{"id":4404,"date":"2016-01-21T18:46:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T18:46:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-13T11:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:35:05","slug":"and_they_wonder_why_we_re_angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/01\/21\/and_they_wonder_why_we_re_angry\/","title":{"rendered":"And They Wonder Why We\u2019re Angry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: We\u2019re gonna start in Kent, Ohio. It\u2019s Darrell. Great to have you, sir. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019d like to thank you for your career, being an author and the philanthropy you do.<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Well, thank you, sir. I appreciate that very much. I am a well-known philanthropist — well, no. I\u2019m not a well-known philanthropist, but I am one. I appreciate that, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Anyway, my point is — and I\u2019ve been waiting for someone else to make the point — is about the behavior of Americans and Donald Trump\u2019s popularity. I\u2019m your age, no college, made a lot of money, and growing up — and this is something incrementally that the Baby Boomers saw — was you just had to keep your eyes open, and by me in Cleveland it was steel mills, car plants, residential, commercial construction, working on the freeways. In other words, it\u2019s all jobs, Rush. And people had that sink into them, like the Baby Boomers as they grew up, and their families felt it. It\u2019s all jobs. I think the people understand that. And that\u2019s my point, is that the people grew up and slowly you don\u2019t see it, you don\u2019t see the car plants, you don\u2019t see the new construction, and jobs are so important, it would reduce crime, it would reduce this epidemic depression and the drug problem. It all revolves around jobs.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. I know exactly what you\u2019re talking about. Let me put it this way, folks. Since he\u2019s my age and important he did not go to college but he has always done well, made a lot of money. What he\u2019s talking about, he had all these job opportunities. There were car factories, there was construction, all kinds of work to support development going on. There were careers. If you wanted to educate yourself, you can go in that direction, and he\u2019s grown up, and he participated in that, he saw that, that economy supported him.<\/p>\n

Now, he\u2019s old enough to be able to look at it now, and those kind of things are not there for people. People that were his age when he first left home, became an adult, those jobs are not there now. While that\u2019s the reality, what do people today hear? They hear the current president hailing this economy. In his most recent State of the Union speech Obama was out there bragging about what a great economy this is. And the Democrat Party\u2019s routinely taking credit for it, talking about all this unemployment that we fixed. Why, it\u2019s only 5%, we got job creation left and right. And the reality on the ground is none of that\u2019s true. It doesn\u2019t match what people\u2019s lives are.<\/p>\n


\nThe reality that people are living doesn\u2019t match what they\u2019re hearing from Washington, DC., from the Democrat side of the establishment or the Republican side. And so there is this — either it\u2019s a conscious awareness or a subconscious fear that things aren\u2019t right. Now, it\u2019s not that things shouldn\u2019t change. I mean, things constantly change. Everything\u2019s changing. The nature of work changes. Things modernize. Plants, factories use more robotic technology for manufacturing. Certain jobs leave the country and go overseas where it\u2019s cheaper to manufacture something, which matters for consumer prices here.<\/p>\n

But even considering all of that slow evolutionary change, this is a dramatically different landscape today that young people, Millennials, are graduating from college or high school and entering. The New York Times, on the Drudge, a story that actually acknowledges America\u2019s best days are behind us. Now, it\u2019s not an anti-Obama. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I clicked on it, only read the first paragraph. It cleared during the radio program, so I haven\u2019t had time to dig deep into it.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not a story that I would have seen growing up. It might have been an edge fear. It might have been a far flung possibility, but we never lived it. I mean, we had opportunity out the wazoo, couldn\u2019t wait to leave home to strike out. I mean, not strike out and bottom out, but strike out and start living our dream. And today there\u2019s abject fear in that. You\u2019ve got people still living at home for as long as they can.<\/p>\n


\nSo it is dramatically different. And nowhere in Washington is it acknowledged. The opposition party doesn\u2019t talk about changing it, the opposition party doesn\u2019t talk about improving it, or if they do it\u2019s with oddball policy wonk phraseology. “We must energize and activate the free market so that the upside, downside, make sure it permeates the auto sectors, the fourth quintile.” “What are you talking about? I just want a freaking job.” But there\u2019s no criticism of this economy, there\u2019s no acknowledgment that it\u2019s bad. Instead it\u2019s just a bunch of lies about how good it is.<\/p>\n

Enter Donald Trump, who, whether by accident or by design, happens to be saying things that reflect the very anger, fear, beliefs, whatever else that people like Darrell here are noticing. It\u2019s his way of trying to explain the Trump phenomenon. You know, Obama\u2019s still out there blaming ATMs for job losses. He really is blaming ATMs, symbolic modernization, technological modernization, as one of the reasons for significant job loss.<\/p>\n

Look at Flint, Michigan. Look at what we\u2019re learning about Flint, Michigan, and before that Detroit. All of these places run by the Democrat Party for all of these years with no counterpunch. And people live it. They can\u2019t escape it, and they can\u2019t be told that what they\u2019re feeling and living isn\u2019t true. So, anyway, that\u2019s his attempt to explain the Trump phenomenon. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s as complicated as many people are trying to make it out to be.<\/p>\n

Ah, there\u2019s the ear-splitting tone. Well, we\u2019ll get back to the phones when we get back, so hang tough.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me give you another example. I talked about this earlier this week. It happened yesterday. The establishment of both parties, I guess, just assume that people are not paying attention, that most are not capable of understanding. But it\u2019s the exact opposite. Now, what is one of the things that\u2019s foremost on people\u2019s minds right now? The open borders nature of our country. But it\u2019s not just that the borders are open. It\u2019s that we\u2019re making no effort to stop it and that those who are arriving are uneducated or ill-educated.<\/p>\n

Many do not even speak the language.<\/p>\n

They are poor.<\/p>\n

They are not qualified for most work.<\/p>\n


\nAs such, they will not find any because we already have 94 million Americans not working. So what\u2019s gonna happen here, is they\u2019re gonna end up in what\u2019s called the American hammock. That\u2019s what I call it. It\u2019s called a safety net, but it\u2019s become a hammock. They\u2019re gonna end up on the public services rolls, and that is paid for by the people who are working. And the people who are working are beginning to get fed up with this arrangement, because at its very essence it\u2019s not fair. And you can pooh-pooh it all you want, but people are big believers in fairness.<\/p>\n

The Democrats have learned how to make big political hay out of the whole concept of unfairness and the people that are still working and playing by the rules — but fearing they\u2019re going to lose their jobs, fearing that they lose their jobs and they\u2019ll eat up their savings staying alive — do not think about getting in this hammock. They don\u2019t think about joining the welfare state. They don\u2019t want to get in the hammock or join the welfare state, and they don\u2019t see anybody that seems in any way interested in their plight.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s everybody else that the government and both parties seem to have bending over backwards to please, to satisfy, to welcome. And they\u2019ve about had it. And it\u2019s not only illegal immigration. Now it has to be with these refugees that are pouring into the country from parts of the world where mass terrorism is taking place. And once again, the United States government doesn\u2019t seem to care, is not at all concerned with who might be entering the country and what they might end up doing after they\u2019re here. And so it is a continued dilution of the essence of this country\u2019s greatness.<\/p>\n

It is an attack on the institutions and traditions which define this country and the people who make this country work, and it\u2019s been going on for years. There have been two recent elections, in 2010 and 2014, where the voters clearly stated what they wanted. They voted and elected people who had promised them they were going to work hard to stop this, and nothing has changed. If anything, it\u2019s getting worse. More people are pouring across the border. Fewer people are being deported. More people are joining the welfare state.<\/p>\n

And at the unspoken end of this, there\u2019s a great awareness that many of them are magically going to become registered Democrats before too long. It wouldn\u2019t be so bad if there were some push-back. It wouldn\u2019t be so bad if there were some effort to stop this. But there isn\u2019t. The Republican Party, which is the natural institution you would suspect would stand up and try to stop this, seems to be hell-bent on joining it. And if not joining it, they certainly aren\u2019t making any efforts to stop it. What we get are shows of intent, such as meaningless votes to repeal Obamacare so that they say, “Hey, hey, we\u2019re trying to repeal it, man, but we can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

“You know what? We didn\u2019t have the Senate for the longest time, and Obama\u2019s still up there in the White House. He\u2019s gonna veto it. I mean, there\u2019s nothing we can do. We can\u2019t do it \u2019til we get the White House.” Before that it\u2019s, “We can\u2019t do it \u2019til we get the Senate.” Before that, “We can\u2019t do it before we get the House.” And with each new achievement, new accomplishment, the winners have continually said, “Sorry, we still don\u2019t have enough to do what you want us to do.” And during it all they make no effort to stop it.<\/p>\n

Well, guess what?<\/p>\n

“On Wednesday, Senate Democrats successfully and predictably blocked what many conservatives described as Speaker Paul Ryan\u2019s ‘Show Vote\u2019 on refugee admissions. It has been called a show vote because the Ryan plan, even if the president signed it, would still allow the president to bring in an unlimited number of refugees from an unlimited number of countries. Democrats\u2019 filibuster on the motion to proceed to Ryan\u2019s show vote comes one month after Speaker Ryan sent President Obama a blank check to fund visa issuances to nearly 300,000 (temporary and permanent) Muslim migrants in the next 12 months alone.<\/p>\n