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Your Host on Forced Vacation for Rest of Week; Buck Sexton to Interview “Greater” Star and Producer Neal McDonough Tomorrow<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, I\u2019m not gonna be here Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, in addition to Labor Day, we have our best-of show on Labor Day.  Normally my summer schedule is to take a week in June and a couple of weeks in August, and I have not done that.  I think I took four or five days in June.  And so broadcast partners came said, “You know, take some time, will you?  We don\u2019t want you burning out.  We\u2019ve got the election coming up.  It\u2019s gonna be intense.” <\/p>\n

<\/a>So I have been forced out of the air chair here Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  And I thought, this is embarrassing to have to say this.  So I thought about suspending myself.  And I said okay, what have I done that I could suspend myself for?  And I couldn\u2019t come up with anything.  I thought it would be hilarious to suspend myself.  I used to suspend Snerdley for like 45 minutes or an hour if he was getting mad and cursing callers.  But he\u2019s been on his best behavior for the past bunch of years, so there haven\u2019t been any real suspensions here.  Well, at least as far as I know he\u2019s been on — (laughing) they\u2019re all laughing in there.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:  By the way, folks, a reminder: If you missed the first half hour, the first hour of the program, make sure you go to RushLimbaugh.com sometime today or tonight and revisit the opening monologue on a new movie out called Greater<\/a>.  I don\u2019t want to repeat what I said, but it\u2019s all there.  It\u2019s a new movie that I really hope as many of you who can get a chance to see it.  And that\u2019s all I\u2019ll say.  I don\u2019t want to waste any more time. Not waste time.  I never waste time. But I previously discussed it.  Just go to RushLimbaugh.com and find out why if you missed the first hour of the program.  <\/p>\n

Obama Regime to Classify State Voting Systems as Infrastructure<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH:  Gonna get back to the phones here just a second, but since we were discussing Hillary with the last caller, the point that I wanted to make is, you remember at her… I think it was the Democrat Party convention, her acceptance speech, when she came out with this proposal to invest in “infrastructure,” in our roads and bridges, and she had this specific figure attached to it like $250 billion or $300 billion. Remember the reaction that we all had?<\/p>\n

“Wait a minute.  Been there; done that.”  We all started saying to each other, “Why don\u2019t people remember Obama promised that?” He did: $800 billion for infrastructure, roads, bridges, schools.  None of it has happened.  Here comes Hillary proposing the same thing.”  And we ask ourselves, “Why don\u2019t people catch this stuff?  Why don\u2019t they catch it on their own?”  We don\u2019t know that they don\u2019t. <\/line><\/p>\n

It just doesn\u2019t seem that this kind of hypocrisy ever attached itself to Democrats.  Well, get this, from the Cybercast News Service. When Hillary says that she\u2019s gonna spend money on infrastructure, that\u2019s just half the story, because “[t]he Obama White House may designate certain state voting systems as ‘pieces of critical infrastructure,\u2019 which would give federal technology experts ‘more of a role in assisting the administrators of those networks as they deter intrusions,\u2019 White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Monday.”<\/p>\n

So they\u2019re going to turn state voting systems — the machines, the networks, the whole shebang. They\u2019re going to try to re-designate that stuff as “critical infrastructure.” So now when Hillary starts talking about appropriating hundreds of billions of dollars for infrastructure, she can include the federal government messing around in state election systems, voting systems.  Josh Earnest said, “That\u2019s something that\u2019s being discussed by senior members of the president\u2019s National Security team.” <\/p>\n

“According to a Reuters report, U.S. intelligence officials are worried that hackers sponsored by Russia or other countries may attempt to disrupt the presidential election, and the FBI is asking states to boost the security of their voting systems.” And as part of that upgrade, the federal government will now classify voting systems as infrastructure.  Well, once you let the Feds get their money hands in on state voting? Oh, my gosh. They just don\u2019t stop.  They\u2019re just trying to infiltrate and swallow and surround as much as they can.  <\/p>\n

Lesbian Farmer Story Still Percolating Out There<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH:  Yep.  That lesbian farmer story is still alive out there.  You know, it\u2019s classic.  It\u2019s a Washington Free Beacon story.  So I see it, and I report it, repeat it, I actually repeat it and I add some unique commentary to it, and it gets a life of its own at the New York Daily News, at New York Magazine, The Advocate, Conan O\u2019Brien, and it\u2019s still percolating out there, the lesbian farmer story.  This is where the USDA\u2019s offering financial grants to lesbians to become farm babes<\/a>.  Who knew.<\/p>\n

Wealthy Swedes Have Homes Confiscated for Migrants<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you hear what happened in Sweden?  Did I mention this? In Sweden where they have been overrun by, quote, unquote, refugees from Syria and other places, they\u2019ve run out of places to house them where the refugees will accept.  The refugees are refusing to accept the housing Sweden is providing.  So you know what Sweden did?  They went to the wealthy, who have second homes, and they basically confiscated them, said, “Look, wealthy people, you\u2019re only using that big house six weeks a year.  Well, we\u2019re taking it, and we\u2019re gonna house the refugees in there for a while.” <\/p>\n

They just announced they were gonna do it.  There is nothing stopping these people.  Especially if nobody stands up and opposes it, and it\u2019s eventually gonna work its way down to every — it\u2019s a great story, actually a column or editorial here the Investor\u2019s Business Daily.  Have to take a break coming up here, but this is interesting.  It\u2019s a piece about what we face in our future with so many men unemployed, so many men out of work, what are the generational meanings and indications of this?  And it\u2019s pretty fascinating.  <\/line><\/p>\n

Investor\u2019s Business Daily: Caution: Men (Not) At Work<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.  Investor\u2019s Business Daily, IBD, headline: “Caution: Men (Not) at Work — While the Fed and government policymakers fret over “full employment,” a new study by one of America\u2019s leading demographers and economists argues that in fact we are in the midst of a full-blown unemployment crisis — one that remains, in his words, ‘hidden.'”  It\u2019s not hidden from me.  Anybody with half a brain knows that we have an unemployment crisis: 94 million Americans not working!<\/p>\n

The labor force participation rate is right now around 62%.  That\u2019s the lowest it\u2019s been since the seventies, the Jimmy Carter seventies. “This Friday, a new jobs report will come out. If the Wall Street consensus is correct, it will show the unemployment rate continuing to hover around 5% while nonfarm payrolls will grow about 180,000 for the month. But that won\u2019t tell the whole story.<\/p>\n

“Nicholas Eberstadt, a fellow,” that just means he\u2019s a thinker, “at the American Enterprise Institute, argues in a new book called ‘Men Without Work,\u2019 due out next week, that we\u2019re suffering not from full employment, but massive underemployment — in particular, nearly one out of six working-age men have no job and are no longer looking for one. A release for his book calls this ‘a hidden time bomb with far-reaching economic, social and political consequences.\u2019 With 10 million fewer male workers in the labor force than we should have, it\u2019s hard to disagree. This portends an entire generation of men with only a tenuous connection to the discipline and rewards of work…”<\/p>\n

Now, I gotta say something that\u2019s gonna be… In this day and age, it\u2019s entirely yet unnecessarily provocative.  For the longest time… You know, the values of work are many and varied, and some of them are direct, such as producing income.  I mean, you have to live.  Work is how you earn your living.  It\u2019s how you pay the bills.  I mean, that\u2019s the direct, number one benefit of work.  But there are so many others — and it has always been true, whether the feminazis want to hear it or not.<\/line><\/p>\n

When talking about men — and men and women are different, and I don\u2019t care what anybody thinks, says, or tries to say otherwise. Men and women are different, and men have derived their sense of self-worth from their work.  Not only, but a great, great percentage. A great percentage of the self-worth that men have comes from their career, their job, their work.  That is how they define themselves.  Their job, their work, their career, their adjustments is from where they derive their self-esteem, and it may be becoming true for an increasing number of women as our culture evolves. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to exclude women, but for the longest time that was one of the unhidden, unmentioned but very tangible aspects of men working.  And you take that away and you have a problem on your hands. Not just the idle time, not just the lack of revenue, not just no income being produced, not just the inability to provide for yourself. The whole idea for many past generations of men — the test was, the objective was, the measure of a man was — how well he provides for family, protection, income, and all that. <\/p>\n

Now, feminism sought to attack that, because they saw that as giving men more substance and more meaning and not including women and so forth.  But, look, all that\u2019s cockamamie, because it happens to be psychologically and physiologically true.  Men do not derive their self-esteem from whether or not they can play golf, how many beers they can consume on Friday night or any of that.  Now, sadly some do, but I\u2019m speaking here now on traditional majority ways. <\/p>\n

If you take all that away, you have a recipe for big problems. <\/p>\n

You have men who feel worthless, purposeless, and unnecessary.  And that is what is being discussed here:  “An entire generation of men with only a tenuous connection to the discipline and rewards of work, it\u2019ll have an enormous impact on future generations of young men.  It\u2019s not exclusively a problem of the lower income classes, however.  Today women make up 57% of all college graduates, meaning that men in the current generation will be enormously underrepresented in the well-paying professions that require a college degree.” <\/p>\n

That is not, by the way, by accident.  There is a reason fewer and fewer men go to college.  There\u2019s a reason fewer and fewer men want to go to college.  So this guy\u2019s theory is that “[i]n short, men are in danger of becoming a hidden, and combustible, underclass,” and that\u2019s not good.  A pull quote from the piece: “This is indeed a silent time bomb ticking at the heart of our economy. To ignore it will surely lead the U.S. down the path to terminal economic and productivity decline, a lower standard of living and an also-ran status among the global economies.”<\/p>\n

Men and women are different.  And men not working, men not producing, are men who don\u2019t have a lot of self-worth.  And you know what happens from that.  If you don\u2019t like yourself, forget anybody else.  If you don\u2019t value yourself, if you have a perpetual inferiority complex, just in itself that\u2019s not good. It\u2019s exacerbated by these kinds of economic trends. “Okay, Rush, so what\u2019s your solution?” Well, that\u2019s not… We\u2019re not at that stage yet, and I doubt that a whole lot of people would automatically agree with any of this.<\/p>\n

So we still have to reach the, quote\/unquote, “consensus” on the existence of this program.<\/p>\n

The piece has all kinds of stats that I could share with you, but it\u2019s numbers.  You lose track of numbers when you\u2019re listening to them and don\u2019t have them in front of you.  But “‘Over the last three decades the labor-market trajectory of males in the U.S. has turned downward along four dimensions: skills acquisition, employment rates, occupational stature and real wage levels,\u2019 wrote MIT economists David Autor and Melanie Wasserman in Wayward Sons: The Emerging Gender Gap in Labor and Education.” And that occupational stature is every bit as important as the wage levels the two go together.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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