From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary 9/10/92
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 00:30:30 GMT
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Summary: Unofficial Summary for Thursday, Sep. 10, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Thursday, September 10, 1992

by John Switzer

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Please read the standard disclaimer which was included with the
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this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or
the EIB network, nor do I have any connection with them other as
a daily listener.

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September 10, 1992

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       EIB now has 520 affiliates. This is an increase of 17
stations since last week.

o       Rush is starting to feel uncomfortable when talking about
his soon-to-be best seller because people will think he is just
shamelessly hyping the book. However, the book has opened at #6
on the NY Times Best Seller list, even before its official
distribution date of today.

Yesterday Simon and Schuster told Rush that they had to order
hundreds of thousands of more copies in additional printings. The
problem, though, is that the original printing is gone now - the
only stores that will have the book now are those receiving their
first shipments. Thus, it may take another week before additional
books show up in the stores.

A letter writer castigated Simon and Schuster for not realizing
that Rush's book would sell so quickly, but Rush says that his
publisher did put in an "astronomically high initial order." Rush
is awed by this response and thanks his valued listeners for
their support. However, people should not get discouraged if they
can't find the book immediately; patience is in order at some
locations. There is no deceit or sabotage going on, but the
demand is just taking the country by storm.

Rush promises that this will be the last major announcement he
makes on his book.

o       Serious charges and campaign proposals are being made by
Slick Willie, while the Bush administration appears to be
disorganized. Bush is making a "defining speech" on his proposed
economic policies today, but he is already in trouble over his
comments yesterday about never giving in to Congress again. Rush
promises more later.

o       Washington Heights is expected to "blow" in response to
the New York Grand Jury's decision not to indict the cop who shot
Jose Kiko Garcia. Rush promises more later.

o       Barbara Streisand has promised to move to England if Bush
wins. Rush hopes that she takes Andre Agassi with her, especially
after the odd, "zen-like" things she said about him in a recent
press conference. Agassi, though, lost his last match last night,
and it's interesting that he met with Streisand the night before.
Rush wonders if Agassi played his match without some "vital
fluids."

o       The Washington Post is reporting that Victoria Reggie's
"heart nearly stopped" when during a snorkeling expedition she
discovered the engagement ring that Ted Kennedy had hidden in the
water underneath a rock.

o       60% of 10 to 14-year olds believe that they will earn
more money than their parents. Rush wonders how this could be
when the conventional wisdom says that America is a country
without hope, and that today's children will have to expect a
lower standard of living than what their parents have enjoyed.
However, less than half of these kids think their family life
will be better than that of their parents. Rush wonders at the
conflicting messages being given by this poll.

The reporting on this survey, though, is slanted towards the idea
that things are getting worse in America. In a similar tone, a
new study reports that 30 million Americans reportedly go to bed
hungry, and this "hunger has spread to the heartlands." Yet the
Heritage Foundation has shown that America's poor have better
diets than the general populace of Europe. Rush believes that
this sort of news is strategically timed so as to falsely show
America as a land in decline.

Rush asked William F. Buckley about this, and whether he was
frustrated by how the conventional wisdom seems to think that
government is the only thing that can make life "fair." Buckley
answered that he is frustrated but that he is still motivated to
continue the fight against this doom-and-gloom stupidity.

More and more people, however, seem to think that the individual
is powerless and that their only hope is to have the government
rescue them. People have forgotten the lessons of the past, and
the Presidential campaign shows the striking difference in
philosophies present in America today - one candidate thinks
America can get better only if government makes it so, while the
other promotes the power and excellence of the individual.

*BREAK*

Phone   Kim from Hot Springs, AK

Kim lives in Clinton's hometown, and she is acquainted with his
family although not with him personally. She says, though, that
most of the people in Arkansas are died-in-the-wool Democrats who
will vote Democratic no matter what. The people that know the
Clinton family, though, don't consider Bill Clinton to be a
person of integrity; in fact, he's not recognized as a "person of
quality" whom you'd like to know in your daily life.

Rush says that Clinton's old college roommate has made similar
comments, and Rush wonders why there is this perception about
Clinton. Kim says that he doesn't appear to be a person of
integrity since he is a career politician who will do anything he
has to in order to get elected.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush is trying to get clips of the movie "Bob Roberts" to
use on his TV show so he can show the two spots at which the
audience responds to its anti-conservative message. Rush comments
that he's seen the trailer for Woody Allen's new movie, and he
calls the similarities between what was shown in the clip and
what is going on in Allen's own life "frightening." Rush hopes
that Allen's new movie is rated PG so that Allen can at least
bring a date to the opening.

o       Rush says that EIB has enjoyed a year of relative peace
with the mainstream media. Recently, though, a number of articles
have appeared about how Rush is fueled by politics of hate and
anger. A story yesterday in one of the NY papers was "hell bent
on getting things wrong."

This sentiment has spread overseas - the September 6 issue of the
Sunday Times of London even claims that Rush is told each day
what to say by the White House. According to the Times story,
Roger Ailes supposedly rides herd over what Rush does on his
show, and "ensures he fires at the right targets. The core of
every program is that Bill Clinton is dishonest, unfaithful, and
a coward, while Bush is a fine man worthy of being President."

Amazingly, the story then claims MTV is under the thumb of the
Clinton camp, with Tabitha Soren being the network's point-person
for Clinton.

A friend of Rush has warned him "the worst has yet to come," and
Rush is confident that with the debut of his TV show, he will be
subjected to every criticism, insult, and attack that had been
levelled against his radio show three and four years ago. Rush
bets many of the reviews have already been written, and much of
what will appear is predictable; thus, Rush wants to warn his
audience to expect such stuff, and he says that his feelings are
not going to be hurt by this at all. After all, Rush will be able
to take refuge in the greatest satisfaction of all - success.

*BREAK*

Democrats are salivating at the thought that with Clinton as
President, Washington, DC will finally become a new state,
possibly named "New Columbia." Rush thinks about this and admits
that with all of the drugs and crime that exist in DC, "New
Columbia" is a good moniker.

Phone   Paul from Rome, GA

Rush asks Paul if he's found a copy of his book yet, and Paul
says he hasn't been able to. Rush therefore sends Paul a copy
gratis to reward him for his diligent attempts to find it. Paul
wonders what the family leave bill is all about; all he's heard
about it is that businesses with more than 50 employees would
have to provide 30 days of paid leave to new parents.

Rush says that this is not true - first, the bill is not a
maternity leave bill. The family leave bill says that employees
of businesses that have 50 employees or more will be able to take
12 weeks of unpaid leave in order to take care of a new baby or a
sick family member. One of the problems of this bill is that it
treats all employees and all jobs as if they were the same.
Furthermore, it is government intruding into business, and
preventing business from doing what it is supposed to do. The
bill is expected to cost American business billions of dollars,
and cost American workers many jobs.

The family leave bill is yet another attempt to pander to
Americans on the family values issue. However, a business cannot
function efficiently when it has to plan for 3-month gaps in its
employees. Part-time workers will have to fill the void, and
there are fears that the government will next attack this use of
part-time employees.

This bill is just another attempt to force businesses to be "fair
and equal." Philosophically, though, employers don't want their
workers to be concerned about how much time off they are going to
have, but rather with how they will do their jobs. America has
done just fine in the past without having such draconian
measures.

The bottom line, though, is that Congress really doesn't expect
the bill to be passed. They know full well that the President
will veto this bill, which is why they passed it. Clinton and his
Democratic colleagues will then take that veto and thrust it in
the faces of Americans, claiming that the President doesn't care
about the people or their problems.

It's one thing if businesses want to do this, and it's entirely
another to mandate it by government fiat. This is government
mandating that everybody be treated the same and "equal." It's
the same liberal paternalism that assumes people can't take care
of themselves. It's like the plant closing law which requires
businesses to specify so many months in advance which plants they
are going to close, and how much they must spend to retrain the
displaced employees.

Rush asks a basic question - if family leave is so important and
essential, just how has America managed to survive without it for
so long? How have Americans been able to conduct their business,
raise their families, and handle their problems without having
the government intrude into every aspect of their lives?

*BREAK*

Phone   Allan from Avon, NY

Allan registered as a Republican on August 25th and Rush
congratulates him on his most excellent decision. Allan says that
he has always been taught to vote for the person who will do the
best for the country, but Rush says that people should always
vote for themselves. People should vote for the person who will
provide the leadership needed that will allow them to be the best
people that they can be. America is a nation that is defined by
the power of the individuals that make up the population.

People need to be reminded of this fact, and this is why Reagan
and Perot were so popular - these two men both made the
individual feel important. Hopefully, Bush can figure this out.
In any case, Rush encourages Allan to vote for the candidate who
will let Allan be the best he can be - "vote for yourself, sir."

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Item

o       President Bush in Detroit this morning said that if
Congress approves the spending cuts he's proposed, taxes could be
cut 1%. Bush also would like a 5% pay cut for federal employees
who earn more than $75,000 a year. Bush pledged to cut the White
House's operating budget by a third if Congress will similarly
cut their budget.

Eleven major corporations, including IBM, AT&T, American Express,
Allstate, and Exxon, are teaming up to provide care centers for
their employees' children and elderly relatives. These businesses
say that their $25 million program is a response to the growing
number of working women and to the "lack of adequate governmental
help for working couples."

Rush is "devastated" by this remark - he is all in favor of the
private sector doing things like this, but he wonders why
businesses would invite the government to help run their
businesses for them. The companies are going to bankroll some 300
care centers throughout the 50 states (and "New Columbia"). They
hope their program will be a model for other dependant care
companies.

Rush reads the list of major companies and notes that EIB is not
named. He does hope that the news reports he's seen are not
telling the whole story. It's fine for corporations to undertake
such programs so that they can attract and keep the best workers.
It's another thing, though, for the government to step in and
start mandating and dictating how companies should be handling
these matters.

When the government gets involved, it implements a standardized
approach to a problem and removes any incentive for individual
innovation. Plus, mandated federal programs only increase the
government's power and influence, and make people think that
their only hope is for the government to "equalize" things for
them. This is not what should happen - the government should
provide an environment that allows people to be their best.

Senator Jim Sasser (D-TN) was on CSPAN the other night claiming
that the primary role of government was to "make the playing
field level." Rush sees nothing about this in the Constitution or
in the Federalist Papers. None of this country's founding
documents say that the government is supposed to intertwine
itself into people's lives, all in the name of "fairness" and
"equality."

Yet more and more people seem to think that this is the
government's job; these people think that voting for this or that
politician is going to make a major difference in their economic
happiness. The only people, though, for whom this is true are
those who depend totally on the government for their livelihood -
those on welfare, lobbyists, and government-funded programs.
These people don't work for a living like those in the private
sector do.

This is why Rush has suggested that the national symbol should be
changed to a dilapidated sow, whose thousands of nipples have
shrunken to almost nothing because of all of the piglets who have
suckled the life out of her. Rush doesn't want to give the
government even more control over his life, but liberals seem to
want the government everywhere. They want the government to be
involved in the daily lives of the people as much as possible.

This is a bad idea in any case, but it's catastrophic during bad
economic times. Forbes magazine has a special issue that asks why
Americans seem to be depressed when things are not that bad.
People, though, think things are so bad that the only solution is
to enlarge the government and get it all the more involved in
their personal business.

*BREAK*

Update  Slick Willie         (Johnny Preston, "Charming Billy")

Clinton said today that he wants to spend $6 billion on a new
welfare program. Rush predicts that if Clinton is elected, the
next four years will involve the confiscation of what millions of
Americans have worked their lifetimes to achieve.

Clinton stated "it's time to make welfare what it should be - a
second chance, not a way of life." His welfare plan, though,
would cost $6 billion over four years, with the money coming from
defense and spending cuts. Rush wonders why nobody is talking
about the "welfare dividend" - if Clinton plans to end welfare,
then why is he asking for $6 billion in new funding?

The US government spends far more money on entitlement programs
than it does on defense, so why is new money needed? Clinton,
though, says that he needs another $4 billion for a job training
program to help welfare recipients get jobs. If retraining is
needed, then why is the US spending billions on education? What
are these kids being taught?

Evidently they are not being taught what they need to know in
order to get a job, which is why Clinton wants $10 billion in
increased spending. How long is Clinton's retraining going to
take? When will the money be cut off? What is so frightening
about all this is that nobody seems to care that Clinton is
talking about the increased confiscation of what Americans earn
by their own hard work.

The wire services' coverage of Clinton's speech reports that
Jesse Jackson sat in "frosty silence" as Clinton called for a
"strict term limit on welfare. People who can work ought to go to
work. Nobody should be on welfare forever." This makes sense, but
why does Clinton need $10 billion to do it? Rush, though,
understands why Jackson is upset at this - Clinton's plan would
mean Jackson would finally have to get a real job.

*BREAK*

Phone   Allan from Avon, NY (continued)

Allan says that the August 25th issue of the Rochester Times
Union had an AP story about how the Liberal Party in New York
state is going to endorse Clinton. Rush says that this doesn't
make any sense since Clinton is not a liberal. Allan says that
the paper reports that Clinton met with the Liberal Party
officials and "persuaded" them to support his candidacy.

Rush wonders how this is done - could Clinton have told the
Liberal Party that he's just pretending to be a moderate so that
he can win the election, but after November he'll go back to
being a real liberal? Rush is not surprised at all that Clinton
would get the endorsement of the Liberal Party.

Phone   Dave from Lima, OH

Dave says that working Democrats and Republicans in Lima are all
voting for Bush because they want to keep their money in their
own pockets. If anyone is going to take the money, it's going to
be their kids. Dave suggests that Rush should calm down a bit,
especially with stuff such as the Sunday Times article because he
doesn't want Rush to end up having a heart attack. It's only the
successful people who get savaged like Rush was by the Times
article. Rush thanks Dave for helping him have a sensible
perspective on things.

Dave comments on the "two jokers from NBC, especially John
Chancellor" who covered the Republican convention. Dave offers to
ship Rush a case of any flavor of Snapple if Rush could put a
tack on Chancellor's chair at some point. Rush says he would love
to see this, but he doubts he would be able to accomplish it.
Rush is interested, though, in how Dave is echoing the thoughts
of so many other people about how biased the media's coverage was
of the GOP convention.

Rush thanks Dave again for pointing out that he is being too
sensitive about the attempts being made to destroy him. He picks
up the Sunday Times article and reads the following:

"Last week Limbaugh went to a screen test to prepare for his
television talk show later this month, squeezed onto schedules
before the country votes in November. By coincidence, it took
place at the New York studios of MTV . . . which is proving to be
just as vital a weapon for Clinton as Limbaugh is for Bush. It
was no surprise to discover Limbaugh discussing his visit the
following day - with disgust dripping from his voice, and fingers
tapping on the desk, he said he had to pass a line of maggot-
infested, long-haired teenagers on his way to the studio."

Rush laughs at how this guy just doesn't get things right. He was
doing interviews for his TV affiliates, and his TV show was
certainly not "squeezed" onto the fall schedule for the purposes
of affecting the November elections. Rush knows that Dave is
right in cautioning against letting garbage such as this affect
him; however, he knows that when he suffers, his loyal listeners
suffer right along with him. Thus, he would like to protect his
devoted dittoheads as much as possible, because it is, after all,
the pioneers who get the arrows in the back.

*BREAK*

Phone   Ron from Winston-Salem, NC

Ron went into a local book store to ask about Rush's book, and
two of the three employees "almost started a riot" when Ron
mentioned Rush's name. One employee admitted that she had
listened to Rush's show only once, and the other said that Rush's
book wouldn't be out until October. As Ron left the store, the
two employees continued their conversation about how dangerous
Rush Limbaugh really is. Ron finds it curious that these
liberal-minded people are the ones who supposedly hold the First
Amendment in such high esteem.

Rush comments that Ron was supposed to talk about the indicators
of consumer confidence, and Ron apologizes and admits that he
surreptitiously slipped in the comments about Rush's book. Before
getting to his topic, though, Ron suggests that Rita from Detroit
would make a great foreign policy advisor for Bill Clinton.

Rush laughs but admits that her selection would make as much
choice as anyone else Clinton is likely to name. He is still
amazed, though, that Ron could go into a bookstore to buy a book
and have to endure store clerks who start an argument and make
editorial comments. These are the same people who blame Bush and
the Republican party for the rotten economy, and yet they are
doing everything possible to discourage Ron from spending his
money at their store. This would be like having someone order a
banana split at a Dairy Queen and then be told by the clerk that
they shouldn't do this because it will make them fat.

Rush adds that he knows people in New York who used to believe
all of the cliched criticisms made about him, until they met him
personally and had a chance to evaluate him for themselves. These
people were impressed that Rush was not only a nice guy, but
actually somewhat shy. Some of these people even have lost other
friends because they became friends with Rush.

Rush promises someday to tell the whole story about what it took
to get his book published, and what his editor at Simon and
Schuster had to endure once her colleagues knew she was editing
his book. The very people who claim a monopoly on tolerance and
understanding were the ones most likely to be intolerant of
Rush's book. This shouldn't be surprising, though, since
political correctness is founded on intolerance, and is based on
the politics of liberalism.

One woman who knows Rush has changed her mind about some issues
because of her conversations with him. When this woman told one
of her friends that she liked Rush's book, the friend cussed her
out for daring to speak favorably about Rush. Rush is enjoying
how liberals are so flabbergasted and outraged by his book,
because it shows that the people who claim to be so tolerant and
supportive of the First Amendment are the first ones who try to
deny access to the First Amendment to anyone they have political
disagreements with.

Ron says that what is infuriating to him is that these same
stores are more than willing to sell "new age mumbo-jumbo" and
other liberal clap-trap. Yet buyers of these sort of books aren't
given editorial comments when they make their purchases. Rush
says that the fact people are upset about his book simply shows
that he is succeeding, and this knowledge is the best defense
against their insulting comments.

Rush holds Ron through the break so that they can finally get to
his desired topic.

*BREAK*

Phone   Ron from Winston-Salem, NC (continued)

Ron heard a so-called financial expert on the news this morning
say that Bush could more easily part the Red Sea than to restore
consumer confidence. Ron thought that this was a curious comment
since so many industries seem to be doing well in America. Rush
asks Ron to imagine how he would feel if every night for a week
he would sit down and watch ABC World News Tonight, and every
night the program would contain nothing but good news about the
economy. Of course, this basically would entail not much more
than telling the truth about how things are in America. If this
sort of thing happened, though, wouldn't Ron start to believe
that things were going well in America?

In reality, though, Americans have been saturated with negative
news for 12 years. Democrats have been trying to make the economy
go south for so long since this is how they can win elections.
Clinton loves saying that the economy is the worst problem facing
America today because he knows people vote their pocketbooks.

With all of this negative news coverage, it's no wonder that
people think that the country is doing poorly, even though their
own personal situations are fine. Rush, though, is confident -
"we'll change it" he states.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       The mother of Jennifer Fitzgerald says that her daughter
was so distressed by rumors that she had an affair with President
Bush that she seriously considered suicide. The mother also says
that her daughter doesn't think that President Bush has "acted
like a man in this," and she lamented that Bush hasn't called her
daughter to provide any support. Diana, editor of the Limbaugh
Letter, says that this sounds suspicious and makes her think that
the rumors of the affair are true. Rush ignores his editor since
he is currently under "negative news overload."

o       One of the items of negative news is how the White House
is handling Bush's statements on taxes. President Bush yesterday
said that it was a mistake for him to have gone along with the
Democratic tax increases of 1990, adding "I'm not going to do it
again, ever, ever." Marlin Fitzwater, though, shortly thereafter
said that Bush was not pledging never to raise taxes; instead,
Bush was simply saying he was not going to agree with the
Democrats tax proposals again.

Rush says that this perhaps may have been a proper clarification,
but it allowed Gore to attack the White House by thanking
Fitzwater for "reading George Bush's lips." Bush and Fitzwater
just gave Gore/Clinton another opportunity to take advantage of
Bush's error in agreeing with the 1990 Budget Deal. This
certainly was partially Bush's error, but by and large it was
mainly a Capitol Hill mistake.

o       Malcolm Wilke, the Justice Department Special Counsel
investigating the House Bank scandal, has agreed to send letters
to some members of Congress clearing them from any wrong-doing in
the House Bank scandal. Since not all members of Congress will be
receiving such letters, though, House Speaker Tom Foley is
accusing the White House of playing politics by sending out these
letters so near the election. Wilke, however, has said it would
be unfair not to let those congressmen who are in the clear to
know about it.

Rush asks how many people have forgotten the scandal. He suspects
that many voters have put the scandal aside and have lost the
anger they had towards congressional arrogance and condescension.
Members of Congress still claim that they were not doing anything
wrong because overdrafts at the House Bank were just "normal
policy." Some Representatives even blamed bad bookkeeping at the
Bank for their overdrafts, with one congressman going so far as
to blame his wife for the overdrafts.

o       Jesse Jackson has been virtually ignored by Bill Clinton,
who said yesterday that he was simply too busy to meet with
Jackson. However, after Clinton gave a speech yesterday, Jackson
cornered him on stage and spoke to him in what is being described
as "an intense fashion." Jackson refused to disclose the contents
of his conversation, but he refuted reports that he was
displeased with Clinton's speech on welfare - "I was listening,"
Jackson said, "that's why I didn't applaud - I was listening."

Jackson also said that Clinton promised to meet with him next
week. Rush suggests that Clinton had better start talking to
Jackson, Al Sharpton, Benjamin Hooks, and all of the other
notable self-appointed black leaders. In fact, Clinton could also
meet with the family of Jose Kiko Garcia so that he could show
his sensitivity. Of course, if Clinton doesn't do what these
black leaders want, he will be a racist, and this is why he must
do whatever these people want.

Above all, though, a man of "eminent power, justice, and
compassion" such as Jackson shouldn't be ignored by a mere
Presidential candidate like Clinton.

*BREAK*

Rush goes back to Bush's pledge to "not do it again, ever, ever"
and how Fitzwater was being too defensive about Bush's remarks.
Bush has to categorize the 1990 tax increases as a Democratic
idea because they were typically liberal proposals. Bush was
exactly right in saying that it was a mistake to agree with
Democratic tax ideas, and Bush has to point this out since
Clinton wants to do all of this over again.

The 1990 tax increases were supposed to fix the deficit and make
things more "fair" by punishing the rich, so why do we need to do
the same things again? Dianne Feinstein claims that the problem
in America is supply-side economics, and that these policies have
to be eliminated to get people back to work. But supply-side
policies are what put people back to work, and Bush has to make
this point.

Bush has to portray Clinton's economic plan as a repeat of the
1990 Budget Deal, yet Fitzwater's statements are simply too
defensive on the matter.

Phone   Denise from Stockton, CA

Denise gives "suckling piglet dittos" because she is receiving
welfare now; she ended up on welfare because she refused to abort
her baby, as many people tried to get her to do. She is now
trying to deal with the people who view her as nothing but a
"welfare mama."

Denise says that she got pregnant towards the end of her last
year in high school, and it was her family members who tried to
talk her into an abortion. Because she didn't do this, though,
she now is collecting Aid to Families with Dependent Children
(AFDC). She does think Rush has been berating those on welfare
somewhat, although she does like listening to his show. In
particular, she finds that Rush's show is a good antidote to the
liberalism she is subjected to when she attends classes at the
local city college.

Rush asks Denise if her family is helping her with these
problems, but she says that her family is split up. In
particular, Denise's stepmother has been trying to run her life
for her, and Denise doesn't want to give her any more
opportunities to do this. Thus, Denise does not want to live with
her father and stepmother, and she would prefer not to live with
her mother.

Rush says that he thinks he understands Denise's problems, and
tells her that she should not consider herself to be one of the
many piglets who are suckling the life out of her country. He
points to the fact that she is attending college and is trying to
get an education that will allow her to get a good job, and he
asks her if she plans to stay on welfare all of her life.

Denise says definitely not, but from the very first day that she
received AFDC, she has seen welfare mothers for whom this is a
way of life. She lived with one woman in her late 30s who did not
care that this was how her life was always going to be. Denise
herself felt this way until she met some people who turned her
onto Rush's show; it was only then that she felt she should take
the initiative to get off of welfare and be responsible for her
own life. Rush holds her through the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Denise from Stockton, CA (continued)

Denise says that she has met many people who are not embarrassed
at all to be on welfare, and in fact who are not fazed by the
prospect on being welfare for life. She has had a number of these
type of people as roommates, and not one of them knew how to
manage money. Denise finally did meet another welfare mother who
was trying to get off of welfare, but this was only because her
child was getting too old for her to receive AFDC.

Rush wonders if Denise feels that he is condemning her for still
being on welfare, even though she is trying to improve her
situation. Denise says yes, and Rush says that she shouldn't feel
this way. What bothers Rush is not that people are on welfare,
but the attitude that so many people have that the government
should provide their prosperity for them.

Rush is also not as concerned with individuals so much as he is
with groups who think that the only solution to their particular
problems is for the government to tax other people more so that
it can give the money to the group's constituents. If this drive
towards socialism succeeds, though, it means the end of America.
The government cannot continue to confiscate the wealth of those
who work hard to earn their money, yet this is what many people
think is necessary so as to promote "fairness" and "equality."

Rush points out that the top 5% of wage earners pay 42% of the
taxes collected by the government. These people only have one
twentieth of the vote yet pay nearly half of the nation's taxes,
and yet they are still accused of not paying "their fair share."
This is "an out and out damnable lie" that Clinton and his
Democrats continue to spew.

Rush says that Denise's attitude is what is important - by her
own admission, she is not a suckling piglet because she is
looking towards herself for her eventual well-being, and she is
working hard in an attempt to get off of welfare. Granted, Denise
may be in need, but Rush is not opposed to the government helping
those in genuine need. Yet the danger of this is what Denise
herself has seen - a growing number of people in a dependent
class, who expect the government to take care of them.

Rush bets that liberal Democratic leaders such as Richard
Gephardt, Tom Foley, George Mitchell, and Bill Clinton secretly
enjoy seeing the growth of this dependent class because this is
how they get their power. The more people who need the
government, the larger the power that is accrued to liberals.
This is what is so heinous about liberalism - it encourages
people to remain dependent and needy.

Rush applauds Denise for her efforts to improve her own life, and
he thinks that if she continues on course she will find that her
live will get better. Denise adds that because of the new budget
that's been passed in California, her cash benefits are going to
be decreased by $30. However, even though this will be an
immediate hardship, she thinks that this will further motivate
her to get off of welfare.

Rush says that this is true, but the mere presence of welfare
benefits does not make anyone go onto welfare. People still
decide whether they will accept welfare benefits. Rush has heard
of welfare employees who do encourage their clients to take every
freebie they can get, but this still doesn't mean that the
problem would be solved if welfare was eliminated.

People should be motivated to get off of welfare, and California
is a great example of this - the reason Denise has to take a $30
cut in her benefits is because there isn't any money left. Yet,
Clinton and Gore are being praised for their "compassion" because
they want to spend billions that the country can't afford to take
care of more and more people. Liberalism and its attitudes are
the true enemy, not welfare.

Denise says that she was waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up
after shopping at Food For Less, and Rush interrupts to ask if
her boyfriend is employed. Denise says that he is working as a
machinist, and they've been together for 16 months.

*BREAK*

Rush says that Bo is astonished that Rush would imply that
liberal Democrats really want to keep people on welfare. Rush
replies that he doesn't doubt that many people have good
intentions, but he is still convinced that since the days of FDR,
liberal Democrats have had as their goal the continual growth of
government, fueled by an ever-increasing dependent class.

There is so much evidence, though, that this approach simply
doesn't work. LBJ's Great Society has been in existence for
almost 30 years, and it is has involved about $2 trillion in
wealth transfer from producers to non-producers. If it hasn't
worked, then why should it be continued? The answer is that this
money effectively buys votes for politicians.

Liberals know that their policies don't work, which is why they
are continuing their shrill attacks against the "evil 80s." The
80s worked because they allowed people to keep more of what they
earned; this in turn allowed people to have more control over
their own lives. Yet liberals hate this because if the people
have more power over their lives, it means that liberals have
less.

Clarence Thomas was savaged by liberals because he showed that a
black American could succeed without having to live on the
liberal plantation. Thomas had to be discredited because he
prominently put the lie to the liberals' claim that they were the
only hope that black America had for a better future.

Liberals are excited about the worsening economy because they
think it will be their ticket for a November election victory.
This is why they put through a family leave bill - not because
they think this is an important issue, but because they know Bush
will veto it; they will take that veto and use it to show that
"Bush doesn't care." This is nothing new for liberals - just
another example in a long list of how their main concern is not
the people, but the usurping of executive power.

"The Seven Fat Years" by Robert Bartley gives the truth about the
80s - it documents in excruciating detail, with charts and
graphs, what exactly happened during the Reagan era. It proves
that Reagan's policies during the 80s worked.

*BREAK*

Phone   Janine from Lebanon, NH

Janine is a bookstore owner who "wants to buy your book, read
your book, and sell your book" but she simply can't get copies.
She has ordered it but it's already on back orders, and thus she
doesn't think Rush should blame bookstores for this shortage.
Rush says that this wasn't his intent - he was only relating the
stories that listeners have told him about how some bookstore
owners were insulting and disparaging the book and its customers.

Janine says that she also wants to editorialize on Rush's book,
but unlike these other owners she will tell customers that it's
great and wonderful. She just wishes that she could get copies of
it. Rush says that hundreds of thousands of copies have already
been back ordered, and it will take perhaps 10 days for them to
show up. However, Rush has confidence in the free market and he
promises Janine "you'll get your books. Believe me, you'll get
your books."

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