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Sept. 29, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 29, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Greetings my friends, welcome back.
Great to have you with us.
Rush Limbaugh here on the EIB network.
A telephone number, if you want to be on the program, it's 800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
Okay, I looked it up, and our caller from Singer Island was right.
As a Peace in Time magazine, although that piece doesn't get into the stuff about a magnetic core, it's implied.
But it is stated that there is no iron core, and therefore that might be the reason Mars has no atmosphere.
But from whatever I was able to put together on the fly here during the break, Mars does not have a good magnetic field, and it's debatable if it has an iron core.
It's not conclusive, and it makes sense.
I mean, how could anybody really know?
You know what?
One of the sources for what is his models.
Some of the, I'm just reading to you what I found here.
Some of the models suggest that Mars does have an iron core, but it's up for debate.
It is, quote, not settled science.
But there's no consensus of scientists on whether or not Mars has an iron core.
However, Mercury appears to indeed have iron core.
And Mercury has a very high density as well as a magnetic field.
Venus is believed to have an iron core based on planet formation models.
But Mars doesn't have a good magnetic field, and thus it's debatable if it has an iron core.
Jupiter and Saturn have strong magnetic fields, but it's believed that's due to magnetic hydrogen in their cores and not iron.
So what all this adds up to is, look at the word suggests is believed, models point to, nobody knows.
We've had various probes and so forth, but look, I don't want to get too far off the beaten path.
My only point here is, and this is inarguable as far as I'm concerned, there's nobody that could change my mind on this.
And it's not because my mind is closed, it's because I'm right.
And it is this.
Whenever you have a scientist talking about a catastrophic event on Mars brought about, likely brought about by climate change, that's all I need to hear to tell me we have somebody working who is either actively involved or has himself been co-opted and is unaware of it by a leftist agenda that is related to the effort to push this whole notion of man-made climate change on Earth.
And there's only one reason to push that agenda, and it isn't to save the Earth.
It's to coalesce power in as many or as few places as possible.
It's just big government 101.
The good news is, folks, I mean, if you want to look at it in this way, the good news is that none of the other planets have common core.
We're the only one that have common core.
None of the other planets' education systems have been corrupted yet.
Anyway, great to have you back.
The news in the Middle East regarding Putin, I want to stress this again.
I don't want there to be any misunderstanding.
I was not praising Putin as a new humanitarian.
I found it incredible that he's able to assume that role.
Because Vladimir Putin is not a humanitarian.
Vladimir Putin is a tyrant.
He has ambitions and dreams of reconstituting the old Soviet Union.
He thinks that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical disaster in modern times.
He has openly stated this, and he openly has stated his desire to rebuild and reconstitute the Soviet Union, not just Russia, which means reconquering a bunch of satellite countries.
His focus now is in the Middle East.
And the focus in the Middle East is due to one thing, it's oil.
Well, the unrest as well.
But it's also, look at what Putin's been able to do with our help.
He's essentially kicking us out.
We are abrogating any responsibility in the region.
We're abrogating roles that we formerly assumed that were in existence rooted to our moral values, and that is protecting liberty and freedom and sponsoring it and promoting it all over the world.
We now have a leadership that thinks that's none of our business and it never was our business and that we need to pay a price for this assumption that we were special.
And the price that we're paying is the unrest brought about by our exit from the region.
So Putin is able to sound like former American presidents, talking about human rights, the right to life, talking about democratic values and lecturing us and other nations at the UN yesterday's speech.
Do you realize what you've done by basically turning the Middle East over to ISIS?
New York Times, Obama and Putin played diplomatic poker over Syria.
Obama's not even at the table.
You know, Obama, Putin's the dealer, but Obama's not playing poker 21, blackjack, or anything of the sort.
From the Daily Beast, of all places, this is the website started by Tina Brown.
After four years of failure in Syria, Obama looks to Russia and Iran for help.
This is from a website sympathetic to Obama from the first day Obama came on the scene.
When President Obama spoke to the UN yesterday, he opened the door wide to cooperation with Iran and Russia in an effort to end the Syrian civil war that has shattered the Middle East, spawned ferocious new terrorist forces, and driven millions toward the frontiers of Europe to seek safety.
By the way, our policies of abandonment in the region are creating these refugees.
Our abandonment of Iraq has led to the creation of ISIS.
This is not just idle chatter here, folks, and it's not just partisan politics.
These are real-world events that our policies have resulted in.
ISIS is a direct reaction to the U.S. reducing its presence in the region, particularly in Iraq.
Benghazi, that whole thing with Benghazi was in some convoluted way related to Syria.
And Obama's been all over the place in Syria in terms of who we support and who we don't support.
Putin has come in to fill that vacuum as well.
Obama thinks that Assad has to go.
Putin's, oh, no, no, no.
The only way this thing gets stabilized is if he stays as my ally.
So here's Putin making new allied arrangements with Syria and with Iran.
And you cannot take oil out of that equation.
Here is Putin trying to get his hands.
You know, he already controls the flow of natural gas into Europe through pipelines.
Putin single-handedly has the ability to turn off the flow of natural gas into the UK, for example, into the European Union.
He's making moves now to similarly conquer, if you will, the Middle Eastern oil supplies that are currently held by Iran.
But the thing that this Daily Beast story doesn't quite get right, Obama's failures in the Middle East go back much longer than four years.
It was Obama's beloved Arab Spring back in the December 2010 era that started the civil war in Syria in the first place.
Our fingerprints are all over this so-called Syrian civil war because we were sponsoring this great Arab Spring.
What were we told the Arab Spring was?
An uprising of democracy throughout the Middle East by citizens who had been under jack-booted thugs for who knows how long, and it was the exact opposite.
The Arab Spring was the rising of militant Islamic governments and organizations.
Start with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Now, Obama has caved again, and nobody seems outraged about this.
And look, that's understandable, too.
I find it a risk to even talk about this stuff on the radio.
I don't know how many people are interested in this anymore.
What with the excitement going on in the presidential race, all this stuff in the Middle East?
People don't think it's going to touch us.
Who cares?
The only thing they care about there in the Middle East, to any extent, maybe the Iran nuclear deal, and that's a done deal as well.
But it is all related, which is why I'm taking the time to explain the latest machinations of it.
It is all related.
And this migration of all these so-called refugees is huge and holds terrific lessons for us.
It's a precursor.
It's a little look, if you will, at the future, perhaps, in this country.
There are other stories in the stack today.
NBC News, Obama at United Nations, we must stamp out apocalyptic cult ISIS.
You know, Obama is, it's a strange thing with this guy.
He's gone now for even refusing to call Muslim extremists terrorists.
He won't even call ISIS terrorists.
He calls some highly devout Muslim extremists a cult, but he will not call them terrorists.
Now, ISIS is an apocalyptic cult, but the one word he will not use about anybody if they happen to have any ties whatsoever to Islam is the word terrorist or terrorism.
And then he quickly walked it back.
Turns out that it is ignorant.
It's ignorant for non-Muslims to equate Muslims with terrorism.
That's his point.
It's stupid.
Any of you who equate Muslims with terrorism are bigots and short-sighted, and you don't understand what you're talking about.
So I just think this stuff just continues to happen and roll on and around the world, and it's considered like much of foreign policy to be so far away that it is not relevant.
But of course, it is particularly, it is relevant.
Obama's not the last liberal there's going to be.
Because Obama leaving in a year and a half or whatever, he's not the last liberal.
There's Joe Biden out there, and there's John Kerry, and there's Hillary, and whoever else.
The Democrat Party is full of these people.
So the ongoing quest here is to educate, inform, open people's eyes about liberalism and liberals and what happens when these people are in power.
Look at what's happening to the American healthcare system.
Now we've got even more Obamacare co-ops are failing left and right.
The Obamacare system is slowly falling apart.
And we still do not have a Republican opposition party taking advantage of that in a political sense to move in and wipe it out and restructure it and rebuild an American healthcare system that actually works, that is close to affordable, that at least is put on the right path.
There's destruction all over this country.
There's economic melees.
There is an overall decline in the country that the vast majority of the American people sense.
It's reflected in polling data.
There's one reason for it.
Who are the people responsible for this?
You can't say it's the Republicans.
They haven't stood up for anything.
As a result, their fingerprints aren't on anything.
However, their fingerprints are also not on any effort to stop any of this.
I'll tell you what codified this for me, folks.
When I kept seeing stories in the news media about despondent and depressed millennials, despondent and depressed over their futures.
Despondent because they have educations that are worthless.
Despondents because the job market is changing and there aren't very many traditional career jobs or not nearly as many.
The job market is flooded with more Americans not working than ever before.
The welfare state is on the rise.
Everybody understands this is not the way this country works.
And you talk to the millennials and they say, well, I guess the country's best days are behind it.
We kind of just missed it by the accident of our birth.
So a lot of millennials are running around thinking that this great America that they've heard about, they're going to miss it.
They were born too late.
They do not associate current circumstances, whatever they be, economic, political, you name it, with the current administration.
For some reason, they've been convinced that all of this is previous Republican presidents' faults, starting with George W. Bush, and that Obama is some great hero trying to keep his finger at a hole in the dike, doing whatever he can to stop all this from happening, but he may not be able to.
He's rocking and trying, working really hard.
It's absurd.
So that's why I continue the effort here to inform as many as possible about liberalism and about liberals and leftism in general.
Anyway, brief time out.
We've got to take a break.
So an announcement coming later here, not too much longer, but a new Rush Revere time travel adventures with exceptional Americans hit coming up.
Don't go away.
Happy to have you with us.
Yes, we've got news of Trump's tax plan coming up and drive-by media reaction to it.
And there's a lot of conservatives in the commentariat who have uttered words of contempt.
for Trump are now praising him with his tax.
Well, yes, you shall hear shortly coming up.
We also have many in the drive-by media, such as David Rodham Gergen, the dean of conventional wisdom, thinking that Trump's tax plan is very Reagan-esque.
But the point is, when somebody like David Rodham-Gergen says it's Reagan-esque, that's not complimentary to the left.
Reagan, there's no complimentary association possible with Reagan when you're talking about taxes.
They despise Reagan on taxes.
Tax cuts created the deficits in the national debt that still strangle us to this day is what they believe.
Anyway, all that coming up, and I want to get back to the phones first, we'll go to Dodge, Nebraska.
David, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
It's an honored that you're taking my call, sir.
You bet so.
Bitter Klinger dittos from the middle of America.
Bitter Klinger.
Yep, exactly.
I wanted to kind of go back to the climate and the catastrophe and the one-year climate prediction that we never seem to get.
Right.
I'd say that we actually do get one example of one-year attempted prediction, and that comes to us in the form of the hurricane season predictions.
For how many have completely fizzled out?
Well, the only problem with that, and I understand what you're saying, is that they hope for massive hurricanes so they can relate them to climate change.
And in that sense, yeah, if hurricanes were happening, they might have that opportunity.
But does anybody know off the top of your head how long has it been since a major Cat 3 or above hurricane struck land in the continental United States?
It's over 10 years.
Way to go, Mr. Snerdley.
Exactly right.
So over 10 years since a Cat 3 or higher has hit the continental U.S., struck land.
You remember the hurricane season begins June 1st every year, and I'll never forget this.
The June 1st after Hurricane Katrina, media were actually lined up on the beaches here in South Florida, just like they were when we invaded Somalia.
Remember that?
The media got there first.
Dan Rather and the boys were on the beaches as our troops got off the transports and were coming ashore, and the media was trying to interview them.
Our media got their hotel reservations.
They confirmed them with their American Express cards, and they were waiting for us when we arrived.
The media was on the beach with their cameras trained on the ocean horizon.
There were no hurricanes.
They were desperately hoping.
You can look at the National Hurricane Center forecast.
When there is even, you know, there have been two this year.
There have been two tropical storms, both of which fizzled.
Never amounted to anything other than low-pressure thunderstorms.
But so desirous are the people in the crisis business in this country that they were giving us computer models of the direction and the wind speed and all that.
And they were never amounted to anything.
You know, I just, I think, I use the word corruption, and it may be a bit strong.
I don't know.
But this, what's happened is that this way of thinking, the left-wing way of thinking, has just co-opted everything.
And one of the major problems with that is, is that liberalism is a lie, and they know they have to lie, like staging events, like the five-year-old girl approaching the Pope on illegal immigration.
Totally made-up event.
They have to stage these things.
There's nothing in it that you can trust and believe.
It's all smoke and mirrors.
Anyway, back in a second.
Welcome back, my friends.
I'll rush ball with half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is not an exaggeration to say that we are overwhelmed with emails.
Thousands and thousands of emails from children and their parents, and now a number of teachers, an increasing number of teachers from all over the country are emailing us and talking about the Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans children's book series.
And they're writing us to thank us, they're writing to congratulate, they're writing to, they're sending us pictures of themselves reading the books, opening them on Christmas morning, doing school projects related to the books.
It's the most heartwarming thing that you've ever seen.
And we are also being inundated with requests from these same people, kids, their parents, and grandparents and teachers, and asking when the next one is coming out.
Will there be another Rush Revere and Liberty Time Travel Adventure Series with Exceptional Americans book?
Many parents are telling us that for the first time ever, their children are interested in reading the printed word.
Not just an iPad or an iPhone or some digital device.
They're actually interested in reading and in learning history.
And I cannot tell you what a gratifying thing it is to see all of these emails that we are receiving.
The comments and feedback just overwhelm us.
They warm our hearts immensely.
And this whole project has become a commitment and true labor of love because it's a passion of mine.
A passion of all of ours that young people learn, know, respect, and revere the founding of the United States of America.
We want them to know how lucky we all are to be Americans.
We want them to never forget what had to happen in order for this country to exist.
We try to impart to them in language that makes sense to them the miracle that is the United States of America.
The amazing stories, which do not have to be embellished, do not have to be added to in any way, shape, manner, or form that made this incredible country we all live in today.
And all of these emails and all of these requests inspire us to keep going.
And so I've been chomping at the bit here for the past, well, I mean, every time I get a call from a young child wanting to know about the next book, you don't know how I've been chomping at the bit, eager to say, oh, yeah, yeah, it's coming up.
It's right around the corner, but today I can.
Thrilled to finally be able to announce the fourth book in the Adventures of Rush Revere series.
It's available for pre-order right now.
Title of the fourth book is Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner.
Rush Revere and Liberty, a talking horse, brilliant creation, by the way, Liberty, this vehicle that we've created for the talking horse.
By an accidental lightning strike, when he was a young colt, he somehow is able to talk and time travel to anywhere in American history.
And he has his trusty friend Rush Revere, who dresses up like Paul Revere all the time, as a substitute teacher, and takes some students with them now and then.
And so Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner, they travel back, they meet Francis Scott Key and learn the exact things happening as he wrote some of the most iconic words in our country's history.
But it's not just that.
I can't give the whole thing away.
But I do want to tell you that Revere and Liberty take some students back to Philadelphia when founding documents are being written.
And I don't want to give anything away, but this is a major endeavor.
This is what it's all about.
To construct this for 10 and 13 year olds, that's the primary target reader.
We're finding adults that are telling us that they're learning things they weren't taught as they read these books.
The Francis Scott Key Star-Spangled Banner circumstance is woven nicely with modern day events in Washington, D.C., travels to the National Archives.
It's just, folks, I have to tell you, even though I wrote today it's a tour de force, that is just, it's a pleasure to be involved in the project here and to have it be so warmly received by people.
It's heartfelt, it's patriotic, and as I say, I can't give away too much of this here, but there's a field trip to Washington, National Archives.
We're finding children even younger than 8 to 10, 10, 13 that are getting into the books as well and enjoying them.
So for more information or visit rushrevere.com or you can pre-order directly at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books a Million, maybe even iBooks.
Not sure.
Title again is Rush Revere and a Star-Spangled Banner.
It goes on sale a month from today or sometime toward the end of October, roughly a month from today, but the pre-order is here today, and I've been just chomping at the bit, wanting to tell you, because the adventure series rolls on, folks.
And all the thousands of you who've been asking, is there going to be another one, Mr. Wimboy?
We're going to be.
It is, and it's soon to be in your hands.
Now, back to the phones.
This is Taylor, Northeast Maryland.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you waited, and welcome to the program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
It's a great honor.
Thank you, sir.
So, quick question in regards to Trump's tax plan.
Up until this point, Trump has been my guy through and through.
However, when he released his tax plan, I feel in this country there's a huge lack of motivation, we'll just call it laziness to be successful.
And by his giving a 0% tax rate to those that make $25,000 for single or $50,000 for a married couple, how is that going to motivate people to get out there and do better for themselves?
Well, I had the same thought yesterday.
I didn't voice it in the same words that you have here, but I had the same zero tax rate to me is self-defeating.
I think what a 0% tax rate is, sad to say, is pandering.
What is happening with tax policy?
It seems no matter who comes up with a tax plan, no matter who talks about it, it seems that there are some requirements that you must say.
And one of the things you must say is you're going to soak the rich.
No matter who you are, Republican, Democrat, Martian, you have to let people know the rich are not going to get away in your plan, as though they ever do.
And the next thing you have to do is to acknowledge that there are some really, really decent, hard-working, wonderful Americans getting shafted every day, and they're going to be rewarded by not having to pay them.
Well, the fact is that already happened.
I forget the precise stat, but I believe that it's close to 50% of Americans.
I don't know if it's 50% of working or just 50% of the whole population don't pay any income tax.
Now, they pay payroll tax, Social Security, all that, but no income tax.
And I've always believed that there ought to be some skin in the game for whatever reason in your case to inspire work and achievement to escape various income levels.
Because Trump's got some advantages tax plan, I mean, no question, these rates at 10, 20, 30, 40, whatever.
I mean, 30 being the top.
I mean, that's quite motivating to go ahead and go out there and earn dollars if you get to keep 70 cents of every dollar you earn, as opposed to now in many states.
You get to keep 49 or 45 cents of what you earn.
The rest of it goes to various state and federal agencies and taxing authorities and so forth.
Let me take a brief time out.
We'll come back and get into the audio soundbites of the Trump tax plan, so people's reaction to it, and we will mix ours in with all of that.
Sit tight.
Coming right.
Talent on loan from God.
El Rushvo using it wisely here on the EIB network.
All right, let's go to the audio soundbites here.
We have a montage of the media commentariat comparing Trump's tax plan to Ronaldus Magnus.
Now, I don't want to say anything, folks, but we did that here on this program yesterday in great detail.
Yesterday, people, when Trump's tax plan came out, were savaging Trump's tax plan because it went overboard, they said, in taxing the rich.
And I went back and got some Reagan comments, 1985 after his first wave of tax cuts, where he mentioned a number of wealthy corporations and Americans that weren't paying anything, and that just wasn't right.
This whole idea, by the way, that the rich got away with paying nothing during Reagan and his tax cuts, that's one of the many lies that's being told in the history revisionism of the Reagan tax cuts.
The rich are paying a bigger share of the tax burden than they ever have, and it all started with the Reagan tax cuts.
Now, you might say, well, why aren't they mad?
The reason they aren't mad is that they're keeping more of what they earn at the same time.
See, that's the beauty of this.
By lowering the rates, I mean, when Reagan took office, the top marginal rate was 70%.
Now, very few people paid 70%, only the idiots.
And it was the highest bracket, and it took a while to get there.
But there were plenty of options to shelter your income rather than pay that.
But that money, when you sheltered it, went somewhere besides you.
And it did not all go to economic growth or in areas that would contribute to economic growth.
Reagan reduced in eight years, the top rate, 70% to 28%.
The amount of revenue to the Treasury doubled.
So the rich began paying even more in taxes, but only because they were sheltering less.
When you get to keep 82 cents of every dollar that you earn, you'll report earning dollars left and right.
You won't worry about trying to shelter some of it or hide it with deductions.
You'll happily take the simple route, report the income, pay the tax.
And the way it works is the low rate creates economic growth, which creates jobs, which creates more taxpayers, which spreads the taxation burden across more people.
It all works.
It works every time it's tried, but Obama doesn't believe in it.
He's done his best to wipe it out like every Democrat has.
And they get caught up in the fairness of rate percentages rather than revenue generated.
So Obama can look at the capital gains rate at 15% and think the people paying it are uber-rich, and it just isn't fair, even though the rate is creating revenue flowing to Washington like nobody ever predicted before.
But that doesn't matter to Obama.
What matters to him is at 15%, it just isn't high enough.
It's not fair.
It needs to go up to 30%.
And the minute that starts happening, then people stop reporting capital gains.
And the amount of revenue going to Washington plummets.
Well, it may not plummet, but it shrinks.
So there's no mystery to this.
The rich pay a higher share and they end up keeping more of what they earn.
And now, people may, that's not possible.
It totally is possible.
The math is what it is.
Look at it this way.
You'll use even numbers.
You earn $10,000 a year.
And there are five tax brackets.
The highest tax bracket is 80%.
In other words, you would pay 80 cents of every dollar you earned.
But to avoid that, you can invest over here in this charity or that charity or you could some kind of newfangled deduction that's in the tax code so that your income never got to the level requiring you to pay 80%.
Or, and you've structured your life around tax deductions to avoid that 80%, 70% below it, the 60% below it.
You want to pay as little as you can.
You certainly aren't going to be an idiot and pay 80% of your taxes and income.
And it used to be 90% in this country when JFK was president.
90% was the top marginal bracket.
And that's when JFK embarked on Reagan-esque tax cuts, by the way.
Or somebody comes to you and says, you know what, we're going to lower your tax rate.
There's just going to be one that'll affect you, and it's 25%.
Wait, you're telling me that I'm only going to pay $2,500 on this $10,000 I've earned?
That's exactly right.
And the guy's going to say, I'll do that every day of the year.
Now, you're going to lose your deductions.
There's a trade-off for this.
That's fine with me.
It's less work for my accountant.
It's less mess for me.
It's less chance of straight across the, and that's what happened.
So more people started reporting income that was taxed.
Tax revenue went up.
They were paying a smaller rate.
They kept more.
The rich were paying a larger share of the tax burden in actual dollars.
And now the percentages have caught up too.
It worked.
It worked so well, the left had to immediately begin to make up things and lie about it, call it trickle-down, say it doesn't work.
So here comes Trump with his tax plan yesterday.
And here is a commentary at media montage.
Ronald Reagan, when he left office, he brought the top rate down to 28%.
Donald Trump, 25%, just about the same.
Donald Trump's ambitious tax package that many call Reagan big.
Supply-side economics worked so famously in the 1980s and 90s with the Reagan tax cuts, there's a very good reason to try it again.
Just like Reagan.
Equating it to Reagan.
This is certainly Reagan-esque.
Rush Limbaugh said yesterday on his air, the Trump plan is similar to Reagan's 1980s tax proposals.
This is precisely correct.
This is exactly right.
And later on on Fox, this was America's newsroom, Bill Hammer this morning talking with Neil Cavuto about Trump's tax plan.
Rush Limbaugh was on that last point, if you're not paying taxes, what's the incentive to work harder or make more money?
He raises a point here because we've got such big entitlement issues and other spending issues that we all had a seat at this table.
We all pay for a seat at this table, various rates.
To establish when you went through those four rates that one of them is 0% sends a signal now that we're going to put the burden on half the taxpayers of this country to carry the whole load.
And that's a problem.
So that was, I forgot to set it up properly, but that was a discussion of the 0% rate that is in Trump's plan.
And folks, I just, I think that's in there.
This is the first sign of the presence of consultants in the Trump campaign to me.
Because this is structured in such a way as to approach taxation the way we always have.
We simply can't get out of this box.
It's got two ingredients.
The middle class is forever savaged, put upon, taken for granted, never respected.
You pay nothing.
We love you.
We are your champion.
And the rich over here are getting away, Scott, if you're going to soak them.
Those two elements seem to be present in almost any, other than fair tax and so.
But I'm told whenever there's a tax reform plan, those two things politically are required, at least in consultancy 101, if you ask me.
And there's more where all of this came from.
Bill Kristol and David Rodham Gergen praising the Trump tax plan.
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