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April 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 8, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
How can this be?
How in the world could this have happened?
For the life of me, folks, I can't figure it out.
Jobless claims increase unexpectedly.
Who knew?
I mean, I thought the most recent report we had was that 162,000 new jobs are created.
And the recovery was in full steam.
And we're going to come back to glory.
And now this.
Labor department said today first-time claims increased by 18,000 in the week ending April 3rd to a seasonally adjusted.
460,000, that's worse than economists' estimates of a drop to 435,000.
Of course, here comes the excuse.
There's always an excuse here.
Easter can be difficult since the holiday occurs in different weeks every year.
I'll tell you, they're brain dead.
Media totally brain did.
They're going out of business right before our very eyes, and they don't care.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Slightly more than 5.8 million people were receiving extended benefits.
In the weekend March 20th, that's the latest data available, a drop of about 230,000 for the previous week.
The extended benefit data is not seasonally adjusted and is volatile from week to week.
These are the ones that don't count.
These are ones they don't count.
And this we're not even factoring the people here who have uh given up looking for work.
We never do in this report, which is called the uh the U3.
The uh let's see, CNN, uh jobless claims soar.
Drudge has a great headline and picture.
He's got Obama smiling big time with the Russians as he's signing this worthless meeting.
Well, it's not worthless, this this stupid arms reduction treaty over there in uh wherever he is.
And the the headline is phone home, jobless claims rise again.
But Obama with a big excrement eating grin on his face.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment insurance for the first time jumped last week.
Continuing claims data exclude people whose benefits expired, or those who have moved to state or federal extensions, it reflects those filing each week after their initial claim until the end of their standard benefits, which uh usually lasts 26.
What 26 weeks?
We're up to 99 now.
And they'll uh they'll be extended again.
Folks, look at don't don't misunderstand here.
I'm not I'm not joyous about this.
Um I'm I'm I'm crushed by this.
I am so angry by this, I can't describe it because all of this, all of this is by design.
All of this is where is Obama's laser-like focus on the economy and jobs?
It doesn't exist.
Here from Mess NBC, 1.2 million households lost to recession.
As friends and families double up, overcrowding is up five fold.
What recovery?
This is basically 1.2 million people who are homeless.
You realize homelessness never even exists usually during a Democrat regime.
Homelessness is exclusively a Republican presidential problem.
But they can't even hide this.
Since Richard Brown lost his job to the recession and his Boston home to foreclosure a year ago, he's been working short-term consulting assignments till he gets back on his feet.
In the meantime, he's been couch surfing.
Yeah, I've lived with my brother, I've lived with my cousin, my friend, and my dad.
IRS keeps calling me asking me what's your address.
I say, what week is this?
Given the depth of the downturn in 2009 and the ongoing weakness in the job market to the beginning of the year.
The study gives no reason to expect that household formations picked up at all.
Really?
Who knew?
Gary Painter, professor at the University of Southern California who conducted the study.
So in the midst of a story about 1.2 million households lost to the recession, we get a guy saying there's no reason to expect household formations picked up at all.
Really?
What's your first clue?
Why did you need to do a study?
All you gotta do is look out the window.
That's just depressing.
Falling homeownership levels, rise in homelessness.
So far, lenders have been slow to cut the size of a mortgage to make monthly payments more affordable.
I thought Obama took care of that.
As a result, an increasing number of families are walking away from their homes in a process known in the industry as strategic default.
Between 2005 and 2008, those 1.2 million households were lost even as the population grew by 3.4 million.
All right, folks, look.
Time's up.
We have had enough, and we do have enough hard evidence to pass judgment here on the regime.
Enough time's gone by.
Sufficient facts are known.
We don't need any more evidence.
We don't need any more unemployment numbers or foreclosure numbers or homeless numbers.
We don't need any more evidence to conclude that the Obama regime either hopes this country fails or doesn't know how to help the country succeed.
It's one of those two options.
We have his budgets.
We have seen the deficit.
We know the underemployment and employment numbers.
We know tax increases are coming.
It's clear Obama is not serious about developing domestic energy supplies.
We know that the public sector is expanding at the expense of the private sector.
We know that our relationships with allies have deteriorated.
We know we aren't safer.
We know the country is more divided.
We know the state-controlled media has no intention of practicing journalism ever again.
We have enough hard evidence to make sound judgments about Obama, his czars, and the regime.
Either Obama hopes we fail or is unintentionally causing failure.
This is not speculation.
That's fact.
What isn't known is the extent of the damage.
But I'm going to make some predictions about that, which are not pretty coming up soon on this program.
We don't know the exact date of our country's future bankruptcy, but we just know that it is a certainty under Obama's direction and the help of Democrats in Congress and the government-run media.
America is being administered statist-assisted suicide.
Obama is Dr. Cavorkian.
Forget Obama and Cavorkian's intentions.
If Obama isn't stopped politically, if he's not stopped, if these policies are not reversed, that much is clear.
Chris Van Holland, or Van Holland, sorry, get this.
Where did I say this is in uh in uh congressionally congressional quarter, congressional quarterly and roll call.
House Democrats plan to revive the political ghost of Bush in their bid to retain the majority this fall, according to Representative Chris Van Holland, the head of the party's re-election efforts, Van Holland, chairman of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee on Tuesday, signaled House Democrats will try to repeat their success the last two election cycles by once again running under a change banner.
Van Holland said, this time we're gonna make the case that supporting a Republican is simply turning back the clock to Bush economic policies, the same policies that got us in this mess to begin with.
He said this to reporters of government-run media gathered at the downtown offices of Third Way, a centrist Democrat think tank.
Van Holland added that Republicans will, I think put themselves clearly in the position where they represent the status quo.
And the Democrats, while we have the White House and both houses of Congress, remain the party of change and reform.
This man is a man consumed with his own delusion.
They are intellectually substantively bankrupt.
Where exactly do the Democrats have a solid hold on the electorate?
Name it.
You know, all of these polls show a much worse situation for the Democrats going into this November's election than in November of 1994.
I mean, it is, it looks like an abject, utter disaster for these people, perhaps the worst in history.
Dick Morris, and you got to admire the effort that he's putting in to try to stop all this from happening.
Dick Morris says they're going to lose both the House and Senate.
He's already making that projection.
You know, they're, I mean, for, for, for, for, They must think.
They must think their BS still flies.
To run against Bush two years after he left office?
To say that what we have now is the Bush status quo.
They really think that they're going to succeed in blaming the disasters wrought by this regime on Bush, who hasn't been around for two years by the time this election hits.
They really think they're going to pull that off.
So they are they are totally intellectually and substantively bankrupt.
They are despised.
The momentum against Democrats continues to build.
Look at they've done polling, focus grouped.
We've done it.
They are disliked.
Their policies are disliked.
So they're not going to run on what they've done and all the damage they've caused.
They're going to run against Bush in something called Change and Hope.
I love it.
But folk, we're we're dealing here with the politically insane, both with their policies and with their campaign tactics.
We really, the U.S. Congress may as well have been converted into an insane asylum.
Because the people running the show in there are as off base, out of kilter, and unstable as any time in my life.
Hi, how are you?
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I put a couple of new pictures of Abby up at Rushlinbaugh.com and a short little video that I took with the iPhone the other night of Abby demanding that I play fetch with her.
It's about 17 seconds long.
People have been asking for updates.
Oh, and people want to know how pumpkin's doing.
Pumpkin hates the dog.
Punkin was in the house for 12 years before the dog showed up.
It's never going to improve.
The dog still wants to play with pumpkin.
Punk doesn't see it that way.
Pumpkin sneaks in the room to see me.
If she sees the dog, the dog's asleep, she literally stalks.
She likes she's sneaking through a jungle, going the other way around the room to get to where I am.
It's the funniest thing in the world.
I pick her up, say, pumpkin, the dog only wants to play with you.
She just looks at me like, what have you done to me?
Plaintive look in her eyes.
Tell me, uh, folks, uh, a quick question here.
You know, we we know that a value-added tax is coming, and we know that the income tax is not going to be cut or no other tax is going to be cut.
We know this is a tax upon other taxes.
Now, would dub, would would somebody explain to me why?
Because Obama and the Democrats told us that the health care bill was going to cut the deficit.
Obama and the Democrats told us it was going to cut the deficit, it's going to get the size of government down, that health care was bankrupting the country, and we had to pass this bill, because the CBO says, oh yeah, it's going to cut the deficit.
If the health care bill cuts the tax uh deficit, what's all this talk about about tax?
I have an idea.
I've been thinking about this, and I think, you know, we we still all have too much reverence for the federal government as an entity.
We look at it uh with with with uh way too much reverence.
We should apply the same SEC, FTC, and other regulatory standards imposed on private enterprise on the government.
For example, why is Why is fraud criminalized when applied to the private sector but praised as compassion when practiced by the federal government and liberal politicians?
I'm sure by now you've heard of the AP story out today.
Forty-seven percent of Americans do not pay any income tax.
Forty-seven percent.
What the hell do you think is happening?
Who do you think's running and supporting the country?
73%.
73% of all income tax rated revenues are being paid by 10% of the population.
Right there is a fraud.
Right there is generational theft.
We have the people who are producing in this country dwindling in number.
They are still targeted by the Democrats as the problem in the country.
We are raising taxes on everybody who works, I don't care what class you're in, your taxes are going to skyrocket because of health care, because of the VAT, all the other hidden tax increases coming, the sunset of the Bush tax cuts, and the money is being redistributed to people who are not paying any taxes at all, who still remain the darlings, who still remain the uh the uh rightful owners of the of the nation's uh wealth.
That is a if if this is 25,000 times worse than anything Bernie Madoff ever thought about doing, and Bernie Madoff is serving how many life terms?
Inj just got beat up by somebody the other day.
Why is it that if you are a crook in the private sector for applying liberal policies to your business activities, you're a progressive and compassionate politician in government for doing the same thing.
If you go take some somebody else's money and give to somebody else, you have big you are a thief.
Why is the government not held to the same standards as those of us in the private sector?
By liberal policies, I mean taking money from people, lying to them about it, lying to them about what you're actually doing, cooking the books, fixing the numbers, bribes and payoffs.
If you or I tried just one move, like the Corn Husker kickback, if you and I tried one thing in the private sector, like the Louisiana Purchase, we would be indicted and sent up to jail and made an example of.
In Washington, as run by this regime, and they call it compassion, and they tell us, the people working in this country that it is our responsibility to make sure that our neighbors who are cast as some helpless, poor, incompetent lot of people depend on it because they are the real owners of the country.
They are the ones who rightfully own the nation's wealth.
They're only poor because we have screwed them.
We have extorted from them.
We have taken advantage of them.
This is the liberal playbook.
Is there any doubt that if Nancy Pelosi were chairman or CEO of some big company, that all the lies she told about health care would be considered material misrepresentation uh misrepresentations for which she would be criminally accountable in the private sector?
You let any CEO lie, a publicly held company lie and offer bribes and kickbacks to advance whatever the CEO's agenda is throughout the company.
Make sure the shareholders don't find out about it, they get screwed.
She wouldn't last a week in that position.
We seem to have one code of ethics and law for the private sector, which is consistent with our moral and religious beliefs.
We have another code of ethics and law for the public sector, which is consistent with what can be called nothing other than criminal behavior.
We have to call it for what it is.
Why is Obama historic for all the damage he has done to our society?
Why is Obama historic for all the damage he has done to our economy, to our finances?
But then Bernie Madoff or Madoff is a hated criminal.
Madoff was a crook, no doubt about it, but who's done more damage to more people today and in the future?
Madoff or Obama?
Madoffer Pelosi.
Madoffer Harry Reed.
I'm just putting it to you straight up.
Bernie Madoff is a piker compared to this regime.
And the damage that they have inflicted on all of us, our society, our economy, our finances, and now with the signing of this stupid treaty today, our national security.
The problem we have is that statism, which is this regime, takes what would otherwise be criminal behavior, treats it as a virtue.
The media treats it as a virtue.
All of this criminal behavior.
They have institutionalized fraud and they call it progress.
And there's no sign that it's going to stop.
Gotta take a break.
Right after this, we'll be back.
Sit tight, folks.
It's this simple, folks.
We gotta face this head on and straight up.
If the policies of this regime are not reversed, we can all expect inflation to kick in at some point.
That is an economic given.
When that happens, more jobs will be lost.
I wouldn't be surprised if we have a second housing bubble when interest rates inevitably increase as they are starting to do now.
More bankruptcies once the Obama tax increases and the health care plan kick in.
The recession will continue.
The government will continue to grow, the private sector will continue to shrink, and of course, the government-run media will continue to act like a bunch of stupid clowns who claim it all this is unexpected.
while they applaud it.
The gross domestic product can do nothing if this continues but shrink.
Stock market will drop in the next year or two.
They're already skittish.
World stock markets skittish today, including ours, over the rising debt crisis in Greece.
Wait till they hear about California.
The value of the dollar will decrease.
The prices of energy will increase.
The availability of energy will decrease.
Obama's talking about, we're gonna get really, really tough on sanctions now.
But we're not gonna get really, really tough on sanctions because we're not going to do anything that would harm the Iranian population.
Well, there's no way we can sanction the mullahs and sanction Mahmood Ahmadinizad.
We cannot surgically strike with sanctions.
The whole point of sanctions is to is to hurt the population, make the population pay for what the regime is doing.
If Obama would just treat Iran like he's treating the United States of America, they might get the message.
Stop and think of it this way.
Barack Obama is willing to do more damage to the United States economy than he is to the Iranian economy or anybody else's.
He's willing to applaud dictators around the world from Hugo Chavez to Daniel Ortega, who are ruining their countries.
In the case of Chavez, despite having huge oil reserves, there's an energy crisis.
There's an electricity shortage because it's a it's a dictatorship, or essentially one.
Certainly a socialist country.
You can almost count on the fact that illegal aliens are gonna get amnesty.
So the president will continue to be a failure and drag as many of us down with him as possible, except he won't be dragged down.
He's in the White House living his life of royalty, flying around on Air Force One, inflicting untold damage on this great country.
Nearly half of U.S. households escape the federal income tax.
Forty-seven percent will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009.
Uh, either their incomes are too low or they qualified for enough credits, deductions, and exemptions to eliminate their liability.
That's according to projections by the tax policy center.
This is a by the way, this bunch, they they're there are an outgrowth of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution.
They are a far-left bunch.
This is this is not some middle-of-the-road think tank reporting this.
This is a this is a far-left group, and they're happy about it.
Most people will still be required to file returns by April 15th.
The penalty for skipping it is limited to the amount of taxes owed, but it's still almost always better to file, the AP suggests here.
that the only way to get a refund of all the income taxes withheld by employers is to file.
In recent years, credits for low-and middle-income families have grown so much that a family of four making as much as $50,000 a year will owe no federal income tax for 2009.
So Well, I have news for you.
If you earn sixty thousand dollars a year, you are in the upper ten percent of wage earners in this country.
Fifty thousand dollars and a family of four, you effectively pay no income tax.
The earned income tax credit, all the uh child exemptions, and in some states you don't even have to have a child to get the child exempt.
You just have to know one.
I'm not making it up.
Or you have to visit one.
In fact, some states, I forget which state it is, read so much about this today.
One state gives you an earned income tax credit or some child tax credit.
If you're a father who no longer lives with a kid, you still get credit for it.
Now that's gonna promote family togetherness, right?
The dead beat dead qualifies for a child tax credit in certain states.
We have 50% of the people getting something for nothing, said Curtis Dubay, a senior tax policy analyst at Heritage.
The vast majority of people who escaped federal income taxes still pay other taxes, though, including federal payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare, excise taxes.
Oh, okay, so we're supposed to feel better because they at least are paying other taxes.
This helps explain the country's aversion to taxes, said Clint Stretch, tax policy expert Deloitte Tax.
He said many people simply look at the difference between their gross pay and their take-home pay, and they blame the government for the disparity.
Well, yeah.
Who else is responsible for it?
It's not uncommon for people to think there's Social Security taxes or 401k contributions, their share of employer health premiums, all that stuff in their mind gets lumped into income taxes.
Federal income tax, the government's largest source of revenue.
It raises more than 900 billion dollars, or a little less than half of all government receipts in the budget year that ended last September 30th.
Wow.
Uh that's incredible.
It was almost that much at the end of the 80s when Reagan lowered tax rates.
Almost that much.
Almost exactly that much.
And I don't I don't think all of that 900 billion was was was income tax revenue, but it was close.
So anyway, there's the um this is the sad details of all this.
Jobless numbers up, 1.2 million people homeless, 47% paying no income tax.
Uh what recovery?
Where's the laser-like focus on jobs?
It doesn't exist.
He's either incompetent or doing it on purpose.
It doesn't matter which at this point.
What matters is that the policies of this regime be stopped and reversed.
To the phones we go.
Jacksonville, Florida.
Steve, nice to have you on the program, sir, and welcome.
Thank you, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
You bet.
I've got uh an idea here.
Uh first of all, let me say I'm I'm a very conservative person, and I believe that the government should spend no more than they take in.
Right.
But with the national debt and the way it's it's still growing.
Yeah and the inability of uh Obama and the Democrats to uh try to reduce it at all.
Uh I'm getting more interested in this value added tax.
But I think that uh two things need to happen.
One is that the value added tax be a hundred percent of what's collected be dedicated to reducing the national debt.
Uh won't happen.
Well, I know, but uh it needs to have some controls on it.
Won't happen.
And it it'd be effective for uh specified period of time, say five years or ten years.
It won't happen.
And then once the debt's reduced, it goes away.
Well, that won't happen either.
Yeah, I know.
The debt won't happen.
The debt won't be reduced.
Uh yesterday had a story from this same outfit that put out the story on 47% uh of the population not paying income tax, the tax policy center.
And they had their geeks do all kinds of research, and they found that there is no level of taxation within our current tax structure that would come anywhere close to reducing the debt.
Even they admit that the only way to reduce the debt is to stop spending money we don't have.
We cannot tax ourselves into prosperity, and we cannot tax ourselves out of debt.
Do either of those make any sense?
The more money you take out of the private sector, the slower the economy, the less revenue is generated, the fewer taxpayers there are, it doesn't make any sense at all.
None of this that's being done makes any sense.
In countries in Europe where they've had the VAT, every the VAT rate keeps rising.
Federal spending, government spending keeps rising.
All they want to do, the number one job, well, the number two job of any elected official is spending money.
First jobs to get re-elected.
So the VAT tax, you mean you it might work if they stop the income tax.
If they replace the income tax with the VAT tax.
I mean, that that's a fair rate.
Everybody pays the same rate.
It's somewhat elective because it's a consumption-based tax.
Uh and and uh you you get credits for uh uh the well, the the people along you don't, the consumer, but people along the supply line from manufacture to retail sale, uh, they get a credit for the tax of the previous uh step of the way, at least in some countries.
It depends on how they would set this up.
But I mean it's it it would if they replace the federal income tax with it, get rid of the tax code, then maybe much fairer, much simpler.
You I mean you wouldn't even need to file a tax form.
That'll never happen because the tax code is the single greatest power for social architecture that U.S. Congress members have.
And this is the Who and Mama who got a squeeze box.
When I was in radio and I pulled that thing out of the uh we got the records in from the music guys, and I looked at the label, said Mama's got a squeeze.
Well, what the hell is this?
And I found out it's uh musical instrument.
I figured it's the who, it's gotta, it's gotta be, and this is rock and roll, it's gotta be something.
Speaking of which, uh there's a story here in the stack, an airline, I I've never heard of the airline, is going to start charging for using the lavatory.
I've never heard of it.
Uh you you might have, uh, but I I I have it.
It reminds me of the old days.
I I remember when I was in my twenties and was uh away from home and earning enough money to finally fly on an airplane.
You got dressed up for it.
I mean, it was a big deal.
You got your ticket, I almost framed the ticket.
I mean, I was I I'd drive out to the airport four days in advance to say I'm coming here in four days.
I was all excited about it.
In fact, I probably shouldn't admit this, but I'd go out and I'd buy a copy of Money Magazine and put it in a briefcase and open it up and read it, hoping to impress a flight attendant.
Well, yeah, I mean it was but now we're going to uh Ryanair, it's Ryanair that is going to charge for using the laboratory.
Others are going to charge for uh for carry-on luggage.
Spirit.
Yeah.
Uh it just is not the way it was.
And now I just got an email from somebody who says you blew it on the VAT tax, and Democrats are going to make a commercial out of what you said praising it.
Did I not make it clear that if we got rid of the income tax, the VAT tax wouldn't be a bad idea?
Did I not make that clear?
No.
I know that they parse me and take me out of context all over the place.
But let them try.
After that opening monologue, let them try and suggest to anybody that I support the VAT tax or any other tax increase.
That's not gonna fly with anybody.
Who's who's next?
This is Eric in uh Clark Summit, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hey there, Rush.
Um, calling a little bit of a crisis of conscience right now.
Oh no.
As I was explaining to Mr. Snerdley, I did my taxes actually early this year, um, in February, and looking at the withholdings, the federal government withheld nine hundred dollars roughly in taxes.
We received a refund for twenty-three hundred dollars.
So we're part of that crew that now pays no federal income tax.
We have no federal income tax liability.
Wait a second.
Yes.
You had for the whole year you had nine hundred dollars withheld.
Yes, sir.
And you got a refund of twenty three hundred.
Yes, sir.
Did you apply for any credits to get this refund, or did it just happen?
Well, I did it on one of the free online services that the IRS steers you to, and I answered every question truthfully, which you have to do.
I don't itemize because we have no deductions to speak of.
We we own our home.
And so I I truthfully answered every question posed to me on the 1040A form, and at the end it told me I'm getting back twenty three hundred dollars.
Holy smokes, what a deal.
Now, I I was born and raised in New York to European American parents, you know, second second generation, with a certain work ethic, and this is my crisis of conscience.
After moving to Pennsylvania, my wife and I, until we got situated, we were paying privately for medical insurance, and it was about four hundred dollars a month.
Yeah.
Now at that point we were living off the proceeds of our our home sale in New York.
Yeah, yeah.
Within a month of moving here, Blue Cross raised their rates another hundred dollars, and I called and I said, Look, you got to do something here.
We're depleting our savings.
So we found a plan that's based on your income.
And at the point it was nothing.
I mean, we had no money coming in in that moment.
My wife's a nurse, so we knew she'd find something immediately.
But in the meantime, we took this policy and we were paying for ourselves and our daughter privately.
You know, with with no help, we were able to manage the premium they gave us.
Within a few weeks of accepting that plan, Chip contacted me, solicited me, and said, Hey, I see you're paying for your daughter yourself.
You don't have to.
We'll do it for you.
And we'll give you a lot better coverage than you have now.
Wait a minute.
By chip, you mean the children's health insurance program in Pennsylvania?
Yeah, they solicited us and said, you know, because the plan we have is minimal, it's for catastrophic, it's you know, very minimal coverage, no prescriptions, no eyeglasses, nothing.
And then Chip called us and said, Well, why are you paying for it yourself?
You're eligible based on your income for CHIP.
So, you know, only a fool would say, you know what, I'll keep the crappier coverage for my daughter.
How many kids you just have one kid?
Just one daughter.
Uh no, it can't be earned income credits because you it's accountable.
All of this, but my my wife works, um, so we had a child uh child credit.
We had an earned income credit.
I have just burned through my first extension of unemployment.
I am now working on my second extension of unemployment.
Oh, so you're out of work now.
Yes.
Well, what did you earn, if you won't mind my asking?
We made, I think, thirty-three thousand dollars last year.
Well, this fits then.
Just to just to give you like a little bit of background, we left New York at the height of the real estate market and made a good chunk of change on our home.
So we moved here and we're mortgage free by the time we were forty-two.
So we own our home outright.
Um, you know, so we're able to live on my wife's salary as a nurse.
Um and she works part-time.
We're able to enjoy our home to raise our child without the help of daycare or anything like that.
But she's getting older now, and she needs us less.
So when when I think about re entering the workforce, I look at what I would have to make in order to, you know, pay for health insurance.
No, and and quite honestly, Rush, to make it worth my while to get off my ass.
And now I've got the federal government sending me this huge refund that I did absolutely nothing to earn.
So what are you gonna do with it?
I got thirty seconds.
How are you gonna resolve your crisis of conscience?
Um, you know what?
That's why I was calling yours hoping you'd have something for me.
Well, I'll take it.
I never get any money back from the SOBs.
Well, I I and I joke with my friends that do pay taxes, and I say thanks so much for contributing to the let Eric.
You you fit the uh you fit the statistic.
Uh I'm disgusted by this.
Well, I understand how you feel.
So are the rest of us who are paying it to you.
Right, and if you saw pictures of my home, you would be further incensed because I have a beautiful home.
Yeah, well, I think you ought to continue to feel guilty as I am mad.
Now, that call from Eric in Clark Summit, Pennsylvania, a teachable moment, very illustrative.
You know that this regime is trying to create a permanent underclass.
That's how you do it.
The guy made under 39 grand.
That's a that's one of the target levels.
His salary was his total income was 30, uh, paid 900 in taxes, got 2300 back.
You have to be making you ha you have to make being poor comfortable.
You have to make it comfortable.
And that's what this is attempting to do.
This is how you create a permanent underclass, folks.
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