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July 16, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 16, 2009, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yeah, I did the test and it worked.
It worked like a champ And it illustrates a point Greetings my friends.
Welcome back Rush Limbaugh the EIB network and the most listened to radio talk show in America open line Friday on Thursday today 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbow at eipnet.com and talking about the travesty that was the Social Security Administration junket and relaxation tour with dancers and spas and hotel suites and so forth to Biltmore and Phoenix.
I said 700 executives spent $700,000 in three days.
I said it's $100,000 per executive.
I said it three or four times.
Now, earlier today, I spent a number of moments illustrating how a Supreme Court nominee is butchering the human English language.
Go back and grab soundbites one through four.
Let's just let you hear these.
This is Sonia Sotomayor.
First cut is December 10th, 2007.
This first seven who are going to be hired only because of the vagrancies of the vacancies at that moment.
She said vagrancies meaning vagaries.
Here's the second example.
Under New York law, if you're being threatened with imminent death or very serious injury.
Eminent with an E, as she said, no.
Imminent is momentary, instantaneous, right?
Right in front of you there.
Imminent with an I and two M's.
Here's the third example.
Is educate themselves.
They build up a story of knowledge about legal thinking.
It's a store of knowledge.
People build up a store of knowledge, not story.
We don't have her on tape saying nuclear.
I don't know how she says it.
She also referred to the NLRB as the National Labor Relationships Board when it's the National Labor Relations Board.
And here's the fourth example on tape.
All questions of policy are within the providence of Congress first.
Not Providence.
It's Providence.
Now, she does this, and of course it takes me pointing it out.
There may be some other guys on our side.
Do we got to know?
But nobody.
Nobody's saying a word about it.
If this were a Republican nominee, my gosh, it would be all we would be hearing.
So then what happens?
So I take a Social Security story.
700 executives, big bash for three days, $700,000 at cost.
I say it's $100,000 per executive.
And I am deluged with emails and people.
No, no, no, no, no, Rush.
Your math is way off.
You can get your kitchen.
It's very simple.
It's $1,000 per person.
You see, I am right so often that when I make a mistake, it is glaring.
And people just love to run in and correct me.
I can't get away with Sonia Sotomayor.
I mean, sometimes I misspeak.
I'll say Court of Lane, Iowa, instead of Idaho, and the same thing will happen.
I'll get deluged.
People who have my best interests at heart.
I'm just saying with poor old Sonia Sotomayor, nobody has these high expectations of her, even though she's a wise Latina.
Investors Business Daily again.
A right, as we all know, has one key characteristic.
This is what is so brilliant and unique about our founding documents.
The Declaration of Independence.
We are all endowed by our Creator, not our government, not our family.
We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.
You can't take these away.
Rights can't be taken away.
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
Democrats oppose all three of those, by the way, right now.
Democrats are miserable.
They don't want anybody pursuing happiness.
They're trying to destroy that.
Liberty, that's under assault.
And life, of course, is as two.
So a right, as we all know, has one key characteristic.
It can't be taken away ever.
That's exactly what the new Democrat-sponsored bill on health care would ensure.
As the Associated Press puts it, the legislation would, quote, for the first time, make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans.
And the second responsibility, by the way, is that's also too pretty key.
The government will force you to take part in its plan whether you want to or not.
As it turns out, responsibility is a code word for tax increases and compulsory participation.
Now, participation, Ed Morrissey and HotAir.com made a pretty good parody today on this whole notion of health care being a right.
Well, why not let's do legal care?
I'm going to summarize what Ed's point.
Let's do legal care and let's have the government in charge of paying lawyers like they're going to be in charge of paying doctors.
And a lawyer can only get so much for that service, only get that much.
No contingencies, no nothing.
Of course, it would never happen.
It illustrates the whole, the flaw in the notion that health care is a right.
Do you think the trial lawyers are going to allow that?
That the whole, the biggest contributing group other than the unions or the Democrat Party, the lawyers are never, we'll never do anything to put all of this stuff is to boost lawyer income.
The FDA announcement on Zycam is to open up more lawsuits against them.
We're never going to have the government limit what lawyers can make like they are limiting what doctors can make.
But if the right to an attorney is a right and the right to health care isn't a right, then why should anybody profit from it?
Why not make the doctors and the lawyers provide the service, the service at no pro because it's a right that's a it's an excellent point out there by Mr. Morrissey.
I've never folks, sometimes I get personal questions and most time I don't deal with them, but some days I'm in the mood to.
I'm wearing a new shirt today and it's been also commented on by people watching the program on the ditto camp.
What is that shirt, Rush?
I really like it.
I got this shirt on the golf course or on the golf trip last week.
The logo here says Stock Farm.
Let me run through the trip again.
We went to five cities and golf courses in five days.
On Monday of the previous week, we went to Stock Farm, which is Hamilton, Montana.
And that is a development that is owned by Charles Schwab.
Now, he was there, and we had a nice evening with him after we'd played golf.
From there, we went to Court d'Alene, Idaho, Gausser Ranch.
Beautiful place.
These are all, by the way, Tom Fazio designed courses, and Tom Fazio put the itinerary together.
And all of these places love Fazio.
So we were treated like kings.
And people say, well, who else was on a trip?
But just Twitter, friends of mine, Peter Morse and the Honorable Lord David Rosso, were on the trip along with Fazio and myself.
And everywhere we went, it was just, they went out of there because they all love Tom Fazio.
He built the golf courses and all these developments.
At Gaza Ranch, we're up there overlooking Lake Coeur-d'Alane.
And the vistas from this golf course are just indescribable.
It's like almost in its own way like playing at Pebble Beach.
And all these golf courses are at a certain altitude, 3,000 to 6,000 feet.
So golf ball travels a little further.
It's more fun.
We had a 600 and no, 598-yard at Jacksonville, 598-yard par 5, driver 5-iron pitching wedge, Brian.
598-yard par 5.
We had a 514-yard par 4 that we parred.
And it was fun.
We played the tips.
From Gaza Ranch in Quarter d'Alene, Idaho, we went to Redmond, Oregon.
And the course there's Pronghorn.
And the most, the fascinating place, it was funny.
As we're driving around all these golf courses, Tom Fazio is explaining to us how he built the course, what it was like before he got there, and what he had to do to build it.
He had to build his own lakes.
He had to build the hills, valleys, and so forth.
And at one point, this was, I think, at might have been, it was either Gaza Ranch at Cordelaine or Pronghorn in Redmond.
He said, you see, see, I think it was Gazer.
You see this?
See that he's pointing at what's right in front of us.
He says, we had to move a whole bunch of dirt and we had to dynamite some things to make this look natural.
I said, you blew it up to make it look natural.
It was natural, Tom.
I said, you screwed with nature.
And everybody started chuckling.
And we started calling him an environmental revisionist God Jr.
But at Pronghorn, number eight, it's a par three, and there's a little gully between the T-Box and the green.
And we were walking to the hole and they stopped us halfway through, turned left, and there's this giant arched cave, about a 20-foot-tall ceiling.
And there's a guy standing in front of it.
Looks like a Benedictine monk with a little cart with wine and cheese and crackers on it.
He only looked like a monk because it had black slacks and a black apron.
I thought it was a monk uniform.
So they escort us into this thing, and we walked 600 feet into this cave, 49 degrees day and night.
The golf course maintenance guy has his office in there, and the cave wall is dedicated to Fazio.
Fazio pictures, Fazio autographs, Fazio everything.
And they didn't know it exists.
It's lava.
It's lava rock.
And they didn't know it exists until Fazio started blowing up the golf course to build it.
It just surfaced.
It was fascinating.
I said, what are we walking in a cave for?
That was my attitude when we started.
We're here to play golf.
And they had to give us flashlights and lanterns because it's dark in there.
And, you know, we had to get somewhere when we finished it.
It turned out to be just amazing.
And all these golf courses are just, because they're Fazio courses, they're great.
So from Pronghorn in Redmond, Oregon, we went down to Truckee Lake Tahoe for Martis Camp, M-A-R-T-I-S.
And we're at 6,000 feet here, so the ball's really traveling.
We had this young caddy named Danny who's sprinting, wearing everybody out, sprinting after golf balls, whether they're inbounds or out of bounds or whatever.
In fact, all the caddies on this little trip, they were running all over the place.
And so we got nine holes in at Martis Camp before it got down to 30 degrees and we quit when the sun was going down.
Got up, played 18, and from there we flew to Jackson Hole.
This is Friday, and opened a course that Fazio just finished designing Shooting Star.
That's where the shirt today comes from.
We got shirts and caps from every place, but the shirt today comes from Shooting Star in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
And it was just a treat because all these, as I said, all these developers of these places love Fazio.
And except for Jackson Hole and Cordelaine, all these courses are out in the middle of nowhere.
They're just them and the housing development that, well, yeah, you got to.
Well, I didn't have to belong snurdly because I was with Fazio.
I didn't have to join.
No, but theoretically, yeah, you have to be a member to play, or you have a prospective owner of a piece of property to play or some such thing.
I mean, they're developers.
They're trying to sell houses for people that like to play golf.
And they're nice.
They're seasonal.
Cottages, houses, whatever you want to buy, they'll build.
And then we flew home.
I went to Pittsburgh on Saturday.
I went to dinner at Lamont, top Mount Washington in Pittsburgh, overlooks downtown the Golden Triangle, the football stadium.
The people at Lamont were great too.
So it was a great.
Yes.
Pittsburgh is a great city.
I lived there for four years, the early 70s.
That was my first big city away from home.
And I loved it.
No, it was great.
Mount Washington at night.
Sun was setting.
And it was just Lamont.
There are three of them up there, but we chose Lamont.
And it was a lot of fun.
So then we got back on Sunday and started reworking and show prep for today's and this week's shows, which I know you will admit have been damn good.
Let's go to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
Aurora, Illinois.
Barbara, thank you for waiting.
Great to have you with us here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
So where are all the angry white males to answer to these people calling them stupid?
Well, should they be offended?
See, this is a great, great question.
And the fact is, we don't have time to be offended.
It's a joke.
We don't take it seriously.
We're more amused by the comment, and then we get angry by it.
The anger we have about it is not that we've been insulted.
It's that people want to make excuses for it, that she's now trying to deny it or what have you.
But that's your question's actually good because as a white guy, I don't care what she says.
I don't give people the power to offend me.
It bothers me only from the standpoint of what it says about her and how she views this country and how she views the world and how she's going to adjudicate cases.
But taking it personally, I just frankly, I think she's the idiot.
Exactly my point.
Thank you.
All right, Barbara, I appreciate that.
It is a great.
Speaking of Sonia Sotomayor, I think we're getting to the witness portion now.
I think she pretty much Finnie.
And she bombed, as far as the left is concerned.
She didn't praise empathy.
She praised black and white looking at the facts.
That's not what she's going to do.
The left is very upset with her.
And Leahy, the chairman of the committee, said, I don't, I'm not even going to ask any questions.
And the witnesses, I don't care what they say.
That's what he said today.
They're going to bring the witnesses up.
There'd be pro and con.
Other than this program, ladies and gentlemen, there are one place I know of that has more truths about the Sotomayor confirmation hearings than I do, and that's the Heritage Foundation.
There are big facts the White House will not release, but the Heritage Foundation takes the time to explain.
Like the four incidents so far where the Supreme Court has overruled a Sodomaiore decision, they're right there at askheritage.org.
Or examples of her rejection of the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms.
All of that and more is available to members of the Heritage Foundation at askheritage.org.
I'm a member.
Most everybody I know is a member.
It's 25 bucks or as much as you want to contribute.
But when you become a member, you have access to all kinds of valuable information and research constantly updated for the members.
Half a million now, 500,000 people across the country are Heritage Foundation members and benefit from it each and every day.
And you can too.
It's askheritage.org.
A lot more than just Sonia's Sotomayor.
Like my website, it is a veritable encyclopedia that's accessible to you as a member.
AskHeritage.org.
Robert in Naples, Florida.
Your turn, sir.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, Megan Dittos from the Gulf Coast.
Thank you.
Thanks for having the courage to stand up in this Sodomyore thing.
See, I was listening.
I was listening.
I was listening on the podcast, so I was listening this morning on my way into the office and was listening to Lindsey Graham and his comments about, you know, I hope you appreciate you're in this country and the comments that you made and how if I said it, I'd be crucified.
And I was thinking her answer, you know, about the wise Latina comment being explained away as she was trying to encourage someone and just make them feel better about themselves.
I think, well, tell that to Trent Law.
Oh, yeah, when he told Strom Thurmond at a birthday party, Strom, if you'd have won some elections, it would be a lot better in America.
Yeah, well, even the Republicans threw Trent Lott overboard on that one.
Right.
Well, there's clearly a double standard.
See, she's a minority, and minorities, you have to understand the way they've set the table.
And the minorities cannot be racists because they don't have the power to wield based on their racism.
And that sentiment, by the way, comes from the Reverend Dach.
He's the one who came up with that line of thinking.
Obama's the president.
Olpra is the highest paid and most popular TV personality.
Obama owns the auto industry.
I know you're well, what's your point, Snerdley?
What's your own?
When does what crap that the minorities don't have the power to be?
It'll never stop.
That's the whole point.
It'll never stop.
They're never going to proclaim, okay, we got justice now.
Okay, we've leveled the play.
Okay, we've made up for slavery.
Okay, we've done that.
Never, never, ever, ever.
That's the whole point.
Vice President Biden has done it again.
He's making a speech today.
To those who say that our economic decisions have not produced jobs, have not produced prosperity, and simply haven't worked.
I say, take a look around.
He's actually inviting people to look at the devastation that has been wrought by his administration.
Come see what I see everywhere, Biden says in his speech.
Workers rehired, factories reopened, cops in the street, teachers in the classroom.
It's summertime.
Progress toward getting our economy back.
I ask those critics, would they not help the states prevent layoff thousands of teachers, firefighters, cops?
Would they not give a tax cut to 95% of the American people?
Would they sit back and do nothing as our economy collapsed?
So this, and it's already being reported.
Read to you as it will be as it is being reported in state-run media.
And they're more than eager to help facilitate this notion that the economy is roaring back and there's prosperity out there.
Back to the audio soundbites.
This afternoon, Washington, D.C. Got to hear this during an Environment, Public Works, Environmental Public Works Committee hearing on green jobs.
Senator Barbara Boxer had this exchange with the chairman of the National Black Chamber of Commerce.
His name is Harry Alford.
This is how it went.
John Grant, who is the CEO of 100 Black Men of Atlanta, quote, clean energy is the key that will unlock millions of jobs, and the NAACP's support is vital to ensuring that those jobs help to rebuild urban areas.
So clearly there's a diversity.
Madam Chair, that is condescending to me.
Well, I'm.
I'm the National Black Chamber of Commerce and you're trying to put up some other black groups against me.
All that's condescending, and I don't like it.
It's racial.
I don't like it.
Excuse me.
I take offense to it.
As an African-American and a veteran of this country, I take offense to that.
Offense at the fact that I would quote...
You're quoting some other black man.
Why don't you quote some other Asian or somebody?
You are being racial here.
Okay, let me do that.
And I think you're getting to a path here that's going to explode.
Now, let me translate here what's happening.
The National Black Chamber of Commerce not all sold on this green energy business.
And Barbara Boxer, the Environment and Public Works Committee, a hearing on green jobs, starts quoting all these other black groups while the witness at the time is the chairman of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, Harry Alford.
So she starts talking about the CEO of 100 Black Men of Atlanta and an ENAACP support and how vital that is.
And this guy's offended by this.
You said other groups over me.
Other blacks over me, why don't you talk about Asians?
What he says is racial.
She's clearly stunned by this.
I mean, Barbara Boxer, she's not used to people calling her a racist.
He then continues.
He was just getting warmed up.
For someone to tell me, an African-American, college-educated veteran of the United States Army, that I must contend with some other black group and put aside everything else in here.
This has nothing to do with the NAACP and really has nothing to do with the National Black Chamber of Commerce.
We're talking energy.
And that road the chair went down, I think it's god-awful.
Hip, hip, hooray for this.
We're talking energy.
We're not talking racial politics.
You're making racial politics.
You're trying to sell this on the basis that we need the NAACP.
And this guy's got the guts to say they got nothing to do with it.
NAACP got nothing to do with the energy program.
And I guarantee you, Pelosi not a boxer.
I'm sorry.
Boxer's not.
I'm just doing my sodomy or impersonation here.
Neither of them.
Pelosi or boxer.
I used to be calling racial and being challenged in that way.
By the way, for Senator Biden, let's see, Cisco Systems.
They make routers, among other things, for computer systems.
Cisco Systems has reduced its headcount.
This means it's fired people at its Silicon Valley headquarters, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Cisco cutting 600 to 700 jobs.
You know, Biden's out there to those who say our economic decisions have not produced jobs.
I say take a look around.
Come see what I see everywhere I go.
Workers rehired.
Cisco laying off 600 to 700.
You know, Cookie, you got to get audio of this speech when it's given.
We got to do a Bob Torricelli on this.
Come see what I see everywhere I go.
Workers rehired.
By the way, Harley Davidson is cutting 1,000 more jobs as profits plummet.
This is from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Journal, Sentinel.
Come see what I see everywhere, Obiden says, or Biden says.
Workers rehired, factories reopened, cops in the street, teachers in the classrooms.
These people are joking.
Now, I had these two soundbites from yesterday.
Number 11.
No, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Well, yeah, let's do play number 11.
It's fun.
Well, 11 and 12.
But what I want to get to is 2425.
Yeah.
24-25.
And we'll do 23-2.
But here, this is, you know, yesterday, I laid out the truth on the first pitch of Obama at Bush Stadium.
Oh, speaking of that, there is a column in the post-distance today, Bernie Miklas.
I'm not sure how he pronounces his name.
Apparently, and this story in the St. Louis Post to scratch, 214 comments.
City of St. Louis apparently livid that Stan Musiel was dissed.
People in St. Louis think that Musial's greatness is overlooked and not commented on enough because he's from the middle of the country.
You get people from the East Coast, the Yankees and the Dodgers and this sort of stuff.
But Musiel was great.
So here's the All-Star game in St. Louis.
And they were expecting wonderful sights.
And CITES, wonderful focus on the career of Stan Musial.
And Bernie makes a point that they drive Musiel out on a golf cart type device and they park him on the grass between home plate and the first base dugout, which is the National League dugout.
And he's getting applause from the fans as they drive him out there.
Nicklas makes the point that not one player on either team came out of the dugout to stand up, try to shake his hand as he was driven by.
There was no acknowledgement on the part of the baseball people there of Stan Musial.
And then, when it came time for the first pitch, Obama overshadows everything, including Musiel.
And they make the point in the piece that Musial was just left there on the golf cart in all the pregame with like a dud.
It was just, it was a whole dud, and they were expecting so much attention to be focused on Musiel, which they're right.
It should have been.
He is one of baseball's all-time greats and certainly one of the Cardinals' all-time greats.
But I notice a lot of media people talking about Cardinal all-time greats all weekend going in the All-Star game.
And every damn one of them left out Dizzy Dean.
They had Enos Slaughter in there, and they had the gashouse gang guys, but they left out Dizzy Dean.
How do you leave out?
There's so many funny Dizzy Dean stories.
Here's just one.
There was one guy that Dizzy Dean could never get out.
A guy named Bill Terry for the Giants.
And Terry comes to bat the first time, lines a double off the left field wall.
The next time a double off the right field wall.
A third time up, he hits a home run.
The fourth time, line drive single right back to the mount, right through Dizzy Dean's legs.
The call timeout.
And Ketcher goes, a Diz.
What's the matter?
I mean, this is even worse.
He says, I'm just not playing him deep enough.
I mean, there's no way I can get him out.
I can't play left field.
I can't play rape for just so many funny Dizzy Dean stories.
He wasn't mentioned.
But regardless, that Obama comes out, he does what he does.
And after that, they just left Museal sitting on the golf cart.
And it was a dud.
It was a disappointment to people saying, well, it's on the part of Major League Baseball.
Do they think baseball could have done a better job?
So the only guy on either team, when Museial was being rolled out, that came out of the dugout and applauded was Joe Torrey, the manager of the Dodgers.
He said, nobody even followed him out to applaud.
And I do remember, I remember when the New York Yankees went into Baltimore during that incredible season of Cal Ripken Jr.'s where he played, finished the consecutive game streak.
The Yankees, led by Derek Jeter, all came out of their dugout and applauded as Ripken reached another milestone in that feed.
I don't know if it was the actual game where he went ahead of Gehrig, but the Yankees came out and applauded.
Somebody opposed, this did not happen for Stan Museal.
You got to figure some of these guys never heard of him.
Who knows?
Anyway, sorry for the diversion there, but we set this, we got the story right on the first pitch and what an abomination it was of girly tossed and all that.
After the media, the night before and the morning before this show started try to portray Obama as the second coming of Michael Jordan.
And he's not an athlete.
And they want to try to portray him as an athlete.
He's an athletic supporter, and you've got to give him credit for that.
But he's not an athlete.
So at CNN on Campbell and Brown last night, talking to one of their reporters, Mike Galanos, Campbell Brown said, Obama's pitching arm needs real work.
Exhibit A, last night's All-Star Game.
Back with me now to break it all down is Mike.
Now, this is after someone, i.e. me, had the temerity to describe this and how it happened, why Pooh Holes was catching, why he wore a White Sox jacket, Kaminsky Park, confusing it with Sololinsky.
All these things designed to explain why he got booed.
So here's how that went on CNN list.
You and I watched it together last night.
You asked me, how do you think he did?
Well, I gave him a tepid thumbs up.
I think I'm retracting that.
We had a bad angle.
As we watch it again, we get the better angle.
It's a pretty weak throw.
He's even taking a little beating for the jeans.
Rush Limbaugh didn't waste any time either going after the president and the media.
Let's give that a listen.
The president throws like a girl.
He golfs like a girl, admittedly.
He throws like a girl.
George W. Bush is a man.
George W. Bush fired a strike first pitch Yankee Stadium after 9-11.
They made fun of Bush.
Gerald Ford was an all-American college football player.
They called him Mr. Potato Head.
Obama's a big athletic klutz and the drive-bys are trying to portray him as the second coming of Michael Jordan.
I don't even care that he throws like a girl.
The mom jeans do bother me a little bit.
Come on.
Mom jeans.
Oh, crease down the front.
Okay.
Let me ask you a question.
Are they doctoring that audio of me?
Is that, I can't, does that?
It sounds awfully raspy.
My voice doesn't.
You don't think they're doctor.
That sounds all probably got it off the web.
Okay.
And then over on PMS NBC, they weren't having any of it.
They had to stick with the illusion.
They had to defend Obama's pitch.
And of course, they got the most qualified jock over there to do it, Contessa Brewer.
A lot of people, Rush Limbaugh included, seem to think that the president throws like a girl.
This is the big topic of conversation.
Does the lefty throw like a girl?
Look, I'm no expert on what pitches look like, but I thought it looked pretty good.
And by the way, what are you saying about the way girls throw?
Have you seen a girl throw?
Rush Linda?
Yeah.
Of course I've seen a girl throw.
I did the last one was Obama the other night.
Why?
That's the whole point.
Some of the smartest things we buy, we hope we'll never have to use.
Like homeowners insurance, health insurance.
Well, hell no, people use that all the time.
Screw that.
Homeowner's insurance, car insurance.
We hope we never have to use these things, right?
But I'll bet you've needed them.
I'll bet you've needed all of them.
And when you did, you were glad you had them.
Why the smiles?
Why are you distracting me?
You know this business about, have I ever seen a girl throw?
Can I tell you how many vases have been thrown at me?
I've seen it.
I don't know how many times.
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Here is Mort Vuckerman from Tuesday night on the Kudlow Report.
It's beginning, and Mort Vuckerman is a liberal.
And it's beginning to dawn on him that this Obama guy is not really about creating jobs.
I don't think there is anything here that's going on that is deliberately going to help business because I don't think that's the philosophy of this administration.
I think we're heading in for a very, very difficult time.
And what distresses me is that I don't get the sense that there's any planning on the part of the government to do something this time that really does focus on jobs, jobs, jobs, and doesn't put in a whole melange of democratic wish list programs, et cetera, et cetera, that has so diluted the original stimulus program.
A lot of people, including a lot of people who are favorable to this administration, pointed that out at the very beginning.
Well, then why did they vote for this administration?
There's Mort Zuckerman, owns the New York Daily News and other things, and not about creating jobs.
They're not about being good for business.
Here's Art Laffer on the same show.
What's the way out, Art?
Let's take the total amount they've spent over the last 18 months or so, total amount, maybe $3.5 trillion.
That's about a year and a half's worth of total tax take from the federal government.
Just imagine what would have happened if they said we're going to have a federal tax holiday for a year and a half.
No income taxes, no payroll taxes, no estate taxes, no capital gains taxes, no excise action, no federal taxes.
For a year and a half, the deficit would be no larger.
In fact, it'd be a heck of a lot smaller.
And you'd have huge growth in this U.S. economy.
We'd have a 3% unemployment rate, and we'd be sizzling along beautifully.
Instead, they've just destroyed it.
He's exactly right.
Now, I want to explain because some people hearing this, well, wait a minute, Rush, how can you just eliminate federal taxes?
What he's saying is we have spent or printed the equivalent of a year and a half worth of federal tax revenue that we don't have.
The government doesn't have it, so they don't have it instead of priving it and empowering more state government with it, just give it to the people and let the people who make the country work revive the economy.
That's Laffer's point.
This is what I mean by anybody with any sanity and any sense of history and understanding, a modicum of education, knows that every aspect of the Obama-Biden economic plan is an utter disaster.
A designed disaster.
Some people say every airplane landing is a control crash.
All right, we're on Obama Airlines, and we're headed for a controlled crash, folks.
We'll be back after this.
All right, as a reminder, Mark Davis will be here tomorrow.
Got to head out tonight, but back on Monday and here for the duration through August 31st.
So chill out.
Country will be here when I get back.
I'll look forward to getting back.
I'll miss you tomorrow.
I really will.
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