{"id":213602,"date":"2016-05-18T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T21:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/05\/18\/tsa_disaster_is_liberalism_on_display\/"},"modified":"2017-07-07T11:29:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T15:29:56","slug":"tsa_disaster_is_liberalism_on_display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/05\/18\/tsa_disaster_is_liberalism_on_display\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA Disaster Is Liberalism on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: How about these absolutely unacceptable conditions at airports, the lines to pass through security?\u00a0 In Chicago they\u2019re now advising people to show up three hours early for a domestic flight.\u00a0 Now, I can tell you that back in the mid-nineties and even toward 2000, people like me, I\u2019ll just use me, I relied on something.\u00a0 I believed that demonstrable, unequivocally demonstrable government failures would, if properly explained, help to put a dent in the love and appreciation and support of Big Government and liberalism and the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

In this administration we have had disaster after disaster after failure after failure.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got Obamacare, which is a disaster, and the people in charge of it are laughing about how they lied to us.\u00a0 They\u2019re laughing on media in our face, how they laughed at us, how contemptible they hold us, how stupid they think we are. \u00a0Obama\u2019s speechwriters with Charlie Rose laughing about creating a line, “If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.”\u00a0 And then we got Jonathan Gruber, the author of Obamacare, running around laughing and telling how they were able to lie and fool everybody.\u00a0 Obamacare is something that nobody likes, nobody wants any part of.<\/p>\n

You look at this transportation and safety, whatever it is, administration, I mean, it\u2019s an absolute…\u00a0 And you know, it may be on purpose.\u00a0 They may be doing this to secure even more funding for the division. They may purposely be creating massive public anger, wanting millions and millions of travelers to shout to Washington, “Fix it!\u00a0 We don\u2019t care what you do, just fix it.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a blank check.”\u00a0 And, yet, none of it seems, as best I can tell, none of it seems to cause people to question the government\u2019s ability to do anything.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about liberals and leftists.\u00a0 I know we don\u2019t need any conversion on our side.<\/p>\n

But if this kind of example after example, failure after failure, boondoggle after boondoggle, if this doesn\u2019t do it, why doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 And there are answers, of course.\u00a0 But this is unacceptable, what\u2019s happening in these airports.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Let me grab a quick call here on TSA, because we\u2019ve talked about that today.\u00a0 This is Todd in Asheville, North Carolina.\u00a0 Todd, great to have you on the program.\u00a0 Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Hey, mega dittos, Rush.\u00a0 Been an honor listening to you since Gulf War I.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Well, thank you very much.\u00a0 I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Hey, my young, college-age, conservative, prodigal son reminded me that in every passenger\u2019s airline ticket there\u2019s a TSA fee, and it\u2019s very large.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 TSA collected $3.5 billion last year in fees.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 And…?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 And so, as the passenger census grows, so should the revenue to the TSA.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Oh, so you\u2019re reacting to the point that some of this might be staged in order to get even more money come budget time?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Yes, because they\u2019re collecting money based on passenger census, and it\u2019s a lot of money.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Of course it is.\u00a0 Look, let me go back to my original comment on this.\u00a0 This is… Folks, this is outrageous what is happening at various airports.\u00a0 Three hours now you have to show up early at Chicago O\u2019Hare on a domestic flight, and three hours is not the half of it.\u00a0 What you have to go through in that line!\u00a0 I mean, if there\u2019s ever a classic illustration of government inefficiency, inability, ineptness, incompetence, have-no-business-doing-this, this is it!\u00a0 Healthcare is another.\u00a0 The age-old question: Why does this not demonstrate to people that there are better ways?\u00a0 Why?<\/p>\n

And the answers to that, folks, are multiple.\u00a0 Well, look at how capitalism has been destroyed — I mean, in terms of its image.\u00a0 Look at how capitalism — in terms of education, school, college, high school, whatever — has been constantly attacked.\u00a0 Government is never attacked that way.\u00a0 Government is always, “At least they\u2019re trying! Their intentions are good. They\u2019re trying to help people.” The fact that it never works, that it\u2019s horrible, that it doesn\u2019t seem to help?<\/p>\n

You can sit there and warn people about how inefficient, how horrible, how rotten things are gonna be.\u00a0 When it actually happens, it doesn\u2019t change people\u2019s minds about government involvement in their lives.\u00a0 It\u2019s the most amazing thing.\u00a0 He\u2019s reacting to statement I made earlier that there are some theories that all this worsening circumstances at TSA counters at airports is on purpose, that the Regime is doing this on purpose to anger people to demand that this get fixed and the government do it.<\/p>\n

“We need more money! We need to hire more staff! We need to do this! We need to get bigger.”<\/p>\n

“Do it! We don\u2019t want to stand in line three hours, and we don\u2019t want to be probed, and we don\u2019t want to be everything else you\u2019re doing to us.”<\/p>\n

And, ergo, government grows.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t get any better, doesn\u2019t get any more efficient.\u00a0 The very people who break something are then looked to to fix it.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the amazing contradictions of my life.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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