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April 5, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 5, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone, our telephone number 800 282-2882.
Email address, Lrushball at EIBnet.com.
I've had a couple of emails asking me, are you really serious about this regime business?
Are you just trying to be funny and irritate them?
No, well, yeah, I don't mind irritating them, as you uh as you well know, but I'm serious about it.
Let me give you just a recent example of why this is a regime.
Take a look at ATT, John Deere, uh caterpillar, Verizon.
A number of companies found the elimination of a tax provision in the health care bill that requires them, if they follow the law, to take a charge to their bottom line by however much it's gonna cost them by having this tax cut taken away from them, the tax break.
In the case of ATT, it's a billion dollars.
The law says, thanks to the Enron scandal, that you have to take the charge against your bottom line during the quarter the legislation was passed, not implemented, but passed or signed.
Well, that happens to be the first quarter of this year.
And they found it, and so these companies have taken a charge in the case of ATT of a billion bucks to their bottom line.
That's one billion out of three.
Now, other companies smaller, based on their size, number of employees, and so forth, but the key here is that the law says you have to take the charge in the quarter in which the legislation was signed into law.
So what happens to these guys?
They follow the law, because if they don't, the SEC is gonna end up on their back.
So they follow the law, and what happens?
They get the essence of a subpoena from Henry Waxman and Mart Stupak of their oversight committee, demanding that these guys show up and not just show up, but they show up with their books to explain themselves.
Because everybody knows Obamacare is going to reduce costs.
And they think that this is a trick that all of these Republican CEOs are playing on our poor young, young president, Obama.
Well, now that is what makes this a regime.
They follow the law to keep the SEC off their backs.
When that doesn't work, the regime comes after you.
This is the regime.
These companies are following the law.
They're taking the charge as the law prescribes, and yet the regime is coming after them to make them justify themselves, to explain themselves.
Henry Waxman's not go right, got no right to these books.
Henry Waxman has no right to any of this.
But these guys go up there and they'll open the books because when the regime calls you, the regime calls you.
Chris, if you don't like regime, I'll call them a junta.
You know, whatever.
They're governing against the will of the people, it simply doesn't matter.
Backroom deals, bribes, unconstitutionality in order to get legislation passed.
Legislation a vast majority of American people don't want.com.
Very long, I'm not going to read the whole thing to you, but you'll get the gist.
The early battle cry of repeal and replace has become stuck in a few Republican throats.
The thinking among top Republicans is that outright repeal of Obamacare might be impossible, leading to frustration among an energized base that demands nothing less.
There is also some apprehension that an uncompromising push for repeal will alienate moderate and independent voters in I you know this.
If there's anybody in our side that believes that, they seriously need a head cracking.
Independents and moderates, upset if we try to repeal it.
Who the hell do they think is deserting Obama in droves Because of health care.
It's independence.
The Republicans are ahead by nine points in the generic ballot, something like that.
Are we back to this again?
Are we back to this cowardice in the Republican Party where they're afraid that if they do anything that appears to be counter confrontational, that the moderates and independents are going to like it and start running back to Obama?
That is frankly absurd.
Declaring repeal to be impossible is a self-fulfilling prophecy of American decline.
A slap dash pile of graft and fraudulent cost projections passed by a fantastically corrupt Congress that claims it couldn't hear the muffled screams of the outraged electorate through the thick doors of their smoke-filled rooms instantly becomes an eternal component of our lives.
That'll only be true if we make it true, and even then it won't be true for long.
One way or another.
Obamacare won't last far beyond the point where your kids go bankrupt trying to pay for it.
The American entitlement states, the world's tallest, shakiest house of cards.
We can find the strength and self-respect to repeal this garbage now or weep in shame and confusion when it implodes after years of increasing poverty and decreasing public health.
That's just the open.
It goes on for another two and a quarter pages.
And I firmly agree with it.
I firmly, this this idea of repeal and replace and so forth, uh just repeal it.
Just repeal it.
And it can be done.
Stephen Spruell, National Review Online.
Does Kentucky's experience with health insurance over regulation hold lessons for repealing Obamacare?
In the mid-1990s, Kentucky was one of eight state governments that boldly went where the rest of the country refused to go.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky imposed Clinton care's restrictions on its insurance companies, even though Clinton care had been vanquished from the national stage.
In Kentucky and the other seven states, insurance premiums skyrocketed, healthy people stopped buying insurance, insurance companies exited the market in droves.
Only three of the eight states were able to untangle themselves from the provisions, and only one of them, Kentucky, was able to pull off a full repeal.
Trey Grayson was elected Kentucky Secretary of State in 2003 the year before Governor Ernie Fletcher was able to finalize the repeal.
It took ten years to accomplish.
Grayson, currently running for the Republican nomination to replace Jim Bunning, says that those pushing to repeal Obamacare can take a few lessons from Kentucky.
On the one hand, it gives you some hope because in Kentucky we were able to gradually repeal the elements that were driving up the number of uninsured, that were increasing premiums at a rate higher than the national average, that were driving insurance companies out of the state.
Unfortunately, it took ten years, caused rates to be higher, but our economy and our it hurt our economy, hurt our state government from a revenue standpoint.
A lot of damage was done in those ten years.
Then they get into the history of how it all happened, but they have the same components.
You didn't have to buy insurance until you got sick.
You didn't have to buy insurance if you don't want to.
Thank you.
At all.
Now, they do point out that's not quite the case in Obamacare.
Everybody has to buy insurance.
Or pay a fine, which is much less than the policy will be.
And so people will pay the fine.
There will be people uninsured.
What happened in Kentucky, documented here in this piece by Stephen Spruill at National Review Online, is exactly what we've been predicting will happen with Obamacare.
Once you make an insurance company cover somebody only from the moment they get sick or have the accident, it's not insurance anymore.
And eventually, premiums skyrocketed in order to pay for this because you weren't buying premiums.
You were buying actual coverage or actual payment for treatment.
Insurance companies fled the state.
They just closed up shop.
It got so bad, so expensive, it caused more people to lose coverage because more companies went out the door.
The state did not pick up the slack.
Republicans and Democrats worked together to fix it.
Back in 1994, they thought Hillary Care was the best thing to come down to Pike, so they implemented it anyway, even though it was vanquished.
So it took ten years.
One out of eight states was able to fully repeal it.
Two or three engaged in partial repeals.
But it can be done.
And this guy who calls himself Dr. Zero is exactly right.
We're either going to repeal this or it's going to implode at some point down the line, probably when your children start earning enough money to pay taxes if they're not all ready.
It'll be your kids and your grandkids.
It'll probably implode before your grandkids start paying anything.
But either way, it's going to terminate.
But if we repeal it, we have a chance of saving the country.
If it implodes, we lose the country as we know it, which is what all this opposition to it is about in the first place.
That's why we're saying we just don't want to lose the country as it was founded.
We just, we just don't.
Now, another thing that we want to we want to take up on this program today, in addition to uh who is the Tea Party, Mark Stein got a thread going at the National Review Online Corner on, I guess it's Friday or Saturday of last week.
He posted a piece by a professor, interestingly enough, from Hillsdale College, who said that uh he thinks that this time this is our finest hour.
The conservatives' finest hour.
This guy said we are not, it's Paul Rahe, uh R-A-H-E.
I don't know how he pronounces it.
Maybe Ray.
Hillsdale professor, that he wrote, we're not yet a people apt to acquiesce in dictates handed down by our lords and masters from the regime.
When Britain and Canada drifted into socialism, there were no Tea Parties spontaneously formed by ordinary citizens to stop it.
The British and the Canadians lacked the spirit of resistance, though to be fair, uh it lived on in the likes of Margaret Thatcher.
We Americans are made of sterner stuff.
During the Cold War, we defended the free world in our absence.
I'm convinced everybody else would have given away.
In my view, Obama and today's Democrat Party represent the last gasp of the progressive impulse.
The tyrannical ambition hidden at the heart of progressivism's quest for what FDR termed "rational administration" Obama has made manifest.
And to all with eyes to see, the danger that we have temporized with for nearly a century is now perfectly visible, meaning they're out in the open.
We know exactly who they are.
They're not even hiding it.
What is required in what he calls this defining moment is what Lincoln once called a new birth of freedom.
The period we just entered could be our finest hour.
Now, this started an interesting flood of reaction.
Because Paul Ray, or Rahi, the guy from Hillsdale, basically said, since the left is making it clear who they are, and it is so repugnant, so repugnant to Americans.
There's no chance that they have to go any further than this.
This is their Waterloo, even passing it.
Now he's a down-the-line constitutional scholar, educated individual as well, must be to teach at Hillsdale.
But it's interesting, there were two people, young people, judging by their pictures, they were in their 20s or 30s, who reacted to him with total objection, based on the laziness and the entitlement expectations of their own generation.
I'll share that with you when we come back.
Don't go away.
I told you we had a lot to do today.
We're going to get to your phone calls in the next half hour.
I promise.
Okay, so Paul Rahe.
Or Paul Ray, somebody find out how to pronounce that for me because I'm just, I don't like mispronouncing somebody's name.
Hillsdale College, this is a golden opportunity.
The left is totally exposed.
The American people, when they see this kind of ultra radicalism, want no part of it.
Could be our finest hour.
Mark Stein published that response, uh, National Review Corner over the weekend.
Somebody named the Hyacinth Girl, have no idea who what her name is.
She's got a blog, has her picture next to it.
She looks very young.
Looks like a blonde in her twenties.
It's Ray.
Paul Ray, thank you.
Uh and she looks very young in her twenties.
She's one of us.
She writes, while it would be super awesome if Paul Ray were right.
I'm not holding my breath.
Perhaps I'm too cynical.
But with our near permanent welfare class and a generation of kids who've been told that they are children into their late twenties.
I can't imagine a prolonged revolt against Obamacare.
As I've said before, ultimately free candy wins.
Of course, there will still be the core of the Tea Party, but when the outrage wanes, a lot of people are going to tell themselves that, well, if the government's giving things away, they might as well get in on it.
I mean, why fight it?
If it's going to happen anyway, you might as well benefit from it, right?
Culturally, we readily accept the idea that we must follow the whims of our betters.
How else do you explain the thousands of Rachels roaming the country throughout the nineties?
How else do you explain the persistence of Hollywood to dictate public policy and influence presidential elections?
Obama's our first cool president, put into office by the endorsements of our self-appointed betters.
Celebrities are our new royalty, and sadly for this nation, the opinion of Jennifer Anniston is a lot more important than cold hard facts.
We're a lazy, spoiled ADHD culture.
Soft and uninterested in thinking for ourselves.
At least my generation is.
I met women my age who are almost proud of knowing nothing about politics.
A mother once I have too, by the way, of all ages.
A mom told me once, can you just write up a list of people we should vote for?
Her play dates or soccer games or story times at the bookstore were much more important, obviously.
Sooner or later, the outrage runs out.
The relentless media rebranding of the teabaggers as angry, racist, uneducated, violent militants becomes mainstream knowledge and a pushback against a gaping maw of massive government and taxpayer debt becomes the last gasp of the marginalized, unnecessary white male, which is paradoxically sometimes led by an attractive young, strong and well-spoken woman.
But it's best not to think about that for too long.
I think this is a woman in her late twenties writing this.
I'm just basing it on her picture.
As a society, we've accepted the idea that the famous are better than the normal.
Certain educational levels render one more or less credible to form a coherent thought.
Where one's diploma is from further underscores the previous point.
The wealthy are inherently smarter than the poor.
Journalists have our best interests at heart, and since they've got degrees, we should really listen to them.
So I'm not buying the idea that Obama's screwing up in phenomenal fashion and taking the Democrat Party with him.
If a coordinated attack on the American mainland and the deaths of over 3,000 civilians doesn't rouse and maintain the interest of a sleeping giant, what makes you think that the relatively instant gratification of uninsurable expensive entitlements will.
That's one reaction to Paul Ray.
There's another one.
And this is from a blog called A Five Feet of Fury.
And again, I don't know who wrote this.
These people, if they have, if they name themselves, I can't find it.
Paul Ray's America doesn't exist anymore.
It's a friendly argument I've had with allies.
They counter my pessimism about ever changing Canada's politically correct culture by reminding me about, say, Canada's bravery on Juno Beach.
But of course, most of those men are dead.
The Canada that produced them was intentionally destroyed in the 1960s.
And now we see the results.
And now Hillsdale's Paul Ray writes of his fellow Americans, we are not yet a people apt to acquiesce in dictates handed down by our lords and masters.
Well, the article would have more relevance, be more realistic if it had been dated 1955 or so.
We do see the resistance laws in the Tea Party movement today, obviously.
But the trouble with the Tea Party movement is that they tend to target their anger at only one source: government.
However, angry Americans really need to face the unfaceable, that most of their fellow citizens are just as corrupt, just as incompetent, and just as compromised.
Who do you think elected these people?
Ray talks about the American Revolution and so on, but the nation's ethnic makeup is different now, for one thing.
Way more residents, invaders, settlers from different cultures, more illiterates, more people with no sense of history.
Plus, there's the Katrina culture.
Did any of those help-us types waving on the government to rescue them, look capable of crossing a Delaware to you with George Washington?
He'd have been more inclined to steal his boots.
It goes on to quote Paul Ryan, uh...
That we've reached a tipping point where more people receive some sort of government aid than do not.
So the question, the qu and I never do this, folks, I rarely do this, but I'm going to ask you what do you think?
Normally these programs are about what I think.
What do you think?
Is Paul Ray right?
This our finest hour, because of who this bunch is, we have a better chance than ever of defeating liberalism, or is the country lost?
Too many lazy entitled people who want to get in on the goodies.
Young people, generations who've been brainwashed and just think anything government does is wonderful, anything journalists says is right.
So what is it?
Are these two young people right?
Our young generation and most Americans just don't have the stomach for the fight.
You won't find the equivalent of the founding fathers among them.
You won't find the equivalent of by the way, in this point, you know, I've been talking with people about this personally.
And uh, you know, we have in the Republican Party, some of the big donors, some of the wealthiest Republicans, really pride themselves on being moderates.
They're the kind that would not like me, for example.
These guys would no more take any action that might cost them a penny, such as repealing health care, such as, I mean, these people I'm talking about have the kind of money to pay whatever health care is going to cost them and not worry and not even miss it.
Now there aren't a lot of them, but they are the people who are going to oppose this kind of thing, and they're going to give money to other Republicans who oppose repeal.
My point is that the founding fathers, even though, even though back in the in the in the colonial days, only one-third of the columnists were in favor of revolution.
The leaders were in favor of it.
But to say that we might have the equivalent of the colonist population, and we don't, ethnicity is one thing, but wealth is another.
A lot of people, despite all that's gone on, are pretty comfortable.
I mean, look at the signers of the declaration.
It certainly is frowning at me.
Look at the signers of the declaration.
They pledge their lives, their sacreds, their fortunes, their sacred honor, and they lost it.
They lost it all, they lost kids.
You think anybody alive today is willing to go through that to repeal health care, even if it is to literally save the country as founded.
Now I'm not saying we're going to need that.
I'm just, I'm just illustrating here why these young people are saying what they're saying.
You take that and you couple it with the younger generation that they know, and they see a bunch of sloth.
They see a bunch of kids that have been coddled and told their kids till they're 27 now.
I and they see kids that uh uh been programmed with attention deficit disorder all on Ritalin or whatever the drug is that makes them zombies.
You know, just zomp just the zoned out zombies.
Uh, not a whole lot of initiative, high expectations just because they might graduate from college.
And then you you couple that with the fact there's no jobs for them to go get once they graduate.
So what choice do they have?
Live at home with mom, stay on the health care insurance, and hope that dad doesn't lose the gig or that his house loses value.
But I got a story in the Wall Street Journal today about just such a family, um, upper middle class, very professional, guy earned half a million dollars a year.
He got canned, he's got three kids starting school in two years, fifty grand a year each tuition, he doesn't know how he's gonna pay for it.
He's been saving for it all of his life, and it's gone.
And Obama applauds, by the way.
This this is the this this family is the precise target of the regime's agenda.
Or instead of the circumstances these young people describe it, is Obama ultimately transformational.
Has Obama made a profound influence on America?
More than Goldwater, more than Buckley, even more than Reagan.
Has Obama transformed our country from left to right?
This is what Paul Ray is saying.
He has shown Republicans and independents and free thinkers what left wing radicalism is and what it leads to.
He has reshaped the Republican Party into the Conservative Party.
Asking you if you agree with this.
Do you think this is on the way to being true?
He could turn out to be one of the great American this is what Paul Ray is saying.
He could be uh one of the great American presidents by leaving us a legacy that'll get America back on track.
That's what Ray is saying.
So which of these two do you believe?
And all of this revolves around repealing health care.
You know, that's the new battle crime.
Is it worth it?
Can it work?
Or will there not be popular support for it?
And even if there's not popular support for it, should we try?
Well, yeah, I mean, there's no question we should try and do whatever it takes to get it done.
So while you mull that, let me go to the phones now.
People have been waiting since the beginning of the uh Well, the another thing, the founding fathers didn't have any bread and circus acts.
There was no big time television, media, Hollywood, all this to distract them.
You know, it took days to get a letter delivered to anybody.
Now all we have is Facebook, MySpace, my butt, my nose, whatever the hell it is.
You know, everybody vomiting everything there is, but there's instant this, instant that.
Um all these people using my face, my space, my butt, uh Twitter fame.
What what what time do they have to think about politics or the future of liberty?
They're all into themselves.
That's what these two young people, I think, are essentially saying.
And by the way, you know, Great Britain used to they the empire, the old saying the sun never set on the British Empire.
Look at them now.
And World War II.
That's what Churchill said was their finest hour.
And look how little time it took them to totally crash and become the socialist democracy they are now, after their finest hour.
So we say, Well, we're not the Brits.
We have exceptionalism.
There is American exceptionalism, not that we're better people.
I've been through this riff before.
So I just put the question to you.
What do you think?
Is it over?
Or is this a great opportunity?
To the phones we go.
Ed in Palm Beach, Florida, thank you very much for waiting, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Brush.
It's really an honor to talk to you today.
I I've never called a radio show before.
I've listened to you for since you've been on the air, but I I just got so aggravating listening to the administration's arguments that they're doing everything to help commercial lending when I know it's not true.
And I just thought I'm all members.
Well, please do it.
You don't sound nervous at all.
By the way, you live in Palm Beach, you live on the beach.
No.
Okay.
I'm actually in uh about 15 minutes west of you.
Oh.
Well, that means you have to be south because 50 minutes away from me is in the inlet.
I'm not on the water, I'm well.
But I can't say we bought our car at the same place.
We both have the same car.
Uh, like I say, it's an honor.
I did want you to know I've been in commercial lending for about 40 years.
And I've got to tell you, I have I've lived through all the recessions of the 70s, the eighties, the terrible time in the 90s.
Nothing has compared to this.
I mean, I think we have a situation now that most people aren't even aren't even aware of what's going on.
I'm a commercial lender.
I have for example, I have a client in in Maryland that has about twelve million dollars worth of equities being held by the bank.
He owes them two million dollars.
His credit is as high as in the high eight hundreds, he's a perfect uh credit risk.
He's never missed a payment.
And he told me a couple of months ago in a panic that the bank had called his loan.
So I know the people with the bank.
I called them and said, why would you do this to this guy?
He owes two million dollars, you're holding twelve million dollars worth of real estate collateral.
And they're telling me that a twenty-seven-year-old from this administration has come into the bank substituting his judgment with the bank manager's judgment who's been there 35 years and saying you have to get these loans off the books.
Now he's done he is in a panic because he doesn't have two million dollars.
Now wait, wait a second here.
And what agency is the twenty-seven-year-old punk from.
Well, these people that audit the banks.
I don't they're different, I guess from Resolution Trust or for uh they go in, they audit these banks, and they don't let them capitalize loans.
They have all kind of new regulations.
First of all, uh what aggravates me about the Republicans is they they keep talk the Democrats keep talking about uh do you want to go back to the Bush times?
Well, the truth is uh what was so wrong about the Bush times?
I know what caused this problem.
Uh between two thousand and two thousand and six we had the strongest economy that the United States ever had.
Uh we had four percent uh unemployment.
We had uh and I don't know why the Republicans aren't saying this.
We had you know, people want to sell the house, got the t highest prices for their house.
Uh things were great.
What what turned the economy, there are two basic things that turned the economy, and I saw it coming.
One was when Barney Frank and Senator Dog uh changed the rules at FHA and Fannie Mae, and I heard about it in two thousand and six with this SASI loans, which were where people could buy houses and stated income and stated assets.
Yeah.
And uh it's part of the subprime problem, right?
I pardon me.
Part of the subprime problem.
But I know President Bush and his administration fought that, but they didn't get anywhere.
I think uh Senator McCain proposed legislation to stop it.
But you had uh Reigns and Johnson who had taken over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who are now getting a percentage of every loan.
So anybody who could make an X would get a loan.
And I think you're aware one of them left with ninety million dollars and one left with ten million dollars while they destroyed the the country.
Uh between that when I heard about that problem, we started uh liquidating it on loans because I saw this coming, and I'm just a very small guy.
And I saw it coming.
They had to know it was coming.
Frankly, I think they're doing it on purpose.
I was just gonna get there.
I was just gonna get there because the Democrat National Committee and the media, the whole Democrat Party turned the economy in order to run in two thousand six and win Congress back.
They have been talking up a recession for who knows how long.
They it the the subprime line uh subprime crisis, loaning people the money, the money that they could never pay back.
They knew what the result was going to be.
They wanted this chaos.
They wanted to be able to blame it on Bush.
Bush was in power, Republicans ran the Congress up until this time.
They wanted to blame all this.
They needed a bad economy to get back in power, and they got it.
You are absolutely correct.
And why the Republicans aren't saying that, uh, it surprises me.
Now people have been asking me for 20 years, uh, why don't the Republicans say, I don't know.
I really haven't the slightest idea.
I mean, you are right on, and you've always been right on it.
You have not only the the show that's the most correct and most informative, but uh do I say the most uh entertaining quite a talent that you have.
Uh but I love listening to you.
Uh this economy is terrible.
It's it's breaking my heart.
I've done very well.
I'm almost 70 years old, and and I'm sure I'll live out my life uh uh financially secure.
But watching so many people, we've had hundreds of clients that are just terrified.
I ha I had dinner with somebody the other night who told me that his wife goes to bed every night crying.
I mean, this is really, really a terrible.
I think this administration is the worst threat against the United States in two hundred years.
Let me ask you a question about your statement that you have uh enough wealth to um survive this or withstand it or so forth.
Do you think you really do?
Well, I'm not asking for a number, but I'm you know, I I know a lot of people who think they've got a lot of wealth who the way this administration's going envisioned a day where over half of it is just confiscated.
Rush, I was brought up, I was very pained from a very poor family.
I've done very, very well.
Uh did not graduate college.
I love this country.
It's been a great country.
I see people have opportunities here that they could have nowhere else in the world.
And what's happening now is truly heartbreaking.
Do I think I have enough?
Yes, I think I do.
Do I have less wealth than I did two years ago?
Far less.
Uh but I talked to people in in much worse shape than myself.
Right.
I talked to somebody here in Palm Beach yesterday that I ran into at Costco.
We put a large edition on our home, and he was performing, and I hadn't seen him since 05.
His wife worked for Washington Mutually.
Wait a minute.
People uh people live in Palm Beach go to Costco.
Yeah, they do.
Yeah, they're very popular.
I'm just kidding, folks.
I'm just kidding.
Uh I'll bet you go to publics yourself, too.
Yep, I do.
No, I knew it.
Yes, I we have to eat.
Uh but no, things things are are very scary right now.
I know.
I uh it's I I'm I am I'm horrified.
I am terrified for the future of the country.
I really am.
Uh and and not for myself.
Uh I'm I'm not the guy who makes the country work.
The people who make the country work are having opportunity just yanked out from under them.
It is just it is frustrating, it is maddening, and it's it's depressing at the same time.
Ed, thanks much for the call.
We'll be right back.
Sit tight.
And we're back.
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You know, folks, we're always told that uh the economy and our individual states of mind are all about confidence, right?
And it's true.
And the Democrats did everything they could to undermine that conference, their confidence, starting first with the war on the war, or the attack on the war in Iraq.
This war is lost.
They tried to squish our confidence over victory by calling our soldiers terrorists, rapists, murderers, thugs, and all that.
And when they gave up on losing the war, they did all they could to destroy our confidence in the economy.
The one great thing about this country that has distinguished us from the rest of the world, and there are many.
But economically, the one great thing.
We are the one country in the world that has never had a permanent underclass until we got LBJ's Great Society, until the war on poverty and the Obama regime needs a permanent underclass to get and retain power, and they are doing all they can to get a permanent underclass.
All of these taxes coming in Obamacare are going to ensure that the middle class will not be able to rise up the income quintiles and better themselves.
Too much of what they earn will be taken away.
They will never have the disposable income to uh expand their style of living.
This, my friends, is by design.
Here's a story from the uh Detroit News.
Department workers overwhelmed with requests, delays in aid increase.
Welfare caseloads rise, cause frustration.
So here is how America is facing its finest hour, the struggle to give out more benefits.
This story is about how hard it is for the government to meet the demand for benefits.
Now, admittedly, it's Detroit.
Well, they're in bad shape in Michigan.
I mean, don't laugh in there, Snerdley.
They're in bad shape.
I'm not saying Detroit's America, but I mean it's it's it's it's an example here.
Paul Ray at Hillsdale, this America's finest hour.
Well, here's an example of it.
The struggle to give out more benefits.
State welfare workers are juggling an astronomical number of requests for help, causing delays and emergency benefits to families, and in some cases, kicking them mistakenly off welfare, according to state employees and welfare recipients.
So welfare recipients are now.
Experts, their sources.
In quotes, try this.
Unrelated, the D District of Columbia is not collecting as much money as it thought it would from its tax on disposable bags at the grocery store.
I mean, get rid of the plastic bags.
This is, they say this is good news.
People are using the bags less.
Because they're not collecting as much tax from.
That's good.
The problem is when they realize they're not collecting as much tax, they're going to raise taxes somewhere else.
In order to make up for the fact that you're following blindly their wishes not to use the destructive and destroying plastic bags.
Back in a second.
To further the point here, uh, folks, about a permanent underclass, which is the objective here.
Uh, the more dependence Obama creates, the less upward mobility because their work ethic will be ruined, among other facts.
And if they can't find a job, what can they do anyway?
How do you move up and if you can't find a job, the best way to control people is to keep them unemployed and subsisting on a very small endowment?
Uh they hated Reagan.
They despised Reagan because he almost destroyed LBJ's permanent underclass.
And that's why they hate Reagan.
He got in their way.
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