Oct. 8, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast. | |
| Yes, America's Anchorman is still a little under the weather, so this is your official EIB anchor baby, Mark Stein. | |
| Honored to be back behind the golden EIB microphone live from Ice Station EIB in Far Northern New Hampshire. | |
| I had a lot of emails yesterday asking how Rush is. | |
| Well, he uh had a jackhammer headache, uh uncontrollable weeping eyes, and he was uh projectile vomiting, and then the doctor said, Well, you know, maybe you shouldn't listen to the guest host. | |
| I can't remember who was the guest host again yesterday. | |
| Uh anyway, I I I just don't worry. | |
| Rush just has a bad cold and he wanted uh to be here today, but he's still a bit clobbered by this thing, so he's resting up, and we wish him well and look forward to his return for full strength, authentic all American Open Line Friday tomorrow. | |
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| I would love to hear from a Hillary Clinton fan, uh, because they seem to be thin on the ground, and uh even thinner on the ground if if they're male. | |
| There's a big big story uh in uh National Journal today uh headlined Hillary Clinton's Problem with Men, which is basically an echo of the Slate story about Joe Biden's problem with women yesterday, uh Hillary Clinton's problem with men. | |
| But there's also other developments on the email front. | |
| Uh the uh they now have evidence that uh a cyber attacks on her email server uh were uh originating in China, South Korea, and Germany. | |
| These are the ones that they know about once she got some product uh uh that allegedly makes you secure from these things, and and that they can identify where the attack is coming from. | |
| My website uh was has been attacked a couple of times from Iran for some reason. | |
| I don't know what these mullers are so uptight about. | |
| Uh but they can identify the source of the threat, and these threats uh came from China. | |
| These attempted cyber attacks on her server came from uh China, South Korea, and Germany. | |
| Um as I said yesterday, you know, in a sense the the criminal investigation, the FBI investigate, the FBI is now sending agents into the State Department to seize computers to identify uh emails and email chains from the Clinton era. | |
| This is the woman who is running for president as heir presumptive to Barack Obama and the FBI are going into the State Department and taking away computers. | |
| And I reckon she can probably weather all that. | |
| Uh the problem is that the email scandal and the email criminality, w for which someone almost certainly will be going to jail for now. | |
| It's just the Clintons are holding uh meetings in uh Chapaca to identify who is going to be their designated fall guy for this. | |
| But that distracts from the fact that uh even without the email scandal, she's a terrible candidate. | |
| This is what this Hillary Clinton's problem with men story is all about. | |
| Uh that she does w uh she does as badly with men as Republicans do with Hispanics. | |
| Uh and that this g this gets to the point about, you know, why uh people are worried about Trump becoming the nominee because he is high unfavorables, which might matter in certain elections. | |
| It would matter if he were running against Bill Clinton, say, but it doesn't matter if you're running against Hillary Clinton and you look at her unfavorables with men. | |
| And it helps to explain by the way why the whole Hillary is first female president uh hasn't worked to her advantage 'cause sh uh because of these huge colossal negatives she has among Democrat men. | |
| Uh and that's why it doesn't matter going for a Bernie Sanders or a Joe Bar uh Biden. | |
| These are both, you know, whatever they are now, eighty-seven-year-old white men. | |
| Because in the Democrat Party, a man is like a woman anyway. | |
| So he doesn't he's not threatening or Menacing uh in in the same way because he's a nice, sensitive new man type. | |
| So uh so so in other words, it's easier for Bernie Sanders to win over women than it is for Hillary Clinton to win over men. | |
| So she's got these ma this male problem, she's got this other problem on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, where she was before it or she was against it. | |
| Anne Marie Slaughter, who's a an aide to Hillary, was on NPR yesterday, and I think it was yesterday, and she was uh uh maybe the day before. | |
| And she was asked to identify uh what Hillary Clinton's accomplishments were, because as Carly Ferina likes to say, uh flying is not an accomplishment. | |
| She flew everywhere, but what did she do? | |
| She had the reset button uh with uh with Russia, which Putin is now using to conquer the entire Middle East as well because he's basically done wrapping, he's wrapped up Ukraine, so he's now moving on, getting those warm water ports in Syria shored up. | |
| So that's the reset button in Russia. | |
| What has she got to show for it? | |
| And eventually Anne Marie Slaughter said, Well, she laid the groundwork for this fabulous Trans-Pacific Partnership. | |
| And uh apparently unaware that Hillary has revised her position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and she's now against it. | |
| She was before uh she was for it before she was against it. | |
| Now I don't I don't hold uh either of her positions on the Trans-Pacific Partnership against her, because we all know Hillary Clinton doesn't have a position on the Trans Pacific Partnership. | |
| Bur Bernie Sanders is a genuine socialist. | |
| He he is a socialist, he has always been a socialist, he is a philosophical socialist, he wants to implement it, he believes in it, he wants to spend twenty trillion dollars establishing a socialist America. | |
| Uh that's who he is. | |
| Uh, and he's unashamed about it. | |
| Uh Hillary Clinton doesn't believe in anything except that she should be president and uh she and her family should go around living like kings on somebody else's dime. | |
| That's Hillary Clinton's only core belief. | |
| You know, all this I'll never stop fighting for you. | |
| I'll never stop fighting for you. | |
| Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton believes in the Clintons. | |
| That's all. | |
| And she believes she believes in particular that she is entitled to be the next president. | |
| She has no core beliefs to betray. | |
| None. | |
| And uh and so it's not worth wasting time on what is her genuine position on this Trans-Pacific Partnership. | |
| Because she doesn't have one. | |
| But what this uh aid of hers uh touting on NPR, the Trans-Pacific Partnership as one of her great accomplishments, laying the groundwork for it, tells you this. | |
| It tells you that she can't, even as an unprincipled cronyist sleazy low life, she still can't be a competent, unprincipled crony, sleazy low life. | |
| Uh it's all very well saying, oh, w what we need in America right now is an unprincipled crony, sleazy low life. | |
| But we're entitled to a competent unprincipled crony, sleazy low life. | |
| And what this tells you when uh on the eve of her disavowing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, you've got someone going out on national radio talking it up as one of her great accomplishments. | |
| What that tells you is that this uh there is no control, there is no authority, there is no organism organization in her campaign. | |
| That in itself tells you why she's going nowhere. | |
| Uh but this uh this story about her poor numbers with men is uh is very revealing, and we'll get to that uh later in the show today. | |
| Uh we have some breaking news from uh just uh about forty-five minutes ago was revealed that Amon First Class Spencer Stone, who uh uh was one of the guys who uh helped take down that gunman uh on a uh train going from uh the Paris Amsterdam train as it was passing through Belgium. | |
| Uh he he tackled this gunman uh and he survived happily, and he was awarded the Legendhoner by uh President Hollande in Paris, and he was stabbed uh last night outside a uh Sacramento bar. | |
| They did not think he would survive. | |
| Uh this Was uh in the early hours of Thursday morning, they didn't he suffered multiple stab wounds to the torso, and police initially thought it was a homicide investigation, but he's apparently in stable condition now, and it looks like he will pull through. | |
| Um it's it's a remarkable uh situation because if you recall the the the shooting in Oregon uh that uh that the president's going to uh be speaking about occurred in the college town attended by Alex Scarlatos, who was another of the uh men involved in pushing back on this Paris uh uh Amsterdam train against this armed gunman. | |
| So these guys have a uh an actuarially unlikely uh uh rate of uh suffering uh for what they uh helped do on this uh on this uh French train. | |
| But he has been stabbed in the chest. | |
| And uh I find this interesting because all the talk now is of gun control, gun control, gun control. | |
| This guy is lucky to survive multiple stab wounds to the torso. | |
| Uh we have a situation in uh in Jerusalem right now where they've had this series of really vicious stabbings where people are just and uh sometimes not even stabbing with knives, they're just using screwdrivers and whatever they have to hand, where basically uh Muslims are stabbing Jews with whatever they they have to hand uh in in uh in Jeru Jerusalem, and yet the president is still talking uh about gun control, as if gun control is going to be the answer to anything here. | |
| And I would like to uh talk today about what Ben Carson said, because Ben Carson has got Ben Carson, people can have their views on him as a presidential candidate, but there's two things that are characteristic of him. | |
| He's he's thoughtful. | |
| He's genuinely thoughtful. | |
| He's a soft spoken man, but he's a thoughtful guy. | |
| Uh genuinely thoughtful, not just poser thoughtfulness like uh Obama. | |
| And he is he is he actually gave an answer that showed he'd given some thought to what happened at this community college in Oregon. | |
| And he has been pillaried for it, whereas it's absolutely the sort and I'm gonna defend him today because it's absolutely the sort of thing you should be able to say. | |
| Because it's more important, it's more important than just striking an attitude about how beastly guns are all the rest of it. | |
| Because d two things you can say, even if you look at it from the Democrats' point of view, if you ban all guns tomorrow, there's still going to be over three hundred million of them in the country. | |
| Uh if you were to do what the President seems to be hinting at, you would because he keeps citing uh British and Australian examples. | |
| If you were to embark on a gun confiscation program, there's still going to be three hundred million guns to confiscate. | |
| That is going to be a hell of a big government program if he were to try and implement it. | |
| If you were to look at it from a uh a pro-gun point of view, which is to say, look, okay, you've got thirty-seven uh gun laws that criminals break, so let's pass a thirty-eighth gun law, and they're this this will the thirty-eighth gun law will be the charm, and they won't break this one. | |
| Uh if you look at it from from a pro-gun point of view, uh criminals break all existing gun laws, and they'll break whatever gun laws are passed. | |
| So we're still gonna have things like what happened in Oregon. | |
| So the question is, what do you do about it? | |
| Ben Carson gave an honest and thoughtful answer. | |
| He in fact was one of the few politicians in either party to actually give some thought to the question and offer a practical solution, and he's been pillared for it. | |
| And that's exactly what is wrong with our our political discourse. | |
| So I want to uh say a word about Ben Carson and defend him on this position when we get back. | |
| 1800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for rush. | |
| Hey, Mark Stein uh in for rush. | |
| While we're speaking about all the other ways apart from guns, you can die. | |
| Uh the Associated Press has a story today that uh over one it turns out over one thousand three hundred and ten people were killed during a crush at the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca a couple of weeks ago. | |
| That's five hundred deaths more than the official death toll that Saudi Arabia gave, uh, because like uh uh get getting the getting the corpse count correct to the nearest five hundred is apparently beyond the capacities uh of the House of Saud. | |
| But instead AP went through the death totals from just seventeen of the more than 180 countries that sent pilgrims to the Hajj. | |
| And Iran alone had 465 of its citizens killed in this crush. | |
| Egypt had 148. | |
| Indonesia had 120. | |
| Boom boom boom. | |
| Next thing you know, it's uh one t at least one thousand three hundred and thirteen people die in a crush at the annual Hajj pilgrimage uh to Mecca. | |
| So maybe we need Hajj control. | |
| Maybe we just need to put some Hajj control uh laws in place that would prevent uh one thousand uh three hundred and thirteen people at least, and they've only counted from seventeen of the one hundred and eighty countries uh represented uh uh at the Hajj. | |
| Uh maybe we w maybe we need to have Hajj control. | |
| Maybe it's uh you know, the the way the Confederate flag killed all those people in that black church uh in uh in Charleston, maybe uh maybe uh it's the Quran that should be blamed for killing all these people, one thousand three hundred and thirteen people at least in this Hajj in Mecca. | |
| That's that's uh that's the latest death count. | |
| By uh and again, by the way, do you remember that little boy who was on all the front pages of the newspapers about three weeks ago? | |
| A four-year-old boy who drowned, his father was taking him from Turkey to Greece as part of all these big migrations to get into Europe. | |
| And this four-year-old boy drowned, and he washed up on the beach, and the world's photographers all photographed his poor little four-year-old body on the beach, and it was all used as a form this is an indictment of the entire Western world and the heartlessness of the rich world in doing nothing for this little dead four-year-old boy who's on the beach, and we're photographing him, and we're putting his picture on the front pages, and he's leading all the nightly news shows and all the rest of it. | |
| And that one little boy, you know, this is uh who was it uh Stalin? | |
| One death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths is a statistic. | |
| The death of this one little four-year-old baby boy is an indictment of the entire Western world. | |
| But the death of uh at least one thousand three hundred and thirteen people uh during the annual Hajj uh to the holy city of Mecca is just business as usual in Saudi Arabia, so nobody cares about that. | |
| But we've been talking, we were talking about the the other ways to kill people, like this this poor airman Spencer Stone just stabbed in Sacramento. | |
| And what those guys did on that French train is there was a gunman, and they rushed him. | |
| Uh the three Americans and a uh British businessman and some other middle class professor, I think it was, joined in. | |
| And they did something that that's that's right. | |
| You can't the the most important vital moments are when uh these kind of incidents begin, and before the guy has managed to get control of the situation, taken control of the room. | |
| Your best chance of staying alive is to act in the first few seconds. | |
| And that's what Ben Carson was saying. | |
| You have to you have to rush him. | |
| You have to do what those guys did on that French train. | |
| Everyone thinks, because the three uh Americans, two of them were connected to the armed forces. | |
| Everyone sort of thinks vaguely they must have had guns on them. | |
| No, the guy had the guns, they were unarmed railroad passengers, and they decided to to act, and they knew to act, and they rushed him. | |
| And that's what matters, and that's what Ben Carson is saying. | |
| He's not saying anything bad about the people who died, but he's saying that these things are going to occur from time to time, and you have to give some th we give some thought to all kinds of uh we worry all that we tell we fill our young people's up. | |
| I was talking about it yesterday, we're about climate change, which in the year 2100 could affect sea levels in the Maldives. | |
| And we teach our young people to worry all the time about sea levels in the Maldives in the year 2100. | |
| Uh who knows what'll happen in the year 2100. | |
| Sea levels in the Maldives might well be fine. | |
| And anyway, it's a very small population, and they're all Sunni Muslims, so they can all just move to Dearborn, Michigan, and they'll fit right in. | |
| Uh so we teach them all the time to worry about that, but but we don't treat we don't teach them to worry about something that again is unlikely, but does actually happen from time to time. | |
| And that's what Ben Carson was doing. | |
| What matters is the vital first few seconds uh when some when somebody does something like this. | |
| You have to move fast before he takes control of the room, when he still hasn't got his landscape figured out, and uh how many guys are on this side of the room and how many girls are on that side and uh and where the doors and the windows all are. | |
| Before he's taken control of the environment, that's when you have to act. | |
| And that's what Ben Carson was saying. | |
| We are breaking news. | |
| Kevin McCarthy, who I was talking about yesterday, put his foot in his mouth over that Benghazi business, has dropped out of the race to succeed John Boehner as speaker. | |
| Kevin McCarthy has just dropped out of the race. | |
| We'll talk about that and all the rest of the today's news straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show. | |
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| Uh as I said, we got breaking news just a couple of minutes ago. | |
| Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, has withdrawn from the race for house speaker. | |
| Uh not entirely due to my attacking him yesterday for his remarks on Benghazi. | |
| I think other people were finding it a bit difficult too. | |
| Amy from California, uh, I don't know whether she's one of his constituents, but she called from his home state to defend him yesterday, but it was not enough. | |
| And Kevin McCarthy is withdrawn from the race. | |
| Jason Chaffetz, uh who is also in the race, he's an interesting fellow because he was actually targeted. | |
| He was leading these investigations into the Secret Service. | |
| Uh, you know the Secret Service who uh uh had the big Cartagena Hooker scandal. | |
| They're taking all these uh hookers, uh they were on an advanced trip to secure Carta Jana for the president's visit and avail themselves of some of the most uh expensive hookers in the city. | |
| And uh the uh as a result I love you have to love the way big government responds to these things. | |
| Big government then it the Secret Service introduced a program making it uh uh m forbidding Secret Service agents from having foreign nationals in their rooms. | |
| The issue is not that they're foreign hookers, the issue is that they're hookers. | |
| Uh and it's not an improvement to say, well, now when they're on a top mission with the president on the other side of the world, we're gonna send some Cleveland hookers to keep him company in the evening. | |
| That is not the answer to this. | |
| So anyway, Jason Chofitz has been leading the investigation into this, and in return, the Secret Service improperly accessed all his personal information and try to find something on him that they could stitch him up for. | |
| So it would be very interesting to see what's gonna happen uh if he were to emerge as speaker. | |
| But anyway, that is the breaking news. | |
| Kevin McCarthy has withdrawn as speaker. | |
| I was saying I was talking I was defending Ben Carson uh who was saying that uh you should when you when you're in this situation, you gotta rush the guy. | |
| Uh you don't want it you don't want him to to be able to have the time to take charge of the room. | |
| The most important thing is to recognize who he is. | |
| He's a man who wants to kill people, and the likelihood is he's gonna kill people, and so you don't want to make it easier for him to kill people. | |
| You don't want to do the shelter in place when you don't want to t do the get under the desk thing. | |
| They did everything he said uh at a um college in Kenya uh uh a couple of months ago. | |
| I have a uh a a young lady uh over in that part of Kenya who writes to me all the time, and uh she was ex very devastated by what happened at this this college. | |
| Uh and then he asked them all, once they were all cowering and in position, he asked them all to identify uh whether they were Christian or Muslim, and he killed all the Christians. | |
| Um there was a uh a worst case uh in uh the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. | |
| A guy walks into the room, uh he tells the uh boys to go to one side of the class, he tells the girls to go to the other side of the room, and then he uh tells the boys to leave the room and they go outside and they wait in the corridor, and he shoots all the women. | |
| And when he's finished shooting all the women, he walks out of that room into the corridor, past all the so-called men, and not one of them does a th to stop him. | |
| And that guy was uh Gamil Garby, he was the uh uh son of an Algerian Muslim wife beater who evidently had issues with women, and uh the left uh up north as down here never wastes an opportunity. | |
| So they use that as an opportunity to institute a gun registry and to denounce the violent testosterone rage in all Canadian men. | |
| That story actu actually exemplified the lack of testosterone that these men, quotes, uh uh meekly obeyed, having separated themselves from the women, meekly obeyed the order to leave the room and then stood passively in the corridor as he shot all the women. | |
| The most vital time in any of these situations is the first few seconds. | |
| And somebody says, somebody uh criticized Ben Carson who was at the college and says you wouldn't know well, you wouldn't know what it's like. | |
| It's all very tense, it's all very traumatic when it's there, when it's happening. | |
| And that's true. | |
| And that's why we should teach people uh how to think about these things before it happens. | |
| And that's what Ben Carson is is doing. | |
| He's saying, look, everyone complains about these these gun shootings. | |
| Every time they occur, oh, some school here, some college there, some church there. | |
| Well, why don't we actually accept that there are these people in our society and they're gonna be trying this once every six months, once every four months, somewhere it's gonna happen. | |
| Why don't we think about it and actually have a strategy for dealing with it? | |
| Don't let the guy take control of the room. | |
| Uh charge him. | |
| You're odds are actually pretty good if you if you think about it, if you act in the first few seconds, and you do it before he's had a chance to take control of the room. | |
| Ben Carson said about the only useful thing that anyone has said in this whole in all the pitiful sound bites where people are just like the president rushing to the airwaves to default to his anti-gun thing. | |
| Ben Carson actually said something of practical value. | |
| Uh and and it is a practical value. | |
| I uh I went to uh I was in Iraq about a month after Saddam Hussein fell. | |
| Uh I was on I was there on my own. | |
| I drove over the border uh from Amman. | |
| And I didn't give a lot of thought to it, except I d I'm not a brave guy, I'm not particularly in shape. | |
| If I have to run a long distance, I I get rather uh yeah, I'm get rather out of breath and puffy, so I'm not terribly nimble when it comes to running away from danger. | |
| But I gave a bit of thought uh to what would happen if things turn bad uh and remembering what happened to Daniel Pearl and all the rest of it, you think to yourself, you don't want to get in the car. | |
| If you get in the car with these guys, you're dead. | |
| So you've got to give some thought as to what you're gonna do if they're trying to force you to get into the car. | |
| Uh and as it turned out, I did have an uh uh awkward incident at an a an abandoned rest area uh on the main road from uh Rutbar to Baghdad. | |
| Uh and as I said, I'm not a brave guy, I'm not a uh fit guy, I'm not uh in SEAL team six, but like Ben Carson, I want to live. | |
| And uh and I think about these things and the decisions you make in the first few seconds, which is his speciality. | |
| He's operated on people who are on the verge of death. | |
| And anyone who's been in in an operating room uh knows that uh something you you plan your operation, it's g it's gonna take so many minutes, you're gonna do this, you're gonna do that, and then something happens. | |
| There's something three quarters of the way through, something funny goes on, and uh, you know, we've all seen on the hospital dramas. | |
| Oh, we're losing him, we're losing him. | |
| And Ben Carson has been in that situation and knows that in those sp in that split second the decisions you make will determine whether somebody lives or dies. | |
| And that's what he was doing when he gave his answer on what people should do in this college situation. | |
| Uh he he thinks a lot about life and he understands that the most important decision in in those situations is when you act in the first few seconds before the guy has taken control of the situation. | |
| Uh and Ben Ben Carson, I'm not saying I support him for president. | |
| Um I've got a lot of problems with him when he talks about foreign policy and everything, but on this issue, he's getting a bum rap from almost everyone in the media. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush will take your call straight ahead. | |
| Hey, you're listening to America's number one radio show, Mark Stein, in for a cold stricken rush. | |
| Let's go to Dennis in beautiful San Diego. | |
| Dennis, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show. | |
| Good morning, sir. | |
| I'm a first-time caller. | |
| Um I'm uh answering your invite for any Democrat Hillary supporter to call in. | |
| I happen to be a marine veteran, an ex cop, a Democrat, and I support the next nominee and the Democratic ticket for the 2016 election, which I believe is going to be Hillary. | |
| And why do you support Hillary? | |
| For the same reason I support the Democratic Party, national defense and labor issues are the two biggest issues to me as a Democrat, and the number one reason I'm a Democrat is I firmly have always believed and always will believe that in addition to faith-based assistance, our country must always uphold the assistance to our poor those in poverty here on American soil. | |
| And and why do you think Hillary, as I I'm interested to know why you think Hillary will do better than that than Bernie Sanders. | |
| Bernie Sanders is uh full bore socialist. | |
| He's all for redistribution to the poor. | |
| I believe uh that Bernie Sanders is a fine man and if he's uh nominated, I will support him. | |
| Um as regarding uh chillery, we'll there's only gonna be one nomination. | |
| And that's the one that I will support. | |
| Um will they so you you're you're probably will. | |
| You're for the Democrat now nominee whoever it didn't. | |
| You say you want to help the poor and whatever. | |
| Uh what do you what do you mean by that? | |
| Because the problem right now in America uh is that uh if you're born in the uh bottom twenty percent in America, you're more likely to be stuck there than if you're born in the bottom twenty percent in any Western country. | |
| I'm going from the OECD statistics in Geneva on uh the world's economies. | |
| If you're born in the bottom 20% in America, you're more likely to be stuck there than if you're born in the bottom 20% in in most other countries. | |
| And so we're turning into uh it that then even in then the United Kingdom, for example. | |
| It's easier to go from some broken down council flat to Downton Abbey than it is to go from the bottom twenty percent uh and and get out of it now in the United States. | |
| That's the American dream dead, as Donald Trump said. | |
| So why would you have Hillary who embodies crony Capitalism, the the crony capitalism, the credentialism, the rule by Ivy League experts that keeps the bottom 20% in the bottom 20%. | |
| Why would you think that that's going to do anything for poor people in America? | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| Well, let me put it in this perspective. | |
| I raised three children by myself for 15 years in poverty. | |
| I worked very hard to provide. | |
| And many times here in America, just the way my dad taught me the lessons of the Great Depression that he survived in. | |
| And for the very same reasons, sometimes right now, today, this very moment, kind of like with Mr. Dr. Carson was talking about. | |
| When something happens like right now, there are all over America people who need today, right now, a gallon of milk, some meat, fruit, vegetables, food, and and a roof over their head. | |
| Yeah, there's try to make their way up, sir. | |
| That's the same thing. | |
| That's true. | |
| There's four there's just under fifty million people on food stamps. | |
| There's the entire Obama was sneering at Rutherford B. Hayes a couple of years ago. | |
| There's the entire population. | |
| Rutherford B. Hayes, if he came back today, would be amazed that the entire population of the United States in his day is now living on food stamps. | |
| What I want to know is what gets you off food stamps, the way you said you had it tough. | |
| You uh you were raising three kids on your own as a single dad and all the re uh and all the rest of it. | |
| What gets you out of that is having economic opportunity. | |
| I mean, the United States already, if you look at government expenditures per person, the United States spends more than France. | |
| It spends more than Germany, it spends more than Italy, it spends more than Canada, it spends more than Spain per person on government programs. | |
| In in uh in Canada, it's about uh sixteen and a half thousand dollars. | |
| In America, it's uh over nineteen thousand dollars. | |
| But you're saying America already uh spends more on uh on per person government expenditures than any other Western nation, but we still need to spend more still. | |
| Well, to c what I was saying is we need to continue it and not to cut it. | |
| Um just using my own history as an example, um when those times came, and I was very deeply grateful for the help, so that I could keep a roof over our head and buy groceries. | |
| Now, the way I climbed up, you are right. | |
| It was it was by working hard in a job and then using that to get uh uh a work history going and then working my way up higher to a better job and then living a better life in a in a better environment for the kids. | |
| You are right about that. | |
| But it uh what I'm what I'm saying to you, sir, is that it takes both. | |
| It takes the combination of those good paying jobs and the assistance for the ones that are at the bottom level right now, and their kids can't wait until the next congressional election. | |
| No, their kids can't here here's what their kids can't wait for. | |
| Uh their kids are stuck in a in a public school system uh that is one of the worst in the world. | |
| And that to take your point about how we need to use in effect more tax dollars, we tr need to transfer more money uh to help poor people. | |
| Uh America spends more per student on public education than anywhere except Switzerland, and the Swiss have something to show for it. | |
| We don't. | |
| Our our uh our our grades are mediocre. | |
| The longer you spend in the Americ uh at elementary at the grade three tests internationally, we're kind of competitive with developed nations. | |
| By the time you get to middle school, we're going down uh into the toilet. | |
| And uh and we spend more than anyone except Switzerland. | |
| So are you saying we should be spending more than Switzerland? | |
| Because we got nothing to show for it. | |
| No, sir. | |
| I'm saying we should continue what we have and build from there as far as I mean the families to build themselves up from there. | |
| Okay, okay, Dennis. | |
| We got we got to take a break, but thank thanks for your call. | |
| I think you'll find though, even in Democrat terms, if you seriously want to have a more redistributive nature uh society, you're better off uh with Bernie Sanders than you are with Mrs. Clinton, who basically her her approach to redistribution is it gets redispute redistributed to the Clinton Foundation uh that redistributes it to Bill Hillary and Chelsea. | |
| That's how redistribution works at that end of the Democrat Party. | |
| We'll be back in just a moment. | |
| Kevin McCarthy has withdrawn from the race to succeed John Boehner, and the election's been postponed, which means that John Boehner, amidst all the tears, there were apparently people left the room crying at the Republican caucus. | |
| Amid all the tears, John Boehner says he's staying until whenever the postponed election comes. |
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