{"id":268934,"date":"2018-03-26T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=268934"},"modified":"2018-03-28T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T20:10:32","slug":"san-diego-turns-squirrels-welfare-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/03\/26\/san-diego-turns-squirrels-welfare-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Turns Squirrels into Welfare Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I found something that just struck me funny. There\u2019s a story that has nothing to do with anything. It\u2019s in the San Diego Union Tribune.<\/a> Apparently they\u2019ve got a giant squirrel problem in the public parks in San Diego. Now, I happen to like squirrels, but every time squirrels come up I have a bunch of people start shouting, “They\u2019re nothing but tree rats. They\u2019re nothing but rats with PR. They\u2019re just rats. What do you mean, you like squirrels?”<\/p>\n

Well, it goes back to when I was a kid. My mom would actually open one of the windows on our breakfast nook and start banging two peanuts together, and the squirrels would come up, and she would give them to the squirrels. And one of them was a red squirrel, looked like a fox. And she would sit there, “Come on little squirrel,” and they\u2019d all come trooping up, and she\u2019d give them some peanuts and they\u2019d walk away.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re on the second floor. They\u2019re on a ledge, second floor, they\u2019d climb down the house. And I\u2019ve always thought they were cute, but people said, “They\u2019re nothing but tree rats. How in the world can you say you like squirrels?”<\/p>\n

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Well, anyway in San Diego they got a problem \u2019cause apparently a lot of other people think they\u2019re cute and they\u2019ve started feeding them. And they\u2019ve turned \u2019em into a bunch of welfare recipients. Feeding the squirrels contributes to their overpopulation.<\/p>\n

“‘The main problem is they get tons of food from people,\u2019 said Darren Smith, a natural resources officer in the San Diego region of the state Department of Parks and Recreation. ‘There is the culture of providing extra food for them, and that\u2019s what makes the population grow so much,\u2019 he said.”<\/p>\n

And then this. “Too many squirrels become a nuisance. They quickly grow dependent on handouts, lose their fear of humans.” And so they hang around with people. And he says that the squirrels are now showing up in picnic areas looking for food. And then there\u2019s this quote: “They bother people,” said Darren Smith. “Sometimes, they bite people, and steal their Doritos.”<\/p>\n

When I saw “steal their Doritos” I just started cracking up. Of all things to steal, they steal people\u2019s Doritos, the squirrels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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