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Jan. 28, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 28, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Thank you very much.
Welcome.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show here at the EIB Network, and I am.
It's my real name too, Eric Erickson.
People think it's some sort of stage name.
No.
It was my father's name and his father beforehand, all the way back.
To the Vikings, yes.
Yeah.
Leaf Erickson, Eric the Red, yes indeed.
They're my people.
Although nowadays, you know, as as Rush says, Sweden, they gave us national health care in Minnesota, and that's about all they've done in the last hundred years or so.
So that's why we're Americans, because it's the greatest country.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
The phone number 800-282-2882 Rush Limbaugh.com is available for you twenty-four hours a day.
You can get me on Twitter and Facebook, E. W. Erickson, E W E R I C K S O N. Some of you may need to put your palms of your hands on both sides of your head at your temples and push inward to keep your head from exploding for what I'm about to talk to you about.
We may get back to Stephen.
People want to talk about Stephen and the taxing taxing people who are saving for their kids' education.
I want to talk about American sniper, but I gotta I gotta talk about this story first.
Because this one, I mean, this is head head explosion level.
From the politico.
GOP lawmakers confront Jim Dement over ratings.
Conservative acute group of being too harsh on them.
This is one of my pet peeves.
It is a real pet peeve.
Go back to, I think it was August of 2003.
And Fred Barnes in the Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard was in the Wall Street Journal.
And he wrote a piece that the Republicans in the Bush administration were calling conservatives in to make the case that George W. Bush was a conservative.
At tip to Rush Limbaugh is one of the first people to say there's a difference between conservatives and Republicans in the Bush administration, and he's right.
And the Bush team was making the case that he's a bona fide conservative, and Barnes wrote that Bush's team, they didn't need to do anything to prove that Bush was a conservative, because he is a conservative.
He's just a big government conservative.
Now they don't like to use that term, but he believes in using the activist ends of or means of government for conservative ends.
There is no such thing as a big government conservative.
Any government who wants government to be big is not a conservative.
During the Bush administration, though, until about the time of Harriet Myers and the immigration measures, conservatives were co-opted into the Republican establishment because we had to save the country.
We were at war, John Kerry would get us all killed.
Only after we got through 2004 were conservatives willing to start standing back up and saying, nah, this is a bit too much for us.
But in Washington today, a lot of Republicans on Capitol Hill in particular wear their conservatism on their sleeve.
Look at me, I've got a C next to my name, not an R, and it's baloney.
Ed Fulner, the genius first president of the Heritage Foundation, in the early 80s created something called the Republican Study Committee.
And the Republican Study Committee was a group, a small group of conservatives in the House of Representatives.
And they were during the Reagan administration trying to push the House to the right, trying to push the House Republicans towards Reagan.
Because many of the House Republicans, including Bob Michael and the leadership of the House in the 1980s, they were Rockefeller Republicans.
They were the country club guys.
They were the big business guys.
They were the silver spoon guys.
They weren't the main street guys.
They weren't the small government guys.
They weren't the mom and pop shop guys.
So Fulner created the Republican Study Committee, went back to the Heritage Foundation, and the Republican Study Committee became the conservative group.
Well, over time, as no one wanted to be called a liberal, and certainly no one that's in their right mind wants to be called a progressive, people just started joining the Republican Study Committee.
Look at me, Ma, I'm a conservative.
Whether they were or they weren't.
And over time, the moderates got the upper hand.
Take Renee Elmers From North Carolina.
She's the the conservat or the the Congress critter from North Carolina who undermined the Republicans' uh pro-life measure last week.
She has a 50% rating on the Heritage Action for America scorecard.
And yet she is in the Republican study committee claiming to be a conservative when at best it's a 50-50 shot.
But they want to be called conservatives.
They don't like to be exposed as not conservative.
So the next great idea Fulner had, Ed Fulner, is to create Heritage Action for America, where not only would the Heritage Foundation be coming up with ideas, but Heritage Action for America would be holding Republicans accountable on Capitol Hill.
And they created a scorecard I love that really shows you not how Republican someone is, but how conservative someone is.
Because I am a strong believer that Republican and conservative are not and should not be the same thing.
Republican is a political party.
It is about the acquisition of power to effect an agenda.
Conservatism is about ideas, freedom, and liberty.
Conservatism is about getting the government the heck out of the way so that Americans can live their lives.
Republicans are not always about that and have not always been.
I mean, you gotta look at the Republican Party.
Reagan was our president, but then they gave us George H. W. Bush and then Bob Dole and then George W. Bush and then John McCain and then Mint Romney.
I submit to you that there is a difference between being a conservative and being a Republican.
And Heritage Action exposes the difference with its scorecard.
So Republican legislators, notice the political subtitle here.
Let me read you again the title.
GOP lawmakers confront Jim Demin over ratings.
And then the subtitle, conservatives accuse his group of being too harsh on them.
Not Republicans accuse his group, but conservatives.
But in fact, it's not conservatives.
It's Republicans who are really angry that they can no longer hide behind the label conservative when they push their big government agenda.
So they they're all upset with Jim Dement.
He went to a retreat with the Republican Study Committee.
There's mistake number one.
The Republican Study Committee is no more.
It's dead, it just doesn't know it yet.
But they went to this this the Salamander Resort and Spa in Virginia.
Of course these Republicans would go to a place whose mascot is a lizard.
And they beat up Jim Dement for daring to hold them accountable.
Austin Scott, who I know, he's actually my congressman, where I live in Georgia.
He questioned how the conservative action scores legislation.
Well, it's real easy.
When you go around campaigning saying I'm a conservative and I'm going to do X, Y, and Z, by God, they have the audacity.
In fact, it is novel.
I don't know that it's ever been done before.
They have the audacity.
I don't know.
I don't know if I should give away the secret sauce.
I don't know that I should say well, okay, I'm this far in.
They have the audacity to hold these jokers to their promises.
So when you go campaign and say, I support a balanced budget, and then you don't vote for one, by God, they're gonna hold you accountable.
When you say I support limited government, but then you want to jack up spinning in the farm bill, by God, they're gonna hold you accountable for it.
They're going to hold you accountable for your promises.
When you say you're going to support legislation, well, they expect you to sponsor it.
That's one of the things that really gets members of Congress.
Is and it's not just Heritage Action, Freedom Works and others that they're also angry about, who have have good measures of conservatism, the Club for Growth.
When these guys campaign around the country and say, I'm going to sponsor legislation to do X, Y, and Z. Well, if they have that legislation come out and their name's not on it, guess what?
They're going to be held accountable.
Republicans in Washington hate to be held accountable.
My buddy Leon Wolf over at redstate.com where I'm the editor.
He has a piece up.
Just in case you did not know, you were lied to about executive amnesty.
Now Leon is squishy on immigration.
He is.
He'd admit it.
He's squishy On immigration.
But this makes him angry too.
Back at the end of 2014, a lot of people poo-pooed the idea that the fight over executive amnesty would have to happen then or not at all.
Many so-called reasonable Republicans insisted that this was the wrong time to hold the GOP's feet to the fire.
Wait till next year.
Wait until the Republicans control both chambers.
Then we'll be able to do something.
That's what they told us.
Indeed, that's what they promised, Leon Wrights.
By punting the funding question for the entire government shutdown until September, they swore up and down they could fight in February when it came time to fund the Department of Human or uh DHS, Department of Homeland Security.
And guess what?
February is a few days away.
Boehner and McConnell are folding again.
And there's nothing you can do.
They're going to fold.
They're going to cave.
They're going to fund Department of Homeland Security.
They told us if we would put this is the same thing they did to Ted Cruz in 2013.
Don't shut down the government because we can make it a fight over the debt ceiling.
Well, they shut down the government, and McConnell and Boehner were the first ones to throw Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and Tim Hillskamp and Jim Breidenstein and all the others under the bus.
First one to run them over.
Oh, we're never going to win the Senate now.
We're going to lose the house.
How did that work out for them?
But that's okay because we had the debt limit.
And then what did they do?
They extended the debt limit until May of 2015 and gave the president a blank check to jack it up as much as he wanted until then.
They did the exact same thing.
It's the same game they play over and over again every damn time.
They they say we're gonna take them this time, this time we're gonna trip them up, and then they tangle themselves up, or they just lie.
And now they're angry at Jim Dement, one of the greatest senators ever in the history of the Union.
They're angry at him because he leads a group that's holding them accountable to their promises.
I I got an idea for these members of Congress.
Instead of getting angry at Jim Demon and the Heritage Foundation and conservatives at Freedom Works of the Club for Growth and you name it, for holding them accountable.
Stop lying to us to begin with.
Eric Erickson, in for rush.
Some liberal troll on Twitter whose picture of himself is a selfie taken in a bathroom, it appears, says the moment I lose my hands and stop tweeting, we'll advance as a species.
Dude, stop taking selfies in the bathroom.
Good lord.
Welcome back.
It's Eric Erickson InfoRush Limbo.
800-282-2882.
I want to go to the phones in just a minute, but can I just say I made a prediction that has come true?
There is something you did not see this weekend.
There's something you didn't see.
You may not even realize you didn't see it.
You did not see another hit piece on American Sniper.
You didn't.
Do you know why you didn't see a hit piece on American Sniper this weekend?
Because all the people who would write them were snowed in in New York, Washington, and Boston.
It didn't hurt their box office sales, didn't hurt the movie box office sales, because everyone in the country likes American Sniper.
The South, the Midwest, the West, everybody, except the the Yankees in New England who all work for the major news publications in the country and can't stand that movie.
I this Bo Bergdahl situation.
You know, there may or may not be charges coming for Bergdahl for deserting, but I guarantee you, Hollywood would prefer a movie about Bo Bergdahl as some sort of hero for standing up for God knows what they would American Sniper and Chris Kyle an American hero.
And i it the box office sales did not suffer this weekend, but they sure didn't print a lot of critical pieces about it because all the people who would criticize it were snowed in in New York.
Let's go to the phones here to Darwin and Fayetteville, Georgia, near me.
How are you?
I'm great.
Listen, I'm just uh I'm just not too far from the Saturday uh summit in Iowa.
I was there.
Believe it or not, I made it uh uh Red State uh was a sponsor and my site.
Yeah, I could not be there.
I I was teaching Sunday school this weekend and couldn't get out of town.
Great summit.
Uh I I just want to say a few things.
Uh uh Our president said that uh global warming is the top priority.
I say that's hogwash, horse horse hockey.
Yes.
My friend, great Georgian Newt, came across and said our major problem is Islamics beheading Americans and talk for at least twenty minutes.
I know Newt.
He is a brilliant man, a great man.
It's too bad he couldn't be our president.
Now I wanted to mention another one.
Go ahead, Doug.
A couple of things, if I could.
Uh, let's came across fantastic.
Now, if you want to say something uh I'll I'll be quiet.
No, no, no, no.
Scott Walker did come across very well.
I was impressed with Carly Fiorina as well, who I didn't expect to be impressed with.
Uh was I'm still thinking she's probably running for vice president, not president, but I'm not sure.
I would imagine that and um Eric, you're a great American, and I hope you can tell Rush from me uh that uh we love uh we love Rush.
Uh he's uh a great a great symbol for our country.
Um we got to have conservative radio.
Uh but uh Carly did come across to me.
I I had heard about her running uh against uh uh Barbara Boxer, and I didn't know much about it, but she came across articulate.
Well, you know, I will tell you, Darwin.
Let me stop you there and and tell you I supported Chuck DeVore in that race.
I I just Chuck DeVore, he's now at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, wonderful guy, was in the state legislature in California.
I love him and his wife both dearly, and he would have been bid I think probably given Barbara a better run for his money, he didn't make it through the primary.
Uh I've got concerns with Varina, but she she was impressive.
Scott Walker's speech was really, really good.
Now, for those of you who who are aren't really sure what Darwin and I are talking about, there was uh Steve King put on the Iowa Freedom Summit.
It was this past weekend in Iowa.
I I and Redstate.com, we were sponsors, and again, I was actually teaching Sunday school this weekend, and I couldn't get away to get up there, had to prepare the lesson.
But uh my buddy Brian went, we've got videos at Redstate.com of it.
We actually, all the presidential candidates, they consented to a five-question interview with Red State.
And one of the questions we asked him was on the the Pain Capable uh Child Protection Act, and they all disagreed with what the House of Representatives have done.
They all pretty much came out swinging against Common Core, which reminds me I got a story about Common Core I need to get to.
But what I was really impressed with, as Darwin said, is Newt.
He's not running for president this time.
But he really made the case that we are well, not we, because we all know, but the president and a lot of people in Washington on a bipartisan basis are deeply naive when it comes to Islamic radicalism.
We they are really just they don't get it.
They want to apologize for it, they want to apologize about our behavior, they don't want us to speak up, they don't want to talk about it.
I mean, you've got the the mayor of Paris in great and deep irony, claims she wants to sue Fox News on a matter of free speech after marching in the streets over the newspaper there who whose editors and cartoonists got killed because they exercised their free speech rights.
I really knows no bounds with the left.
It is a real threat.
And a number of them spoke about it.
I was I was really impressed with Cruz's speech as well.
Cruz always knows how to play to the base in in a in a way that just resonates.
Rick Perry, I think gave a very substantive speech focusing on vision.
I uh this is my big thing.
Uh you know, I do an annual conference too, Red the Red State gathering.
We're gonna do it in Atlanta this year in August.
And I'm I'm inviting all the presidential candidates.
Uh Fiorina, Huckabee, Cruz, Perry, Walker, you name it.
I want them all there, and I want them to talk about their vision for the country.
When they run for re-election, uh, if they get elected, it'll be 2020.
So put on your 2024 site.
What's your vision?
What should the country look like?
We can all beat up the president.
And we can have fun criticizing the president.
But what is your vision for the country?
What should it look like after four years of a hopefully conservative Republican in office.
I think this is a picture they need to paint for the country to show that conservatism works, to show that we believe in rewarding people who are saving for their kids' education instead of wanting to tax them.
And hopefully by God fix the immigration situation without blanket amnesties.
We'll be right back.
Welcome back, Eric Erickson in for rush.
Let's go back to the phones, shall we here at the EIB network.
Let's go to Wayne in Cape May, New Jersey.
A lot of people want to continue on with this 529 plan.
Stephen got everybody fired up.
Green.
Hi there.
Hi, how are you?
Good, how are you?
Good.
I'm wonderful today.
I was outside working on a project and listening to the Rush Show, and I had strapped on who is this redneck behind the microphone.
I I had strapped on my headband to keep my head from exploding that I put on every day when I listen to the show because of the insanity which this country is anymore.
But just wanted a couple points to make here.
Number one is maybe we need to change the conversation or at least let some folks know what actually is taking place in some of these other private universities and I understand they're private but when you look at the endowments of say Harvard, which is sitting on thirty two billion dollars right now, Yale, twenty billion, Stanford, eighteen billion Princeton, eleven billion.
The top seven schools are sitting on a hundred and ten billion dollars in endowment monies.
And then if you started to look at some of the others University of Pennsylvania, Notre Dame, University of Chicago, etc, huge money out there, but we never seem to talk about that.
And the fact that maybe instead of attacking big oil, we could we could attack big education and maybe use some of that money to fund some of these other public universities.
And the other thing is in the inquiry the Philadelphia inquiry today, believe it or not, you talked about Common Court and we've been trying down here to make some inroads in New Jersey, but Governor Christie and uh Senate Stephen Sweeney over at the Senate would not allow a vote to come up on Common Court here.
It's going to be the sleeper issue.
Yeah.
And instead they came up with a a a study for this uh what is you mean a delay they came up with a delay.
Yeah.
And the thing is one of the issues, one of the things in this article, believe it or not, they talk about that for college or career here in New Jersey, they're noting that about seventy percent of the students entering college Conity County colleges require remedial courses.
Can you believe that?
Seventy percent of the kids coming into the community colleges require remedial courses.
It is it is a massive drain on resources.
I gotta tell you I remember believe it or not I actually because of my day job and and being on Fox and and all I've got to pay attention to these states of the union addresses.
And I remember a couple of years ago the president was saying he wanted to work with colleges to decrease their rate of increase in tuition.
You know, college tuition keeps going up greater than the rate of inflation in fact college tuition has been increasing year over year much more rapidly than most other areas of the economy and they can because of the ready availability of subsidized federal loans for education.
When you make it easier for kids to get loans they'll never finish paying off colleges can keep jacking up their tuition costs knowing that well the kids are going to get the loan so let's keep raising the costs and and they're stockpiling their endowment funds for all sorts of things uh many of which are wastes of money and you then you know certainly and I we were talking back in the break.
Rick Perry in Texas challenged Texas colleges and universities to come up with a $10,000 bachelor's degree and many of them said it could not be done and they were horrified at the idea of trying to do a $10,000
college degree but he pushed and he pushed and he pushed and in Texas now, thanks to the the former now former governor Rick Perry who full disclosure is a a dear friend of mine, he was able to get the colleges there to do a $10,000 a year or a $10,000 total bachelor's degree.
And college professors and college administrators were horrified by that idea because it just showed that it could be done.
And one of the things he did to get it done, and one of the things they did to implement it is to get rid of all the goofy classes.
There is no reason anyone, unless they want to be a professional victim or college educator, but I repeat myself, should take a women in gender studies class or a queer theory class.
There's no reason for anybody to have to take that nonsense in college.
And some colleges try to make stuff like that near mandatory.
I mean, get them their job skills and get them into the workforce doing what they need to do.
It's just ridiculous what they make you do.
Well, no one that also the situation that the courses that are required that uh are not electives.
I mean, when you come out of college or high school and you can't do fifth grade math, something's definitely wrong with the education system here.
And throwing more money at it is, in my opinion, not certainly not the answer.
I mean uh and I don't know what the answer is other than the dedicated teachers, and uh instead of passing the children on to the next grade when they can't do what's required in the grade they're in, maybe it's time to start letting them back again.
Let them read the children.
Well, you know, Wayne, so this gets this gets to a story that I might as well go on and get there.
I wrote about this at Redstate.com yesterday.
Erin May, none of you probably will know the name of Erin May.
She's a mother in Lafayette, Louisiana.
She's a teacher in the Lafayette Public Schools there.
I believe she's a teacher in the public schools.
She's a kindergarten teacher, and she has two sons.
She has an elementary school son, she's got a middle school son, and she has opted them out of taking the park test in Louisiana.
For those of you who don't know what the PARC test is, the PARC test is the common core assessments test.
Now here's the kicker.
You gotta take most states now have the standardized tests.
Uh when I was growing up, I grew up in Dubai, and we took what was then the Stanford achievement test, I believe it's now the California Achievement Test, and you'd get the scores back, and you say, Oh, he he needs work in reading, so let's put him with all the kids who need work at his level.
And you would assess them and you would track them, and you would put the kids who needed remedial help and a subject together, the kids who were excelling together, and and then the broad median would be together, so everyone by the end of the year would hopefully be on the same page for the next year.
In Louisiana, when I graduated, moved home, moved to Louisiana, and took the leap test, Louisiana Educational Assessment, whatever.
And in Georgia, there's a standardized test where I am now.
Most states now have the standardized state tests to assess kids.
Well, in Louisiana, you got the leap test, but you also have the part test, the common core test.
Other states take the same test, often by different names.
Here's the kicker.
The one test is used to assess the student and is used then to help the student become more proficient in the areas of education in which they are deficient.
So if the student is is scoring poorly in reading comprehension, they can be given extra work in tutoring and reading comprehension.
The common core assessment test doesn't do that.
In fact, the test itself does not come back, the grades don't come back in it until the next school year.
So by this time the kid has already moved into the next school year, and then you get to see how poorly or well the kid did.
The sole purpose of the test is to grade the school and the teacher.
And teachers are frustrated because they're given more and more standardized tests.
They're not just given one standardized test, they're given a bunch of them.
They're teaching the test, they're not teaching the subject.
Well, Erin May and Lafayette, she said, you know what?
My kids aren't taking the park test.
They're not taking the common core test.
They're taking too many tests, they're not learning what they need to learn.
We're not doing it.
They won't come to school that day if that's the way it is.
And more and more parents are doing the same thing.
So the assistant school superintendent in Lafayette basically gave away the game with a quote to the local paper.
The assistant school superintendent said, Well, parents are just upset they weren't able to get rid of common core.
So now they're doing this.
In other words, we didn't listen to those dumb parents, so now they're getting back at us.
They're behaving petulantly.
I would submit to you it's the bureaucrats who are behaving petulantly.
Parents don't want Common Core.
For those of you who don't have kids, let me explain this to you.
My daughter has is she's in a a private school, but they're in Common Core Math, and the reason they are is not because the school wants to.
But because many of the major standardized tests, the ACT, the SAT and others, they're moving towards the Common Core standards.
So for my child to be competitive on those tests when she gets to the the age, they're having to teach her this stuff now.
They actually spent a week learning to subtract by adding.
And she was so frustrated with it.
They wanted her to learn three different ways to subtract because surely she would be comfortable with one of them.
Head bl my wife was livid.
This is a sleeper issue for 2016.
You know, John McCain and Mitt Romney were both able to get the Republican nomination despite their views on immigration.
I think Common Core is going to be the sleeper issue because regardless of party, regardless of ideology, I know so many moms in particular who are livid.
And Aaron May in Louisiana, she's had enough.
Her kids aren't taking the Common Core standardized test.
In Florida, it's a growing movement.
The education commissioner had to send out a statement saying that that parents and kids could get in trouble if they opt out of it.
And many parents said we're not asking for permission.
Our kids just aren't going to take the test.
That may be the most revolutionary thing that parents can do is just don't have your kid take the Common Core test.
Eric Erikson in for Rush.
Welcome back, Eric Erikson, in for Rush Limbaugh.
The phone number 800-282-2882.
As many of you are finding out, you can get me on Twitter and Facebook at E.W. Erickson, E W E R I C K S O N. People are fired up on this Common Core top.
I mean, really, I didn't know it was an issue until our kids started experiencing the most convoluted, bizarre math problems.
I put up a picture of one of our math problems.
It went viral on the internet.
Got hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of of hits and recirculations and retweets over it.
It was insane.
It took an entire page to subtract two numbers.
It was bizarre.
Parents are eating it up.
Now pay attention to this because it is school choice week.
And a lot of Republican efforts around the country are geared towards school choice this week.
A friend of mine just sent me an email.
Eleven thousand events around the country.
There's one going on on Capitol Hill right now, just got a picture of Ted Cruz speaking to a group with kids standing behind him saying holding up signs united for school choice.
This is the next play by the left, Common Core.
Because they're having a hard time convincing people school choice is a bad idea.
So as people are leaving public schools, going to private and parochial schools, they're coming in on the backside and doing common core to undermine them inside their private schools to to make an education structure and requirements that they can't escape even the private schools.
They're perfectly happy the left is to tear down even private education in order to get kids indoctrinated the way they want.
Let's go back to the phones and an Echo Valley, Tennessee.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you, Eric.
Um, I just wanted to say that I say for my grandchildren through 529.
And I have our family was blessed recently with a brand new baby boy, uh my great grandson, and I wanted to open an account for him.
So you can imagine I was pretty purely upset when I heard that he was going to start taxing those, and I was even more angry when I heard that he has two hundred and forty thousand dollars, grandfathered in a five twenty-nine for his two daughters.
Yes You know, it just the people don't seem to realize how the ordinary people live.
We have a governor here that's worth two billion dollars, and he came up with that uh free college idea.
Then we have Lamar Alexander who's worth about twenty-five million and corker's worth fifty-four million.
Um they voted for that amnesty bill.
Of course, Corker's family's always been in construction, and Lamar owns that exclusive Blackberry Inn, so I'm sure that's the two parts of our economy that use the most illegal, so that's important for them.
But people out here are angry about what the Republicans are doing.
They don't act like Republicans anymore, and they just come the Republican Party just runs them our every year or every election.
And people vote for him and they don't look at what he has been doing.
And if the Republicans don't get a backbone and stand up for America and again what this president is doing, we're not going to have an America anymore.
Amen and hallelujah to that.
And I'm watching Twitter right now and there are people just saying, preach, preach.
You're right.
Well my sister and brother-in-law live in in Tennessee and and they're horrified.
They they had been in Texas for a while, moved to Tennessee, and uh the Republicans are just goodness gracious.
Well, also with a food stamp, uh you're talking about the government putting money into college, it's driven the cost of it up.
The food stamp money has driven the cost of food up.
I I've been going through uh files, getting ready to do taxes, and I don't look in my the cost of my food has gone up sixty percent in the last five years, and I think there's nothing else you can attribute that to but the food stamp cards.
And if you're not gonna be able to do that.
Oh, I I think there are other things that you can attribute it to, Anna.
I think you're right to some degree if you're subsidizing that it's gonna make the cost in general go up.
But i the liberals are at war with cheap food.
They really are at war with the idea of cheap food.
They want to help the poor, but they want to make the poor more even more dependent on government, and the best way to do that is to drive up the cost of food.
And thanks very much for the phone call.
I there's a point here on these Tennessee Republicans, and it's a greater point.
I'm in Georgia, and a lot of the Republicans now were Democrats a decade ago, and they just changed the letter after their name.
They didn't change their thinking.
This is particularly a problem in the South that has become so Republican to survive a bunch of Democrats had to become Republicans.
It hasn't changed their thinking on things.
There are Republicans in Georgia, including Chamber of Commerce type Republicans who want to raise taxes for transportation.
In Nevada, Governor Sandoval, who wants everyone to know he just got re-elected with a huge margin.
The voters rejected a tax increase for education in Nevada, and now the governor of Nevada has decided the legislature must now do what the people didn't want to do.
We are seeing people with an R next to their name.
Republicans holding the voters in as much contempt as liberals hold the voters in contempt.
And I've got to presume that given the way conservatives don't treat individuals in this country with contempt.
So I've got to presume that these Republicans are really liberals.
Because they're behaving like liberals.
Let's raise taxes, even when the voters tell us not to, and hold the people in contempt for not wanting to do these things.
And like the the education commissioner in Florida, we're gonna go after the parents and kids if they don't take the common core test.
We realize you don't want these things, but we've decided they're good for you, so we're going to give them to you or not.
It is Bohica.
That is the way the left runs this country.
Eric Erikson in for Rush.
I have to admit to something.
I am just genuinely laughing by the friends of mine who are trying to call me while I'm on the radio right now and can't understand why I'm not picking up the phone.
I am shocked to learn I have friends who do not listen to the Rush Limbaugh show and will have to send them to re-education camp.
I don't have enough time to do justice to a phone call.
We've got some folks whose calls I want to get to.
We'll get to in the next hour.
800 282-2882 is the phone number.
There's transparency.
This and food, believe it or not, I've got a hilarious story.
Snerdley actually found the story.
I gotta give Sterley credit.
He found the story because he knows I cook a lot.
And there's this college in in Brooklyn, speaking of outrageous cost for education, the these organic food courses and making people learn how to compost their food.
I heard Rush talking about the Seattle shaming people.
Just ridiculous stories.
But when we come back, there's a lot of the national media about transparency because of fear of the Koch brothers, the evil awful Koch brothers.
When we come back, I gotta talk to you about transparency because I was a big supporter of the idea of just make it all transparent.
All campaign donations should be transparent, but I'm not for it anymore.
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