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Sept. 25, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 25, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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And I just discovered something that I had yesterday that I did not get to, and it dovetails with the CNNmoney.com story that what women want in a husband is a guy with a steady from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
Benefits of the Dipper Line.
Single women are the number one demographic in the war on women.
Married women tend to vote Republican.
And especially of late, the polling data shows married women are more and more aligning with the GOP, which, more important, that is it's anti-the Democrat Party.
So the news is that what women want in a husband is steady jobs, steady employment, but there aren't any jobs to be had.
So there's no threat, really, that single women are going to be getting married, which redounds positively to the Democrat Party.
But I just found something I had here from the New York Times yesterday.
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This story, as it turns out, was all over the morning shows yesterday, Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning.
And the headline of the story, marriage rates keep falling as money concerns rise.
So unbeknownst to me, I had the forerunner of today's poll result yesterday.
And for the vagaries of the way the program unfolded, I didn't get to it.
Here are the main details of this story.
Let's make sure I've got the next page.
I do.
Of all the milestones on the road to adulthood, Americans are increasingly foregoing one of the biggest, and that is marriage.
20% of adults older than 25, which is about 42 million people, have never married.
That's up 9% from 1960, according to data in a Pew Research Center report published yesterday.
The trend has been consistent for decades.
Since 1970, each group of young adults has been less likely to marry than the previous generation, although part of the trend can be attributed to the fact that people are simply getting married older.
The Pew Center projects that a quarter, 25% of today's young adults, will have never married by 2030, which would be the highest share in modern history.
And the primary concern here, the primary reason given by people refusing to get married is, in one way or another, money.
It's somewhat fascinating.
In many ways, the retreat from marriage is the result of evolving gender roles, but the decline in marriage is also a result of the country's deepening socioeconomic divide.
Until a few decades ago, marriage was mostly an economic equation.
According to the Nobel-winning economist Gary Becker, men earned money to support a family while women ran the household.
You've heard of that.
Remember those days?
You do.
You remember those days?
You do?
You have an active memory of men earning money to support the family while women ran the household?
That happened when you were alive?
Well, yeah, I do, my mom and dad and so forth, but I mean, the feminists came along in the 70s.
They nuked that.
Remember?
However, But with the rise of birth control, household technology.
Listen to this paragraph here.
Get this.
With the rise of birth control, household technology, and women in the workforce, marriage became less about economics and more about love.
This, according to historian Stephanie Kuntz, in her book, Marriage, a History from Obedience to Intimacy, or how love conquered marriage.
So we're being told here that only recently, only recently, has love been a factor in marriage.
That prior to that, the number one factor was always economics, which, if you believe it, was rooted in what?
Women had to get married because they needed a breadwinner.
That's what they're trying to say here.
Do you remember the old adage, get ready, media matters?
I love taunting these.
Do you remember the old adage, women marry up?
Well, what did that mean?
And if you, yeah, that's right.
Exactly.
That was the economic.
That was the way this economic thing the New York Times is talking about is referred to as women marrying up.
It was an economic thing.
And, well, if you, if it wasn't that law, you say that to a feminist, man, and here came the clause.
They knew it was true, but they resented the heck out of it.
It was one of the reasons why the modern era of feminism was birthed.
Well, it wasn't birthed and it wasn't born because they don't believe in that.
Hatched!
Exactly right.
It was hatched.
It wasn't birthed and it wasn't born.
Those are fighting words to feminists.
Excuse me, pardon me.
Educated, high-income people are still marrying at high rates and tending to stay married, according to economists and demographers who study the issue.
Remaining unmarried is more common among the less educated blacks and the young.
Pugh found.
So here's, I guess what they're worried about here, and the reason why this is a story at the New York Times, is they didn't like the old idea that women married a breadwinner.
That's so old-fashioned, that was subjugating women.
It was subordinating women to the home and the housekeeper role.
Can't have that.
So then feminism came along, and women didn't have to marry up because they too were in the career force and the workforce and earning their own and didn't need a man.
But then what suffered?
Well, there wasn't any love in the relationship.
There wasn't any marriage.
Love, as feminists were told, don't saddle yourself with a relationship with a man.
I mean, don't have that be your primary ingredient, happiness.
Now we've gone full cycle.
Now we're back to money as being a factor why people do or do not get married, which means that feminism is sliding back.
Once again, it's a temporary result from, and that's why the story, that's why they're worried that money is all of a sudden now becoming a factor in marriage again.
That is looked at by feminists as not a solid development.
Spinsters?
Do I remember the word spinster?
Yes, of course I remember the word spinster.
Well, I'm going to tell you something.
Snerdley just asked me if spinsters were what the feminists were back then who were unhappy about being spinsters.
I don't know, but I'll tell you something that surprised me.
I have had a number of women over the years tell me that one of the biggest fears, it's not a lot, and I don't know if this is representative of any kind of a wide swath of women or not.
I'm just stunned at the number of women I've heard it from, that one of the biggest fears they had was growing old and basically becoming a bag lady, which is your word for spinster, right?
And I've been stunned at the number of women, so that was one of the biggest fears they had.
So now with the economy in the tank and with jobs scarce and career jobs even scarcer, and with the Democrat Party running around telling everybody who will listen, this is it.
This is the new normal.
Don't expect to do better than your parents, which just, I can't tell you how that irritates me.
Because A, it isn't true.
It's what the Democrats want people to believe so that they will live that way.
The biggest enemy the Democrat Party has is self-reliant, self-sufficient people.
And if you convince more and more people, there's no reason to work because it isn't going to matter because America's best days are behind her.
If you convince more and more people that you've created a subservient, dependent voter bloc, which is what they want, it really, it's like the story we had in the Denver school the other day about capitalism, the students being told they didn't want to hear about capitalism.
They wanted to hear about equality and all this stuff.
And the stuff that's being taught to kids these days about their country, they're being taught to resent it, to not believe in it.
There's Obama up there yesterday at the UN apologizing again.
Can you believe he actually compared what happened?
He mentioned Ferguson, Missouri, in a passage talking about terrorism around the world.
He's talking to these thugs at the UN about how we all have to work together on terrorism to wipe it out and get rid of these militant jihadists or whatever.
And said, by the way, I understand that we can't preach from virtue here.
So we've got our own problems.
And he talked about Ferguson.
Comparing it to the same kind of thing that he was railing against, i.e. terrorism.
So you have this never-ending leadership apologizing for the country and acknowledging, quote unquote, acknowledging all of our weaknesses or blights or what have you.
And I'm telling you, to people who are loyal to the Democrat Party or who believe that presidential leadership never lies to them or whatever, if they hear over and over again that this is the new norm, expect unemployment of around 10 or 11%, expect 30-hour work weeks.
People hear this over and over again, and they'll believe it.
You know, people easily believe negatives.
People, it doesn't take much to turn people into pessimists.
In fact, many people most naturally are pessimists.
It takes effort to be an optimist.
And so if you have pessimism, well, it's a combination of pessimism and optimism.
Democrats' version of America is, yeah, the best days are behind us, but you can do okay by voting for us.
So the optimism they present is constant Democrat leadership.
That's the optimum.
That's the alternative to the pessimism of a normal everyday life in America.
And that's just obscene.
It's absurd.
It's insulting.
And it isn't true.
This is still a place on earth where if you really love something, if you really have a passion and you're willing to devote yourself to it, you can score.
You can make a name for yourself.
You can become profoundly successful, however you define it.
It's happening every day.
And instead of that serving to be as a role model for people, we're turning those people that succeed into suspects.
And we're telling people, don't be like that.
Those people are not paying their fair share.
They're stealing from other people.
They're not really earning it.
They have connections or something.
It's being impugned.
Success and accomplishment are targets now.
I mean, it really just burns me up to see this kind of thing.
It's so unnecessary.
And now you see it manifesting itself in these stories about marriage and money and all of this, every bit of it, is political.
This New York Times story is totally political.
It's written with the overall attitude.
How is this going to help or hurt the Democrat Party?
How is this going to help or hurt the war on women?
How is this going to help or hurt Democrat efforts?
I just get tired of it every day.
All that seems to matter.
It's going to help Democrats hurt the Democrats.
Help Obama hurt Obama.
What about the people?
But everything has just become so politically dominant here that it's hard to get through the truth to anything.
Back to the phones we go.
People always patiently waiting.
And this is Jay in Denver.
Jay, thanks for the call.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Thank you, sir.
Longtime listener, first time successful caller.
I wanted to make a couple comments about your book, Rush Revere and the Brave Programs.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
I'm sorry, I'm kind of nervous.
This is the first time I've been able to get a hold of you.
I think I don't want to put down in any way your work as a radio talk show host, but I think with the books, you found your true calling, sir.
Wow.
Wow, that's a really nice thing to say.
And the reason why I say it is because I've been trying for many years to get my children interested in history.
And I read the first book with them, and they loved it.
But then this time, when we went to a store to get a birthday present, a bookstore to get a birthday present for my daughter, I found your second book, and I bought it, and my girl read it in a day.
In a day?
Wow.
And then my little boy, my nine-year-old boy, he sat down and read it in a day also.
And he'd never been a big reader.
And he's reading it right now for the second time.
Now, when you said it first that you sat down and read with them, do you read it to them or they read it themselves and you're just with them reading it all?
Well, the first book I read to them, but this one they read themselves.
And how did you say they are?
9 and 11?
Yes, sir.
9-11.
Well, this is off.
Jay, this is fabulous.
This is kind of speed.
I don't know what to say.
That's a, because I'm the best at radio there is, and you say there's something I'm better at.
I mean, I'm speechless.
Yeah, because I just wanted to say that I think with radio, you touch adult listeners that it's very hard to change their minds, and it's very hard to influence them.
But the way that you're influencing kids and you're counteracting all the junk that they get out in the world, and it's really, I think it's really going to change lives even more than your radio show.
Well, you, again, let me tell you how much I appreciate and why what you're saying.
I know that kids are never going to listen to a talk show like this.
They're not going to be interested in this kind of thing.
It's going to be above them.
And in some cases, parents wouldn't want their kids to.
You never know the subjects are going to be discussed.
And yet I want to reach them.
I wish they did listen.
I wish there was a way a program like this was interesting to kids.
So my wife had the idea.
Catherine had the idea of doing this as a way of expanding the demographic per se, expanding the audience, but actually with a sense of a mission to actually reach young people and tell them the truth of the country's founding in a way that made it enjoyable and exciting to learn about it.
Because you're right, history, to me, it's fascinating, but to a young kid, it's the past and it's this and that.
It's not relevant.
And depending on how it's presented to them, it's very boring.
And so that's what we try to tackle here.
And with your assessment of the success, you're telling me that you're validating the way we went about it.
And I just can't thank you enough.
This is over the top.
Great.
Well, I'm the one that has to thank you.
My girl told me yesterday that she loves history, and that's the first time I've ever heard anything like that from her.
Well, man, that is just, that's just, that's just over.
I tell you what, I want you to hold on, and I want to send you and your kids a bunch of stuff here from the Adventures of Rush Revere collection.
We got a couple Ted T Bears and the audio versions of both books.
And I'll tell you what.
You know what?
Even, I'll tell you what we're going to do here, Jay.
In the event that there is another one, you will be among the first to get a couple copies.
If there is another one.
So, Jay, hang on.
Appreciate it very much.
Tell your kids thanks from all of us as well.
That's just, I don't know, folks, this is, I don't know how to properly thank people.
This doesn't seem like it's enough to say thank you.
And I don't want to go overboard on it, but I want to properly reflect my appreciation for it because it is something that I've never done before.
And it was a challenge, is an ongoing challenge to find ways to write the truth in history in a way that a kid would want to devour it and want even more of it.
So Jay, don't hang up.
Mr. Snerdin will pick up here in just a second.
Sit tight, my friends.
Much more straight ahead here on the fastest three hours in media.
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, we had polling data, survey data from something called the Public Religion Research Institute.
And the data we had yesterday, 73% of Americans think that they don't have a chance to have success as their parents did.
And I think that was the survey in which people said that they had missed out on the chance for success or something.
I forget how it was worded, but I remember my reaction was, where do you go to have the chance for success passed out to you?
Well, there's more.
A new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute shows that 55% of Americans say, this is 55%, say the American dream either never existed in the first place or that it did exist but doesn't anymore.
Now stop and think about that for just a second.
Who's responsible for people believing this?
A, it's a reflection of their reality.
They're living it, number one, but they're also being told this.
But who's responsible for both?
They're living in a hogwash economy.
They're living in an ongoing recession.
There hasn't been any recovery.
Now, the economist might try to tell us that statistically the recession ended in June of 2009, but in the real world, it hasn't ended.
People continue to drop out of the workforce and people continue to drop out of the universe of people trying to find a job.
The number of people not working, the labor force participation rates at all-time high, 93 million Americans and climbing.
Because of Obamacare, again, thank you, Democrat Party, employers are reducing work hours to 30 max so that they don't have to provide coverage.
This was a slam dunk.
You could see this coming the minute you saw that in the Obamacare legislation.
Another one of these unintended consequences.
Democrats write laws and think everybody's just a bunch of sheep and is going to abide by them rather than realizing that clever people are going to find ways around it.
But this is pretty sad, that 55% of the American people say the American Dream never existed.
It was a myth.
Or it did but doesn't anymore.
The concept of the American Dream used to be the defining characteristic of this country.
It used to be the objective, reaching the American Dream.
However people defined it.
It used to be defined as owning a house, which works because that equals a certain degree of economic success and security.
But these kind of attitudes become self-fulfilling.
These kind of attitudes shrouded here in pessimism, negativity, reluctance, sort of giving up.
If it doesn't exist, why pursue it?
If it never did exist, why be a fool and pretend that it did and try to find it now if it didn't exist?
And I maintain to you that there's a political party that benefits from these attitudes.
There's a political party that benefits from people thinking there is no American dream.
They still have to eat.
They still have to have shelter.
So if you've got a political party that's going to blame these attitudes and these economic circumstances on a presidency that hasn't been around for six years, and if you're going to say, yeah, that's right, the prosperous America you've heard about, that was temporary.
That was an aberration.
This is what it should have been all along.
The Reagan years kind of skewed everything in an artificial way, they want you to believe.
The same poll shows that just 42% of Americans cling to the notion of the American dream, which in this poll is loosely defined as people who work hard being able to get ahead.
Think of that.
That's dead.
55% of people think that the concept of working hard and getting ahead doesn't seem to be real anymore.
Now, this number, this 42% of Americans thinking the American Dream still exists, that's the lowest percentage since the question has been asked.
And this poll only goes back to 2010.
So it's not a big shift in just three years because Obama's been around for six.
And this attitude has been inculcated almost from the get-go.
A CNN opinion research poll in June showed 59% of Americans said the American Dream was unachievable.
So it's not just this poll.
There are a bunch of others.
And then, before you conclude, if some of you out there, well, I know why this is just Republicans mad at Obama.
No, it's not.
Republicans, by 55%, are far more likely to believe in the American Dream than Democrats, which come in 33%.
Only 33% of Democrats believe in the American Dream.
Now, stop and think of that, too.
What do they believe?
Who are they loyal to?
What do they listen to and support and vote for?
The drivel that comes out of the mouths of Democrats.
And look what it gets them.
Futility.
Worthlessness.
Depressed.
55% of Republicans are likely to believe, or do likely believe, the American Dream still exists.
I have a soundbite I wanted to play when I had the guy on from Denver who was being very, very nice about the Rush Revere time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans history series.
CBS Today.
Remember the story we had yesterday with the kids protesting at Jefferson County, Colorado?
The school board curriculum changes, didn't want to be taught capitalism?
Well, here we have Stephanie Ross.
Stephanie Ross is a Wheat Ridge Haskrill history teacher from that district on CBS this morning.
If we can't talk about the struggles that people go through in history to gain a greater equality, a greater America, how can we convey a true story and convey a complete picture to our students?
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a history teacher.
This is a history teacher, and she is proud of the fact that her students want to eschew capitalism and instead think that America's greatness is about diversity, and that's what they want to be taught.
Let me ask you a quick question.
Is the story of America the struggle for equality?
Is that what you think the story of America is?
She says here, if we can't talk about the struggles that people go through in history to gain a greater equality, how can we convey a true story and convey a complete picture to our students?
Has that been the story of America?
The story of America, struggle for equality.
What do you think about it?
Is that what our story is?
Is that what the founding of America was about?
The struggle for equality?
Think about it for just a second.
Back after this.
The struggle for America.
The story of America is not the struggle for equality.
That was, for lack of a better word, acknowledged in the Declaration of Independence.
And the Constitution, in its own ways, dealt with the premise in several of the Bill of Rights.
The story of America is the struggle for freedom, ladies and gentlemen.
Not equality.
Not fairness.
Not diversity.
Not all of these things that modern liberal high school and middle school teachers think are important.
America is diverse in more ways than most other countries could be trying to be.
There already is more equality in premise alone in this country than most human beings have ever known.
The story of America is the struggle of freedom from a controlling, dictatorial, statist, tyrannical central government or power.
That is the story of this country.
That is the story that sets this country apart from every other country.
The struggle for equality is a subset, if anything, to the principle of freedom.
There can be no equality, and there can be no diversity, and there can be no fairness unless there is freedom.
Freedom is what this country was all about.
Freedom for average, ordinary, common, everyday people.
Common, ordinary, everyday people were the stars in this country.
Not the leaders, not the elected officials.
This country was founded on the premise that all men are created equal.
Certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
That's all in the Declaration of Independence.
Why were we separating from the tyranny of Britain?
Freedom.
Because it was assumed, it was proclaimed that freedom is instilled in every human being by virtue of creation by God.
And that it is man, Men, women, whoever, who attempt to deny that freedom from average, ordinary, everyday, call them whatever you want, people.
And the founders had had enough of it.
They had studied immensely the history of the world up to their point in time.
They had found the horror stories and what they thought were the recipes.
And that became the United States of America.
For the first time in the history of the world, and this is the true American exceptionalism.
For the first time in the history of the world, a country was founded on the premise that its people run the show and that its government is subservient to the people.
That the people are governed and lead lives according to the natural born freedom they had.
The reason why it's a struggle is because up until that time and since that time in other parts of the world, the history of humanity has been tyranny.
The history of humanity has been bondage in some cases, torture, tyranny, no economic freedom.
The history of the world has been the subjugation, the subordination of individuals to government, dictatorial control.
That's the story of America.
But apparently, out in Denver, Colorado, I'm sure other places, young hip liberal teachers are inculcating young skulls full of mush.
But the idea that this country is flawed, this country denies equality to people and freedom and fairness and what have you.
Because that's what they've been taught when they went to college to learn how to be teachers.
And that bogus premise of the purpose of this country and the history of this country has just been recycled over and over again, generation after generation, to now where it is the dominant view in American education.
Hence, my friends, this is why the idea of writing these books was so appealing to me to try to get the truth, the simple, honest truth.
It's a great, great story.
It's a spine-tingling story.
Even today, in 2014, the concept of individual human freedom is still a rarity.
It's why this is the one place on the planet when people want to go somewhere, it's here.
And it's for that reason they're not trying to cheat customs, ICE, they're not trying to cross borders here for equality.
And they're not trying to get here because they want to be part of a great experiment on diversity.
They want to get here because they want to be free, especially those coming from places where it has never existed.
I know, I know, others are coming here to get in on the benefits.
I acknowledge that.
But I'm talking about the purists, the people, and they say we're a nation of immigrants, and we are.
The genuine period of immigration, which did build this country, that's why they came.
And that's been the story.
Everything else that these teachers struggle, we can't, what did she say?
If we can't talk about the struggles that people go through in history to gain a greater equality, Braveheart was he trying to equality?
Is that what he's after?
I don't think so.
That came later.
You can't have equality or fairness or diversity or complete picture like you know unless you first have a giant umbrella under which everybody is free.
And then you can go about playing around making messes with what it all means.
Man, oh man, I can't.
We got two hours already in the can.
He really is the fastest three hours in media.
There's a new poll from the Heritage Foundation: American support for same-sex marriage declining.
I wonder why.
Well, if it says, we'll find out together.
We'll explore this and still other kinds of stuff, all kinds of other stuff coming up, my friends.
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