Catholic Church issue<\/a>. I know it\u2019s a side issue.<\/p>\nRUSH: That\u2019s the assault. That\u2019s an assault on the Constitution. It\u2019s all wrapped up in that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, it is. It is. And I think that it\u2019s just a real shame what the Catholic Church has done to itself. I think that when you look over time, they basically are reaping what they sew. There\u2019s consequences to their actions. And with their schools, their hospitals, and their universities, they started accepting state and federal funds. And so you can see the deterioration across the board. You can go into a Catholic school, and those children are not even learning Church history. My son goes to a classical Christian school, and he is learning all about Church history; about, you know, America\u2019s history, world history, Medieval Times. You know, everything. He\u2019s in fourth grade, and he\u2019s just learned about St. Thomas —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah —<\/p>\n
CALLER: — and how he became a saint and how he was standing up against the king. And how history just is repeating itself. And it\u2019s just a real shame what the Catholic Church has done. I was baptized Catholic, raised Catholic, and I have to say I left the Church. When I was “burdened with a child,” (giggles), I decided, you know, first and foremost the most important thing to me was his education. Luckily I was able to find a school that is teaching him all of this and reinforcing our values and our principles. But, yeah, the Catholic Church, I think they really dropped the ball. You know, when they started also on other issues like illegal immigration to say, “Let our borders stay wide open,” and said nothing and took these people into the hospitals, it\u2019s created this problem we\u2019re having with the health care system and the costs of everything.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. You know, it\u2019s an interesting point. Once you accept federal funding, federal money, they, by definition, are going to have — or going to assert, the government will — some say-so or some control. In fact, a great illustration of this is the school lunch program. When schools accept federal funds for the school lunch program, the Feds then turn around and use that as the linkage to the curriculum. The Feds say, “If you\u2019re going to take money from the school lunch program, we\u2019re gonna tell you what you can and can\u2019t teach.” This is how the Feds insert themselves via the lunch program.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the same thing… Half the population is dependent. We had the story yesterday about the rising dependence. It\u2019s not just the Catholic Church. The Democrat Party has set out to purposely enslave as many people as possible to federal money and have as much of their lives as possible paid for by federal money, so they will constantly vote Democrat and then entrench Democrats in power. Now, I\u2019m not saying that people end up being corrupted by it. I\u2019m just saying: Follow the money and you\u2019ll find an answer to practically every question that you ask. And it\u2019s an allure. You know, this giant stash of money from the federal government. They offer it to you. Everybody needs more money. Everybody wants more money.<\/p>\n
They come along and offer it to you in legislation when you\u2019re Catholic Church, Catholic school, whatever. You take it, and then the Feds will use that as a way inside your door. It\u2019s a tough thing. (sigh) The solution is more people like me, and it\u2019s easy for me to say. I don\u2019t know when this happened to me. I don\u2019t know when it was. Sometime early in my life when I was not able to totally provide for myself, I\u2019d been fired or something, and I just hated that. I just hated it, and I vowed one of my goals in life was I was never going to be dependent on anybody for my needs, \u2019cause I figured, “When you\u2019re dependent on people for your needs, they own you. It\u2019s over.” <\/p>\n
And I vowed that was going to be something that I would never experience again. And when I say that, people say, “Well, yeah, easy for you to say.” Well, no. It hasn\u2019t been easy, is the point. (interruption) No, it\u2019s not “social Darwinism.” It\u2019s not. It\u2019s called “social responsibility.” (interruption) Social Darwinism, natural selection, all that garbage? You know, Darwin was full of it! One of the biggest problems the culture has is that Darwin is considered an authority on things. That\u2019s for another day. I appreciate the call. The whole notion of accepting federal money — as far as the Catholic Church is concerned — is an accurate thing to say. It does provide the federal government a way in. <\/p>\n
Folks, the $25 billion settlement with the banks over foreclosure abuses? This is a story Bloomberg has today. It\u2019s pretty big out there. It “may result in a wave of home seizures, inflicting short term pain on delinquent US borrowers while making a long-term housing recovery more likely,” but the new foreclosures that are gonna take place with Obama funding is going to have an immediate deleterious effect on the housing market. A lot of concern about it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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