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Jan. 14, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 14, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hi folks and welcome back.
It's great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies on a roll.
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From CBS Eyeball News, Atlanta, childless couples have happier marriages.
Says it, it's a new study.
Researchers at the Open University in the United Kingdom, that's the name of Open University, UK, interviewed and surveyed 5,000 people.
They found that men and women without crumb crunchers are more satisfied with their relationships.
They're also more likely to feel valued by their partner if there aren't any kids running around.
The participants included people of all ages, all statuses, and all sexual orientations.
Saying thank you and giving compliments emerged as one of the most important factors in keeping a relationship healthy across all groups.
Saying thank you and giving compliments.
Researchers also found that women without children were the least happy with life overall.
However, they did find that mothers were happier than any other group.
So let's read that sentence again and get an idea here of, let's try to figure this out.
Researchers found women without children were the least happy with life.
And they found that mothers, that would be women with children for those living in Riolinda, were happier than any other group.
Okay, what are we to make of this?
Women, i.e., well, women with children, mothers, were happier than any other group, but couples without children have the happier marriages.
The researchers were also able to determine that people who had been in a long-term relationship before were more likely to know how to sustain their next one.
Practice makes perfect.
This thing is just full of contradictions.
Long-term relationship, but yet here's another one.
Well, what happened to the first long-term relationship?
Busted up.
Probably had something to do with the kids.
This is a shift.
This is Dr. Jackie Gabb.
That's a woman, J-A-C-Q-U-I, probably Jacques.
Dr. Jacques Gabb, a senior lecturer in social policy at Open University, the lead author of the study, told the Daily Telegraph in London that this is a shift away from the idea that they're just failed relationships to be put in a cupboard and forgotten about.
It shows they've learned something through them.
Therefore, it can be an enriching experience.
The one big difference researchers found between men and women, mothers more than twice as likely to say their kids are the most important person in their lives.
Fathers said, nope, it's their partner.
So let's take that.
The one big difference.
Mothers twice as likely to say their kids are the most important people in their lives.
Men, the fathers, say their wife is.
Their partner.
Yeah, I can't say what.
Partner.
Yeah, it could be the mistress.
It could be, yeah, the husband and the husband.
Yeah, yeah, just be careful here.
But overall, couples without children have happier marriages.
Okay, so that's the headline.
That's what people are going to see.
Now, would you also conclude that there is a basic assault on tradition?
There's an assault worldwide, culturally, Western civilization on traditional customs, such as marriage.
There's no question of it, right?
So there's an assault on traditional marriage.
There's an assault.
Couples without children, happier marriage, don't have kids.
Well, couple that with the global warming people.
Humanity is the greatest problem the earth faces.
Speaking of that, let's move on, shall we?
What do you want to keep talking about?
Am I saying couples without children have happier marriages?
Well, it's based on interviews.
I'm not going to sit here and dispute it.
I mean, I'd have to assume that everybody in the survey is lying.
So I'm not going to argue with it.
I just, I just, it's in the media.
And I just know that everything, the traditions, the institutions that have given Western civilization its guardrails, its morality, its definitions are right.
Everything's under assault.
Take away couples with happier marriage.
The takeaway here is stay away from kids.
Do not have kids.
Don't have get an abortion.
Whatever you want, however you want to take this and manifest it or extrapolate it politically.
This is another thing.
To me, this is a political survey.
It's a political story.
It has a political agenda attached to it.
It's a political outcome.
I look at everything in the media as being political.
When the left is behind it, when academia is, there is no doubt in my mind that it is political.
Here's another finding from this study.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual participants are more generally positive about and happier with the quality of their relationship and the relationship which they have with their partner.
Heterosexual parents are the group least likely to be there for each other, to make couple time, to pursue shared interests, to say, I love you, and to talk openly to one another.
Now, when I add that, does it kind of add up?
Okay, see, there's a method to my madness.
I give you the stuff that related to the headline and then tell you what's in the whole story if you read it all.
So, couples without children have happier marriages.
And then we learn that lesbian, gay, bisexual are more generally positive about and happier with the quality of their relationship and the relationship which they have with their partner.
Heterosexual parents are the group least likely to be there for each other.
The less likely to make couple time to pursue shared interests.
Heterosexual couples, the least likely to say, I love you, and to talk openly to one another.
Now, why would any of that be this is, if any of that's true, could it possibly be because there are kids in the mix, and once you throw kids in the mix, the wife cares most and always about them, and the husband becomes a necessary evil, and yet to the husband, the wife remains atop the pedestal throughout.
And with lesbian, gay, bisexual relationships, not all of them have kids.
So, you see, ladies and gentlemen, do not ever doubt me when I tell you, even some of the most innocent, innocuous, apolitically sounding stories are nothing but pure politics.
And of course, nothing but pure leftist politics.
This is nothing more than an assault on heterosexual marriage, heterosexual relationships, as a means of promoting gay marriage and gay relationships and gay relationships with children.
And that's the agenda.
And when I said, don't forget the environmentalist wackos, they maintain that the fewer people on earth, the better for earth.
So back to our old friend here, the Independent Journal Review.
It's a local newspaper.
And the Democrat Party has found a new consequence of climate change and global warming.
Are you ready?
Representative Barbara Lee, Oakland, well-known communist/slash communist sympathizer, Barbara Lee and 12 other House Democrats issued a resolution stating that climate change can cause food and water shortages,
and the food and water shortages could lead impoverished women to turn to prostitution as a means of income.
And so, global warming leads to prostitution because to Democrats, women are so helpless if the government's not there for them, particularly single women and single mothers.
If the government isn't there for them, they are so helpful, or helpless, so helpless that if it gets so hot, their only option is to sell themselves.
And that is a resolution from 13 members of Congress.
The resolution states: insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor reproductive health.
More broadly, the resolution says climate change will hurt marginalized women, such as refugees.
We got a lot of female refugees in America.
You may not know that.
Sexual minorities, adolescent girls, and women and girls with HIV.
It also cites Hurricane Katrina as evidence of how climate change can affect women, noting that Hurricane Katrina displaced over 83% of low-income single mothers in the region, who I guess moved to Houston and became prostitutes.
According to Barbara Lee, what does displaced mean?
Hurricane Katrina's New Orleans, everybody knows that New Orleans camped up and moved over to Houston.
And according to Barbara Lee, the women that moved became prostitutes because they were displaced and had no socioeconomic foundation.
The purpose of the resolution was to call on Congress and the president to recognize the effects on women of climate change and to use gender-specific frameworks in developing policies to address climate change.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is out there saying that women are hanging by a thread.
Hillary Clinton is saying it's almost over for women unless drastic action is taken.
In the midst of our entire culture becoming chickified, Hillary Clinton is now saying that it's almost over for women, that they're so mistreated.
They are such second-class citizens in our culture today, that they are used and abused and so poorly thought of that unless drastic action is taken at the government level, women, as we've come to know them, are going to be forever and unalterably discriminated against and changed.
This is Hillary Clinton.
What an absolute mess these people make of things.
It's just every day, folks, it's like diving through a dumpster trying to get out.
And they just keep throwing more garbage on us.
And we're swimming up there and we're trying to, we're almost at the top of the dumpster.
We're almost out of the filth and the garbage and they come dump on us again.
Every day, folks.
We better get back to the phone.
Well, we haven't been there yet.
We're going to start on the phones.
We'll go to Eskinova, Michigan.
And Vicki.
Vicki, hi.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi.
Thank you for having me, Rush.
You better.
I have been listening to you since the late 1980s.
My dad introduced me to you.
And I just had to call because my 11-year-old daughter received your book for her birthday in December right before Christmas, Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims.
And I just had to call and tell you that the second my mom gave it to her for her present, she sat down and she just started paging through very fast.
And I said, her name is Lisette.
I said, Lisette, you have to finish the book you're reading right now for school, which is Little House in the Prairie.
She said, Mom, that's boring.
It's from the old times.
It's so boring.
I don't want to read that.
I said, well, I think Rush Revere is about, you know, the 1600s.
I said, okay, let's just wait.
Let's just finish your book that you have.
And so we got home that evening, and I saw her sneaking under her bed with her flashlights, sneaking your book again.
And she just, she wouldn't stop reading it.
She finished it in about a couple of days.
What a great story.
I mean, I'm envisioning this.
What was the book she was reading for school?
Do you know?
Well, it was the Laura Ingalls-Wilder set of books, Little House in the Prairie film.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Little House in the Prairie.
It was for an accelerated reader program.
Our school has accelerated readers, so she had to finish it.
Do you know that Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims has been authorized to approve whatever for accelerated reader programs?
No, I did not.
Yeah, we just found out last week.
I didn't know that.
No.
Yeah, it's awesome.
We just found out last week.
I think last week, maybe a couple of times.
Time's flying here.
So your daughter liked Rush Revere and was sneaking under the bed with a flashlight to read it?
Was she afraid of getting in trouble with you?
Yeah, she did.
Well, she's supposed to be in bed at a certain time, but she just, she just, you know, it was immediate.
I mean, my mom gave it, she opened it up, and then my mom and I started chatting, and she just started immediately just started, you know, paging through it.
Of course, she wanted to look at the pictures, and she just wanted me to tell you.
I had called previously before Christmas when she was home from school, but I couldn't get through.
I had to get off.
But she's not home today with me, but she wanted me to tell you she loved Liberty.
Your horse is your favorite character.
She wanted me to pass that on to you.
Oh, that's good.
It's always my question.
And it's, I guess that's probably 80% of the kids reading the book love Liberty.
Yeah, she just wanted me to tell you.
I mean, and my husband and I wanted to tell you personally, we just wanted to thank you for telling the truth.
That, and when you tell the real story of Thanksgiving, we make sure they listen to that every year.
You know, but this is the kind of thing that they can read themselves, and they don't have to listen to somebody in a preachy kind of way.
It tells the story, you know, at a kid's level.
So I hope that it does.
I mean, I know it was in our school library.
My kids go to a Catholic school here in Eshkinaba, and they got it there.
I was surprised to see they got it, but I don't know if it's in the, you know, it's been set up for Accelerated Reader yet.
Well, we found out that it's been accepted for that.
I don't know everywhere it was a couple specific places, but everything that's happened with this book, and for me, for us, has just been over the top great.
There's a mission behind the book, which I've explained, and you nailed it.
It is the truth.
It is to counter what young people are being taught about the first days of the country, the pilgrims, the arrival of essentially white Europeans.
We don't refer to them that way in the book.
But the multicultural curriculum is trying to distort and lie about.
And it's just the greatest present in the world to hear feedback like yours.
I can't, really can't thank you enough.
Well, great, great.
We'll be reading it too.
My husband and I, we're going to pass it around and read it.
And I hope the school, our school, Holy Name School, does get it as a R book.
I've been kind of surprised, and again, pleasantly so, that there have been parents who've told us that they learned things in this book that they didn't know about the Pilgrims in the early days.
It's all been gratifying.
It really is.
Well, I tell you what, Vicki, what I want to do is if you'll stay on hold, I want to send you the audio version of the book that it's read by me.
It's, I think, six CDs, and it's about four and a half hours, but it's an entirely new experience.
It's the same book.
It's the identical text.
It's just read and interpreted by me, the author.
And a great way to read it again while driving around in the car.
So hang on.
Welcome back, folks.
Great to have you here.
Back to the phones, Lakeview, Washington.
This is Susan.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
First of all, I want to say I was turned on to you by my mom when you were still in Sacramento.
I guess I'm one of the original Rush Babes.
Wow, you go way, way back.
Way back.
Which kind of gives you an idea of how old I am.
And I just like to say thank you.
Yeah, but doesn't it all just seem like yesterday?
I mean, sometimes I think about it, and it just seems like yesterday.
It really does.
And frankly, you haven't changed a whole heck of a lot from that time.
Well, and I won't, because I that's, that's that's.
That's one of the best compliments I could ever get and I appreciate your saying that, no problem.
Well, I was calling about the story that you had in the first hour with regard to the Republicans feeling all proud of the compromise that they came to to extend the unemployment benefits for three months, and when I heard that I just about hit the ceiling, I was so mad.
Because why are they focusing on these tax or spending cuts in 10 years, as opposed to changing regulations now that will allow entrepreneurs to start small businesses, that will provide jobs to the people who are out of work and, in the case of my dad, has been out of work since last July and lost his unemployment benefits at the beginning of the year?
Why are they not focusing on getting job creation up there at the top of the list, as opposed to well, let's extend unemployment for three more months.
That's not going to fix the problem.
Well, interesting way you've put that.
Let me ask you a question.
Okay, if you are a Republican in Washington today, what is the problem?
For me, it would be the fact that we are not a business-friendly country anymore.
We have too many regulations.
We have obviously, the Affordable Care Act, and then you would not qualify as a Republican in Washington.
When you ask them what the problem is today, that's not what they're going to tell you.
Well, the problem is they don't have enough Hispanic voters.
You're getting warm, according to the Chamber OF Commerce.
That's our problem.
No no okay, Snerdley is is trying to control.
Yes, the problem is talk radio, the TEA Party, but that's not still the problem.
If you are the Republicans in Washington, like you just said look, why don't we offer an alternative?
Why doesn't somebody start talking about jobs?
We are the opposition party.
Why don't we push back?
Why don't we start standing up for the people who want to work, who want to start businesses, who want to create jobs, who want to keep more of what they want?
What has happened to us?
That's not.
They don't view the problem that way.
That's not the problem.
Their problem is that they think they are hated because people don't think they have compassion.
And no, they're hated because they don't act as the opposition party.
They're hated by their own base because they are not standing up for the people of this country.
They don't know about that.
They should they, I know, but they don't care about being hated by their base.
They care about being loved by people that vote for Democrats, but they don't vote for Republicans.
So what's the purpose?
Well, they they think that the solution to their problems is to, is is going to be found in somehow being able to demonstrate or prove that they aren't racists and that they aren't sexists, and that they aren't bigots, and that they don't hate the poor, and that they don't hate Hispanics and that they don't hate uh, immigrants and so forth.
That is the problem, and so the idea of standing for an opportunity society with job creation doesn't occur.
Well, if they really wanted to make both sides happy, what they do is say yes, we've come up with this compromise to extend the unemployment benefits for three months, and we're also putting forward these steps that we think will help to create new jobs that will make this unnecessary, but after three months will oppose that, and they are, They are afraid of Democrat opposition.
They're afraid of the media.
True, same difference.
I mean, the media is Democrats of 6 and 1, half does the other.
But if you look at what the Republicans are doing, every idea they've got is a version of a Democrat idea.
Health care, they've got an alternative that still maintains the premise.
Unemployment benefit extension, they've got a different idea, but it maintains the premise.
Which doesn't help people like my dad, who's been out of work for over six months now.
They think your dad's in the minority.
They think that the number of people who actually want to work is in the minority.
They think more people are happy to be taken care of and that they've got to get in on that action, that they've got to be seen as comfortable and open to that view.
They think a majority of Americans don't want to work.
Majority of Americans want the government taking care of them, provising their health care, and doing this or that.
And the Republicans think they're not seen that way.
And so that's what one of the many things we're trying to accomplish is to be seen as supportive of what people who vote for Democrats want.
Well, hopefully.
I mean, I'm open to some terms.
If somebody's got a different idea out there, feel freak.
I would love to be wrong about this.
No, I believe you are right about that.
And I'm just hoping that in this year's midterms, we can start electing some people who grew up in Rielville that will go out there and remain true to Realville.
At what happens to those people?
I can give you a couple of names, maybe three.
Ted Cruz, Mike Lee.
Look what happens to those people within their own party.
To a lesser extent, Marco Rubio.
Look what happens to those people.
Well, and that's why we need to elect more of them so that we can start replacing the old guard in the Republican Party that's been there for 30 years.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
Little did you know when you uttered the seemingly innocent phrase, why don't they see the problem?
Little did you know where that casually tossed off question was going to lead.
But that is the essence of it.
Sums it up.
They don't look out over the country and see.
I mean, you'll have Republicans some here to talk about the need for job creation and jobs, jobs, jobs, but it clearly is not something that you identify with the Republican Party today.
I mean, look at the, the story is they've got their own idea to extend unemployment benefits.
So it's clear to me that they think that's what most Americans want.
And more than that, really, it's if they don't support it, they're going to get creamed as cold-hearted, mean-spirited extremists who don't care about the little guy.
Now, the truth of the matter is that we're destroying people's lives by continuing to pay them chump change for not working.
It's enough chump change they can eat, but it's destroying potential.
It's destroying identity.
It's destroying ambition.
That's a huge problem for the country.
But more and more politics is about the elite elected officials and their futures and what they can do to guarantee their futures.
Newsweek had a cover from, it wasn't that long ago, a few years maybe, maybe months, that said, we're all socialists now.
The Republican consultant class, they see that kind of thing and they start advising their candidates on what not to say and what not to do.
And everything's focused group, tested, poll tested, and so forth.
And this continuing desire to get the independence.
And speaking of which, I have stacked that I have been holding over.
There is a fascinating story about the independents, which essentially says that they aren't.
They're partisan.
It says the Washington Post.
Thanks very much, Susan, for the call.
This is January 8th.
So it's almost a week ago, six days ago.
Most political independents actually are not.
They are partisan as much as anybody else is.
They just don't want anybody to know it.
There is less controversy being an independent.
When you're an independent, people think you're open-minded and you're not an ideologue and you make up your mind person by person, issue by issue, and these people are sophisticated enough to know.
And if they're really conservative Republicans and they say that, they're going to get beat up, laughed at, made fun of, they think.
So if they say they're independents, but pure independents, according to Gallup, real independents, are actually in decline.
In the 1970s, there were twice as many genuine independents as there are today.
Independents are just as partisan as admitted partisans are.
Speaking of the labor force, sorry, labor force participants.
Now, I'm getting confused because that Newsweek cover, we're all socialists now, was 2009.
Five years ago, that seems like literally last year to me.
2009.
Obama's first year, Newsweek does that cover.
Newsweek, by the way, now out of business.
It doesn't exist out there.
Now, the labor force participation rate, this is a story from the Gateway pundit, and it is actually sourced from PBS.
But the black labor force participation rate under Obama has hit the lowest level ever recorded, five years into the Obama regime.
The number of African Americans participating in the labor force has hit rock bottom.
And it was in the unemployment report on Friday, and it was totally ignored.
The drop in labor force participation was the sharpest for African Americans.
60.2%.
That's the lowest since December of 1977.
The rate of African American men not in the labor force, the percentage of African American men not in the labor force, 65.6%.
Let's use the reverse.
35% of African men are in the labor force.
Now, that does not mean they all have jobs.
The 65% is people out of work who have stopped looking.
35%, African American men in the labor force, not all of them are working, but in order to be considered in the labor force, you have to be trying to find a job.
You have to be applying for jobs.
So the percentage of African-American male adults actually employed in America is under 35% of them.
This is just stunning.
Actually, it isn't.
It's been trending this way ever since Obama.
But the Democrat Party doesn't do anything for this group of people.
The Democrat Party doesn't do a thing for them except promise them.
And the promises all sound good.
And the promises have actually been replaced with it used to be the Democrats would be open.
Here's what we're going to do for you.
Here's how we're going to make your life better.
That's not what they promise anymore.
You know what they promise now?
We'll make sure Republicans are punished.
We will make sure white Republicans are punished.
We'll make sure conservatives are punished.
We'll make sure we raise their taxes.
We will make sure we take more money from them.
We will make sure of this.
We'll make sure of that.
And African Americans are supposed to sit there and feel satisfied and happy that the Democrat Party is getting even with their enemies, quote unquote.
Now, what in the world are people like the Reverend Dax and Al Sharpton doing for anybody?
What's President Obama doing for anybody?
What is Reverend Wright doing for anybody?
So here's Obama today at his cabinet meeting.
He said, you know what?
I'm fed up with the inequality in this country and I'm fed up with a lack of fairness.
You know what?
I've got a pen and I've got a phone and that means I can do executive orders and I can fix this unfairness.
So the architect and the cause of it all claims to have the fix, claims to be frustrated after five years of watching it get worse on his watch, which he had nothing to do with it, by the way.
This is the lowest, that 65% African American men not in the labor force is an all-time record.
That beats 1977.
This is just, and when you get to Obamacare, only 24% of Obamacare sign-ups so far are young people, and they are the target market.
And then there is another story.
Young voters are souring on President Obama, creating worry for Democrats and opportunity for Republicans.
This is a Boston Globe story.
More on that in the next hour.
But here, back to the phones we go.
John in Forsyth, Illinois.
Great to have you, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
First time I've ever called in to you.
I've listened to you over the years, and I appreciate you trying to give both sides of something that finally needs to be exposed.
I'm a 37-year insurance broker.
Insurance is sold on trust.
What I've discovered with the Obamacare is that people really do not know what their health insurance policies are.
And this doesn't surprise me.
This is for a lot of new people.
They've never seen health insurance.
But even people that have health insurance and have to change their health insurance, these people don't understand the differences of the co-pays.
And, you know, I go back and forth with people.
I tell them, well, this plan, the bronze, has this, but it doesn't have this, and the other plan has this.
And I'm talking about intelligent people that find, that, that know their business, but they don't understand health insurance.
Why don't they, do you think?
Well, I don't think they've ever been made to have to do it.
You know, a lot of people have the business owner buy it for the whole group.
Exactly right.
Yeah.
It's just something that's taken care of.
And you have this card, and you go to the doctor, the hospital, and you give it to them.
I got to tell you, down here in Illinois, we had some executives from ADM that they had to go buy their own insurance because they decided to change the way they took care of retiree coverage.
These guys are sharp individuals.
And yet, even just figuring out how the payment works and how it reimburses everything, you know.
They didn't know.
By the way, I took it.
ADM is Archer Daniels Midland, the originators of the Veggie Burger.
I'll tell you that story, by the way.
We've got to get back, though.
Take a break after this.
Even Barack Obama, the president, the smartest man in the world, even he said that his people had found out that buying insurance was hard.
Even without website problems.
It's really hard, Obama said.
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