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June 9, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 9, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Greetings and welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh on this, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I've had my own economic team reviewing the eight years of the George W. Bush presidency using the Jared Bernstein economic projection formula.
The final figure is in George W. Bush, the greatest economic leader in decades, his economic plan, his tax cuts, created and saved over 32 million jobs.
He created or saved four million jobs a year for eight years following 9-11.
Created or saved 32 million jobs, unprecedented in American presidencies.
By contest, uh contrast President Obama's so-called 150,000 jobs created or saved, or even his so-called 600,000 jobs created or saved is a national embarrassment.
George W. Bush, using Jared Bernstein's own formula, has created or saved 32 million jobs over the course of his eight years in the White House.
There's a piece today by Kevin Hassett at Bloomberg.
It's a commentary piece.
Kevin Hassett, Director of Economic Policy Studies at AEI, the American Enterprise Institute.
Obama tells American businesses to drop dead, is the headline.
Writes Mr. Hassett, I finally figured out the Obama economic strategy.
President Obama and his team have been having so much fun wielding dictatorial power while rescuing failed firms, quote unquote, that they have developed a scheme to gain the same power over every business.
The plan is to enact policies that are so anti-competitive that every firm will need a bailout.
Which is essentially what I've been saying for months that Obama loves all of this chaos.
He loves the failure.
He loves the increased dependence on government.
This is his crisis opportunity.
This is good news for him.
Once that happens, their new PASR, Kenneth Feinberg, can set the wage for everybody, and Rom Emanuel can stack the boards of all of our companies with his political cronies.
I know it sounds like an exaggeration.
What I always get accused of, isn't it?
The very man who warned that this administration would not waste this crisis has emerged.
Rom Emanuel in this piece.
Look at it this way, however, though, says Kevin Hassett.
If there were a power ranking of U.S. companies like the ones compiled by football writers for the NFL, Microsoft would surely be first or second to Google.
But last week Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer came to Washington to announce what Microsoft's going to do if Obama's multinational tax policy is enacted.
Ballmer said it makes U.S. jobs more expensive.
We're better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. Now if Microsoft, our perhaps most competitive company, has to abandon America in order to continue to thrive, then who exactly is going to stay here?
Only government motors?
First government bank.
And if they took over Starbucks, we could call it government books.
At issue is Obama's policy to end the deferral of multinational taxation.
The U.S. now has the highest combined corporate tax rate second only to Japan among industrialized countries.
The rate is so high.
U.S. firms have an enormous disadvantage versus competitors.
The average corporate tax rate for the major developed countries in the organization for economic cooperation and development in 2008 was about 27%.
More than 10 percentage points lowered in the U.S. rate.
U.S. firms have nonetheless prospered because our tax code allows a business to set up a subsidiary in a low-tax country like Ireland.
When that subsidiary earns profits, they are taxed at the rate of that country, and they don't face U.S. tax until the money is mailed home.
The economically illiterate, this is a great line here.
The economically illiterate partisan democrat view is that this practice is unpatriotic and bleeds jobs from the U.S. The economic reality is that American companies use this approach to acquire market share overseas to grow their businesses, which leads to more employees.
The alternative is losing the business to foreign competitors.
Don't take my word for it.
A recent paper by two Harvard economists and a Berkeley economist published in the American Economic Review, gathered data on American multinationals to explore the impact of foreign investments on domestic U.S. activity.
Their conclusion was striking.
The authors found that 10% greater foreign capital investment is associated with 2.2% greater domestic investment.
That 10% greater foreign employee compensation is associated with 4% greater domestic employee pay.
Changes in foreign and domestic sales assets and numbers of employees are likewise positively associated.
The evidence also indicates that greater foreign investment is associated with additional domestic exports and RD spending.
So American companies doing business overseas is a win-win all the way around, there and here.
So when American firms expand their operations abroad, taking advantage of the lower foreign tax rates, it helps their workers in America.
Higher sales abroad, surprise, surprise, are good for domestic workers.
So the question is, why does President Obama advocate a policy that so flies in the face of everything economists have learned?
This is my question.
These people are not stupid.
Anybody with the brain, even if they don't know anything about economics, can consult history to see which economic policies work, the kind of economic structure that works, the kinds that don't.
The kinds that don't and that have failed miserably are the ones being implemented by President Obama.
And so Kevin Hassett here says, why?
Why does Obama advocate a policy that so flies in the face of everything we've learned?
How could Obama possibly say, as he did last month, that he wants to see our companies remain the most competitive in the world?
Way to make sure that happens is not to reward our companies for moving jobs offshores or transferring profits to overseas tax havens.
Is it not that's what we should be doing?
Further, how could Treasury Secretary Geitner call a practice that top scholarship has shown increases wages and employment in the U.S. indefensible?
Well, Geitner is a rent.
A Treasury Secretary.
Just like Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein are rent and economists.
They'll sell their souls.
To work for Obama and to be loyal and do and implement his bidding.
This is what I meant, folks, when I said yesterday, these people have to know this is destructive.
They have to know.
The question is not, are they stupid and ignorant don't know it?
The question is why are they going along with it?
Why?
How is Obama in this country able to find this many people, willing to implement policies that are going to destroy the private sector economy of this country?
Mr. Hassett says, I have to admit I am at a loss.
Kevin, if you're at a loss, just reread your lead, reread your reread your headline.
Obama tells American businesses to drop dead.
That says it all.
This is who Obama is.
It is who he's always been.
This is his vision for America.
Because Kevin, what this is all about is returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.
Quote unquote.
He says maybe it's good politics to bash American corporations.
Maybe Obama isn't really serious about making this change Happen.
But if the change is enacted and domestic corporate taxes aren't reduced to offset the big tax increase, the result is going to be a flight from the United States that rivals in scale the greatest avian Arctic migrations, meaning bird migrations for those of you in Rio Linda.
Avion is not water, Evian is water.
So Obama's policies, if enacted, are going to result in even more unemployment.
And they know this.
They know this.
The chaos and the panic are the opportunity for Obama to assert even more statist control over the citizens of this country.
Obama tells American businesses to drop dead.
Washington Times today with an editorial that makes me sick.
The title, kneecapping FedEx.
FedEx is learning what could be the Democrats economic motto, never let success go unpunished.
Led by Representative James Oberstar, Minnesota Democrat, the House of Representatives on May 21st, passed legislation that contains an almost hidden provision, just 230 words, that would hobble FedEx.
It would do so by completely changing the labor laws under which the company operates.
Unless the Senate removes the language from the underlying bill reauthorizing the FAA, a mere dozen or so workers in just one city could hamstring much of the nation's overnight delivery service.
We Americans take for granted things that can absolutely positively be there overnight, but it took FedEx to make that so.
FedEx is, of course, one of the great corporate success stories of modern times, having grown from a mere idea in a 1965 term paper by Yale undergraduate Fred Smith into a company essential to the workings of our modern economy.
It is a little known fact that FedEx contracts with the U.S. Postal Service to carry almost all of its express mail and large proportion of its priority mail.
Did you know FedEx did that for the U.S. Postal Service?
They do.
FedEx delivers huge amounts of needed supplies for American military forces, too.
Its service is just about the only way to guarantee that some life-saving medicines reach patients overnight.
Now, lawmakers have long recognized.
Certain sorts of transportation companies are the lifeblood of interstate commerce.
That's why they wrote the Railway Labor Act to apply special labor relations rules to railroads and eventually airline-based businesses such as FedEx.
Since 1926, the Railway Labor Act has provided successfully for means other than strikes to resolve labor disputes fairly and quickly without favoring either side.
It does not, however, apply to non-rail.
Mostly ground transportation companies, such as UPS.
UPS instead is governed by the National Labor Relations Act, the terms of which favor unions like the Teamsters, which represent UPS drivers.
Naturally, this means UPS and the Teamsters both have an interest in kneecapping FedEx Express.
Together, the ground delivery company and the union have executed what the Hill newspaper called a lobbying pincer movement to transfer authority over FedEx Express from the Railway Labor Act to the National Labor Relations Act.
Mr. Oberstar argues that he's merely trying to treate similar workers similarly.
FedEx Express counters that it and UPS are very different companies.
FedEx says it ships 85% of its goods by air, whereas UPS sends 85% of its goods by truck.
UPS trying to squash FedEx Express is like Goliath sitting on David again using FedEx Express numbers.
US UPS has 425,000 employees in a business doing 49.7 billion dollars in annual revenue.
FedEx, 143,000 employees, 22.7 billion dollars in revenue, with UPS so much bigger than FedEx Express, it doesn't make sense to argue that Big Brown somehow suffers.
A competitive disadvantage.
Indeed, the latest earnings estimate for UPS show growth from 237 to 290 per share.
FedEx has shown a decline from a dollar twenty-six to 31 cents.
Makes me sick.
Another one of these great U.S. startup companies about to be ruined by what else, the Democrat Party, and unions.
Remember the first time I went to Seattle.
This is just a nothing little story.
Nothing little story.
First time I went to Seattle was for a uh a radio industry convention.
And it was time to leave.
And I got to the airport in Seattle.
I guess it was about 10 o'clock at night.
As soon as I got out of the car, I saw FedEx DC-10 taking off.
And I thought I was watching the American flag.
I really did.
I got I got a little goosebump.
I I was proud.
There's there's a FedEx plane.
I knew the story of Fred Smith starting his company.
Nothing against UPS, by the way.
I used them too.
This is this is nothing against FedEx uh UPS.
I'm not saying that they're they're uh it just editorial is exactly right.
Here is a successful business that does not use unions.
Fred Smith said if card check happens, put him out of business.
So here's a Democrat Party targeting another successful business for destruction using union allies, all for the purpose of benefiting unions.
Twelve people in every FedEx city could shut them down.
And make sure that their promise of overnight delivery doesn't happen.
And then what happens to their business?
Then it all goes to UPS, or they shut down or what have you.
And all of this happening with nobody stopping them.
And President Barack Obama leading and guiding the path on the destruction of the U.S. private sector economy.
We'll be back.
Well, isn't this just rich?
President Obama just concluding another economic session and announcement at the White House.
He announced a program that we've heard before starting in 2007 from Nancy Pelosi.
Pago.
We are no longer going to spend money we don't have.
See how easy this is?
You go ahead and bankrupt the country.
You destroy the American dream for two generations, and then all of a sudden you find religion.
Ah, we can't go on this way.
Pelosi promised paygo, by the way, back in 2006 when they won the count won the House, and it's never happened.
Let me tell you how to translate this.
Pago is just another ruse for tax increases.
That's all it is.
This is no different than touting the fact that we can no longer spend our way into deficits like this.
This is just a setup for more tax increases on the rich.
This is going to start to slip away from him, folks.
He is implementing this stuff regardless of economic circumstances.
And people are going to figure this out at some point.
We will not rest until they do.
Let's go to the phones.
People have been, as always, patiently waiting since the top of the program.
This is Gary in Herndon, Virginia.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
And hello.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
Thank you.
I wanted to give you an on-site uh report from the Republican House Senate event last night.
A couple of quick observations.
By the way, that John Boyd speech was the best speech of the night.
He was incredible.
And um I've got some emails about that speech.
I didn't I didn't see the event last what was I doing last night?
Well, you weren't there, or we would have seen you.
Yeah, I I I didn't see I can't tell you what I was doing last night, but I I uh I didn't see it, but I've heard a lot of emails about it.
Yeah, that well, that was the highlight, even though it came early.
And uh Sarah Palin got the loudest applause, even though a lot of people didn't know she was there.
She was referred to uh vis-a-vis the current vice president and CNN says she stole the show.
I and I I guarantee you that half that room was cringing when that happened.
Yeah, you're right.
Half of that room is a bunch of has-beens that Republican voters no longer trust or depend on.
Uh-huh.
Well, and there's some rich hasbins.
There was about 150 congressmen and 33 senators, is what we were told.
Yeah.
Um the uh the Newt speech uh was interesting.
My jaw dropped when he said uh that Obama had failed in the GM bailout, uh, clearly, and in the whole bailout.
Um he also mentioned that he's glad he belongs to a party that has room for both.
Wait, wait, wait, wait a second.
Wait, wait a second.
I I saw a story on this in Bloomberg, but you were there.
Newt's speech was interesting.
You draw drop when he said Obama failed.
He said Obama's bailout failed.
He tied the name and failed.
Obama's failed together.
All right.
Well, now, Newt was one of the guys who said, now we don't when I said I hope Obama fails.
No, we don't want to.
We want our president to succeed.
Newt was the one of the chorus that that chastised me for using the word failure.
Newt used the word failure last year.
Emphatically.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The word failed.
Well, did anybody boo I mean because the Republicans have said they don't want the uh uh Obama to they want him to succeed.
Did anybody boo Newt Gingrich when he used the word failure and associated with Obama?
No, it wasn't the loudest applause line of the night, but uh but it no, nobody booed.
Uh do you have more to report?
I have just a little more.
Well then hang on.
We've got a brief timeout here at the bottom of the hour, and we'll come back with our on-the-spot review.
I think, ladies and gentlemen, President Obama is in panic mode.
I think he is in a full panic now.
Uh they have scheduled the Sotomayor hearings for July 13th.
Republicans get you wait a little, wait, this is no bipartisanship on this.
They're trying to ramrod her through.
They know there's trouble with Sodonium uh Sotomayor.
They're trying to ram that through.
He had another press event today announcing saving 600,000 jobs, grabbing on it, pay as you go again.
Three-year-old rhetoric.
They know they have a problem on their hands.
They know that 9.4% unemployment is directly related to their policies.
Folks, I'm telling you, they are in panic at the White House.
Trust me, they are not going to ever say this from the state-run media, but that's why Obama is showing up everywhere, every day, touting this, all these new jobs created and saved, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
There's panic.
Not because of what is happening on the ground.
The destruction of the private sector, that was the plan.
The panic is that people are starting to see it and they don't like it.
The power of Obama's personality is no longer strong enough to get people to sit idly by and watch their country destroyed.
That's the panic and the reason for it.
And that's why you're going to see even more of Obama, because they think he's the magic weapon.
Just get him out there talking, put him in his teleprompter out there, and whatever anks that there is, he will be able to solve it.
Now back to Gary and Herndon, Virginia.
Final thoughts on last night's Republican joint fundraiser.
Yes, sir.
Yes, just two more quick ones.
Um uh Newt's speech mentioned uh that he's proud to be in the same party with the Dick Cheney and also Colin Powell.
He didn't mention the elephant in the room, he did not mention you.
I don't know if that's because he's not proud to be in the same party with you, but you were not mentioned, and you are the litmus test, sir.
And uh finally, uh Let me let me tell you, Gary, you know, you uh I would not have said what I'm gonna say had you not called to offer a review.
Okay.
The bottom line is that at least half the people in that room, maybe more, wish I weren't on the radio.
Half the people in that room wish I was not saying what I'm saying.
And Newt is one of them.
Yeah.
Well.
He was happy to be in the party with Powell, and he's happy to be in the party with uh with uh with Cheney and so forth.
Here's the CNN headline on this Palin's center of attention at big GOP dinner.
This is I I guarantee you half that room didn't like the applause that she got.
You see, conservatives usually are the center of attention at a GOP meeting.
And the country club blue blood Republican types do not like it.
All right, what's the final point?
Final point.
Uh Newt, I would say did did give a campaign speech.
I'm not saying he's definitely running, but it was an hour long.
It was stuffed with applause lines.
And I'm thinking that's why he's being uh a little more diplomatic or center of the road, why he keeps backing off things uh like racist and uh failed, or re he's nuancing them now.
I think it's because uh he's he's checking to see if he can run.
Well, uh I don't know.
You uh the your your guess is as good as mine, but it does there does seem to be a Republican formula that when you want to seek office, stop being conservative.
Accommodate the enemy, understand them and so forth.
But then now and then say that well, never mind.
Uh it's it is what it is.
We'll see how it all shakes out.
Now, I uh I can see snerdly well, not no sturdily agreed with me, but Dawn got a look of horror on her face when I when I uh hazarded the guess that over half the people in that re in that Republican fundraiser last day.
And here's who it was.
It was the it was the House and Senate congressional campaign committees, and normally uh the president, the leader of your party shows up, Bush was always lead fundraiser for these.
These are annual events.
Uh Newt was the guy, then they asked Sarah Palin, and she was disinvited.
They didn't want anybody upstage newt, because Newt was the guy.
In fact, they had used Newt to sell tickets.
Cornyn, John Corning, who runs the uh the the Senate congressional uh the Senate uh campaign committee uh has uh I I'm on their mailing list.
Uh and there was you know hawking tickets, you could see Newt meet Newt with this donation, that donations and Newt was the star of the show last night.
Palin was you know off to the side.
A lot of people, as he said didn't even know that she was there.
But uh do not doubt me, my friends.
Half that room uh not happy with me.
Doesn't matter to me.
I'm just telling you.
I'll give you an example.
Last night on uh on Chris Matthews's show on MSNBC, he talked to a Republican strategist, Michelle Lexholdt.
Now, I don't know if she's related to Paul Laxalt, the old senator from Nevada, who was one of Ronald Reagan's closest friends.
I don't know if Michelle's related.
The uh question from Chris Matthews, Cheney picked Rush Limbaugh over Colin Powell, but Powell reaffirmed that he's a Republican.
What do you make of this, Michelle?
I think that you're seeing an internecine warfare that started between Cheney and Powell over policy differences many years ago.
You're seeing inside ball.
I couldn't disagree more with Rush Limbaugh, excuse me very much.
I don't think he has been elected even dog catcher as yet.
And as a Republican, I don't want him as part of my party.
So that's a Republican strategist, and believe me, she speaks for many.
Michelle Lexalt, even though this uh I've never heard of her.
It's his daughter, Paul Lexalt's daughter.
I this is the first time I've heard of her, but uh she couldn't disagree more with me.
He wasn't she wasn't asked on what.
Um haven't been elected dog catcher.
I haven't run for dog catcher either.
And as a Republican, I don't want him as part of my party.
Here is Marty Biloxi, Mississippi.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, how are you doing, Rush?
Good, thank you.
Uh number one mega dittoes from the Nagnolia Gulf Coast.
But I want to tell you something.
Um I have the deepest respect and regard for you, and for years I have followed what you said.
I I've told people that I think you are probably the finest constitutionalist in America.
You are able to articulate what it means, what it stands for, and for years I've told people, listen to and listen to him, the man's talking truth.
Just a minute ago when you were talking, uh I'm a little off my subject here, but that axhole one.
Uh yeah, you haven't been elected dog catcher, but neither was Thomas Paine, and he was one of the great founding fathers in my mind.
And in my mind, you've got a little bit of polybearer and a lot of Thomas Payne in you because you speak common sense, but you're also ringing the alarm.
And I find that refreshing.
But I wanted to tell you yesterday, when you talked about what Obama had inherited, when he made that little Nambi pamby comment about uh I inherited, you know.
Well, yeah, and you articulated clearly what the man had inherited and what he is messing up.
I I printed that to a word document and have been sending it out to everyone I know, saying, You've got to read this, you've got to understand this.
Because uh I spent thirty-seven years in the Air Force as an artist and military historian, and above my desk, I had a sign, and I picked it up from my father, uh, who is a sergeant major in the army, and it said, you know, I think he got it from Elmer Davis.
But the the the quote is cowards did not found this country.
Cowards will not preserve it.
Our job is preservation.
You, sir, are one of the true non-cowards in this country.
You were probably the most articulate, brave man to stand up in the face of a fierce fascist aggression that I have ever seen.
I believe that when all the stuff is settled and all the dust settles over the years, and if this country survives, you will probably be considered one of the greatest Americans of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
And you will be the Thomas Payne who never served in the mil the military, he never was part of our government.
But he inspired and he motivated and he encouraged our founding fathers to do the things that they did.
When common sense came out, it motivated the American Revolution.
And you, sir, are doing the same thing.
And all I can tell you, Rush, is gunspeed, continue doing what you're doing, and believe me, you are in the right.
And I don't mean that conservative.
But I will leave you one thing that's been troubling me as a historian.
Right now in my mind, and I may be wrong, God knows I hope I am.
It's 1933.
The Pure is in the White House.
The blue shirts are marching.
The new Jews are Christians, and the new undesirables are conservatives.
And if we don't watch what we're doing, we're gonna wind up like the Axes did in before World War II.
Because remember one thing, they ought to tell the unions this.
Adolf Hitler gave the unions everything they wanted.
And after they walked away happy from the meeting, he abolished the labor unions.
So you've got to be careful.
That's not going to happen here.
I don't associate Obama with Hitler, and I draw the line there.
I know what you're trying to say.
You're trying to say that Hitler snuck up on his own people, and his own people had no clue what was happening to them.
And in that sense, I think I think you're right.
But uh we're we're we're that's not gonna happen to this country.
That's what every day in this country is about is making sure that doesn't happen.
That's what the Constitution is about.
And there have been assaults on the Constitution since the time it was written and ratified.
And there will always be assaults on the Constitution, they're always gonna be leftists, and always need to be vigilant people uh standing up and uh and opposing them, and there always will be.
But we're uh we're not this is not Nazi Germany.
We're we're nowhere uh that analogy just that that doesn't work.
That there are uh there are better ways to uh say to people what we face, what our future is than that.
But I appreciate again your kind uh comments.
I really do, and I I gotta take a timeout here.
I'm gonna go through what he said uh my little monologue yesterday on what Obama inherited because he keeps complaining about it.
In fact, I'll we've got some sound bites from this Pago press conference.
This is I want you to hear this, because I think this indicates that Obama's now with all these press events and ramming sodomy or through at all these six hundred thousand jobs.
I think we've got the uh the White House in a little bit of a panic here.
We'll be back.
We'll continue right after this.
Stay with us.
I'll play these all uh these Obama sound bites, the pago press conference.
He's just flat out lying now, by the way, how we turn the prophet on tarp is the first sound bite.
I'm gonna put these in the uh monologue segment of the next hour, because there are four of them with necessary comments, can't squeeze it all in here before the next break.
So let's stick with the phones and Jody in Whiteford, Maryland.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Rush.
Um, I've been listening to you for almost 20 years.
It's really honored to talk to you right now.
Thank you.
Um, I just wanted to say that, you know, uh, it's not the federal government's job, let alone their right, to create or save anybody's job.
It's uh it is the constitutional responsibility of the federal government to protect the freedom of individuals to pursue, you know, whatever kind of lawful work or business that fits their interests and skills.
And uh thinking back to when um Clinton was running for president, you know, I remember the Democrats wearing their little buttons that said it's the economy stupid.
Well, uh I think it's time to start telling people it's the freedom stupid.
I hope I I hope my kids don't hear that because I don't usually wear it use that word stupid, but um I really think that was the genius of our founders, and that's what m has made America the greatest nation nation, not just in the world, but really in world history.
Because um, you know, to the extent that the federal government controls and regulates businesses in this country, and they're trying to extend that control uh uh overseas as well.
You know, they're gonna control uh who works, what kinds of jobs people can have, and um and even their wage.
And what they can earn.
Now you're right, it's not the government's job to put to create jobs.
You might argue I could make the case.
For example, if I were president and we're heading into a recession, I would look upon it as my job to make sure that as few people as possible lost their jobs, not by spending on make work jobs, but by helping the private sector weather the recession by lightening the burden on them that they have to send to government.
I mean, this whole see this whole notion of saving jobs in a political sense is a brilliant creation.
It impossible to calculate.
When you have a compliant state-run media, a government controlled media, like NBC or CNN or CBS dutifully reporting that you are saving or creating whatever number of jobs, uh, then you are you are being assisted in putting out a total fallacy.
Now the government can help save jobs by making sure that people who hire other people are not punished, that they have more capital to work with.
For example, lowering their tax rate, eliminating capital gains, you know, putting it out of business for a year or so, which is part of my stimulus plan back in January.
My bipartisan stimulus plan, by the way, that was published in the Wall Street Journal.
I know what you're saying constitutionally.
But given the fact that Barack Obama's government is demonstrating that he is not creating or saving jobs, he is destroying them.
President Obama's policies are destroying private sector jobs.
Meaning there is a way to change what he's doing so that that doesn't happen.
I know it's not in the Constitution, but it all it's all wrapped up in how you look at government and its function, and that's what you're talking about.
The Constitution.
I agree with you totally.
I know the point that you're trying to make.
But we have a situation here where way too many Americans think the role of the government is to provide for them, be there a job, benefits, unemployment, or what have you.
There's a lot of work to turn all of this around, but we have to do it in stages.
And the first thing that has to be stopped is this assault on the U.S. economy.
That has been perpetrated by this president and his administration and the Democrats in Congress.
Let's not forget Pelosi and Reed.
You know, they're not blameless or harmless here.
They are partners in all of this destruction.
Here's Douglas in Ventura, California.
Doug, about a minute and a half.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush Lombaugh, good morning, my fellow brother and political arms.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
It's uh it's time for America to start producing again.
We need to uh begin to roll back those regulations, lower the taxes on production, as you have so well said, whenever you want to get rid of something, you raise taxes.
Whenever you want to have something grow, you lower tax rates, and it's time to do it.
It's time for us to take the House of Representatives back.
Conservatives need to laser focus in on two issues, lowering taxes and also uh being able to uh turn loose American businesses.
Wait, wait, wait a minute just a second here.
I agree with you.
But the Republican Party doesn't think that tax cuts are a way to go.
The Republican Party, that's old hat.
That's not applicable to times today.
We can't start talking tax cuts with these deficits.
We can't I mean that's Reagan stuff.
We we can't do the party that you think is gonna take back the House doesn't buy your philosophy right now.
I know you said conservatives.
You're right.
But you take a look at whoever the leading spokesman for the Republican Party today are, Colin Powell.
Uh you don't hear him talking tax cuts.
Colin Powell, who's one of the architects of the modern Republican Party, according to everybody else, says Americans want higher taxes and bigger government.
Michelle Lexall, too.
Higher taxes, don't say.
Yeah, yeah.
Time to get our minds right.
Tax cuts, that's all 80s.
You know what?
I just used uh Jared Bernstein's formula.
I figured over 20 plus years on the radio, I have saved over 10 million jobs just keeping the mood of employers up.
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