{"id":32300,"date":"2009-04-30T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:30:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:30:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:30:04","slug":"teaching_the_unemployed_to_scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/04\/30\/teaching_the_unemployed_to_scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching the Unemployed to Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Linda in El Centro, California. Twenty-five percent unemployment there. Hi, Linda.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. This is like the best Mother\u2019s Day gift I could ever have.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, no, no, you gotta get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proflowers.com\/landingradio.aspx?pageID=Radio&amp;code=rlweb\">flowers<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (giggles)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Is somebody gonna give you flowers for Mother\u2019s Day?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, probably.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You expect them, right?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Of course! (giggles)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, see, I that\u2019s what I said yesterday. You can\u2019t go wrong, folks. Everybody thinks that flowers are a last resort.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, no!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: If you can\u2019t think of anything else.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, there\u2019s &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They work, right? They work every time they\u2019re tried.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (giggles) Amen. Hey, I am a college professor here in the Imperial Valley.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Mmm-hmm?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And my comment &#8212; I have a zillion, but the one that I was talking to Bo about &#8212; was that we have that highest unemployment rate in the nation, as you said.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, I saw that yesterday. It\u2019s 25%, rivaling unemployment rates in the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. Well, my comment is that I think a lot of the people here who are on unemployment are riding the system as far as they can take it. They take classes in how to stay on the system as long as possible.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Where do you go to find a class on how to stay on the system as long as possible?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughs) Oh, some of them actually are born in Mexico, from what I gather. The people there learn how they can come here and how they can actually get our benefits.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ve heard this.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Uh-huh, and they do it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ve heard this story, a lot of people I know from Southern California, they said this illegal immigration issue has roiled them for years.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And they have told me that there are instructions for, if you need medical emergency care, how to call an ambulance, which ambulance to call, which hospital emergency room to go to, if you don\u2019t have any health coverage and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So you\u2019re saying that there are classes out there to tell people how to scam the system &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; if they\u2019re unemployed?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, there are. And there are actually college classes that the college I teach at teaches to help people who are unemployed, how they can get back into the workforce here in the Imperial Valley, and I have a friend who teaches several of these courses, and in the class, the students aren\u2019t paying attention. These are adults. They\u2019re not paying attention. They\u2019re cleaning their fingernails. They\u2019re on the phone. They\u2019re text messaging. They\u2019re doing all this stuff only because they get paid to take this class.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125112.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"365\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: Is this a community college?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, it is.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, and they\u2019ve actually got a course &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; on how to get a job and get off of unemployment?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, they do.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And they have to go to this course in order qualify for some unemployment benefits?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Probably for an extension, I would say.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So the question that arises is: Which came first, unemployment benefits or the course that you gotta go to to maintain your benefits?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: This is true.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is hilarious. I mean, it\u2019s &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s funny, but it\u2019s sad.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I know. It\u2019s maddening.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Maddening.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Even if it is a community college, you\u2019ve got a college with a course set up specifically for people to go park their butts and do nothing.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Where they then, by doing nothing, qualify for unemployment extension benefits?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right, and they also get paid to take the class.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: They get paid to take the class.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: By who?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: By the state, I am sure. You know, this state just loves people who are out of work.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: My God, the scam\u2019s coming from government &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; which doesn\u2019t surprise me.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, it does.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The scam\u2019s coming from government, so somebody\u2019s had to devise the program, put up a college class in community colleges &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; and then we\u2019re going to tell unemployed, &#8216;You gotta go there &#8212; and by going there, that will qualify you for more unemployment.\u2019 So they can get critics off their backs. &#8216;Well, we\u2019re educating our unemployed. We\u2019re educating them.\u2019 (laughing) They\u2019re doing their nails, reading People magazine, Us Weekly, OK magazine, whatever it is. Putting it in the ti-i-ime! (laughing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Linda in El Centro, California. 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