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Feb. 11, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 11, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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It's already Thursday here on the EIB network, Rush Limbaugh on the fastest week in media.
Great to have you here, L Rushbow at 800 282 2882, and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Let me deal with something quickly.
An email asked me to explain something slower.
It went by it too fast.
I mentioned in the discussion of Twitter and how I'm Mr. Super Duper Tech guy.
I gave an example.
My brother sent me a note, said wouldn't it be great if you could if you could load the desktop site, website, any desktop site on your on your iPhone?
I said you can.
All you do is tap and hold the reload button in the address bar in Safari on your iPhone or iPad, and you'll get an option to load desktop site or load without content blockers if you have content blockers installed.
So if you don't like mobile sites on your phone, you want the full-fledged thing, you can get it.
Provided the website offers it.
Uh some like I don't, I'm not sure about this.
The New York Time New York Post.
I'm not sure they will load the desktop site on an iPhone.
They will on an iPad.
And it may not be the New York Post, but there's some sites that won't.
But the iPhone will give you an option and the iPad.
If you just tap the reload button up there in the address bar of Safari, and you'll get the two options.
Load desktop site if possible or load without content blockers, if you want.
Try it.
Works every time it's there's all kinds of little some of the some of the most great hidden little tricks and features that I've never understood why they're hidden.
But I have enjoyed finding them and passing them on.
Great to have you with us, folks.
Again, 800-282-2882.
Now let me go through the real real clear politics polling numbers again nationally in South Carolina because another set has just been just arrived here from Bill Crystal at the Weekly Standard.
He does not cite the pollster by name or company.
He just says it's somebody he trusts greatly.
So real clear politics, national GOP nomination.
Trump 29.5, Cruz 21%, Rubio 17.8, Ted Cruz 7.8, Jeb is, I think 4.3.
Jeb is not listed here, but we went and looked it and found it.
Jeb is at 4.3.
And make no mistake, the establishment is they're circling again around Jeb and they're gonna they're gonna load everything they've got into Jeb in South Carolina.
I thought they might try to prop up Kasich, but I think they realize that K6's a one-off in New Hampshire.
It really doesn't get to go anywhere besides that.
So all the money they've invested in Jeb.
Details coming up in a moment.
Now the South Carolina numbers, real clear politics, average of a bunch of polls out there.
Shows Trump at 36.
Ted Cruz at 19.7, Rubio at 12.7, Bush, Jeb Bush at 10.
So that's a one, two, three, fourth place, and Ben Carson at 8.7.
Christie is out, and Carly Fiorina is out.
Now Bill Crystal says, I just heard from a political operative whom I've known a long time and whose integrity I trust.
This person is working with an organization, not one of the campaigns, that was in the field using a very reputable polster on Wednesday night, last night in South Carolina.
And that's what these numbers are.
And Bill Crystal says, take it with the usual grains of salt, but I do trust that these were the actual results of an honest and competent polster doing his best to get an accurate read on the situation.
So it's unidentified.
We don't know who the polster is.
We don't know anything about the poll.
We don't know numbers.
We don't know breakdowns.
We don't have any crosstabs.
We have nothing other than these numbers, and here they go.
The Bill Crystal Polster, Trump 32, South Carolina.
Ted Cruz 26.
Marco Rubio 20.
Jeb Bush 10.
Ben Carson 7.
And John Kasich 2.
Now the order lines up with the real clear politics average.
But let's do a numbers comparison.
In the Bill Crystal, we don't know who it is, poll.
Trump's at 32, real clear politics 36.
Again, this is for South Carolina.
In the Bill Crystal, we don't know who it is, Paul.
Ted Cruz 26.
Real clear politics average, 19.7, so 20.
The Bill Crystal, we don't know who it is, Paul, 26 for 20 for Rubio.
And in the real clear politics poll, Rubio gets 12.7%.
And both polls put Jeb Bush at 10.
The Bill Crystal, we don't know who it is, South Carolina poll, and the real clear politics average.
So the order lines up, the numbers are fairly close.
But there is some significant difference.
I mentioned earlier this Washington Post editorial, the utter ugliness of Donald Trump's campaign should scare us all.
The stunningly handy wins by two anti-establishment candidates in New Hampshire are prompting conversation about similarities between Trump and Crazy Murney, the socialist victor on the Democrat side.
Washington Post says we think both men are dangerously, if seductively wrong in their facile diagnoses and prescriptions.
But Mr. Sanders platform is at least well meaning.
Now see, this is this is where I part ways with these well meaning.
Mr. Sanders is a staunch socialist, who for all intents and purposes may as well be a communist.
He has embraced the Soviet Union.
He's embraced Castro's Cuba.
He honeymooned in both places.
What Bernie Sanders loves is inarguably responsible for at least a hundred million deaths around the world.
It has caused socialism and communism has caused untold endless human misery.
Wherever it has been fully employed.
People still literally die trying to escape it.
As in Cuba.
You don't want to know what happens to people in China who try to get out.
and And the Soviet Union back in its heyday, they had to build walls in these places to keep people in.
People died left and right trying to escape.
And yet the Washington Post isn't afraid of Bernie Sanders.
No, no, no, Bernie is so well meaning.
But Trump, why, this is dangerous.
Trump should scare us all.
Mr. Trump's proposals are pernicious as well as preposterous.
There's no way to round up 11 million illegal immigrants and deport them.
But no one should want to live in a nation that would even try such a thing, writes the Washington Post.
Well, leave it to me once again to counter this.
Presidents Truman and Eisenhower together deported nearly six million illegal aliens.
You don't even want to talk about what FDR did.
Another Democrat.
Nobody complained about it at the time.
You know, you talk about the last 50 years and how socialism has totally subtly now in our face, overtaken much of American culture and almost all of American education.
Nobody complained at the time when we deported nearly six million illegal aliens.
And now the idea of doing something that's so inhumane, who do we think we are?
Now it's gotten so bad that we think we ought to have open borders in order to be nice to people around the world.
And why do people think that?
Because they have bought the idea that somehow.
The circumstances in which people live around the world is our fault.
That's also part of the modern education system.
It's part of the Barack Obama ideology.
The U.S. is to blame for the misery in the world.
We're certainly not the solution to it.
Mr. Trump is mocking the democratic process, not engaging in it.
He feels no obligation to explain how he would implement his ideas, and he doesn't care whether his statements are true.
Actually, Trump has published a pretty detailed policy paper on immigration, and he has issued position papers on a lot of his other plans.
It's just the Washington Post doesn't care to notice or give them any credence.
But where are Hillary Clinton's position papers?
Where's all the brilliance?
Where's all the compassion?
Where's all the wonderfulness that's going to come from Hillary Clinton?
You listen to those people talk.
I don't know how in the world anybody can listen to either Hillary or Bernie talk and talk about how they're well-meaning.
You talk about people that obsessed with pessimism, doom, gloom.
I'm sorry, I can't avoid repeating myself from yesterday.
I listened to these people in their acceptance speeches on Tuesday night.
They have run this country expressly for the past seven years.
They are directly culpable and responsible in every complaint they lodged.
To listen to these people complain about the health care system in this country?
How dare they?
They gave it to us.
They set out to destroy the greatest health care system in the world.
It has been taken over with something called Obamacare.
And the little secret of an Obamacare is it was designed to create chaos.
It was designed to make it a mess because the long-term objective was to have the American people so angry and so frazzled and so panicked that they would ask the government to come in and fix it and take it over.
That was the long-term plan Barack Obama had for socialized medicine.
Make the people demand it.
How do you do that?
Screw it up royally.
That's the phase we're in with American health care now.
Rising prices, rising premiums, rising deductibles, still 29 million uninsured, which was apparently supposedly one of the reasons why we did this.
Had that really been the objective, we could have done it for one-tenth the cost.
But it never was the objective to insure the uninsured.
That was just what they said to sell it to these big-hearted liberals who don't think about anything, they just feel it.
So they felt good supporting this stuff.
We're going to ensure the uninsured affordable health care for all Americans.
And that's all it was to them.
Nancy Pelosi, the day Obamacare was signed is running all over the country.
It's such a great day.
Affordable health care for all Americans.
It was over 2,000 pages of people hadn't read.
The one thing it wasn't was affordable.
And it wasn't also for all Americans.
But if none of that mattered, when Obama signed it, they were goal, they were able to go out and characterize it however they wanted.
Affordable health care for all Americans, and that gets reported, and that's what everybody thinks.
And point in fact, many low information Americans thought it was going to be free.
That's what the whole thing was about.
That's what Obama was going to do.
He was going to make it free.
That's how he was going to make it work for everybody, because before Obama was so expensive, nobody could afford it.
He was out of out of control.
And it was unfair, and the doctors weren't being fair.
Nobody is getting the proper treatment or the diagnosis and tests, and it wasn't in fair, and we need and now it's affordable health care for all Americans, and many of them thought it was going to be free.
Every complaint everybody had is worse by design.
Even the insurance companies getting rich.
People said back then, just to relive a little recent history.
People asking me left and right, Russia, you say this is designed to destroy the private sector insurance market.
I said it is.
Well, then why are the insurance companies so eager to sign on to it?
Well, the answer to that's simple.
They have been guaranteed by law that every single American by law is mandated to have their product.
Every American is ordered by Obamacare to have health care, to have health insurance.
And for a few years, you can only get it from a health insurance company via an Obama exchange.
So they signed on to this because in the short term they make out like bandits.
They don't even have to advertise anymore because the law of the land is that everybody has to have it.
Can you imagine such a law about skillets?
Can you imagine such a law about 4K TVs?
Pick any product you want and imagine the federal government mandates that everybody buy one or else they get a fine.
So the insurance company said, hell, we're signed on to that.
Where's where where do we sign?
Give me the dotted line.
I want to sign right now.
And they took the opportunity here to make some big bucks real quick.
It was easy to figure out.
Bottom line with all of this is it's supposed to get so chaotic, and it's supposed to be so expensive and so unworkable that after a while we are all supposed to rise up in mass and beg whoever is running the country at the time.
Would you please fix this?
Please take it over, please just.
And somebody will come along, she'll be happy to.
Single payer probably the best way to make this happen.
Don't you think we could really stream like this, streamline this, they'll say.
We can simplify it.
You just have to go one place now.
Go to your local government office.
That's all you have to do, sign up and you're done.
And we'll take care of everything after that.
Yeah, man, that's cool.
That's a way to do it.
Single payer.
Yeah.
Get rid of the insurance companies and all this other unfair stuff.
Yeah, that's the objective.
Just like Fast and Furious was designed to get everybody so ticked off about guns being purchased in American gun stores and being used by drug cartels that you were supposed to stand up in mass and demand that Obama get rid of these guns.
It didn't work out in that case.
And depending on who wins the presidency in November, Obama's long-term plans in Obamacare might not work out either.
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Here is Bob in Coronado, California.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
I have a question, and it's regarding your coming full circle discussion.
And it pertains especially to uh college-age people in the universities and so forth.
Um I'm similar age as you.
Um, 50 years ago, they were a pretty rebellious group.
I was a little bit younger.
I was only 12 or 13 when such things were going on in the campuses.
But today, they're the most compliant group.
And I just I don't understand that.
I've always had a hard time figuring why is this group so enamored with uh the administration, the status quo, because that's not the way it used to be.
Well, but you see, this is the key.
Even back in the 60s, the era you're talking about, they were compliant.
They were obedient.
It's just to a different uh kind of uh influence, a different group of uh people.
But your your question answer to it illustrates the slow, steady stictuativeness of the left.
It's taken them 40 years to bring about the reality that you just mentioned.
And they have been very subtle and very patient.
They have hidden the the beauties and the fairness and all of the wonderful things of socialism in the curriculum and in the various uh new ways that education has taken place.
Uh And it's not something that they immediately 40 years ago down, sat people down and started pointing in their faces.
This is socialism, you will love it.
They were conditioned slowly but surely like frogs in a in a pan of cold water when the heat gets slowly turned up, they stay in the pot until they finally realize it's boiling, it's too late, they're dead.
This has been a very, very subtle, never-ending series of events throughout their whole lives that uh have brought us to this point.
The thing that socialism has never worked.
It has never worked, neither is communism, and yet it remains the most seductive.
It's the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on humanity.
And it yet remains seductive like nothing else is.
But there's another component here to answer your question.
I know we're going to take another stab at this.
The question was asked it's it's a great question.
Uh, and understanding the answer to this, I think is like understanding the answer to a lot of things that's necessary if we hope to reverse or fix it, whatever your frame of reference is.
The question is, back in the 1960s, the anti establishment protesters were blowing up bank buildings and protesting government everywhere they could.
They were protesting the Vietnam War, they were um they were just radicals, and they were protesting what appeared to be, this is the key, it appeared they were protesting centralized government command and control authority.
It appeared that they were protesting that.
Now the point is that all of those people uh wherever they were, San Francisco, wherever they were in the country, they were they were all being obedient to whoever it was that was riling them up.
Where were they getting riled up?
Who were they?
They were students.
Who was riling them up?
Who was teaching them?
Who was influencing them to oppose all of this command and control authority?
It was professors and the entire university system.
Now the radical students of that era have ended up in large part where Bill Clinton was one of them.
A number of the people that Clinton populated his administration with were part of that SDS mentality, students or Democrat Society.
They were all oriented toward communism even then.
They were all oriented toward socialism.
The Soviet Union was their utopia back.
The Soviet Union was the place that had all the answers.
So they haven't really changed.
What's changed is that they're not outside the government protesting to be heard.
They have taken over the government.
Many of the SDS radicals, look at the Bill Ayerses of the world.
Who do you think Obama is, folks?
Where did he come from?
He comes right out of this era.
He regrets that he was too young to actually have been a street protester.
But all of his formative experiences and friends in Chicago were of that era.
Ayers, Bernadine, Bernadette Dorn, and to a lesser extent, uh Reverend Wright, he had his own radical agenda.
He wasn't actually SDS, but still, these people were all part of a giant anti-America, pro-communist mindset.
And that has not changed.
The difference is now they don't have to protest the government because they have taken it over.
And now they are using the whole purpose.
In every movement, you've got the sh the schlubs and the leaders.
And there are two different agendas.
The schlubs are the true believers.
They fall hook, line, and sinker for all the seductive promises.
They're the ones that believe there is a utopia awaiting the other side of the protest march.
The leaders are in it for an entirely different reason money and power.
It is always money and power.
Whether you're talking about a communist dictator or any other kind of leader, it is always power and money.
Sometimes the quest for power in money is governed by morality and virtue, and that's the United States of America from our founding.
Other times, whatever it takes to acquire power and money.
If you have to murder your citizens, if you have to plunder your own treasury and hide the money in Switzerland, you do what you do.
But it's always about power and money.
And the power is the power over people.
The desire to have power to control people so as to ensure your place in the hierarchy that you have imagined or envisioned for yourself.
Bernie Sanders voters are classic examples of these true believer followers, who haven't the slightest idea that what awaits them is total authoritarian statist domination.
They believe in the utopia, they believe in the sweetness, they believe in the light, they believe in the fairness and the equality and the sameness.
They believe in no suffering, no pain, no unhappiness.
That's what seduces them.
And that's what Bernie, and to a lesser extent, Hillary, and every leftist promises.
Of course, the exact opposite always happens, without fail, without exception.
There never is happiness and sameness and equality and fairness.
There is misery compounded on misery, compounded on misery as the reality that all the promises are never going to come true.
Then anger and outrage sets in, and the leaders who have been taking these people along, then blame people like Republicans for their misery.
Because, which is Obama's classic move.
You blame the Republicans for standing in your way.
You blame the fact that there is opposition to your desire for sameness, fairness, equality, everybody being nice and everybody having something and enough and every whatever it is that you've defined as your nirvana when it doesn't happen because it can't happen unless you provide it for yourself.
If you're waiting for other people to provide it for you, they're going to take care of themselves first and pfft you.
And you're going to be left out.
When that happens, your leaders come along and blame their political opponents and tell them they have no heart.
Tell you they have no heart, they have no compassion, they don't care about you.
When in fact, the very people you've been following are the ones that sold you out and been lying to you from the get-go.
That is where we are right now in this country.
That is how Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, after being in charge for seven years and ruining aspects of this country with the hope and desire to ruin even more, get away with blaming the Republicans who haven't had a single fingerprint on any of this, other than they haven't tried to stop it.
And even at that, they still get blamed.
So there is an obedience that makes all of this possible.
A follower mentality that makes it all possible.
The misery and anger grows from the failure of the promise.
And that's where you end up with the sewer on Twitter, with all of these angry anonymous people fed up that life has given them the raw deal.
They should have had it all.
They should have had everything.
They're the ones who gave it everything they've got, they think, but these invisible forces of powerful banks and rich billionaires have seen to it that they've got nothing.
They are perpetual, eternal victims.
And over here is the continuing fraud of the promise of utopia.
And as long as there is an able-bodied salesman for it, somehow it continues to seduce, particularly the young.
One other component, very important, That in this era, I think makes it especially sellable on the part of the leftist totalitarian leadership, such as Obama and the entire Democrat Party, and that is nobody has any money, folks.
Look at the number of people that don't have jobs.
94 million Americans are not working.
Of the people who are working, how many of them are seeing stagnant wages?
How many of them are scared that they're going to lose their jobs?
How many of them think they're barely holding on, that their savings, if they have any, are going to be used up in surviving?
People are coming out of college with six figure debt.
They're coming out with absolutely worthless, unmarketable degrees, like women and earth science studies for the preservation of the spotted howl boot or some such thing.
They don't have any money.
Many of them are still living with mom and dad at age 30.
And I don't care what all these people say, you know, it's a it's a almost a virtuous thing for people on the left to say, I don't care about money.
I'm not about money.
I'm much, much further advanced that I care about money.
Money is I don't need money, I'm not.
And whenever anybody says that, know this.
It's only the money.
And I don't care who they are, I don't care what they tell you, I don't care how convincing they are.
Everybody wants money.
And everybody wants more than they have.
And if you know anybody who tells you that they don't the odds are it's totally untrue because it's necessary.
But with the destruction of the private sector economy, and how can it be otherwise?
As this government has grown, where does it how does it grow?
How does the government grow?
How in the world does it get so big?
It has to take from somewhere.
Like one sixth of the private sector economy is gone.
The American healthcare industry is gone.
One sixth of it.
There's a lot of opportunity for wealth in that industry that's now controlled by the government.
As the government grows, as the government gets big, as the government spends money, it has to borrow it.
There is this pretense of paying down the debt.
And the government borrows money.
For every dollar the government borrows, that's less in the private sector for an entrepreneur to borrow to grow a business or what have you.
And this has been going on for a long, long time.
Slowly and steadily, the national debt's gone from 12 trillion to almost 20 trillion under Obama.
It may not have materialized in the government collapsing, but the manifestation of this is that there's simply a smaller pie in the private sector where real wealth in this country exists.
That's where the opportunity for real wealth has always been.
That's what set the American nation apart from every other ever in the history of mankind.
The private sector pie.
Call it the United States economy if private sector doesn't sit well with you as a term.
But as that shrinks, simple mathematics.
As that shrinks, there is less and less of that pie for more and more people to get their piece of.
Now, the way America's always dealt with that is that that pie has always grown.
That's what economic growth is, the pie getting bigger, and it's the result of output, production, productivity, creativity, entrepreneurism.
And the more the government takes of it, the less it can grow.
And that's where we are.
Now I don't know how many of these people understand all that.
What they realize is they don't have any money.
What they realize is they've got college educations that are not going to get them any money.
I'm talking about career money.
I'm talking about the opportunity to create wealth.
And I know I'm not talking about millionaire wealth.
I'm talking about incomes of 150, 200,000, 300, whatever.
That's all been condemned as How do you lump a $200,000 income with a $1 million income and claim that both are immoral?
That's another thing that's happened here.
You're never going to convince a family of four at $200,000 that they're evil, the evil rich stealing from every they're barely getting by on their own.
Because everybody lives to their income.
But there's there's no comparison, and yet there is.
$200,000 is said to be no different in terms of how we tax people and the way we think of people.
But the point is the pie has shrunken.
There's no opportunity to really create wealth by virtue of hard work and a great career, and the slow march that that's always taken to age 40.
You now either make it as a college dropout and become a billionaire, or you don't.
In the eyes of young people.
You either become a Zuckerberg or a Bill Gates.
Or you don't.
There's no in between.
So how do you live?
You have to you have to eat.
You have to have some sustenance.
You have to government comes along, great leader like Obama, promises you you're going to have health care.
Okay, got that expense out of the way.
I'll support that.
Promises you you're going to have unemployment compensation for as long as you don't work.
Fine, I need that because I can't get a job.
And pretty soon you're signing up to the government taking care of you.
Because you don't think there's any other option.
And you look around and you see other people doing well, not feeding and living off the government.
And you think it's not possible for me, because the salesmanship on capitalism and private sectorism doesn't compare with the salesmanship of liberalism.
That's the Democrat Party versus the Republican Party.
Answer the question right there.
Back at you.
So the 1960s, the students protesting what?
America.
The students, the professors, everybody, America sucks.
Don't believe your government, your government sucks.
Those people now run the government.
What's their message?
America sucks.
America's unfair.
America's unjust.
They're running it, but it still is unfair and unjust.
Look at Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
They're running the government.
Bill Clinton, Barack Obama.
They've been running the government since the 90s.
It's still unfair.
It's still unjust.
You're still not going to get a fair shake.
Why?
Republicans.
You can't trust your own country.
The message hasn't changed from the 60s to today.
It's just the leaders are in a different place.
They were back in the classroom back in the 60s, they're running the government today.
And still running it down in every which way you can think of.
And this opportunity, the creation of wealth, that has been so important.
And it's it's I need to expand on that, but I've got let me get to a phone call here.
Uh John in Verona, New Jersey, I'm really glad you waited.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hi.
Hey, good bumper music dittos today.
Thank you, sir.
I'm glad you like it.
All right.
Uh, you know, the media's telling us we'd all should be clutching our pearls because the ugly P word was used at a political rally.
If I had a dime for every time the media mentioned Pussy Riot a year or two ago, I'd be a member of the one percent.
Oh, yeah.
What was that to Pussy Riots?
That's a rock group, right?
Well, it was a uh Russian women's rock group.
That's exactly what it is.
And nobody, you're right, nobody a problem whatsoever repeating a name of the group.
Yeah, furthermore, you had a clear uh caller earlier in the week.
He pointed out that the word is used at the rally was short for pusillanimous, and it meant cowardly.
Yes, that's right.
Uh with Pussy Riot, they aren't exactly using the word to refer to themselves as cowardly riot.
No, they obviously not.
They are it's uh they're they're using it as this synonymous uh like in the vagina monologue that you can you can I don't I don't offend easy.
I'm just that type, you know.
But if you're gonna be offended, I mean wouldn't you be more offended by that?
Well, in this case, you know, it is it's always mattered who says it.
Oh, yeah.
But in either case, what we're talking about doesn't matter.
John, it's undefeated.
Bottom line, this discussion proves it.
It's undefeated.
The American pie, the American economy, has always grown.
That's how wealth has been created, with people trying to get their piece of it.
It's never been a zero-sum game.
Somebody gets a piece, somebody loses a piece.
It's always been the pie grows.
And it grows as Americans work hard and produce more, create more.
Well, that's not happening.
The government's taking ever bigger chunks of that pie.
Fewer people are working in that pie, it isn't growing, and therefore whoever gets pieces of it, it's becoming a zero sum game.
All brought to you by the American left and the Democrat Party.
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