Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Friday, April 19, 1996

by John Switzer

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this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or
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than as a daily listener.

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April 19, 1996

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: PSA for President Clinton's Supreme
Court nominees; the promises made by the organizers of the
Million Man March are not being met; Rush is blamed for causing
an increase in aggressiveness that caused the death of three
people in a Washington, DC auto accident; truck driver whose rig
was struck by a train while he was having sex with his female
partner is entitled to workers compensation according to the
Oklahoma state supreme court; a jury in Andrews, MD will decided
whether police officers are guilty of animal cruelty for spraying
Mace on a raccoon and trying to cage it; the address for
donations to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation is c/o
Mr. Pete Haas, 38 Pocono Road, Denville, NJ 07834; caller notes
that liberals are not complaining about the death penalty
provisions in the Clinton anti-terrorism bill, although they are
more than happy to leniently treat murderers of average
Americans; Republicans should be getting something in return for
their compromises with the Democrats; average Americans never
care about the minimum wage unless politicians bring the issue
up; caller reports that his Rush Limbaugh No Boundaries tie saved
him from a cold winter; caller says he underreports his income to
the IRS because taxes are too high for him to pay and still be
able to buy equipment for his business; if people's taxes were
not withheld but instead put in a savings account so that
taxpayers would have to write a check for the entire amount,
their attitudes about taxes would definitely change; caller says
police officers were right to subdue the raccoon because there is
an epidemic of rabies in North Carolina, and one sign a raccoon
has rabies is if it comes out during the day; caller says the
fact that the top 1% of wage-earners pay 27% of all income taxes
is meaningless because it doesn't indicate how much of the income
those people have earned; income is not something someone is
given but what they earn by their work; Vatican condemns
President Clinton's veto of the bill banning partial-birth
abortions; Rush asks today's callers to list the liberal
Democrats' achievements and accomplishments that are responsible






for their "guaranteed" victory in the November elections;
liberals have trashed Congress, substituted talk about economic
growth with fear-mongering, and blamed Republicans for the
government shutdowns last year while taking credit for the lower
deficit that resulted; callers says President Clinton and the
Democrats can be credited with increasing the number of jobs,
lowering the deficit, helping the stock market reach new highs,
and increasing the number of new businesses and the number of
millionaires; caller credits Bill Clinton with how it's now
easier to get an SBA loan than eight years ago; caller notes that
the liberals have managed to define the Clinton Presidency and
his lack of character by the two words "so what?"; caller thinks
maybe it's time for Rush's show to be a bit more activist; a new
book on Whitewater, "Partners in Power" by Roger Morris, is due
out on June 11th and promises to be a more hard-hitting expose
than James Stewart's "Blood Sport"; Republican caller praises the
Democrat's Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1993 for
making it easier for governments to procure needed supplies;
caller says many optimistic and positive people are being turned
off from politics by the Democrats' and media's negativity;
caller says the liberals have done a great job marketing
negativity and scare-mongering; Louis Farrakhan warns the 200,000
black teenagers gathering in Atlanta for this weekend's
"Freaknik" spring break not to behave as a "wild and savage
group" as they have in the past; caller says if Republicans want
the GOP to defeat liberalism, they will have to foot the bill and
contribute; a NY radio personality was fired for voicing the same
sort of characterizations that Louis Farrakhan has made; caller
reports that Democrats are using deceiving figures to sell their
increase in the minimum wage, but their idea of an "honest day's
wage" and what a family of four should be willing to settle for
is not anything Americans should aspire to; woman sues church for
$90,000 after claiming she had spontaneous orgasms and was
attracted to women after being hit by an electronic bingo board;
caller doesn't like how Louis Farrakhan portrays law enforcement
officials as "the enemy"; 13-year-old reports that her school's
plan to save money by going to a four-day schoolweek hasn't
worked; Atlanta caller reporters that local black announcers were
uncomfortable with Louis Farrakhan's speech, particularly his
comments about the "mother ship" hovering outside of Earth's line
of sight; caller thinks Democrats have won the minimum wage
debate, but Rush notes that Republicans are talking about
attaching their bills to the one increasing the minimum wage;
caller agrees with Rush that the best way to improve Americans'
living standards is to lower taxes; caller notes that in his
youth he asked companies to pay him the minimum wage until he
proved his worth and willingness to work.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

April 19, 1996 - It's now 1248 days after Bill Clinton's
election, but Rush is still on the air with 660 radio affiliates
(with more than 20 million listeners weekly world-wide), 210 TV
affiliates (with a national rating of 3.7), and a newsletter with
more than 500,000 subscribers.

His first book was on the NY Times hardback non-fiction
best-seller list for 54 consecutive weeks, with 2.6 million
copies sold, but fell off the list after Simon and Schuster
stopped printing it. The paperback version of "The Way Things
Ought To Be" was on the NY Times paperback non-fiction
best-seller list for 28 weeks. Rush's second book, "See, I Told
You So," was on the NY Times hardback best-seller list for 16
weeks and has sold over 2.45 million copies; the paperback
version was on the best-seller list for 11 weeks.







WHITEWATER WATCH

o	Pending and Possible Indictments: White House lawyer and
Presidential adviser Bruce Lindsey (according to the May 5, 1995
USA Today, received target letter from Whitewater prosecutors).

o	Indictments: Herby Branscum, Jr. and Robert Hill (conspiracy,
misapplication of bank funds, and failing to file correct
statements with federal regulators and examiners); James McDougal
for fraud and conspiracy concerning Madison Guaranty S&L and
Capital Management Services; Governor Jim Guy Tucker (D-AR) for
fraud, conspiracy, taking out $300,000 in SBA loans under false
pretenses, and defrauding the IRS; Susan McDougal (for allegedly
embezzling $150,000 from conductor Zubin Mehta and his wife).

o	Convictions: David Hale (felony fraud-March, 1994); Robert
Palmer (convicted of falsifying appraisal documents related to
Madison Guaranty S&L-December, 1994); Webster Hubbell (convicted
of mail fraud, tax evasion, and overbilling clients of at least
$394,000-December, 1994); Charles Matthews and Eugene Fitzhugh
(bribery-January 1995, defrauding the SBA-April 1995); real
estate broker Christopher V. Wade (pleaded guilty to lying to a
bankruptcy court and filing false loan applications to buy
Whitewater property-March, 1995); Little Rock banker Neil Ainley
(pleaded guilty to reduced charges of willfully delivering false
documents to the government-May 1995); Arkansas college professor
Stephen Smith (pleaded guilty to misusing federal funds to help
pay off a loan he took out along with James McDougal and Governor
Jim Guy Tucker); Larry Kuca (pleaded guilty to defrauding the SBA
of a $150,000 loan together with David Hale-July 1995).

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Friday, April
22, 1994:

o	The Washington Post and NY Post reported that Whitewater was
not the money-losing proposition that the Clintons claimed it
was. Also, while Clinton was portraying himself as a consumer
advocate while acting as his state's Attorney General and
Governor, he was also ripping people off.

Whitewater sold its lots with "purchaser agreements," which
required no credit checks, didn't give out deeds, and allowed the
lender to repossess the property for only one missed payment.
Clyde Soaps, for example, was a grain elevator operator in Texas
who paid $244 a month for his "slice of paradise." He bought a
lot in Whitewater, intending to use it to build a fishing cottage
for his retirement.

However, in 1987 Soaps became seriously ill with diabetes and
stopped making his payments. By this point he had paid $3,000
down and $11,000 in payments, but McDougal and Clinton took back
the property and resold it to another sap. That second purchaser
also missed a payment, and the property was sold again, for a
grand total of three different times. Soaps received nothing for
his $14,000 investment.

o	Bill Clinton held a town meeting in Wichita, KS, where the
chairman of Godfather's Pizza, Herman Cain, said he feared
Clinton's health care plan would bankrupt his business. Clinton
told Cain that raising his prices only 2% would cover any
increased costs.

However, Cain wrote a letter to Clinton noting that the 3,000 or
so employees of Godfather's Pizza (not counting the 10,000 people






employed by the firm's independent franchisees) cost the company
$500,000 for insurance that covered 80% of health costs. Under
Clinton's plan, the company would have to pay an additional $1.7
million a year, for a total of $2.2 million a year. A cost
increase this large would mean the company would have to raise
its pizza prices by 17 to 19%.

Meanwhile, when Hillary Clinton was asked about how these costs
would bankrupt many businesses, she replied that she could not be
personally responsible for undercapitalized businesses.

o	Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means
Committee, stated that "broad tax increases" will be needed to
fund the Clinton health care plan, contradicting Clinton's claim
that his plan wouldn't need any new taxes, except a 75-cent per
pack increase on cigarettes and a 1% levy on large, self-insured
corporations.

o	Since Bill Clinton was still looking for his next Supreme Court
nominee, EIB decided to help by playing the following Public
Service Announcement:

<<Bill Clinton, as patriotic march music plays in the
background>> Hi, this is Bill Clinton. If you've needed a new
lease on life and you're ready to trade up to a better career,
then consider the new '94 Supreme Court! It's the perfect
government job. With its lifetime tenure, you're sure to get the
most mileage for your activism 'cause if you're not happy, you
can just make it unconstitutional! <<laughs>> What a deal! So, if
you're a highly motivated decision maker, the Supreme Court could
be for you! Call now for more information.

<<Announcer, speaking at warp speed>> All nominees must be 18
years or over, U.S. citizen, member of far left-leaning, or
communist front group, or oppressed minority. No judicial
knowledge required. Lifetime security lease, including all powers
to tax, rule on licenses and contracts. Offer not available to
baby-sitter tax cheats, white males, or former S&L executives.
Fifteen cents per mile business travel deduction. Nominee subject
to approval by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

<<Bill Clinton>> So, if you're a highly-motivated decision maker,
the Supreme Court could be for you. Call now!

o	ABC's consumer activist John Stossel did an hour-long show
titled "Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death" that showed the
biggest risk to Americans' health was big government and big
government regulation that resulted in absurdly high costs for
everything from food to the basic cost of running a business.
Stossel basically concluded that prominent consumer activists
such as Ralph Nader and nearly everyone in government, except for
Vice President Algore, were the bad guys.

o	Stephen from Lancaster, PA was astonished when on Tuesday's
Nightline special on Whitewater Max Frankel of the NY Times said
his paper was politically impartial. However, although there was
a gasp from the audience about this, nobody on stage picked up on
it. Rush was not surprised by Frankel's statement because the
media would never admit that it was liberal. Stephen noted that
the Wall Street Journal's Robert Bartley admitted that his paper
was conservative.

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MORNING UPDATE







Rush has some things to say about last year's Million Man March,
and since it's April 19th, what better day than this? After Louis
Farrakhan spent two hours praising the number 19 at this march,
the marchers were fleeced - most people don't know this, but
after Farrakhan's speech, large boxes were passed around so that
marchers would have the opportunity to fork over "voluntary
donations" of cash. March organizers promised that a large share
of that money would go to Washington, DC's poorest districts,
plus that the hundreds of vendors at the march would turn over
sales tax revenues to the city.

It's now six months later, and officials at the DC Department of
Finance and Revenue report that there have been problems
obtaining that money. When asked about this, an assistant to
march organizer and former NAACP head Benjamin Chavis promised
that all pledges would be kept. Rush, though, when Benjamin
Chavis started becoming responsible for other people's money -
this conversion obviously happened after his tenure at the NAACP.

Also, activists who were involved with the march have now
acknowledged that many who pledged to volunteer to help their
communities have seemed to have lost their enthusiasm. This is
not something to be happy about but it does illustrate a fact of
life that liberals have a hard time understanding: good
intentions are important but without hard work, personal
responsibility, discipline, and integrity good intentions are
nothing.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o	Earlier this week Rush saw a story that he decided not to
comment upon, but when he saw the same story in today's USA Today
he bet that someone would blame him for it. The story concerns
two head-on collisions in Washington, DC that killed three
people:

"This week outside Washington, D.C., U.S. Park Police say three
people were killed in a spectacular collision after an angry
exchange between two drivers. Safety experts say driver hostility
is never far from the surface. But they are divided over the
causes.

"`I think it really indicates there's a fairly high level of
violence in our society,' says Judie Stone of Advocates for
Highway and Auto Safety in Washington, D.C.

" `People are not caring enough about the other guy on the
highway,' says Scott Geller, a psychologist at Virginia
Polytechnic University in Blacksburg, Va. `It's a reflection of
our win-or-lose culture.'

" `There is understanding cars have become safer,' says Tom
Culpepper of the American Automobile Association. `In some
instances drivers are changing driving habits because of that.'

"Aggressive driving is blamed for increasing highway fatalities
in recent years. And it's showing up everywhere, even in the
wide-open spaces of Montana, where there's no posted speed limit
for cars during daylight hours."

When Rush read this story he bet that somehow he and talk radio
would end up getting blamed for it, and he was prepared to make a
joke about it for today's show. However, this morning he got a
note from someone who reports that a caller to Bob Levy's radio






show on WMAL, EIB's DC affiliate, blamed Rush for this crash,
which occurred as two drivers yelled each other as they sped
along. The cars crossed the median and crashed into two oncoming
cars, killing three people.

Levy's caller claimed that the reason people drove so
aggressively like this was because they listen to Rush Limbaugh;
this caller actually claimed that Rush gets people so worked up
that they drive like lunatics. Thus, what Rush was going to joke
about has come true - he's been blamed for inspiring this crash.

The person who sent this info to Rush noted that Levy did not
blame Rush but he didn't dismiss the caller who blamed Rush as a
nitwit.

o	Another story having to do with driving comes from the April
3rd issue of the Tulsa World, which reports that an Oklahoma
truck driver whose truck was struck by a train while he was
having sex with his female relief driver is entitled to workers
compensation benefits because he was "behind the wheel" at the
time of the accident.

This ruling was made by the state supreme court and it overturned
a lower state appeal court's ruling that denied the benefits. The
supreme court said that the driver's horseplay didn't matter
because he was "behind the wheel" and "on the job" at the time of
the accident, and that these were the only requirements under
state law to collect such benefits.

Rush wonders if he'll now be blamed for this accident, too,
probably because the driver was listening to Rush while having
sex.

o	Someone else sent Rush a story from a paper that appears to be
the Baltimore Sun, which reports that a jury in Andrews, SC is
going to decide whether Pawleys Island, SC police broke the law
when they maced a raccoon and beat it in an attempt to force it
into a cage. A magistrate sent the case to be tried in Andrews
because state representative Morgan Martin, who is defending the
officers, requested the change of venue because dozens of local
newspaper stories might have prevented the officers from getting
a fair trial.

The case concerns actions taken on January 12th, which happens to
be Rush's birthday, so Rush bets he'll be blamed for this, too. A
raccoon wandered onto the porch of the town hall during a city
council meeting on how improve the police's image, and officer
Tony Huff sprayed the animal with mace to control it.

Huff then netted the animal and tried to put it in a cage, while
the police chief steadied the cage. The raccoon hit the side of
the cage several times while this was being attempted before it
escaped from the net and ran away. Humane society officials
complain that the animal should simply have been shooed away and
they brought the charges of inhumane treatment against an animal
against the officials.

Rush is amazed that a jury is going to hear this case.

o	Today is the one-year anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing,
and all the networks and other media outlets are turning the
event into a circus. Rush can understand the cathartic benefits
of remembering the bombing, but it seems that society is having
anniversaries for all sorts of strange things.

The only thing Rush wants to mention about this, though, is the






Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, which is a charity that
collects money to help with the college educations of the
children of military and law enforcement officers who were killed
while on duty.

This charity deals specifically with the education of the
children of military and law enforcement employees who have been
killed on duty and in tragedies such as the Oklahoma City
bombing. They give almost all of the money collected, about 98%,
to this purpose, and this is why it's one of Rush's favorite
charities.

This charity collected $221,600 last year for the surviving
children of those killed in the Oklahoma City bombing, but since
the charity passes on almost every dime it gets, its coffers are
low and they could use more donations. If anyone listening is
willing to help, donations in any amount can be sent to:

The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, c/o Mr. Pete Haas,
38 Pocono Road, Denville, NJ 07834

*BREAK*

Rush is going to spend a lot of time listening to callers today
because he's on the verge of losing his voice because he's got a
cold; he doesn't feel "sick" yet, but his voice is weak, which
means he has to concentrate on breathing diaphragmatically to
talk correctly. The EIB staff offer tea with lemon, but Rush says
that sort of thing never has worked for him, although at one time
chocolate donuts seemed to be the perfect cure for colds.Those
days, though, are long gone.

His cold has been building for a couple of days, but he's much
better off today than yesterday, thanks to a short stay in 105
degree steam room that loosened up the phlegm clogging him up.
He'll have to be careful today, though, and make sure he spaces
out his "long-winded diatribes," which means callers will be more
important than usual today.

Phone	Bob from St. Louis, MO

Bob gives "ex-rocket scientist dittos" and wants to address the
anti-terrorism bill that Congress has just passed. He doesn't
condone the Oklahoma City bombing, but none of the nation's
liberals have yet to complain about this bill's expansion of the
death penalty.

However, if Bob, Rush, or any average American were murdered,
these same liberals would be more than happy to let the murderer
out of jail in a few years. This shows how much, or actually how
little, liberals truly care about the average Americans.

Rush says the anti-terrorism bill came out solely because of
election year politics and of the natural desire of politicians
to follow up any disaster by promising a government solution that
would never, ever let that disaster occur again. This is allowed
to happen because of the great many Americans who believe there
are government solutions for any and all problems.

Compounding the problem is how Republicans have lost their
intellectual drive and seem to think that the best way to win
elections is to go along with the public sentiment on this, just
as moderate Republicans are going along with the idea of
increasing the minimum wage. Rush doesn't know what the
Republicans could have done about the anti-terrorism bill, but as
far as the minimum wage increase goes, Republicans should have






gotten something in exchange. Bob Dole could have linked welfare
reform with it and Newt Gingrich could have tied it to tax
reform.

It's a fact of life that you have to play politics in an election
year, but if Republicans are going to give up on the minimum
wage, they should get something in return, instead of letting the
Democrats run roughshod over them, as it appears to be happening
now. At least Republicans managed to water down the
anti-terrorism bill some, though.

Bob says his major beef is that liberals oppose the death penalty
and are willing to let the criminals go, and the only time they
get tough on crime is when government employees are the victims.
Liberals don't seem to care about average citizens, only
government citizens.

Rush says he can understand why Bob feels this way, but on the
other hand, the anti-terrorism bill is a political reaction to a
major event that was the first of its type in America.
Politicians are always quick to respond to such things by
promising government solutions, which unfortunately is what
Americans seem to want. He thanks Bob for calling.

*BREAK*

Phone	Paul from Washington, PA

Paul says he directs an entrepreneurial program at Washington and
Jefferson College, and none of his students have ever brought up
the minimum wage, which indicates that they understand that it's
not something that concerns their lives. Rush says the average
citizen never talks about the minimum wage unless a politician
brings it up - everyone instead talks about improving their life,
but nobody would be satisfied with a buck an hour increase in
their wages.

Thus, Rush agrees with Paul about how the minimum wage has never
been a big issue with the public unless it is brought up by the
politicians. Paul adds that the minimum wage is yet another part
of the liberal agenda to convince Americans that they are
dependent on the government, even to the point of their wages.

Rush notes that the intricate web of deceit woven by Big Labor
about this is amazing, too. A lot of union contracts are coming
up for renewal this year and they are tied to the minimum wage,
producing what Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX) calls the "bim-bam effect"
- one group insists it has to earn twice the minimum wage, and
another group says they have to earn even more, and so forth and
so on.

The alliance of labor and liberal Democrats is driving the
minimum wage issue for both their own personal backpocket gain as
well as getting political mileage out of it. Paul adds that this
the minimum wage is also a floor under the price of labor, but as
the Wall Street Journal noted recently, the correct minimum wage
should be zero.

Rush agrees, noting that doing this would produce a lot more
entry-level jobs, giving people, particularly young people, a
greater chance to get into the job market and prove they can
work. He thanks Paul for calling.

Phone	Jim from Davenport, IA

Jim says a couple of months ago the local area had a huge cold






snap and snowfall, and while he and his wife were shovelling snow
at 10 p.m. so they could find their dog, they smelt a gas leak.
They immediately called the gas company, and stern-looking man
came in to take some readings.

He found high carbon monoxide readings by the hot water heater
and said that he would have to turn off the gas until Jim could
get someone in to fix it. However, because he couldn't find the
valve, he decided he'd have to cap the gas line off, which meant
at least two days without gas until a repairman could come in.

Jim couldn't believe that during the coldest part of the winter,
his home would have to be without heat, so he started chatting
the gas company worker up, in an attempt to get on his good side
and maybe find a way to change his mind. The guy noticed one of
Jim's ties and mentioned he was looking for a Rush Limbaugh No
Boundaries tie, so Jim ran to get his Rush tie to show it to him.

This immediately broke the ice with the guy, who told Jim that
since he listened to Rush, he could probably agree to keep the
gas turned on, as long as Jim promised to have the heater soon.
Jim agreed and got a repairman in the very next hour, so he has
to thank Rush for saving him from freezing last winter.

Rush likes hearing stories like this, where Rush products make
life better and more enjoyable. Jim says he wears his tie - a
black Stained Glass model - all the time, and thanks to the bond
he created with the gas company guy with his Rush tie, he stayed
warm.

Jim adds that, having learned his lesson, he also bought some
Nighthawk carbon monoxide detectors just in case any future
problems occur. Rush is glad to hear that Jim has confirmed that
products advertised on the Rush Limbaugh show improve people's
lives, and he thanks Jim for calling.

Phone	Jim from Ridgewood, NJ

Jim is sad to see that Bob Grant was given the heave-ho from
WABC, which means he no longer has his daily "one-two" punch from
Rush and Grant. However, he did buy a shortwave radio so that he
could continue hearing Rush's show, even when it's preempted for
a Yankees game on WABC, a problem that afflicts many across the
nation.

Jim has been annoyed by what Washington is doing with tax money,
especially since he's a self-employed carpenter. He had been a
salesman about ten years ago, but after he was laid off after a
buyout, he decided he would never work for anyone else again
because he wanted to have more control over his future.

However, because Jim was starting off he didn't make much money,
and he discovered that if he paid the taxes he was supposed to,
he wouldn't be able to buy the equipment he needs to stay in
business. Since his wife works as well, he's been able for the
past nine years to decide what income he will declare from his
business on the basis of how much he can afford to pay in taxes;
he's not pocketing the money he saves in taxes, though, but
putting it all back into his business.

Rush is amazed that Jim has decided to call the most listened-to
talk show in America and announce that he is not declaring all of
his income so as to avoid paying taxes. Jim bets many
self-employed people are doing this, given that taxes are so
high; he doubts that the IRS can track him that closely, and even
if they did catch him, all he owns is financed or leased, so the






IRS is welcome to try to seize his assets.

The problem is that if he did pay all his taxes, he wouldn't be
able to modernize his business. Rush understands this but Jim is
running a huge risk in doing this because the IRS considers
underreporting of income to be a fraudulent and criminal
activity, as opposed to inadvertent errors.

When the IRS catches up with Jim, and Rush is certain they will,
they can bring criminal charges against him. Jim might not have a
lot of money now, but the IRS will be more than happy to wait as
long as it takes, putting liens on all his future income, to
collect what they think they are due.

Jim is not worried, especially since taxes are still going up,
both locally and at the state and federal levels. He's in his
early 40s and has never figured out where all this tax money is
going; his taxes and business costs go up and up, and he's not
had a personal wage increase in three years.

Rush understands full well that the country's tax bite is
confiscatory, and one of the best ways to learn this is to start
your own business, so that you have to pay all the taxes
yourself. Rush would love to stop automatic withholding from
people's paycheck, so that the employer no longer collects the
taxes and forwards them to the government every pay period.

Instead, Rush would like a company to withhold an employee's
taxes but instead of sending them to the government, put them
into an interest-bearing account that cannot be touched until it
comes time to pay taxes. Then the taxpayer would have to sit
down, calculate their taxes, and then write a check for that
amount, using the funds in this account.

This way the taxpayer would see just how much money they're
paying in taxes (as well as how much in interest they'd earn if
they could hold on to it each year). The experience of writing
that check, with all the zeroes in it, would be one of the best
educational experiences ever when it comes to taxes.

Rush notes that Jim has already learned this for himself, but he
doesn't recommend Jim's solution since the IRS is very good at
what they do and catching those who underreport income.

*BREAK*

Phone	Donna from Wilmington, NC

Donna called Rush in February, 1995 to talk about O.J. Simpson's
dog, and today she wants to talk about the raccoon situation in
Pawleys Island, SC, which is only a couple of hours away from
where she lives. The entire area is suffering from an epidemic of
rabies in the raccoon population, so she is concerned when she
sees raccoons around her home.

A raccoon that is seen in the daytime, acting tame around people,
is not behaving normally at all; when you see a raccoon like
this, you have to assume they are exhibiting symptoms of "dumb
rabies." This is different from the better known type rabies that
includes foaming at the mouth and violent aggression, but it's
just as deadly.

The police were right to try to capture this raccoon, therefore,
because it posed a threat to everyone in this community. Rush
says this might be, but even if this weren't the case, you still
shouldn't try a cop by a jury because he maced a raccoon.







Donna agrees - cruelty is one thing, but capturing them is
another. The fact this raccoon got away scares Donna to death
since it could infect other animals or even bite a child. The
fact it got away is far more serious than the fact that police
tried to catch it.

Rush agrees but the main point is that animals are being raised
to the level of humans, as if they had rights, but animals simply
do not have rights in the same sense that humans have. Donna
agrees - animals should be treated properly but that's not the
same thing as having rights.

Donna works as a consultant for local animal control groups, and
she is very much aware that rabies is a serious problem - there
is no cure once someone begins exhibiting symptoms, so it's a
serious, serious problem. Rush agrees, but even if this were not
the case, it's still absurd to bring a cop before a jury because
he tried to mace and capture a raccoon. He thanks Donna for
calling.

Phone	Mike from Richmond, VA

Mike says he agrees that the rich probably pay their fair share
of taxes, but he does want to correct Rush's assumption that just
because the top 1% of wage-earners pay 26% of all taxes means
they are paying their fair share. Rush says you can't go by just
this one figure - you also have to show that 10% of wage-earners
pay half of all taxes, while the bottom group pays only about 5%
of total taxes.

Mike, though, says none of these things matter by themselves -
you also have to look at the percentage of income that these
groups are earning. If the top 1% make 26% of the income, then
it's fair that they are paying 26% of total taxes, but if the top
1% make 50% of all income and pay only 26% of taxes, that's not
fair.

Rush doesn't want to listen to it because this is what's wrong
with Americans' view of taxes. If someone making a million
dollars is paying the same tax rate as someone making $10,000 a
year, the millionaire will be paying a lot more in taxes, but
that's not considered fair because the rich guy is paying the
same percentage, despite having more money to start with.

Only socialists should care how much someone is making and Rush
doesn't want to hear it.

*BREAK*

Rush goes back to the previous topic so he can expand upon his
answer. Typically when he says that the top 1% pay 27% of all
taxes, the usual response he hears from critics is to ask how
much are they earning - do the top 1% earn more or less than 27%
of the income? If they earn more than 27% of the income, then the
fact they pay 27% of taxes is not fair.

Rush rejects that whole approach because it assumes that what
someone earns is something they're being given. If people want to
view income as a gift from "life's lottery," as Dick Gephardt
does, then you can play these games, treating income as some sort
of benefit that should be equitably distributed.

However, if you believe people earn their income through their
hard work and industriousness, sweat and investment, then income
should not be seen as a gift that should be shared with the rest






of America that is not as "lucky." Rush thus rejects any attempt
to link the rate of income with the rate of taxes paid.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o	The Vatican has accused President Clinton of shameful action
for vetoing the Republican ban on partial-birth abortions, saying
it was a "incredibly brutal act of aggression against an innocent
human life and against the inalienable human rights of the
unborn." Rush thinks this story will have more political
ramifications than most people would think right now.

This statement was called "unusually strong" and "extraordinarily
blunt" by the Reuters news service, and the Vatican also endorsed
the letter of rebuke sent by American Catholic bishops to
President Clinton protesting the veto. Rush notes that the
pro-choice crowd never wants to hear the term "life" discussion
in the abortion debate, but the Vatican has made that the case
now.

The Vatican is not some wacko religious group, so they cannot be
dismissed out of hand, and Rush thinks those who don't think
Clinton's veto will not have any political ramifications will be
surprised by what happens in November because of Clinton's veto.

o	Rush would like callers today to chronicle the achievements and
accomplishments of liberals since the November, 1994 elections
because this would help explain why liberal Democrats think they
have already won the 1996 elections, as Senator Christopher Dodd
(D-CT) said earlier this week. Dodd even said that anything short
of a "cataclysmic event" meant Democrats were going to win the
elections, so Rush is curious what the Democrats think their
record of achievement is.

Thus, anyone who would like to list the Democrats' greatest
triumphs is welcomed as a caller today. Rush will help start off
this list by mentioning a few of the Democrats' achievements over
the past two years.

First is the "retrashing of Congress" - in 1994 Congress was
regarded lower than even used car salesmen by the general public,
thanks to 40 years of liberal rule. After Republicans won control
of Congress in November, 1994, though, the public perception of
Congress started to move up.

Liberals responded by doing everything they could to trash
Congress, and this has worked, with polls after polls showing how
little respect the public has for Congress. Thus, the Democrats
should be given their due for this achievement of theirs.

Another Democratic triumph was the government shutdown and how
Republicans were blamed for it. The unions cut a deal with
Clinton to arrange this strategy, telling Clinton that they were
willing to support him during any shutdowns and to blame
Republicans for it.

This achievement was amazing enough, but then the Democrats
really pulled off a coup by getting the media to go along them.
Thus, Democrats were the ones who shut down government, yet they
managed to get Republicans blamed for it.

A third achievement and triumph is that they also grabbed the






credit for the shutdown - while Republicans were blamed for the
hardships suffered by federal workers, the Democrats did a
masterful job of spindoctoring that allowed them to take credit
for the positive effects of the shutdown, such as the short-term
and long-term effect on the deficit.

The Democrats caused the shutdown, blamed Republicans for it, and
then took credit for the lower federal deficit that resulted.
This was a masterful job on their part - of course, they couldn't
have done it without the press, but it's still a triumph for the
Democratic party.

A fourth achievement is that the Democrats substituted fear for
growth; they switched the focus of public opinion from economic
growth to making Americans fearful about Medicare, Medicaid,
school lunches, environment, education, etc. The media again
helped them with this by reporting their lies as fact and not
challenging them, which is why the public debate is now all about
scare-mongering and fear-mongering, not the need for economic
growth.

But will any of these four things make people want to vote for
the Democrats? If not, then what other things have the Democrats
done to create this groundswell of support for liberals?

After all, if there are not other things that Democrats have done
to create all this support for them, then maybe that there isn't
such a groundswell of support for liberals in the first place.
Rush thus would love to hear from callers today on what other
things the Democrats have done that justify the support they seem
to be getting.

*BREAK*

Phone	Bill from Marietta, GA

Bill says he's got a long list of Democratic achievements: jobs
are up, the deficit is down, the stock market is up, and there's
been a record number of new businesses and a record number of new
millionaires. Also, Clinton is behind Dole by only a couple
points in Georgia, despite massive unpopularity that should have
him behind Dole by 20 points.

Rush asks why Clinton is so unpopular if things are going so
well, and Bill says it's probably because Marietta is Newt
Gingrich's home district, the supposed heart of Republicanism.
Yet Gingrich's negatives have gone up to 44% in his home
district.

Rush says this is another liberal achievement, and Bill says
he'll add it to the list. But whether Clinton is responsible for
all these good things, they did happen on his watch, so he'll get
the credit for them.

Rush asks what liberal policies have brought all these good
things about, and Bill says he's not versed enough in economics
to answer this. Rush thinks that's too bad because he'd love to
find out what liberals have done to achieve all these good things
- if these policies are working, they should be continued, so
that economic growth continues as well.

Bill says it's a lot easier to get a Small Business
Administration loan now than eight years ago. Bill tried to get
an SBA loan back then and the paperwork was horrendous; now,
though, thanks to Clinton and Gore's reinventing government
program, it takes a lot less paperwork - the application, for






example, is only one page.

Rush thinks this is good news and we should be asking liberals to
do more things like this. However, Rush hasn't found anything
that the liberals have actually done that have caused these
changes.

Bill says the government used to pay $57 for a stapler, thanks to
$50 worth of paperwork. Now, though, government offices can buy
such simple supplies at a local store off the self, thanks to
Gore's program.

Rush says he recalls that Ronald Reagan started this
simplification and waste reduction process. President Clinton has
thus benefited from reforms that started years before he entered
office, just as he benefited from lower deficit figures due to
the ending of the S&L crisis. Also, Clinton has benefited from
short-term financing of the debt, which won't come back to haunt
the nation until years after he leaves office.

Rush thanks Bill for calling, though, and will add his
accomplishments to his list of Democratic achievements. If
liberalism has done all this, Rush will sign up for their
policies, but first he wants to know what those policies that did
these things were.

Phone	Dave from Bayville, NJ

Dave says he has an accomplishment for the liberals, although he
doesn't think it's a good one. Just as JFK's Presidency was
defined by the words "ask not what your country can do for you,
ask what you can do for your country," liberals have defined Bill
Clinton's Presidency with the phrase "so what?"

Liberals have completely eliminated any value or character
judgments from Clinton's Presidency - no matter what Clinton has
done, the Democratic side doesn't care but says only "so what?"
It makes Dave wonder what Clinton would have to do to make the
Democrats take notice.

Rush says it would undoubtedly take one of Chris Dodd's
"cataclysmic events" for this, and Dave says maybe Republicans
should make one of these events happen, taking a cue from the
movie "Young Frankenstein." Rush asks Dave to hang on through the
break so he can get details about this movie connection with Bill
Clinton.

*BREAK*

Phone	Dave from Bayville, NJ (continued)

Rush says he's not seen "Young Frankenstein," and Dave explains
that at one point in the movie, the Bavarian police chief
proclaims "a riot is a horrible thing . . . and it's about time
we had one!" Dave thinks it thus might be time for Rush to give
out some marching orders.

Dave does what he can - letter writing, sarcastic bumper
stickers, etc. - but he feels like he's working alone. Rush says
conservatives often feel like this, probably because they are so
individualistic, but the reality is that they are not alone. They
might not be as organized as liberals, but they are not alone.

Dave agrees, but sometimes it takes some motivation to get people
off their butt to do something. Rush says the problem with that
is conservatives don't have the free time liberal activists






obviously have; for a conservative to "do something," they have
to take time off work for a day or two. All many liberals have to
do is give up a couple of classes, leave the shelter, or put down
their squeegee.

Rush, though, has found a story that may be this "cataclysmic
event" - today's New York Observer has a column on page 35 about
another Whitewater book coming out on June 11th. The book is
titled "Partners in Power: the Clintons and their America," and
it's written by Roger Morris, a prize-winning author and Richard
Nixon biographer.

Morris is saying that because his book is so hard-hitting, the
same media that tolerated James Stewart's book, "Blood Sport," is
trying to censor his book, if not get it cancelled outright. The
story about all this says Morris' book is "much bigger in scope
than `Blood Sport' and considered far more devastating in its
frankly anti-Clinton revelations."

Morris spent three and a half years writing this book, and Mike
Wallace and "60 Minutes" are planning an exclusive
Arkansas/Clinton expose tied to the book in June. Thus, all
information about what is in this book is embargoed until after
that show.

Thus, Rush has no idea what's in this book, so he can only
imagine what it has to say about Clinton, Whitewater, and all the
other allegations that have surfaced about Mena, drug-running,
and other topics. Someone on the internet, by the way, quotes a
Bulgarian publisher as saying Clinton will resign because of what
will be revealed in this book, which is truly a bizarre thing to
read.

In any case, it's clear Morris' book is something to watch for,
especially if there are movements among the media to ban the book
or stop its publication. So maybe this book will be Dodd's
"cataclysmic event."

However, Rush does not want to bet the November elections on the
"next Whitewater book." As he's said before, the 1996 elections
should be based on the issues, not scandal, and he is confident
that good, old-fashioned conservative values and ideals will
triumph over Bill Clinton any day of the week.

Rush doesn't know why Republicans are caving in and compromising,
but he hopes this attitude is set aside, so that Republicans can
have an active, intellectual agenda to present to the American
people. Whether this is called Contract with America 2 or
something else doesn't matter - what does matter is that the
American people be given something positive and affirming to vote
for, as opposed to being scared to death.

Most people want to vote for something they strongly believe in
and support, and if Republicans could get back to that approach,
they wouldn't have to worry about the next Whitewater book. That
having been said, though, Rush is still looking forward to this
next book that's due on June 11th.

Dave says he'll look for it, too, and hope it gets Americans
beyond the Democrats' "so what" mentality. Rush agrees and thanks
him for calling.

Phone	Lee from Green County, TN

Lee is a Republican through and through, but he also considers
himself to be objective, so he has to mention that one true






Democratic achievement is the Federal Acquisition Streamlining
Act, which was based on initiatives already happening in the
military. Algore co-opted this idea and got it passed by the
Democratic Congress in October, 1993, and this act makes
government purchasing and procurement go faster and smoothly.

As a government contractor, Lee thinks this bill has indeed made
things go faster, probably saving them money, and definitely
saving government employees time. Of course, if government
employees can save time, you'll probably need fewer of them to do
the same amount of work, so that means you can get rid of some of
the surplus workers.

Rush asks how this act could be responsible for the good things
happening in the economy that the previous caller mentioned. Lee
says the best thing about the act is that the government is
spending less money, which means somewhere along the line people
might be taxed less.

Rush asks if Lee thinks liberals will follow through on this and
cut taxes, and Lee says he doesn't have too many hopes. Rush,
though, says he actually fears that if Republicans don't get
their act together, Clinton might call for a capital gains tax
and a modified flat tax sometime this summer.

Given that the Democrats are co-opting other aspects of the
Republican agenda, Rush would not be surprised to see this happen
at all. If Republicans cannot claim what's theirs, why wouldn't
Clinton try to usurp it as he's done everything else?

Lee agrees, saying Clinton will say anything he has to so he can
get re-elected. Clinton's huge area of expertise is in getting
elected, so he will do whatever it takes. Rush concurs, adding
that there's a difference between playing the game and playing to
win. Some people play just to be in the game, while others, such
as Clinton, play to win.

Liberals have also demonstrated they have no scruples and will
say whatever they have to and lie whenever they must to achieve
their goals. Conservatives will not do this, except for isolated
examples; for the most part Republicans and conservatives are
tied to their scruples and integrity, while such things don't
matter to the upper echelons of the White House.

*BREAK*

Phone	Carol from San Antonio, TX

Carol has known a lot of people who are optimistic and positive,
but they are still having to work harder to make ends meet. Rush
asks how this can be if the liberals have accomplished so many
great things; how can "everything that should be up is down and
everything that should be down is up" if the liberal
accomplishments are so great?

Carol thinks some people see what they want to see, but others
who are optimistic by their nature are finding it harder to
remain so by watching the mainstream news, which is so negative.
Some of these people end up turning off politics totally, and
it's due to the negativism that's being so heavily emphasized by
liberals and the mainstream media.

Carol adds that a lot of people she knows are concerned not so
much about financial stuff but about the way the nation as a
whole is going, its moral, its cultural, and those related
problems. Rush says morality supposed isn't supposed to matter






anymore - one other thing liberals have done is to make character
and morality irrelevant.

Carol says these things do matter to people who do have morals,
and anyone who thinks for themselves and has any spine is bound
to get more and more negative because of what they see on a daily
basis. Rush says this is true - despite all the "grand news"
about all the good things liberals have achieved, there is a
negative attitude permeating much of American society.

Rush thanks Carol for calling and encourages other callers who
would like to list some of the liberals' achievements to do so
today.

*BREAK*

Phone	Art from North Augusta, SC

Art gives "giant dittos" and as a conservative Republican thinks
the greatest thing the liberals have done is their political
marketing; the left has managed to market negativity and lies in
an incredible manner, getting the American public to believe
them. If you hear a lie a thousand times a week, which is what
happens throughout the media, people will tend to believe it.

Rush asks why Art thinks people would believe obvious lies, such
as that Republicans want to cut Medicare - are the American
people this stupid, or is it possible the people are lying to
pollsters? Art thinks the people are lying more to pollsters,
preferring to say "acceptable things" while in public. However,
in the privacy of the voting booth they do what they really want.

Rush's theory about this is that any citizen contacted by the
pollster wants to impress the pollster with their intelligence,
so they give the answers they think the pollster wants to hear.
If this is true, then the current polls showing Clinton with what
might as well be near-unanimous approval ratings are suspect.

In any case, Rush agrees with Art that one of the greatest
liberal achievements is the overall negative climate in America
today, especially since it seems to be working for them.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

As many as 200,000 black college students are expected to gather
in Atlanta this weekend for the annual "Freaknik" spring break,
and in years past the weekend has been marred by many problems
with public disorder and crime, especially given the drinking
that occurs. City officials are thus going to use this year's
spring break as a way to test out the crowd control and police
policies that will be in effect during the summer Olympics at
Atlanta.

Nation of Islam leader Louis "Calypso Louie" Farrakhan is
concerned about the authorities' plans and issued a warning last
night that police would use armed force to demonstrate that
Atlanta will be a safe place to attend the Olympics. Among other
things, Farrakhan also said the following:

"They have marshalled an army here in preparation for the
Olympics. If you have to be used to show the world how they will
quell any disturbance, then they will use you to show how
prepared they are for the Olympics. . . . I would advise you not
to be a wild and savage group, as you have been in the past






because you're only giving an enemy an excuse to do to you what
they've been doing all their lives. Help the city get through
this weekend as peacefully as possible."

Rush hopes those in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut
area paid special attention to this, given that a certain radio
personality serving those markets was recently fired for
referring to certain minority groups using similar terms. In
particular, Rush cannot help but note that Louis Farrakhan has
characterized prior attendees to Freaknik weekends as a "wild and
savage group" that had behaved that way in the past.

Rush rereads that part of the quote several times, each time
noting that it was Minister Louis Farrakhan who said it, at a
speech in Atlanta to some of the 200,000 or so expected attendees
to this weekend's "Freaknik" at this city.

*BREAK*

Phone	Mike from Anderson, IN

Mike thinks the Republican party this year offers the best
opportunity Americans have to combat the liberalism that
eventually leads to socialism and Communism. However, to give the
leadership of the GOP what they need to fight this battle,
Republicans have to be willing to foot the bill.

Mike is appalled at how low the average contribution is to the
Republican party; the conventional wisdom is that the GOP is the
part of fat cats, but in reality it's the party of the average
guy who sends in small amounts. In contrast, the Democrats have a
much higher average contribution than the Republican party does.

Mike notes that the Republican party is the only party willing to
take on the liberal ideology, despite how the Reform Party claims
it is interested in reform. Republicans who love freedom have to
start contributing more to the party, putting their money where
their mouths are.

Rush notes that John Hancock and the other signers of the
Declaration of Independence mutually pledged their fortunes to
the American Revolution, and Mike says this is what is needed
now. If Republicans want to achieve anything substantial, they
have to do the same; otherwise, Clinton will get a second term
and build his own personal fortune.

Rush says this is right but in fairness he has to note that he
gets a lot of mail from those who have contributed money, only to
see it not being used or used on things that they don't think are
important. Republicans are giving to the party but wish the money
would be used.

Mike doesn't think Republicans are giving enough, especially
since Clinton has $25 million left in his primary war chest. Rush
says Dole had that much, too, when he started off, and the
Republican National Committee does have money as well, although
the RNC is reluctant to spend it this early in the race.

However, Rush thinks Mike's basic point is a good one - if
someone cares enough about something, they should invest in it.
He recalls, though, that the Washington Post reported recently
that the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee has far more
money saved up than the Democrats. However, this is still just
one fund among many, and Rush thanks Mike for calling.

Phone	John from Esko, MN







John is curious why Rush repeated the bit about Louis Farrakhan
so many times, and he wonders if Rush repeated it 19 times since
that is Farrakhan's favorite number. Rush says he didn't keep
track of how many times he repeated himself, but he doubts it was
19 times, unless it was by accident, in which case it could be an
important omen of some sort.

The point of repeating these words was to get the point across
that a recent New York radio personality was recently fired in
part for using the same sort of language and characterization of
certain groups that Farrakhan used. John understands and thanks
Rush for the clarification.

John remarks that Rush is clever in his ways, but Rush admits
he's only learned from liberals that if you want people to learn
something, you repeat it ad infinitum. He thanks John for
calling.

Phone	Cynthia from Onslow, IA

Cynthia says everyone in her office is "twitterpated and totally
discombobulated" over the fact she is talking to Rush, and she
wants to talk about something she saw on CompuServe about how
Democrats are trying to sell their increase in the minimum wage.
They first talk about decency and fairness, saying that "an
honest day's work means an honest day's pay," which evidently
means $5.25 an hour is honest enough pay for everyone to aspire
to and be happy with.

This is ridiculous in itself, but then the Democrats claim that
this minimum wage increase would mean an extra $1,800 a year for
a family of four, which translates to seven months of groceries,
so many months of rent, so much health care, etc. However, nobody
is going to get $1,800 a year more because government will still
take its share off the top, most notably income taxes and the
7.65% FICA. This minimum wage increase is really a pay increase
for government.

Rush says he's heard others say this but the reality is that
there aren't that many minimum wage earners to generate that much
more money. Democrats are just using the minimum wage as a
political weapon during an election year.

Cynthia agrees but the Democrats use numbers that are outrageous.
They claim this minimum wage increase will buy $55.23 a week in
groceries, pay four months rent of $450 a month, buy a full year
of health care at $150 a month, so forth, and these numbers are
supposed to be for a family of four. Are Americans supposed to
aspire to a lifestyle like this? Should any Americans be happy
living a life like this?

Cynthia and her husband own their own business, and they earn an
income of $4.59 an hour, and they just gave themselves a $1 an
hour wage. Their health care, just for the two of them, costs a
lot more than $150 a month. She adds that the minimum wage
doesn't apply to business owners, and even if it did, it wouldn't
help them.

They started this business in 1990, one year after their net
income on their family farm was $7,000 a year. They were also
trying to pay off a tax burden from a previous year, so they are
not "wealthy business owners" that can afford to pay their
workers whatever the government thinks is fair.

Rush says the Democrats know this and are just using the minimum






wage as an election year ploy to gain votes. He thanks Cynthia
for calling.

*BREAK*

Rush has found an unbelievable story from the Associated Press
out of Milwaukee:

"A 73-year-old woman who claims she began having spontaneous
orgasms after an electronic bingo board fell on her won't get her
day in court. Circuit Judge Patrick J. Madden threw out Mary
Verdev's lawsuit Thursday against St. Florian Catholic Church
because she failed repeatedly to undergo the psychological exam
he ordered.

"Verdev said she suffered nearly $90,000 injuries when a
300-pound board fell off the stage at a bingo night in 1990. She
also claimed that she found herself sexually attracted to women
and experienced spontaneous orgasms, sometimes in clusters.

"James C. Green, a lawyer for the church, characterized Verdev as
dishonest and psychologically unbalanced. `It is unexplained in
modern medicine how a bump on the head can alter sexual
orientation or cause recurring orgasms,' Green said in court
papers.

"The lawyer also said that the board was light enough that anyone
could lift it and that Verdev suffered no more than a bruise on
her arm and a bump on the head. Her lawsuit sought unspecified
damages."

Rush suspects that many other 73-year-old women will be going to
this church and fighting for the chair underneath the bingo
board. Even if they lose their lawsuits, they'll still have the
benefit of "uncontrollable, spontaneous clusters of orgasms."

Phone	Jeff from Tacoma, WA

Jeff says Louis Farrakhan while talking to black students in
Atlanta also said something about how "the enemy" is out to get
these students. Rush rereads Farrakhan's quote:

"They have marshalled an army here in preparation for the
Olympics. If you have to be used to show the world how they will
quell any disturbance, then they will use you to show how
prepared they are for the Olympics. . . . I would advise you not
to be a wild and savage group, as you have been in the past
because you're only giving an enemy an excuse to do to you what
they've been doing all their lives. Help the city get through
this weekend as peacefully as possible."

Jeff says this is an awful statement, one worthy of Jesse
Jackson. All it will do is get these students to distrust all
authorities, including the police. Law enforcement officials are
not "the enemy."

Rush asks what Jeff thinks about the reference to college kids as
a "wild and savage group as you have been in the past," and Jeff
is not impressed either. Evidently Farrakhan is their leader and
the one supposed to be inspiring them.

Rush says Farrakhan claims to be blacks' leaders but the students
might have something to say about that. Rush thanks Jeff for
calling.

Phone	Eleanor from Custer, SD







Eleanor is 13 and goes to a public school in a small town that
switched over to a four-day school week because it supposedly
would save money. The students go to school Monday to Thursday
until 4 o'clock, but they have Fridays free.

This was supposed to save the money spent on utilities and busses
on Friday, but it's not working. The building still has to be
open on Friday because of basketball practice and other
extracurricular activities, so there isn't much money being saved
at all.

Rush says this sounds like a well-intentioned effort to save
money that went astray, but he doesn't think the four-day
schoolweek makes much sense. Eleanor says it teaches kids that
they have to work only four days a week, and Rush asks if
students are assigned more homework.

Eleanor says they haven't gotten more homework, so Rush asks why
she doesn't like the idea. Eleanor replies that her classmates
who have more time to get drunk on Fridays like it, but she's not
one of those.

Rush asks where these 13-year-olds' parents are while these kids
are getting drunk. Eleanor says the parents are at work, so Rush
asks where the kids are getting the booze. Eleanor doesn't know
because she doesn't participate in that.

Rush, pulling out some memories from his own youth, suspects some
kids might be getting booze from their parents' liquor cabinets,
but he's amazed that such young kids drink so much to get drunk.
In any case, it's a rather obvious point that the young have all
sorts of energy and giving them too much free time is bad.
Eleanor agrees and Rush thanks her for calling.

Phone	Keith from Atlanta, GA

Keith says that an announcer on the late night local news covered
Louis Farrakhan's speech, and this announcer, who was black,
looked sort of horrified about all that was said. Even worse,
though, after saying what Rush just mentioned, Farrakhan went on
to talk about the "mother ship" that is hovering just out of
sight from Earth, and how the "white power structure" knows all
about it and is hiding the knowledge from African-Americans.

Rush knows some listeners will think Keith is pulling a trick or
a hoax, but that's not the case. Of course, EIB first learned
about the "mother ship" from Rita X. of Detroit, who talked about
how the ship beamed up black people so it could eventually
transport them to a new black nation somewhere.

Keith says the black reporter looked uncomfortable reading this
story, and the two anchors, a black woman and a white man, also
didn't know what to say. Keith doesn't know the names of these
reporters, though, but they are the regular news reporters for
the station. Rush bets that these news personalities will not be
happy about their lack of name recognition, but he suggests Keith
call them "Ken and Barbie" for now.

Keith agrees to do so, noting that Barbie also promised that the
station would be covering the Freaknik weekend thoroughly. One
part of this story is that another Nation of Islam member named
Stephen Muhammad was planning to hold a concert in a park but it
was cancelled after his insurance was cancelled.

The company cancelled the insurance because Mohammed wrote a bad






check to pay for it, but he complained that he did this because
it wasn't right the insurance company would not be willing to
give him his money back if there weren't any claims filed after
the weekend. Rush laughs at this obvious lack of knowledge about
how the insurance industry works and bets Muhammad also blamed
this on racism.

Keith says this was the case, too, and his personal belief is
that Farrakhan is in town only because it's April 19th and he
thinks something will happen. Rush thanks Keith for his
on-the-spot report about Atlanta's Freaknik weekend.

*BREAK*

Phone	Steve from Macon, GA

Steve thinks the liberals have achieved one major thing: they
have won the public relations battle over the minimum wage, which
is why Republicans are going to support an increase in the
minimum wage. Rush says this is not quite true - Republicans will
attach other legislation, such as tax cuts, that is distasteful
to Clinton to the bill increasing the minimum wage.

Steve says this is what he was going to suggest - that
Republicans force through a tax cut for the business people who
have to pay this higher minimum wage. At least the businesses
won't have lost money, and Steve for one is in favor of tax cuts
for everyone.

Rush agrees, and a story in the papers has Newt Gingrich
suggesting that Republicans attach all sorts of reforms - tax
cuts, welfare reforms, etc., that Clinton has previously said he
supports but has rejected - to the minimum wage bill, to see if
he vetoes them again. Steve thinks this would be a great
approach, especially since such a veto would be a great political
weapon for the Republicans to use against the Democrats.

Phone	Judy from Denton, TX

Judy saw Rush's TV show last night and thinks his point about how
tax cuts would do more to help Americans than the minimum wage is
exactly right. This is the only answer to improving Americans'
lifestyles, and if business taxes are reduced, too, businesses
would be able to pay more to their workers.

Rush says his TV show asked liberal New Yorkers if they thought
Clinton's increase of the minimum wage was a good idea. These
people all said they supported this, and then they were told that
in 1993 Clinton said raising the minimum wage was not a good way
to raise living standards, leaving the people speechless.

They were then asked why Clinton didn't propose a minimum wage
increase in 1993 and 1994 when he had a Democratic Congress, and
the only answers people gave were "Clinton had other, more
important things to do." Then, after all this, Rush pointed out
that Clinton is proposing this minimum wage increase now only
because it's an election year.

Rush then pointed out that the best way to raise living standards
is to cut taxes, and the sooner everyone learns this, the better.

*BREAK*

Phone	Shawn from Paso Robles, CA

Shawn says until he was 19 or so, he always asked a company to






start him at the minimum wage, so he could prove how much he was
worth. He usually ended up making more money than most of the
guys griping about their pay.

Rush applauds Shawn for his sanity on this issue and for
demonstrating that employers are willing to reward commitment and
reliability on the part of their workers. Shawn adds that he now
owns his own business, having learned a lot from all the other
businesses he once worked for.

Rush says it's obvious Shawn has realized that a job is not an
entitlement nor benefit, but a responsibility and that it's up to
the worker to demonstrate they are worthy of it. Sadly, not
enough people view jobs this way, another contribution to the
framework of society for which liberals can get the credit.