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April 29, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 29, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
I feel fine.
I feel if I got about an hour and a half sleep last night on the uh on a jet ride coming home from Los Angeles.
But I'm a little conflicted here.
I I don't know where to start with audio sound bites of me from last night at the thing I did.
Or moving this Arlen Specter business.
I am I am just maybe I'm out of touch.
I I don't know.
I I am just I am stunned at the way the political class, both Republicans and Democrats, are dealing with this defection of Arvind Spector to the Democrat Party.
It's as though it is almost like uh religious leader abandoned a religion, which is not the case.
We got rid of some dead weight.
I I it's it just it's mind-boggling it.
Democrats are throwing parties.
Uh some of the Republicans are out there getting it right.
Jim Dement and others, the Republicans are getting it right, are being bashed to Kingdom Come by both Democrats and Republicans.
It's just, it's it's amazing to uh to watch this.
You would think if you watch the drive-by media and even listen to a bunch of so-called Republicans today, that there is no more Republican Party, that there will never ever be a Republican Party.
And a Republican Party practically never existed anyway.
The Republican Party, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, won the presidency in 2004.
It held the Congress in 2004.
The Republican Party emerged victorious in a few short years after Watergate.
Everybody is just drunk with with the uh the the so-called I don't know what you call the the the the uh well just Obamaism.
But it there's there's no perspective on this anymore.
There's literally none, leaving it wide open for me to explain all that's actually going on here.
So it's great to have you with us.
L Rushbow here behind this golden EIB microphone from the uh Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program is 800-282-288-2, the email address, L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Last night I was in Los Angeles.
I flew out there uh right after the program yesterday, actually Beverly Hills.
Uh Michael Milken, who's a friend of mine who I've met during charitable endeavors, he runs the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
I actually met him uh via our you know night of the century cigar nights, uh that Marvin Shankin Cigar Feachinotto puts on every year in New York, canceled this year, by the way.
So that uh uh we couldn't uh you they didn't want to do the deal this year because it's the ostentatious to have a black tie dinner at a restaurant in New York during the economic downturn.
So uh uh didn't have it this year, but uh Milken has this thing every year called the uh uh uh he's at the Milken Institute Global Forum.
And it brings in people from all over the world, some of the wealthiest tycoons in the world.
And it's a three-day seminar.
There are programs, uh, speakers, panel discussions all day long.
Last night was a debate, and the participants in the debate were Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee and Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco and the Speaker of the California Assembly, and myself with Ed Gillespie, who former chairman Republican National Committee, and he was the assistant to George W. Bush after Carl Rove left.
The uh moderator of the debate last night was the estimable Frank Luntz.
And it was a I will admit this, we've got audio sound bites from it, but it was a profound challenge.
I tried to warm them, warn him about this.
The acoustics is the Beverly Hilton that was in the main ballroom of the Beverly Hilton, which, if you're a pop culture, if you watch the Golden Globes, it's the same place that they do the Golden Globe Awards.
But the acoustics in there were just such that I was unable to understand one word Any of the other participants were saying, other than Gillespie, who was seated to my left.
I got most of what he said, but the uh the sound system speakers were in front of us, and there was nothing but reverb and echo.
I to this moment, I can't tell you one thing Harold Ford said last night.
I know a couple things that Willie Brown said.
When I was unable to interact as a result of this, because I had no clue what was on, I was I was turning my head toward them and I was cupping my ear, anything to try to.
It wasn't room noise, it was just the reverberation and echo.
A lot of people, even though I go to great pains to explain it, uh it it's hard to if if you can hear it, they think it's automatic, you can understand it.
It's hard to explain to people how, yeah, I hear the noise, but I can't make out the words.
Because nobody's experienced that that can hear.
Uh if you don't use hearing aids, if your hearing is normal, if you can hear somebody other than a crowded rumor, so you can hear the words, you can make it out.
But that was not the case, and often isn't the case for me in crowded circumstances or places with bad acoustics.
So I was unable to interact.
Uh I I was able to answer uh Lunz's questions about this, but folks, when I've got I've got the audio from it.
It went about an hour and ten minutes or so.
I flew back, and we uh we touched down about five o'clock in the morning here, and I'd slept about an hour and a half on the on the airplane, and I knew if I went home and tried to sleep two or three hours, I would feel horrible all day today after having awakened after only two or three hours.
So these kinds of nights with only 90 minutes sleep, I tend to get giddy uh during the course of the program.
Yes, the staff looks uh very much forward to this uh each and every time.
Uh so anyway, the the uh I want to talk to you about the the audience that was there.
Now I didn't have a chance to meet the audience.
Uh we were in a green room, so to speak, backstage, the speaker's prep room.
But I knew who they were.
These these are these are the masters of the universe.
These are some of the most achieved, some of the most accomplished financial and business people from all over the world, including here in the United States, and they've been corrupted.
These masters of the universe.
Not all of them, but many of them, Obama, they don't do they they they don't I can tell by the applause I got, they don't really dig many of his policies, but they love him, and they don't react well to criticism of him.
I it it it was it was it was um it was disappointing in a way because you there's there's a definite leftward tilt in the corporate world, not just corporate America, but in the corporate world.
And these are the people this man is targeting.
These are the people for example, last night I I was uh in one of the comments I made, I said, look what's happened to the hospitality business.
The Obama administration, I think actually Obama is actually urging people not to go to Las Vegas.
Well, now there were people in that room last night who own hotels in Las Vegas.
And somebody told me after the uh evening was over, somebody came and said, you know, somebody shouted, screw Las Vegas when you said that.
So here you have a room of highly achieved tycoons who are that they have the same attitude as uh people who have been fallen victim to uh class envy uh in the in the middle class or whatever.
It was it was it was it was interesting.
It was very fun.
It was a lot of fun and friendly, and and I uh, you know, I I I've met Harold Ford and Willie Brown numerous times before, get along with both of them.
We had a great time, doing fist bumps uh with them uh all night long.
And Willie Brown's uh, you know, he's fun guy.
But he was there were so many cliches last night.
The last eight years of Bush were just horrible.
We need to resurrect America from the horrible last eight years.
What do you mean we had a great economy the last eight years in this room?
You could hear a pin drop.
It's like they just don't hear this.
Everybody has so bought into the myth that everything that happened the last eight years was a total disaster.
It was uh it was an eye-opening experience, and it's we'll talk about it further as the program uh unfolds before your very eyes and ears is for Senator Specter and the the commentary that's going on about this, Senator Spector leaving the Republican Party.
Senator Spector voted for one of the most irresponsible pieces of legislation in modern history.
He voted for Barack Obama's so-called stimulus plan.
By the way, speaking of that, you see the uh the news today, the American economy shrank rapidly in the first three months of the year, the government reported today.
A signal that the economy is likely to remain a dominant issue.
Yes, the economy's plunging, more and more people losing their jobs.
Recovery is practically not in sight.
Let's talk about it as a political issue.
to see who it helps.
Economists had predicted that the gross domestic product would drop 4.7% But it dropped at 6.1%.
It was totally unexpected.
And I'm reading today, I'm reading today from some of the wizards of smart.
Well, it is bad, but we can't blame Obama.
It would be unfair to blame this on Obama.
He's only been in office 100 days.
And it would be totally unfair.
Why can't we blame Obama?
Has not the economy been stimulated?
Didn't we pass the stimulus bill?
Haven't we had a bunch of bailouts starting toward the end of last year?
We've been trying to get this economy to rebound long before Obama took office.
And we have been using policies that are identical to what Barack Obama would have proposed were he president last year.
We have proposed political solutions, which have essentially said we're going to grow the government, we're going to print money, and we're going to borrow money, and we're going to throw money after bad things.
We're going to throw money at things that ought to be allowed to fail.
We're going to stimulate this, we're going to bring your job back, we're going to cut your taxes 13 bucks a week.
There's no sign that it has worked.
That's too soon to blame Obama.
It's too soon to blame it would be so robustly unfair to blame Obama.
Now, in one sense, I can see the point.
Yeah, we passed the stimulus bill, but most of it doesn't really get into good gear until 2010.
But folks, I hate to remind you, but when the rest of this stupid plan goes into action, we are really going to be in the sewer.
When his tax cuts, the Bush tax cuts expire, thus new tax increases, when inflation hits when the economy rebounds because of all this uh printing of money and borrowing and spending the idea that all of this stuff was done to stimulate the economy, and the economy's not stimulated.
The things that stimulate the economy are being stopped.
And that is getting regulations and obstacles out of people's way, people who run businesses, people who want to work for businesses.
Uh I made the point last night.
Somebody name for me a government program that's worked.
Name one that's worked.
From the Great Society to the war on poverty.
I said, see, we're not supposed to talk about failure.
We're not supposed to talk about results.
We're supposed to only examine the good intentions of people.
You could have heard a pin drop.
Well, I couldn't have I couldn't see Mr. Sturdley uh uh other than the first couple of roles because of the spotlights and everything, but I I I assumed they were looking at me like it was a zombie if there was no reaction.
And I'm telling you, the the I mean, I was the only one saying anything like what I was saying last night on this panel.
Gillespie was good, you know, but but and I I pointed out when I went out and said, look at folks, these three guys are in the Political world.
They are about winning elections and getting votes.
That's not what I do.
And the place busted up laughing.
And I said, no, no, no, no.
I'm I'm serious.
I don't lie.
I don't pander.
I will not tell somebody something I don't really believe just to get their vote.
That's when you could hear the pin drop.
You'll hear it all.
I'm going to play all this stuff as the uh as the program unfolds.
But I could tell when it when there was dead silence in there.
My assumption was that the majority of the crowd was, I can't believe somebody's saying this.
I can't believe what I just heard.
But again, I was a bit disadvantaged because I couldn't hear anything in there other than myself.
And the only reason I knew what I was saying is because I knew it was me talking.
You know, I don't even have to hear myself to know what I'm saying because it's in my brain, but it was it was just impossible to hear the other people.
So we got that to do.
We got Arlen Specter.
We get wrap this up here.
Uh Arlen Spector voted against or voted for, he supported supported and voted for one of the most irresponsible pieces of legislation in modern history.
He joined, this is the stimulus package.
He joined with the most radical liberal elements of the Democrat Party in supporting the stimulus package.
This is what provoked a challenge to him in the primary.
This is when finally Pat Toomey and a bunch of others said, that's it for us with Senator Spector.
That's it.
We have got to run somebody against him.
Is there something obscene about that?
Isn't that how politics works?
But what are we getting today?
What we're getting today is several learned conservatives ripping Pat Toomey, ripping the club for growth from which he comes.
Because the Republicans needed Spectre regardless.
We do.
Yes, needed Spectre to stop and uh to be able to thwart all of these uh Democrat ideas.
It's mind boggling.
Again, let me lay this out in a little bit more understandable fashion.
I'm trying to do two things at once here, cover two different subjects.
So let me take a brief time out.
We'll come out or come back and I'll figure out which one I want to lead with here.
We'll do that.
Get your phone calls as well as the program unfolds.
Back before you know it.
Don't go away.
And we are back, Rush Limbaugh, uh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
We're gonna start with audio soundbites in the debate last night, the Milken Global Forum, Milk and Institute Global Forum that was a subject was Obama first hundred days, various political topics.
And the first uh soundbite here, the uh moderator had asked everybody to rate Obama's first hundred days.
Harold Ford gave Obama A minus, Willie Brown gave uh Obama a straight A, and then they asked me for my grade, and this is how it started.
Barely a D. Now look.
We have been chatting backstage before we came out, and it's been very lively, and right now we're all friends.
But these three people uh are all involved in electoral politics.
That's their business.
And I'm not.
You know, I look at things in an entirely different way.
Well, no, getting an audience and getting votes are two different things.
I don't pander, I don't lie, I don't say things I don't believe to get an audience.
No, no.
Everything's from the heart.
I mean, when I say I want Barack Obama to fail, I mean it.
But let me tell you what, let me define it.
I do, and he has not failed, by the way.
The country is going to need to be resurrected if he's not stopped.
I do not want the federal government and the United Auto workers owning General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford.
In fact, I'm afraid you go buy a car in the next six months, you're gonna automatically be registered as a Democrat.
And it's gonna come with an Obama hood ornament and a built-in bumper sticker that you can't remove.
And you can go out, and all the union guys are gonna be the salespeople.
If you don't buy, it's either your kneecaps or your signature.
I don't want the federal government owning the banks and the financial system.
See, I have a different view of government.
I am really, really fed up more with the U.S. Congress than I am with Barack Obama because uh Speaker Brown is exactly Barack Obama's who he is.
He's he told everybody what he's gonna do, and he was gonna do it.
Most of his supporters really don't care what he's doing.
He's a cult-like figure, he makes them feel good.
All of these, like the airplane, Air Force One.
His own office of uh military, whatever it is in the White House.
You can't get more we than his own White House staff.
And he said, I learned about the flyover in New York City at the same time you did.
He didn't know.
I'm sure that his supporters are gonna say six months down the road he didn't know this was going to lead to even more unemployment.
He didn't know because there's a cult-like attachment to him.
But the U.S. Congress, these people have helped create the problems in the Sun Prime mortgage mess, the banking system that we have, and it offends me that they get to sit around and act like spectators like they had nothing to do with it, and then bring everybody in and crucify them.
If we're gonna do that, then bring Barney Frank in and crucify him and Chris Dodd and some of the other people who forced the banks to go juice them.
We have really, really, really big problems.
So that was uh those are my opening remarks last night at the Milken Global, Milken Institute Global Forum.
And we have, let me see, how many more sound bites here?
Three, four, five, looks like we've got uh six of them.
So we've got five more to go.
And they're all coming up after this brief timeout here at the bottom of the hour.
Don't go away, my friends.
More fun frolic and formality and seriousness right around the corner.
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man and truth detector.
With uh audio soundbites in last night's debate at the Milken uh Institute Global Forum, Global Conference.
Uh again, I d I don't really remember the questions that I was asked in a and again I've had a hearing problem and I had trouble interacting uh with uh with people.
Uh so I basically said what I said in response to questions that I got from the moderator.
Here's the second soundbite.
Let me sum up the Barack Obama domestic agenda in one sentence and idea.
I believe it is Obama's purpose to return the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.
I believe that Barack Obama comes from a life experience that believes that the wealthy, the accomplished, and the achieved come by their gains in an ill-gotten way.
And they need to have it taken away and redistributed.
See, I believe the smallest minority in the world is the individual.
And if you don't respect the individual, then you really can't say you're for minority rights.
We're all different.
We were all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
The Democrat Party is not supporting any of those three.
They're not supporting life, they're not supporting liberty.
We're losing liberty every day.
Now, again, the audience here of uh 1,500 to 2,000 of the wealthiest tycoons from all over the world.
And uh in that bite you could hear there was You could hear a pin drop in there, right?
Because I will guarantee you they're not hearing these kinds of things, either at things like this or within even their own uh closed circles.
Uh the next bite, I I I take on the the myths of green energy, the Bush economy.
You will hear the audience groan here.
This notion that we've got to become a collective and all work together toward what?
A lawnmower with two seats on it and call it our new car.
Green energy, which is a total myth.
The eight years of Bush were a disaster.
The eight years of Bush as a disaster is a media myth.
The economy under the Bush administration.
He can tell you better than I can, but the economy during the eight years of Bush coming out of 9-11, tax cuts created all kinds of prosperity for people.
This belief, though, that somehow the rich take what they have from the middle class and the poor is just silly.
Look at what President Obama has done to the hospitality business.
Talk to anybody in Las Vegas.
He's urging people not to go.
CEOs are afraid to fly their planes for they're gonna be tattled on.
So if you have this class envy that is so popular that all we're here to do in America is get even with those who have achieved, then this administration is for you.
Otherwise, we are headed to a place where we are going to have to be resurrected.
I remember I was following a comment that uh Willie Brown made that uh Barack Obama is resurrecting this country from the uh previous eight years, which were a disaster.
Now the next uh the estimable moderator, Frank Luntz, ran around and asked everybody about the AIG bonuses.
Should the AIG bonuses have been retracted?
Should they not have been paid?
Should the executives at AIG have been forced to give them back?
And of course, uh Mayor Brown, uh Congressman Harold Ford, yes, yes, get that money back.
It's outrageous, they shouldn't have that money, blah, blah.
They went to Gillespie, Gillespie offered what he had to say, and then they came to me and they said, okay, what about the AIG bonuses?
These bonuses, folks, are irrelevant.
It was a hundred some odd million compared to a hundred and seventy-six billion they were given.
Where did that money go?
Some of it went to Goldman Sachs.
This business of harping on the achievers is nothing but pure political class envy that is designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator of American voters, which right now more and more of them are happening to become unemployed.
This is about building the Democrat Party.
It's not about building America.
All this talk, there is not one government program of any size that has worked.
We started the war on poverty, we still got it at the same percentage.
We have started the Great Society.
None of these programs work, but we're not allowed to say that.
We're not allowed to look at the results.
We're supposed to look at the good intentions of the people who do them.
This country is in debt to the point that people who have not yet been born are broke.
We have tried spending money to fix problems, and it never works.
And the premises here, what would you do different?
What would you do with the TARP money?
Why do we need TARP money?
What would you do with the stimulus?
Who says government can stimulate the private sector?
It cannot.
Government stimulates the Democrat Party.
Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks is not a solution for this Democrat Party.
It's the objective.
And that's not what this country was founded on, and it's not what made this country great.
And it's not how individuals and entrepreneurs prosper.
The environment's getting much, much tougher.
All of these premises.
AIG bonuses are irrelevant.
Now, the um I think the money quote, Larry, if I am allowed to money quote myself, may I money quote myself?
Yes.
Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks is not a solution for the Democrat Party.
It's the objective.
Simple, sweet, brief, brevity is the soul of wit.
You don't think that's the money quote, Snarly?
Well, okay, yeah, yeah.
Government stimulates a Democrat Power Kid.
I've said that before.
Government stimulates the Democrat Party.
True.
All right.
Um.
Next is um.
I guess there was a discussion of the of the uh of the tax code uh and raising taxes and how that was justified and so forth.
It got around to me, and this is what I said.
What is the purpose tax code?
For Barack Obama, the purpose tax code is to take money away from people so that they become more dependent on government.
Pure and simple.
What's the proper amount of taxation?
As little as possible to inspire people to work their asses off so they will work hard and pay as much taxes as their rate requires.
Ronald Reagan takes office, 1980 81.
Top marginal tax rate, 70 percent.
Total take to the Treasury, 500 billion.
Eight years later, top rates down from 70 to 28 percent.
Take to the Treasury's 950 billion.
If you want look at the Bush tax cuts, generated revenue for Washington.
They also created individual liberty and freedom and entrepreneurism.
That is what the Democrat Party doesn't like.
The more people free, the more people entrepreneurial, the more people who are independently achieving, the less chance you have to control them.
So this notion, you know, we're gonna I guarantee you that Obama's tax increases are gonna reduce the amount of revenue that Washington produces.
The deficits are going to be twice as high at least and then what he's projecting because the revenue is not going to look we're losing 600,000 jobs a month.
They're saying it's not going to improve until we get to 10%.
Would somebody tell me how an unemployed person contributes to deficit reduction?
It just doesn't happen.
So all of this is just we're we're we're 180 degrees out of phase here in terms of what's the goal?
Raise revenue to run the government?
How the best do that?
Turn the American people loose.
It really is.
This is a point that I've been arguing with Democrats and liberals about all my life.
You really you want to raise revenue to the treasury, there's blueprints of how to do it.
Kennedy cut taxes, raised revenue, Reagan did it, Bush has done it.
Raising taxes on people does not raise revenue.
Raising taxes uh depresses the activity that's being taxed.
It causes less of that activity to uh to take place.
But as I say, there was just so many myths and cliches that were being discussed last night that afforded me the opportunity to um speak outside them.
This is um I guess the the we're getting toward the end and uh they had to get on to uh foreign bullets, and this is what I had to say of the I think once was asking people uh uh was it is it uh is it how is it for the president run around and speak to our enemies?
And this is uh was my contribution to that.
The uh United States is a great nation at great risk.
We have a lot of enemies.
The enemies range from people who don't like us because of our size, our achievement, our economy, our productivity, they don't like our way of life, they don't like our allies.
And talking to people who dislike us, uh this is conflict resolution 101 from the seventh grade.
It's not gonna solve any problem.
We cannot.
It really pains me to see the president of the United States go around the world apologize for this country, hoping that I know what he's trying to do.
Barack Obama thinks that uh, and a lot of a lot of Democrats think the country is unjust and immoral, uh, has been for a long time, compounded under Bush.
I know what the template is.
And that if we just run around and say, look, we're different, we're morally superior, we're better people, we're we're different.
Now you can trust us.
We're not from the old country here that that was racist, sexist, bigoted, and so forth and so on.
And I think all that does is uh convey weakness to our enemies.
I think it generates laughter.
I think Mahmood Ahmadine is not insane.
He's sworn to blow Israel off the map.
He believes and his fundamentalist religious beliefs are what propels him.
Uh the idea that we can somehow change Mahmoud Ahmadinezad's attitude towards us by having talks is ridiculous.
Gotta take a brief time out.
We'll be back and continue after this on the EIB network.
Stay with us.
We are back.
President Obama today is out celebrating his first 100 days in orifice.
He went to my home state of Missouri.
He went to Arnold, Missouri at Fox Haskruel.
I have two sound bites in President Obama, and those of you, and there were hundreds of thousands of you, who attended the tea parties on April 15th.
I want you to know that President Obama, a president of all the people, uh the one, the most merciful, really irritated by what you did.
He does not like at all what you did.
And he doesn't think what you did was worth the time you spent on it.
We have two sound bites here.
Here's the first.
You know, those of you who are watching certain uh news channels that you know on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around.
Let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we're gonna stabilize Social Security.
Let's not play games and pretend that the reason is because of the Recovery Act, because that's just a fraction of the overall problem that we've got.
Now, this is not wise.
I mean, this is a man who supposedly has great political instincts, correct?
Barack Obama, uh, but he's got this is a bitter clinger moment here.
He's looking at you people who went to the tea parties, and he doesn't like you at all.
Uh waving teabags around, let me just remind them, I'm happy to have a serious conversation about how we are gonna.
You know, he's not president of all the people.
I mean, this guy's it is he's cold and he is partisan.
And uh this is something that uh uh uh it's it's gonna start trickling out.
These things that irritate him, he's gonna eventually let it be known how irritated he is.
He says, um, is that a serious conversation about how we're gonna cut our health care costs uh over the long term?
You know how we're gonna do that, we're gonna raise taxes, and then we're gonna have government programs.
It just it not health care costs are impossible to come down the way he's going to do it.
Government can anybody tell me when governments lowered the cost of anything.
It's not gonna happen.
But the Tea Parties were not even about health care.
The Tea Parties were about his irresponsible spending, his irresponsible growth of government, his irresponsible power grab over individual liberty and freedom.
Here's the second soundbite he had for those of you who attended the tea parties.
We are gonna have to tighten our belts, but we're gonna have to do it in an intelligent way.
And we got to make sure that the people who are helped are working American families, and we're not suddenly saying that the way to do this is to eliminate programs that help ordinary people and give more tax cuts to the wealthy.
We tried that formula for eight years.
It did not work.
And I don't intend to go back to it.
Boy, he's really fit to be tied here.
He's and this is we're gonna have to tighten our belts.
What do you call 600,000 people losing their jobs every month, Mr. President?
Is that not tightening their belts?
We're gonna have to do it in an intelligent way, make sure that people who are helped are working American family.
In other words, the only way anybody's gonna get ahead in Obama's world is if the government's there shepherding through your day, shepherding you through your day.
And it's just playing wrong, and it will never happen, and if it's tried, it will fail.
Eliminate programs, we're not suddenly saying the way to do this is to eliminate program.
Listen to this.
We're talking about individual prosperity and success, and he's talking about government programs.
I don't know about you folks, I haven't needed a government program for my success.
Now I know a lot of people, and I I mean, not talking about unemployment or this kind of thing.
I I have not needed a government program for my success.
And the people who have achieved great things, and many have not done it with a government program.
Some in business may have gotten tax breaks and so forth, but it what what Obama means is that a government program that shepherds people and does things for them rather than them doing the work.
And that's an illusion anyway.
He just wants people to think that's gonna happen, so they'll continue to sit on their hands and wait for it to happen.
Like how many people are still waiting for him to pay their mortgage or find them a home, or fill their gas tank.
Make no mistake, there still are people out there.
And uh give more tax cuts to the wealthy.
We truts to the wealthy.
Do you know that the bottom 50% of taxpayers in this country pay less than 3% of the total tax burden?
Would somebody tell me all these tax cuts for the rich, the rich are paying a greater and greater share of the tax burden every year.
With a lower percentage.
They're they're reporting earning more dollars.
This is academic stuff.
It's been proven.
He's trying to rewrite history here.
The last eight years were a failure.
I ran into that in a room last night.
Over half the room last night thought the last eight years were an abject failure.
You think the last eight years were an abject failure.
I want to ask you to remember something.
And I know that many of you in this audience probably think the last eight years were an abject failure.
Monday, Air Force One, a Boeing 747, buzzed ground zero at a thousand feet to 1,500 feet in Manhattan.
And it was trailed by two F 16 fighter jets, one of which could be seen, the other one was at an altitude difficult to spot.
Nobody in New York knew what was going on.
People in office buildings near Ground Zero fled.
They ran for their lives in fear.
What does that tell you?
It tells you that the people in New York haven't forgotten 9-11.
It's still in the forefront of their minds, and all they have to do is see a jumbo jet flying at a thousand feet to send them into a panic.
You think the last eight years were a disaster?
You think the last eight years were an abject failure?
We didn't have any more of those jets crashing into buildings the last eight years.
Because of an administration that sought first and foremost to defend and protect this country to make sure it wouldn't happen again.
I find it fascinating that under the Obama administration is when those fears are realized again by an act taken by his administration.
Remember, folks, George W. Bush was uh re-elected only four years and a few months ago.
The last eight years could not have been that bad.
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