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Sept. 29, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 29, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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You know, I meant to mention this way back last hour when the program started, and it slipped my mind because I always have to set the levels the first thing out of the box here, because before the program starts, we set them, and they never work once the live broadcast begins.
I meant to address something.
I had more feedback on Friday's Open Line Friday show than I've had about an Open Line Friday show and I can remember.
And I must be honest with you, at the end of Friday's Open Line Friday, it was cool.
There were a lot of great, what I call Open Line Friday calls that had nothing to do with issues, nothing to do with politics and all that.
And that's what the purpose of Open Line Friday is.
I don't specifically say that because really you can talk about whatever you want, but the purpose of it is to venture away from, if you're interested.
And on Friday, we had all these questions about things and comments that had nothing to do with the, quote, big issues of the day.
So I answered them.
And I can't tell you how many people told me they thought it was one of the greatest shows ever.
Now, that makes you stop and think, folks.
A program that had minimal political content was said to me to be one of the most enjoyable they had ever heard.
And don't misunderstand.
I am not weak of ego.
So that didn't, that did not hurt my feelings.
And I understand, understood exactly the tone that was intended when it was a compliment.
Nobody was making derogatory comments about the rest of the program.
And it was a nice change of pace.
So I just wanted to mention this because so many people, and I don't mean emails from the audience.
I mean people that I just interact with on a daily basis that never tell me a thing about the program.
You know, my friends, they just accept it.
It's what I do.
Likewise, I don't tell them how I thought they did their job every day.
You know, just it never gets discussed.
But this one did.
And it was, so I went back and I had to kind of review why.
And there were questions about the new little kitten and, I don't know, some other things that were that were, what would you call it, personal or personable?
Well, that's, you know, that's right.
It's not to say that issues were not present, but for example, the first call, and I don't want to embarrass the guy.
I really don't want to.
But the first call was a classic example of making chicken salad out of.
He had some, I was my hearing.
I think I could not really understand what he was saying, but he was trying to make a point about taxes.
And he was, what he was saying, I thought he was wrong.
So it allowed me to make a point about Reaganomics that I haven't made in years in a way that people haven't heard in a while.
That's true.
That's one of the comments I got.
Oh, I've never heard taxes explained that way before.
Of course, well, I've been here 25 years and that must have been the 13,000th time that I have explained it.
Anyway, it's all fascinating to me because I take all this stuff in and analyze it.
But I wanted to mention it to you because I had so much feedback on it.
And it was an enjoyable program for me.
That's the point of Open Line Friday.
But I want to just take a moment to thank everybody who offered the upbeat comments on it.
Now, back to Bill Clinton for just before I'm going to use this to segue into this story about the faculty at George Washington University all of a sudden being hit by Obamacare and they're shocked.
And this is classic.
It's just, I mean, here you had big donors, big supporters, the elite, right?
University professors.
And they're the ones out there telling their students, poisoning them with propaganda and all that, singing the praises of Obama and socialism.
And here comes Obamacare and they hate it and they don't like it and it's very harmful.
And they're not blaming Obama.
They're blaming university.
But in a matter of getting there, I want to go back to Bill Clinton, who said last week at the Clinton Global Initiative that he knows why U.S. incomes are stagnant.
It basically said tight labor markets and we haven't raised the minimum wage enough.
Now, the truth is, in this country, I don't, if you're serious and if you're going to be honest, how you can talk about wages not going up and not mention Obamacare is to me quite revealing.
Look at what's happening because of Obamacare.
People's work hours are being cut back, in some cases significantly, to 30 hours a week.
The most recent jobs report indicated that almost 80% of the new jobs reported in that month were part-time.
And this is because employers do not have to offer coverage and spend a lot of money on it for part-time workers.
Part-time is defined as 30 hours or less.
So they're cutting full-timers back to 30 hours.
The new hires are no more than 30 hours.
They're not getting Obamacare.
They then have to go to the exchange to get it, which they're going to pay through the nose for.
Look at what's happening with health care costs in general.
And Obama lies.
If you like your doctor, you keep it.
If you like your plan, you keep it.
Your premium is going to come down $2,500.
Basically, you had people, some people thinking it was going to be free.
Now it's taking a bigger chunk out of their income than they were ever told, a bigger chunk than they ever planned on, and they're having their hours cut at the same time.
And Clinton talks about the minimum wage as one of the reasons incomes are stagnant.
Now, granted, Obamacare is related to incomes in the sense that it cuts hours.
And if your hours are cut, how much you're going to earn is cut.
Now, Obamacare itself may not directly impact salaries or how much per hour people earn, but it is impacting how much people work.
And in that way, it is limiting how much people can earn.
And I don't know how you leave Obamacare out of the equation.
Well, I know how they do it.
It's political.
They leave it out.
But I mean, in being truthful, if you want to talk about stagnant incomes, if you want to talk about stagnant economic growth, even though Obama says we've got something coming up, economy is growing, you just don't feel it.
I mean, that's pretty bold.
That's quite a big one to pull off.
We had a report last week, 20% of those laid off five years ago.
3 million people still out of work.
20% of people laid off five years ago are still out of work.
That totals 3 million people.
Most of those who have gotten jobs are not making as much as they were five years ago.
And mostly because so many of them had to take part-time jobs.
And all of this is because of Obamacare.
So Obamacare is one of the biggest obstacles to increased wages, increased economic growth, and the accrual creation of wealth that there is.
But it's another thing, folks.
I mean, the overall fact, Obamacare is just a symptom.
Obamacare is just an example.
It is like I said so succinctly on Friday, the pie where everybody works, the pie that everyone wants a piece of, the American dream, that pie used to be something that was elastic and over the course of the years since this country was founded, always grew.
Might have had down years where it shrunk, but it was always growing.
And the percentage of that pie that was government was around 15 to 18 percent.
Since Obama, the percentage of that pie, that is government, it's now over 20, 22 percent and growing.
Now, more government takes out of that pie, the less of that pie there is for everybody else.
The private sector, which is kind of an esoteric term, the economy is the best real way to convey the economy is shrinking because the government is taking so much of it.
The government just nationalized one-sixth of the economy with Obamacare.
Government now runs it.
It's not in the quote-unquote economy or the private sector.
And more and more of it's being taken from the private sector every year.
Unless you find a way as an individual to get cozy with some government figure and yourself begin to practice crony capitalism or crony socialism, you are dealing with a very small pie that's getting smaller that you're trying to get your piece of.
And in that circumstance, the average wage and median income is going to grow.
There are going to be some people do great, but not as many as in the past.
And so people's pieces of the pie are going to shrink as the pie shrinks.
This is just, this is simple mathematics.
And it's also a great way to visualize the difference in liberalism, socialism, and capitalism.
Capitalism believes that the government sector ought to be as minimal as you can make it.
Defense, genuine safety net spending for people who literally really can't help themselves, infrastructure, after that, gone.
And the rest of it is the private sector, and that's what makes the country hum.
Government doesn't produce anything.
It only destroys wealth and moves it around, but it does not create it.
And the more that pie government takes, the less that pie is, smaller it is.
And therefore, you've got the same number of people, i.e. at work, fighting over their piece of that pie.
You couple that with the fact that the left has co-opted the education system in this country and created among people an entitlement mentality that says, I'm American, I should get X, not teaching the work ethic or impugning it.
It all adds up and there's all kinds of logical, sensible reasons why median income isn't isn't rising, the economy isn't growing and, in fact, the place where the economy functions is contracting and shrinking as government takes more and more of it.
And this crony capitalism business, that stuff's been around for a while.
It's nothing new, but it's never been this big and the the best way to illustrate it is as we did about a month or two ago.
Here you have Walmart as an example.
Costco would fit as well.
Here you have Walmart.
Always been assumed that businesses, large and small, would want as little government messing with the way they do business as possible.
As few regulations, as few monitoring, just get it out of there and let us compete and fight for customers the best way we know how.
Better products, better services, creative advertising, marketing, whatever.
That's now going out the window.
And instead, what businesses have realized, if they cozy up, CEO cozies up to Obama and has a close relationship, then the government can take over taking the competition out.
For example, in the old days, in the normal ebb and flow of things, there is no way any major U.S. corporation would eagerly sign on and support something like Obamacare.
However, if doing so, if a single corporation can say, support Obama or support raising the minimum wage, which is also against their best interest, they've come out and support it, then knowing full well their competitors can't afford it, then that puts their competitor out of business.
And the Walmarts or Costco's, and I'm just using them as examples, haven't had to do anything competitive to beat the competition.
They let the government take care of it with policy.
And that's crony socialism or capitalism, and that's not healthy either.
General Electric, you know, what business do they have taking $700 billion grants for green energy from the government?
They don't need it.
They can use their own money.
But they sidle up.
They make a deal with Obama, and their competitors don't have that close relationship and don't have the same access to benefits.
And so that's the way it works.
That's something that's relatively new in how frequent that it's occurred.
But all of it adds up to a reduction in the so-called free market concept and free market, the flowing in and out of the basic free market is being interrupted and affected by artificial input from the government, benefiting people that sidle up to the administration versus those who can't.
And most of us can't.
We're not corporations, and there's not an individual among us that Obama really can benefit from having unless it's some Hollywood actor or what have you.
But it really isn't complicated to explain why median income is falling.
The complicated part is convincing people to support changing the modern day arrangement that government has with the economy.
Government's just taking too much of it.
It's growing too big.
It doesn't produce anything.
And the pie where everybody's competing for their peace is shrinking.
It's that simple.
And until government, until we elect somebody that's going to purposely reduce government's role in the private sector and downsize the government, get it out of people's way, we're not going to have median income rising, and we're not going to have the middle class growing.
It's that simple.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back much more right after this again.
As always, don't go away.
We are back.
Rushlin Baum meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
No mean feat that.
Here's Pam in Homer, Alaska as we head back to the phones.
Thank you for calling.
Great to have you here, Pam.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm so excited to talk to you.
I've got so many questions for you, but I'm going to.
Well, fire away.
I love answering questions.
I absolutely adore, and there's nobody better you could ask.
So this is going to work well.
I want to bypass my questions for a second because I think there's something more important I want to tell you, and it's a little insight into my generation and the generation that's coming up behind me.
How old are you?
What generation?
Are you a millennial?
Yeah, I think I'm kind of like right in between there.
I'm 33.
Yeah, you're close enough to a millennial.
We'll call you a millennial.
Well, this is a, I can sum up the problem in one word, and it explains literally everything from the Occupy Wall Street movement to why somebody's approval ratings can be as low as our presidents are and people will still continue to vote toward the liberal side of things.
It's a worldview that has been deeply and systematically ingrained into my generation since the day of Saturday morning cartoons, and it's called victimology.
There are people who are born inherently victims of society and people who are born inherently oppressors.
And our job is to throw a wrench in that system and even out the playing field by the way that we vote, by the way that we live, by the way that we spend our money.
My generation will consistently try to buy back their own redemption by doing things that are to their own detriment.
They will vote for liberals even when they feel the terrible place that that puts them in.
They will consistently, even when it comes to little stuff, they will bypass a $1 Hershey bar to buy a $5 fair trade chocolate bar wrapped in recycled paper that's organic because it's our redemption to do that.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, your redemption from what?
I mean, I think I know, but I want to hear you say it.
Redemption from what?
What do you need redemption from?
From being oppressors.
I'm white, and I'm born in America.
And regardless of my experience or my feelings or my beliefs, that makes me somebody who would oppress other people in it or anyone else.
And the thing is that the media's role is to help us understand who the oppressor and who the victim is in any given situation.
So you take a case like the Trayvon Martin case, where it gets a little bit dicey because you have a black kid and a Hispanic man, and they help us understand who the victim and who the oppressor is by calling him a white Hispanic.
Right.
Exactly right.
The Occupy Wall Street movement, Rush, that was white middle-class America trying to gain victim status for themselves because it's hard to live under the weight of being called the oppressors of society like that.
But it's so deeply ingrained that people truly believe that.
The only people I know who consistently throw around terms like white privilege are my white friends.
They really truly believe that they are the absolute worst of society.
I have no doubt.
But I've only got 10 seconds here, so I need you to hang on through the break.
You're at the bottom of the hour for my upcoming interrogation.
Okay.
Can you hang on?
Yeah, yeah.
This is Pam and Homer, Alaska.
It's 33, and we'll be back.
As usual, my friends, El Rushbo here, utilizing talent on loan from God.
And we go back to Homer, Alaska.
This is Pam.
Look, I understand exactly what you're saying.
Your generation, and you're, by the way, you almost be considered Gen X.
I mean, you're a little older than most millennials, but you're close enough that you might be able to get it.
Yeah, I'm kind of in between.
Yeah, you kind of crossover, depending on what day, however you want to feel about yourself.
But the whole notion of victimology, I totally get it.
The whole notion of redemption, I think this is how the global warming movement has created so many guilty people.
You are destroying the planet.
Your very existence is destroying the planet, but you can redeem yourself if you do X, Y, and Z.
Now, but who's teaching these kids this stuff?
I mean, you say it's the media, but you have a kid that's born and goes to school.
How does a white kid start all of a sudden believing that he's a natural-born oppressor just because he's white?
Who's inculcating these kids with this stuff?
Well, I think it depends on where you grow up.
And specifically myself, I grew up in a suburb of Detroit and went to a school where I was the minority.
There were only a handful of white kids in my school.
And so I got fed it all the time in the literature that we were reading for school and just information.
What about granted, education?
But what about your parents?
Did your parents teach you that you were in need of redemption, that you were an oppressor?
Or did your parents teach you alternately that you are a victim and that people owe you something?
No, but I think that that's something that it's kind of a weird situation.
I feel like our generation picked that up and it was kind of their rebellion against their parents to believe that about themselves.
You know, their parents were the reason for the problem.
And it's, you know, we're the ones that are the enlightened generation.
We know this about ourselves.
And we're going to do something about it.
You know, maybe that sounds kind of weird, but my parents.
No, no, it's total sense.
Mommy, mommy, why are you and daddy driving that car?
You're killing the polar bears.
Don't you know?
I get it.
I get it.
Exactly.
I watched Captain Planet when I was a kid.
I didn't know that.
Captain Planet, it was one of the first assaults on young kids to make them think their parents and the adults were destroying the planet.
Of course, there's also another aspect to it.
I often say, everybody alive wants their life to mean something, especially to themselves.
Everybody wants meaning.
You can hear it expressed in all kinds of different ways.
But the best way to recognize somebody who's in need of a little self-esteem, despite how much it's taught, I want to make a difference.
All right.
When you hear that, then you know you're listening to somebody who is not really all that pleased with themselves, some sort of guilt trip that they're on, or that their life has no meaning.
And those people are ripe for others to come along.
Well, you're a natural victim or you are oppressor.
You're destroying the planet or your whatever it is.
It's easy.
I mean, how much more meaning can your life have than to save the planet?
I mean, my God, you can't get any more important and meaningful than that.
So it's very seductive.
So if it's not happening in homes, it's happening in schools, which is not a surprise.
I saw a piece, you know, I wish I'd kept this, and I may have.
It may be back on the desk at the Southern Command in Florida.
There was a story from an obscure website, Pam.
It was about a college student, a guy, and it was the most incredible thing.
He was going on and on and on about the guilt he felt due to his whiteness.
But the way he expressed it was close.
It was bordering on insanity.
And it was clear that this kid had been guilt-tripped like you cannot believe.
He is exactly the thing that you're talking about here.
And he was writing this for redemption in part, but also he was trying to spread the word and explain his guilt and to get everybody to join him in understanding how their whiteness was one of the greatest threats to the future of the world.
And you have to be really conscious of your whiteness and you have to keep your whiteness in check.
And he wished he could change it.
Now, this is something nobody is going to naturally feel anything like that.
That has to be taught.
It has to be programmed and inculcated.
And I think, you know, you're right.
All these things are very seductive.
Well, and I think if we're going to talk about trying to win back the country through elections and stuff, this is the kind of stuff that needs to be undermined and picked apart.
I reject the premise of that worldview.
I'm not a born oppressor.
I did not have all sorts of privilege due to my skin color growing up.
I just didn't.
I had to pay my own way through college.
My parents couldn't help me with that.
I worked 60 hours a week in the summer.
You know, I mean, my own experience tells me otherwise.
And I just don't understand why so many people just buy it, hook, line, and sinker.
This is who I am, and this is what I have to do as a result of it.
But if we're going to start winning back the country, we have to attack this.
It's not just facts.
It's not all that stuff that's going to do it.
How would you do it?
Honestly, I don't even, I don't even, I just point it out to people when I see it because I have those friends that would say those kinds of things like, I wish I wasn't white, you know, I, and I'm as practiced as I can.
The bottom line with all of this is that for all these characteristics that you're talking about, either being, feeling like a born oppressor or victim, you have to be taught to hate yourself.
You have to be taught in order to think yourself guilty.
You have to be taught in order to think of yourself as an oppressor simply because of your skin color.
You have to be taught all these things.
These are not, this is why it's so hard to combat.
It's not rational.
And fighting it rationally doesn't seem to accomplish anything because the positions these kids you're talking about hold, the things they believe, is entirely irrational, except to them.
To them, it makes perfect sense.
It explains everything.
It explains their unhappiness.
It explains why they're miserable.
It explains why they don't have a future.
And it gives them meaning in life to shake off these things that they were born with.
And more importantly, the way they're taught, they had nothing to do with it.
They were born oppressors.
They were born victims.
They're just minding their own business.
And all of a sudden, they were converted into these.
It's not something that they took active roles in becoming.
So they're not guilty of any of it, truly.
It all adds up to whether oppressors or victims, they all end up being victims of something.
And sadly, they think they're victims of an unjust, immoral country.
Yeah.
Well, and that's exactly it.
That's why I wanted to bypass my own questions, to throw that out at you, because if anybody has a voice in our country, it's you.
I've been listening to you for so long, and I feel like somebody could attack this.
It's got to be you.
I don't know how to do it aside just in my little circle of influence, but people don't want to hear it.
I'm thinking as I speak to you, what I would do, let's say, hypothetical, let's say I had a kid, say I had a child, and one day the kid comes home and starts hitting me with all dad, you know what?
We're nothing but oppressors.
And oh, we've oppressed people and we hold people back and we have murdered people and we've committed genocide.
Okay, I'm hearing this.
My kid comes home school thinking, how would I go about it?
That's what I'm thinking about here as you explain all this.
And of course, I have a lot of confidence.
I think I could straighten a kid out like that inside of a week if I had access to him.
Yeah.
But I could be wrong.
It's deeply embedded in these kids, I know.
Well, and it was on purpose.
It's systematic, too.
It was very purposeful that that's our worldview.
The people who got a hold of the education system and the media deliberately set out to do that.
Right.
And for what purpose, do you think?
Well, I mean, look at our country now.
You said, I remember clearly, this is what kind of turned the light on for me.
You said during the reelection of Barack Obama, you said no president has ever had poll numbers as low as his and gotten reelected.
And I remember feeling so hopeful because of that, that we were going to get rid of this guy.
And then he got re-elected.
And I was thinking to myself, why?
Why would people continue to vote for somebody that they don't even approve of?
And it's because it's some sort of success that we would nominate somebody with his skin color when our world is the way that it is from their standpoint.
That's exactly right.
Voting gives you a way to say you're a good person.
Look what I did.
I'm a good person.
I was not racist.
I canceled out my oppressive nature and I did the right thing and all that stuff.
To my own detriment.
I fell on my own.
You know what the real root of this is, Pam?
If we had somebody that was 110 years old alive, 115 years old listening to this, you know what they would say?
What?
They would be totally confused.
And they would say, when did people start to have so much time to do nothing but think about themselves?
That's what they would want.
They would say, we never had time to be this introspective.
We had work to do.
We had things to accomplish.
We had families to feed.
We had wars to fight.
There were enemies trying to end the country.
We didn't have time to get into our feelings all the damn day.
When did that start?
And I'm telling you, that's a relevant aspect of this, too.
People have so much for you.
92 million Americans not working.
And we know that most people are self-focused.
You know, one of the things I have trouble explaining this.
I have trouble expressing this.
But let me give it another stab.
Everybody is so worried, and this is natural, about what other people think of them.
What they forget is that everybody else is also worried about what everybody thinks of them, that nobody's really thinking about anybody but themselves.
That's all, particularly the younger you get, the more introspective people, and that's being advised and all this self-analysis.
And we start teaching self-esteem as an actual course or subject in school and so forth.
And so your feelings and how you feel about yourself in normal time, people don't have time for this.
There are too many other things that you have to do that you don't stop.
People don't have the time.
I don't know.
But it's a great point that you're making.
And the real trick in fighting it is coming up with ways of getting through to these kids because it'sn't rational.
And talking sanely to insane people never works.
Talking rationally to irrational people is a difficult thing to do, too.
But look, I appreciate the call.
It's very nice of you, and I appreciate the time.
We got a quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue right after this far.
Don't go away.
Yeah, I know.
I'm sitting here thinking about the walkout we had at Denver school system last week where the kids did not want to be taught about free market economics.
They didn't want to be taught about freedom.
They didn't want to be taught about the founding of the country.
They didn't want to be taught about any capitalism.
Capitalism was the enemy.
They didn't want a curriculum.
Now, we have learned, by the way, that a lot of that was the result of the NEA, the teachers' union, using the students to walk out so that the teachers could get a raise and avoid merit-based pay structures.
There was that.
But I think it was legit that these has-ruel students were objecting to being taught capitalism because they've had a lifetime of being taught how it is the evil.
You talk about oppressors?
Capitalist oppressors.
You know the story.
You know how it goes.
We've run around the world and we have not liberated people.
We've forced our way on them.
And then we've stolen their stuff.
And that's why we're the biggest superpower.
And the root of all this is the education system being taken over by people that don't like this country.
It's really no more complicated than that.
And trying to spread that and create as many little mind-numb robots walking around believing that as they can.
Now, the faculty, George Washington University, made substantial contributions to Obama when he was running for office.
And they're about to contribute heavily towards their own medical care now that Obamacare is the law of the land.
The student newspaper at GWU is called a GW Hatchet.
It reports that the universities traded in a more expensive employee health care plan to avoid paying nearly $1 million in additional taxes.
The article noted that George Washington University will offer a cheaper plan to ease faculty concerns about rising costs.
The new plan offered by the university is a high-deductible plan, meaning it'll help cut down how much you pay out of pocket.
University's vice president for human resources, Sabrina Ellis, told the faculty senate that the Affordable Care Act's Cadillac tax will start in 2018 and force the university to pay almost a million dollars due to their high-end plans.
So they're going to get rid of these Cadillac, the faculty is going to lose the Cadillac plan access that they had.
And they're going to have to go out and either pick up the slack themselves, pay more money, or a great suggestion.
If I could help here to you, George Washington University faculty, every damn one of you who helped in your own small way getting Obamacare passed because you helped the author get elected.
And now all of a sudden, you don't like it.
But rather than blame Obama, they're blaming the university for being a bunch of tight wads.
Oh, yes, they are.
See, it's not Obama's project.
He's a great guy.
He had his great healthcare.
The university's a bunch of tight wads because they won't fork over what it would cost to provide Cadillac health plans for all the faculty.
It's not affordable for anybody when you get right down to it.
So maybe there's an alternative that the faculty could do, a different approach.
Maybe you people at the faculty, maybe you could log on to healthcare.gov, or maybe you could go to an exchange like the rest of everybody else has to do and find out what it's really like.
You think your university's the bad guy?
This is classic.
It is literally classic here.
The people that supported this and thought it was the greatest thing in the world and helped make it happen now don't like it and don't and are blaming everybody but themselves and the author Obama for the mess that the whole thing has become.
It's the fastest three hours in media for a reason.
Two of the three hours are already in the can.
I can't believe it.
The first day out here usually drags on because all kinds of stuff goes wrong.
It hasn't happened today.
So we're just chugging ahead, folks.
Be right back.
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