Rush Limbaugh thinks you should work till you die

[kpete]

Run time: 10:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfmHng18GBY   Posted on YouTube: November 19, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: November 19, 2008 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 2474

 


It's a long clip, but this is what's being said. His boss even freaks out on him at the end:

Limbaugh: You're a nice guy and I'm sure that you are a salt of the earth guy but since you asked, What I am supposed to do, go back to work at 67? No, you're not supposed to retire when you're 55. You sound to me like you are totally capable of still working. Unless you work for a place that forces you out and says 55 you can no longer do the job, you got no business retiring at 55 IF you can't afford to retire. What's wrong....My boss is having a conniption there. What's wrong? Is that the unpolitick thing to say? I have not ... the American Dream. I have not redefined the American Dream. The American Dream is retire at 65. People are retiring now at 50 and 55 and so forth when they are still capable of working. According to the tables at 55, you've got 22 years left...
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/rush-limbaugh-you-should-work-till-you-

[SoCalNative]

1. yeah well..we don't all have access

to all of the drugs he does constantly..so not as easy for us

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. In his case, I hope it's age 58.

Fuck him.

Fat assed, pious drug-addled piece of scum that he is.

[Warpy]

3. Rimjob sits on his fat ass when he "works,"

so of course he'd say that.

He needs to be reeducated on a construction job.

[whathappened]

4. rush

hope that cigar and oxysey lets u work tell your 100 yr old u old shit for brains , he makes millions telling this man he should still be working , he has fryed his brain

[Double T]

5. Rush is scum, BUT I agree with a lot of what was said.

Retiring at age 55 is ABSOLUTELY ridiculous. What a huge burden is placed on the other workers and union members to support this 'retired worker' for the rest of his/her life. I believe people should work their entire life or at least into their 70s. The day of the company/union supplied pension are finished and with SS on the brink of disaster there is no other alternative but to continue working until death or disabled. It is a cruel world and it is going to get a hell of a lot crueler.

[ihavenobias]

7. Work into their 70's?

Unless you're talking about entertainers or some other dream jobs, I think that's horrible, especially considering the average human lifespan.

[Double T]

11. There will be no choice. World overpopulation will make this situation.........

even worse where availability of jobs for the elderly will probably be limited.. Retirement is a thing of the past, as it used to be.

[Deja Q]

12. Well, blame those who helped overbreed. Aim at the problem, not a symptom...

unless it's unavoidable, but as with marriage, people often don't bother to try.

[cooolandrew]

24. Over population is not inevitable. Education is the key if every family for now on had just one >

kid the population in a century would be down to half. It's more for the western world to get education to poorer nations the importance of smaller families for a longevity of humankind. I like the education program of donating laptops to poor nations to start them on a process of learning which they have going at laptop.org . With Barack in office I am so much more optimistic of the endless possibilities for the environment and innovation out of what looks a very pessimistic situation right now. Out of pure human survival we will do this, with the door now open many things are possible. Sure times might be set to get rough for a while but there was depression before and a shift or energy use from coal being the major energy source to oil. The shift can begin again because simply we have the most sophisticated computer know to man the human brain and when put to good use can overcome any obstacle that we may face. Too many stupid people some might say not the case we all have a brain all depends if we use it, we have to inspire more folks not as focused as we are to make the most of their minds. Beacause when the human mainframe is put into gear all things are possible.

[Double T]

27. Population control must be legislated as humans are not and will not........

limit their offspring voluntarily. An individual should not be allowed to have more than two offspring from any and all partners/spouses throughout their entire lifetime. For being supposedly the smartest creature roaming this planet, we have done a piss poor job of using our brains.

[aquart]

33. We don't have to.

We're going to be dying by the millions very soon.

[Daphne08]

8. I'm guessing you're young with no ill effects from the

aging process.

[Deja Q]

10. That person must be young, or incredibly naive...

[Double T]

13. 53, self employed and work my butt off every single day and night. I have plenty of..........

aches and pains but I don't have time to do anything but ignore them. I have found that if I ignore them, they go away. We need to keep ourselves in excellent health as we age; there are no more golden years or easy retirements in this world. It is unfortunate that it has come to this, but it has.

[Daphne08]

14. Come talk to me in 10 years! n/t

[Deja Q]

9. Does that include yourself AND Rush?

Radio DJs work for 5 hours a day then golf the rest of it, and talk of their golf game as if everyone does it or has the time to do it.

Of course, define "work" - babbling into a microphone for big money is a dream job.

It's a cruel world. Life is also what we make of it.

[OutNow]

15. Retire at 55 is Ridiculous? I think not

So many folks think that a pension is a gift. It's not. My company funded their pension as deferred employee earnings. IOW - you have an agreement (in writing via a union contract or less secure as a company pension plan description) to have lower than average earnings during your working years in order to get a defined amount each month when you retire. The problem is that companies have been spending the surplus pension funds on executive golden parachutes, or to fatten the bottom line to increase their bonuses. Then employees retire after 30 years the company says "oh no, we don't have any money left. we'll have to dump our pension. after all, those retired people are still capable of working."

Do you have any idea how old people used to live before SSec and company pensions existed? Ever heard of the "poor house"?

I'm 58, I have a pension, and have earned evey penny of it. Work my entire life? Are you sure you're a Democrat?

[Double T]

18. It has nothing to do with political affiliation; it has everything to do with pensions........

that are vanishing, as you have described. Pensions for former workers are struggling to keep up with inflation and insanely escalating health care costs; the burden is now put on the current workers and company to make up the difference/deficit. This is the kind of thing that is not sustainable and eventually the pension fund, if not looted by the company, will go broke.

[Fla Dem]

17. Many people who retire early do so at a reduced pension and sometimes not at their own choice..

While some people are forcefully outed once they get into their 50's others are forced out subtly. Starting in the late 80's companies who offered employer financed pensions started to subtly force long term older workers from their companies. They were passed over for promotions, given lesser jobs, poor evaluations and no raises. Why? Around that time many larger companies began changing their pensions from employer financed to employee financed (401k). Employers no longer had to contribute to a pension fund for new employees. But they did have to continue to contribute for their existing employees. If they got rid of their longer term, higher paid workers, they no longer had the obligation to contribute to the pension fund on behalf of that employee. Work environments got so toxic for these employees, that once they were eligible for retirement, typically after 25-30 years of employment or age 55, they retired. Many at pensions 33% less than if they had continued to work until 62 or 65. Now these employees, who had worked at one firm or trade for 25-30 years, were 55 or older, were not exactly what other companies were looking to hire. Many went back to work at lower paid jobs just to make ends meet.

People went to work for an employer and contributed to the success of that company in return for promises that company made to the employee. In many case these employees worked their butts off for their own success and the companies success. If it weren't for the sweat and sacrifices of those workers some of those companies would not be in business today.

Don't blame the workers or retirees for the corporations' bad fiscal management; building large corporate headquarters, expensing expensive dinners, conventions, trips, putting their names on stadiums, buying suites at sporting venues, providing corporate vehicles for executives, not staying innovatively competitive, etc.

And lets not forget the extraordinary disparity between executive pay and the worker. From 1995 to 2005 CEO pay rose 298.2%, and corporate profits by 106.7%, the average worker pay rose only by 4.3%.

"CEOs have seen increases in their earnings at a rate far greater than that of the average worker. In 1965, U.S. CEOs at major companies made 24 times a worker's pay-by 2004, CEOs earned 431 times the pay of an average worker.<1> From 1995 to 2005, average CEO pay increased five times faster than that of average workers.<2> While CEO pay continues to increase at rates far exceeding inflation, wages for the vast majority of American workers have failed to keep up with rising prices. In fact, real wages for the 90% of Americans who earn under $92,000 a year have actually fallen since 2001.<3>

When comparing CEOs to minimum-wage earners, the contrast is even starker. In 2005, median pay for CEOs of the 100 largest companies rose 25% from the previous year.<4> Minimum-wage earners this year, on the other hand, made the same amount as last year, and every year before that since the 1996-1997 increase-adjusting for inflation they actually made less than then (in inflation-adjusted dollars, $5.15 today is the equivalent of only $3.95 in 1995). <5> CEOs, on average, take home 821 times as much as a person working for minimum wage.<6> With this extraordinary ratio, an average CEO makes more before lunch on his first day of work than a minimum-wage earner will make all year."

http://financialservices.house.gov/ExecCompvsWorkers.html

I don't know how old you are or how long you have worked. But unless you're at least 60 years old and worked for 40 years, you don't have the gravitas to belittle any worker who retired before they were 70.

[RobertSeattle]

6. How people making 50K a year "relate" to Limbaugh is amazing

[TheFarseer]

30. Rush meets regular people all the time

when he goes golfing in the Caribbean.

[guitar man]

16. from a man

who has never done an honest day's work in his entire life! :grr:

[sasquatch]

19. Fucking Limbaugh I hate to say it is typical for %77 of Boomers

"Fuck everyone except us."

[Fedja]

20. lol what a dork

If you're working for 1000 plus pension and healthcare, you would work for 1000 plus however much you'd have to pay for pension and healthcare yourself.

Then arguing that other manufacturers don't pay pensions? HAH. Funny.

[bobd0]

21. I can't listen to the asshole at all but I agree with half of what he says as it pertains to him.

Limbaugh thinks we should work until we die.

I agree with half of his statement.

I think Limbaugh should die.

[snake in the grass]

25. beautifully put!

[underpants]

22. George Will said the same thing about auto workers retiring before 65

"How can someone be retired BEFORE 65?!??!?!" or something to that effect.

*perish the thought*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euzPOfD2Dhw

[cooolandrew]

23. They are so out of touch with workers, why does Barack get their ire went they have such blantant>

disdain for their listeners and fellow Americans. What's wrong with them anyone can see Barack intentions are horoable to help folks back on the ladder. These folks want the ladder taken away and for people to thank them for it. Anyways they'll come around with time, the future is bright the future is democratic just have to get our word out to more people. Going door to door day to day.

What they basically say is folks don't deserve affordable healthcare, or to be taxed fairly. They should just work themselves to death and be happy with their lot. How is it anyone buys this, I'll never know, it shouldn't take education to realize that's not a cool or helpful message. Novamradio.com it's the future and the answer promote it everywhere you can, we can fix things much faster if everyone is on the same page.

[Seldona]

26. Stop spending our deferred wages like madmen.

Who listens to this water-carrying fraud anymore anyway? Don't people get that he admitted he is a water carrier after the 06' elections? Those were his words. lol

Rush is just riding the right wing radio gravy train. Pathetic, and totally un-american.

[hyperdemocrat]

28. Work even if you are sick and 90 years old

Makes sense to me.

[TheFarseer]

29. what happened to retire at 65?

I think the UAW went a little overboard with a few things.

[Lasher]

31. Right, but he doesn't that should apply to him. Just to everybody else.

Kinda like all that harsh punishment drug addicts deserve.

[rasputin1952]

32. Considering that the only work HE does is falp his jaw...

I can imagine what he thinks work really is...x(

Arrogant twerp...:grr:

[lazyriver]

34. Error in your thread title...You seem to have juxtaposed the terms,

"Rush Limbaugh" and "thinks" without using the required phrase "with his ass" immediately following.

Please be more careful next time. :P

[Crowman1979]

35. Why isn't Rush Limbaugh dead yet?!?!?

Has the throat cancer, prostitute STDs or other terminal ailments related to Oxycotin abuse kicked in yet? I can't believe we're all existing on the same planet as this asshole and paying a higher psychic price because of it.

"Speaking of Satan I was watching Rush Limbow the other day." - Bill Hicks