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Oct. 28, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 28, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #2
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I'll tell you, this is classic.
You just don't see this.
I don't recall ever having seen anything like this.
I'm sure I have.
I just don't recall it.
It's that unique.
It's that rare what Donald Trump did when he found out he was losing in Iowa.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, big Republican debate tonight.
And this is in um it's Colorado, right?
In Boulder, Colorado.
CNBC has the debate tonight.
Trump, incidentally, by the way, he's not, this is not what I was referring to.
But he's he's already predicting CNBC is going to be unfair to him.
This is I I think it's smart.
I I think I've always, you know what I've found with I shouldn't give this away.
Well, what does it matter?
I don't do these interviews anymore anyway.
So what is it?
I have always found.
Took me a while to learn this.
The media never want you to be able to predict what they're gonna do.
I uh what Trump is doing.
I know they're gonna be unfair to me.
I know they're gonna be unfair.
Everybody knows it.
You know it and I know it.
Here I am leaving everywhere, and they're gonna be using fake polls, rig poles, and they're not gonna give me a fair shake because they don't want me to, they don't want me to be the guy.
It's a brilliant thing to do.
The media does not, since Trump has called them out.
Uh what I have found when you call them out that way, they will go in a different direction just to make sure Trump is not perceived as having been right about them.
But there's something else that Trump did that you just don't see.
And by the way, a lot of people who hate Trump cannot believe he did it.
When he found out that he was losing in Iowa.
He went to Iowa and said, You this, you you can't let me down like this.
I I I you you gotta you you I have to win here.
I promise you I'll do a good job.
What do you mean?
You can't abandon me like this.
We're on a roll here.
Most candidates wouldn't get anywhere near acknowledging that they were losing all of a sudden anywhere, particularly in Iowa.
They go up, they'd talk, and they would pretend they don't even know what the polling data is.
It's so far above it and so far removed, and it's so inconsequential, they wouldn't even mean it.
But Trump goes up there and reaches out to to Iowans personally and say, Come on, you gotta get me over the finish line here.
I'll do the best job anybody would ever do for you.
And I guarantee you that a lot of media people who hate Trump who thinks the think he's this wealthy buffoon that's uh distant and removed are gonna look at that or probably have looked at and said, whoa, this is incredibly personal.
And you know what it you know what it also is?
In many people's view, I don't think in Trump's case it is, but they will say, Why look at Trump?
He's exposing his vulnerabilities to people.
That takes real courage.
That's not the Donald Trump that we know.
Let's go to the audio sound bites and I'll show you that which I am talking about and that which I mean.
First, in Sioux City, Iowa last night.
Trump spoke.
This is uh just a quick 14-second starter piece.
You remember the heat I took with illegal immigration.
Remember that heat for two weeks, Rush Limbaugh said he has received more incoming than any human being I've ever seen.
And then he doubled down.
He thought it was pretty good, and he's good.
Really good.
There you go.
So Trump goes to Iowa, down in the polls.
Says, you know, I need to do some things to get back my popularity here.
So that was his starter.
I think this is if it's not a first, it's really rare and unique, and you don't hear politicians, which is key, do this.
He went to Iowa.
He went to Sioux City, and he scolded them at first for abandoning him.
And after scolding them, he asked, What are you doing?
There's nobody better than I am.
I'll do a great job, I promise you.
Listen to this, see what you think.
Will you get the numbers up, Iowa, please?
This is ridiculous.
I am second.
It's not like terrible, but I don't like being second.
In most polls, I'm number one.
Now, until Iowa came along, I said every poll.
And then Iowa came.
What the hell are you people doing to me?
I refuse to say, get your asses in gear.
I will not say that.
So will you please do me a favor and work with my people and go out on February 1st and vote and give us a victory.
When I heard the poll today, they said, What are you going to do?
I said, I'm going to work harder in Iowa.
I'm not leaving Iowa.
Now, if I lose Iowa, I will never speak to you people again.
And I guarantee you they ate it up.
And not in our bite was when he went and said, I promise I'll do a great job for you.
I'm the best you've got.
I'm the best run, and I'm I'm gonna make the country great again.
I'll work for you, I'll make it, I'll really do the best I can for you.
And remember, over here, there is speculation, and you're gonna have this with every poll, so I I I don't want to give too much weight to it, but uh people are some raised eyebrows about the polling data that shows Trump.
I mean, he's down big, 14 points to Ben Carson, and some people say that just not maybe five.
What is this 14 points?
Uh this is this is when it's the only place, the only place Trump's down 14, and others people well come, yeah, because look at Carson is a is is is big, devout seventh-day adventist, he's advertising his Christianity.
Uh Hawkeye cocky gores on the Republican side are traditionally conservative and religious people.
And Trump has said some things that are impolitic on religion, like he didn't think he had ever done anything that he needed to ask for God's forgiveness.
I knew that was early on.
I knew that that had the potential to come back and bite him.
Um anyway, the the drive-bys, since they don't see this kind of thing, the drive-bys think that Trump is begging for votes.
They interpret the soundbite you just heard as victory for them.
Yeah, we did it.
We took Trump out, he's out, and he knows he's out, he's losing, he's peaked, and now he's been reduced to begging for votes.
We have a montage.
They think they've done Trump in and they love it.
Donald Trump falling behind in the polls and proving he's not too proud to beg for votes.
Trump is begging for voter support.
Donald Trump, he really has been begging for Iowa voters.
He was all but begging Iowa voters to put him back on top.
Trump essentially begging voters to come out and support him.
Donald Trump is actually begging the folks in Iowa to get his poll numbers back up.
The billionaire is now begging for votes.
Trump is trying a new political tactic, and I believe the technical term is begging.
I don't like to see a grown man begging he's been begging Trump is begging the Iowans to vote.
So they've got it all.
There's another one of these media montages where the facts obviously are the email went out.
And the meme of the day is Trump is begging.
And this, I'm telling you, they think they did this.
They think, see, I need to reiterate something.
Democrat Party drive by media to a man and woman think that you, and this is true of you in Iowa, all of you out there, you do not make up your minds on things independently.
Whatever you think, issue to issue, and however you vote issue to issue is the result of somebody influencing you.
And if it's talk radio influencing you, then you are a mind-numbed idiot robot.
If it's the Democrats influencing you, then you are open-minded and bright.
And uh well reasoned and well-bred thinker.
If the Republicans are influencing, you're a racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe.
And that's how they go through each and every day, because they have a contempt for average ordinary people, and the contempt is that they're unable.
You are unable to think on your own.
You're unable to process things on your own.
You're too dumb and stupid.
You hear what Al Gore is saying?
And he must have said this while looking in the mirror.
He said, global warming is making people dumber.
And he said it's science.
There's a there's a scientific consensus on this now that all of this CO2 out there is actually reducing people's intelligence.
I'm not I'm not making it up.
That's desperation.
If if anybody's Out there begging for your support, it's these global warming climate change nerds and geeks.
They are the ones begging.
They are the ones that are abandoning all reason and begging you and trying to emotionally tug you to agree.
But f remember, you have not the ability to make up your own mind about things.
If talk radio influences you, you're a mind-numb robot.
You're stupid.
If the Republican Party influences you, you're a racist or sexist or bigoted homophobe, you hate women.
But if you're a Democrat voter, oh man, you're a great critical thinker, you're open-minded, you're not racist, sexist, big at home of you're perfect.
Now Trump is begging for votes.
This will this will mean for a while to the Iowa voters, caucus goers, very, very smart people.
The media will say, here's F. Chuck Todd last night on the NBC Nightly News.
Lester Holt is the anchor there now.
He said, uh, hey, F. Chuck, you know, a lot of the pundits have been uh predicting a Trump flame out.
Might this be it?
And how do you see Trump responding in the Republican debate now that he's not number one in Iowa?
This was always the moment we were waiting for to see how Donald Trump would handle the first time he sort of faced adversity, and for him, adversity is falling in the poll.
If this becomes self-fulfilling for him if he doesn't sort of show that he can accept adversity, if this is how he reacts, and I think it could actually snowball and speed up his downfall if he's not careful.
Now let me ask, let me ask you a question.
Have the media been right yet about Trump?
They have not.
And F. Chuck gave it up.
This was always the moment we were waiting for.
The media, the guys that sit around and report the news, supposedly, the people that sit around and record what happens and tell people who weren't there so that the people that weren't there can also know what happened.
That's what F. Chuck does.
And F. Chuck said, well, no, that they don't do that.
That's the point.
That's that's the image.
I mean, that's the that's the joke about all they don't do that.
They're sitting around, they are they have been trying to take Trump out.
And now they think they have.
And my point to you is they are so out of touch.
They do not understand basic human relationships.
They do not.
They are going to totally misinterpret the way Iowans are going to react to Trump going to Sioux City.
Say, hey, what are you letting me down?
You can't let me down.
You've got to get a gear.
You gotta give me a gear.
I'll work hard for you, I promise.
You gotta you keep number two, I have never been number two.
They're not gonna understand.
The effectiveness of that.
They're not going to understand how it's gonna be received.
They think it's begging.
Now we move on to John Kasich.
John Kasich is understandably angry.
John Kasich is understandably frustrated.
Let's go back to the first debate.
After the first debate, people like F. Chuck Todd and other experts in the media said that John Kasich won the first debate.
And it wasn't even close.
He won the first debate hands down.
John Kasich was far and away.
The best Republican on the stage in that first debate.
You know why?
Because they said John Kasich finally a Republican who shows he has a heart.
Finally, they were a Republican running for president who shows that he cares about people.
And that's because of what Kasich said about expanding welfare, expanding entitlements, uh, embracing and accepting gay marriage and all people and whatever they do, because we must love them.
And the media melted.
And they thought that Kasich was going to run away with this.
And Kasich hasn't gotten beyond whatever he is, three, four, five percent.
And I'm sure Governor Kasich, he thinks he's got maybe the best record as a governor in the state of Ohio.
And I'm sure he believed what the drive-by said after the first debate, and I'm sure he expected those kinds of things to be said based on the opinions he gave.
And yet all of that has not manifested itself in any kind of upward movement.
And he's understandably frustrated.
And now he's out wondering what the heck happened to our party.
What happened to us conservatives?
What's gone wrong?
What has happened to our party?
Two sound bites.
Here's the first one.
This is at Westerville, Ohio yesterday to campaign about.
I've about had it with these people.
We got one candidate that says that we ought to abolish Medicaid and Medicare.
You ever heard of anything so crazy as that, telling our people in this country who are seniors or about to be seniors that we're going to abolish Medicaid and Medicare?
We got one person saying we ought to have a 10% flat tax that will drive up the deficit in this country by trillions of dollars that my daughters will spend the rest of their lives having to pay off.
You know what I say to them is why don't we have no taxes?
Just get rid of them all, and then a chicken in every pot on top of it.
Right.
So there's a frustration settling in because the compassion play didn't seem to work.
It was Kasich, the compassion play was going to, John Kasich was going to show.
There are a lot of other Republicans who said they believed a compassionate conservatism, but John Kasich was going to demo it.
And he did.
And it isn't working, and so now he's lashing out.
Now, the as best I can tell.
I didn't know we had anybody who wants to abolish Medicare and Medicaid.
The closest I can find is Ben Carson saying that he would like to gut Medicare.
But I can't find anybody else that said they wanted to gut both of them.
But Ben Carson has said that he wanted to cut Medicare.
We got one person saying that we ought to have uh 10% flat tax.
That'll drive up the deficit in this country by trillions of dollars.
No, the Republicans in the Congress, Governor Kasich are doing that.
You don't need to worry about raising the national debt of the debt.
The Republicans in Congress, you're buddies.
They're helping the Democrats do that.
A tax cut.
See, in these guys' minds, a tax, you keeping more of your money, that's the danger.
Governor Kasich's wondering what happened to the conservative movement.
Yeah, we've been asking that quite a while of people like him.
Hey, but does anybody remember who's actually gutted Medicare?
And you say the name Barack Hussein Obama.
Remember the $700 billion cut from Obama from Medicare to take that money and spend it on Obamacare, and then they double counted it.
If anybody's gutted Medicare, it's Obama.
Now here's the next Casic bite.
This one's aimed at Trump.
These first two comments are aimed at Ben Carson.
Um, who is who is in the lead.
Kasich's upset at Carson and thinks he's saying crazy stuff.
This is this is aimed at Trump.
We got one guy that says we ought to take 10 or 11 million people and pick them up.
I don't know where we're going to go in their homes, their apartments.
We're going to pick them up and we're going to take them to the border and scream at them to get out of our country?
I mean, that's just that's just crazy.
That is just crazy.
We got people proposing health care reform that's going to leave, I believe, millions of people without adequate health insurance.
What has happened to our party?
What has happened to the conservative movement?
Exactly right, Governor.
You used to be a ranking member in the conservative movement.
People without health insurance, who the hell did that, Governor?
Barack Obama.
Obamacare.
You signed onto it.
Obamacare has left people without coverage.
Obamacare has made it unaffordable.
The premiums of skyrocketed.
This ticks me up.
I can't tell you how this ticks me off.
The premiums have skyrocketed.
The deductibles are so high, people are never going to be able to get to the deductible.
They're never going to get treated.
The people that the enrollment rates are way below what was necessary as stated by Obama.
Obama destroyed the health care system.
We used to have a conservative movement that Kasich used to be a member of that was trying to stop this kind of stuff, but it doesn't exist anymore.
And the people running for president understand that we need somebody that's going to stand up to this stuff rather than agree with it and go along with it under the guise that we can do it smarter or make it better or what have you.
And if you don't understand how illegal immigration is perceived by the people in this country as the single greatest thing that could destroy it as it was founded, then you are more out of touch with people who vote for the president in this country than any than I could possibly believe.
I'm not this Kasich, but any politician that doesn't understand the American people's legitimate and its bipartisan and its massive opposition to immigration reform that I don't know what.
Governor Casey, with all due respect, have you ever heard of Dwight Eisenhower?
Dwight Eisenhower, famous Republican president, famous general.
Dwight Eisenhower deported millions of people in this country.
We didn't have immigration in this country from 1924 to 1965.
Eisenhower deported a bunch of people that were not assimilating.
We used to do immigration the right way.
Does anybody forget we're talking about illegal immigration?
We're not talking about which is bad enough as it is.
Do these people not know the numbers I cited to you yesterday?
By the year 2022, an additional 12 million legal immigrants will be here.
And everybody applauds that, claps their hand, yeah, yeah, because we're a nation of immigrants.
Yeah, yeah, right, cool.
Okay, fine.
We're talking about illegals.
But this we've we've deported people throughout our nation's history.
It isn't anything new.
But look, we got people proposing health care reform that's going to leave millions of people without adequate health insurance.
Who is already doing that?
Barack Obama, the Affordable Care Act, and everybody knew this is exactly what's going to happen before it was signed into law.
This is why everybody opposed it.
It was based on a bunch of lies.
It was no way going to give health insurance to everybody.
It was no way going to be free.
It was no way going to be cheaper.
It was no way going to be everybody's going to get more health treatment than they ever have had before.
There was no way it was going to improve because it was not constructed that way.
Now we have people who are forced to pay fines if they don't have health insurance, and the fines are cheaper than what it would be to buy health insurance.
What do you think people are going to do, particularly young people who are healthy?
How about the statistic that half of the people in this country earn less than $30,000?
We have got serious problems here that have been created by the Democrat Party.
The last seven years of Barack Obama have been an absolute disaster economically, socially, and culturally.
And what we've had is Republicans afraid to stand up to any of it and go along with it and then try to get accolades and pats on the back for being compassionate.
This is why there's a disconnect between the Republican Party and its own elected officials.
This is why there is now a Republican establishment that does not like having all this opposition called the Conservative Movement.
What happened to conservative movement?
The Republican Party's trying to destroy it, Governor Kasich.
It's too uncomfortable.
It's too much of a nuisance.
You want to talk about gutting health care?
Try Barack Obama.
$700 billion drained from the program in order to fund this boondoggle called Obamacare.
And everybody knows Medicare is headed for collapse like everything else is.
We're 19 trillion dollars in debt.
Half the people in this country make under 50,000 30,000 dollars a year.
How in the world are we going to have any kind of a tax base that can support anywhere near the kind of economic growth that we need?
And it's not just me speculating that Medicare is headed for collapse.
The government tells us every different day, and then the next day they tell us Social Security's headed for collapse.
And it's at one point it's going to be true.
We got the baby boomers who can't afford to retire, who want their social security.
We've got a bunch of Gen X, Gen Y millennials who have no desire to pay for them.
They're barely able to find career-oriented jobs themselves.
I don't know what's been proposed to deal with any of this by any of these people worried about the collapse.
John Kasich's governor of Ohio, he expanded Medicaid in his state.
Compassionate move.
Cost is skyrocketing, as you would expect.
You expand an entitlement.
What the hell do you think it's going to get cheaper?
You expand an entitlement, you put more people in the entitlement, put more people on their roles, and somehow you're reducing costs.
No, but you're really being compassionate.
You're showing you have a big heart, you love people.
And then after we expand the entitlement, and all these guys that do that, they tell us how humane it was.
Yes.
It was the humane thing to do.
I'm not one of those mean Republicans.
I have a heart.
I have compassion.
I supported expanding the entitlement.
And it's been expanded to now include able-bodied young people.
And it's also dropped the requirement to work in order to receive the benefit.
What do you expect is going to happen?
When you make freeloading easy.
And then you call it compassionate.
And if you don't like the term freeloading, let's look at it the other way around.
What has happened that makes all of these costs impossible for people to bear on their own?
Who's responsible for that?
Who is it that meddles in virtually every little thing?
You know what happened.
Where's conservatism gone?
I'll tell you where it is.
We see a story that the donor class wants illegal immigrants because they're cheaper to pay.
You know what conservatives say, no, no, no, that's not right.
We believe in unboundless opportunity.
We believe in people showing up, working hard, educating themselves, using their ambition.
We believe in people getting raises.
We believe in people finding great jobs, great careers, increasing their pay, their wages, their standard of living.
That's what conservatism stands for.
To make that happen, you get government out of the way.
You turn people loose.
You have faith in them.
You trust them.
You trust them in their ambition and their desire.
The fact that they love their families, that they want to improve the lives of those that they support.
We trust individuals to do the best for themselves, and that will raise everybody.
We do not think people are incapable, incompetent, and need a government program in order to get through the day.
But when you create all these entitlements, all these government programs, and then you import 12 million, 20 million what is whatever it is people that are not qualified to earn more than the minimum wage, what do you think is going to happen to wages?
What do you think is going to happen to incomes?
And the whole idea of people being self-supporting vanishes.
The conservative movement looks at the news every day in this country and weeps, cringes, and cries.
Half the country making 30,000 a year.
Full-time work has now been reduced to part-time work so that people do not have to provide health care.
And all of this is because nobody can afford any of it.
And the proof that nobody can afford any of it is that we're $19 trillion in debt, giving it away.
We can't afford it, period.
We don't have the money to do any of this compassionate stuff.
Take a look at Europe.
You want to see compassion?
The Europeans are filled with it.
The Europeans are filled with all kinds of generational guilt.
And so now all these people from all over the world want to better their lives and come to Europe.
They said, come on in, we're good people.
And now they're searching for guns.
Yeah, there's no second amendment in the EU.
People that live there now looking for guns because they're being overrun.
Problem is they can't find guns.
They're not legal.
Now leaders in European country after European country are doing everything they can to try to resurrect deportation laws because they can't handle the influx.
Because it's not refugees, and it's not migrants, it's an invasion.
But the good people of Europe, the leaders, the ones, the sophisticated elites failed to see anything other than what they thought was their own compassion on display, their own big heartedness.
Millions of people unable to get health care.
And somehow this is the fault of the conservative movement.
Somehow this is a fault of people running for president who haven't had a thing to do with Obamacare.
There's not one Republican fingerprint on the American healthcare system today.
Not one Republican vote gave us the system we have today.
It was strictly a party-line Democrat vote, not one Republican.
There's not one Republican running for president that can be blamed for the structure and the operational joke that is Obamacare.
Most of, but not all, the people running for president want to fix it.
At some point, though, we're either going to realize we can't afford all of these entitlements and all of this giveaway, and we're also going to realize how we're destroying people's futures by expanding all these programs.
By denying people the dignity of their own ambition and desire and achievement.
That's where the conservative movement is, but you don't find any of this in Washington.
You don't hear any of this in Washington.
None of it.
What you hear in Washington is the things I just said to you are troublesome.
They're mean spirited, extreme.
They're just undesirable.
When in fact, those of us who want the best for people actually are the ones with compassion.
We are the ones who actually do love people.
We're the ones who actually do want the best for people.
And we understand the government cannot, will not, never has done that.
I got to take a break.
We'll be back here and continue.
We'll get your phone calls mixed in.
When we get back, don't go away.
Have you heard about what's going on at Walt Disney?
Walt Disney is importing new workers, legal immigrants, HB1 visas.
When I first heard about this, I um I didn't understand it.
They didn't understand why Zuckerberg and these guys are running around pro legal immigration expansion.
Until I figured out what was going on.
They want recent graduates, high-skilled, high GPA graduates from foreign countries.
They want to employ them because they're cheaper than it is to hire Americans of the same qualifications, same experience.
At Disney, you know what's happening?
Current employees are being forced to train.
The immigrants who are going to replace them at half often what they're being paid.
And Disney employees are finally speaking up about it.
And the same thing's going to happen at Facebook.
The same thing's going to happen wherever you have a high-tech wizard demanding that we expand immigration.
They're looking for cheap labor.
They want the same qualifications.
They want the wizards of smart in the tech world.
They want the brightest geeks they can get.
They just don't want the geeks that can demand wages that are at present being paid.
The reason for this is workers around the world make less than Americans do, and you can't compete globally if your labor costs are higher.
And this leads me to another problem.
What's wrong in all of this immigration is a it is it is a really out of focus.
Focus.
Milton Friedman.
Was he crazy, Governor Kazick?
Was Milton Friedman crazy?
Milton Friedman said you cannot have open immigration and a massive welfare state.
The two together will destroy an economy.
Here's what I mean by focus.
When did this when did this go wrong?
When it comes to immigration, when did it matter what foreigners want more than what Americans want?
When did that begin?
Because when it comes to immigration, the issue is not what foreigners want or what foreigners demand.
The issue is what do Americans want.
This is the United States of America.
And the people we elect and represent us in Washington are supposed to represent us.
And this is what's missing.
They don't anymore.
They are representing people who are not citizens.
They are standing up for people who are not citizens.
They are not standing up for the American people who elect them anymore.
As such, we don't have a representative government.
We have a government governing against the will of the people.
The will of the people is universally opposed to Republican Democrat Party policy on just this one issue, immigration, but there are others.
Governor Kasich and Governor Christian Jeb Bush, and whoever falls in line here that foreigners and immigrants are far more important to America's future than Americans are.
They spend all of this time telling us about the plight of foreigners.
I realize foreigners are dirty.
We're not supposed to say that.
Okay, they tell us about the plight of people who live in Mexico and El Salvador and other poor nations around the world.
We have to hear about that.
We know that.
It's not our fault.
We somehow, though, are going to be blamed or punished or what have you.
It's our responsibility.
Somehow to change their circumstances.
Immigration is an act of love.
Yes, that's what Jeb says is these immigrants, they love America.
Oh, we don't.
This is nothing to do.
None of that.
What the immigrants want, what the illegals want, what this one, Jorge Ramos wants, nothing to do with what is supposed to be the basis of a nation's immigration policy.
But that's where this has really been turned upside down.
Because, as far as Washington is concerned, elected officials, it seems the only thing that matters is what people that do not live here want.
Foreign governments and what they want, foreign citizens and what they want, even some domestic citizens and if they align with these people.
The issue is what American citizens want and desire, and they express that by virtue of elections.
The United States is here as a country not to provide benefits for the rest of the world.
The way that happens is by building and growing the strongest America possible, creating boundless riches, boundless economic activity and growth, creating revenue growth like you haven't seen, and that's how we help the world.
We don't help the world by getting rid of our borders and say, come on in.
That destroys The engine of the greatest country ever.
And the fact that people we have elected are seeking that solution is why there is so much opposition to Washington, D.C. today.
And I've taken another break because I'm up against it on time.
We'll be back.
In the case of Disney, what they're doing, they're replacing highly technical IT workers who make around 100 grand a year with foreign workers who make less than 60, plus the savings in payroll tax.
They don't have to pay payroll tax for the three years they hire these people.
And the people making 100 who have the jobs currently are having to train their replacements.
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