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Jan. 28, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 28, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome back.
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It's the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies in Las Vegas.
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A bunch of people have sent me.
Oh, one thing, folks, HR, who is doing the screening today, snerdly has a hangnail in having problem holding onto the phone.
So HR pressed into emergency duty.
And he is telling me that many of you are calling not to go on the air, but to highly praise and compliment my letter to Barack Obama that I read in the last half hour and demanded people asking for a transcript.
The transcript of everything on this program, for the most part, will always be found at the end of the day at rushlimbaugh.com.
But I'll do it again in the program before it ends.
I'll save it and do it in the third hour, catch some new tune-ins at that point.
And I expect there'd be a round of criticism over this.
I expect that when this gets out, that I'll have all kinds of attacks launched on me.
Everything from racist to who does he think he is to presumptuous, what kind of disrespect is this for the president?
Of course, none of that will ever be asked of Obama.
Who the hell does he think he is?
He's the least experienced guy in whatever room he walks into, sitting there busting the chops of the U.S. Supreme Court when they cannot respond.
And he is wrong about what he said.
Floodgates will be open to foreign corporations to contribute money to U.S. political campaigns.
That's not true.
The court did not deal with that law.
Foreign companies are already prohibited from influencing American campaigns.
The current legal prohibitions on foreign involvement in elections are really specific.
And they prohibit a foreign national from directly or indirectly contributing to a candidate or party or paying for a broadcast, cable, or satellite communication, which refers to a federal candidate in the period before an election.
Furthermore, FEC regulations already prohibit a foreign national from direct control or indirectly participating in the decision-making process of any corporation, labor union, or political committee in their election-rated activities.
So it's a flat out-and-out lie.
It's a scare tactic.
The Libs are all upset because the First Amendment was expanded.
Well, expanded, it was upheld.
Freedom came out of its coma a little bit with that ruling with the Supreme Court.
The Libs are all a bit out of shape because free speech gets in the way of their plans.
By the way, I have a story in the stack about how Obama's FCC is targeting over-the-air television stations.
Wants the spectrum they broadcast on.
The channels, the frequencies.
I'll have the details on that coming up.
Meanwhile, the Politico, right on course, puts out a story today.
White House, Obama was right in what he said about the Supreme Court ruling.
So I guess that when the White House wants to get something out, they have a rotating bunch of state-controlled media they can call to get the message out, and they're not going to be checked.
Whatever they say is going to be reported.
So, but it's clear the president didn't know what he was talking about.
He's out and out lying because he knows he's not going to be fact-checked on matters like that by most in the state-controlled media.
Although AP has a fairly hard-hitting fact-check today on a bunch of things Obama got wrong.
Now, I was going to say a bunch of people have sent me the last five minutes of Obama's speech.
I said in the previous hour that I just got impatient.
I mean, I'd heard it all before.
There was no energy in the speech.
It was just, it was just pure propaganda.
It was unprofessional.
It was unfocused, contradictory, all over the place.
I got up early and left.
I had to go get ready for the preliminary competition at the Planet Hollywood Theater last night.
So I bopped out of the room and went back to the shower and did the routine back there.
And I got some notes from people that did not specify what the last five minutes speech were, but they said it was, it needs psychologists to analyze it.
So people have now sent it to me.
And there's one part in there.
I mean, it is deranged.
But it mentions this whole business that women finally need to get equal pay for equal work.
I mean, that's from the 1970s.
I don't know.
I can't figure out why throw that out there.
I mean, that's, it's totally cliched.
You know, women, male unemployment is much higher than female unemployment.
The percentages of men going to college, much less than women going to college.
The percentages of men graduating from college, much less than the percentage of women graduating from college.
I saw a story yesterday.
I had it in the stack.
I didn't get to it because I just didn't put it at the top in terms of priority, but since he's brought this up, there was a story about how college-educated women over 40, if they haven't been married, they're doomed.
The odds of college-educated women over 40 getting married ain't going to happen, statistically.
Don't know why, don't remember why, but obviously something that, you know, men, men are jerks, is always the explanation for this stuff.
But this business that women earn 70 cents for every dollar a man earns, of this is just, it's outdated, it's not true.
I'm, well, why in the world did that get stuck in there?
What, what author, this speech had many authors.
And I think there was a lot of it that was sarcastic.
I think this guy is angry at us for daring to oppose him.
So a lot of this was just sarcastic in tone, demeaning in tone.
But there's a story here from the Daily Mail.
This is in the UK, but it's probably applicable here.
If not yet, it will be.
Life in the slow lane, disillusioned with stressful jobs.
A whole generation of women are opting out of the rat race.
And if them Nazis, I'm sure, didn't plan for this.
Now, I know this is happening in certain ways in this country.
What's happening is that these women who were urged to forego families and motherhood, childhood, and all that so that feminism could be pursued.
And remember, militant feminism was told women to go out and be like men, get the jobs men have, get the same stress men do, get the same power that men do.
But then there's a biological time bomb starts ticking in the womb in there in the ovaries.
And you get to 35, 40, and there's a little panic that sets in.
And so they either adopt if they can't find a sucker to marry them.
And I'm talking about a particular kind of women.
I'm not ridiculing marriage here.
Please don't misunderstand.
So they can't sell them to marry them.
They either adopt or they do find somebody to get married and they have a baby.
And all of a sudden, they decide they don't want to go back to work.
They want to stay home and nurture the child.
Now that started happening about 10 years ago.
I've been chronicling this stuff because it interests me.
And I know the feminazis didn't plan on that.
So in the UK, what's happening starts out this way.
Last summer, my friend Vanessa handed in her notice at work.
She did not have another job to go to.
And unlike thousands of people around the country, she wasn't made redundant.
In fact, the online marketing company she worked for was thriving.
And that was the problem.
She was too busy.
And at the grand old age of 34, she decided she could no longer be bothered to be busy.
It wasn't that she had children to think about or a long-suppressed dream of working in the rainforests.
She just woke up one day and found her drive had stalled.
She had got to the place she'd always wanted to be and realized that, well, she didn't want to be there.
She was over it.
It was in the middle of a recession.
I was being offered a pay raise and a promotion, says Vanessa.
I should have been happy, but I just felt dread.
All I could see was more of the same.
12-hour days, lost weekends, and the thought literally made me sick.
A year or two before, it would have been unimaginable to feel this way.
Work was everything and always had been.
It was my identity.
I thrived on the stress, the challenges, and yes, the status.
But then suddenly it meant nothing.
I started wondering if I could make ends meet by dog walking.
And I don't even like dogs.
For the first time ever, I wanted an easy life more than a successful one.
Let some guy talk this way.
And look at the way he gets with women.
Look at the choices they have.
Tired of working?
Fine.
Pull out.
Don't like the stress?
Pull out of there.
Don't like the competition?
Pull out of there.
Don't like the long hour?
Pull out of there.
This is an option that men traditionally have not had as the primary breadwinners, although with two-income families, it's still not something an option that men have, but women still do, particularly if it's to stay home and raise the children.
So for Obama to bring this up, antiquated, clichéd, sarcastic.
And I think it was another attempt to get people at war with each other, which is another purpose of that speech last night, pitting groups of Americans against each other and himself against as many enemies as he has.
And the list is longer than any enemies list I have ever seen.
Audio soundbite time, ladies and gentlemen, let's start with a montage of Obama and his speech last night blaming Bush.
We put a montage here of all the ways and times that he did it.
I took office amid two wars, an economy rocked by a severe recession.
Boohoo.
Financial system on the verge of collapse and a government deeply in debt.
We can't afford another so-called economic expansion like the one from the last decade.
What some call the lost decade.
Even after paying for what we spent on my watch, we'll still face the massive deficit we had when I took office.
By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion.
You did not.
And projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade.
Nope.
Most of this was the result of not paying for two wars, two tax cuts, and an expensive prescription drug program.
On top of that, the effects of the recession put a $3 trillion hole in our budget.
All this was before I walked in the door.
The problem is, that's what we did for eight years.
Just stating the facts.
Now, that is petulant.
That is unprecedented.
And it's immature.
None of the fault.
It's like Bart Simpson.
You need to get proven.
Nobody saw me do it.
You can't prove it.
They didn't do anything.
It's unseemly.
It's embarrassing, folks, to have a president talking this sarcastically.
He knows his polling numbers are down and he's mad at you for not understanding.
It isn't his fault.
He's the Messiah.
It can't possibly be his fault.
This is delusional.
And he's making all these tax cuts, tax cuts that weren't paid for.
He knows better than that.
That's why they have to rewrite the history of Reagan.
Those tax cuts more than paid for.
The whole concept that you have to pay for tax cuts, that has always made my blood boil.
Pay for tax cuts, pay for a Medicare entitlement bill.
It's the first entitlement you haven't liked because Republicans did it because it was Bush's idea.
But this notion that the tax cuts were not paid for, we're talking about the Bush income tax cuts, the corporate, the capital gains tax cut being reduced to 15%.
That created so much revenue coming to the Treasury that nobody projected because they never analyzed this stuff in a dynamic way.
And it's Clinton surplus and all this sort of stuff.
You say the tax cuts didn't pay for themselves.
I mean, this is just, this is so childish.
That's why I call him a man-child.
Now, here's two more bites before we go to the break.
It gets even better.
Listen to this.
I campaigned on the promise of change.
Change we can believe in.
The slogan went.
And right now I know there are many Americans who aren't sure if they still believe we can change or that I can deliver.
But remember this.
I never suggested the change would be easy or that I could do it alone.
Oh.
Democracy in a nation of 300 million people can be noisy and messy and complicated.
By the way, he used the word I 96 times in 70 minutes.
That's more than one time a minute.
Okay, so remember this.
I never suggested it'd be easy or that I could do it alone.
Let's go back to St. Paul, June 3rd, 2008.
This was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless.
This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
This was the moment when we ended the war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last best hope on earth.
This was the moment.
This was the time when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.
Thank you, Minnesota.
God bless you.
God bless the United States of America.
Now, contrast the energy of that with that speech last night.
Go back and grab Soundbite 13 because you just heard that here's this montage of him blaming Bush.
I took office amid two wars, an economy rocked by a severe recession, a financial system on the verge of collapse, and a government deeply indebted.
We can't afford another so-called economic expansion like the one from the last decade, what some call the lost decade.
Even after paying for what we spent on my watch, we'll still face the massive deficit we had when I took office.
Okay, that's frustrated and angry hearing it again.
That's why this speech was defensive.
It was sarcastic.
It wasn't uplifting.
Even that speech in Minnesota was just, you know, that deserves psychological analysis, too.
This is the moment when the oceans began to slow their rise.
This is the moment when the sick got well, when the jobless got jobs.
Yeah, right.
He said he couldn't do it alone.
It's all about him and doing it alone.
Okay, back to the phones we go on the EIB Network, St. George, Utah.
This is Josh.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
In my observation, as I listened to the speech yesterday and then I read the paper first thing this morning, it was probably about the most negative speech that I've witnessed in politics for the purpose of a State of the Union address.
I mean, based on, the message was lost, but I was trying to figure out what the whole purpose of the speech.
And I mean, just to give you an example, my background has been in sales and marketing.
And before something goes out, you proof it.
And if there's negative words in it, you say, how do we spin this in a positive light?
You never use a word like quit.
And how the words, I don't quit, got even in this just boggles my mind.
Would you like me to explain all this to you?
I would love that.
Because I can.
You have to go back and look at the last 10 days of Obama's life.
Everything that could have gone wrong politically did, monumentally so.
You measure that, stack that up against his insufferably megalomaniacal ego.
And you get a guy who is angry at everybody.
You get a guy who is really ticked off.
You get a guy who thinks he's better than everybody else, who in fact is the least experienced, qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.
And you have somebody who is petulant, and he is mad that he didn't lead his health care.
He is mad that he lost that seat in the Senate in Massachusetts.
He is mad at the people for going against him and not realizing what a great savior he is and what a great thing he is for the country.
He is angry.
And when he says, I won't quit, that's a threat.
Of course it's negative because he, he is totally immersed in nothing but negative.
Nothing's gone right the last 10 days.
In fact, you could say nothing's gone right the last six months.
He wanted health care done by August.
He's getting laughed at.
He's getting laughed at last night.
You want to hear him get laughed at?
Let's listen to a soundbite together.
Grab it.
Yeah, number 19.
This is Obama and his spending freeze.
Now, listen to this.
Now, I know that some in my own party will argue that we can address the deficit or freeze government spending when so many are still hurting.
And I agree, which is why this freeze won't take effect until next year, when the economy is stronger.
That's how budgeting works.
Here's a little man Chusti got laughed at.
That makes him even madder.
I guarantee you.
It probably went off script on the teleprompter last night in that last five minutes is why it was so delusional.
Because this kind of stuff ticks him off.
Does that help you understand it?
It was exactly what he wanted it to be.
That's who he is.
You know, my fear is it's the first time he's ever faced failure, and he's dealing with it horribly.
And I think we're looking at a downward death spiral here in the future.
Now, that's an interesting observation.
I don't think it's the first time he's ever faced failure.
I think it's the first time nobody's covered it up for him.
I think it's the first time nobody's greased the skids for him.
It's the first time nobody gave him an A when he got a C.
It's the first time nobody rewrote a law review article that didn't make any sense.
It's not the first time that somebody actually wrote his book.
But this is the first time he has failure that's totally he is accountable for, and there's nobody can cover it up for him.
There's nobody can make it better.
Nobody can kiss it and make it go away.
So, yeah, you got a guy who's got a genuinely entitled frame of mind, and it's not working.
Sitting here, folks, watching the last three or so minutes, President Obama and Vice President Biden are in Tampa at another one of these endless town halls.
And there's a bunch of people sitting behind Obama, and then not one smile.
And in three and a half, four minutes, there's been one tepid round of applause.
There's the second just now when he talks about the middle class getting their legs back under finding jobs and so forth.
And the people look bored.
The place is not full.
I just saw it.
Do you see that?
I just saw a shop with a bunch of empty rows back me up.
And maybe these people are looking at Biden's plugs, and that's why they're distracted.
But there's no energy in this room.
This is quite fascinating to see.
It's not reminiscent at all of Obama appearances, say, in the first half of last year.
Last time he was in Tampa, all kinds of people showed up and wanted a new car.
They want a new dishwasher.
They wanted a new kitchen.
Remember that?
These people are just sitting there like, I mean, not a smile.
They are stone-faced.
And he keeps he mentioned this last night, and he just mentioned it again, the lost decade.
The lost decade.
And you heard him in the montage we put together of all the opportunities he took last night to blame George W. Bush.
The lost decade.
What the hell is that?
That's just a new way of trying to shift the blame for his own mistakes and incompetence back to Bush.
But I mean, even Henry Mitchell, Henry seen him in Washington, sometime last night on Mess NBC said that it's not working anymore, blaming Bush.
This is his second year now.
This is the Bamster's second year.
To Miami, we go.
This is Abby.
You're up next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi.
Rush Hudson Limbaugh.
I'm so pleased to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I have three quick points.
First of all, I started listening to you after firstly berating my husband for listening to your talking points.
And once I started listening to you, I became such a wild fan that, you know, everywhere we go when we're on the road, we're always canning the airwaves for stations carrying Rush Limbaugh.
Well, thank you very much.
I'm flattered and honored.
Yeah, three quick points.
First of all, Obama tends to have this cowardly behavior where he attacks people who he knows cannot fight back.
And that's what he did with the Supreme Court yesterday.
He used to do that with the Bush administration, but he never counted on Dick Cheney fighting back.
Secondly, he berated 70% of Americans for not buying the global warming hooks.
Oh, that is funny.
That's another thing.
I've got that sound bite somewhere.
He got laughed at again on that.
Because even though people don't believe it, climate change, I'll find it here.
What is it?
I can't understand what you're saying to me.
Oh, I haven't said anything.
You guys need to back off your microphone.
You usually like this.
I can tell you're hit.
I haven't said anything after that.
No, I know.
People in New York are talking to me.
I want you to listen to this bite because you mentioned climate change and they've got it.
That's what we were talking about.
Here it is.
I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change.
But here's the thing.
Even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy efficiency and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future.
Because the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy, and America must be that nation.
The overwhelming scientific evidence, it's a hoax.
Alternative universe.
So I wanted you to hear that soundbite, Abby, because you brought it up.
Yes.
And the third point is I'm so amazed at his ability to tell a bold-faced lie with such conviction.
One such lie is about a tax cut that didn't pay for itself.
In fact, when Bush instituted that tax cut, tax revenue increased as a result of that tax cut.
The same thing with Reagan.
Same thing with Kennedy back in the 60s.
Of course it did.
I just expressed my frustration with that.
That makes my blood boil.
Tax cuts didn't pay for themselves.
Only a statist, some central planner looks at things like that, because you're right, revenue, especially from the capital gains tax.
They were shocked in Washington by it.
Totally shocked.
Now, folks, all of our conversation today about the state of the union, and it's really, do you also know that I don't think Obama, somebody may have to correct me on this, I don't think Obama ever told us what the state of the union was.
Most presidents, when they start out, say, and I am here to tell you the state of the union is great, never been better, fine and dandy, whatever they say.
But I don't think I heard him say that because it was not the state of the union.
It might have been the state of the unions, or more appropriately, it was the state of Obama.
But anyway, all of our conversation today about the state of Obama address is obviously to properly inform you of what was really meant by Obama last night.
And you are getting the absolute best insight and observations right here from me at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And you're also able to gain additional knowledge from a few select and trusted allies that we have here at the Institute.
The Heritage Foundation is one of those.
Dozens of staffers at Heritage reviewed and dissected the speech last night, making analysis and information immediately available to you late last evening.
And it's like working there and being able to go next door to the cubicle next to you and having these brilliant people, scholars, being able to see what they're working on as they're doing it.
They had this stuff posted late last night before midnight.
If you're a member of the Heritage Foundation like I am, you have instant access to what's written and shared by all the people there.
Like the Bright observation last night's 70-minute speech, the longest in 45 years, it was Heritage's observation that it appears to be a combined effort of many authors proven by the fact that the speech contradicted itself as well as Obama's stated policies.
I mean, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes paragraph by paragraph, it contradicted itself.
Heritage members could also receive information late into the evening last night about Obama's spin job on jobs from green jobs to clean jobs, the double talk about taxing the banks.
And with great clarity, Heritage showed how Obama's policies will not stimulate job growth, as though anybody thinks they will, but this spells it out for you in red and white.
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Yes, did I say.com?
Slip of the tongue.
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Greg in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, how are you, Rush?
Very good, sir.
Thank you.
I'm a father of three and married.
This speech last night absolutely slammed the door in my face.
I'm about to go under.
Lose my home.
In approximately three months, I won't be able to make my payments anymore.
I'm going to hire you.
Well, you could avail yourself of the Obama foreclosure program with your mortgage readjusted.
I think like 10,000 people have been able to do that out of the promised $2 or $3 million, but you might try that.
Well, I'm at 6% locked in, so I'm pretty much, you know, where I have no debt.
I have no credit card debt.
I have no car payments.
I'm an electrical engineer by trade.
I started my own construction company three years ago, which is miserably falling under.
I've been looking for any kind of work that I could do, night work, day work.
And the speech last night is just the chokehold that he tightened up on this country.
How do you mean that?
Somebody in your position, what did you hear him say?
You know what?
I sat there and I listened to it, and he will not get off his agenda.
He will not get off of the and what I read between the lines is he's creating a need for federal government intervention by starving out the middle class to ask for federal help.
I mean, this is just absolutely insane.
And the longer he starves us out, the more we collapse.
I pay my own health insurance for my family to the tune of $1,300 a month.
And the more this goes on, and he realizes the longer he waits to create jobs, the more people are going to need federal assistance.
It's just a hideous way to go about starving out the country.
So you are like me and believe that this is purposeful.
Oh, there just can't be any doubt in anyone's mind.
You know, I think I'm part of the real American story that's happening to the middle class all around the country where we are just, we don't have any opportunity whatsoever.
I can't even get underemployed at this point.
I work free jobs to be able to sustain just to pay bills and put food on the table, for God's sake.
Yeah, and the reason people aren't hiring is because they're trying to stay in business.
They've had to lay people off in some ways.
They're scared to death.
They're scared to death to make a move because they don't know what this guy's going to do next.
That's right.
They don't know what the rules of the game are going to be.
You're right.
I think this is all about redistribution of wealth.
This is about destroying wealth and returning wealth to the nation's rightful, quote-unquote, owners, which obviously are the unions and minorities.
Well, you know, I'd like to know, you know, he's pushing the American people into a corner.
Scott Brown was a great win to try to make this man move back to the center and bring his policies back over to the center where it's going to benefit all Americans and not just green jobs.
Well, I tell you, we're going to get started on that in November.
And it's going to happen big time.
Even before November, I think as we get closer to the election, Obama is going to get less and less congressional support for whatever agenda item he wants because he's not popular.
He's a drag.
Everywhere he goes to campaign, candidates lose.
Even when he recommends or picks a basketball team, it loses.
He does not have a great track record here.
And I think as we get closer and closer to the election, closer and closer to the intense fundraising these Democrats have to do, the memory of Scott Brown clear and fresh in their minds.
He's not going to get much of his agenda passed unless Pelosi and Reed do play this game of budget reconciliation on the Senate health care bill.
And if they do that, then the Democrats can kiss it goodbye in the House and the Senate.
They just may as well retire or change parties.
Because if they do after all of this, if they still ram that health care bill down with budget reconciliation, changing Senate rules and House rules to do it, then there's going to be a wipeout for the Democrats.
And that's November is where, if you can hang on, and even before November, because we're not going to get any policy shifts between now and then, but we will have at least the breaks put on more damage that Obama can do to the country.
Say, folks, you remember paper jam, Brian.
You remember, ladies and gentlemen, when global warming was going to kill all of the coral, when global warming was going to kill everything, global warming was going to damage it.
It was going to cause floods.
Little island nations were going to drown.
It was going to be horrible.
Get this.
Coral bleaching is a condition often associated with the summer doldrums, but extreme cold weather, like what the Florida Keys experienced earlier this month, also can cause coral to bleach and to die.
Really?
First time, the story goes on to say, first time since the 1970s, that cold weather has killed coral.
Just more evidence of the gigantic hoax perpetrated even last night in the face of clear evidence of lying, made-up numbers, this totally erroneous false report on the Himalayan glaciers melting by 2035.
That was one guy, one Indian glaciologist interviewed in 1999.
Oh, yeah, it's got a bad bad bad global warming so bad the Himalayan glacier is going to be melt by 2035.
One guy said it, it ends up in the IPCC report of the United Nations, and they admit yesterday, yeah, yeah, we put it in there, it was not true, but we wanted to spur government leaders into action.
Well, there you have liberalism.
There you have socialism.
There you have what dictators do.
Make it up, lie, doesn't matter, whatever it takes.
And remember something, folks, dictators always go after the middle class while talking about saving the middle class.
Obama for a year has talked about saving the middle class, reviving the middle class.
The middle class, he's got a middle class task force.
He got Biden running the middle class task force.
Obama even went to have a meeting with the 20 members of the middle class task force, which he impaneled early last year.
He had a teleprompter, speak to 20 people.
So he had a middle-class task force.
We've had the stimulus porculus slush fund.
We've had the bankers berated for not lending to small business so they can grow.
And what's happened?
What's happened?
Unemployment continues to skyrocket.
There has been nothing good that's happened in the middle class.
And now, Obama says, we are going to focus on jobs.
I want a jobs bill on my desk from Congress immediately.
This is what dictators do.
They demand, they threaten, they intimidate, they bully, and they attack the very people that they say they are trying to defend.
And I said at one point during the healthcare debate on the whole concept of death panels, there's a reason, if you go back to world history, you go back to Cambodia, you go back to Mao Zedong in China, you go to Cuba, you go to the old Soviet Union.
One of the things they did was target Hitler, healthcare, target the elderly, target them.
Why?
Because they vote.
They are more likely to vote and they're more educated.
They have more experience.
They know more.
They have been alive longer.
You get rid of the people who know the past.
You get rid of people who know how great the 80s were with a conservative economic policy.
Get rid of those people or limit them.
Make no mistake.
And I mean, the Bolsheviks, they got rid of the Kulaks.
The Chikoms went after the middle class.
Same with Pol Pot in Cambodia.
Same thing in Cuba.
Every other Central and South American country.
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela.
Socialism, all to benefit the middle class, the working people.
And what's he doing?
They're rolling blackouts.
There's an energy crisis.
He's nationalizing businesses and the standard of living is plummeting while his goes up.
All in the name of helping the middle class.
And don't forget our caller earlier in this hour, willing to work three jobs, can't find even a job that would make him under employed and is convinced that this is being done on purpose because Obama wants as many Americans being supported by the federal government in some way or manner as he can.
And the people he's targeting are the people who are working.
And most of the people work are middle-class people.
He wants them on the welfare rolls.
A lot of people have had this theory.
Cloward Piven, there's two guys from Columbia, two people from Columbia.
Anyway, I'll expand more on this when we come back.
I got to take a brief break right now.
And remember, folks, Obama differentiates between the workers and the middle class, the working families.
He wants you to think he's talking about middle class.
When working families, liberals talk about working families, they mean union members, the proletariat.
The middle class have too much education.
The middle class have too much property to cooperate with all of what he wants to do.
They want political power and control over their lives.
They would fight Obama if they knew what he was up to.
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