, well, you know, I take that back.
I was going to say nobody's going to call him on it.
Let's go to grab soundbite number 10.
Because Candy Crowley, last night on Anderson Cooper, he said, an apology for the first time from the president for anything related to Obamacare.
And for the first time, we've heard one about something other than the website.
What do you make of it, Candy Baby?
Well, I wonder how this will, as I say, play in Peoria simply because this may be too little too late.
It's the other part of his statement, I think, that will eventually get all the attention.
I grew up in the Midwest.
My father had this saying when he went and said, oh, I'm sorry I didn't do this because he'd say, sorry, I don't get the hay in.
Meaning, for East Coast translation, an apology doesn't correct the problem.
I think we are at that point where the president has to do something.
And he, having signaled that in this interview, is going to have to accept some changes to something he didn't want to change.
Yeah, well, let me tell you something about that, folks.
She's got a point here.
Too little too late.
But nothing's changed after the apology.
And that's true.
Now, what do you think of this?
Because of this, there is now heightened talk of delaying the individual mandate for a year.
Now, there was a time not long ago where that would have been advantageous.
But now, now when Obama and the whole thing are on the ropes, it would be a gross error to delay the individual man.
I think what the Republican Party said, don't do anything, kid.
Leave it alone.
It's going to implode.
All right, fine.
Do not let them delay this mandate.
Do not go along with that.
You make everybody live with this debacle.
If that was going to be the Republican plan, hey, it can't succeed.
It's going to implode.
Then do not delay that mandate because all you're doing by delaying the mandate is eliminating all of this pain, which is going to help the Democrats in the 2014 midterms, right?
So if the Republicans go along with delaying the mandate, they're making a big mistake here, folks.
I just got a note from a friend who's been listening to the discussion today about the Obama apology.
And Candy Crowley, it didn't go far enough.
It didn't change anything.
My friend says, Russian, what's driving me nuts about this is?
He never even admitted he lied.
In fact, Obama emphasized that he meant what he said when he said it.
I mean, a person cannot apologize for lying without first admitting that he actually told a lie.
You never get to the business about whether somebody's sorry or not until they tell you they've done it in the first place.
And he never admitted lying.
And that's exactly right.
And this might be, he was not apologizing for what he did.
He was apologizing for making you feel the way you felt when you discovered that he lied.
He's sorry that you felt betrayed, but deal with it.
And in fact, you think you're feeling bad.
He got screwed by a website.
That's the real takeaway.
He said, I've been burned by a website.
Well, Americans have been burned too, but I've been burned by a website.
We're dealing with a megalomaniac here, but he didn't apologize.
Didn't admit that he lied.
I'm telling you, the only way Obamacare can happen is if everybody loses their plans.
It must happen that way.
There can't be reform if everybody gets to keep their plan because they like it.
Why reform anything?
You have to lose your plan.
You have to lose your doctor.
It has to become more expensive.
Otherwise, there is no Obamacare.
It's the status quo.
What do you mean?
What happens?
What happens when they don't meet the financial targets?
What financial target have they met?
Okay, first was the Porculus bill, and it was going to cause all this growth, and that didn't happen.
What financial target this bill was not, it was going to cost less than a trillion dollars to begin with.
And yeah, they need all these healthy young people paying in to fund the health care for the seasoned citizens and the sick.
And what happens when that doesn't happen?
Okay, the question is the reason why there's some dead air there.
And by the way, don't sweat it.
Dead air never hurt anybody.
Snerdley was asking me a question.
So when they don't hit their targets for money donated, contributed, paid for by healthy people, buying policies, which covers the health care costs of the sick and the seasoned.
What happens then?
No big deal.
Print it.
What do you mean, what happens then?
They're pumping $85 billion a month into the stock market with QE, whatever it is now, three or four.
But I guess you could say it would implode.
I mean, if there's no money to finance it, but there isn't, Snerdley, we've spent $17 trillion that we don't have, and we're still operating.
We have $85 trillion in unfunded pension liabilities nationwide, federal and private sector, that there isn't the money for.
And we just keep chugging along.
What happens when the financial?
The financial targets were never going to be hit.
This was never going to work.
This cannot work.
The only way this could work is if they, and maybe I shouldn't say never, but where this is headed, If they're really concerned about meeting the financial targets, where this is headed is them going to your bank account and getting your money, whether they've got a functioning website or not.
Whether where this is headed is them taking money from your tax return and not giving you a refund or sending you a bill or what have you, or putting a lien on your money.
I don't know.
It was never going to work.
Social Security doesn't work in terms of financial targets.
The war on poverty doesn't work.
There's not one government program that works.
In a financial sense, every government program is in the red to the point that you can't see the color anymore.
It's so deep.
This was never going to work.
I mean, people that don't understand economics designed this.
It was never going to work.
You know what I can't believe?
Here we've got this massive plan, and it's national health care, right?
And it's going to cover everybody.
And it's going to cover the uninsured.
It's going to cover the sick.
It's going to cover the elderly.
It's going to cover everybody.
I mean, that's the deal, right?
It was finally going to be fair.
Everybody was going to get coverage.
And then I hear we need a minimum 7 million people to sign up to make it work.
So wait a minute.
How in the world does 7 million signing up make it work in a nation of 300 million?
It can't possibly work.
Well, Rush, you just don't understand.
We need a minimum 7 million people signing up to the exchanges and paying the premiums and policy prices.
And that will cover how we have 300 million people here, and it's for everybody.
That was the big selling point.
Everybody was going to be covered.
And everybody was going to be treated nicely.
And everybody was going to be treated fairly, not like those rotten, creepy insurance companies treat you.
And even if you had a pre-existing condition, you were going to be covered.
And all we need is 7 million people.
That's the minimum.
None of it works.
The numbers don't work.
The math doesn't work no matter how they do it.
There isn't the money to pay for this is your answer.
What happens when they don't meet their cost targets?
Name one target they have met ever.
I don't know.
I just let's stick with the phones here because I promised we're going to have focus on the phones.
I keep getting diarrhea of the mouth.
Jenner in Draper, Utah.
Hi, great to have you on the program.
Is this Mr. Limbaugh?
Hi.
Hi, this is Jenner Allen.
Oh, wait, I just noticed you're 14.
I just saw, I didn't have my glasses on.
You're 14 and you want to talk about the book.
Oh, cool.
Yeah, your new book.
Yeah, I love it.
It's just that I love how the detail you put into it.
I just got to the part where Liberty runs to the teleport to get to the new world and just everything just keeps getting better and better.
Well, I am so happy that you like it.
All of you that have said that, you're making my day.
Yeah, I just, like, it's one of my favorite books I've ever read.
And like, to know that, like, you wrote it, it's just awesome.
My mom, I'm like a rush baby.
I've listened to you like my whole life.
My mom always, my mom always listening to you on the radio.
And I just love you.
What?
Wow.
Wow.
14 years old.
Do you attend public school?
No, I'm in the new Corner Canyon High School.
They just built it here in Draper.
It's a beautiful high school, really big.
Well, where did you attend elementary school, first, second, third grade?
Where did you go?
Summon Academy.
Yeah, I was in private school.
Okay.
Well, let me ask you, what were when you learned about the Pilgrims?
Yeah.
Were you told the truth about it when you were in school?
You know, there are a lot of teachers out there that are just trying to feed you just a bunch of crap.
And I don't, I just try to listen to it.
My history teacher last year really was talking to me about the right thing, and he would always just say the right stuff.
And I think he was taking like a good side in it and just everything.
So is what you're reading in the book, is it new to you?
Have you not heard this story of the Pilgrims before?
Or have you heard it before and you just like the way it's presented?
Yeah, I've known about William Bradford and all those other men.
And I just, yeah, like you said, I just really like the way you like how you wrote it and just how pretty easy it is to understand.
It's not too complicated.
Well, that's great.
You're validating something that we all thought, and that is history, I'll tell you something, Jenner, the older you get, and you've got a long way to go, but the older you get, the more meaningful, good old-fashioned, dry ball history is going to mean to you.
When you're young, when you're young, history is, it's not that important.
So if somebody can convey the importance of history to you in a story, in a format that you find interesting, then it's something that you can actually learn and enjoy learning and not feel like it's being forced on your throat because it's just something you have to do.
Yeah, exactly.
And that's what we tried to do here.
I just, I really, I think storytelling is one of the best ways of communicating and persuading at the same time.
So the fact that you like it is just you're making my day here.
Yeah, my mom, my mom ordered a, she pre-ordered it.
She sent you an email about how she just got a new copy and how she's always listened to you and loved you.
And I just can't get over how much I like it.
Well, you made my day.
As I said, I can't thank you enough.
I want to send you a signed copy too.
I mean, I've sent everybody else that's called one today, so I may as well spread it around and be a good socialist about it.
So I'll send you.
Hang on, Jenner, don't go away.
And we'll get it to you next week.
Soon I can sign it.
Give us a FedEx address if you can.
We'll get it to you as quickly as we can, okay?
Okay, that sounds awesome.
Tremendous.
Thank you much.
Appreciate your call and your nice compliments on the book.
We'll be right back, folks.
Don't go away.
I can't tell you, folks, how gratifying it is when I hear from young people about how they like the book, because that's the point.
Because no matter what they think, history is important.
It is crucial.
And particularly for Americans, it is crucially important that all Americans understand the founding of this country and how it happened and why and what the term American exceptionalism means.
What does it really mean?
Why?
How did this country become what it is?
Why is it unique from all other places in the world?
Why should people be proud of it?
Actively, daily, proud to be Americans.
And that's why this book was written, to reach people at a young age and get them interested and thinking along these lines.
Take the values of the program here that we all believe.
So I get these calls from these young people, and it's just, I mean, it's, it's a, I don't know, I say gratifying.
It's the home run city is what it is.
Now, Snerdley, you wanted to know about the money.
I mean, let me be serious about it.
How does this always work?
So the Democrats propose a plan, the program, and it passes and they implement it, and it always runs out of money because it's impossible to fully fund any program they come up with.
It's simply not possible.
There isn't the money to pay for their policies.
There never has been, folks.
Socialism doesn't work.
Communism doesn't work.
You run out of other people's money.
So what happens if the so-called cost targets are not met here?
It's very simple.
When it becomes obvious that we're not going to need the money, the Democrats are going to come back for more.
They'll come back with new legislation, and it's going to sound like old legislation.
We need money for doctors.
We need money for Medicare.
We need money for health insurance.
And the Republicans are going to say, well, no, we've already spent enough.
And that's when the Democrats start screaming, Republicans want to take away your doctor.
Republicans want to take away your health care.
Republicans want to take away your insurance.
Republicans want to starve your kids.
That's the pattern.
That's the formula.
That's how it works.
There's never the money to pay for socialism.
There is never the money to pay for Democrat programs.
And when they need more, they just propose it.
The Republicans oppose it.
And then the Republicans are accused of having no hearts and no compassion and of hating people.
That's pretty much what's going to happen.
Well, that's it, folks.
Another great week here at the EIB Network and another exciting edition of Open Line Friday in the Can.
Hope you have a great, great weekend and hope things work out whatever is on tap for you.
I hope they end up being things you enjoy.
I know everybody has to do things that you don't enjoy.
And I hope maybe in your case, you can just tell them to go to hell and not do it.
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