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<\/p>\nRUSH: I switched over to CNN, and I caught the governor of Ohio there, John Kasich, and he is being interviewed by… I don\u2019t know who the reporter was at CNN. Doesn\u2019t matter. Being interested by the caravan and America and how to deal with it. I just want you to hear this. We have two bites. Here\u2019s No. 1.<\/p>\n
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KASICH: We have a caravan coming north. We don\u2019t want all those people coming across our border. And there are ways to deal with it. I believe that if we would check those who are legitimately in need of asylum could be vetted before they even get to the border. But, you know what? We\u2019re born in America. You know how lucky we are to be born in America and not be born in Guatemala, where they would say to your daughter, you know, if you don\u2019t do what we want, we will rape your daughter or we will kill your son if he\u2019s not a drug mule? Now, they\u2019re marching north. And, you know what? It could easily have been all of us, that we\u2019re in the caravan, that we\u2019re marching north, trying to save our families and save our children.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. So what is… The ruse here, or the technique here,\u00a0 is moral equivalence. There but for the grace of God go I. Phil Donahue used to do this all the time, Phil Donahue would host his show and when the subject of illegal immigration would come up, he\u2019d start preaching about the accident of his birth. “You know, I was born just a few miles inside the U.S. border, and look at the difference it\u2019s made for me.”<\/p>\n
And he started extolling the guilt that he felt over how the accident of his birth resulted in him being an American and how basically unfair that was to other people in the world. As though being born into a country of prosperity and decency is something to feel guilty about. And it may be something to feel very grateful for. I have no quarrel with that. But it\u2019s how you deal with this that matters. We simply can\u2019t take in everybody in the world.<\/p>\n
The answer, the solution is to spread our area of dominant influence and to get rid of tyrannical regimes and dictatorships which treat their people like dirt and condemn that and do our best to spread our way of life around under the belief that it\u2019s good and decent. But there are way too many people who don\u2019t think that we\u2019re the good guys and they think that the American way of life is an imposition to others! And that we don\u2019t have the right to impose our views on people!<\/p>\n
But somehow we ought to stand aside and let everybody who wants in, in because of our guilt. And he says, “You know, they\u2019re marching north. It could easily have been all of us, that we\u2019re in the caravan, that we\u2019re marching north trying to save our families and save our children.” But it isn\u2019t. You know, you can deal with what-ifs and could-bes and all of that, but it isn\u2019t, unless you\u2019re trying to accomplish something else. So here\u2019s Governor Kasich now continuing his thought.<\/p>\n
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KASICH: We got to start putting ourselves in the shoes of other people. We\u2019ve got to start thinking about the consequences that others suffer. And if we\u2019ve been spared those by the grace of God, let us be appreciative, let us count our blessings and let us reach out to those who have less and let\u2019s stop putting up walls around ourselves and not understanding the plight, the trouble, and the problems of others. It is not right, and the Lord doesn\u2019t want it, and our people at their hearts want to reach out to others. Look at what they do in these storms. They go and they rescue people they don\u2019t know. They put \u2019em in their homes. They feed \u2019em. That\u2019s America! Not all this garbage and this division and yelling and screaming and hatred on all sides.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So mad, man, something is really gotten to Governor Kasich here! Let us be appreciative. Let us count our blessings. Let us reach out to those who have less. Let\u2019s stop putting up walls around ourselves. The Lord doesn\u2019t want it. It\u2019s not right. Look at what people do in storms. They go and it had the rescue people they don\u2019t… Yes, we do! We go to storm desolated places and we help them recover there.<\/p>\n
We do more than any other nation in the world in terms of compassion, aid, welfare, disaster relief, you name it, and it still isn\u2019t enough! This is the point! It still isn\u2019t enough! No matter what we do, it isn\u2019t enough. And now the accident of our birth and the unfair advantages that gives us require that we, what? Take care of them, let them in. There have to be limits on these things. And it all circles back, whether you want to admit it or not or acknowledge it or not, self-reliance.<\/p>\n
And there is this assumption that while we are able to engage in self-reliance and responsibility, a lot of people aren\u2019t. Therefore, we have to do it for them. It\u2019s good education. It\u2019s not good role modeling and certainly not good leading. But the overall effort to make the caravan appear to be our fault, to make poverty and destitution around the world our fault when we do more to alleviate it than anybody in the world ever has or ever will.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Jerry in Springfield, Massachusetts. You\u2019re next. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush! How are you?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m good.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good. Good. I just wanted to dovetail on your point about America giving more than any other nation. I think what you were talking about was the government itself. But the individuals also give more than any other nation. The point is that I have the choice when I give to charity who I give it to. I don\u2019t have the right to tell my neighbor who they should give it to you, and that\u2019s essentially what the government\u2019s doing. They\u2019re telling us who they\u2019re gonna give basically what they got from our tax dollars. They don\u2019t give us the choice, and that\u2019s my point.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: It\u2019s a good point too. It\u2019s a classic illustration. He\u2019s reacting to the sound bites we played of John Kasich, who was wringing his hands in guilt over the fact the caravan\u2019s coming and it\u2019s just by the grace of God that we\u2019re not in it, and that because we\u2019re not in it but could be in it — except by the grace of God — we\u2019ve gotta stop building walls \u2019cause God doesn\u2019t want that, and we\u2019ve gotta realize that we\u2019re just plain lucky.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s kind of like Richard Gephardt: “Winners of life\u2019s lottery.” You know, we were just minding our own business one day and we got conceived in a womb in America, and we got born into America. And, man, that\u2019s so much luck that we shouldn\u2019t feel there\u2019s anything special about us. So the fact that we weren\u2019t conceived in wombs down in Nicaragua and Guatemala means that we owe. We really owe, and we\u2019ve gotta learn to walk in the shoes of others.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the wrong way to look at it. Nobody has any trouble imagining what it\u2019s like to be poor. That\u2019s why so many people strive not to be, Governor. It isn\u2019t hard to imagine. We don\u2019t have a lot of people… In fact, most people in this country go up and down in terms of annual income. There are people that earn a lot of money and lose it all. There are people that earn an average amount of money all their lives and that\u2019s it. But basically people in this country know poverty. If they\u2019ve never been in it, they certainly don\u2019t want to be.<\/p>\n
They know enough to know not to be, and that\u2019s the great thing about America. If you don\u2019t want to be, there are ways to avoid being in poverty. Poverty in this country, by the way, is a relative thing compared to poverty around the world. United States poverty is not really poverty. I get in trouble every time I point that out, but it happens to be true statistically, financially, however you want to look at it.<\/p>\n
But the way to look at these disparities is not to simply say, “Oh! Oh! That could be me,” and then to run around feeling guilty about it. The way to deal with this is not to run around constantly imagining, “Well, you know, one accident and I could have been in that caravan,” and then having that impact the way you deal with it. It doesn\u2019t help anybody. It\u2019s not a solution. But it does make you look like you have lots of compassion and lots of care.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the great thing about liberalism: It never solves anything. Liberalism is a gutless choice because you never have to solve anything. All you have to do is talk about how much you care, and all you have to do is tell people how much pain you\u2019re seeing and how it makes so you uncomfortable. (impression) “It\u2019s just so unfair! Look at the suffering and the starvation,” and you are automatically credited as a person with great compassion. You haven\u2019t solved anything. All you\u2019ve done is say that you\u2019ve recognized it.<\/p>\n
And you\u2019re telling everybody else they\u2019ve gotta do something about it.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s liberalism. Solutions are where the answer is, and solutions to these problems are exactly what have been happening in the United States the past two years! Solutions!<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Sue in Ocala, Florida, great to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s an honor.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And I\u2019m curious why little is mentioned regarding the health of the caravan members. Isn\u2019t anyone concerned about what diseases may be coming into our country, polio type disease, whooping cough, once eradicated are showing up in our country. Is the CDC on the border? We screen people coming into our country.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let me tell you something. Sue, I brought this up last week. Last week there were stories of mysterious reappearances of diseases previously wiped out in America. A Polio-like disease was one and other diseases that started affecting people that we had long ago eradicated. And the news stories, honest to God, featured experts claiming to be stumped! \u201cWe can\u2019t figure out why or how any of these brand-new diseases would be happening to the United States right now.\u201d Uh, really?<\/p>\n
Now, the caravan, the story today… And, by the way, I don\u2019t like that word “caravan.” That\u2019s not what this is. But for the… (interruption) Okay, call it an army, call it mob, whatever, but there is a… I have a couple of stories today which I\u2019ll get to the next hour, Sue, of rampant disease now springing up and spreading amongst the caravanees. And it\u2019s got some of them very, very sick, and they\u2019ve had to stand aside, step aside, stand down, can no longer move forward, they\u2019re exhausted because of the heat and so forth.<\/p>\n
But it does specifically reference the spreading of disease. And the fact that there\u2019s an unwillingness. I mean, these stories like week were just amazing. They were hilarious, aside from the seriousness of it. It\u2019d be like if you caught, you know, seven Islamist radicals with a bomb to blow up something and he failed to make the connection to radical Islam is exactly what this was. It was purposely avoiding the obvious.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: On the caravan: “Migrant Caravan Marching to U.S. Borders Swells to 14,000 as Trump Readies Federal Response<\/a>.” That\u2019s from The Daily Wire. From the Washington Times: “Mexico Says Migrant Caravan Is 3,630 People<\/a> — Mexico said Wednesday that there are about 3,630 people traveling in the migrant [mob] making its way through Mexican territory and headed for the U.S. Another 1,743 people who were part of the caravan have now requested refugee status in Mexico…” They\u2019ve decided, “No mas;” they\u2019re good where they are.<\/p>\n “[T]heir applications are being processed,” said Mexico. Now, we were told back in April that many of the people in that caravan applied for asylum in Mexico, and yet we never heard another word about it later, which is to say that I think Mexico may say a lot of things to try to placate Trump and the American audience which may in fact not be totally all there. What else do we have with the…? Now, this is just a story about the additional numbers.<\/p>\n
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“The group, many with children and even pushing toddlers in strollers, departed Mapastepec at dawn with more than 1,000 miles still to go before they reach the U.S. border. They had advanced about 95 miles as the crow flies since thousands burst across Mexico\u2019s southernmost border six days earlier.” Wait. Six days, 95 miles? They\u2019ve got a thousand miles to go. We got 13, 12 days to the election. That\u2019s gonna be pushing it, especially since many in the mob are sick and exhausted.<\/p>\n