RUSH: John in Chicago, let\u2019s go to the phones, grab you first today, sir. It\u2019s nice to have you with us.CALLER: Hello, Rush. I got a message for Mr. McCain. We as Americans, we aren\u2019t cynical at all. We are outraged. I mean, you\u2019ve got gas going up sky high, plus in turn, it making everything else go up. He ain\u2019t doing one thing to address this problem. In fact, the government is hindering the oil companies from going out and finding the oil, bring the prices down, or build refineries (cell garbled). They\u2019re crippling the oil companies. And like you said, the market is dictating this, not the oil companies. They would love to find the oil, but we can\u2019t because of the government, and no one is addressing this problem.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. You\u2019re exactly right. We can\u2019t because of the government. But who\u2019s influencing the government? Who is the government in this case?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Us, the people, and we deep voting these dunderheads in (cell garbled) do something.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, but it\u2019s the environmentalist wackos who have influence with the government. Do you realize, if you\u2019re outraged over the price of gasoline, you don\u2019t want to listen to today\u2019s program because you don\u2019t want to hear what California is thinking of doing, which will then spread all across the country. If you are upset about the price of gasoline, you don\u2019t want to listen to this program today because you don\u2019t want to hear the fact that every one of the presidential candidates, all three of them have a global warming plan that\u2019s going to raise taxes and the cost of doing business, which will be passed on to you. None of these three candidates has any desire to drill for our own sources of oil. There is a story in the stack today about how we could end our dependence on foreign oil totally with reserves found in one of the Dakotas.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, that\u2019s just great.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It is just great, and of course we\u2019re not going to be allowed to go get it because the environmentalist wackos and the Democrats will not allow it. They\u2019ll stop it. ‘This is just a scheme by Big Oil to raise their profits at your expense.\u2019<\/p>\n
CALLER: Let me ask you a quick question. How did we get in this predicament on a consensus? There\u2019s no fact or anything saying we\u2019re in a global warming crisis.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m going to tell you how we got into this predicament. Have you seen the latest report from Colin Powell\u2019s bunch on the status of high school education in America?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, I have. He said it\u2019s abysmal.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, what did you conclude from it? I want to make sure you know what I\u2019m talking about. What\u2019s the story that you saw?<\/p>\n
CALLER: The story that I saw, that the school system is basically run by the liberal Democrats and they ain\u2019t getting educated because the dropout rate — I mean, in all the major cities — is 30, 40, 50%. That\u2019s ridiculous. But in the suburbs, it\u2019s much higher, like 60, 70, 80%, but graduation.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right. You must have heard today\u2019s Morning Update. Let me give all of you this. If you missed the Morning Update, this is the answer to the question. I keep telling people: The most expensive commodity we have in this country is ignorance, not gasoline, not rice, not wheat, not corn. The most expensive commodity we have is the ignorance of way too many Americans. It is ignorance that allows liberalism to prosper. Get this: ‘Three out of 10 US public school students do not graduate from high school, and major city school districts only graduate one out of two students, according to a study released Tuesday. In a report on graduation rates around the country, the EPE Research Center and the America\u2019s Promise Alliance also showed that the high school graduation rate — finishing 12 grades of school…\u2019 They have to even throw that in there because half the country reading the story doesn\u2019t know what it takes to graduate! Can you believe this?<\/p>\n
‘[T]he high school graduation rate — finishing 12 grades of school…\u2019 They have to add that? Really? I thought you only had to get to tenth grade and you graduated! ‘[T]he high school graduation rate — finishing 12 grades of school — in big cities falls to as low as just 34.6 percent in Baltimore, Maryland, and barely over 40 percent for the troubled Ohio cities of Columbus and Cleveland. And it said that black and Native American students have effectively a one-in-two chance of getting a high school diploma.\u2019 Now, stick with me on this, because while this is tragic and while it is horrible and while it is disconcerting, this is a French News Agency story, and it doesn\u2019t even bother to analyze why this is. It doesn\u2019t even bother. Let me give you the dirty little secret here. America\u2019s Promise Alliance was a group founded by Colin Powell, and they looked at high school graduation rates at America\u2019s 50 largest cities. In 17 of our 50 largest cities, not even half the kids attending high school finish. That doesn\u2019t even touch on what the hell they\u2019re being taught while they\u2019re there.<\/p>\n
But I will guaran-damn-tee you it\u2019s not Economics 101 in a way that they could understand it. I will guarantee you that most of what they\u2019re being taught is a multicultural hybrid of hate America; America sucks. America\u2019s out to screw you. You don\u2019t have a prayer in America. Ronald Reagan sucks. George Bush sucks. Bill Clinton was fabulous. The Founding Fathers were racists, and they were atheists, and this country originally belongs to the Indians from whom it was stolen by evil white Europeans. This is what these people come out of school knowing, thinking. ‘In large metropolitan areas, you may as well draw a target around the inner cities if you want to isolate this problem. In Baltimore suburbs, over 80% of the kids graduate. Thirty-four percent who live in Baltimore\u2019s inner city graduate.\u2019 Suburbs okay, not great, 80%. We shouldn\u2019t even be happy with that. There\u2019s no excuse for anything less than a hundred percent! It\u2019s basic. We all talk about education. ‘We gotta educate our children. We need more money to educate our children, educate,\u2019 then how can we be happy with anything less than a hundred percent?<\/p>\n
Anyway, by contrast, we\u2019re ecstatic about 80% in the suburbs of Baltimore, because the inner city is 34%. In Detroit, about a quarter, 25% of the kids graduate. Twenty-five percent! Indianapolis public school system, 30% graduation rate, Cleveland, 35%, inner city. In response to the report, Secretary Powell said, ‘When more than one million students a year drop out of high school, it\u2019s more than a problem. It\u2019s a catastrophe.\u2019 It\u2019s worse than that, Secretary Powell. Let\u2019s go back to Obama\u2019s big race speech for a second, shall we? Obama like every other Democrat, talks about schools failing minority kids, but he never addresses how they got that way. There\u2019s no question that inner city schools are failing minority kids. Why do you think the biggest supporters of school vouchers are the parents of kids in inner city schools that will take the first chance they can to get them out of there and get them into a decent school? These are primarily black and Hispanic kids in Democrat Party-run cities, and they are left to fail year after year, decade after decade! Liberalism is giving us this problem, and it has for a long time — and look at the billions that we are spending on education to boot. You throw that into the mix.<\/p>\n
You talk about being mad about something? You talk about being mad at the high cost of something and getting nothing for it? These kids are caught in a stranglehold, folks, of liberal politics. Liberal politics is designed to keep unions strong, including the teachers, and minority kids underachieving. I mean, to the extent that there\u2019s institutional racism in America, it is in these blue states, run by liberal Democrats for years. Their own kids are not even being disserviced. It\u2019s just criminal, the way they\u2019re not being taught and what they are being taught. So you asked me, ‘How do we get this way where people don\u2019t understand we gotta go get our own oil to become independent?\u2019 They don\u2019t have the education; they don\u2019t have the information. They\u2019ve been taught that America is bad, that America is rotten, that America steals from the rest of the world. America deserves to suffer. America deserves to be hated by the rest of the world. That\u2019s what they\u2019re taught. So when Big Oil boys get calls up there, and get called on the carpet for these prices, ‘Yeah! Yeah! You stick it to them. You stick it to them, those big, fat white guys taking all the prices, just getting rich while I\u2019m sitting here poor. That\u2019s right, you stick it to them!\u2019 The sad thing is that, actually, this is not a catastrophe, Secretary Powell. This is just liberal business as usual.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: By the way, Colin Powell\u2019s group, is run by Morton Kondracke\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: In all of this stuff, the education problems that I detailed in the last hour in the inner cities of this country, the problem\u2019s not the American people. I\u2019m still bouncing off Senator McCain\u2019s speech to the midshipmen at Annapolis. The American people are spoiled and they\u2019re a little too cynical and they take their freedom for granted, blah, blah, blah. Overall the problem is not the American people. The problem is the government and how government manipulates people, how the government literally abuses people, and how the government uses them. The problem, folks, is liberalism, liberalism which controls most of the government and how it seeks to transform our society for the worst. Senator McCain could easily address that and contrast himself with the Democrats also seeking the presidency, but he doesn\u2019t, he doesn\u2019t address it in this way. He doesn\u2019t blame the government or liberalism for this, because he believes in a lot of it. I\u2019m just saying this by virtue of the legislation that I\u2019ve seen him propose. We can\u2019t run around and say the American people are great one day, that left to their own devices they\u2019ll succeed, but on the other hand condemn them or most of them or a lot of them. This is an argument against liberalism and Big Government.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what liberals do. What do they do? Liberals say that people are too lazy, too stupid, and whatever, they need to be managed. Liberals have contempt for the average American. Liberals do not believe the average American can overcome obstacles in life. So it is sort of unfortunate to hear Senator McCain parroting this message of the left with his speech at Annapolis today. Our position is just the opposite. We have the greatest faith in the world in the American people. We want a great nation. We as conservatives do. We want people to be the greatest they can be. We don\u2019t want to hold anybody down and we don\u2019t want to give anybody any excuses. And we don\u2019t want to make \u2019em victims of anything. We don\u2019t want to treat them like children. There are people out there like that, but not overall, but the liberals are out there trying to create as many of those people as they can.<\/p>\n
Now, the oil price, the gasoline price, we had a great call in the last hour from somebody who said, ‘We\u2019re not cynical. We\u2019re outraged at the government because it\u2019s the government that\u2019s leading to high gasoline prices because we won\u2019t drill for our own oil.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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