And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
I am the troublesome and vitriolic Rushlin Baugh on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
11 million Americans are drawing unemployment benefits, yet Obama says we have turned the corner.
162,000 new jobs created.
A third of them are temporary census workers.
Not very many of them are in the private sector.
Obama says we have turned the corner.
He said we turned the corner last year.
He said that we've come back from the brink last year.
Tim Geithner said, no, some of these jobs are gone forever.
I think we ought to get used to 9.5% to 10% unemployment for at least a couple of years.
Obama says we have turned the corner.
Greetings, my friends.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 if you want to be on Open Line Friday.
For those of you new to the program, Monday through Thursday, we only talk about what I want to talk about.
You need to look at me as a benevolent dictator.
And it's my show.
I only talk about things I care about Monday through Thursday because if I talk about things I don't care about, I'll sound bored because I will be bored.
And then you won't listen because you'll be bored.
And I don't want to be bored.
But on Friday, I take the risk of being bored.
If you talk about something I don't care about, you can.
And I will do my best to fake it, as though I do care about it.
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By the way, there is a quote that I want to share with you.
It is mistakenly attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson did not say this.
It was actually John Basil Barnhill in 1914 in a piece entitled Indictment of Socialism Number 3.
Doesn't detract from its truth, but is widely attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
He didn't say it.
John Basil Barnhill did.
And the quote is this.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny.
When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
And that's where we are.
The people fear the government right now.
16,500 new IRS agents to enforce whatever the hell is in this health care bill that we do not yet know.
Anyway, the Heritage Foundation morning bell today is just terrific.
Welcome to the Obama dependency economy.
Today, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report showing the nation's unemployment unchanged at 9.7% yet.
They added 162,000 jobs.
Third month in a row, 9.7%.
The jobs report does indicate that 162,000 net jobs are created in March.
Almost 50,000 of them were temporary government census jobs that don't reflect any real economic progress.
And those census people don't get health care benefits either.
They're temp.
In total, the U.S. economy has now lost 3.8 million jobs since Obama signed the Porculus bill.
3.8 million jobs since he signed it.
We are 8.1 million jobs short of the 138.6 million jobs Obama promised to the American people.
11 million Americans are now receiving unemployment compensation.
Obama is now aping FDR, promise of prosperity just around the corner.
Just around the corner.
Yep, we've turned the corner.
Well, it's good to see the American economy finally recovering again if it is.
It demonstrates the resilience of the American entrepreneur in the face of punishing job-killing agendas from Washington.
And make no mistake, the agenda of this regime is to kill jobs.
Now, I remember telling each and every one of you earlier this year and late last year, at some point the economy is going to rebound because we're Americans.
And we're not just going to sit here and take it.
We're not going to sit here and just, oh, woe is us.
At some point, it's going to turn around in spite of the regime.
And if that's happening now, then more power to the American people.
But don't fall for any White House claims that this belated recovery is due to the stimulus bill.
Even the Congressional Budget Office admitted last month, its analysis of the stimulus job creating record was simply essentially repeating the same exercise as the initial projections.
In other words, what that means, the CBO numbers on the stimulus don't take any actual new real-world data into account.
So it's meaningless.
Christina Romer, who is chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, prior to joining the Obama administration, wrote paper after paper after paper saying government stimulus does not create jobs.
It can't.
Monetary policy cannot create jobs.
Government really cannot manage an economy.
We know this.
All government can do is screw it up.
The best thing government can do is get out of people's way.
That's what limited government is all about.
But if you work with the actual data that we have now, employment, unemployment, the stimulus package, an economist at George Mason University has come up with this.
Her name is Veronique Derougi.
One, no statistical correlation between unemployment and how the stimulus money was spent.
There is none.
Democrat districts received one and a half times as many awards as Republican ones.
And an average for the jobs that were created during the past year, and there were some, each one cost $286,000.
That's if you allocate the stimulus that was spent versus the jobs created, we spent $286,000 per job created.
That's a bad investment.
And Obama's future agenda is full of bad investments.
He recently released his budget.
It would raise taxes on all Americans by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade.
It would borrow 42 cents for each dollar spent in 2010.
It would double the publicly held national debt to more than $18 trillion.
This is simply unsustainable.
This is why the American people are vitriolic.
This is why I am troublesome.
Our country is being overthrown from within.
We are watching it.
This regime is governing against the will of the people.
What happened to the 95,000 new jobs every month we were promised?
What happened to that?
What happened to unemployment rate never getting above 8%?
You ought to see the projection.
I've got a chart here.
Can't show it to you on the DittoCam, but you might have seen it elsewhere.
It's a chart that the administration, the regime, put out.
what the unemployment rate would be without the stimulus, what the unemployment rate would be with the stimulus, and what the real unemployment rate is.
And the real unemployment rate is sky high, much higher than either of the two previous categories.
They have just been totally wrong about everything they projected.
And I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt when I say wrong.
I think they knew exactly what was going to happen because they wanted it to happen.
The thing the president needs to understand is that it's not I, Il Rushbow, who is troublesome.
It is the facts that are troublesome.
I happen to just be the vessel reporting the facts.
And that's why I'm troublesome.
Facts are the enemy of liberals.
Big time enemy of liberals.
Facts, because facts destroy liberalism each and every time they are applied.
Thomas Edsel, writing in The Atlantic, net annual interest on the debt will more than triple during the next 10 years, according to the CBO, shooting from $207 billion this year to $723 billion in 2020, more than doubling as a share of GDP from 1.4% to 3.2%.
That's the debt service.
That's the interest.
The interest payment on the debt, 3.2% of GDP.
Unsustainable.
Unheard of.
Obama says we've turned the corner.
We've turned the corner on the economy.
One of the strongest dependency-creating special interests, government unions, reached a key tipping point this year.
It was a heritage analyst James Scherk who first documented that government union workers now outnumber those in the private sector.
And Thomas Edsel explains what this means for the American people.
The consequences of this shift are profound.
More government union workers than private sector union workers.
A majority of the American labor movement is now directly dependent on tax dollars for their compensation.
A majority of the American labor movement now directly dependent on tax dollars.
In terms of political orientation, these workers can now be described as tax consumers as well as taxpayers.
And for these government union workers, a tax increase may result in a slightly smaller paycheck.
But more importantly, the increase means more money is available to pay for raises and new benefits for government workers.
They don't produce anything.
Government workers produce nothing.
They are bureaucrats.
Not to slight them.
I mean, they're people.
They need jobs.
But this is not the kind of economic growth that anybody wants to see because it's not producing anything.
It is not expanding the private sector for average Americans to seek employment and to fulfill their dreams.
Now, as Heritage points out, we do not have to subject ourselves to chronically high unemployment and an ever-increasing government workforce.
As bad as the media makes this recession seem, job losses were actually worse in the 2001 recession.
And take a look, Brother, if you want to compare job creation, Bush after 9-11 and that recession versus job creation here with this regime, the Bush job creation vastly outperforms this regime.
And they were coming off 9-11.
The difference this time around is the private sector has not created new jobs to replace the lost ones as fast as it did in 2001 because we did not have an administration in 2001 that was incessantly growing government.
We had an administration in 2001 that wanted the private sector economy to recover.
Tax cuts were the order of the day.
Employment came back.
The economy came back.
We ended up at 4.7 unemployment, the media telling us we were in a recession, or trying to tell us that we were about to be in a recession.
The media tried to get you believing there was a recession for the last two years of the Bush administration.
They lie to this day telling you the recession began in 2007.
It didn't.
It started in 2008.
It has been exacerbated by the Obama regime.
Reduced hiring is particularly acute among small businesses.
They account for nearly 36% of net job losses in this recession.
In 2001, small business accounted for 12% of net job losses.
What small business needs start hiring is less government intervention in the economy, not more.
And as Christina Romer has written, stimulus.
Government stimulus does not work.
This is before she went to work for the regime, back after this.
Views expressed by the host on this show now documented to be almost always right 99.6% of the time.
Great to have you here.
Get this, Obama in North Carolina today in Charlotte to tout a business, a business that makes parts for lithium-ion batteries for computers and cell phones.
Now, an AP story, interestingly, about this, does not mention the name of the company.
Obama talks jobs to North Carolina audience payrolls improve.
Why, it's just like magic.
President Obama pushing his administration's plans to create jobs, a crucial campaign issue for Democrats.
As they look toward November's midterm elections, Obama planned remarks Friday at a North Carolina company that has hired new workers and expanded its operations with grants from the Economic Stimulus Program.
Obama's team wants to marry much-needed job creation with the politically sour stimulus, hoping that'll help Democrats gain favor with voters after a bruising year-long battle with Republicans over health care.
Now, this AP story never mentions the name of the company.
The company is Celguard.
And it's interesting, if you want a little bit about them, Celgard makes porous membranes for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in notebook computers and digital cameras and other similar devices.
The administration views Celguard or CalGuard, Celgard, whatever it is, as a green jobs success story.
And the regime is using this company as an example of a company that has prospered with federal help.
This company, Celgard, has been the beneficiary of $49 million from the feds from the stimulus plan.
Now, what we are supposed to learn from this is that this company is a success not because it makes a good product, a sound product at a reasonable price.
No, no, no, no, no.
The lesson that we are supposed to take from this is that this company is profitable because the government is making it profitable.
The government is using the coercive powers of the state to forcibly transfer hard-earned money from citizens in exchange for the right not to go to jail for refusing to fork it over.
So, you and I, taxpayer money was given to this company to make them profitable because Obama sees them as a green company.
He goes in there today and touts, oh man, what a great show this is.
See what your government can do for you.
This company wouldn't be nowhere without me and without my regime.
That's the lesson we're supposed to, and that's the talking point for the Democrat Party because nobody likes the stimulus.
So, he finds this company, and this is going to become this is like bringing a sob story out during a healthcare argument.
So, here's this little company was sagging and flagging.
It's been saved by the stimulus.
And this is going to be a major campaign talking point for the Democrats.
Now, to me, this is nothing to brag about, but for them, obviously, it is.
To me, the real heroes are the companies that, in spite of the damage this regime is inflicting on them, are prospering without federal help.
Those are the heroes.
Listen to this soundbite from the leader of the regime this afternoon, Charlotte, North Carolina.
I don't want government any more than is necessary, but there's some things that Bob or any CEO can invest in.
Bob's not going to build the roads to get to Selgard.
No company is going to make investments for a public good.
No company is going to make investments for a public good.
Good Lord.
I don't think I even know what vitriol is until I heard that.
No company is going to make investments for the public good.
What the hell do they do?
Bob's not going to make investments for the public good.
Bob here, the CEO at Celguard.
Bob's not going to build the roads to get to Celgard.
I bet Bob had to build a whole bunch of roads or parking lots, and I bet Bob had to go through a whole bunch of permit processes with the local government there to get permission to do every bit of building he had to do.
Does the government build every road to every business?
This is a great Obama slipping up here, folks.
I mean, he's getting off-message here.
The Democrats are getting off-message.
Yesterday, we had all those soundbites of the Democrats from Baucus to Howard Dean, to any number of Democrats saying that the health bill was really about redistribution, was really about the maldistribution of income, and the health care bill.
That's off-message.
That's not that, I mean, that brings back Joe the Plumber.
They don't want that.
I mean, their message is health insurance for all Americans, medical coverage for all of them.
No, no, no, it's not about that.
It's about redistributing wealth, which we've all known on this side of the aisle.
And now, play this again.
I don't want government any more than it's necessary.
That's a lie.
He wants government to be doing everything.
I don't want government any more than is necessary, but there's some things that Bob or any CEO can invest in.
Bob's not going to build the roads to get to Selgard.
No company is going to make investments for a public good.
No company is going to make investments for a public good.
It is astounding.
It is breathtaking.
I think it's worth repeating again.
And we do have the time to squeeze it in one more time before the break.
I don't want government any more than is necessary, but there are some things that Bob or any CEO can invest in.
Bob's not going to build the roads to get to Selgard.
No company is going to make investments for a public good.
No company is going to make investments for the public good.
I've always known that liberals despise corporations, but I never knew it was this victory of the mayor of Los Angeles is a Democrat, Antonio Villaragosa, or Villa Ragosa, and he's in a fight with the school unions.
He wants the unions to give some money back.
They simply can't sustain these previously made deals and pensions and everything else.
A Democrat fighting the unions to try to save the city of Los Angeles some money because it's in debt.
The state of California is in debt, soon to be Greece.
So what have they done?
They decided to shorten the school year by five days.
Teachers will not work five days.
They won't get paid.
The kids won't go to class for five days, which means they might learn more than if they were in class.
This is in Hawaii, their four-day school week now, the Friday furlough program, it's called, because they just don't have the money to make these education commitments, except they would have the money if they didn't have to honor these previously made unsustainable union deals.
Wherever there's a problem, wherever there's a business in problem, the odds are somewhere in the mix is going to be a union.
By the way, the Raleigh News and Observer has a little interesting factoid about Obama's trip here to this company, Celgard.
Obama's in there touting his jobs creation here with the unemployment.
And he's saying, look at what stimulus money can do.
Why, this company has been saved because of the stimulus.
And they're going to create 300 new jobs to make their lithium-ion batteries, their ion-lithium batteries.
They're used in electric cars, by the way, some kind of cars.
And, you know, these things, lithium is a neurotoxin.
If it gets into the groundwater, the animals get sick.
The human beings get sick.
Obama also wants to end the coal industry, but what are we going to generate electricity with?
To plug in and use these electric cars.
Anyway, CelGuard has not spent any of its stimulus money yet, according to federal documents.
$49 million, but they haven't spent any.
And the news observer here says that he's visiting a company that hasn't yet spent any of its stimulus money, according to federal documents.
But his visit highlights the administration's focus on using stimulus funds to create green jobs and produce energy efficiency.
Celguard would not talk yesterday about its plans or the specifics of its grant.
The governor's office has said the money will help create about 300 jobs over the next five years.
Critics say the government's job tallies can be misleading because companies are confused about how to report the data and because the government's instructions are prone to make them overreport the number.
It's like another caterpillar.
I guarantee you, this is going to be another caterpillar.
Well, this company, CelGuard, they're hoarding the cash.
They're hoarding the cash.
They haven't spent the $49 million.
By the way, I may now finally understand.
I told you why I've never received a census form since I was a little kid.
I remember as a little kid, the census people coming into the house.
I haven't seen a census form since I left home in 1970.
Here's a story from the record courier in Nevada.
Feeling left out by the Census Bureau, you're not alone.
According to officials, some Douglas County neighborhoods have been overlooked by census workers who were deliver forms to residents with post office boxes instead of fixed street addresses.
Now, it just so happens that Douglas County, the neighborhoods in question here, is a big Republican area.
And I've seen some emails come in that people say, I haven't gotten a census form either, Rush, and I'm Republican.
I didn't attach much to it, but now this newspaper has written about it.
Cheryl Bricker, the executive director of the Partnership of Community Resources, says, my phone's been ringing off the hook.
People know April 1 is Magic Count Day, and they don't have the form.
They're not coming in for assistance because they never got a form.
Bicker said Wednesday census workers were to distribute official forms to the homes of people with post office boxes.
Residents with street addresses should have received their forms in the mail well before the end of March.
I wonder how, wouldn't surprise me.
I wonder how widespread this is.
That areas thought to be Republican are even not getting forms or not being visited by the census work.
Nothing would surprise me.
Three more sound bites from Obama from Selgard today.
The economy is back, thanks to him.
Today is an encouraging day.
We learned that the economy actually produced a substantial number of jobs instead of losing a substantial number of jobs.
We are beginning to turn the corner.
This month, more Americans woke up, got dressed, and headed to work in an office or factory or storefront.
More folks are feeling the sense of pride and satisfaction that comes with a hard-earned and well-deserved paycheck.
This is a total disc.
This is what this regime does.
This regime tries to tell us how we're feeling.
This month, more Americans woke up, got dressed, and headed to work in an office or factory or storefront.
Storefront?
Factory?
These are all Marxist-Leninist terms.
So is worker.
More folks are feeling the sense of pride and satisfaction.
More folks are more scared than ever.
I just saw a chart on the percentage of Americans who think the country is headed in the wrong direction.
It's close to 60%.
There isn't a whole lot of happiness out there.
Here's Obama off script on drilling.
You've got some of my friends on the Republican side who were saying, well, this is a nice first step, but it's not enough.
You should open up everything.
Some of my colleagues on the Republican side, what they'll say is, you got to drill even more.
Just remember the statistic when you start hearing this.
We account for 2% of the world's oil reserves, but we use 20% of the world's oil.
We use 20%, we only got 2%.
We can't drill our way out of the problem.
We can.
We most certainly can.
There's more to it.
We are not using it.
We're buying it.
This is why this guy's angry and has a chip on his shoulder.
This whole statistic, we are 5% of the world's population and we use 25% of the world's resources.
This guy believes that we're stealing the resources from the poor people of the world while his brother still lives in a hut, a nine-square-foot hut, home sweet hut.
His brother still lives in a hut.
He thinks we, the American people, are raping and robbing the other people of the world for our lifestyle, which is way too high and we don't deserve it.
And now the same theory on oil.
We use 20% of it, but we only have 2%.
We're using more than our share.
We're buying it.
And if we didn't, somebody else would.
But he thinks that we're stealing it.
But then after saying that, he said this.
We don't yet have the technological breakthroughs that can completely replace fossil fuels.
So for the next 10 years, next 20 years, we're still going to be using oil.
We're still going to be using coal.
We're still going to be using natural gas.
We're still going to be using the traditional sources to fuel our cars, to heat our homes, to run our big power plants, etc.
Somebody, somebody call Ed Begley.
Somebody call the environmentalist wackos.
They're having heart attacks out there.
We're not going to get rid of oil for 20 years.
We don't have the magical technology.
What happened to green jobs?
What happened to all these people investing in these stupid windmills?
What happened to the magic of solar panels?
What happened to all of this?
Now it's we can't replace fossil fuels.
They're going to be using natural gas.
We're going to be using coal.
I think almost 50% of the electricity in this country is generated by coal.
And he said during the campaign he wanted to get rid of, he wanted to wipe it out.
If you want to build a coal-fired plant, you can, but you are going to pay through the nose.
You're going to lose money.
I'm going to make sure to see to it.
President Obama, the leader of the regime, will be back.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity, meeting all audience expectations and surpassing them each and every day.
You know, it seems to me Barack Obama was much more forgiving of Jeremiah Wright's anger and vitriol than he was his own grandmother, typical white woman.
He was much more forgiving of the 9-11 terrorists' anger than he is of me and any of his domestic critics.
Well, yeah, we were told that we need to understand why they hate us.
There may be a reason they're doing this.
There may be a justified reason why they're doing this.
We have to understand why they don't like us, why they are angry.
But when it comes to us, there's no desire to understand why we're angry.
There's no forgiving tolerance of our anger.
No, we're called troublesome.
Troublesome.
King Henry VIII said of one of his primary political critics, Thomas Beckett, King Henry VIII, getting rid of the Catholic Church, starting the Church of England.
Thomas Beckett or Thomas More, a lot of people said, no, I'm not going to support you in this, King Henry.
And King Henry VIII said, who will rid me of this troublesome priest?
And four of his guards assumed that King Henry VIII wanted him dead, so they murdered him.
The word troublesome.
Well, I am the troublesome, vitriolic Rush Limbaugh, archenemy of the regime.
To the phones we go.
Nikki, Davenport, Iowa, great to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
Thank you.
My name is Nikki with an M. Sorry.
I can only read what's written for me up there.
The teleprompter got it wrong.
You were talking about vitriol.
Well, I have a good example.
There was a cartoon in one of the local papers, and the first column showed a very angry little man holding a sign that said, kill the bill.
And the second panel, he was even angrier.
He kind of looked like the Tasmanian devil.
And the sign said, just kill the.
And then in the third panel, he looked totally berserk, and the sign just said, kill.
Now, if some loony out there goes and hurts somebody, who are they setting up to take the blame?
The cartoonists.
I mean, to follow their logic, the cartoonist will have blood on his hands.
I know what you're getting at.
They're trying to incite incidents with Tea Party people to get them to behave in ways like shouting the N-word or throwing eggs at people and so forth.
And when that doesn't happen, they have to make up and lie about the incident.
So this editorial cartoonist is doing much the same thing.
Right.
And it made me very angry.
And I called the editor, and he just kind of laughed it off.
Well, of course.
A news business is the only business where the customer is always wrong.
The news business is the only business where you have no clue how hard their job is.
You don't understand in any way, shape, manner, or form how they do what they do.
Your criticism is irrelevant.
Yeah.
All right.
Thank you, Rush.
Thank you for all that you do.
Thank you, Mickey.
It is a lot, I understand.
Thank you so much.
Matthew Richmond, Virginia, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
I'm a conservative college student at Virginia Commonwealth University here in Richmond.
Yeah.
And I have a history class this semester.
And the professor, we started talking about modern Russian history.
And the professor starts going through Lenin's economic program.
And in the same breath, starts praising Obama's economic policy about its fairness and inclusiveness.
And I mean, the indoctrination that's going on in universities and in public education, Rush, is frightening.
Now, let me ask you a further question.
Was he praising Lenin and his economic program?
He was praising Obama's economic policy and kind of paralleling it to what Lenin was doing with restoring wealth to, like you say, the rightful owners, about attacking capitalism and attacking business owners and instead returning the, I guess, the voice of the people back to the working class.
I just want to make sure, because this is this profound, we've had Fidel Castro praising the health care bill.
Now you've got a history professor analogizing Obama's economic plans to Lenin's.
Yes.
Well, there you have it.
I mean, you obviously have a communist professor.
Oh, I have numerous communist professors.
And at the end, he's asking if anybody disagrees.
And obviously my hand shoots up.
And I start going through everything with Captain Trade with healthcare.
And he goes, what do you think Obama's agenda is?
And I said, we have a president now who is trying to destroy private enterprise every chance that he has.
I said, everything's about control.
It's about making people so dependent on government that they garnish votes for the Democratic establishment.
So what did his commi pinko professor say to that?
Of course, he gets into, I mean, he can't counter it.
That's what I've learned, that liberal argument is 99% emotional base, and the other 1% that's actually facts is generally skewed or they're completely misrepresented.
And so he started just painting me as the evil capitalist conservative and he as the compassionate liberal.
Yep, you nailed it.
Exactly right.
Has this hurt your grade, Emmy?
No, I think he's realized that I'm not going to back down.
So it's better just to, you know, it's page one at the liberal handbook.
If you can't silence the opposition, just try to attack it.
So he tries to, you know, attack me personally in the class, but my grade hasn't been affected.
If you can't silence it, attack it.
If you can't silence it, offend it.
Right, that's exactly right.
I mean, that's what the left is doing with the Tea Party movement.
I'm a Tea Party patriot and speaker here at Richmond, and, you know, it appalls me to see what the left is doing.
And you have people in Democratic process who are coming out to oppose Obama.
People from all walks of life, conservative and moderate Democrats.
That's right.
They're being called racists.
Yep, they're trying to recreate the whole civil rights movement here around this healthcare bill.
Anyway, Matthew, I'm glad you called.
Thanks much.
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Folks, I misspoke.
It was not Henry VIII who said, who will rid me of this troublesome priest?
It was Henry VII.
And now I'm going to get notes.
No, it wasn't Henry VIII.
It was Henry II.
I misspoke.
King Henry II who said of Thomas Beckett, who will rid me of this troublesome pest?
It was just verbal dyslexia.
But critics are waiting to pounce on how I always get facts wrong and make them up.