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RUSH: Roger in Pittsburg, Kansas (No H on Pittsburgh in Pittsburg, Kansas), welcome to the program. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks. It\u2019s an honor.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I wanted to — if you can tolerate one more caller talking about Newt, something about his comment really stood out to me.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Sure.<\/p>\n
CALLER: He sounded like some kind of a Soviet-era commissar wanting to make another government program to create jobs.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hmm. Interesting take: A Soviet-era commissar to teach the kids how to work.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. You know, and —<\/p>\n
RUSH: If that were the case, the left would have loved it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: There are a lot of people who have that fear of Newt Gingrich, and it\u2019s deserved.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I mean, he\u2019s done some things, said some things that raise legitimate questions here about how deep the conservatism goes and just how tied to establishment Washington he is.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly. And the thing in that that stood out is he starts talking about, “Well, we can maybe come up with some jobs like ‘assistant janitor\u2019 or ‘librarian\u2019s helper\u2019 or something,” and that just struck me immediately as the kind of thing you would see in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, let me just…<\/p>\n
CALLER: Everybody\u2019s guarantee a job.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m not defending Newt here but I just want to say: I do know him, and if you spend any time around him at all, he\u2019s gonna have a hundred of those thoughts a day —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. <\/p>\n
RUSH: — and some of them are gonna end up being broadcast.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Sure. And it just terrifies me to have a person with that mind-set. He doesn\u2019t say, “Let\u2019s shrink welfare and out of necessity people will work.” No, instead he says, “Let\u2019s find ways to get people to work.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, but he did shrink warfare. He was the architect of welfare reform. He was largely responsible with a lot of other Republicans for forcing it on Clinton.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And you\u2019re right, and that still gives me a little bit of hope but I\u2019m just terrified when I hear sound bites like that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, look, I didn\u2019t hear a Soviet commissar there. <\/p>\n
CALLER: No, it\u2019s just in there. You played the clip a lot of times. It was in the last couple sentences or the last half of that little sound bite where he comments about different ways of getting people to work.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I just thought he was sounding like the schools ought to be a little bit more realistic. Why are they in school? What is the ultimate reason anybody\u2019s in school? It\u2019s to get a job! It\u2019s to learn how to feed yourself without killing somebody.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly. But it just seemed like his take on it, and I could just see this turning into some government program where people are offered tax break if they hire somebody on welfare.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, well, now, see, didn\u2019t say that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I know he didn\u2019t say that and I realize I\u2019m reading some into that, but that\u2019s where I\u2019m at. Any time a politician —<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know what you heard? I know what you heard. You heard him say that and your question was — because you\u2019re a small government Republican, and you\u2019re worried about the debt and you know we don\u2019t have any money — “Okay, where are we gonna get the money to pay \u2019em?”<\/p>\n
CALLER: There you go.<\/p>\n
RUSH: There you go you\u2019re thinking, “Okay, where we gonna get the money,” and here\u2019s Newt, he\u2019s a Washington guy. Government will do it, and that\u2019s a red flag for you, right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It is.<\/p>\n
RUSH: See, that\u2019s why I\u2019m host, I know what callers are saying even when they\u2019re not sure how to say it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Help me, Maha Rushie.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m happy to do that, and that\u2019s a legitimate concern. You know, when you are a capital C conservative, and you know that we don\u2019t have any money, and one of the problems is the government\u2019s trying to be the solution to everything– throwing money here or there — and you hear the putative leader of the polls on our side running around proposing, essentially, a new spending program, your red flags go up. Now, this spending program, however, has a component. There is work to be done here! This is not welfare. This is not being paid to do nothing. The motivation or the objective here — teaching people to work, to feed themselves — to have that concept of getting up, going somewhere, doing something, being paid for it, I don\u2019t find anything wrong with it. (chuckles) Sorry.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, the caller upset with Newt and the whole concept of work, I knew it; I understand exactly why. This guy was a capital C conservative. What he was saying is: Why does the federal government have to get involved in something as simple as people working? ‘Cause this guy, what he knows is, once the government gets involved it never stops. <\/p>\n
Even if the intention and the motivation is supposedly honorable. How many times have we been through that? Our problem isn\u2019t that there\u2019s too little government. Our problem is that there\u2019s WAAAAAAAAAY too much. You cannot fix the culture by expanding government programs. Government programs have to shrink. Government has to get out of people\u2019s lives — and don\u2019t forget Newt. Newt complained. Remember Paul Ryan had his Medicare fix, and Newt was out there saying, “This is right-wing social engineering.” So Newt was complaining that Paul Ryan\u2019s plan was conservative interference are private activity, when it was not.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Jay in Soso, Mississippi. Well, it\u2019s kind of Show Low, Arizona. It\u2019s great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Great to be here, Rush. I appreciate what you do for us.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Look, the caller that called earlier, I had the same flags he did when I heard Newt\u2019s work program suggestion, but then I recall we had a similar setup — I think it might have been a state program — in Mississippi in the late seventies and early eighties called YPI. YPI was an acronym, and I can\u2019t remember what it stood for but it was after-school work, and it was janitorial, yard care, all within the school system, and there was a lot of competition for those jobs.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. And now there isn\u2019t any competition for it. You propose it and you are some kind of a creep.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I am a capital C Christian, a capital C conservative, and I don\u2019t want another government program, but that one — to my recollection — worked pretty well in south Mississippi.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Look, I\u2019m not so sure Newt was talking about a new government program. He didn\u2019t specify, but you could say that you could take dollars from the existing schools budget, the existing education budget. We wouldn\u2019t need any new dollars. I mean, everybody would fight us on this but you could divert some of the redundant wasteful dollars that we\u2019re already spending on education. We\u2019re not talking about paying these kids six-figure salaries. That\u2019s for when they become adult janitors for the SEIU — and you try to get one of those guys\u2019 jobs, they will break your bones. In New York City janitors own yachts; 60 Minutes profiles them for all the stuff they got at home in the garage. They make six figure salaries, and if you try to take their job you will have an arm less or a knee busted or some such thing.<\/p>\n
But we\u2019re not talking about that here. <\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure Newt\u2019s talking about paying these kids, what, minimum wage, 50 cents, who knows? Whatever it is, just to establish a behavior that wouldn\u2019t require a new stash of money, it certainly wouldn\u2019t require a new government program, but I can understand people thinking, “Oh, gosh. Oh, no. Here\u2019s a guy from Washington proposing spending more.” I know how people could arrive at the thought that Newt was proposing a new government program. He\u2019s a Washington guy. (interruption) What was that? (interruption) Mmm-hmm. (interruption) Yeah, try that. (laughs) They\u2019re already there for lunch and dinner (laughing) we may as well make \u2019em work? Yeah, “Sing for your supper, kid. We\u2019re gonna start serving you dinner here at school, so…” You think they could…? I wonder if they have to clean up their tables after lunch. Do they have to take the tray anywhere or get up and leave and the school nurse comes along and picks it up? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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