and what makes it so bad. people really beleive rush is an honest guy.

No kidding

well, I won't pretend that there aren't those with conservative mindsets who hate people based on prejudices.. but it's poisoning the apple to lump all conservatives in with the kkk or whatever. you can't allow the exception to swallow the rule.

yes, there ought to be a safety net for those who find themselves down on their luck but that need shouldn't permit the state to establish a welfare system that permits generations of people to suck off government teet.

it sickens me when I go to the store and I see someone buying junk food like sodas, slim jims and potato chips with food stamps. especially when they just bought another hundred some dollars worth of other krap, like junk purses and Barack Obama memerobilia.. That should only go towards buying those staple foods like rice, beans, meat, eggs, milk, cheese, etc. things growing children need in order to grow up healthy and stong.

Instead what we have is entire generations of poor people who have grown up under the government care.. that sickens me because all it does is further enslave the poor.

the cycle needs to be broken and the way to break it is not to put another 50 million people on the government dole..

if that makes me a hate-monger or a racist, then I wear the moniker proudly.

I just don't get it. But, many people on here listen to him regularly, it seems.

Well, considering that Clinton reformed welfare so that generations cannot sit on welfare anymore, I guess the prejudice have not caught up with the times on that one.

Second of all, who are you to judge what another person eats? If they want to eat chips and soda all their lives it is none of our business. I would not do it myself because I want a quality of life at some level but I cannot judge another for what they eat. Foodstamps are designed to help those who have very little income. The foodstamp roles are growing at an alarming rate right now due to the layoffs, does that make those people bad?

it's none of my business what people choose to feed their kids if they pay for it with their own earnings but when the government (you and I) is paying for it, then there should be a say in it.. it's good enough for the WIC program.. it should be good enough for food stamps.

Clinton signing some piece of legislation didn't magically mean that people started getting off welfare faster than they're getting on it. There are still people on welfare who's parents and grandparent were on welfare and whose children will be on welfare. Explain to me how that's right..

Being on welfare doesn't make someone bad, it makes them down on their luck.. but when people who aren't 'quite' poor enough to get on public assistance are eating like vietnam pow's while people on foodstamps are eating steak and drinking cocacola, I've got a serious problem with that and everyone should have a problem with it..

I'm not some heartless bastard. I feel for the poor and disabled andI have no problem whatsoever with aiding those that truely need it but I have little patience for people who feel the world owes them a living and go about figuring their way to making sure they get it, mainly because they get in the way of and take food from the mouths of the truely needy. and are unashamed of doing so.

I can tell we're at a philosophical impass here. I don't care what you do with your money. If you want to dump every penny you earn into funding a homeless shelter or drive through impoverished neighborhoods handing out envelopes full of cash, that's your business. you can't tell me it's my obligation to do the same. it's wrong to put a gun to my head or threaten me with imprisonment if I choose not to (IRS). that's my point. and forcing me to pay taxes to fund an evergrowing welfare state does exactly that.

an ever expanding welfare state that further ensures liberal control of the congress, the white house, and eventually the scotus is the endgame we're dealing with at the moment. Rahm Emmanuel is quoted as saying, and I'll paraphrase a little, never let a good crisis go to waste. It's an opportunity to pass things that you'd never otherwise get passed in your wildest dreams...

it's not about helping the poor. Obama, Pelosi and co are out to ensure the consolidation of their own power. the more people they hand money out to, the better. they're buying an electorate with our money. and no matter what side of the political fence you stand, that ought to offend the hell out of you.

if you say that the state of Colorado has worked towards trimming the welfare roles and getting people back working, that's great! I hope that's true. One down, 49 to go. But I have a very good friend who runs a CPS office here in Tx and she tells me that it's as bad now as it ever was in term of people staying on welfare and jobbing the system to get around the law. and she's about as liberal a person as I know. so thanks for telling me I don't know what I'm talking about. I actually do get information from outside the talk radio medium.

is there really anyone who listens to drug addict rush.

Actually, a number of people (millions and millions) do listen to Rush and do so on a regular basis. I am not a Rush fan per se because I see the guy as an entertainer first, a politico, second. What I find ironic about the entire saga of his addiction to pain-killers is just how much liberals seem to loathe him for having become addicted. Clearly, he's not the first guy (nor will he be the last) who got addicted to a drug that is, without question, massively addictive.

That he broke the law in the process means that he should be held accountable. Fine, no worries, and no issues.

But what is curious to me is the massive hypocrisy involved here. When former President Clinton committed sexual harassment of a White House Intern (in any other job, he'd have been fired on the spot) the hue and cry from the left was something like:

"Who cares? Does it really have anything to do with his running the country? It's a private matter, and therefore, it should not be something he's beat up for."

OK, so I pose the question---why wasn't Rush's case considered a private matter?

Clinton took an oath.
Rush did not
Clinton's salary was tax payer funded
Rush's is not

I was one of the few "to the right" people during the Clinton saga that thought it was stupid to move to impeach. I thought it was a waste of time and that it would do no good. I felt pretty much the same way about Rush. It's not my business.

There are thousands of left-wing hippie types out there who think drugs should all be made legal! Where were they when Rush's story broke? Why not use him as a figure to point to, in order to make a stronger case?

The truth is, the outrage over Rush's addiction to Oxycontin is only an outrage because of the political views he holds. If Rush was a liberal, they same people who are ticked at him for being an addict, would have been ALL over the news talking about what a good guy he was and how people should leave his personal life alone.

If the left had a talk radio figure that brought in 1/10th of the ratings that Rush brings in, they would have defended him/her to the nth degree.

What makes this all so disgusting is not that Rush did drugs and got caught. It's not even that he got addicted to a powerful narcotic. It's that he's a conservative. That is why he's hated for this.

" When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks."

--Rush Limbaugh radio show (quoted in the L.A. Times, 8/20/95)


There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods, which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.

...We are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country.... This country certainly appears to be tolerant, forgive and forget. I mean, you know as well as I do, you go out and commit the worst murder in the world and you just say you're sorry, people go, "Oh, OK. A little contrition."... People say, "I feel better. He said he's sorry for it." We're becoming too tolerant, folks.

--Rush Limbaugh TV show (10/5/95)

-Kerry O.

it's none of my business what people choose to feed their kids if they pay for it with their own earnings but when the government (you and I) is paying for it, then there should be a say in it.. it's good enough for the WIC program.. it should be good enough for food stamps.

Clinton signing some piece of legislation didn't magically mean that people started getting off welfare faster than they're getting on it. There are still people on welfare who's parents and grandparent were on welfare and whose children will be on welfare. Explain to me how that's right..

Being on welfare doesn't make someone bad, it makes them down on their luck.. but when people who aren't 'quite' poor enough to get on public assistance are eating like vietnam pow's while people on foodstamps are eating steak and drinking cocacola, I've got a serious problem with that and everyone should have a problem with it..

I'm not some heartless bastard. I feel for the poor and disabled andI have no problem whatsoever with aiding those that truely need it but I have little patience for people who feel the world owes them a living and go about figuring their way to making sure they get it, mainly because they get in the way of and take food from the mouths of the truely needy. and are unashamed of doing so.