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Dec. 1, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 1, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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Of course I would.
The only person who could say that's Charles Barclay.
But I can't say it.
I just had an idea here for the new, I just saw a headline.
Obama's looking for New Secretary of Defense, and I got a name.
A name came right to mind.
And I asked the constantly fearful staff, you think I should mention it?
Snurley said, Yeah, yes.
It's a great idea.
Go for it.
H.R. said, you better not.
And uh the only person I think that could make the suggestion would be Charles Barclay.
Anyway, folks, greetings and uh and and welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh at the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Hear what Mitt Romney said.
Did you hear this?
Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential nominee in 2012 believes that Republicans should go ahead and swallow hard.
Did you hear about this?
And pass a permanent amnesty bill.
Uh in the wake of President Obama's executive amnesty.
Romney's solution is for Congress to pass a permanent clarification of our immigration law so that people know where they stand.
Because Obama's executive amnesty is only temporary.
It's not good enough.
We need to go all the way.
We need to go all in.
And we need to provide amnesty for everybody, not just a chump change five million.
We need to go all the way in, and we need the Republican Party to get the credit for this.
Romney said he was pretty confident that what the president's doing will so inflame passions on the part of many in the Republican Party, that they'll be far less likely to move aggressively on the type of permanent reform that's so badly needed.
He said he hoped the Republican Party could work on some piecemeal solutions on immigration to get the ball rolling so that we eventually get to full-fledged comprehensive immigration reform.
He said that Romney said, maybe even then Republicans will swallow hard and say, okay, even despite the fact that we now have a stick in our eye launched by the president, we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna try and see if we can't make some improvements to the immigration system.
I hope we're able to do that.
You know, I don't I don't I don't mind this swallow hard business.
Uh but how about enforcing the laws that are already on the books?
You know, there's there's some some comprehensive immigration reform just waiting to happen.
And it doesn't require a new law.
Is simply enforce the law that we already have on the books.
What's so angry about what's so hard about that?
Uh well have to deport people?
Maybe, but it secured the border first and then talk about that.
Uh the the the thing about the thing about about immigration law that most people are upset about, not being enforced is border security.
That's what most people are concerned about.
Do that.
Do you realize that in this country from I uh I'm gonna have to ballpark the years, but it's pretty close to 1928 through 19 what, 64, there wasn't any immigration in this country?
We shut it down.
Are you aware of that, folks?
We were able to do that.
How in the world were we able to do?
We shut down.
There wasn't any legal immigration for 40 or 50 years.
And the reason for it made total sense.
We had to assimilate that wave of immigrants that came in the late 1800s all through 1920, 24.
The Ellis Island period.
We had to assimilate them.
And there wasn't any immigration for 30 or 40, maybe 50 years.
I don't think people are aware of this.
A, proving that we can do it.
Uh And there might have been some scattered deportations that people didn't qualify, but it wasn't mass.
But we've got existing immigration law on the book.
It's just it's you know about comprehensive.
How about comprehensive simple?
Simply enforce what's there.
Anyway, that's not what the Republicans want to do.
The Republicans, I uh there's no mystery about this.
They are convinced that they've got to do this for the eventual support of the Hispanic community.
I guess they have no other alternative.
That's going to be their position.
Comprehensive.
And now Romney's coming out and say, yeah, we should do it, and we should beat Obama to the punch, head him off at the pass, and do the whole thing all at once.
Back to Obamacare.
California may expand health care coverage for immigrants.
Yes, this is from an associated press that's so happy.
You can you can just hear the cheering as you read the story.
President Barack Obama's executive order to spare some immigrants from deportation as galvanized Democrats and immigration groups and health care advocates in California to make a move for expanding health coverage to a segment of the population that remains uninsured.
The president's action excludes immigrants who came to the country illegally from qualifying for federal health benefits.
So the state of California wants to pick up the slack until some kind-hearted liberal judge overturns Obama's executive amnesty and says, you can't bring them in here, and you can't let them stay and not give them health care, which the Democrats are counting on.
And they're also counting on shortly after that.
What do you mean?
You're granting them amnesty?
You're not going to deport them so they can stay, they're fine, but you're not going to let them vote.
Why, that's cruel.
So it won't be long before they're all in Obamacare and registered to vote.
I wouldn't be surprised if it happens in less than two years.
Before Obama's gone.
Now, AP doesn't mention this, but California's not the only state doing this.
But in California, California has its own policy providing health coverage with state money to low-income immigrants with so-called deferred action that allows them to avoid deportation.
Immigrant and health care advocates say that means Obama's executive order will enable hundreds of thousands of low-income immigrants in California to apply for Medi-Cal, which is California's version of Medicaid.
Medi-Cal is a health program for the poor paid for by the federal government and the state.
It has grown by about three million people in California under federal health care reform.
You like that?
We reform it and it grows.
Yes.
Now covers more than 11 million Californians, 30% of the state's population.
30% of the state's population, and by the way, there's a story on Drudge that more and more people in America are going without any health insurance at all.
They're allowing theirs to drop, and they're not because they can't afford it even with Obamacare.
More and more people dropping health insurance because they can't.
Now that's not what was supposed to happen.
Remember, premiums are going to come down $2,500.
You're going to be able to keep the plan you like.
You are going to be able to keep the doctor you liked.
What is this?
People dropping health care coverage because they can't afford it.
It was supposed to be just the exact opposite.
And ladies and gentlemen, by the way, thank you to Mark Stein for sitting in on Friday.
I'm told that Mark brought this subject up.
I don't know to what extent he discussed it, but there is a an economics professor at UC Davis.
I used to know an economics professor at UC Davis.
Dr. Larry Berman, a friend of mine.
Met him with Dr. Hazlet, Professor Hazlitt, who's not Clemson, by the way.
Anyway, this professor is Gregory Clark, and he says there is no American dream.
It's a myth.
It doesn't exist.
And he is sharing his research as a hard truth with no hope.
Whether or not you can get ahead in America is as predictable as any formula.
It has nothing to do with any American dream business.
In fact, he says the formulas for social mobility in the U.S. show that it's nothing to dream about.
America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England or pre-industrial Sweden.
That's the most difficult part of talking about social mobility is because it's shattering people's dreams.
There's no such thing as the American dream.
You get ahead in this country like you have every other country.
Who you know, who you uh who you know, and what your connections are.
He this got no no, no, no, not exceptional, not special.
He crunched the numbers uh from the past 100 years in his data.
Show that so-called American dream where hard work leads to more opportunity.
That's what he's disputing.
That by I should have done that.
He's defining the American dream as hard work equals uh more opportunity, bigger payoff, uh more successful life.
He said hard work leading to more opportunities is an illusion in the U.S. And that social mobility here is no different than in the rest of the world.
The status of your children, the status of your grandchildren, the status of your great-grandchildren, the status of your great-great-grandchildren will be quite closely related to your average status now.
We have a couple of audio sound bites from Dr. Clark.
This on KOVR TV, eyeball 13 news in Sacramento, which is near UC Davis.
And here is Gregory Clark saying this is what he's saying about his study that shows there is no American dream.
America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England.
That's the most uh difficult part about talking about social mobility is because it it is shattering people's dream.
The status of your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren, your great-great-grandchildren is going to be quite closely related to your average status now.
So if you're a nobody now, your kids are gonna be.
Just quit.
If you're a nobody, if you don't have any social status now, forget it.
Your kids, your grandkids, and your great-grandkids aren't gonna there may be exceptions here or there, but it's not because of any American dream.
It's not it's not because of any notion that hard work pays off here more than anywhere else.
The data don't support it.
You will become what you're born into.
I guess this is why so many people want to come here.
Why do so many people want to come here if this doesn't exist?
Um he was he was then asked a uh he was on Fox and Friends uh this morning, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, uh, said, Why are you crushing our mood here, saying the American dream is dead?
Well, I mean, why are you doing this, Dr. Clark?
I'm just reporting the facts that are revealed by uh history and by examining what happens in America relative to other countries.
If you look at the population as a whole, we see tremendous continuity generation after generation in people's status.
And so you'll see the Latino population of the United States is poor now, and it's predicted predictable that it'll be poor 200 years from now.
If you look at the black population, again, you see tremendous continuity in staying at the bottom of society.
Even groups as as obscure as people with French surnames in the United States constitute an underclass and have remained at the bottom of the social distribution for the last uh hundred years or more.
This is easy to explain.
Let me explain this to you, folks.
Let's and I'll I'll take, I'll accept his premise.
No, wait, I'll accept his premise.
And it and but this is what he should have said.
If you look at the population as a whole, we see tremendous continuity, generation after generation in people's status.
And so you'll see Latino population in the U.S. is poor now, and it's predicted, predictable.
It'll be poor 200 years from now.
What's the common denominator?
They vote Democrat.
They're Democrats.
They vote Democrat.
It's preordained you're gonna stay poor.
It's preordained the government's gonna be your primary source of whatever you have.
If you look at the black population again, you see tremendous continuity in staying at the bottom of the science.
Who are they voting for?
Who are they supporting?
The Democrat Party.
This guy's describing the Democrat Party's permanent underclass, and what he's doing is ripping the American dream apart.
He's got it back asswards.
The Democrat Party destroys the American dream for most of its voters.
Not all, of course, because the Democrat Party is the richest party in the country now.
Hollywood, music, entertainment, Wall Street, and all that, but look at what they do to their average ordinary American citizen voters.
They are stuck in a static status, if you will.
They're constantly angry.
They are made to be victims.
They're always thinking the country and the world are aligned against them.
They have been told by the Democrat Party the deck is stacked against them and they don't have a prayer.
They don't have a chance.
As long as people keep voting Democrat, this guy's gonna be right.
There is no American dream for him.
And back to the phones.
We go on the EIB net.
Rush Limbaugh.
I've been doing this for a long time.
This is Sabin in Kansas City, Kansas.
Am I pronouncing it right, Saban?
Yes, sir, you are.
Thank you.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Yes, Russ.
Uh cyber money did it, to you.
Thank you.
And uh I get to the point is uh back during the uh last campaign or the presidential campaign.
I remember uh Barack Obama was uh berating some of the companies or supposedly companies that were sending jobs overseas, giving them to foreign workers.
I remember this, yes.
And just this last weekend I heard that now they want to give a tax credit to those companies who actually bring in illegal workers.
So I just wanted your take on this insanity of the city.
You know that the No that's that's that's a good catch.
That is an that came up over the Thanksgiving break.
That's exactly that's exactly Obama does want to have businesses get a tax break for hiring illegals.
That's exactly right.
It's exactly what he is offered, while at the same time during the campaign ripping these same businesses for outsourcing and taking jobs overseas.
In either case, American citizens are on the outs with uh with with Obama.
That's a that's a that's a good catch.
And it just illustrates that all of this, not there's nothing humanitarian about this.
There's nothing compassionate about this.
This is all full-fledged 100% politics.
By the way, Obama wants Ferguson money.
A weekly standard has reported that Obama wants 263 million dollars for the federal response to Ferguson.
Here we go from the article.
President Obama will ask Congress for 263 million dollars for the federal response to the civil rights upheaval in Ferguson, Missouri, setting up a task force to study how to improve modern day policing.
The 263 million dollars in pay for body cameras for cops to use and expand training for law enforcement in an effort to build trust in communities such as Ferguson.
263 million dollars.
What do you mean, say no?
Then nobody's nobody's gonna say no to this.
Nobody's gonna this is how Obama takes over what's happening in Ferguson.
This is all about the feds taking over.
$263 million to improve policing and all this is this.
Doesn't 20,000 population town doesn't matter.
This is Obama, this is the feds commandeering or hijacking the issue, and and converting it into the political issue of their dreams.
Uh and and setting themselves up as the solution, the problem solvers, the saviors.
Because everybody knows the people of Ferguson can't handle this.
The cops can't handle it, the city fathers can't handle it, the residents can't handle it.
We need the long arm of the federal government to come in and tell everybody how to act, tell everybody how to get along.
Here's money for this, here's money for that.
And by the way, we're gonna make sure these cops have video cameras so the next time they abuse a citizen we'll have proof.
That's the meaning behind the cameras on the cops.
It's clear as a bell what all of this is.
Here's a you know, we we've had stories with the IRS and the Tea Party and all of that, but this one, folks, this to me, when when I when I first saw this, it it kind of registered a big woe.
And as I thought about it, I kept I kept getting madder and matter.
The stories from the Washington Times last Friday, so you didn't probably hear about this.
The IRS has been accused of sharing 2,500 private taxpayer documents with the White House.
The Internal Revenue Service may have given thousands of confidential filings from private taxpayers to the White House to review.
And we know this from a lawsuit against the Treasury Department that's just been revealed.
The lawsuit filed against the Treasury Inspector General by an outfit called Cause of Action.
It's a legal advocacy outfit, reveals a steady stream of communication went on between the White House and the IRS.
Potentially improper.
Now this is this is this is the idea that one single taxpayer's info was shared with a political operative or with the president or some other political person.
For what reason would they want it?
There can only be one reason they would want to see individuals' tax returns.
So while they're looking into the IRS for whatever they did to the Tea Party, that I mean, this is this is simply I don't know.
Outrageous doesn't describe it.
Because everybody knows what this is for.
Who are these 2,500 people?
What does the regime want to know about them?
And it's not just how much money they earn.
Well, yes, of course it's an enemy's list kind of thing, but but uh this is this is hands off.
You know, Richard Nixon practically tarred and feathered for even thinking about just half of the things that this regime has actually done.
Did you hear what Mitt Romney uh, ladies and gentlemen?
You may not have heard about this.
But Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential uh nominee and and and candidate in 2008, has suggested that the Republican Party just go all in on amnesty.
Full-fledged total comprehensive amnesty for everyone.
Every illegal.
Romney says we need to do this as a Republican Party to head Obama off at the pass.
Republican Party should swallow hard and pass permanent amnesty for every illegal that is in the country in the wake of Obama's executive amnesty that you know even Romney conceded this would encourage more illegal immigrants to enter the country.
But he he said this on uh on Univision, Spanish language television network.
He said Obama's giving people false hope and communicating to people outside this country.
Hey, get into the U.S. illegally and stay because they'll always let you stay.
What's false about that's not false hope, that's real hope.
It isn't false.
Get into the country and and stay, and the odds are you're gonna be able to stay.
Does anybody think Obama's gonna stop at five million?
And that's what I guess that's what Romney knows that Obama's gonna do another one for another five million or whatever.
He just wants the Republicans to move in and hit Obama off at the pass.
And uh and and get the credit.
Romney's solution is for Congress to pass a permanent clarification of our immigration law so that people know where they stand because Obama's executive amnesty is only temporary.
But the Republicans need to move fast and make it real.
Make it permanent.
Thought I'd mention that, in case you uh case you missed it today.
Here's Mark in Cincinnati.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Um I'm actually with Romney on this.
I could see accepting amnesty, but there'd have to be some conditions.
If we could have an end to the sanctuary cities where Democrat cities flout the immigration laws of the country, if we could have an end to the uh automatic chain migration of families where one immigrant becomes 150, if we could have no more birthright citizenship for illegals, if we could have one of the things that we're gonna do.
Well, now wait Romney's not proposing any of this, so why are you saying you agree with Romney?
I I'm a lot more conservative than Romney.
But yeah, if we had if we had English as the only official language of the country, and if we had meaningful sponsorship so that if you have three people who vouch for you as an immigrant, and when you screw up, they have to leave also.
Sir, you're a dreamer.
I I think that's I think you're one of the dreamers.
We need to modernize citizenship.
The concept of immigration, this is not a frontier anymore.
You know, and somebody can live in America and spend all their time on Facebook back in the old country.
There's no comparing the original American immigrants to the people coming here to a land of opportunity in the Emerald City of America.
No kidding.
We need we don't need more Americans.
We need better Americans, and that's what I call it citizenship modernization.
I don't think anybody's talking about that.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
All they see is an opportunity to register more voters.
Dependent voters, by the way.
That's that's what Al Gore called it.
You we don't want to be accused of running a pro-Democrat voter mill.
That was back in 94, and when Al Gore called it out.
Yeah.
Well 20 years later, nothing's changed except the numbers are ten times larger.
Thanks for taking the call.
Yeah, you bet.
Uh don't be confused, but Romney did not suggest any of this that the guy was agreeing with.
Now don't don't don't don't be confused.
I mean, this guy's ideas, they're standalone.
I mean, the the idea of ending a sanctuary city, I mean, great thing, but it's never gonna happen.
You can legalize, you know, you could do away with the concept of illegal immigration.
You could say there is no border anymore.
We're all Americans, and you know what?
You don't even have to come here.
We will send you your welfare check in Honduras.
We will send you your welfare, and we'll legalize voting from all just do away with the border, and they sanctuary cities would still do it.
Because there's always gonna be criminals out there doing something needing sanctuary from.
There's always gonna be a victim or a series of victims from the evil United States that these cities will offer to protect.
So they'll never give up their sanctuary city status or but even though it's not legal in the first place.
Anyway, we got to take a break.
Sit tight, my friends, much more straight ahead here on the EIB network.
Welcome back, my friends.
I am Rush Limbaugh, and I have been doing this a Long time, which means I know what I am doing.
And I like it when I do it.
Bruce and Marietta, Georgia, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Uh hello, Megadetto's from uh Marriott of Georgia.
Thank you.
Quite an honor.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
Understand it.
Thank you.
You know, the more I look at this Ferguson situation, I don't think it mattered what the verdict was.
They could have indicted him for manslaughter or murder, and they would have still rioted.
And Al Sharptons and stuff.
They just needed an excuse, and they already had all the materials for setting the fires.
It would have occurred anyway.
I think that's exactly right.
No, no, I just what are you laughing at in there, Snerdley?
You know that if if if that would have happened, if everything here that Bruce had happened, they would have rioted in anger over the cops' actions.
If the grand jury comes back and reports an indictment, they'd be ticked off.
See, see, and man, burned down the town.
Either way, they were gonna riot in protest.
There's no question about it.
I I totally agree with that.
Well, uh, thank you very much.
How does that feel, Bruce, as a caller to have the host like me agree with you?
How does that feel?
Great.
I love your show.
I've been listening to it for 15 years.
Thank you very much.
You realize there's nobody commensurate with me.
I mean, if so and so agrees with me, big whoop.
But when I agree with you, that's a big deal.
I know it.
I know it is.
Just like I never get to hear this program.
I'm too busy doing it.
I know.
What what you mean over this?
They're rioting in New York.
It's Occupy Wall Street doing the rioting, is what this is.
The Democrat Party doing the rioting.
The Democrat Party's behind all of this.
And what are the reasons for it?
And there are many.
I'm telling you, one of the reasons for this is to distract everybody away from Obama's executive amnesty, which you'll notice nobody's talking about except Mitt Romney, who may you made a missed this, folks.
But Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney wants the Republican Party to do full-fledged all-in amnesty, in case you missed this.
But I think that's one of the reasons why all of this attention on the on the on the unrest is to is to distract people away from the uh because nobody supports that.
You know, Obama's approval number on this is down in the twenties.
That's one of the reasons.
There are many others as well.
I forgot to mention, I forgot to mention Barack Obama called NBC's uh Chuck Todd sad recently.
Chuck's got a book, kind of rips Obama for not doing enough liberalism.
Kind of laying down on the job and was asked about it, and he said, uh, Chuck Todd, it's sad.
It's sad.
It had to be devastating to Chuck.
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