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April 22, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #2
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The name I was looking for was Herbert Meyer.
Herbert Meyer, a former advisor and analyst of the Reagan years.
And he was the first, back in, it's two years ago now.
Actually had a column.
I forget where it was.
Some newspaper that the greatest unreported story happening at the moment was the elimination of poverty in so many parts of the world.
And it was a huge story, and the reason it was a huge story is the responsibility for it played by the United States, the role the U.S. played in lifting the world out of poverty, just with our decency and goodness, our way of life and the things that we defend and protect, the inspiration that we provide.
And of course, such a story would be papered over and uh and ignored.
And in fact, that news was not welcomed by a lot of people.
The world being in poverty is necessary for organizations like the UN to continue to fleece member member nations like us.
It's just like the race industry needs racial strife in order to profit, in order to stay in business.
The last thing that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton want, for example, is an actual colorblind society.
That would be death knell of their businesses.
And poverty is the same thing, folks.
There are a lot of Democrat Party profits on poverty like you can't believe.
To give you an example, there's no way the Democrat Party wants to eliminate poverty.
If they did, they wouldn't be importing illegal aliens who are unskilled and uneducated and flooding the U.S. economy with them.
They would not be doing this in any way, shape, manner.
They need a permanent underclass.
The Democrat Party needs people in poverty.
So any story that chronicles the rise out of poverty by whole nations or otherwise large groups of people is not something to rejoice over.
And I know that sounds kind of brutal, but it happens to be true.
Now, our last caller, Jerry from Sacramento, he made he made the claim.
I mean, just this is just this is why this woman bores me.
She doesn't any more mean that than if she claimed today that planned parenthood's an enemy, she wants to shut it down, and she's converting to pro-choice.
She wouldn't mean that either.
She's going to say whatever she has to say to shore up her credentials as an extreme leftist because the extreme left is now the mainstream of the Democrat Party.
There is no left wing of the Democrat Party.
The whole Democrat Party is an extremist bunch of radicals now.
And Mrs. Clinton must think, I mean, to come out with some asinine comment like a topple, she's the one percent.
The people she was talking to are in the one percent, the people that she's fleecing.
Donate to her foundation and her husband's foundation the one percent for crying out loud, it's asinine.
But she figures there's enough idiots out there that'll think she can relate to them by saying that she's gonna go out and she's gonna take their money, she's gonna punish them.
I like Hillary, is how it's supposed to work.
It's just it's just mind-numbing and it's audacious ignorance.
Anyway, our buddy Jerry in Sacramento said, responding to this, that if you have any money in your pocket, you're in the 1% of wealth in the world.
If you are on U.S. welfare or U.S. food stamps, you are in the 1%, the top 1% of the world.
And he's not far wrong.
I mentioned Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation, who has I mean, he's practically devoted his life to the study of uh poverty and economics by demographics, and some of the stuff that he's produced.
I I remember in the early 90s when I first stumbled across it.
I started repeating it because it's it it was it was shocking.
It was things nobody else was saying, and it bore up.
I mean, his rigorous uh research had borne accuracy, and it was true, and it contained I just have to create a statistic off the top of my head.
I may not get this exactly right.
Uh, but it was it was Along the lines of how many poor people in America have cars and air conditioning and cable TV versus what real poverty in the rest of the world is all about.
And I happened to just recite what he said, and there was this group called Fair that went out and got with the AP and wrote a story about how I lie and make things up.
And it was a it was a long AP story.
The media picked up on it, and that was the first, that's when they first threw down the gauntlet that I lie and make things up, and I was just quoting Robert Rector.
But they were so frightened by the data that there isn't real poverty in this country.
There is relative to wealth in this country, but around the world, away most people live, there isn't poverty here.
So anyway, during the break, my vast research staff and I, which would be me, dug deep.
And we found out an interesting, discovered an interesting stat out there.
You need you need just thirty-four thousand dollars annual income to be in the top one percent of the world.
And you can do that on welfare and food stamps.
In the United States, you can do, in fact, you can do so well on welfare, you can do better than taking a job.
You can end up living better on welfare than working.
So bastardized has become the U.S. welfare system.
$34,000 a year, you're the top one percent in the world.
Now here's a number that'll shock you.
Now, this number is 10 years old or maybe 15.
It may have changed a little.
But it wasn't that long ago that if you earned $50,000 in the United States of America, you were in the top 10%.
And I'll never forget the first day I used that number.
Snerdley looked at me like I had been co-opted by aliens.
Because it sounds ridiculous.
All you need to be in a top 10% is 50,000.
Yeah, it was a it was a great illustration of the way.
You know, what what average versus mean people live.
Now here's here's a quote from Herbert Meyer when he wrote about this a couple of years ago.
When you stand back from all the yelling and the screaming, you can see what I believe is the most important trend in the world, and the world is emerging from poverty fast.
It's the biggest underreported news story in the world.
By 1980 or 1990, about two billion human beings were out of poverty, and since then another half billion have crossed the line out of poverty, a lot of them in India and China.
In the last six years, 20 million Brazilians have emerged from poverty.
When you put all these numbers together each year, between 50 and 100 million human beings are leaving poverty behind.
He says, if we can continue this trend within our lifetimes, and certainly within our children's lifetimes, the overwhelming majority of human beings will no longer be poor.
And that is the biggest thing that has happened in the entire world.
It was in Forbes.
The column was in Forbes, and it was titled The Next Big Thing from the Official Who Predicted Communism's Demise.
And that's Herbert Meyer.
Herbert Meyer is the uh uh one of the aides to Reagan who predicted that communism, the Soviet communism would collapse on itself by virtue of its own immorality.
The Herb Meyer piece uh interview actually was in Forbes January 3rd of 2013.
Now here's some Robert Rector numbers, and he's the Heritage Foundation scholar who looks into this, and they're from 2011.
The following are facts about persons defined as poor by the Census Bureau as taken from various government reports.
So Rector hadn't made anything up here.
It's Census Bureau numbers.
2011 regime numbers.
80% of poor households in the U.S. have air conditioning.
In 1970, only 36% of the entire population had air conditioning.
But today, 80% of the poor do.
92% of poor households, defined as below the poverty line, 92% of poor households have a microwave.
Nearly three-fourths have a car or truck.
31% of the people living in poverty have two or more cars or trucks.
Nearly two-thirds have cable or satellite TV.
Two-thirds have at least one DVD player, and 70% had a VCR in 2011.
I remember using these numbers what they were back in the early 90s, and man, the left came after me like I was just making it up.
And like that, just using these numbers and believing this just destroyed all of my credibility.
And here with the Daily Mail in March of 2013, the end of the Third World new study shows world poverty could be eradicated in 20 years.
In the meantime, the standard of living in the United States is going the other way.
Not to relive ancient history from the first hour, but there's Mrs. Clinton out there saying she's shocked to learn that small businesses are not being created, that small business uh is vanishing.
People have been telling her this for two years, and she says she didn't know what it meant, and she started looking into it, and she found there's an overall stalled-out U.S. economy.
And that just sent the regime flying into a fit of rage and anger.
But I thought people like Hillary and Democrats, large and small, were I thought they were the ones in touch with the little guy.
I thought Democrats cared so much that they already knew the plight of most people in America.
I thought they already were aware how poor people are, and it's the rich that have caused it.
I thought they were how can how can somebody who claims to be the champion of the little guy, like Mrs. Clinton or any Democrat, come along and proudly admit that she was shocked to learn of the current plight of small business.
I mean, where is the intelligence in even saying it or admitting it?
I mean, you don't well, who is she trying?
There are no coincidences with these people.
So who is she trying to relate to there?
Who is she trying to impress?
Who's she trying to reach out to?
You think the Elizabeth Warren faction?
Well, we'll know that's true if Hillary discovers that she's part Indian.
Well, you laugh, but could you would you be surprised if at some point down the line Mrs. Clinton discovered some Indian blood way, way back in the family trace.
Yeah, you know what?
I was, you know, Bill and I we didn't have anything to do, you know.
The other night, and after we watched the videotape when I was singing at Selma, you know, we went to Ancestry.com.
And I learned, you know, that I'm part Cherokee.
I I don't, don't, you know, you can laugh all you want, but don't.
As they say, rule it out.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm looking at picture here in my formerly nicotine-stained picture of fingers.
I got a picture of four people.
They are all anchors at MSNBC.
Well, they may not all be anchors, but they're anchors or they are paid guests.
They are the Reverend Al Sharpton.
Uh Melissa Harris Perry.
Joy Brown Reed and Touré Niblet, who doesn't use his last name.
He goes by Toure, but I always throw the last name in there.
All four of these anchors paid guests at MSNBC have something in common.
They all owe tremendous amounts of money in back taxes.
Tour Neblet owes the IRS $59,000.
Joy Ann Reed owes the state of New York $5,000 in back taxes.
Melissa Harris Perry owes the IRS $70,000.
She and her husband together.
They're actively not paying their taxes.
And of course, the Reverend Sharpton's tax bill is upwards of three to four million people.
And every one of these people constantly running around talking about how the rich aren't paying their fair share, constantly advocating raising taxes on the rich, and they are the rich.
If you want to start talking about top 1%, top 5%, they're in it.
And they aren't paying their taxes.
All the while demanding that everybody else isn't paying their fair share and needs to be paying more.
And these people are skirting their responsibility.
Let me take a break.
I got to start getting some phone calls in here, but we still got a long way to go.
You got to hear.
You've got to hear Bill Clinton's definition of ISIS.
I'll give you a hint.
To him, they are a brilliantly conceived non-governmental organization.
They are an NGO.
It is just amazing.
Listen to Clinton.
I'll read it to you.
Define the week is our Earth Day Stack.
Already told you more people getting rid of their electric cars and their hybrids.
This is also the anniversary of the day that Elian Gonzalez was stolen from his home in South Florida by Janet Reno and given back to the Castro brothers in Cuba.
And now Elian Gonzalez is uh what, fifteen years older, and he sounds just like a Castro.
The news media went out and found him.
And of course, we chronicled that the tree planted in memorial, the gentle giant in Ferguson, Missouri, has been vandalized, chopped down, stripped of it's just a twig.
Standing there now in a public park in Ferguson.
So don't go away.
Talent on loan from God.
Rushlin Baugh doing what I was born to do.
Host the EIB network.
And here we go to Scott and Visalia, California.
Welcome, sir, and I appreciate your patience.
Hi.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
I think I'll try to get to articulate it correctly, but I think you've already covered it.
Earlier you said the Democrat liberals never have a plan to increase the wealth of the little guy, the middle class.
But I don't think it is anything to do with the plan as much as they can't afford to.
Their whole ethos is based on power for the chosen ones.
Whether it be economics or immigration, the more people you have independently financially well off, the less they need government, the less they need the state and local, the less power and hold they have.
That's exactly.
How many years?
20, 30, 40 years that they had the opportunity to fix immigration and never have.
Because if you fix immigration, truly fix it, they don't need you anymore.
It's like a carrot on the stick.
You get a you give the mule a care a bucket of carrot.
That's exactly right.
You can use any number of examples.
Let's go back to the 1980s.
Look at what happened in 1980s.
1980s top tarp top marginal tax rate 70% in 1981.
By 1989 is 28%.
The amount of money collected by government in those eight years nearly doubled from $500 billion to a trillion dollars by lowering tax rates.
In addition, the tax rates coming down, those tax cuts led to higher employment, lower inflation.
The 1980s were a boom economy.
And the Democrat Party has forever since been rewriting history to cast those eight years as the economic worst since the Great Depression.
You've heard them talk about trickle down doesn't work, Reaganomics, this or that.
They have to make sure that everything that creates prosperity for the greatest number of people is defeated.
The way to say it, I mean, if you really want this to penetrate, I mean, here's a party that sets itself up as the lone, truly compassionate party, that they have the best interests of the lower classes, the little guy, whatever you want to characterize them, whatever you want to call them.
The fact of the matter is the Democrat Party needs people in poverty in order to stay in power.
Just like Jesse Jackson needs racial strife, just like Al Sharpton needs it.
Just like every other civil rights coalition needs people having their civil rights violated.
These are people who earn their living based on this kind of strife.
People who earn their living on the backs of people in poverty.
Frankly, folks, this is one of the things that's so frustrating to me personally as a conservative.
We actually do want the best for everybody.
And we know how to achieve it.
We know that most people left to their own desires, if properly motivated and inspired, will do far better for themselves than if they just sit around slothfully, wait for somebody to take care of them.
And they'll be much better human beings, they'll have more dignity, they will enjoy their life more.
And somehow this is equaled cold-heartedness, mean-spiritedness, and extremism.
When in fact, cold-heartedness is found right there in the Democrat Party, which empowers itself on people in poverty, from people in poverty.
It's obscene, actually.
Anyway, Mr. Schnerdley, you chuckle when I say be on the lookout for Mrs. Clinton to discover that she's uh Indian blood.
Don't forget, back in uh 1999, AP story, August 6, 1999, Hillary Clinton has Jewish roots.
Remember that?
From the article.
In New York, where one of every eight voters is Jewish, it certainly won't hurt that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton can note the Jewish branch on her family tree.
That's right.
She claimed to have Jewish ancestors when she was running for the Senate from New York.
Mrs. Clinton, this is more from the 1999 AP story.
I mean, this is this is choke yourself to death funny.
Mrs. Clinton has very fond childhood memories of the second husband of her grandmother on her father's side.
Max Rosenberg, a Russian-born Jew, said Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for the First Lady's Senate Exploratory Committee.
Wolfson said Thursday, he doesn't expect it'll have an electoral impact, and we don't see it in that context.
Right.
So why talk about?
It's incredible.
And by the way, some some stats from the 1980s, just to back up my claims.
Under Ronaldus Magnus, Ronald Reagan, economics, 1980, black unemployment in the 1980s fell by 20%.
Black unemployment plummeted, like everybody else's did, too, by 20%.
Under Barack Hussein O, also known as the one, black unemployment has increased by 42%.
I mean, the idea that the Democrat Party looks out for the little guy, the Democrat Party protects the little guy, the Democrat Party feeds off of them.
The Democrat Party gets rich off of them.
The Democrat Party keeps them poor.
The Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass.
For a bunch of reasons, not just their votes, but they can point to the underclass.
They blame the Republicans for it.
They blame the rich, they blame the 1%.
Those people, that permanent underclass, they used to have all the money, don't you know?
And the rich came along and stole it.
And trickle down was where the rich were going to give it back.
But it didn't trickle down.
Therefore, trickle down doesn't work.
That's how they bastardized the whole thing.
Just basically lie and make it up.
Kathy in uh Williamsville, New York, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey Russ, how are you doing?
You know, I've been waiting for uh somebody to bring this up regarding all of the uh football uh issues that are going on you know i have two kids that are marines two out of five of them and uh if you went down to Paris Island and and took the uh recruiting class any recruiting class that was there and asked a show of hand of how many played high school football probably all of them would go up because football teaches you that you can go past your physical limits on any given day that you can go up against foes that are bigger and
stronger and better, and on any given day you can win that, and that you never give up.
Football teaches you some very, very powerful things about yourself.
And my daughter is an officer, and she played high school football with the boys too.
And it is that ultimate team experience.
What did she learn?
What did she learn playing football with the guys?
That you just can't ever give up.
That you just have to prepare.
You have to physically prepare.
You have to be mentally strong.
You have to be physically strong.
And there isn't any other sport like it.
She played five of them.
And football is it.
And by encouraging people not to let their kids play football, you cut off that feeder stream of very tough individuals that know that they can go out and battle evil and defend their country.
And I have always felt that right from the beginning.
because you look at the other things that are going on in the military, and it's devastating.
Okay.
Now, let's stop right there, because you've said some, I think, quite interesting things, and some even provocative.
One thing you said that I agree with you on, and I don't disagree with much of what you said at all, if any, but one thing you said is really true, and that is that playing football, you will learn that you are capable of much more than you think you are.
Yes.
They will push you.
A good coach will push you.
You will not be allowed to languish.
You will not be allowed to find your own level in languishing.
live there you will have to pursue the best you can be or you won't be there.
There are too many people that want to play and will be just race past you.
You do learn how much more you are capable of than otherwise playing football.
There are other things that will teach you that about yourself, too.
It's not only true in athletics or strength, physical strength.
There's other any number of things you can do.
This is why great leaders are great leaders and why motivators are great motivators.
They will get more out of you.
If you think back, something I've always said, think back as an adult when you were in school.
Think back to your favorite teacher or your best teacher was.
Probably not somebody you liked.
they got more out of you than you thought you had they enabled you to learn more about yourself than you knew.
They're rare.
People that are that good at motivating and inspiring are rare.
In many cases, you hope it's parents.
And in many cases, it is.
But in a lot of cases, it happens outside the family as well, or in some cases only.
But the reason why we're talking about this is because I led off the program today with a soundbite from Jim Harbaugh, who was profiled on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO last night.
And it's a quick little 11-second soundbite.
And I want you to...
The idea that in...
large percentage of the country what you're going to hear is highly controversial is in and of itself stunning to me.
What you're gonna hear Harbaugh Harbaugh say many in this country are getting their backs up filled with rage and anger and disbelief and they are threatened by this what he said as it was played on HBO on Tuesday night.
I love football love it love it.
I think it's the last bastion of hope for toughness in America in men in males that little 11 second bite if it hasn't yet it is going to become quite controversial.
It already was on that program here's how Bryant Gumbel the host of the program reacted to it when he was talking about all of this with Andrea Kramer who actually was the uh the reporter on the piece.
Andrew I want to make sure I get this right.
Football.
The last bastion of hope for toughness in America in males.
Not exactly a quote for the age of enlightenment.
This is how he feels.
This is who Jim Harbaugh is.
This marks him.
This is exactly who he is.
But this marks him.
Really?
This marks him.
Football, the last bastion of hope for toughness in America in men in males.
Now you might translate that and think and say that Harbaugh thinks the country, the male population is being wussified.
That the male population is being tamed.
The male population is being neutered.
And here comes Harbaugh.
Yeah, well, we got one last hope.
Football.
Football, the last bastion of hope for toughness.
So Harbaugh believes in toughness in men.
He believes in toughness in America.
He believes in toughness in American men.
You damn well want it in your special forces gang.
You want it with the Navy SEALs.
You want it all over the United States military.
You want manliness, you want toughness, you want bravery, you want courage, and yet that's controversial today in the age of enlightenment, as spewed there by Bryant Gumble.
Because in the age of enlightenment, football doesn't have any attributes like this anymore.
No, no, no.
Football kills.
Football leads to permanent brain.
Football leads to suicide.
Football leads to crime.
Football leads to the crime rate among people at play in the NFL is less than the gen pop, the general population.
The numbers have been run.
It's just that people that play football are stars, and as such what they do occurs with greater media scrutiny.
So when one of them happens to engage in some sort of questionable behavior, and it happens to in a lot of people's minds, speak for the whole sport and everybody that plays it.
But in comparison to the male population at large in the country, there is far less criminal behavior and otherwise bad actor behavior than there is in the general population.
I don't care, Mr. Limbaugh.
Football it's scary.
Football concussion to you, thien.
It's brutal.
Mr. Lombois, this is this mean.
Right, Mr. New Castradi.
Exactly right.
And it's under assault.
Anyway, I just I find it fascinating that that little 11-second clip can cause controversy.
It's a great, great, great indication culturally, of uh where we are.
Now I gotta take a brief break.
I'm glad you called Kathy.
Thanks much.
We'll be back.
Okay, Graham Audio son by number 22.
Here is Bill Clinton.
This is yesterday in Washington, Georgetown University, and the uh president delivered the third of his four-part Clinton Lectures series.
And I'm sure he's earning three to five hundred thousand dollars for this, the Clinton Family Foundation, or the library and massage parlor in Arcas, or whatever.
This is the uh the former president.
No, I it these guys, have you ever noticed the left sounds at times like they envy the dictators of the world.
You listen to people like Sean Penn and other Hollywood actors and leftists, they love the Castros.
They loved Hugo Chavez.
And for the longest time, you know, I tried to intellectually understand.
What in the world do these people not get?
These are murderers.
These are people that have torture chambers, political prisoners, and they are lionized.
They're idolized with these Hollywood guys, and they're claimed to be all the answer.
The U.S. is the problem place in the world.
And I finally figured it out.
They're jealous.
They're envious Of the power that a Castro has.
Obama's getting close.
I mean, the U.S. Congress has abrogated so much of its constitutional power.
It's amazing.
It's not going commented on.
Not nearly enough.
Some people obviously are, but it's stunning the way the U.S. Congress is giving up its power to Obama.
We know why, the free the fear and all so forth, but that's for another time.
This is Clinton during the third of his four-part Clinton lectures series talking about ISIS.
You know who ISIS is.
ISIS marches Christians into the Mediterranean or any body of water and drowns them or beheads them.
ISIS are just flat out murdering terror.
Oh, oh!
Speaking of which, you know, I was invited to the Time 100 this year, because I w I made the Time 100 list some years ago.
I think once you've made it, you get invited back.
I have never attended, just like I would never go to the White House Correspondence Dinner.
There was no way.
If if I were RizVipped and said I was going to be there, you can imagine who they would seat me next to, and then they'd all spend the night circling the table waiting for fireworks to erupt.
I've been there, done that.
Not gonna happen.
But I was reading about this year's Time 100 event from uh last night.
And do you know who one of the 100 most influential people in the world was last night?
Was the woman, whoever she, not Michelle Obama, who came up with the save our girls hashtag against Boko Haram in Nigeria.
The woman who came up with the Save Our Girls hashtag, which said by Time Magazine to be among the top one hundred most influential people in the world.
That hashtag accomplished diddly squat.
Now, what made me think of that is Boko Haram, ISIS, Al Qaeda, you know who they are.
So listen to Bill Clinton describe them.
Arguably the most interesting non-governmental organization today which proves the importance of inclusion by its shortcomings, but is formidable is ISIS.
ISIS is a terrorist organization, an NGO trying to become a state.
When they go capture a place, they set up their own judicial system, they set up their own rulemakings, they set up whatever their social services are gonna be.
And the only thing is you can't disagree with them or they'll kill you, as we have seen.
An NGO, do you know what an NGO is?
A non-governmental organization like Fannie Mae.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are NGOs is a non-governmental organiz.
They're government, but they're not.
And it's a broad definition.
Doctors without borders, some people consider an NGO.
But here's the here's the entire that's just part of the sound button.
I'll do it in Clinton's voice.
Now, arguably the most interesting non-governmental organization today, uh, which proves the importance of inclusion by its shortcomings, but is formidable is ISIS.
Can somebody tell me what did he just say there?
Uh arguably the uh the most interesting non-governmental organization today which proves the importance of inclusion by its shortcomings, but is formidable is ISIS.
ISIS is a terrorist organization.
Uh it's an NGO trying to become a state.
That is, they don't recognize any of the boundaries of the Middle East as legitimate.
They were all established, drawn largely by Westerners after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. And so when they go capture a place, they set up their own judicial system and they set up their own rulemaking, and they set up whatever their social services are gonna be.
And no thing is you can't disagree with them, or they'll kill you, as we've seen.
Now, uh We've heard at times that there are days that Bill Clinton's not on his game.
He's just not 100% some days.
How in the world could anybody start?
I mean, this is close to granting them legitimacy in terms of what they seek.
Hey, you know, they're just upset.
These guys, they live there, and they were told what the boundaries are going to be by Western nations after the Ottoman Empire, and they say, hell with that.
But they didn't have the chance to do anything about us.
They have to live in those boundaries they don't agree with, so they're just not accepting them.
And they're running around and they're killing people and to setting things up.
They got their own judicial system, man.
I'd like to be able to do this is unstated.
And and uh, you know, they better you better agree with them.
They'll wipe you out.
They capture a place, they set it back.
I I read this and I why is this there this romanticism to try to humanize these obvious?
Okay, we have uh we come to that point of the program where there's another top of the hour obscene profit timeout.
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