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Nov. 27, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 27, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EAB network.
And the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, the real story of Thanksgiving is coming up in this hour.
A holiday tradition here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
It's obvious that the regime is using today as a massive news and document dump.
They're figuring it nobody is going to hear the news today that the mandatory enrollment for small business at Obamacare has been delayed now until November of next year.
So while the organizing for action faction is out trying to corrupt every Thanksgiving dinner this season tomorrow by proselytizing and propagandizing an Obamacare.
They're not going to tell you about all the bad news and all of the delays and all the incompetence and the mismanagement, whatever else.
The political manipulations.
You know darn well Obama's hoping that Americans are not going to be talking about this latest website disaster tomorrow over Thanksgiving dinner.
And folks, just to show you how relentless this stuff is and how oppressive the left is, there's something up on the Fox News Radio site.
Some survey, get this now.
Some survey that says half of consumers will spend less this holiday season as a direct result of the government shutdown and the threat of another one.
Now that's just a crock.
That is total BS.
That is that is a great illustration of how oppressive and relentless the left is in propaganda and mind control and shaping opinion.
The reason people are going to be spending less is because they have less.
And they have less because Barack Obama's president.
And they have less because Barack Obama's president because his economic policies have destroyed jobs.
There are 91 and a half million Americans not working.
There are 91 and a half million Americans without very much disposable income.
There obviously will be less retail spending this year, and the left knows it.
And so rather than people conclude the obvious, they want it out there that you are going to spend less because of the government shutdown.
I don't get the connection.
I guess you just can't go about your day if the government isn't open and operating.
But it's not just that you're going to spend less this holiday season because the government shutdown.
You are also living in fear.
You are quaking in your boots over the next one that might happen in January.
And because the government might shut down, you have to hoard what little money you've got.
And that is how they attempt their mind control.
There's absolutely no connection to people's retail spending in the government shutdown.
None.
Zilch Zero NATO.
The connection to people not having any money is Barack Obama.
And of course, they can't let that be concluded or assumed.
They can't let people decide that.
So they have to put it out there that everybody's worried about the government shutdown.
Now, they don't think they're going to convince you to be worried about the government shutdown.
What they're trying to do is make you think everybody else is concerned about it.
And that you should be.
Because you in your natural state would never associate a government shutdown with your retail spending.
But they want you to think a lot of other people are.
Just like they want you to think the economy's bad for everybody when it's not.
It's not for you, but they want you to believe it is for everybody else.
Everybody got paid in the government shutdown.
The people that were Shut down, everybody got paid.
The people that work for the government got paid.
The reason why people are going to be spending less is because of the tripling of insurance premiums.
The reason people are going to be spending less is because insurance premiums are doubling and tripling, and so are deductibles.
The reason people are going to have less to spend disposable income is because their money's tied up in affording and complying with Obamacare.
And that is what they can't afford for you to realize.
And so they put out this PAP.
Yet everybody's all concerned about the government shutdown, and that's why they're hoarding their money because there might be another one.
And oh no, if the government shut down, nobody has anything.
It's sick.
It is literally sick.
You know, this stuff that the...
Oh, I should also say, I need to say I need to say this.
I am I am receiving emails from people who are telling me that the Pope is economic writing has been mistranslated.
Now, my first reaction was come on, this document is too big and massive for it to be mistranslated.
But then I caught myself.
And this is exactly what the left does.
If they had a chance to take somebody as influential and revered and beloved as the Pope and put their words in his mouth, they would do it in a minute.
So now I'm going to have to track this down.
What has been attributed to the Pope here doesn't make sense with 50 years of the Catholic Church.
It doesn't jibe.
But it sounds exactly like what your average run-of-the-mill leftist would say each and every day.
Unfettered capitalism trickle down doesn't work.
Now I don't know this Pope.
But uh I don't know that the bishop of Rome speaks in terms of trickle down.
One of the things they're saying is that the Pope didn't say trickle down, that the correct translation would be spill over.
He didn't say trickle down.
So there are people that are telling me, hey, Rush, the Pope was mistranslated.
And my first reaction, come on now.
But then I had to catch myself.
They are, by they, I mean the worldwide left.
They are entirely capable of this.
And they wouldn't hesitate to do it if they thought they could get away with it.
Hell, they wouldn't hesitate to do it even if they do get caught doing it, because they know that the original phony translation they put out will be the one that survives.
The truth takes a long time to catch up when the lie gets out of the gates first.
So I just I can't sit here and summarily reject the claim that the Pope has been mistranslated.
I know it sounds inconceivable.
The Pope.
He said something about homosexuals, and then later they said he was mistranslated.
So the Pope, the Pope, oh, his original statement on homosexual appeared to condone homosexuality, and then somebody said he was mistranslated.
Well, it seems to be a pattern here then of the Pope being mistranslated.
Well, but, Snurdly, you have to...
You know how we would know is if the Pope came out in favor of contraception and abortion, then we would know that there's mistranslation going on.
Now, the left hasn't gotten that brave yet.
Thank you.
But this other stuff, see, my problem is that I can totally.
I can see that attempt being made.
Somebody is this powerful, this revered, this loved, beloved the Pope is the left to put their words in his mouth by translating what he says for the rest of the world.
I would not discount that.
Sounds a little far out, but the thing about buying, though, I just have one more thing to say about this.
Buying is free will.
By definition, people choose to buy.
Except health care.
Then they're forced to.
There's always a caveat to everything, isn't there?
But in a in an unfettered capitalistic society.
People choose to buy.
A purchase is an act of individual sovereignty.
And in order to succeed, a business must do something that makes their fellow man to buy it, willingly part with their cash to obtain it.
That's capitalism.
Government is compulsion, on the other hand.
Capitalism is moral because it honors individual freedom, but government is compulsion.
We are compelled to buy Obamacare.
We must, or we are in violation of the law.
That's not capitalism.
There's no free will there.
There's no sovereignty.
There's no choice.
We are being compelled under threat of fine and possible imprisonment.
Yes, it's in the law if we don't buy it.
And I'm telling you, that's not the solution to anybody's economic problems is forced purchases.
It just isn't.
Okay, so the left, the left has got their talking points for Thanksgiving.
Organizing for action has given the mind on robots ten things to try to corrupt your Thanksgiving meal with.
and give you an example of Yeah, healthcare.gov may suck, but the state exchanges are really great.
They're supposed to say that.
The website's problem is demand.
And once the front-end problems are fixed, it's going to work great.
It's just so many people trying to sign up, they just can't handle the demand.
That's what they're supposed to say.
Not true.
I mean, they can't handle the demand, but the website's not working, and the reason there is no front end, the things that everybody wants to know, how much is this gonna cost, when do I have to buy it, is the very last thing you encounter at healthcare.gov, because they don't want you to know the truth.
The third talking point is only a few young and healthy people are gonna really pay any more money.
For most people, they're gonna be able to keep their plans or get something better.
Yeah, that is talking point number three that Obama's acolytes are being given from their website to tell everybody at Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.
Just a few young people are gonna see their costs go up.
Most everybody else is going to be able to keep their plan.
They're still making that promise that Obama has apologized for making, by the way.
They are still making that promise that if you keep your plan, you like your plan, you can keep it.
Or get something better.
The fourth talking point.
The health care market before Obamacare was a free market It had all kinds of junk, insurance plans, it screwed people over, and they dropped their insurance when they got sick, and the insurance companies were doing nothing but screwing people, taking their money and ripping them off.
And Obamacare is going to end all that.
That's talking point number four.
And that's an absolute crock as well.
But there you have it.
I mean, this is what do I free market junk.
People that cheat you, rip you off, steal from you, abuse you, kill you, or watch you die and get sick and don't care.
Talking point number five.
Obamacare is already controlling health care costs.
I mean, costs are already weighed down, and eventually premiums are going to fall a lot too.
Just be patient.
Talking point number six.
Once you're able to get onto the website, you'll have plenty of cheaper, better choices, and you'll be able to qualify for a subsidy.
Don't believe what you hear in the news that everything's more expensive, premiums and deductibles.
That isn't true.
Once you get into the website, you'll have cheaper, better choices.
Talking point number seven.
When people get covered under Obamacare, they're going to start liking the new system because they'll get the same health care but cheaper.
Except you don't get to keep your plan, but you're going to get to keep your plan, and your plan's going to get cheaper.
No, if you keep your plan, you get it for one more year, but the premium is up minimum 24%.
All of this is lies.
Every talking point is a provable, abject lie.
And organizing for action, Obama's website is urging all of its followers to take these talking points and pollute and corrupt Thanksgiving dinner.
Talking point number eight, the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, which only confederates oppose, is giving millions of people access to affordable health care.
Medicaid is bankrupt.
Doctors are leaving it.
It's a crapshoot.
It's an absolute mess.
Talking point number nine.
This thing would have worked just fine from the beginning, except for the Republican commitment to kill it.
The Republicans have never wanted this to work, and they've seen to it that it's got problems.
But if you get the Republicans out of the way, this would be great.
And talking point number ten, we're just trying to help poor people get health care.
How can that be wrong?
Why why do you hate poor people?
We're just trying to get poor people health care.
Why do you hate poor people?
So you have been warned.
You know what I think you should do.
I think you should get rush revere in the brave pilgrims, and you should take that to Thanksgiving dinner.
And I think you should read that.
And I think you should take pictures of your family smiling and laughing and reading Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and the real story of Thanksgiving.
And then when you get those pictures, you need to send them in to us.
To our website at twoofpyT.com and click on the adventures of Rush Revere portal.
And then you can enter our school challenge.
And you can have kids send in their art, and you can write Liberty, the talking horse.
All kinds of great stuff for Thanksgiving Day.
In fact, one of the great things about the Rush Revere website at 2FYT.com is send the kids there while they're waiting on Thanksgiving dinner to be ready.
It's a great way for them to occupy their time.
Learn, have fun at the same time.
But I mean, let's let's cross them up here, folks.
Read the real story of Thanksgiving.
The minute you've got you the odds are you're gonna have some Obamaite who's gotten these talking points trying to corrupt your Thanksgiving dinner, just hit back at them.
And tell them you know that they're full of it.
They may not even know that they're being lied to.
Quick time out.
We'll be back.
We've got much more, including the real story of Thanksgiving and the real story of how the Indians did not get screwed selling Manhattan.
I'm in Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, sir.
Very glad you segued to Obamacare.
The comments that I have related to uh to uh money uh to capitalism to charitable giving.
And um, I have a third point that I thought of during the break that is a bombshell related to your strategy about the refund.
Um, if you if you're willing.
But the first point I had was that it's commonly misunderstood that um money is the root of all evil.
The truth is it's the love of money that's the root of all evil.
And the people that exhibit the love of money the most are uh anti-capitalists.
You know, people that uh it's shown in their charitable contributions on their tax returns that Romney gave much more in charitable contributions and uh than any Democrat.
Um so it's really the love of money, and the people that are funneling all this money into their pockets are the liberals via Obamacare and many other vehicles.
That's point number one.
Point number two is that um investors, capitalism is really the epitome of charity in that they're taking their money and they're putting it at risk, they're putting it out there and they're entrusting it to other people to put it to work to provide a quality good or service to people, um, and to make, you know, to make a profit on it, and so that they get a profit, and the workers get essentially, I want to say blessed, because they have income, they have a fair wage, and like you said, money is freedom.
They can take their income and their wage, they could go invest it, and they could also have the opportunity to make more money and become investors themselves.
That's right, that's right, John.
All that's true, but it still ends up being unfair because some people end up with more money than others, and that just isn't right.
That just isn't fair.
So we need good people like Obama taking from the people who have more than they need and who got it by cheating and giving it to the slackers.
Welcome back, folks.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh here on Thanksgiving Eve, and it's time now for our annual tradition.
The true and real story of Thanksgiving, as written by me in my second best seller of two and a half million copies in Hardback was entitled See I Told You So.
And a real story of Thanksgiving is found in chapter six, dead white guys, or what the history books never told you, the true story of Thanksgiving.
By the way, this true story is also recreated in my latest best seller, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
The story of the Pilgrims begins in the early part of the 17th century.
The Church of England under King James I was persecuting anyone and everyone who did not recognize its absolute civil and spiritual authority.
Those who challenged ecclesiastical authority and those who believed strongly in freedom of worship were actually hunted down, imprisoned, sometimes executed for what they believed.
A group of separatists first fled to Holland and established a community.
After eleven years, about forty of them agreed to make a perilous journey to the new world, where they would certainly face hardships, but could live and worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences.
On August 1st, 1620, the Mayflower set sail.
It carried a total of 102 passengers and a talking horse, including 40 pilgrims.
Well, I'm just making up the talking horse bit.
It carried a total of a 102 passengers, including 40 pilgrims led by William Bradford.
On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract that established just and equal laws for all members of this new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs.
Now, where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from?
Well, they came from the Bible.
The pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the old and new testaments.
They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example.
And because of the biblical precedence set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.
But this voyage on the Mayflower was no pleasure cruise.
The journey to the New World was long and arduous.
And when the pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, According to William Bradford's detailed journal, a cold and barren, desolate wilderness.
There were no friends to greet them, he wrote.
There were no houses to shelter them.
There were no inns where they could refresh themselves.
The sacrifice they made for freedom was just beginning.
They stayed and lived on the Mayflower, some of them for quite a while.
During the first winter, half of the pilgrims, including William Bradford's own wife, died of either starvation, sickness, or exposure.
When spring finally came, it's true, Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, how to fish for cod, and skin beavers for coats.
Life improved for the pilgrims, but they didn't prosper yet.
Now this is important to understand because this is where modern history, modern history lessons in the teaching of Thanksgiving often ends.
Pilgrims poor, desolate, starving, homeless, new place, not knowing anything, Indians came along and saved them.
And that is where most kids' story of Thanksgiving stops.
But it really hadn't even yet begun.
Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather than as a devout expression of gratitude grounded in the Bible.
Now here's the part that's been omitted.
The original contract that the pilgrims had entered into with their merchant sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store.
And each member of the community, every pilgrim was entitled to one common share.
All of the land that they cleared and all the houses they built belonged to everybody, the community.
They were going to distribute everything they produced and everything they built equally.
All the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well.
Nobody owned anything.
They just had an equal share in all of it.
It was a commune, folks.
It was the forerunner to the communes that we saw in the 60s and 70s out in California.
And it was complete with organic vegetables, by the way.
I mean, there's no question the vegetables are organic, they didn't have fertilizer back then yet.
Monsanto didn't exist.
There was no Archer Daniels Midland, corrupting and polluting our food.
There was no Van Camp's or Stokely's or Hines or any of that.
There was no John Carey.
There was no Teresa Forbes carry, whatever Heinz carry.
It was just the pilgrims and the land.
William Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was costly and destructive to the pilgrims as that first harsh winter which had taken so many lives.
So he decided to take bold action.
William Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage.
And it was theirs.
I mean, he assigned it, but they owned it.
And he turned loose the power of the free marketplace in the process.
Long before Karl Marx was even born, the pilgrims had discovered and learned and experimented what with can only be described as socialism, and it didn't work.
They nearly starved.
It's never worked.
You know why it didn't work?
What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anybody else because everybody had an equal share.
Unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation, they were not going to be able to change anything.
While most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years, trying to refine it, perfect it, reinvent it, spend more money on it, the pilgrims learned early on that it was a failure, and they scrapped it permanently.
What Bradford wrote about this experiment should be in every school child's history lesson, because if it were, we might prevent a whole lot of needless suffering in the future, such as what we're enduring now, trying the same thing over and over.
This is Bradford, the experience that we had in this common course and condition, experience we had tried sundry years, that by taking away property and bringing community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing, as if they were wiser than God, he wrote.
For this community, so far as it was, was found to breed much confusion and discontent.
And retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort, meaning nobody worked any harder than they had to because they didn't get to keep anything that they made.
It all went into a common store.
There was a bunch of laziness that set in.
And some people didn't do anything.
They got an equal share of everything anyway, so why work?
It's human nature.
Bradford wrote for young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without being paid for it.
Meaning they finally figured out why are we doing this?
The ones who were working, the ones who were creative industrious, while others were sitting around doing why should we do this?
It was thought injustice, Bradford wrote.
Why should you work for other people when you can't work for yourself?
That's what he was saying.
The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive.
So what did Bradford's community try next?
Well, what they did was unharness the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property.
Bradford again.
Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products, and what was the result?
This had very good success, wrote Bradford, for it made all hands industrious.
So as more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.
It's trickled down here, folks.
The Pilgrims discovered it, supply-side economics.
It existed long before the 1980s.
Now this is where it gets good.
If you're laboring under the misconception that I was, as I was taught in school, they set up trading posts.
They exchanged goods with the Indians.
The Indians had saved their lives earlier, but now they had all of this bounty that their foray into capitalism had produced.
Their profit allowed them to pay off the debts they had to the merchant sponsors in London who had funded the voyage in the first place.
The success and the prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted even more Europeans.
It became known as the Great Puritan Migration.
The word of prosperity spread back across the Atlantic Ocean.
Right.
That's how big it was.
But this story stops when the Indians taught the newly arrived suffering and socialism pilgrims how to plant corn and fish for cod.
That's where the original Thanksgiving story stops.
The story basically doesn't even begin there.
The real story of Thanksgiving is William Bradford giving thanks to God for the guidance and the inspiration to set up a thriving colony.
The bounty was shared with the Indians.
There was a thanks to the Indians.
They had so much.
They did sit down.
They had free range turkey.
They had organic vegetables.
But it wasn't the Indians who saved the pilgrims.
It wasn't the Indians who saved the day.
I mean, they were not bad people, don't misunderstand.
But the modern story of Thanksgiving is that without the Indians, the pilgrims would never have mattered.
That's not what they were giving thanks for.
It was capitalism and scripture which saved the day, as acknowledged by George Washington in his first Thanksgiving proclamation, 1789.
If you read, and I've got it here, I don't think I'm gonna have time to get into it, but the George Washington's original Thanksgiving proclamation will send any atheist running to the hills.
It is thanks to God for the Constitution for the inspiration for the Constitution, thanks to God for the inspiration, the founding of the country.
It's just this why so many of us are so devoted to preserving this country as founded and not allowing it to become what the pilgrims nearly died first establishing.
And I I can't, I can't leave it here without once again telling all of you how utterly important you are to this country, and how utterly important you are to this program.
How much you have meant to me and my family and all of us here, the overrated staff, everybody.
This show would not exist, and it would not be what it is today without you.
And we love you to death here because we think we know that you are the people who make this country work.
I wish there were ways beyond words that I could show you and express it.
But as of now, there aren't, so I'll just have to use my words.
But believe me, we all here have the greatest appreciation for all of you, and how much and how utterly important you all are to this country.
That's the true story of Thanksgiving.
Have a great one.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
This is not a cliche.
As bad as things look to us politically, the drive-by media, the establishment and Democrat Party and so forth, doesn't compare to what the pilgrims faced and went through.
Or the people who founded and established the country.
That's why you are all utterly important.
I don't mean that just to be a gratitudinous thing.
It's a responsibility, folks.
That's why you're here.
See you next week.
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