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Sept. 5, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 5, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Welcome the final hour on a Friday.
The phone number 800 282 2882.
It is open line Friday.
I will guide you for the next hour.
And then you're on your own through the weekend and Russia'll be back next week.
I let me pick up where I left off at the end of the last hour, and I just got reminded of a good thing.
Well, let me pull it back up.
Ah, don't you hate that.
Here we go.
This is I Rush and I, we we we traded this discussion, had this discussion before, and I sent him the audio of it one day, and it's so worth reminding you.
And in this discussion of elevating yourself in life.
Let's just listen to this.
You won't hear a Democrat say things like this.
Listen to this.
Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper.
Go on out and sweep the streets like Michelangelo painted pictures.
Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music.
Sweep streets like Shakespeare, wrote poetry.
Go ahead, sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.
If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill, be a scrub in the valley, but be the best little scrub on the side of the hill.
Be a brush if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a highway, just be a trail.
If you can't be the sun, be a star.
It isn't by size that you win or fail.
Be the best of whatever you are.
And when you do this, when you do this, you've mastered the length of life.
The onward push to the end of self-fulfillment is the end of a person's life.
Now don't stop here though.
You know, a lot of people get no further in life than the length.
They develop their inner powers.
This they do their job well.
But you know, they try to live as if nobody else lives in the world but themselves.
And they use everybody as mere tools to get to where they're going.
They don't love anybody but themselves, and the only kind of love that they really have is for other people is utilitarian love.
They just love people they can use.
This is Martin Luther King Jr., his street sweeper speech.
Well, my favorite speech of his.
You don't hear that from the Democratic Party anymore.
You you just don't.
They don't tell you to be the best street sweeper.
They don't tell you to take your lot in life and be the best you can be.
We don't even use that slogan for the army anymore.
Be all that you can be.
We're the army of one now, or whatever we are these days.
Be the best you can be.
I I have found you know, I mentioned at the end of the hour.
I'm going up to Nashville on the 16th, the Ethics Religious Liberty Commission, Russell Moore, Joe Scarborough from Morning Joe and M SNBC and I, we're gonna be having this discussion on crazy never wins.
And there is a lot of craziness out there.
So one of the things about the internet, if I could just have a moment of meditation on this issue before I go back to phone calls.
The downside of so much of the internet and so much of political conversation coming from liberal commentators and whatnot, uh the binary nature of it.
It's all of one or all of the other.
And that's that's not really the way life works all the time.
Sometimes it does, but sometimes it doesn't.
And uh the internet, particularly liberals on the internet, I have found in my interaction with them and some conservatives, and and I am a distance myself on occasion from some conservatives who were just so darn angry about everything.
When I got off the show yesterday, I got an email from a lady who is very upset because she wanted me to know I was lying to all of you.
Why was I lying?
Well, it wasn't really that I was lying, I wasn't disclosing the full truth.
And the full truth, if I would be honest with you people, is that Barack Obama is the first gay Muslim president.
That that's what she believed, and she was angry because I didn't tell you that.
There's a lot of anger out there.
You know, I I'm with Rush, I'm with Reagan.
Be happy warriors.
There is a time for anger and a righteous anger.
But I I have found the internet brings a lot of people, particularly on the left.
Go look at my Twitter fee, go to E.W. Erks and just look at people who reply to me from the left.
These are some angry people.
They were angry when they held the White House and the House of Representatives and the Senate and a majority of governors' mansions.
They were angry.
They fill their life with politics and nothing else.
They want to fundamentally transform a country they view as flawed and broken, and so they're angry, and they can't change it enough, and so it makes them more angry.
And they get wrapped up in the minutia of life.
They don't enjoy life.
They don't want to be the best they can be at life because they're pretty doggone convinced they've been the victims of someone else, and their station in life is there because they're a victim.
They don't want to be better at that station because they're only there because they were a victim of someone who took money out of their pocket or made more than they did or have a fancier car or a better house or live in a better neighborhood.
These are miserable people.
Take global warming, for instance.
I mentioned yesterday, I found this list.
There's like 30 things in the world you need to see now before global warming, climate change, they call it now, wipes it out.
Well, now come these stories were in 19 year pause.
In 2009, they were saying it was going to be hotter than it's ever been before, and the only way they can do that now is if they rig the temperature table instead of giving you the absolute temperatures.
It's not true.
We've been in a plateau of warming.
The Arctic ice is coming back.
The sea ice in Antarctica, turns out it might have been volcanoes melting it and not actually climate change, and in other parts of the Antarctic, ice is coming back.
We've had cool temperatures through the United States.
The number of record lows this year outnumbers the record highs.
Australia's burning, Mr. Erickson.
Friends, if you believe that we're all going to melt away, If you believe that the world is just going to keep heating up until we're all extinct, you're probably a miserable person.
And these people get together and they concoct things like 97% of scientists in the world agree the world is warm.
No.
97% of the scientists they bothered to look at agree with it, and they only bothered to look at a handful of them.
They concoct these stories to prove their righteousness.
They to prove their right.
And they go about it with a messianic zeal.
That's the other thing that they, they substituted one God for another.
And then they, they've, they're just, they're impassioned by it.
And they're angry at you because you don't join the cause.
And because you haven't joined the cause, you've got to be shut down and shut up and driven away.
Look at this story.
This sounds completely unrelated, but it's not.
The Wyoming State Bar has invited Vice President Cheney, a prominent Republican with deep Wyoming ties, is a former congressman from Wyoming.
The Wyoming State Bar has invited a former congressman from Wyoming and a former vice president from Wyoming to be the keynote speaker at its annual convention next week.
And some lawyers are upset because a former vice president of the United States of America might be coming to speak.
Do you know if I was in college today, and Barack Obama was the commencement speaker at my college, I would be thrilled that the president of the United States was coming to speak.
Now I would think his speech was full of it, but I would be quite honored that the president of the United States was coming.
I would be respectful.
Liberals cannot be respectful of conservatives.
Conservatives must be shut up.
Because they're so angry.
Because they're so embittered.
And the internet now makes it even worse.
They get on Twitter and they find out that they've got five or six other people in their Twitter feed or their Facebook friends who all agree with them on an issue.
And they decide, by God, we must be the majority.
Because I got five people on Twitter who agree with me.
And they've all got a democratic sticker and they all voted for Obama and he won, so we must be the majority.
And then they go out and they find out that the rest of us think they're crazy as all get out.
That they're full of nonsense in their head.
And it makes them angry because they've been deluded into thinking they're the majority.
See, Barack Obama.
He won election twice in this country.
I told you before the election.
Probably happened with these stellar Republican nominees.
He won twice.
And they're convinced by God the majority must agree with us.
We should be able to advance, but these Republicans are standing in the way Of progress.
They're standing in the way of the majority.
No.
The system was designed this way.
What they view as bugs in the system were actually features, not bugs.
The founders of the country made it very difficult when the country is fairly divided.
They made it very difficult to get things done in Washington.
We've got fifty individual states.
The state should be able to do much of what Washington is doing.
But the liberals can't control 50 states.
They can control one Washington.
And so these features that they view as bugs are upsetting the system.
They've got to get rid of the electoral college.
They've got to get rid of checks and balances.
They've got to let Barack Obama do everything because they're so angry.
They're so angry because they think they really are a majority, and they're not.
They get worked up on things that don't matter.
And they're convinced that they must matter to you, and when they don't matter to you, you must be punished.
You must be reeducated.
You must be made to care.
You must be made to care as much as they do about gay marriage.
You must be made to care as much as they do about climate change, global warming, whatever they want to call it next week.
You must be made to care about you name the issue, electric cars, solar power.
You must be made to care about raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
And if you dare to sit, you must shut up so no one sees that they're they got other people out there who agree with them.
See, they rally around themselves on the internet and see that others on the internet agree with them and think they're the majority, and then they don't want you to see that others agree with you.
You know, here's the thing.
We've seen this before in communist countries.
We've seen the totalitarians and the authoritarians try to stamp out people who believed in freedom, who believed in liberty, who believed in a free market, who believed in a better way of life, who believed that the United States was a si shining city on a hill, the last best hope of mankind, and the communists, they tried to stamp these people out in East Germany.
They tried to stamp them out in Hungary, they tried to stamp them out in the Soviet Union and China.
The people may have had to still be a little quieter, lest they be stamped out further.
But they were still there.
You can't kill a good idea.
You can't kill freedom.
The best the left has in their anger is to try to shut us up.
But not only are they not going to shut us up, their anger is now fed by a fact that they realize their president, their man may have won re-election twice, and still they can't convince a majority of the public that we need more of him and more of his policies and more big government.
And the harder they try, the conundrum for them is that the more people realize they're nuts and government doesn't work.
We'll be back.com, Robert Wilde reporting on Thursday at Harry Reid's annual energy conference in Las Vegas.
Hillary well, oh gosh, can I even read the story?
They don't have Rodham.
They just they just have Hillary Clinton.
The misogynists at Breitbart, I guess.
No Rodham there.
Hillary Clinton said, climate change is the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face.
That may come as news to James Foley's family.
Climate change is the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face.
That may come as news to the government of Ukraine.
That that may come as news to our soldiers who are going to have to sneak into Syria at some point and take out ISIS.
Wow, these people.
They are obsessed with this topic.
And as it goes on and the world doesn't warm up as much, they have to be more shrill and shut up more people and censor us and doctor evidence to try to keep the story alive because too many Democratic donors make money off the scam.
They got to keep it alive because so many of them now make money off of it.
So what's going on here?
just crazy pathetic.
All right.
Back to the phones on Open Line Friday.
Jerry in Dallas, Texas.
You're up next.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Well, Eric, thank you for taking my call.
I'm honored to be on the Rush Schlimbaugh Show, even though I am talking to the junior JV team here, right?
Yeah, I'm telling you.
You're not Rush.
You're not Mark, but hey.
I'm not even named Mark.
Well, I I'm really appreciative of uh uh being on the show.
A couple of things.
You might want to try to cook your turkey on the big green egg for this Thanksgiving.
I did that last last time.
Oh, I smoke I I smoke my turkey on the big green egg every year.
I put it on about five o'clock in the morning and by about one o'clock in the afternoon, it's good.
I I use pecan and I use apple chips.
Oh, beautiful.
I bet you that tastes good.
I tried it for the first time last year, and the only one that complained was our oldest son.
He thought the house didn't smell Thanksgiving-y enough.
It certainly says he can't believe what he's hearing between us, Jerry.
I'm sorry.
I tell Fox all the time I should have a cooking politics show where I cook and we drink beer and discuss politics.
Anyway, let's go, Jerry.
What else is on your mind?
Well, listen, I a couple of things.
I'm I'm I'm glad uh you took my call because there's been something that's been bugging me for a long, long time.
I'm I'm a Hispanic American, and for the longest time I c I couldn't understand, and I still can't understand why most Hispanic or Latin uh uh people think that the Democrats are trying to help them when in reality they're trying to keep them down.
You know, the the the conservative uh the the core conservative values really are reflected more within the Hispanic community, and I don't know what to do to be able to get the word out.
I mean, I'm an individual, and I try to talk to to you know a lot of uh a lot of uh Hispanic, Latin American friends that I have and try and show them, hey, you know, I uh look, I've got my own business, and and for the record, I'm not wealthy, right?
Even though I know Cole probably is from the last hour, because he owns two businesses.
Oh, yes, that's what the Democrats would tell you.
Uh you're you're and he's probably white, and so he there therefore he must be rich.
Anyway.
I I mean I grew up my my mom I grew up helping my mom clean quote unquote white rich people's homes, right?
And and all I could say is I I I knew from a very early age that I was either gonna you know continue that or just start my own business and and and I've started a number of different businesses in this country, and the only the only time that I've been able to really uh get the businesses off the ground with less a trouble is whenever we've had a conservative administration because anytime any time you get you get uh uh liberal uh uh administration,
they they start trying to push things down, you know, down whether it's regulation or whatever it is.
You know, I my my wife and I own a small uh we're contract general contractors, and and it's hard.
We do have to pay our our our people first.
We do have to pay our vendors because then we have no business if we don't.
So every Democrat who hears you and Cole say that you pay your employees before you pay yourselves is shocked and stunned and thinks you're lying.
Uh yeah, y you know, well, I don't know what to say about that.
I'm they probably never started they've never started a business.
Take Barack Obama.
Jerry, I think this is a good jumping off point here.
Barack Obama has not started businesses.
He's driven a lot of them out of business.
He was a community organizer.
By his own autobiography, he admitted he was a failed community organizer.
He was in academia.
He was a he was a law professor.
He was in the state legislature in Illinois.
He went to the U.S. Senate where he spent most of his time on the campaign trail and voting present.
He's never had to worry about meeting a payroll.
He's never had to worry about starting a business.
He's never had to worry about coming up with an idea that he thinks is better than his competitors and advocating it in a three-market system free market system.
He's never had to worry about failure.
He's been handed so much on a silver platter by so many people who heralded him as as the greatest thing since sliced bread.
And and I don't understand why, you know, a lot of my subcontractors are Hispanic, and and you know, they they they they're in business for themselves.
They do great work, they work hard.
And I don't understand.
Why would you want to vote for somebody that wants to take that freedom and liberty from you of making as much money as as you can?
All right.
Jerry, I uh I'll make you a promise here.
We're almost out of time.
We got a hard break.
When we come back, I there is a reason for this.
There is a reason Hispanic voters have been leaning Democrats, even though they're socially conservative.
The most socially conservative voters in the country, by the way, which is why Republicans, by the way, can't scrap social conservatism as many would have them do.
There's a reason why they connect to the Democratic Party.
When we come back, I will explain it for everyone.
This may be the moment of controversy for this day.
Eric Erikson in for Rush.
Open line Friday, 800-282-2882.
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I say that as a subscriber of it's just it's indispensable for me just running redstate.com and whatnot.
Also on Twitter, I put a link.
Any of you in the Nashville area interested in coming to see me on the 16th, it's there.
Now Jerry called in and he said he can't understand why Hispanic immigrants into the country connect to Democrats.
I'm a C.S. Lewis fan.
I I am.
I, you know, all us crazy evangelicals.
A lot of us we we like guys like Lewis, and and I've been I started, I've taken up running again, and a buddy of mine recommended I do books on tape, and I've been working my way back through one of his books, Mere Christianity, and he talks about how people recognize shadows of things and the shadows of things, uh they they are comfortable with the shadow of the thing because they they recognize it.
There's a semblance of it.
I I let me explain this to you, and this may offend some of you Democrats out there, but it's it's the truth.
Again, it's not meant to hurt, it's just the truth.
When people immigrate into this country, illegal aliens fleeing their home countries.
When they come here, they they're still there are the the semblance of things from home that they connect to, that they are familiar with.
They're fleeing in most cases failed socialist governments in Central and South America.
When they come to this country and they hear Democrats talk, they don't look like the failed socialists of their home country.
But there is a comfortable familiarity to the Democratic Party.
It's it's what they've known at home.
Yes, it's what they fled from at home, but it looks just different enough.
It's a shadow of the old self.
It's a semblance of the old self, but they connect to it.
It's the same rhetoric, the protesting in the streets to rate have the government raise the wage.
They they see these things as a semblance of their home country and they connect to it.
Never mind that they're more socially conservative.
They connect to the Democrats because they're comfortable.
They connect to the Democrats because it seems familiar.
Strangers in a strange land, they connect to those things that have the most semblance to their home country.
The Democrats and their policies are are closely similar, but distinct enough that they can't say, well, these are the same failures that I fled from.
One day they'll realize, and by then hopefully it's not too late.
Here's the thing, though.
I hear all the time, particularly establishment consultants for the Republican Party in Washington.
They say we got to ditch all the social conservative nonsense.
We gotta we gotta come out and fully embrace gay marriage.
We gotta give up on our pro-life stance.
We gotta get rid of traditionalism.
We gotta get rid of breakdown, get rid of.
Don't even talk about supporting the two-parent heterosexual nuclear household.
We can't do that.
Let's not worry about the the child tax credit and making things easier for families.
No, no, let's just lower the upper, upper tax bracket.
If you ditch your social conservatism as Republicans because you want to pick up more liberals, you're never going to get socially conservative black voters.
You're never going to Get Hispanic voters.
You know, I so I coined a term for Wendy Davis running for governor in Texas.
I I I I coined this term abortion Barbie for her.
You know, that's how she made her claim to fame, protesting legislation on the floor of the Texas legislature, wearing her pink shoes.
Vogue did a profile of her that she's perfectly happy to sit for, where they referred to her Barbie like good look.
So I I defined her based on the single issue that she was then trying to run from.
Why?
Because I was made aware of polling in Texas, of Hispanic millennials.
The 20-something Hispanic voters there.
They, like their parents, are fairly socially conservative.
And they didn't want to vote for any candidate, Republican or Democrat, if that was their only issue.
And it's worked.
I mean, she is just the Democrats, they banked on her to win, and she's just a disaster of a candidate down there.
But people connect to what seems familiar to them.
I if you want to woo Hispanic voters, Jerry, those of you out there who we need ideas.
Don't just tell us why they're going for the Democrats.
What can we do?
I'm a big believer in living your life.
You know, it is nowadays a rarity to see a family that is put together, stays together through rocky times, doesn't just throw in the towel on Rocky Times.
They they may go out to a restaurant, they may say grace before a meal, their kids go to school, they work hard, the parent may have to work three jobs to keep the family together, but they do it together.
That is a weird thing in secular society these days.
It is a weird thing with Hollywood culture as it is and the way Hollywood celebrates so much that is wrong with the country.
You want to know why the box office is failing in Hollywood.
Look at how much they they celebrate what is just crazy and put down on things that are good.
Just live your life, Jerry.
Particularly as a Hispanic business owner in Texas, live your life.
Make your life shine as an example to others.
And so they connect that just like they Hispanic immigrants into this country.
They've connected to the Democrats because there's a semblance of the familiarity that they've known from home and there's a comfort there.
Let them connect to the familiarity of a life well lived.
Something that they want to strive for.
I think that that's what Republicans need to do.
I read an article, it's been a couple years now.
I can't remember the Republican congressman.
But there's a Republican congressman in Texas.
I can't remember who it is, I'm sorry, but he he wins in an area that routinely votes Democrat, high Hispanic concentration.
And you know why they profiled him?
I think it was in the New York Times or somewhere.
It's because he he lives in the community.
His family lives in the community.
They're not just knocking on doors at election time, they're actually engaged in their community.
They're going out and they're meeting the new voters.
They're going out and being a helping hand, they're going out and being a friend, they're going out and being a part of the community.
So many of these guys in Washington, D.C., Republican and Democrat alike, they move their family up to D.C. Or they leave their family at home and they're never at home.
They're never in the community.
They're never offering a semblance of the familiar to other people.
I think there's something to be said for living your life and be an example through the way you're living your life for others.
Give them something to connect to, something familiar that resonates with them.
Too many Republicans, they want to change who they are to try to look at Tom Cotton.
Look, I support Tom Cotton.
He's running for the Senate in Arkansas.
But he's come out in favor of the Arkansas minimum wage because it's on the ballot and it's polling favorably there.
Does he really support it?
Or does he think he has to support it to get elected?
See, we are what we also find familiar in this country are the craven politicians who will say or do anything to get elected.
And that's the familiarity of the thing we dislike.
It's like the this the scent, the smells.
You know how you can walk through a field and smell something and it reminds you of a childhood memory, or you taste something and it reminds you of something that sparks a long-forgotten memory.
We do this in life.
And when we see politicians saying doing anything to get elected, it it leaves a bad taste in our mouth.
It connects us to so much of the bad in society.
If Tom Cotton really supports the minimum wage, God bless him, why hadn't he been supporting it in Congress before now?
He was opposing it.
Now suddenly opportunism to get elected.
I'm tired of opportunistic politicians.
I'm tired of Republicans believing they've got to Be opportunistic to woo Hispanic voters.
We got to do a focus group.
We've got to find out what they like, and then we got to take up this issue.
No, live your life as you think your life should be lived as a politician, as a family man, as a businessman, as someone in the community.
Talk about the values that are American values.
You know what they are.
If you've got a focus group to find out what your values are, I don't want you in Washington, D.C. I don't care what the letter is after your name on the ballot.
I don't want a focus group pandering politician in Washington, D.C. I want someone who has a semblance of the familiarity that I recognize in my own life.
That someone I can connect to who I may not disagree I may not agree with them on every issue.
But I at least know that they're a fundamentally good person who shares my worldview.
That's what I want.
That's what I think every American wants.
And we may come to opposite conclusions.
We shouldn't, but many of us do.
Jerry, I just I think that Republicans, if they want to bring Hispanic voters in, they can't abandon their social conservatism, but they certainly need to just stop rank pandering and focus grouping.
Just live your life.
Show them the familiarity of a white life well lived and it'll connect with people.
Eric Erikson in for Rushland Ball.
Good gracious.
So apparently this this plane that's gone off course and has now flown over Cuba and kept going.
The pilots apparently uh have been hi they've gotten eyeballs on them from some F-15s and they are slumped over unconscious.
Uh this is the the second time Snerdley said he he thought he had re remembered something like this.
Uh September 1st, a plane took off in Wisconsin and got out over the Atlantic with an unconscious pilot, and now we've got it again on September 5th.
Sad, sad, sad.
Just just sad stuff.
All right, it's open line Friday.
I should go back to the phones.
Tracy from Omaha, Nebraska, welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Eric, thanks for taking my call.
I just wanted to say um with this minimum wage debate, uh, two points.
One, when they raise the minimum wage, it's not just going to affect the workers with less free lunches, uh no free parking, but it's also going to incrementally raise the cost of goods and services across the board that are supported by those minimum wage jobs.
A free economy that always has to have entry-level jobs.
And so people that are doing those jobs, they're not really going to benefit because they're going to be paying more for their goods and services.
And secondly, have you considered that a minimum wage hike will hurt immigrants.
Oh, yes, it will.
I mean, uh, look, across the board, it's going to raise prices.
It's going to raise prices for the middle class.
But you know, better for the government to subsidize these people, Tracy.
Yeah, but think about it.
We we we've been fed this lie that we have to have immigrants because they're the only ones that will do those low-paying jobs.
Jobs Americans won't.
That's I hadn't thought about it that way, but you're absolutely right.
Of course, we we'll it'll actually incentivize employers to to keep the borders open and bring in more illegal immigrants to continue to do the the work for uh lower than fifteen dollars an hour and hope not to get caught.
I it just look, it's not gonna happen except in a few random locations.
It it's just it won't happen, and they don't really want it to happen.
They're only doing it to nurse a grievance and make people feel victimized, particularly victimized by Republicans who don't support it, so that they'll be whipped into a frenzy to go to the elections in November and try to help the Democrats stay in office.
It's just it's all a scam.
All right, let's go to Joe calling from Chicago, Illinois.
Joe, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Eric.
I'm just calling to talk about uh a couple people or a couple friends of mine that uh started off in minimum wage jobs, one of them over 20 years ago.
Uh he still works with the company today in a grocery store.
Started off as a bagger, and now he's a store manager.
Um my other uh two friends also work for the same company for over 15 years, but started off as uh minimum wage job.
I just feel that now in society, people are unwilling to go and work and try and work harder to make more and to either go find another job or to uh work hard enough to get promoted in the same job uh that they have.
You know, Joe, it's funny you should say that because if for the longest time in our American economic system, you were able to work at a job, one job, and over time improve yourself and make more money and get pay raises, cost of living adjustments, and retire.
And in Obama's America, some people now have to work two and three jobs to make ends meet.
And you got a lot of people who think they shouldn't have to, because by God, the guy down the road didn't have to.
I shouldn't have to.
And then they they jack up the they want the government to jack up wages.
It really is just uh again, it's a scam by the Democrats and the unions to get people to join unions convinced that only the union can save them and convinced that only the government can save them.
It it is a just a pathetic no way out.
I'm I'm I I hope people see the light on this.
There's there's still people angry at me for pointing out these people failing at life, but they are.
I just speak truth and they don't like it.
Judy in Echo Valley, Tennessee.
Where is Echo Valley, Judy?
Well, we're up in the mountains.
I bet it's beautiful.
It is.
What I wanted to say is this morning on C-SPAN, uh, which is a very liberal program, they get their money from the same place MSNBC does.
I heard something I had never heard before.
I heard a man who had had two heart attacks and he was on disability, and he said he was grateful.
I don't think I've ever heard that.
And I saw a young woman on M on uh HLN channel, the same channel that man is on.
She's getting eight hundred and fifteen dollars a month for a Section 8 housing, and she's not happy.
She wants another house.
And when we as taxpayers hear that they're getting an average of twenty dollars an hour, and in two thousand and twelve, we spent two trillion dollars on welfare.
And it's uh uh an anomaly to hear someone say they're grateful.
And also one other thing I want to point out, Obama's hired so many people.
I mean, nobody can feed themselves.
You either have to be on welfare or be a federal employee, that uh Virginia is the only state where salaries have increased, and that's because he's made so many of them federal employees.
Oh, it's not just Judy, it's not just federal employees, it is people who their jobs, they're they're dependent on government contracts, they're they're defense contractors, they're outside contractors, so not just government employees, but people whose jobs and existence depends on the federal government.
We we have created the Democrats and some Republicans have created this dependency culture in this country that that the founders of this country would have rejected that so many of us who have come before us and even here now have rejected this idea of being dependent on the government for your income.
And you know, there was a uh a girl in Atlanta yesterday, I I listened to the local news clip.
She said that if there's no struggle, there's no progress.
That was her quote for why she was arrested, protesting McDonald's.
She's worked there and wants more money.
If there's no struggle, there's no progress.
So what did she say?
She wanted more money, so she wouldn't have to struggle.
Well, then how would she progress in life?
I have no idea.
The logic of the liberal mind.
Eric Ericson in for Rush Limbaugh.
That plane apparently has gone down in the ocean.
Just sad prayers for the family.
Oh, hey, as we get out of here, this Friday headed into the weekend before September 11th.
Here's a happy story for you.
Syria may have hidden chemical arms.
U.S. says.
Oh you're kidding.
I I just but no, they they told us, you know, I I so I filled in for my my friend Mary Matlin.
Uh she has a radio program, and I had to fill in for one time, and and the liberal on the show is like, This is a this is a sign of success.
Obama's foreign policy works.
He's gotten Syria to give up arms.
Uh give up chemical weapons.
I said, I'll believe it when I see it.
I never believed it.
And now even the very same American government that said they had given them all up is saying, Oh, nope, they're here.
All right, folks, Eric Erickson and Farush.
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