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March 20, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 20, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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This is the most talked about radio talk show in the world.
The most talked about host and the most talked about show in the world and the most listened to radio talk show in the world.
And it's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Open Line Friday.
And again, it's all about freedom.
Expanded freedom for the callers.
This program is actually a benevolent dictatorship with me being the dictator.
I and I alone determine what is talked about on this program.
Monday through Thursday, you see on Friday, I move myself out of the way.
And we open it up to anything, for the most part, that people want to talk about.
That's the opportunity for you.
And we don't always succeed.
We try to take more calls on Friday as well.
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Guess who is the number one violator of women's rights in the world today?
So here's, you know, I posed the question right before the end of the previous hour, and the staff on the other side of the glass, they're all guessing, oh, it's got to be Saudi Arabia.
Oh, it's going to be Iran.
Well, it's got to, it's got to be, it's got to be some, it's got to be some Muslim country for crying.
No, no, no, no.
The key here, according to the UN, who is the number one violator of women's rights in the world today?
And the answer is, Israel.
Because they are violating the rights of Palestinian women.
That's it's just absurd.
Look, you want to understand, Israel is the Tea Party.
That's all you have to know.
Israel is the Tea Party, and Benjamin Netanyahu is Todd Aiken.
As far as the American left, the worldwide left, as far as the Democrat Party is concerned, Israel is the Tea Party.
Benjamin Netanyahu may as well be Todd Aiken.
Or what was her name, Suzanne O'Connell O'Donnell, the Senate candidate from Christine O'Donnell.
I mean, that's the only way you can possibly understand this.
Iran is the Service Employees International Union.
The Palestinians are the NAA LCP.
I mean, if you want to understand how this works, if you want to have this make the slightest bit of sense to you from the leftist perspective, it's what you must understand.
Iran is the Service Employees International Union, big donors to the Democrats, and they're on the same side of issues.
The Palestinians, Hamas, Fatah, they are the NAA LCP and the Congressional Black Caucasians.
Let's see who else.
Western Europeans would be the equivalent of the feminazis.
In more ways than one, actually, there.
And the enemy, the enemy of this coalition, the coalition of the American Democrat Party, Iran, Palestinians, Fatah, Hezbollah, and Western European, that's the equivalent of the Democrat Party.
And everybody else may as well be the Tea Party.
And that's how you understand this.
Now, here you have Boko Haram, which is bragging about the number of women they have kidnapped and killed.
You have Islamic Sharia law, which is the most discriminatory against women philosophy you can probably find on earth.
There may be some weirder ones in obscure places, but mist of all this.
Iran is still stoning women.
They just stoned Soria.
Soraya cis.
And they're beheading people.
You're absolutely right.
Saudi Arabia is beheading people.
In Saudi Arabia, women can't drive.
Nowhere can they drive.
They have to cover their heads and so forth.
And even the American journalists go over there and fall for it.
Christiana Manpur covers up, probably doesn't drive.
Now, she probably doesn't drive anyway.
Chauffeur.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, she goes over there, she covers up, she dresses the part.
All the while ripping the shreds out of Netanyahu.
Sometimes all you can do is laugh and say, here we go.
The number one violator of women's rights in the world today is Israel violating the rights of Palestinian women.
That's the view of the UN's top women's rights body, the Commission on the Status of Women, the CSW.
And the Commission on the Status of Women ends its annual meeting on March 20, maybe today, by condemning only one of the 193 UN member states for violating women's rights, Israel.
Not Syria, where government forces routinely employ rape and other sexual violence and torture against women as a tactic of war, not Saudi Arabia, where women are physically punished if not wearing compulsory clothing, almost entirely excluded from political life.
They cannot drive.
They cannot travel without a male relative.
They cannot receive half the inheritance of their brothers where their testimony counts for half that of a man's.
Although the Saudis just did give women the right to vote for the first time in this year's upcoming elections, didn't promise to count them.
Well, he said they could vote, but they haven't promised yet to count them.
And Sudan, where domestic violence is not prohibited.
There is no minimum age for consensual sex in Sudan.
The legal age of marriage for girls is 10.
88% of women under 50 have undergone female genital mutilation, and women are denied equal rights in marriage, inheritance, and divorce.
And in Iran, where every woman who registered as a presidential candidate in the last election was automatically disqualified.
Here's Obama on TV talking to the people of Iran, trying to develop a rapport and create an accord.
Adultery in Iran, if the female, if a woman is caught committing adultery, punishable by death by stoning.
Women who fight back against rapists and kill their attackers are executed in Iran.
Did you not know this?
The Constitution bars female judges in Iran, and women have to obtain the consent of their husbands to work outside the home.
There's no possibility that the UN Commission on the Status of Women will criticize Iran because Iran is an elected member of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Sudan is currently the vice chair position of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Now, I'm going to try to get serious for a moment, but it's a waste of time.
This is the place, folks, where every half-baked, cockamami theory about global warming is coming from.
I honestly, I cannot relate to any of this that comes out of the UN.
I mean, this is beyond parody and beyond description.
I mean, they're very serious here.
All of these countries I just listed, the offenses and the rules and the prohibitions against women, they're all true.
If in Iran, if a woman is raped and she fights back and kills her attacker, they kill her.
And Iran is a member in good standing of the UN Commission on the Rights of Women or whatever it is.
Israel officially announced as the top violator of women's rights in the world, Israel.
This organization, United Nations, is just an abject joke.
It's a bad joke.
The fact that there are so many in the American diplomatic corps that take this organization seriously, this organization is due serious condemnation.
I mean, this goes beyond offensive.
This goes beyond absurd.
This is the stuff of nightmares.
That the reality is what it is.
And of course, when you say that Israel, an ally of the United States, and of course Jewish, the number one location, by the way, the most focused anti-Semitism on this planet is at the United Nations.
And here's Barack Obama sidling up to it.
The American Democrat Party, the American left, the United Nations is the end-all, the United Nations source authority, the United Nations inviolate.
It goes beyond argument.
We need to get out of the UN.
This is seriously corrupt.
But it's even beyond that.
Because these people are serious.
And the nations we're talking about literally have the tyrannical dictatorial power to implement all of there are people in the world being forced to live this way.
And it is a shame that the United States of America in any way sidles up to any of these nations And offers tantamount support.
And then, while that's happening, they have to sit around and listen to the same people call American conservatives and Israeli Jews the modern focus of evil in the world as the big problem facing the world.
This is seriously wrong.
It is seriously corrupt.
And it is an absolute outrage that the United States of America gives any of it the time of day.
Back after this.
Okay, better get cracking on the phones because it is Open Line Friday and I'm trying to phone it in today.
Meaning, come at this, you know, with only half of my energy, but I'm unable to do that.
The news is so outrageous, is so demanding and requiring today that I just simply can't sit here and act half-interested.
So to the phones, we start.
Deborah in Grand Junction, Colorado.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Thank you.
Good to be here.
Thank you.
I just had yesterday you were talking about football and how they're trying to phase the NFL out.
And you explained there are new gladiators.
These are the guys that are disciplined.
They're rough.
They're tough.
They know who they are.
Yeah, I think I said what they're trying to do is eradicate the warrior culture out of the reason that Obama does not like Benjamin Netanyahu.
That philosophy.
This guy was in the IDF.
He was an officer.
He saw action.
He was in special forces.
He knows who he is.
Right.
And Benjamin Netanyahu is everything Barack Obama knows he will never be.
Exactly.
And he's got more of the statesman in his little finger than Obama has in his entire body.
He handles himself well.
He speaks well.
And Obama is so threatened by this because this is one guy that's not going to bow down at the altar of Obama.
He is one guy that does not buck.
He does not cower.
He does not flitter away.
He does not act fearful.
He does not act awed.
He does not act frightened of Obama in any way.
And when you stand up to a bully, the bully oftentimes is lost and doesn't know what to do.
I think there's a lot of reasons why Obama doesn't like Netanyahu.
Exactly.
But the part that he's a bully, I thought that, especially after Benjamin Netanyahu had come to Congress, he stood there and he's such a statesman.
I mean, he praised Obama.
He wasn't hateful at all.
Although Nancy Pelosi just wept over this.
That is manners.
Exactly.
And Obama's threatened by this.
And to catch really serving his country, Benton, his country comes first for him.
Benjamin Netanyahu.
He's actually a patriot.
He stands up there and he lets everybody know.
Yeah, I agree with all that.
I don't think that Obama's threat.
Well, I mean, he's threatened by all of his opposition, but I don't think it manifests itself emotionally that way or even intellectually with Obama.
I think Obama takes it as disrespect, an act of insolence by denying Obama his way on things.
I think Obama has an arrogance and a superiority about him.
And he expects everybody to recognize and acknowledge that Obama is better than everybody else and smarter and right, and we're not to question, we're not to doubt, and we are certainly not too upstage.
Oh, we are not.
And if we do that, Paul Ryan did that one time at one of these famous Obama symposiums or seminars on Obamacare.
I think it was at the Blair House, if I'm not mistaken.
Obviously, it was in the first term.
It was before Obamacare had been voted on.
And Paul Ryan shows up with the Republican leadership and just lays out the facts about how this bill is an absolute boondoggle disaster.
The numbers don't add up.
The money makes no sense.
And the policy is entirely flawed.
And Obama was shooting daggers when the camera caught it because Ryan was engaging in a public show of disrespect.
Paul Ryan was showing Obama up.
You don't do that.
You see, Obama doesn't care whether the numbers add up.
Obama doesn't care whether the law is good, bad, or indifferent.
That's not the objective.
It didn't matter.
Even now, Obama doesn't care who has insurance and who doesn't.
He doesn't care that it's costing 23% more, even with subsidies.
He doesn't care about any of that.
The end result of government being in charge of health care is all that matters.
That's the end game.
That's the end result.
That happened.
The United States is supposed to be in charge of what happens in the Middle East.
Barack Hussein Obama is supposed to be able to dictate what happens in that region.
And Benjamin Netanyahu didn't play ball.
Benjamin Netanyahu ran for re-election and had the audacity to win, which Obama takes as a direct threat and insult, an act of insolence.
Bibi was supposed to slink away, and if he knew what's good for him, he was supposed to lose.
Beebe's supposed to understand that opposition is futile.
Bibi and all of us are supposed to understand that stopping Obama is impossible.
Standing up to him is useless.
And trying to get others to do so is as well.
It's a mindset that I dare say I don't think, and I could be wrong on it.
I'm not intimately experienced in all the people that served in office, but I feel pretty confident in saying that I don't think we've had a president, commander-in-chief, occupant of the Oval Office with this kind of mindset and attitude about the country and the world ever.
And that's why I think people are having a tough time coming to grips with the reality.
People are still plugging Obama into the usual molds.
No, he's a Democrat president and means X, Y, and Z.
No, it doesn't, not with Obama.
It means A, B, C, and D, and we haven't seen it before.
And I think people still have no idea what these next two years have in store for us.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limboy here serving humanity behind the golden EIB microphone.
So I checked the email during the break.
Rush, what is your problem?
What is so bad about Obama addressing the people of Iran?
Okay.
It's not that Obama was addressing the people of Iran.
It's that he was telling the people of Iran That the biggest problem in our two countries coming to an agreement is hardliners in his country, America.
And then we find out he won't even tell us what the final details of any agreement are because it's going to be classified.
We're not allowed to know what the deal is.
And then Obama, in this joint speech or whatever it was, to the people of Iran, says that the Ayatollah hominy has issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons in Iran, which nobody can find the fatwa, which gives rise to the question: well, then why are we negotiating?
I want to know why we're talking to them, period.
But if they really have no designs on a nuclear weapon, then what is the point of having a long-drawn-out diplomatic negotiation with them?
What are we trying to talk them out of if they're not trying to build a nuke?
Or what are we trying to talk them into if they're not doing a nuke?
But the people of Iran want out from underneath the oppressive government they have just as much as the oppressed people of any nation want out from underneath it.
And yet here, Obama is on TV basically telling the people of Iran that their leaders are hunky-dory, they're just fine, and that the problem is hardliners in America.
So that's why I have a problem with it.
Investors.com is the source for the story that Obamacare premiums are jumping 23% this year, even after subsidies.
President Obama has talked a lot in recent months about how healthcare inflation has moderated in recent years, and he always manages to credit Obamacare for that.
But there is rampant inflation in one part of the healthcare system, and ironically enough, it involves Obamacare premiums.
According to official government data, the average premium paid by those signing up through healthcare.gov, the average premium was up $100 a month after factoring in subsidies.
23% increase over the previous year when it was something like 80 bucks, 82 bucks.
So even with subsidies, Obamacare's premiums are going up.
But remember, everybody's premiums are going to come down $2,500.
Obama promised that when he told us that if we liked our doctor, we could keep the doctor.
And that if we liked our plan, we could keep the plan.
That's when he said premiums are going to come down $2,500.
Here is James in the lake, Tahoe, Nevada.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, great to talk with you.
I just want to mention my eight-year-old daughter loves your books.
We love reading them.
She reads them even faster than I can.
So great job on that.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
I wanted to mention that it's amazing right now that tens of thousands of STEM-educated Americans, of science, technology, engineering, and math, computer science folks and all this, are being laid off by Microsoft, by different companies, and are having to retrain their...
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, hold on just a minute here.
I'm confused because I have been under the impression that people like Microsoft and Facebook and Google have been asking for more B1B visas so they can get more people immigrated to the country who are highly educated in technology and math and so forth, the STEM types.
And you're telling me that they're laying them off?
Yes, sir.
And the even HP just announced about 58,000 people who are going to be replaced mostly by lower paid foreign workers on H-1B visas.
Wait, somebody told Mark Zuckerberg about this.
Yeah, and he was actually in the congressional hearings and all this and different things.
So, yeah, he's well aware.
But this flies in the face of what they claimed that they wanted.
They're claiming, you know, the Zuckerberg group was an attempt to put together a bunch of liberals and conservatives on immigration, essentially support amnesty.
But their cover story was they wanted more H-1B visas permitted.
And Jeff Sessions has done a great job completely cutting that off at the knees.
There is an overabundance right now of computer science folks that need jobs.
And even in Southern California, again, they're having to go, they're laying off the high-tech workers.
They're having to train their replacements, which is a real insult to injury.
And those are the foreign workers at a lower price.
Well, I remain nonplussed and confused.
I'm serious.
I was under the impression that none of these, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, all these companies that signed on to this were complaining they couldn't find enough of these people.
They couldn't find enough highly educated, qualified, because our immigration system was not allocating enough visas to allow enough highly qualified people to come into the country after we had educated them.
And so these jobs at these high-tech companies were going unfilled.
And you're telling me that they're now laying people off who have these qualifications?
Yes, sir.
And that is a lie.
There are the skilled people.
They're laying them off to reduce their costs.
It's a business.
I understand that.
But it should be for the Americans who are here not to abuse the H-1B visa program to lower costs and then lay off a bunch of Americans.
And it's tens of thousands.
It's not a small number.
It's a huge deal rush.
But James, for example, you have to be mistaken.
I say with all due respect because the head of Google, the head of Google, and it changes from day to day, whoever's wearing the glasses, said that more immigration would help the economy.
A couple days ago, Google exec immigration changes would help economy.
The executive chairman of Google urged Congress on Wednesday, a couple days ago, to increase the number of high-skilled work visas made available to foreigners and to deal with other immigration issues later on.
This is Eric Schmidt.
He spoke at the American Enterprise Institute.
That's a conservative think tank.
He said he believes the U.S. is better off having more immigration, not less.
But he doesn't want the low-skilled types coming in here.
He wants more H-1B visas.
And maybe because he's Chairman Schmidt, maybe it could be Chairman Mel.
I don't know.
The point is that, yes, this is a fact.
I'm not making this up.
You can talk to Sessions Office.
You can talk to other folks.
This is the reality.
There's tens of thousands, if you look around the country, of high-tech workers.
That's where the unemployment is rising because they can get a lower-cost foreign worker.
It's an abuse of the H-1B visa system.
Something is way out of phase here because you're serious.
You're telling me that these people are firing and laying off the very people two days ago they're begging for more of.
Now, one of these has to be wrong.
Eric Schmidt cannot be out there at the American Enterprise Institute demanding more H-1B visas.
In other words, asking for more visas for highly qualified computer science engineers because there's a shortage of them.
And on the other hand, Microsoft and Google and HP laying off all of those H-1B visa-type people and instead hiring cheaper, low-skilled.
I mean, this is a major, major disconnect here.
Now, these people want more immigration.
There's no question about that.
But Eric Schmidt is saying, okay, fine, yeah, but we'll deal with the Democrat underclass immigration is what he's talking about later.
Right now, we need high-skilled people.
And then you're telling me they're being laid off.
So now I got to find out what's up.
Up to me to find out what's what and which is which here.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much, James Patrick in Lompolk, California.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Mega Ditto's there, Sir Rush.
I am an electronics technician.
I work in a small outfit in Goleta, California.
Right now, my company, due to Obamacare, is pulling up stakes and moving the whole operation to Mexico.
They're laying off me and the rest of our crew due to the high cost of the Obamacare mandate and the stop in trade that went in from Jerry Brown's thing.
Why is your company relocating to Meho?
Because it costs too much per worker to keep the facility open here in California.
Well, why not move to Nevada?
Why not move to Arizona?
Why not move to, are you saying, I mean, this is strange?
I mean, I'm two calls in a row here.
The company's health care costs tripled.
Yeah.
No, no, no.
I don't doubt that at all.
That's absolutely true.
That's true for every business.
Everybody's prices are going up.
Even people get subsidized.
And it's not even fully implemented yet.
Your story relates to the individual mandate or the corporate mandate.
But they're pulling up stakes and going to Mexico rather than just shutting down.
What the hell are they going to find in Mexico?
Well, I know they're going to get cheap labor in Mexico, but for what kind of what does your company do?
We make electronic sensors and devices.
They're called encoders.
All right.
Encoders.
So what are you going to do, Patrick?
I'm thinking about maybe looking for work in Georgia.
I hear there's a big tech boom there.
California has just become really too inhospitable for me to live.
California, you know, really is they say it's two states, but it's actually more than that.
In California, you have the San Francisco Bay Area coast and very, very little, but some inland.
Then you've got the L.A., the Southern California coast where you have Hollywood and the entertainment business.
Then down in San Diego, you've got some wealth.
Maybe up in the Humboldt County region where you've got timber, you have some wealth.
But you go inland in California, you've got a completely different state in terms of average income, education, internal, inside the states, a lot of agriculture.
But really, in terms of just wealth distribution, income distribution, the state of California is some of the greatest disparity anywhere in this country.
You're falling victim to it here.
Falling prey to it.
Word, Rush.
Preach the word.
You're telling me here.
And you know what the irony here is?
I'm having to train the Mexican workers who are going to take my job.
You mean the Mexican workers that are going to take your job are being brought up to Lompoc for training?
No, no, not Lompoc.
I live in Lompoc.
I work in Goleta.
They're being brought to Goleta from Mexico.
They're housed in a hotel here that the company pays for, and they come to work, and I train them.
I'm showing them all my skills on how to build things that I build.
I know you're training your replacement.
And then when they move down to Mexico, they're not going to be burdened with Obamacare.
Won't have to, and they'll have a, I understand all that.
I just, I've heard, we lost our jobs to Mexico, Rush.
That's a 20-year-old story.
And it's now starting to surface again, apparently.
I mean, that's NAFTA type stuff.
Singer sewing machine, textiles in South Carolina, North Carolina.
We lost our jobs to Mexico.
Factories, businesses pulling up stakes and moving to Mexico.
They haven't heard much of that in the last six years of the regime.
And now this guy calls and says it's happening with his electronics company.
Well, well, I don't doubt it.
I just haven't heard this one in a while, is all.
Okay, I have now taken the occasion of our obscene profit break and have now discovered the source of my confusion on the H1B visa.
The one thing I misunderstood that our caller was saying, his point was that they are laying off H1B visa employees, Americans, and that they are hiring, this is what he said, less qualified workers.
That's not, that's what I heard him say.
Now, my hearing could have been the problem here.
Instead, what is happening, H-1B visa employees or people that are educated, Americans educated with that degree of prowess in computer science are in fact being let go and they're being replaced or the tech companies want to replace them with H-1B visa holders.
They're looking for the same qualifications that they can pay less.
And I misunderstood him.
I thought he was telling me they were getting rid of highly capable, high-quality people for low-skilled people.
That's what I thought he was telling me.
That was my degree.
That's what it didn't make any sense.
Because I know that all these companies, Microsoft, Google, they're all out there demanding greater allocations, H-1B visas.
They want more immigrants permitted into the country on H-1B visas, the highly skilled, high-educated.
The reason they want the immigrants is they're cheaper than domestic American workers with the same qualifications.
So what's happening is current tech workers, computer engineers and scientists, are being let go, but not being replaced, as the caller said, with low-skilled, uneducated people.
That's what I thought he meant made no sense.
The companies want more H-1B visas granted so that foreign workers of equal talent and education can be hired because they will work cheaper.
And where I misunderstood him was I thought he was saying that the tech companies were getting rid of highly skilled, really good people and hiring unskilled people.
And that's not what's going on.
They want the same quality.
They want the same education.
They want the same engineering skills for half the money.
And they can do that or even less, you know, half the wages by importing foreigners on H-1B visas who theoretically will work for less money than Americans who have the same quality.
That's what the objective actually appears to be.
Yes.
So essentially, the H-1B visa program brings in cheaper workers that are highly qualified that will take the place of current American employees, same qualifications.
And they require less pay because they're immigrants and they'll do anything to get here.
And that's what is going on.
We've straightened it out now.
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