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Jan. 7, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 7, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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No, I didn't forget it.
I got it right here.
Snerdley just gave me a gentle reminder.
And I was going to talk about a New York Times story from yesterday about how upward mobility can harm you.
Success is bad.
Could hurt your health.
Had it right here.
I'm going to get to it and the immigration stuff, and then we'll it'll be done.
We go home.
Greetings and welcome back.
L. Rushbow at the EIB network, excellence in broadcasting, a network named after my uh talents and performance.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
And without any further ado, Grand Block, Michigan, this is uh Melissa is on the phone with her seven-year-old daughter, Elizabeth.
I'd like to welcome both of you to the program and thank you both for holding on.
Hi, Rosh.
Hi, Rush.
This is so cute.
I just melted.
How are you doing, Elizabeth?
I'm doing good.
Very good.
You're seven years old, is that right?
Yep.
Seven.
Seven years old.
Yep.
Well, welcome to my program.
It's great to have you here.
Thank you.
What's up?
Well, she wanted to let you know that we listened to your um Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrim story on the car ride home for Christmas vacation.
So the audio book.
The audio book.
Right.
And I assume you liked it.
Yeah.
She said she thought it was really, really good.
Yeah.
Well, I'm not surprised, but I'm glad to hear it.
That's supposed to be funny, Elizabeth.
You can laugh at that.
Anyway.
Well, um, she had a funny part that she wanted to tell you.
Oh, okay.
I'd like to hear that.
The funny part was when I found out that Liberty was potty chain.
You found out Liberty was potty trained.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was funny.
See, folks, this is this is why it takes real talent to be a children's author.
To understand what it is that's going to make children laugh what it is they're going to find humorous.
Um so the idea that a horse would be potty trained is is uh is funny.
I I admit it is funny.
Who would ever think of that?
Say not me.
Not me.
So Liberty is your favorite character.
Yep.
Who's your next favorite character?
Who's your next favorite?
Rush.
Uh yeah.
Yeah.
Rush.
Rush Revere.
Rush VI.
Rush Revere, yeah.
You know, he's jealous because Liberty's getting most of the fan mail.
You're you're uh you have a lot of company in liking in liking Liberty.
Well, Elizabeth, I tell you, I'd like to do something for you.
Um you're so nice, and I'm I really do appreciate that you and your mom have been on hold for so long.
We have this we have this thing in in in our uh store at the two of my tea website, which is where the adventures of Rush Revere and Liberty and all can be found at our website.
We've got this little bear called Ted T Bear.
Teddy Bear.
Uh it's a cutest little bear.
It's white, it's it's uh it's dressed as uh a founding father as sort of colonial times with a tri-corne hat, and it's just the cutest thing, and I want to send you one.
Thank you.
I want to send you one since you're so nice and you've been so complimentary about the about about the book.
Uh and uh you people like you have have made this a roaring success.
And I can't thank you all enough.
I really it's it's I'm I can't tell you how pleasing it is to know that you really liked it.
Yeah, I th we thought it was interesting um that there could be more stories in the future.
So it it's it's it's a fascinating American history is is limitless.
As deep as you want to go, you can go.
And and uh once you have this uh device, I call it, of of the horse, Liberty, who can time travel and go anywhere, Then that you can write about virtually any aspect of American history that you want, which we intend to do.
That's good.
She's being a little shy.
She said that was good, though.
Yeah.
Well, I understand that.
I mean, you're on the radio and there are just you know 20 million people listening.
And then I can when I I used to be a caller too.
Uh Elizabeth, before I was I've been where you are.
I know how it can be nerve-wracking out there.
But you just need to look at it as though you're just talking to me.
Yep.
Yeah.
Well, is there anything else that you'd like?
Is anything else that you want to tell me about it?
Or uh you have any suggestions like what we could do next?
Well what uh go ahead and ask.
What did Rush Revere do and Liberty do for Christmas?
What did Rush Revere and Liberty do for Christmas?
Well, they got each other presents and they sat around and they talked about where they were gonna go next.
Oh and you know what?
And Liberty, Liberty, you wouldn't but this whole experience has given Liberty to horse an ego like you can't believe.
Liberty wants to be on TV now.
Liberty thinks Liberty thinks that it's Liberty thinks that a book is just not enough.
And so they they sat around and talked about, you know, maybe they could uh be on TV somehow.
Are you going to make it into a cartoon?
Well, Liberty wants to.
That's that's you you nailed Liberty wants to be in a cartoon.
Liberty thinks that a book is cool and all that, but like Liberty's jealous of Scooby-Doo and a number of other these cartoon characters.
Why can't I do this?
So uh you know with with all Elizabeth, as you'll learn is you're with all performers, all performers have egos, and they're all think that they just they're just more important and bigger than and they start making demands on you.
And you have to do what you can to keep them happy once they become popular.
So Liberty, yeah, wants to be in a cartoon or wants to be in uh on TV somehow.
That'd be me.
And of course, the here's Elizabeth, here's the problem with Rush Revere isn't sure about because Rush Revere knows that a human being on TV with an animal can't win.
People always like the animal more.
That's true.
That's true.
It's very true.
So Rush Revere is, you know, he's uh he's guarded about it, but he also he's he's excited about the possibilities, too.
So you never know.
And with Liberty making these demands, and as big as Liberty has become, you have to listen.
See, we would definitely watch it.
He would definitely like it.
Yeah, I I appreciate that.
Well, we'll we'll see.
You never know.
You never know.
But uh I I w with with the horse now demanding to be on TV, uh, and you know, talent, dealing with talent, Elizabeth.
I mean, it's a different breed of person.
Talent is just like actors and actresses and so forth.
I mean, they're just it's it's you gotta they're very sensitive.
They are very egocentric, and if they don't get their way, they pout.
It may uh so we have to take what Liberty wants into into into consideration, and who knows, it may happen.
Yep, it may.
Well, now you hang on because I want to put Mr. Snerdley back on the phone with you if you can get your address so we can send you Ted T. Bear.
Woo!
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you.
All right.
And also, you know what I'm gonna I I'm gonna send an autographed copy of the book so that uh to you.
Can Liberty sign it?
Can Liberty sign?
This is exactly what I meant.
You can't win.
Yeah, well Liberty Liberty has zone signature, kind of just stamps the horse hoof on the page.
We'll we'll figure out a way for Liberty.
That's perfect.
Okay.
So hang on.
Don't don't go away and we will.
Hang on.
Thanks, Rush.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I'm I'm ecstatic that you that you liked it.
Made my day.
And we'll take a brief time out here, folks.
Be back and continue right after this.
Don't go away.
I'm gonna stick with the phones here, folks, and we'll get to the uh immigration stuff and how success is bad for your health.
That's in the New York Times just to say here just a second, but uh this is Ty in Moline, Illinois.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I'm here with my 15-year-old daughter Emma.
Can she say hi first?
Sure.
Go ahead.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
I'm good.
Good.
I hope you're staying warm.
Yeah.
How cold is it in Moline today?
Seven degrees.
Seven degrees.
Oh, you sound tough.
You sound like you can deal with that without a problem.
She's usually much more talkative than that.
Rush?
Yeah.
I was calling about um this uh theory that um Obama has about a tax break for hiring in poverty zones.
Did you see that this morning?
Well, that's basically the country.
Uh yeah.
I I did.
Uh poverty zones.
I mean, you know, here's the thing.
This guy has been president for five years and and gets away with talking about poverty zones as though he's got nothing to do with it.
They're his.
He created them.
But if that tax break's good for that that area, how come it's not good for the entire country?
And and why does he have to stop just at uh those uh those areas?
It should be for almost all hiring, wouldn't you think?
Well, now that's an interesting question, and I in in my I I think to understand Obama, or any Democrat, any Liberal Democrat, but particularly Obama, you've got to be able to you have you have to be a cynic in a way.
Now, you and I know you and I know that uh Obama opposes and hates tax cuts.
Exactly.
Hates them, despises them.
But he also knows that people like them.
And if he can be seen as supporting a tax cut here, a tax cut there, then it could go a long way toward disabusing people of the notion that he's a socialist or uh big government guy.
This is I I think proposing a a tax cut in this circumstance is simply uh a head fake that's designed to camouflage because he still wants to do and needs to camouflage for some people who he is and what he wants to do.
So this one's very specific.
If I understand it, what he wants to do is give tax breaks to people who hire uh people who live in poverty zones.
Right.
Now he gets to he gets to he gets to define the poverty zone.
He gets to define it just like he gets to define the trickle up theory that he's gonna give money to certain people so that they can spend it his way.
Right.
But here's the thing.
You really believe he wants everybody to turn up the thermostat for global warming.
Exactly.
He doesn't well, he doesn't want any, he doesn't like utility companies.
See, this is why you have to be a cynic.
Because see, you've got it.
Okay, so Obama is essentially admitting here that tax cuts can grow the economy.
Yes.
But that's not what he wants people to take from this.
What he wants people to take from this is that he personally is making it possible for people to be hired.
That the federal government is making sure that people will be hired, taking the credit away from whoever actually will be doing the hiring.
But the the problem with this is is that nothing really has to happen.
All he has to do is say it and he gets credit for it.
If it never happens, nobody will know.
Say it and it must be true.
Well, exactly.
But there's there have been uh a couple of other instances in his administration where he's done something similar.
There was a um give me time think about this.
There was a um he had a theory that's that's not coming to me.
But but there's there have been a couple of occasions in the past where he has said something like this, but it it was what he what he proposed was actually a total Misunderstanding of how oh it was it was um something about tax cuts were gonna cause people to hire people and and uh and uh the point was that that
businesses only hire when the economy is growing.
People do not hire for tax cuts.
They don't they don't hire for tax breaks.
That's I that's exactly what it was.
It was early on, first term, and he was suggesting that he could give some tax cuts to small business if they would go hire people.
And I made the point that the tax credit they were gonna get would not even offset the expense of hiring whoever it is they're gonna hire, and this won't either.
Well, whatever tax break he's gonna get is he's gonna give or offer is nowhere near what it's gonna cost to hire these people.
So they're really not gonna do it.
My point was that this is not how businesses operate.
Businesses don't wait around for tax cuts in order to hire people.
They hire people when there's new work to be done.
And there isn't any work to be done here.
And until that happens, you're not gonna have any real hiring going on.
So this is just for show.
And he doesn't even really see this is where the Republicans ought to be saying exactly what you're saying.
Well, Mr. President, if a tax cut will cause somebody to be hired in a poverty zone, why not cut taxes in the middle class?
Why not cut taxes everywhere if it results in hiring?
He won't do that.
No way.
But the bottom line is the tax cut credit, whatever he's gonna do, won't come anywhere near offsetting the cost of hiring somebody.
That's the bottom line here.
Which is fine with him.
All he wants is for it to be reported that he's offering tax cuts to get people in poverty zones hired.
Oh, he really cares.
Oh, and then if businesses don't do it, see if this is the the ending of the equation.
If nobody gets hired, then whose fault is it?
It's those mean business people.
He tried, he really tried.
He tried to give them incentives, he tried, but they just won't do it.
And so he gets it at the end of the day.
If nobody gets hired in this program, blame business for it, no compassion, they don't care.
But the point is it's not a good deal for a business.
There's he's not offering a tax break anywhere near large enough that would offset the cost of hiring somebody.
And there has to be the money to hire somebody, which means there has to be enough work to be done.
There has to be enough productivity the business needs in order to hire somebody.
They don't just hire people because they get a tax break.
It's not how it works.
So this is all for show.
It's all designed for the consumption of words, not the substance of uh of policy.
And by the way, uh Ty, people are speechless around me all the time.
It's not he said his daughter's normally more talkative.
But a lot of people freeze on the phones here.
They're just in such awe.
And uh it's it's qu it's quite natural.
Don't don't uh sweat it.
North Fort Myers, Florida, Sandy, hi, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, it's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
Um I was telling uh, I guess Mr. Sterley that last night on the public television network here in uh Fort Myers area.
There was a show on for an hour, but it was on from midnight to one o'clock about economic freedom in action, changing lives, where gentlemen traveled below and went to form formerly communist countries um like Czechoslovakia, and how they split finally rebelled against communism and split off, and how they have improved their economy by um free enterprise.
And it he interviewed people showing that they uh did their own thing and now their economies are thriving.
And then he went on to Chile and um talked about the revolution there where the military took over, and the military wanted um the main general to take over the economy too.
But he got smart and he brought in some men from Chicago who worked with the free Milton Friedman theory and provided free enterprise and he showed many small business people how they are thriving with their ability to feed their self-right.
What you're saying you couldn't believe it because it was on PBS?
Yes.
Well, look, they did air at midnight to one.
Nobody in Fort Myers saw it other than you.
But then it's supposedly on this morning and uh at eight and then one and then four this afternoon.
Well, why couldn't they put on it on it at eight o'clock at night where people really would watch it?
Well, because that's I remember when I first started in radio, 1967, at the time you had to devote a certain percentage of your program to local so-called community issues in order to keep your license.
And so every Sunday morning from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m., we put on the absolute worst most boring sewage issues in the community, how to bake a carrot cake for the hollow, all that garbage that nobody wants to listen to that the government made the station's broadcast at a time nobody heard it, so we can satisfy the requirement.
And while that no longer exists per se, the same theory.
PBS did it, okay, cool, but they aired it when nobody saw it.
So they probably had a contract to air the show with whoever produced it, and they got it out of the way when nobody saw it.
Look, folks, I have a question here about uh uh tax cuts uh for poverty zones.
I mean, what the hell?
Because we just heard today that unemployment benefits create jobs.
The president did a 45-minute event at the White House.
If you're just joining us, for those of you who have been listening to the whole show, forgive me.
I'm going to bring people up to speed.
There was a 45-minute event at the White House when the president said that unemployment benefits grow the economy.
He said that unemployment benefits create jobs.
And he cited a woman named Kathy, and he said that if she gets unemployment benefits, it might create a job, maybe even for her.
He said that with her unemployment check, she can turn her thermostat up and stay warmer, and that will benefit the utility company, and they might hire a worker.
And then he said that if Kathy gets her unemployment check, she might go to the grocery store and buy an additional dozen eggs or loaf of bread or something, and that might make the grocery store hire a worker, maybe even her.
So 45 minutes, the president was surrounded by people who were applauding this lunacy.
He said, Pelosi said it, Dick Durbin said it on the Senate floor, unemployment benefits create jobs.
The White House on their website today says that unemployment benefits, the emergency extension, three more months of unemployment benefits will create, well, they didn't say that.
They said, if we don't do it, we could lose 240,000 jobs.
What the president said was that if we continue to pay people not to work, that we will create jobs.
And that if we do not pay people not to work, that we will lose jobs.
And he described it exactly as I told you.
This woman, Kathy, goes to the store, turns her thermostat up, and the utility company grocery store hire new workers.
So given that, what is this fall-to-roll rigor roll about tax breaks for people who hire the unemployed?
Why do they have to be hired?
I thought unemployment benefits create jobs.
So if unemployment insurance creates jobs and the concentration of unemployed is in poverty zones or poor areas, then why would Obama propose tax cuts for these areas to create jobs?
Why not just expand unemployment insurance in these areas?
Because he said today that that creates jobs and that would fix the problem.
We we all always does, right?
Unemployment benefits create jobs.
So why is he proposing tax breaks for businesses to hire people in poverty zones?
Why?
If if extending unemployment benefits creates jobs, then what is this?
Tax cuts to hire people.
We don't need to hire anybody.
The unemployment benefits creates jobs.
That's what he said.
Folks, did you realize uh how seriously insane all of this is how insultingly stupid all of this is.
Unemployment benefits create jobs.
If we don't extend them, we could lose 2004.
Paying people not to work will create jobs.
I don't know about you, but I that's just the man needs to be laughed out of town.
Okay, back to the phones.
Rochester, New Hampshire.
This is Sue.
Sue, welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It's great to speak with you.
Thank you so much, Mr. Snurgley, for putting my call through.
Um Rush, I I've been spending a lot of time in prayer and concern and disbelief over um everybody's been in awe and concerned over the the weather pattern and all of the deep freeze and you know, record breaking weather that we're having.
And in in Rochester, New Hampshire, I have been uh witnessing, you know, the the chemtrails, the chemical planes that fly above the s you know, uh in our all in our airspace uh doing what's called chemtrails.
Chemtrails, yeah.
I I've been doing a lot of research and I've been reaching out to uh Senator Kelly Ayott, Senator Jean Shaheen, Congresswoman uh Carol Shea Porter trying to get answers for you know these hazardous blends of barium salt mixture that are are altering our weather.
It's it it's it's very hard to believe.
And what are they uh what are they telling you?
Oh, they're um Kelly Ayot sent me a letter that, you know, looked like it was addressed to a uh uh uh you know, a no mind by telling me that it was contrails and uh you mean they're denying it?
Oh, she she well, she said they're contrails, you know, condensation, she explained in the denying the chemtrails they are denying that they are they're putting chemicals and other stuff in these trails?
Absolutely.
And it's effective they're denying that.
I gotta I had to go down after my third visit to Carol Shea Porter's office, I had to fill out um authorization um supposedly uh well under the privacy act I had to authorize her to um inquire on my behalf to the U United States Air Force, the Department of Defense and the CIA and The CIA.
That's the departments I was told to put in this authorization.
The CIA can't do this domestically, that I'm not now now chemical trails uh.
Well, it was actually written in the Middle East as a wonderful um United Nations um under under uh an agreement that we can do it on to our own country, just not unto others.
They've kidding a lot of behind the scene um well, it's all part of this big secretive military uh programs that are supposedly to reverse the effects of global warming, their manipulating.
Well, I'd say it's working quite well if you ask me.
I mean, if they're trying to stop global warming, that may they may have overdone it with the chemtrails.
Do you ever think of that?
Oh, it it's it's very disturbing because I n I never wanted to know this and um how did you come across this?
I've been witnessing it and i in New Hampshire Well, well you've been witnessing they're in the sky constantly.
I've been taking pictures and videos.
But you mean you're looking up in the sky and you're seeing streaks of white.
Absolutely.
Back and forth and back and forth and back and forth all day long.
Sort of like a tic tac toe board, but not quite.
Well, they've made Xs it in in our sky.
We can see it coming straight, looks like from the ground up from north Why would they do this in a way that you could notice it?
Most people don't even notice.
I I talk to people and they've never even heard it.
And Well they're not looking up like you are.
Exactly.
And I I I've been doing everything I think, you know, I've been praying about this for so long because I've been trying to not, you know, burden people with it because it is very burdensome.
However, I I want to wake people up so that they'll, you know, join me and demanding answers from our government.
I mean, the week of the shutdown, those jets were above in our sky nonstop for days, you know, and and it's extremely not to mention.
Wait a minute.
You're telling me that during the shutdown?
They were doing the those chemtrails were being done all during the shutdown.
How can that be?
The government was shut down.
Well, that's a good question.
I was down Did you ask Senator Ayat's office about that?
Senator Ayot won't even answer me.
She she uh that must be you're on to 'em then.
Unfortunately, well, not unfortunately.
I will give praise.
Carol Shea Porter's and she's a Democrat, and uh she's the only one that's even giving.
So the Democrat has confirmed confirmed the chemtrails.
They haven't said anything about confirming or denying, but they made me sign this waiver, this um privacy act authorization for her to further investigate because I you know, t um using uh my health issues, I was diagnosed eight years ago, nine years ago with multiple sclerosis.
Well, well.
No.
I've been trying to, you know, find out how I could get this disease and uh you know it's not in my family history and so it's the chem it's the chemtrails, you think something's gone wrong.
Well, uh you know, the research that I've done, uh it's it's there's proof that it causes Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, um people suffer with severe headaches and people may not know this.
Uh so that the chemtrails can cause all of these things.
And uh autism.
You're right, right.
Not just vaccines that have gone wrong.
You're right.
And it's and it's I think I mean it's I'm so glad that I got through because you know uh I've been a listener of yours forever and ever and to be able to get through today where this week I've been getting back on fire with you know, making phone calls and posting pictures and videos and just trying to really wake people up and I just don't think it's accidental that I got through on your line today.
It was meant to be.
It was meant to happen.
I believe it was meant to happen.
Well, I I uh I hope you keep working on uh Senator A yachts.
Yeah, she she doesn't I I don't I think she listens to very, very, very selecting they don't believe half of what the Democrats can be doing to people.
Well, and you know what?
Um Jean Shaheen's um representative was supposed to be having their environmental person call me, and I have not heard a word.
I got extremely emotional because you know, when I tell 'em not just for the love of my country.
Well, I don't know.
I I uh something, Sue, I have to, I've got to go here because of time.
I don't mean to be rude, but they may be trying to call you.
And the and you know, the NSA, the CIA may be redirecting the calls.
Just never know.
But I I hope that you get to the bottom of it.
The chemtrails.
That are causing all this that you see flying above you.
You've seen them, folks, as streaks usually behind airplanes.
That's why they're called chemtrails.
Contrails.
They you you think they're contrails, but they're actually very insidious things, chemtrails.
Okay.
Sue, thank you very much.
I I have to take a brief time out, folks.
We'll be back here.
I don't know.
You know, the whole immigration thing just pales.
Uh next to this.
I don't know what it's.
Now I checked some email during the break, and uh some of you people are really skeptics out.
I mean let me just ask you a question.
What's stranger?
The story about chemtrails, this woman told us are Obama's explanation of economics.
Paying people not to work creates jobs.
Not paying people not to work will lose jobs.
Paying people not to work helps utility companies.
I think actually, uh, folks, she might be very careful.
The the uh what she thought were chemtrails might have actually just been the polar vortex uh breaking off.
It could be.
And maybe they are the same thing.
We might never know.
And yeah, um I'm gonna have to it's sad, folks, but I'm I'm not gonna I did not plan it this way.
I'm not gonna be able to get to the immigration thing.
I promise you know what?
I don't care what happens short of nuclear war.
I'm gonna the the thecause the immigration thing really is.
I'm not been we'll do it the first thing tomorrow.
And the same thing with the story in the New York Times success bad for your health.
My friends, I was not lying when I said I was gonna get to the emigration story today.
I was it just lousy time management.
Just call me Andy Reed.
I really did not mean to not get to it.
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