{"id":26200,"date":"2007-07-12T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:15:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:15:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:15:26","slug":"the_breck_girl_s_poverty_tour2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/07\/12\/the_breck_girl_s_poverty_tour2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Breck Girl\u2019s Poverty Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: ‘Democratic presidential hopeful [the Breck Girl] has a ready answer the criticism about his expensive haircuts and huge home. The former North Carolina senator says a man can be wealthy and care about poor people.\u2019 He\u2019s got his poverty tour next week starting in New Orleans, and he\u2019s making a point of going to places that are not early primary states, that it\u2019s not political, that he\u2019s not just stumping for votes out there. He\u2019s going to show that he cares about poverty! But he\u2019s gotten all this publicity about $400 haircuts, a $1200 haircut, the 28,000-square-foot house that half a forest had to be clear-cut to make room for, hundred of thousands of dollars in salary, and it\u2019s threatened his message that he\u2019s a man of the people. ‘His advisers point out nearly all the leading candidates for president are wealthy.\u2019 So here once again we\u2019re treated to the blinding intelligence of John Edwards — intelligence that few of us will ever understand. Remember, it was earlier this week where the Breck Girl actually came up with a solution to poverty, and that was to ‘reward work.\u2019 <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been around for 231 years as a country, ladies and gentlemen, thereabouts, and it\u2019s amazing: it took that long for somebody among us to come up with that idea! It was brilliant. A check, a ‘pay-check\u2019 is what the Breck Girl was suggesting that work be rewarded. Now I know why so many liberals are against all these corporations. They haven\u2019t been paying anybody! It\u2019s indentured servitude out there. So we were treated to that brilliance, blinding brilliance earlier in the week. Today, we get another flash of that blinding brilliance from the Breck Girl: a man can be wealthy and care about poor people. Yeah, maybe, but only if you are a Democrat. Breck Girl, you\u2019re behind the times here. Ted Kennedy owns this one on you. There are many Democrats that have come before you that are far, far wealthier than you, and they don\u2019t get the same garbage about $400 haircuts and stuff. They shelter their wealthy lifestyle habits in ways that their constituents never, ever see. Ah, Ted might end up on the yacht with Walter Cronkite now and then, but you never see Ted out there flaunting his wealth, building big houses. Of course he didn\u2019t have to build one. He inherited it. (Laughing.) Or two or three. Well, what a signature cause, folks. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know where in the Sam Walton, that the Breck Girl got the idea that rich men don\u2019t care about the poor. How is it…? Sam Walton and his family are among the wealthiest, and look at what they do with Wal-Mart — and they care about poor people. They have priced those stores so that people of modest means can go shop, and guess who\u2019s trying to shut them down? People like the Breck Girl! The idea that wealthy men care about poor people? Yeah, and if you\u2019re not the right kind of wealthy guy and you care about poor people, people like John Edwards come and sue you into bankruptcy or try to put your company out of business! Wealthy men and women in this nation have been generous throughout our nation\u2019s history, more so the less government is seizing their wealth through confiscatory taxes! We know that giving boomed during the Reagan years thanks to those Reagan tax cuts. I\u2019ll tell you something else. USA Today had the story earlier this week that we talked about, that the primary giving, the largest volunteer charity giving comes from the Midwest, comes from the middle class. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: A suspicious package addressed to the Breck Girl ‘forced the evacuation of his campaign headquarters today. It\u2019s the third time authorities have responded to mail addressed to the [Breck Girl]\u2019s office in Chapel Hill. Captain Bob Overton of the Chapel Hill Police Department said he didn\u2019t know the contents of the package but said that authorities have deemed it suspicious. ‘We are investigating the package at this time.\u2019 It showed up about ten o\u2019clock this morning. A small section of the Southern Village complex in Chapel Hill was blocked off.\u2019 They called a bomb squad (muttering). Let\u2019s see: ‘…another suspicious package in May after finding a letter contained a powdery substance.\u2019 So they\u2019ve evacuated. This is the third time that this guy\u2019s office has been shut down due to a suspicious package with a powdery substance. Three times! You gotta start wondering if this is real or contrived way to appear like you\u2019re under attack. I wonder if they\u2019re going to find a return address: ‘Ann Coulter.\u2019 Elizabeth Edwards will go on TV: ‘Look at what just showed up in our office! Ann Coulter sent this!\u2019 (Laughing.) That\u2019s right: ‘terrorism just a bumper sticker.\u2019 I think the Breck Girl is failing to warn his staff of incoming Avon shipments, and they\u2019re getting all hot to trot here over nothing. <\/p>\n

Seriously, I have a question. You know, the Breck Girl starts his ‘poverty tour\u2019 on Monday, in New Orleans. He\u2019s already been to New Orleans. He announced his presidential candidacy in New Orleans. If poverty is so widespread in the country, why does he have to take a tour? All he ought to have to do is leave his front door. You know, get in the car, drive a couple miles and there\u2019s poverty. All he\u2019d have to do is look around him, wherever he might be, not have to go on a ‘tour\u2019 as if going to a museum. Seriously, folks, if poverty is so widespread, then why hasn\u2019t the Breck Girl pointed out that after the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the Great Society, the War on Poverty and the Raw Deal, the Democrats have failed to make a dent in poverty? We have the New Deal. We have the great deal. We have the Great Society. We have the War on Poverty, and the percentages are still the same, and these are big, big, big Democrat programs. It seems to me, Breck Girl — because I know he\u2019s not going to listen — if you really want to have a meaningful poverty tour, instead of going to New Orleans and Appalachia and these other places, do a tour of the failed bureaucracies and buildings that house them and tell us how he intends to fix them. <\/p>\n

Go wherever the Great Society is administered. Go to wherever the New Deal remnants are administered. Go to wherever the War on Poverty is being fought, because that\u2019s where it\u2019s being lost and go find out why. You need to tour a bunch of failed government bureaucracies, Breck Girl. That\u2019s what you need to do. Do a taxpayer tour. Apologize on behalf of his party for the recession rip-off in world history. We\u2019ve had $6 trillion transferred, wealth transfers to ‘wipe out poverty\u2019 since 1964, the Great Society. It hasn\u2019t worked. So he wants to do any kind of a tour, taxpayer tour, apologize to us for wasting a bunch of money, a huge rip-off. Here\u2019s the thing, folks. The Democrats cannot have it both ways. We allow them to get away with this, and it\u2019s time this stopped. They claim their programs are critical. They claim that the social safety net, the hammock and all these programs that they have come up with to wipe out poverty, they claim those programs are so critical and humane — and then half the Democrats run around and talk about what rotten lifestyles Americans have!<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re going to praise your own programs — ‘oh, these programs have meant so much to so many people!\u2019 — and then you got a leading presidential candidate running around talking about all the poverty in America, isn\u2019t it time you start looking at yourself? Because you can\u2019t have it both ways. Either your programs aren\u2019t working — well, not ‘either,\u2019 because we know the programs aren\u2019t working. Why go back to New Orleans, anyway? You already been to New Orleans. You announced your campaign from there. We can measure, by the way, the poverty tour that the Breck Girl is going to take. It will be very, very easy to measure the tour. He\u2019s going to be in New Orleans for, what? He\u2019s not even going to be there for a whole day. He\u2019ll be there in the morning. Let\u2019s say he\u2019s there for two or three hours. When he leaves, will there still be poor people? If after the Breck Girl leaves Appalachia, will there still be poor people? If there are still poor people in New Orleans, and there are still poor people in Appalachia and wherever the hell else he\u2019s going… Because he cares, and he\u2019s the only one, folks. Nobody else is doing anything about poverty, do you understand? He\u2019s going to go on this tour, and we\u2019ll find out just how much of it he cures on this tour.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I really think, folks, we need benchmarks in the War on Poverty. That\u2019s what we need. We need benchmarks we can measure. We actually have the benchmarks, and we know that they\u2019re not being met. (sigh) Anyway, the Breck Girl might have a bit of a challenge finding a lot of people in poverty in New Orleans, because most of them are gone. Most of them moved to Houston, and the people that are back in New Orleans are the entrepreneurs and risk-takers and moderately well off rebuilding it — which, by the way, is a meaningful problem for liberal Democrat politicians down there. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019m going to do my own poverty tour this afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. … That\u2019s right. I\u2019m going to do my own poverty tour, and I\u2019m going to do it today! I\u2019m not going to wait \u2019til Monday, and I\u2019m not going to go to New Orleans. I\u2019m just going to cross the bridge. I have to go to the airport later today, and my route is going to take me to it. If I just make a two-block detour from the main drag, my route will take me past poverty, and I\u2019m going to drive by and I\u2019m going to look at it, and I\u2019m… (interruption) No, I won\u2019t get out that far to Snerdley\u2019s place. (Laughing.) No, it\u2019s really just across bridge, and I will drive by. I\u2019ll slow down a little bit, look out both sides of the car, see what I see, and on Monday when I get back, I\u2019ll report in on my poverty tour. I\u2019ll let you know if I see any. In fact, I\u2019ll take the poverty tour Monday morning again before coming back and see if I did anything by driving through there, because I\u2019m going to drive through with a pretty nice car. It might inspire people to get out of poverty. You never know. I\u2019ll go back on Monday on my way to work. I\u2019ll take a big detour. I don\u2019t have to cross the bridge to get to work, but I\u2019ll be doing that on Monday. I\u2019ll take a second tour so I\u2019ll get two poverty tours in before the Breck Girl even gets his started. I\u2019ll get the same results he does. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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