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Let people raise their own families, senator, it\u2019s none of your business!<\/emphasize> It\u2019s none of the federal government\u2019s business! Keep the schools open till six o\u2019clock? Well, if we\u2019re going to do that why don\u2019t we just keep them open year round, senator? Why don\u2019t we just keep \u2019em open year round? Just dispense with the summer vacation. We all know these teachers don\u2019t work hard enough as it is. I\u2019m just kidding about that. I actually have some sympathy for teachers in this regard. But nevertheless, this is cockamamie. He\u2019s going to repeal this tax cut for people over 200 grand. This is at least the tenth time he\u2019s done it. (long sigh) I\u2019m sorry for losing my composure there, folks. It\u2019s just been one of those days, and speaking of — I mean it\u2019s been building. My anger, not losing composure. Okay, so Kerry wants federal after school program, one and a half billion dollars. Get this. What\u2019s this from? This is from the New York Times today. <\/line>“When the El Paso school system wanted to upgrade its Internet connections three years ago, it tapped into a federal program that offers assistance for such projects. The program paid the International Business Machines Corporation IBM $35 million to build a network powerful enough to serve a small city. But the network would be so sophisticated that the 90-school district could not run it without help.” (Laughing.) Come on, now! These are schools! This is what people who know things that others don\u2019t, teach people those things! Now we\u2019ve got a school that can\u2019t figure out how to run <\/emphasize>a computer network? “Foreseeing the problem, IBM charged the district an additional $27 million (laughing).” “Foreseeing the problem.” Good old IBM! Whoever is running this place needs a bonus. (Laughing.) Build something that a bunch of liberals can\u2019t figure out and then charge them 27 million more to teach them. (Laughing.) (Clapping.)<\/line>“Foreseeing the problem, IBM charged the district the additional $27 million, paid for by the federal government, to build a lavish maintenance call-in center to keep the network running.” So it\u2019s tech support (laughing) for all these teachers that know more than your kid to call in and find out how to teach them what they don\u2019t know! (Laughing.) (Hitting desk.) “The center operated for nine months,” the tech support center, “then with no more money to support it, IBM shut it down. The federal effort to help poor schools connect to the Internet is called the E-rate program which collects a fee from all American phone users to distribute two and a quarter billion dollars a year<\/emphasize> [italics added] to such schools and libraries wasted enormous sums as El Paso built its extravagant network in the 2001-2 school year, according to documents and federal lawmakers. But the problems have not been alone. <\/line>“In Broward County, Florida, school districts used e-rate money to install a $1 million network server, a more powerful device, more suited to the needs of a multinational corporation than a 650-pupil elementary school. And just three weeks ago in San Francisco a subsidiary of the computer giant NEC agreed to plead guilty to two federal felony counts related to the program.” I have a question. This e-rate program. You remember us talking about this on this program? It\u2019s the Gore tax; the e-rate program is the Gore tax. You don\u2019t even know it because the phone company is not allowed to list it on your bill. But you pay a tax on your phone bill every month<\/emphasize>. It goes to this E-rate program that is supposed to wire the schools to the what? The information superhighway. The whole thing is a failure.<\/emphasize> It is a mess. It is awash in fraud, and it\u2019s a typical Clinton-Gore initiative — and remember they had pictures these guys out there actually hammering nails and running cable in various schools to have the photo-ops about this? <\/line><\/p>\n

Remember seeing that? Eighty percent of the schools were already wired when they started this program. There was all kinds of hell broke loose. People didn\u2019t want to pay the e-tax because this e-tax goes way back to when the phone was first invented and people that lived out on the farms in the boondocks didn\u2019t have phone service. So we had to collect taxes to wire phone lines all the way out to the boondocks back in the early days of the country, back in the Alexander Graham Bell days, and it\u2019s a tax that\u2019s never been repealed, sort of like the toll on your bridge that\u2019s “going to be removed when they pay for the bridge,” but guess what? (Laughing.) They never pay for the bridge, or they don\u2019t appear to. So the same thing here, total rip-off, fraud and waste, government program, biiiig <\/emphasize>savior you program, part of the Clinton-Gore legacy that you\u2019re just not hearing about today with the release of Clinton\u2019s sex manual book. <\/line>RUSH: Russ in Vero Beach, Florida. Thank you for calling, sir. Welcome to the program.<\/line>CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I hope you\u2019re having a good day.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah, great day. Thank you.<\/line>CALLER: I just heard the little piece you were talking about, the El Paso school system, and let\u2019s say their “possible overspending on getting basic Internet services” as loaded out to —<\/line>RUSH: Possible? Possible overspending? (Laughing.)<\/line>CALLER: Well, you know, we always have to kind of the John Kerry thing. You\u2019ve got to see both sides of what\u2019s going on.<\/line>RUSH: All right. (Laughing.)<\/line>CALLER: Well, the point I wanted to make is that I work for a company that sells that type of networking equipment to these various schools and I can tell you from experiences that the… How shall I say this politically correctly. The biggest ignoramus —<\/line>RUSH: No! No! I don\u2019t want to hear it the politically correct way. <\/line>CALLER: Alright.<\/line>RUSH: That doesn\u2019t happen here. You\u2019re anonymous. Nobody knows who you are. Just launch.<\/line>CALLER: Okay the biggest ignoramuses are — when it comes to information technology — are the people who are running the different schools.<\/line>RUSH: I know. Stop and think about that for a minute. The people, the biggest ignoramuses in the information technology sector, IT, are running the nation\u2019s schools<\/emphasize>.<\/line> CALLER: Absolutely, and where a hundred-dollar —<\/line>RUSH: Shazam!<\/line>CALLER: Where a hundred-dollar solution would be just fine, they just go to this federal spigot of the Gore tax, open the faucet by filling out some papers, fill buckets full of our money and go out and buy, you know, a $500,000 solution when a hundred-dollar Internet connection from their local cable company would do just fine and dandy.<\/line>RUSH: Exactly. (Laughing.) I know. They come up with this massive system that nobody can figure out how to learn, nobody, and then they need a tech support system for the teachers to call before they can utilize this in teaching classes. I mean, it\u2019s absurd. The whole thing is just absurd, and it\u2019s typical of the top-down way that education is happening. When I hear people say, “We\u2019re not spending enough money on education,” this is a classic example of what I mean when I say that is false.<\/line>CALLER: We are not spending too little on education. We are educating these people beyond their intelligence, and I\u2019m talking about these IT directors and the teachers.<\/line>RUSH: That\u2019s sad.<\/line>CALLER: I fully agree.<\/line>RUSH: I mean, teachers by their definition, know more than anybody else.<\/line>CALLER: By definition, but this type network equipment that gets installed is to 12- and 13-year-old guys who are in these classes. Not to slight the ladies here, but it\u2019s the 12- and 13-year-old guys who can make this stuff work and the school district support people —<\/line>RUSH: (Laughing.)<\/line>CALLER: — all the way up from their technicians that they hire, all the way up to the CIOs, have no idea what this stuff has done. After they\u2019ve bought it they can\u2019t explain what they bought it for —<\/line>RUSH: And that\u2019s the thing. That\u2019s the thing. They don\u2019t even know why they\u2019re buying this. It\u2019s just information superhighway stuff, the Gore tax. “We\u2019ve got to wire the schools,” and bammo! “Let\u2019s go!” without any forethought as to why. It is a great sales job, there\u2019s no question, but how about this: The 12- and 13-year-old male students, the guys in these classrooms have got this figured out, and they\u2019re learning to be hackers. They\u2019re learning all kinds of stuff here. (Laughing.)<\/line>CALLER: Oh, yes —<\/line>RUSH: They probably can keep the teachers from learning what they want to learn just by hacking the system. (Laughing.)<\/line>CALLER: Exactly. I mean that\u2019s how they trade grades, change grades and that\u2019s how they do things like if you look at their caches what they\u2019ve been looking at the Internet, I can tell you 90% chance that they\u2019re not going to be educational sites.<\/line>RUSH: (Laughing.) Pardon me for laughing. This is —<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: I just wanted to throw that in on you, what you\u2019re talking about there is not an isolated incident and because this money flows out of a bucket out of our pockets and is basically not checked the things like you talked about there, and I think there was Broward County, Florida, you talked about —<\/line>RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/line>CALLER: — those are, I mean those are the top of the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg. In my experience.<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m sure you\u2019re right. I mean because this is a common program. Can you imagine if they\u2019re doing this in the school, where else we\u2019re installing things that are unworkable in, like, say — no wonder we have to outsource at the welfare department, in various states. We have to outsource because the computer systems been installed, only Indian kids over there in India can figure out how to deal with it.<\/line>CALLER: Well, if you\u2019ve got a minute, Rush, you mentioned this outsourcing. I mean, this thing is a big brouhaha that\u2019s built up I\u2019ve got customers that do outsource. Of course they want to keep it under the radar now because they don\u2019t want to be branded as pariahs —<\/line>RUSH: Hang on because I\u2019ve got a break here. Can you hang on? I don\u2019t want to interrupt your story so start again when we come back from the break —<\/line>CALLER: No problem.<\/line>RUSH: Sounds like we\u2019re going to get some inside poop here on outsourcing as well, folks. Wonder what role the kids have in this. (ear-splitting tone) Okay, back to Russ in Vero Beach, who sells high-tech information technology network equipment. You were going to say something about outsourcing. <\/line>CALLER: Yeah, you know, we hear all the brouhaha about this and of course the poodle, Mr. Kerry, can\u2019t help himself making an issue about it all the time, but I just want to, you know, share an example with your listeners about a company that I know. Well, I\u2019ll just say east of the Mississippi that does some outsourcing to India, and they set up the business as their call center. They take calls for companies and they make calls on behalf of companies, and they went out and built their business to set up operations in inner cities and disadvantaged areas so the yutes <\/emphasize>of America could have some good, you know, ten-or-eleven dollar an hour jobs to get started, and evidently it\u2019s turned out that these folks have to start outsourcing some of these jobs to India, and their problem is not the wage that\u2019s being paid. It\u2019s because his turnover is about 95% per year, and the cost of having an employee is not just the salary, as you know, Rush, you run a business. That\u2019s a very small part of the whole thing.<\/line>RUSH: That <\/emphasize>is an excellent point. The turnover in that sector is such because people are always trying to get better jobs.<\/line>CALLER: Right, and the searching for hiring process of and the costs of that and the training of these people, and then to have them quit after a year or less. You know, 95 out of a hundred employees you\u2019ve got to go do the whole process again. The turnover rate in India is 2% range.<\/line>RUSH: And stability in the labor force is key.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: You need to know what the costs are going to be. You need to know what the personnel is going to be. You need to be able to worry about it as little as possible.<\/line>CALLER: Right and he doesn\u2019t pay, to my knowledge — and again I don\u2019t run his business for him — but he\u2019s not paying, you know, pennies to have these people in India. He\u2019s paying a pretty substantial wage to get people there. But he doesn\u2019t have to worry about the turnover. He doesn\u2019t have to worry about the retraining, and that drops a lot of money right out of the business.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s amazing. That\u2019s a great point. Okay, Russ, thanks very much. I appreciate all this. This has been fabulous, and I\u2019m glad that you were able to get through and share all this with us.<\/line>CALLER: Well, Rush, never let it be said I didn\u2019t do the least I could do.<\/line>RUSH: (Laughing.) Exactly right, and we appreciate the least you could do, because it was tremendous. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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