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<\/p>\nRUSH: Back to the firing squad we go, Rush Limbaugh, back to the phones. This is Anna in Bellevue, Washington. It\u2019s great to have you with us. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. So my question is this. In these states that are postponing school, why don\u2019t parents just pull their kids out of the school system entirely and homeschool them? And just kind of make it a game plan. So for the next year we don\u2019t know what the school district\u2019s gonna do, we don\u2019t know if one of us is gonna have a job or both of us isn\u2019t gonna have a job, but we take our kid home, we homeschool \u2019em, the school district, the taxes, the money that they get from the federal government comes to us directly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ha. Ha. You think you\u2019re gonna get tax money for educating your kids?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s gonna happen. I\u2019m saying it\u2019s a possibility. And it\u2019s something for people to think about. I think if enough people acted that way there would be a chance at least to take it to the federal government and say, “Look. We want the money. Not the school district.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. I can see that I started your brain thinking in a way that I didn\u2019t intend. So I gotta go back and correct. I made an observation. Dr. Fauci yesterday said that he doesn\u2019t think we\u2019re gonna be able to open the schools in the fall. And then Lamar, “What do you mean, you can\u2019t open the schools?” and Fauci supposedly backtracked, “Well, I didn\u2019t quite mean that.” But he did. Can\u2019t open \u2019til we get a vaccine, can\u2019t do sports fans in the stands until we got a vaccine, whatever else.<\/p>\n
The practical reaction, if you tell a bunch of parents that schools are not gonna reopen, that means they can\u2019t go back to work. I was trying to describe for you its own little self-contained conspiracy here, folks. By sending health experts out to tell you the schools aren\u2019t gonna reopen, they\u2019re forcing you to stay home and not go to your jobs. They\u2019re helping keep the economy locked down.<\/p>\n
My point is there are people attempting to ruin Donald Trump. They\u2019re trying to get rid of him, just as during the Trump Russia collusion story, just as during the fake Ukraine impeachment story, now this is being used to get rid of Trump by destroying the U.S. economy. The last thing these people want is for you going back to work. So if they close your kids\u2019 schools, guess what? You can\u2019t go back to work. What does that mean? The economy stays effectively locked down. That\u2019s why they don\u2019t want to open the schools.<\/p>\n
So you heard that, you say, “Oh, well, then we should all homeschool.” What have people been doing in the past two months? That\u2019s what people have been doing. But look. It\u2019s not something every parent, every family\u2019s gonna do. There are some families who need schools for their kids to go to so they can leave the house during the day, to work, to go see the mistress, I don\u2019t care what it is.<\/p>\n
Most people are not going to homeschool. And even though it\u2019d be a great thing and it is a great thing and I\u2019m a big advocate of it, it was not my intended reaction that people have. If you tell people that it\u2019s not safe to open the schools, people are gonna do whatever they have to to protect their kids. So you send the world\u2019s foremost authority out to say, “Schools, I don\u2019t think we can open \u2019em up. No, no, no, no, no.”<\/p>\n
Well, you\u2019re telling parents that they can\u2019t go to work, at least one of them. They gotta stay home with the kids. Can\u2019t leave the kids home alone. Somebody has to be there. Who\u2019s gonna have to the money to hire a babysitter, nanny, whatever? Nobody has a job, nobody\u2019s job\u2019s open. This guarantees that nobody\u2019s job will open up. It\u2019s insidious to sit out there — we\u2019re talking about the age-group of people least likely to acqiure the virus. Crumb crunchers, skulls full of mush. Young skulls full of mush.<\/p>\n
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And homeschooling, while it\u2019s a wonderful thing, it\u2019s not something most parents are inclined to do. And then the idea, I mean, it\u2019s really great thinking that the state would happily give you the tax revenue to teach your kids, but they don\u2019t have the money to give. You\u2019re not working. Nobody\u2019s paying taxes. Well, I take that back. They\u2019re still trying to collect property taxes. I think if they prevent you from working, you ought to be able to tell them screw your taxes. How the hell can I pay you property tax when you won\u2019t open my job?<\/p>\n
Anyway, I\u2019m out of time. There\u2019s not much more I can add to that. If you want to homeschool, that\u2019s fine. Don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand. I\u2019m not criticizing it. I was trying to explain how they are subtly succeeding in continuing the lockdown here by finding ways to keep you from going to work.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s David in Medford, Oregon. You\u2019re next, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s so great to talk to you, and I can\u2019t believe how strong your voice sounds and how strong you are.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m glad to hear that, really glad to hear that. Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m a little younger than you. I know a lot of people what have gone through health situations like yours, and I\u2019ll just tell you that the power and the strength that you\u2019re demonstrating is pretty dad-gummed amazing, I\u2019ll tell you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, thank you, sir, very much. Very, very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: So here\u2019s the deal out in Oregon. I don\u2019t know of what other blue states look like, but Oregon hasn\u2019t been a blue state forever. It used to business friendly. A lot of people are probably looking at it going, “What the heck happened?” And you talked a lot about education. And you know that education has been, for lack of a better term, weaponized by the left.<\/p>\n
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And I\u2019m just gonna give you an idea what that looks like in my state and why our governor, Kate Brown, really has a very practical reason for wanting to keep business shut down. So we\u2019re a low-population state. We got about 4.2 million people. As far as COVID-19 cases, 70% of all cases in Oregon are in about five of our 36 counties.<\/p>\n
So from a data point of view it doesn\u2019t makes to shut down the whole state and visit that economic damage on everybody. But here\u2019s the deal. This financial damage is not equitably distributed. There is a class of worker in the state of Oregon who is still financially healthy, and those are all the workers that receive a government paycheck.<\/p>\n
So your teachers, your firemen — and, you know, not that they shouldn\u2019t, not that they\u2019re not earning it. But the reality is they are, where we have tens of thousands of people out of work. You know, we have record the unemployment claims in our state. So what does that mean? We\u2019re in a political season, and in our state, the political left receives the majority of their funding from government unions.<\/p>\n
This 500-pound gorilla in the Oregon legislator is the Oregon Education Association, the teachers union. That\u2019s the 500-pound gorilla in Oregon politics. So in politics, you fight with money. So on one side, you have all the government employee unions that are still fully funded. But on the other side, you have private business that have really all been cut off from the knees.<\/p>\n
So you have a situation where just from a practical point of view — you know, without the philosophy or anything else, just practically going into an election season — the left side still has all of their funding mechanisms almost 100% intact. But the people on the private business side, we\u2019re lucky if we have — I\u2019m just gonna pick a number — 40% of the funding to work with that we would normally have in an election year.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s actually a very good point. Let me ask you a question: If the president of the United States were a Democrat, would your state be shut down?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Unlikely.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (chuckles) Unlikely?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Unlikely.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No chance. No chance. California would not be shut down. Oregon would not be shut down. Colorado would not be — whatever, Illinois would not be — shut down. If the president of the United States were a Democrat, it wouldn\u2019t be shut. But that is an excellent point that you\u2019re making, that the private sector funding mechanisms for political campaigns have been frozen with the lockdown.<\/p>\n
And the longer it goes on, the longer that discrepancy exists. Meanwhile, the public employee unions are getting paid. They\u2019re government employees. They\u2019re being paid — federal, state, it doesn\u2019t matter — and their union dues are being automatically deducted and sent to various stages of the Democrat Party. Great call.<\/p>\n
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