{"id":213911,"date":"2016-07-05T19:06:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T23:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:07:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:07:36","slug":"millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/","title":{"rendered":"Millennials Want to See Laws Passed, and Anyone Who Backs Smaller Government Is a Villain to Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: I have to tell you, I went home for a couple days over the weekend, and we had dinner over at my cousin Steve\u2019s on Sunday night.\u00a0 And a couple federal judges were there \u2019cause my cousin was presiding over a naturalization ceremony, last night, on the courthouse steps, the Common Pleas Courthouse Steps. I was not able to stay for that.\u00a0 But another federal judge friend of the family\u2019s was in town for it. So we played golf earlier that day, and one of the guys… My cousin Jim couldn\u2019t make it; so we went and got a stand-in, got a local man by the name of Andrew Morton.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a former patent attorney and an agriculture expert and farmer and so forth, and he\u2019s a Millennial.\u00a0 And at different times we got to talking about what is happening with the Millennial generation because a bunch of them sitting at the table, and he said something fascinating to me about his friends.\u00a0 Now, he\u2019s not the kind of Millennial that we hear about on college campus that are these tender snowflakes that can\u2019t handle controversy and don\u2019t like opposing points of view.\u00a0 He\u2019s a standard, run-of-the-mill…<\/p>\n

He\u2019s an all-American kind of guy, and he said the thing that troubles him most about his generation is — and this was a first, but it totally clicked. His nickname is Morty. You know, he looks like Brent Bozell, beard included. That\u2019s why I thought I was playing golf with Brent Bozell.\u00a0 He said… He\u2019s 31, 32. He said that the people he knows in his age-group define good government by how many laws are being made.\u00a0 And if anybody is perceived to be standing in the way of laws being made, they\u2019re the bad guys.<\/p>\n

Well, that would mean limited government types are the bad guys to these people.\u00a0 The more laws you make, that\u2019s the sign of success.\u00a0 The more laws, that\u2019s the sign of progress to these people.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t get to that.\u00a0 That\u2019s not… Laws being upheld is irrelevant to these people.\u00a0 To them. Progress is government action.\u00a0 Writing laws, dealing with guns… You know, they\u2019re of-the-moment kind of people so you have… Let\u2019s say you have a terror event like Orlando.<\/p>\n

“The government gotta do something! The government\u2019s gotta do something!” If there\u2019s a flood somewhere, “The government\u2019s gotta do something!” \u00a0A tornado hit? “The government\u2019s gotta do something,” is their attitude.\u00a0 And, if government doesn\u2019t do something, it\u2019s a crisis.\u00a0 If government doesn\u2019t do something, it\u2019s bad.\u00a0 And government not acting, government not writing law, is a sign that things are not going well.\u00a0 And I sat there, and I\u2019m listening to this, and it\u2019s something, I guess, you know, when he said it, I instinctively understood it, agreed.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not something that I\u2019ve automatically associated with Millennials.\u00a0 I\u2019ve associated other things, but love of government and… That\u2019s not the way to put it.\u00a0 But just the judgment that writing more laws dealing with the things that are bad or wrong, is the sign of good government.\u00a0 Well, I don\u2019t know how common that is among the entire Millennial generation, but there\u2019s no greater obstacle we could face to smaller government, limited government than having a generation of people who believe that good government equals active, writing law, writing new regulations government.<\/p>\n

The more laws, the better.\u00a0 And in fact it\u2019s the exact opposite that is needed here.\u00a0 We are so overregulated — we are so overlawed, if you will — that it\u2019s getting in the way of everything.\u00a0 It\u2019s getting in the way of life. \u00a0I mean, it\u2019s just shocking to me.\u00a0 Now, I\u2019ve always known that there are those people out there, don\u2019t misunderstand.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always known that there are people who believe this. The government shutdown people brought this home for me.\u00a0 The reason a government shutdown\u2019s bad is because the government\u2019s not doing anything.<\/p>\n

The government can\u2019t write law.\u00a0 The government can\u2019t fix things.\u00a0 They look at government action as “fixing.”\u00a0 These people have no concept that it is the government breaking everything.\u00a0 They have no concept or understanding that the government is making the messes.\u00a0 You and I sit here, and we marvel. Government makes the mess and then people look to government to fix the mess that they made, which defies common sense.\u00a0 Why would…? If your kid stands on a stepladder or a chair and keeps busting your chandelier every night, why would you hire the kid to fix the chandelier?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s essentially what we do.<\/p>\n

Government makes a mess of health care.\u00a0 Government makes a mess of whatever it touches.\u00a0 Government makes a mess of Social Security.\u00a0 Government makes a mess of immigration.\u00a0 “You gotta fix it! You gotta fix it!” And, if the government\u2019s not doing it, then something\u2019s wrong.\u00a0 And that has to have come from education.\u00a0 It has to have come from pro-government professors and teachers who have been inculcating these young skulls full of mush with the idea that the only time anything productive ever happens in the country is when the government\u2019s doing something.<\/p>\n

When the private sector does something, when Big Business does something, it\u2019s bad.\u00a0 But government has to be the ones to do it. The government has to fix it; the government has to police it; the government has to regulate it.<\/p>\n

So our work continues to be cut out for us.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I have to tell you, I went home for a couple days over the weekend, and we had dinner over at my cousin Steve\u2019s on Sunday night.\u00a0 And a couple federal judges were there \u2019cause my cousin was presiding over a naturalization ceremony, last night, on the courthouse steps, the Common Pleas Courthouse Steps. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nMillennials Want to See Laws Passed, and Anyone Who Backs Smaller Government Is a Villain to Them - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Millennials Want to See Laws Passed, and Anyone Who Backs Smaller Government Is a Villain to Them - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: I have to tell you, I went home for a couple days over the weekend, and we had dinner over at my cousin Steve\u2019s on Sunday night.\u00a0 And a couple federal judges were there \u2019cause my cousin was presiding over a naturalization ceremony, last night, on the courthouse steps, the Common Pleas Courthouse Steps. […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jaime Endemano\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/\",\"name\":\"Millennials Want to See Laws Passed, and Anyone Who Backs Smaller Government Is a Villain to Them - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-07-05T23:06:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-07-10T15:07:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d3079d9586e3d29b799b4c54e0a0e81e\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Millennials Want to See Laws Passed, and Anyone Who Backs Smaller Government Is a Villain to Them\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d3079d9586e3d29b799b4c54e0a0e81e\",\"name\":\"Jaime Endemano\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f266a78ed0d1df53060e64ebe68c5304?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f266a78ed0d1df53060e64ebe68c5304?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jaime Endemano\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/jaimeendemano\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Millennials Want to See Laws Passed, and Anyone Who Backs Smaller Government Is a Villain to Them - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"Millennials Want to See Laws Passed, and Anyone Who Backs Smaller Government Is a Villain to Them - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: I have to tell you, I went home for a couple days over the weekend, and we had dinner over at my cousin Steve\u2019s on Sunday night.\u00a0 And a couple federal judges were there \u2019cause my cousin was presiding over a naturalization ceremony, last night, on the courthouse steps, the Common Pleas Courthouse Steps. […]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jaime Endemano","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg","contentUrl":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/","name":"Millennials Want to See Laws Passed, and Anyone Who Backs Smaller Government Is a Villain to Them - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2016-07-05T23:06:54+00:00","dateModified":"2017-07-10T15:07:36+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d3079d9586e3d29b799b4c54e0a0e81e"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/millennials_want_to_see_laws_passed_and_anyone_who_backs_smaller_government_is_a_villain_to_them\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Millennials Want to See Laws Passed, and Anyone Who Backs Smaller Government Is a Villain to Them"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d3079d9586e3d29b799b4c54e0a0e81e","name":"Jaime Endemano","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f266a78ed0d1df53060e64ebe68c5304?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f266a78ed0d1df53060e64ebe68c5304?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jaime Endemano"},"url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/jaimeendemano\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240115,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213911\/revisions\/240115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}