Tebow Turns Down CBS
RUSH: Tebow said no to CBS Sports. He's not gonna show up on their Sunday pregame show. Good for him. He doesn't want to show up and have to fake laugh. It's said that the Dancing With the Stars people are going to seek out Tebow. He'll say no to that, too. Tebow doesn't need these media people. The media has not made him. He does not need to turn himself over to the media. He's bigger than the media. He doesn't need 'em at all. They want Tebow in a position where they can break him by having made him, and he's smart to stay away from all this stuff.
Now, when I say it's fun watching this, I don't want you to misunderstand. It's fun like watching nature documentaries, like watching animals eat each other. It's fun, it's interesting, it's, "Wow, look at that," but it's not something that you'd leave your house to go see. I wonder if ABC News will do an investigative report and tell us -- you watch, this is gonna happen -- how much does Tim Tebow give to his church? You watch. At some point, they will.
Steve Jobs on Education in 1996
RUSH: You know, Apple is having some giant foray into education in New York. They're announcing it tomorrow in New York. One of their executives, Eddy Cue, is involved -- and nobody really knows, but there are all kinds of rumors about what they're gonna be doing involving their iBooks app, perhaps getting into textbooks. Some people suspect they might be offering tools to publish textbooks digitally and as a business matter destroy the analog textbook industry. They're denying that. "No, no, no. We're not into content here. We're trying to offer tools." In the process of this, being interested in what Apple does, I found an interview Steve Jobs gave to Wired magazine back in 1996.
Now, what is that, 15 years ago, 16 years ago? Be about right. Here's Jobs in 1996 on education: "I used to think that technology could help education. I've probably spearheaded giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet." Remember, this guy's a New Age leftist (a Buddhist, in fact). "But I've had to come to the inevitable conclusion that the problem is not one that technology can hope to solve. What's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent. It's a political problem. The problems are sociopolitical. The problems are unions. You plot the growth of the NEA [National Education Association] and the dropping of SAT scores, and they're inversely proportional.
"The problems are unions in the schools. The problem is bureaucracy." Steve Jobs, 1996. He went on to say, "If we gave vouchers to parents for $4,400 a year, schools would be starting right and left. People would get out of college and say, 'Let's start a school.' You could have a track at Stanford within the MBA program on how to be the businessperson of a school. And that MBA would get together with somebody else, and they'd start schools. And you'd have these young, idealistic people starting schools, working for pennies." If you took the education money we spend federally, get rid of the NEA, the Department of Education, and give families what their taxes are equal to for education -- taxes every year, $4400, just take a voucher!
The old voucher idea: Let parents be in charge of spending the money that's taxed from them. Let them choose where their kids go to school. This is 1996. This is before Jobs even went back to Apple. I don't know how you can be a liberal and say this. It's why back when Jobs passed away, I mentioned a couple times here, "I'm not sure he knew what he was, but he knew what he had to be or what he had to be perceived as being." He said these people would do it. They'd start schools left and right "because they'd be able to set the curriculum. When you have kids you think, 'What exactly do I want them to learn?' Most of the stuff they study in school is completely useless. But some incredibly valuable things you don't learn until you're older - yet you could learn them when you're younger.
"And you start to think, 'What would I do if I set a curriculum for a school?'" He's talking about entrepreneurs. If you have a neighborhood or a town where every family's got $4400 to spend to send their kids to school, you might start a school trying to get that money. You'd hire the teachers, you'd set the curriculum, you'd have genuine competition in it, and you could attract students based on what you're teaching them and how you're teaching them. In Isaacson's biography of Jobs, Jobs blasts the nation's education system several times for being crippled by union work rules. Apple is not union. Jobs believed wherever you find a union, you're gonna find a mess. I just think it's interesting: 1996, 16 years ago.
New Yorkers Struggle to Find Food
RUSH: Every day you can find a story like this, sometimes more than one. This is from the Business Insider: "Nearly three million New Yorkers are reporting having difficulty affording food while a growing percentage of college-educated New Yorkers are also reporting higher levels of difficulty, according to a new report from the Food Bank For New York City.
"One in three expressed concerns that they might need" assistance finding food. This is despite all the food stamps out there! "The number of affected residents making between $50,000 and $75,000 -- and therefore not eligible for food assistance programs -- increased by 6 percent. To cope, they're cutting back on spending by purchasing fewer essential items like dairy, meat and fresh fruits and turning to soup kitchens and food stamps" which is all part of Obama's plan: Creating more and more dependency on government for the necessities of life. Now, when will this be called "The Obama Economy"?
When will this proposal be called Obamaville? I don't know how you blame anything going on in New York on any Republican, unless you want to go back and try to say that this is Giuliani's mess, but it can't be and it isn't. You've got a liberal nanny for mayor who now wants to put bars out of business by limiting the number of adult beverages you can have every day. Now you've got food banks reporting increased activity: 2.9 million New Yorkers! The population's what, seven million, and 2.9 New Yorkers report having difficult affording food? It's Obamaville. (interruption) Well, I don't know if there's any trans fat foods around. Even if you're starving and you find some trans fats, I'm sure they'll charge you. It's absurd.
Dems Want to Lower Voting Age to 16
RUSH: As if we don't have enough trouble already, Congressman Keith Ellison (Democrat-Minnesota) wants to let 16-year-olds vote. Let's lower the voting age to 16. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Folks, that could tell us that they think that they are in trouble, and I don't doubt that they are.
Chickified Captain Says He Fell into Lifeboat
RUSH: The captain of the Costa Concordia, you hear what this guy says now? He tripped and fell into the lifeboat! He tripped as he was running away. He was running to do his captain duties and he tripped and fell into the lifeboat and got trapped in there for an hour. He couldn't get out because it was suspended over the side. He didn't run away. He tripped and fell in there. I mean, the sisification of our worldwide culture is well underway, well underway. Yep, the guy tripped! (laughing) Well, who's to say it didn't happen? (laughing)
