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July 16, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 16, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Rush Limbaugh, behind the golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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You know, uh I have a I have a fact here.
Some news I think it's going to startle a lot of you.
Many of us have heard, particularly in the last 20 years.
Whenever the subject of immigration reform comes up, you can count on hearing from a lot of different places in this country.
We are a nation of immigrants.
We can't shut down immigration.
We can't start deporting people.
We're a nation of immigrants.
We're no different today than the people who originally came here.
We're all immigrants.
None of us are original.
Well, you've heard that.
How many of you know the nation when it was founded?
I mean, yeah, it immigrated here from Europe and so forth.
But there was no immigration at the time of the founding, like there is today with actual programs and quotas and policies and so forth.
That did not begin till 1845.
And I believe, if I am not mistaken, it actually began with the Irish fleeing famine, the famous potato famine.
In 1845, modern day immigration as we know it began.
But do you know that in 1924 immigration was suspended all the way to 1964, 1965, 1960, somewhere around there?
Does that shock you?
Did you know that?
Did you know that immigration was literally suspended from 1924 to 1965?
Well, it was.
And do you know why it was suspended?
There's a very logical reason why it was suspended.
It was called assimilation.
Which wasn't that hard, because most of the people that arrived wanted to become Americans.
There was a distinct American culture.
There was a distinct American morality.
Language was English.
There was a distinct concept, individual liberty, freedom, government serving people.
It was all new.
It was it had never been done before.
Truly unique and exceptional in the sense of an exception to the norm.
So during the years that immigration was suspended, all of the immigrants, beginning with the Irish and then the Germans and the Polish and uh Eastern Europeans of all kinds just flooded into this country, fleeing oppression, bondage, war, economics drive poverty.
But they all came here wanting to become Americans.
And immigration was suspended to absorb and to accommodate the massive numbers who had arrived.
And assimilation is simply people from different parts of the world coming here and becoming American.
Because they wanted to.
There was no force applied.
There was no oppression.
There were no mandates that you had to do, it's just something people wanted to do.
They wanted to learn English.
They held on to their native tongues, and they held on to their native cultures, and they lived together in various neighborhoods and wherever, but they wanted to become American because it meant something really special and unique.
And they all learned English.
And they all became educated in the American public education system, which was one of the greatest education systems ever at that time.
And they learned our national holidays, for example, and why they were celebrated.
They learned about the American founding.
All of this in the public school system.
They learned about the founding fathers.
They learned why they wanted to come here.
They knew from afar they wanted to come.
They knew what it represented.
They knew that this was a repository for hope, for liberty, freedom, prosperity, success.
However, they defined good life, it was here.
And once they got here, they and their children learned how America came to be and why, who the people were that founded it, and what they risked.
What they gave up, what they sacrificed.
And during this period of assimilation, there wasn't any of this drivel that is taught today as part of the multicultural curriculum.
There was no this nation doesn't deserve to exist.
People that came here and founded and discovered this country, all they did was displace the original owners, and they brought disease and pestilence, and they've stolen, and there was none of that that these new immigrants learned.
They simply learned what it was to be an American.
They wanted to.
And during that period of uh, I mean, little trickle of immigration, but I'm talking about mass immigration was suspended.
And that's when the assimilation took place.
And all of that began to change in the 60s.
Everything began to change in the 60s.
Because some of the immigrants who had arrived were, of course, not cool on America.
and were secretly plotting ways of undermining it, even while they lived in the shadows, so to speak.
They ended up teaching in universities and public schools, and they...
The unraveling of the country began.
That's why when we get to 1986 and Simpson Mazzoli, that that didn't come after a hundred years of out-of-control immigration.
Simpson Mazzoli granted amnesty to three million illegal immigrants.
And it took those three million from 19 about 20 years to a mass.
And at the time, Senator Kennedy said, if we just do this this one time, we'll never ever have to do it again.
We're going to go back to secure the borders and we but we can't send this many people back.
We have to learn to accept them.
But even then, the Democrats of the day recognized the illegal immigrants of the day as future Democrat voters.
But the point, how many of you were aware that mass immigration was suspended for many decades?
Did you know that certainly?
You didn't know.
1924 to 1964, 65.
But it's key, not just that it was suspended, but what was the reason for it?
The decision was made to suspend immigration so that all of those immigrants who had arrived in mass starting in 1845 could assimilate.
Back then the leaders of this country were still proud of it.
Wanted everybody else to be proud and wanted everybody else to understand why this country was what it was and how it came to be, and that's what the assimilation was.
And it's key again to remember that those immigrants wanted to assimilate.
It wasn't something that was forced upon them.
They wanted to learn English.
They wanted to become Americans.
That's not what is happening today.
It is with some, but it is not happening with the mass numbers of immigration that's taking place today.
Well, they're fleeing poverty, but but these are kids.
They're not even the it the people making this possible have an entirely different agenda than those who made immigration possible in the mid to late 1800s into the early 1900s.
There are people today who want this country undermined.
Now they wouldn't say that.
They would say transformed.
Or they would say changed for the better.
They would say it needs to become more equal and more fair because this nation's always discriminated against, blah, blah.
You know the drill.
But the early immigrants we're talking about did not arrive with such agendas.
And they did not arrive, by the way, this is something very key, too.
They didn't arrive as victims, certainly not victims of America.
They didn't come here with the politics of grievance on their mind, not aimed at us.
They didn't come here wearing their tinfoil victim hats all over the place.
And they didn't come here with their hands out.
These people really, really wanted to work.
I mean, that's that's all the world knew.
This just happened to be the best place for that to pay off.
And that's why they wanted to be here.
Today that's not at all.
You mention the word assimilation today in relationship to newly arriving immigrants, and you may as well be cursing people out.
You talk about assimilation.
Well, what why would they want to become Americans?
What's wrong with who they are?
What gives you the right to say everybody comes here has to be an American?
Just what the hell does that mean is their reaction?
Oh, really?
What have we got to be so proud of?
Look at the way that we've treated slaves and the Indians and Native Americans and now the Redskins.
Look at what is there to be proud?
Why would we want people to come in and celebrate that heritage?
This is the attitude about assimilation today.
Because on the left, there isn't any of this pride in America.
There is no awestruck reverence for the founding of this country.
Yeah, that's looked at as something that had been better off, maybe in history if it hadn't happened.
I kid you not.
Today it's much different.
Now we have House Democrats demanding even more amnesty.
Four billion dollars in funding to facilitate these arrivals.
And we have, in the words of Representative John Lewis, Democrat Georgia.
Our doors are open.
We're all connected.
We just can't build a wall or a fence and say no more, this is America.
Our doors are open.
Come on in!
In case anybody doubts just how out of touch the Democrat Party has become.
They know This is all being done on Twitter, by the way.
Our doors are open, our walls are down.
Come on in.
We're all connected.
This is America, our doors.
John John John Lewis and all these other Democrats are active on Twitter, just telling the world, come on in.
We Democrats welcome you.
We want you to come in in any wall, and you're not going to come on in.
They know that they are talking to the lowest of the low information crowd, particularly on Twitter.
They can say anything they want, and they're not going to be challenged because to be challenged, I mean, there's a reason John Lewis ought to say it.
Is anybody critical of John Lewis's automatic going to be what a racist bingo?
So I don't care whether it's Sonny Hoston on CNN or John Lewis on Twitter or any Democrat anywhere.
Everybody, including them, is a victim now.
Everybody has a grievance against this country, mind you.
And therefore it is up to this country to assuage that grievance to resolve it.
Because this country is responsible for all of these victims.
Even the victims of Central America.
Even the victims of Mexico.
Yes, they exist in their plight because we exist in ours.
We have discriminated against them.
We have shut them off.
We have stolen from their countries and their people and we've hoarded all of these goodies.
We've just we've raped and pillaged the world, and that's how we built ourselves into a superpower.
Well, the world wants it back now.
And they deserve it because it was never ours to have in the first place.
And this is modern immigration.
Victim after victim after victim parading, victim after victim after victim on television.
Why the most powerful law enforcement official, the attorney general, portrays himself as a victim.
President of the United States, maybe the most powerful law enforcement official.
Also at times will get close to portraying himself as a victim.
Everybody's a victim of America, particularly of Republicans and conservatives in America.
And that is what's different today.
And now a brief obscene profit timeout.
Don't go away.
Here's Mary, Philadelphia.
Great to have you on the program.
I'm glad you waited.
Hi.
Hello, Russ.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you much.
Thank you.
I'm a listener of 20 plus years, and I have to tell you that it's thrilling to talk to you.
Your brain, your voice, your determination to bring the truth to light, I find all of those thrilling.
And I am just so honored to talk to you.
It's it's wonderful.
Thank you.
Um I uh it's great.
I I'm I'm calling because I heard you talking when I first turned the program on about this program where they're going to educate everyone about nutrition and teach them what to buy and have people to teach them how to cook and so forth.
And I thought, well, this is very strange.
I got a little bit distressed because I thought these are the liberals, the Democrats who started the great war on poverty a long time ago with LBJ, and they spent all kinds of time since then tearing down everything traditional about the family, morality, food, American values, you name it.
You got it.
Now suddenly they're going to turn around and they're going to teach everybody, and it's the old story of they tear something down, then we need the government to build it up.
The government breaks it first, and then the government fixes it.
What sense does that make?
I know that it's just it made me a little bit, and I got a little bit upset, and I turned the program off for a few minutes to finish some work here.
Then I turned back on and I tried to call and I got through to Beau, and here I am.
But I mean also these are the same people who and the mortgage problem.
I remember a story someone told on your program a couple years ago.
Someone wanted to get a mortgage, and the the bank officers analyzed it, found out that when this person paid all their expenses at the end of the month, they would have $14 left for living expenses.
Hold your thought.
Hold your thought.
I have to take a brief obscene profit timeout.
And we'll, Mary, don't hang up.
We'll come right back and resume right at that point.
We're back with Mary in Philadelphia.
You know, you your your original point here is is really good.
What she's talking about, uh first item in the program, folks, they um the government wants to put talking shopping carts in grocery stores for food stamp recipients to direct them to the place where healthy food is sold in grocery stores.
And because these people can't figure that out on their own.
Now, Mary, your point is how in the world have we gotten to the point that people do not know that there's nobody in any home that knows how to tell anybody else what's good to eat and what's bad for them.
Why does this require the government?
And your answer is it used to be that people can figure these things out for themselves.
The government came along and assumed all of these roles and responsibilities and busted up the family, and now, since they broke it, here comes a plan to fix it, which looks like compassion and looks like assistance and help and good thoughts and good vibes, when in fact it's a tantamount admission that the government screws up everything it touches.
Right, and then turns into a tyrant to come and fix it.
They're going to show you the way.
It's very distressing to see.
I couldn't agree more.
Because I I think that uh these are the people I mentioned the mortgage crisis of a few years ago where a bank uh mentioned they were being pressured by the government to give people mortgages they couldn't afford.
Right.
Somebody came in and when they went through this person's finances, by the end of the month, this person would have 14 dollars for all their other expenses, rent, food, whatever.
And um the the bank didn't want to give the person the mortgage.
And they were told by the government uh officials there for the banking, you have to give it to them.
You can't make lifestyle choices for them.
And I have a feeling about food that if we went back ten years and somebody wasn't eating such healthy things or whatever, somebody from the government might say, Well, you can't make lifestyle choices for them.
But you, you know, you can't do that.
You let them eat what they want.
But you don't understand them.
Now they're going to come in and become tyrannical and be telling everybody what to eat.
And it's it's really bad.
It's like they did a 180.
It's that they destroy it, then they come around, oh, we're gonna fix it now and tell you what.
But what now is it that gives them the right to make lifestyle choices for people?
What is that?
Well, that yeah, that's I don't understand that.
I don't I do not understand that.
Exactly.
That it's horrifying.
It's absolutely horrifying.
Because um, you know, they're they're gonna basically run your life.
And you made the point a number of times that that was the first thing that people like Hitler wanted to do was get control, have a national health care system, then they control every aspect of your life, they control your life basically.
And it's kind of horrifying.
So I just I don't get it.
And in school, I was taught in school about nutrition.
And then when I had my children, I made it my business to give myself a refresher course about nutrition, because I was in charge of these little people's lives, and I wanted to make sure that they ate well.
So, you know, why why is that not happening now?
And what the heck's going on that people are, you know, not do what's going on in the schools that know I learned that in school the first time.
So what are they teaching them in school that America's the problem?
You know, and and and about that subject that America is the problem, I remember being in honor classes in high school and having some of the kids in the class to start this narrative that the United States was the problem.
And I I've been fighting that battle since I was a teenager with other people.
Well, I never made the honor section.
Well, no, well, that no, it's uh uh that was it's not I don't doesn't matter what class it was.
It's just that the people were already starting to say that narrative.
I thought back.
When did I first encounter this?
And I thought, geez, it was in high school.
Well, now you raise you raise an interesting question.
I I'm asking myself now, when was it that I learned what the so-called bad things are to eat and the so-called good things.
And uh I mean, uh parents are always, you know, eat your vegetables.
They didn't I didn't I didn't mind the vegetables.
I I I liked them.
I don't think I ever had to look I for some I just instinctively knew that a lifetime of Twinkies was not the answer.
Nobody had to tell me this.
Oh, that's all.
Oh, let me tell you, oh, I'm glad you reminded my mother got so mad at me one day because I left some our parents made us clean our plates.
And the reason for that was they came from the Great Depression.
Having food abundance was a genuine luxury.
And so they we were we were encouraged that the the healthy thing to do was to eat what was provided for you.
They didn't know if you were gonna get any more next time around or has as much.
It was uh it's a risky thing.
And and our parents one of the techniques they use, you know, they are starving children in China right now.
You clean your plate.
And I got you know, I was I've always been a smart ass.
And I said to my mother one day, you you mean to tell me that if if I eat everything on this plate, that the starving children in China are gonna rub their stomachs and go, wow, do I feel good and full?
And she just she just laid into me, not physically, of course.
You don't smart, you don't sass me.
You don't sass your mother.
She was secretly proud of it.
But uh she'd only told me that later on.
But the about the mortgage business.
It's even worse than what you described, Mary.
Those banks were under threat of government investigation if they didn't make those loans.
And it was all based on the premise that it wasn't fair that some should have houses and others didn't.
The truth is many of those loans were never intended to be repaid, except that's a little bit of news they kept from the suckers who bought the mortgages.
By virtue of what you just said, 14 bucks left after paying the mortgage.
That's not enough to live on.
What was not gonna they were they were gonna float and not live and pay the mortgage, and that's what happened.
Hello subprime crisis.
Now, for those of you I know that what do you mean Obamacare?
What's it got to do with eating, Rush?
It's very, very simple.
So they're telling these food stamp people.
Let's let's let's pick one.
Let's say there's a 32-year-old food stamp recipient out there, and uh Michelle Obama is just hell-bent on this guy eating right for whatever reason.
So give him a talking shopping cart, and the shopping cart directs him to the stuff of the grocery store that doesn't taste good.
That's what they want him to eat.
That's the definition from a kid's standpoint.
The healthy stuff is the stuff that doesn't taste good.
So he goes, but he doesn't buy it.
He continues to use his food stamps to buy what Michelle Obama would think is junk.
Well, the food stamp card records what he buys, and it goes into his permanent record.
And twenty-five years later, this same guy shows up at 400 pounds and needs lap man surgery to survive.
So the regime takes a look, okay.
We gave this guy the chance.
We gave him a talking shopping cart 30 years ago.
We told him what to do to eat healthfully.
He didn't listen to us.
Uh we're not going to spend the money on his lap manager.
So he's on his own.
That's how, folks.
That's how Obamacare.
That's how they're going to force you to behave the way they want you to, because they're always going to be able to dangle some benefit in front of you that they can deny you if you don't live the right way.
If you don't vote the right way, if you don't do whatever, it can it there's no end to this kind of tyranny.
That's why they want control of the health care system.
Once they've got that, they can determine every aspect of life because there's a cost component to getting well.
When you get sick.
Mary, great call.
I'm glad you called my thank you so much for your nice words.
Here's Brian in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
We go back to the phones and the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi, Brian.
Hi, Rush.
Uh long time listener since 1992.
Really appreciate your show.
Thank you, sir.
Love everything you say.
And uh I I think uh America's chance to hear uh what really goes on in politics really comes from this program.
Now, I I'm looking at a news report here showing that uh there's been some developments in cases filed by private citizens against the IRS with regard to this uh scandal uh of targeting people not to get uh tax exempt status.
And you know, when we talk about people who want to struggle against what they see as being incorrect about this administration, you you we see members of Congress trying to get together and and and and fight it legislatively and and and battle that way.
And I we we see, and I hear you say it on your show all the time, that that just doesn't work.
We can't win that way.
They're beating us that way, and some of it's because of the tactics that the Republicans use.
But what I want to talk about here is these these cases that are filed by private citizens, it just seems to me that even there it's going to be hopeless.
The orders that were issued recently are are directing the IRS to produce certain things, and I I haven't read the orders, by the way, but I just see that they were.
Now, these don't don't don't be impatient.
These are federal judges.
This is a different bailiwick than members of Congress who could check an outer cave.
These are some really severe law nor especially Emmett uh oh man a minute.
Emmett Sullivan, this guy is no nonsense.
He's demanding that the IRS swear under oath about all this stuff.
And that the Republican Congress has just proposed denying uh the IRS billions of dollars in enforcement money meaning audits.
So there there are some things being done.
I know all of This looks like a long shot to actually gain ground on this and see to it that people who have committed crimes or are held accountable or have transgressions that may not reach criminal status, but just illegally targeting and politically harassing opponents of the regime.
The future is simply unknown, and we can't predict what's going to happen.
I'll tell you what I rely on a lot, and it's nothing that you can really put any value on, and you can't count on it.
You can't.
But I I rely on it a lot to get me through, and that's faith.
I just have faith that America is going to triumph at some point.
I don't know how that's going to manifest, and I don't mean that to say sit around and do nothing.
No, I'm not retiring here.
I'm not saying sit around and do nothing and just let events take place.
You have to push, you have to pressure, but but I, and I think there are enough people who are.
I have faith that we're gonna triumph, that we're gonna save it.
I wish I could offer you more specifics.
Well, you know, I share your belief.
I I also have that faith.
But when I look at what an order says that these the IRS have to produce things, what's the penalty if they don't?
See, the transgression already occurred in the past.
The people who wanted to use their free speech right to say something to make it.
Well, no, I know that on the election day.
That's a good question.
If the judge doesn't get what he wants, who pays?
I don't know.
We have to see what the judge does.
That's part of having faith.
And this judge is a no-nonsense guy from everything I've been able to gather about him.
There's actually two or three judges now that are demanding.
I mean, it's IRS things off the charts.
All emails lost servers crashed.
Uh it these things take a lot of time to rectify themselves.
And people get away with a lot.
They always have.
Um I can't answer quite I don't know what's gonna, I don't know how this is gonna manifest.
I don't know what the judge is gonna do and all that.
But I am I'm eager to see, prepared for anything.
Uh, don't hang Brian, just hang in, don't give up.
Just keep your stiff upper lip.
Remember, Brian, and all the rest of you, in terms of uh research data and self-admission, we conservatives are the majority in this country.
And that still matters.
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