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RUSH: A story yesterday that you just don\u2019t believe and it just rips your heart out and then makes you mad. “According to a new report, 47 percent of Detroiters are ‘functionally illiterate.'” You think this is progress? Snerdley is saying, “Hey, that\u2019s progress. Don\u2019t put it down.” “The alarming new statistics were released by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund on Wednesday. … ‘Not able to fill out basic forms, for getting a job — those types of basic everyday (things). Reading a prescription; what&rsquo;s on the bottle, how many you should take&hellip; just your basic everyday tasks,'” 47% of the city can\u2019t do. “I don&rsquo;t really know how they get by, but they do. Are they getting by well? Well, that&rsquo;s another question,” said the Fund\u2019s director, Karen Tyler-Ruiz, who explained what it means when you can\u2019t read. Did you know what it means when you couldn\u2019t read? I wouldn\u2019t have known if it weren\u2019t for Karen Tyler-Ruiz explaining it.<\/p>\n

Now, I have a solution. We here at the EIB Network, we have a solution. And, by the way, don\u2019t forget, Detroit just closed half of its schools \u2019cause they couldn\u2019t make a better deal with the teachers union. Remember that? Mayor Dave Bing couldn\u2019t make a better deal with teachers union. I do remember this. I remember I caught hell for pointing this out. It was shortly before, during, or after the Porkulus bill being signed. You\u2019ll remember this, too. The regime was going to pass out vouchers all over the country to get access to rent free apartments or rent assisted something, affordable type housing. And you had to show up at the city hall or somewhere to apply for a chance. There weren\u2019t nearly enough vouchers to accommodate everybody that showed up. So what you were applying for was essentially to be put in a drawing and then win, something like that. <\/p>\n

The point is not everybody who showed up was gonna get the relief. And they were overwhelmed, the city hall or wherever this took place, they were overwhelmed. And our man in Detroit, a radio reporter extraordinaire, WJR, went out there — we played the audio and asked these people what this was all about. Maybe Cookie can find this before the program ends because I can only remember specifically, but he asked, “Well, where do you think this money is coming from?” “Obama! It\u2019s coming from Obama\u2019s stash. Obama\u2019s doing this for us. Obama!” And I remember saying, “If I were president and this was going on, I would be embarrassed.” Well, folks, I have a solution. Something that I don\u2019t think anybody has had the guts, maybe not even the thought to try. <\/p>\n

Forty-seven percent of people in Detroit can\u2019t read. What we ought to do is get a lot of money and just throw it at the Detroit public school system \u2019cause obviously we\u2019re not spending enough money here. I mean when you\u2019ve got 47% of a city that can\u2019t read, what we need to do is make more investments. I can\u2019t believe somebody hasn\u2019t come up with this before now. Must everything be up to me? But we need to spend money in Detroit. We need more federal funds. We need more state funds. We need more private donations. We\u2019re not spending enough money. Forty-seven percent can\u2019t read? It\u2019s obviously a money problem, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay. Here it is. We got the audio from Detroit of model citizens lining up for money from Obama\u2019s stash. By the way, I bet the 47% in Detroit who can\u2019t read do know the letter (D) for Democrat on a ballot. I\u2019ll bet you the 47% who can\u2019t read do know what (D) means. All right. This is our reporter, Ken Rogulski of WJR, and this is at Cobo Hall. A bunch of people lined up for what Detroit Free Press described this way: “Cobo a Scene of Desperation — Social service agencies are bracing for more troubles. <\/p>\n

“The economic tsunami washing over metro Detroit swept its casualties to the doors of Cobo Center on Wednesday in the form of 35,000 people so desperate for help with mortgage and utility bills that threats were made, fights broke out and people were nearly trampled. … City officials said a total of about 65,000 people over the past few days have gotten applications — due next Wednesday — for a share of $15.2 million in federal stimulus money…” Not all 65,000 were gonna get money but that\u2019s how many showed up. Only 3500 were going to get help out of the 65,000. Ken Rogulski went down and talked to some of the people in line at Cobo Center.<\/p>\n

ROGULSKI: Why are you here?<\/p>\n

WOMAN #1: To get some money.<\/p>\n

ROGULSKI: What kind of money?<\/p>\n

WOMAN #1: Obama money.<\/p>\n

ROGULSKI: Where\u2019s it coming from?<\/p>\n

WOMAN #1: Obama.<\/p>\n

ROGULSKI: And where did Obama get it?<\/p>\n

WOMAN #1: I don\u2019t know, his stash. I don\u2019t know. (laughter) I don\u2019t know where he got it from, but he givin\u2019 it to us, to help us.<\/p>\n

WOMAN #2: And we love him.<\/p>\n

WOMAN #1: We love him. That\u2019s why we voted for him!<\/p>\n

WOMEN: (chanting) Obama! Obama! Obama! (laughing) <\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s coming from Obama. Obama\u2019s stash. He\u2019s giving it to us. He loves us; we love him. <\/p>\n

I said at the time, “If I were…” and it was from the stash! It was a slush fund. This is exactly what it was for, and did I catch hell (even in Detroit), \u2019cause I said, “You know, if I were president, this would embarrass me — this happening in America when I was president. But Obama is sitting in Washington and this is exactly what he wanted. ‘It\u2019s me!\u2019 Everybody coming tomorrow for their little morsels in life.”<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I just got an e-mail from a subscriber Rush 24\/7 about why 47% cannot read in Detroit. “Rush: The percentage went up when all those who could read saw the handwriting on the wall and left town.” (laughing) So the ones who could read got out (laughing) \u2019cause they saw the handwriting on the wall. (laughing) Oh, jeez!<\/p>\n

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