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RUSH: Hillary\u2019s comment here reminds me. As you people know, I, as a hobby, peruse tech blogs, \u2019cause I\u2019m a gadget guy. I mean, when it comes to that, I\u2019m a gadget nerd. I\u2019m a gadget geek.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fascinated by it by it, and so I read the things that are the first to have information and opinion about some of the latest stuff. Most of these blogs are populated by young people, Millennials, and most of the people on these blogs would qualify as nerds or geeks in the popular definition. One thing I have noticed, whether it\u2019s talking… They hate cable TV. They despise cable TV. You know, one of the greatest values of spending all this time in these tech blogs is it is an open window to the Millennial generation.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why. I\u2019m fascinated by the Millennial generation. Well, no, I do know why. In addition to them being the future, they are the first generation that thinks the country has seen its best days, and it troubles me to no end, folks. I can\u2019t tell you how that depresses me, too. They don\u2019t associate the current economic malaise with the policies of this administration, for whatever reason. They associate the current malaise, the economic situation in the country with the fact that maybe America\u2019s days are over.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re losing faith in the country, \u2019cause they have been educated this way.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why per se, but they do not associate the current climate — economics and otherwise — with the Obama administration\u2019s policies that have caused the current economic situation. Now, to you and me it\u2019s a no-brainer. Everything happening in this country right now, especially after six-plus years, is because of Obama policy. These young kids (and the Millennials defined by anybody under 31) don\u2019t make that connection. Now, they haven\u2019t been taught that the Democrats are frauds and they haven\u2019t been taught about Obama, so they just chalk it up to the fact that the country\u2019s not there for \u2019em anymore.<\/p>\n

The opportunity\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n


\nTheir parents were the last generation that really had a chance to score big. So that attitude\u2019s prevalent. But there\u2019s also something else. They hate cable TV. They hate satellite TV. They hate the phone companies. They hate the cell companies. They hate, I mean, they literally despise. And the reason is that these companies charge money for their service. I can\u2019t tell you the number of times I\u2019ll be reading one of these tech blogs, and the big news is that something is free.<\/p>\n

They just go gaga over the concept that something may be free, even an app for a phone that last week was $1.99, this week it\u2019s free, and that means you better go get it. $1.99 is too much to spend on an app. But when it\u2019s free… And there are, like this HBO business. The Millennials are the ones who have pushed the whole idea that HBO on cable is just too expensive, we can\u2019t afford it. They hate cable. They hate having to pay for TV. A lot of them engage in the torrent sites and downloading pirated material, pirated content.<\/p>\n

They wanted HBO to provide a direct stream so they could watch HBO on their iPads and phones and not have to have a cable subscription, \u2019cause they hate Comcast, they despise Comcast. They hate Comcast like their parents hated Big Oil. But the point, they\u2019re devoted — well, it\u2019s the wrong word. They just want everything free. They just think things should be given away, for whatever reason. I\u2019ll tell you the reason it bothers me. You know, I wrote one of them back. “Have you ever thought about maybe going out, earning some money to buy HBO if you like it so much?”<\/p>\n


\nAnd the answer I got back was, “There isn\u2019t any money. Can\u2019t find a job. Can\u2019t find a job that pays me enough to be able to afford HBO after I feed myself,” something like that. So this constant quest and celebration of things for free. And it bothers me on two levels. When you\u2019re obsessed with wanting things for free, who is it that promises to do that for you? The Democrat Party and the government. Free Obamacare, free health care, free food stamps. Of course, it isn\u2019t free, but to them they think it is. That\u2019s the first thing about it that bothers me.<\/p>\n

The second thing about it that bothers me is the expectation that people that invest and build out and build up ought to give away their product as a public service or some such thing? Whereas the easy answer is to go out, get a job, earn the money you want to be able to buy the things you want and the things that you need. The idea that\u2019s such a foreign concept marks a huge generational shift to me.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know, folks. Like I said, it\u2019s a pet peeve. Every time I read — and not just of the Millennials. When I read people demanding or expecting or celebrating that something is free, there\u2019s something about it that sends a red flag up. Something that gets my instincts highly attuned that this is not good, the expectation, the hope that something would be free, when nothing is. Well, that\u2019s actually not true. The moon\u2019s free. It\u2019s there for everybody. Nature\u2019s free. It\u2019s there for everybody. In fact, there was a Broadway tune that said, “The best things in life are free. They\u2019re there for you and me.” But you don\u2019t possess them. They are the delights of life, but you don\u2019t possess them. And to a certain degree that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not talking about the delights of life. We\u2019re talking about things and stuff that these people want and hope and expect would be free. When you\u2019re of that mind-set, somebody comes along and promises you they can deliver, then they\u2019re gonna have you for the rest of their lives, and yours, too.<\/p>\n

And here comes Hillary: “America moves forward when all women are guaranteed the right to make their own health-care choices, not when those choices are taken away by an employer like Hobby Lobby.” Hobby Lobby didn\u2019t take anybody\u2019s choice away. Hobby Lobby simply said, “Our religious beliefs are such that we do not think we ought to be made to pay for abortifacients or contraception. If you want that, pay for it yourself.”<\/p>\n

We\u2019re paying you. You\u2019re employees. You\u2019re making a lot of money. Why should we pay for it? We don\u2019t believe in it. “We want it free.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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