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April 12, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 12, 2010, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Now let's see, I still have not received a census form.
I have not received a census form my entire adult life.
And I still haven't got one.
You got multiple census forms?
So did a friend of mine.
Friend of mine got four.
And he sent three of them back after spilling tomato juice on them.
And he filled them out identically.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Rush Limboy and the EIB network, thrilled to be with you today as America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, and the Doctor of Democracy.
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Now, I thought the only people that were not responding and not participating in the census were, of course, the 10 Hoyle, uh tinfoil hat right wingers.
Uh we've had Rove out there doing a commercial.
We've had Newt and number of other people, um Patrick McHenry saying, hey, don't, don't, don't, don't avoid this.
You know, don't boycott the census.
You gotta go out there.
We conservatives need to be counted.
Well, look at this.
This is from uh the uh state-controlled uh what is this AP with five days left for people to return their census forms?
The Census Bureau Director, Robert Groves on Monday, urged those in big cities and border regions to step up the response to avoid visits by census takers next month.
Sixty-five percent, more than seventy-seven million households have completed and mailed back the 10 question form, the Midwest leads the pack, the southern and western U.S. and big cities like New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, are lagging.
Not the right wingers.
It's the urban areas and minority areas, cities and minority areas which are lagging behind in filling out the census.
Um another day, another meaningless Obama summit.
This one on nuclear pro at least we hope it's meaningless.
The only thing to be worse than a meaningless Obama summit is one that makes some real difference, given what his objectives are to cut the United States down to size, and apparently Hillary Clinton didn't get the memo.
Uh Mrs. Clinton said this on Slay the Nation yesterday.
Bob Schiefer said uh, are non-nuclear weapons so good now, uh, Madam Secretary, we don't have to rely on nuclear weapons anymore.
We want to be very clear.
We will not use nuclear weapons in retaliation if you do not have nuclear weapons and are in compliance with the NPT.
But we leave ourselves a lot of room for contingencies.
If if we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off if these countries have gone to that extent.
So we want to deal with the nuclear threat first and foremost, because that's the one that we face right today.
Well, now wait a minute.
Uh that that's that's the exact opposite of what Obama said uh last week with the new deal that he signed with uh Medvedev in Russia.
Ain't it convenient by the way that that Polish jet went down a Soviet, I'm sorry, get it right, Rush, a Russian maintained Tupolov uh jet.
It's a Russian jet, and the Russians maintained it.
Uh apparently uh uh there are there are tapes of uh air traffic controllers urging the pilot, don't land here.
We got we got heavy fog, you know, you need to you need to re-route to uh Minsk or um or uh go up to Moscow, and apparently uh Kaczynski, the Polish president, did not trust these guys.
Um he wanted to get in there and land anyway.
He he thought being diverted to Moscow was a way to get him to stop going into town and and participating in the uh 40-year anniversary of the slaughter of a lot of Polish people at the Katin Forest, and the plane went just it's this amazingly convenient.
I mean, it's you know, Putin does not like the polls, he doesn't like the checks.
It's just convenient here that so many of the Polish high command went down on this airplane.
It's just apparently it is a coincidence, but uh it's a it's one of the strangest.
Well, it's one of the strangest coincidences of modern times.
But apparently uh the air traffic control people did encourage the pilot.
Do not land.
Now, interestingly, the pilot made four attempts and was dumping fuel in the process.
There might have been some kind of mechanical problem.
The black boxes, the flight recorders have been found.
They'll be analyzed.
Maybe we'll find out exactly what was wrong with the airplane, if uh if anything, depending on who does the analysis of the black boxes and depending on who reports the results of the uh of the black boxes.
But back to Mrs. Clinton, it was last week that uh that Obama said, if you if you don't have nukes, and you and you hit us with a bioattack or a chemical attack, we're not gonna nuke you.
Uh if if you have behaved according to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, we're not gonna nuke you back.
And everybody was what the hell is this?
We're gonna have a conventional uh invasion of countries that do this, and you Mrs. Clinton yesterday said, all bets are off if uh we can prove that you bioattacked us or chemo attacked us, uh, that we will nuke you back.
Now, as it does who's who's right here?
Because Obama's strategy explicitly rules out any nuclear retaliation to any attack other than from a nuclear power.
But then again, has Hillary ever been right about anything?
If it's a question here of who's right and who's wrong, uh we'd have to say Hillary got it wrong here.
Have you?
Well, I mean, he's top dog, that's what I mean when he's right.
I mean, not that he is factually correct or or policy-wise correct, but he's the architect of the actually.
What we've learned here is that Valerie Jarrett, whose only experience in foreign policy is being born in Iran, uh, to American parents, and father was a doctor over there, is uh largely involved in a new nuclear effort that Obama has uh put together.
Yeah, this front page magazine, David Horowitz's publication, has uh information of that.
The the drive-by-there's there's a story today, I don't know, I don't know which network it is or news service, but they're comparing Obama and Reagan on this nuclear effort that both guys, both guys wanted to get rid of nukes.
I mean, it's the biggest stretch of the imagination I've seen.
All of a sudden, Reagan, who's horrible, and they have to they have to wipe out Reaganism and they have to do all this revision to keep people from understanding the glorious truth of the Reagan years, all of a sudden now they want to compare Obama to Reagan.
James Carafano, as a Heritage Foundation fellow, writing in the Exameter today, uh, says this comparison doesn't hold any water.
Uh, like Reagan, Obama believes America must lead the way to nuclear disarmament.
But unlike Reagan, he believes this requires an assertion of moral leadership to be demonstrated simply by reducing our stockpile and refusing to modernize the U.S. arsenal.
It's a false premise.
Obama believes if we set that moral standard that the rest of the world will automatically follow us because he is the one, and he has such persuasive powers simply by being.
Reagan recognized that the ultimate goal of arms negotiations is to make the world safer, more stable, and more free.
To eliminate the need for large nuclear arsenals, Reagan went about eliminating the dependence, both ours and others, on massive nuclear attack as the guarantor of security.
Thus the first items on Reagan's agenda were building up U.S. conventional forces and introducing missile defenses.
That allowed his negotiators to approach arms control agreements from a position of strength.
But Obama has it exactly backwards.
He started with cutting back on defense, especially in acquisition programs.
He also cut missile defense, uh, not uh making the Czechs or the Poles happy at all.
We basically cooled the rug under out from under them.
Um and the missile defense that Reagan started with was um, of course, SDI to protect the continental United States.
But even that wasn't enough to make the Russians happy.
They looked at that as a provocation.
Uh Prime Minister Vladimir Putin last December, the problem is our America partners are developing missile defenses.
Our partners may come to feel completely safe.
Sounds like a leader who still thinks that maintaining the threat of nuclear attacks is a good idea.
If not, why is it a problem for America is to feel safe?
So Obama has it just exactly backwards.
He's taken down the missile defenses that Bush had pledged for the Czechs and the Poles.
He's not going to further American missile defense.
He's going to reduce our own stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
Reagan understood his adversaries, Obama does not.
Russia wants an arms control treaty to solidify its position as a preeminent nuclear power.
And Obama gave them that.
When you sit down with Medvedev and you sign this thing, it makes Russia look like they're back as the Soviet Union, as a second superpower on par with America.
We're all equal.
We're all equal, and the United States has been the problem in the world.
The only way you would sign, even propose a nuclear agreement such as the one Obama did is if you think the United States is and has been the problem in the world.
There's no question about that.
Meanwhile, Senator Lieberman, what soundbite number is this?
Senator Lieberman, yeah, audio soundbite number seven.
This is yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace.
Is the president going to have to back off that strategy to win your vote for the treaty?
I'm going to be real hesitant to vote for this treaty unless we have a commitment from the administration that they're prepared to modernize our nuclear stockpile.
I don't believe that there will be 67 votes to ratify the STAR treaty unless the administration does two things.
First, commit to modernize our nuclear stockpiles, so as we have less nuclear weapons, we know they're capable, if God forbid we need them.
And secondly, to make absolutely clear that some of the statements by Russian President Medvedev at the signing in Prague that seem to suggest that if we continue to build a ballistic missile defense in Europe that they may pull out of this treaty, it's just unacceptable to us.
We need that defense to protect our allies and ourselves from Iraq.
And apparently the Russians.
Because Karafano's point is well worth asking.
Why do the Russians fear us feeling safe?
If we're going to agree to reduce nuclear weapons, and we still have rogue states out there like the North Koreans and the Iranians ramping up their nukes, why do they care that we might have a shield for it or that others in Asia might have a shield provided by us?
If the goal is to eliminate nuclear weapons, doesn't it follow that you would want any attempt to use them to fail?
But no, no, no, no.
Obama has cutting back our defense systems because the Russians don't want us to have missile defense systems.
And that can only happen if you think, if you believe, and if you've been told by people like Bill Ayers, that the United States is not the solution to the world's problems, but in fact is the cause of them.
You know, when the census guy comes out and says the big cities are lagging behind, isn't that sort of isn't that a code?
Code word for minority, urban code word for minority.
And how do they know they're lagging behind?
Wouldn't they have to know how many people are there in the first place to know whether they're lagging behind?
How do they possibly know that they're lagging behind?
You know, my friends, I I have a favorite Shakespeare quote I use frequently on this broadcast.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
I will adapt it.
Strength is the soul of victory.
Ronald Reagan understood that.
Obama believes in neither.
He's simply a blowhard who believes his personal control is the uh is the soul of victory.
You know what Sherman said about war, General Sherman?
War is cruelty.
There's no use trying to reform it.
In fact, the crueler war is, the sooner it will be over.
And nukes are about as cruel as it gets.
We're disarming, and if we get the 67 votes to ratify the treaty in the Senate, and I don't think he's gonna get the 67 votes, but we'll see.
The daily Caller, John Ward, this is Chatsworth Osborne Jr.'s website has a very interesting piece today on who's not at the nuclear summit.
Who's not at the nuclear summit are our allies.
Israel, Australia, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia are not there.
But little places like Nigeria, Malaysia, Ukraine, Armenia.
These people are at the nuclear summit.
So what what the hell's going on?
How do you how do you do this and not have our allies on hand?
Interesting point.
We can only hope that this is as meaningless as the other summits, although this one's a big one.
This is a two-day summit.
I don't know if they're gonna have breakout groups like they've had on all the job summits.
By the way, have you noticed they stop using the word stimulus now?
They don't use the word stimulus every time because it's not working.
All of these deficits, you know, the Keynesian theory is that all of these deficits are going to ignite investment, ignite hiring.
I mean, that's the theory of Keynesian economics.
And it hasn't worked, it never has worked, it's not working now.
And so you'll read in the papers, you'll see in the internet uh Obama's latest jobs bill stalled, Obama's jobs bill here stalled, uh, Democrats balking on extension of unemployment compensation benefits.
Nowhere do you see the word stimulus being used.
And Bill Clinton said last September, remember this?
The minute health care reform is passed, this is a policy forum in New York City, President Obama's approval ratings would go up ten points.
And let's not forget John Dingle back on March 23rd.
Well, W. We're not ready to be doing it.
But let me remind you, this has been going on for years.
We are bringing it to a halt.
The harsh fact of the matter is when you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 American people in different ways.
It takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.
To control the people.
Now he said he was uh misspoke, he was tired.
Wasn't uh feeling well.
I think the fact he was tired means his inhibitions were down, and he did speak the truth.
And let's not forget the Carlo Fly, March 22nd, Raleigh, North Carolina.
It's just gonna be like Christmas.
I mean, it's gonna be great.
You know, worries, you know, the bills we can go ahead and pay our copay and be all right.
Yeah, right.
It's Christmas.
It's Christmas when the health care bill is signed, except people are running all over the country into hospitals and doctors' offices wanting free health care, thinking that it's uh it's theirs now since the bill has been passed.
Well, the point is there is no bump for Obama after he signed health care.
There is no bump for the Democrats.
Clinton, Obama, all these people knowingly lied to these Democrats.
Stupak, as you know, has said no Moss, no Moss.
He's out of there.
He doesn't even want to run for re-election because his numbers are so bad.
Uh from Rasmussen, three weeks after Congress passed its new health care plan, support for repeal of the measure has risen four points to 58%, and that includes 50% of U.S. voters who strongly favor repeal.
The eight percent are somewhat in favor of repeal.
As usual, the Rasmussen survey is uh telephone survey of likely voters nationwide.
Thirty set 38% still oppose repeal, 32% strongly oppose it, but the number 58% uh which is up four points support repeal of Obamacare and the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll, job approval, Obama at his lowest ever, 45% approved, which is a new all-time low, 48% disapprove, uh, which is a a tie for the all-time low for the second consecutive day.
It's a minus three popularity spread, which is also an all-time low.
So Obama didn't get a bump, health care didn't get a bump, uh, and uh the unpopularity continues to rise, as does Obama's disapproval.
So no matter I think the only outfit, the only polling outfit out there that has Obama at 50%, and I could be wrong about this, uh is CNN and whoever their polling partner is.
Uh Now, Gallup does not point out, you never notice it from Gallup.
They posted his lowest numbers in history without mentioning that they were to record low.
I myself am throwing that in there.
Gallup does not.
Now, when we come back from the upcoming break, I have a lot of economic news here.
Headlines such as these recession arbiters wary of certifying an upturn.
They can't tell us that it's over or that it's going to be over.
66% say America's overtaxed.
Millions of unemployed may never recover.
Bill to extend jobless benefits faces Senate showdown.
Obama election year jobs agenda stalls in Congress.
And then we have Larry Cuddle.
Oh, recovery, likely to reign sluggish into 2011.
And then we have Larry Cudlow, who says just the exact opposite.
It is CNN.
CNN, what is it?
CNN and Opinion Research, the only polling outfit in recent polls that has Obama at uh over 50%.
He's at 51%.
Everybody else, Gallup, Rasmussen, Fox, CBS, USA Today Gallup, all between uh 47 and 43% approval.
Folks, before we get to the economic news, this sort of dovetails with it.
I have to tell you what I did over the weekend.
I was invited to attend the Horatio Alger Association dinner on Friday night at Constitution Hall in Washington.
So I flew up there right after the uh the program, changed, well, because I was only gonna get I was only gonna be there you know one night.
Uh two nights, actually, and I I I got out of there with with it.
This this was a well well-advised and well-worth it trip.
Uh the Horatio Horatio Alger Association has been around for decades.
And the association inducts new members every year, people who have come from nowhere.
They did not have a privileged family or privileged anything when they were born when they were growing up, and they have become leaders, uh high achievers.
They are recognized by the Horatio Alger Association, Lou Dobbs and Tom Selleck shared the MC duties.
There are about 1,200 people in this room at Constitution Hall.
I was I was overwhelmed.
I have to tell you why.
There were Condoleza Rice was inducted this year.
Uh there were a number of of people, in fact, all of them, every one of this year's honorees, stood up and spoke of this country in ways I haven't heard a government official speak of this country in years.
And I'm talking really both sides of the aisle.
Every one of these people who came from nothing to become high-achieved leaders in their fields, primarily in business, some in media, stood up and talked about the glories of this the greatest country on earth.
Some of them attempted to explain in their own view why America is the greatest country on earth.
But they all spoke of the American dream and how it's there for everybody.
And the greatness of this country, the uniqueness of this country, the goodness of this country, the decency of this country, the moral superiority of this country.
Uh when's the last time you heard any politician in Washington talked about the great promise of this country.
I felt I we're I felt like I was in a cocoon in Constitution Hall, and I ended up meeting a lot of the inductees, and I was very flattered to uh to learn that they all listened to this program at least an hour a day.
I'm always surprised to learn who listens to this program.
I I was uh met a whole a lot of fascinating uh and and really great people on Friday night.
And as the evening wore on, started at six, I got there a little late, 645, started at six, ended about 10.15.
And even this, they had uh Every year they fund scholarships for a hundred to a hundred and fifty, sometimes more, underprivileged kids going to college, uh keeping with the uh identity and the theme of the whole Horatio Alger association, come from nothing, become the best there's ever been an achieved leader.
And they pick these kids that come from nowhere and finance their college educations.
And even at the end of the day, they're all ending up on stage at the end of the night, uh patriotic songs, God bless America was sung.
An actual American Eagle, trained American Eagle was flying around the thing in the building at night, just beautiful.
Uh two trainers, and it was alternating back and forth.
At one time it went off course.
I thought, oh my God, I hope it didn't run into some lights up there on the ceiling.
But it didn't.
It landed on the stage at the back of the room, came back to the stage.
When it when they when I first saw it on the stage, wow, that is a great wax figure of an eagle.
Then the thing took off, and I noticed the guy wearing the leather protector on his forearm, and it's wow, that's a real eagle.
A real American bald eagle.
Even some of these kids at the end of the night with the program sought me out to tell me they listened to this program.
And these are kind, and they were they were these were kids of all ethnic backgrounds, all religious backgrounds.
And I felt I I told all these honorees that I met, and a number of people on Friday night I was speaking to, I said this place and the things being said in this room are as far from what's happening in the White House, just a couple blocks away, as anything could possibly be.
It was that stark.
It was it was, and I'm listening to these guys as they as they accept, and they all kept to their five-minute limit on their acceptance speech.
It was amazing.
They all kept to it.
Well, I was told that one person who you would know that I'm not going to mention here, Kitty Kelly's written a book about her, went 45 minutes when she got in, but uh, other than that, uh everybody kept their five minutes, and as they went through the greatness of the country and how fortunate they believed they were to have been born in America.
I kept asking myself, do these guys know what's happening outside this room tonight?
Do these guys know that there is an all-out assault on the circumstances that made it possible for them to rise from nothing to become leaders in their chosen fields and to be honored by induction into the Horatio Alger Association.
So I got a chance to uh I got a chance to speak to some of these honorees, and I told them how much I admired all they had said.
I said, Do you uh you think that we still have the ability in this country for people like you to duplicate, replicate what you've done?
And to a man and woman, they were all affirmatively positive about this, saying it's it's it's gonna be tougher than ever, but that the American spirit will never be snuffed out.
No matter who tries, the American spirit will triumph.
Whoever tries to rub it out, the American spirit will triumph.
And they believe it because they personally experience it.
They believe it because they did it.
The uh Horatio Alger Society is uh or association, uh it was one of the most uplifting nights I've been to in a long time, and for it to happen in Washington, D.C., because HR said, whoa, you never go to Washington.
Well, that for this was this was well, well worth it.
Uh it was very civilized even the food for 1,200 people was awesome.
It was spectacular.
There was nothing about this that was average.
Uh I was told that up until 1992, the young scholar students, scholarship students, showed up in whatever clothes they had.
And so there was ran the gamut.
It's a black tie night.
From 1992 on when he was inducted, Wayne Heisinger now purchases black tie and formal wear for all of these scholarship winners each and every year for the Horatio Alger Association dinner.
It's actually a weekend-long thing uh with all kinds of events.
So it was a um it was a brief foray into the America you and I love and know and yearn for again.
And articulated by people who have come literally, one of the requirements is uh that you have to come from humble beginnings, no privilege whatsoever.
Even somebody as highly achieved, say as well, just to give you an example.
And this is not a good one, but it's the best way to illustrate the point.
No matter what you think of Ted Kennedy, a lot of people view him to have achieved all he would never have a chance because he came from too prominent a family.
He had too big a boost.
And that's also what was inspiring about this.
Now, these inductees were not young.
These inductees are, you know, over 60, and some of them close to 80.
Uh it's a lifelong quest.
And so takes a while to get there, is the point.
Takes a while to get one of the inductees from Texas lost, it was a billionaire, lost everything at age 50, and built it back in 10 years.
Built it back in 10 years.
So it was uh it was inspiring and it was very comforting to be surrounded by this type of person and this many of them in the belly of the beast, who have, by virtue of their own experience and love, a view of this country that you and I all have, and have made this country work for them and have made the country better in the process.
These are the people make the country work.
One of my all-time favorite phrases.
So I want to thank uh person that invited me, the family invited me to be there.
We had second row seats.
It was uh they had videos of all of the inductees prior to their five-minute uh induction speeches.
And they did, I mean, it was it was it was four hours of speeches.
They'd give some speeches then pause for salad.
Uh more speeches than bring out the entree, more speeches, bring out dessert.
And then they had the patriotic ending with uh God bless America and uh from the lead singer of the uh Jersey Boys.
I forget his name, but he was the lead singer on the uh in the musical routines, and that Eagle uh at the end of it was just mind-blowing.
Great night.
Quick time out.
We'll come back now and join Riyavelby here in terms of the economy right after this.
Don't go away.
President Obama has said that we have turned the corner on the economy numerous times.
Correct Demente.
From the New York Times today, Sewell Chan and Louise Story.
Recession arbiters wary of certifying an upturn.
A committee of economists charged with determining the official turning points in the nation's business cycles, certifies the beginnings and ends of recessions, but this time the committee members say the evidence is not so easy to decipher.
The committee announced today that it cannot yet declare an end to the recession that they say began in December 2007, but it did not.
It actually began in 2008.
Several members of the body had reported to the New York Times on Sunday that we just we don't know.
We we we we cannot yet declare an end to the recession.
As they say in the military, whiskey, tango, foxtrot.
Did I just read that?
This is a headline.
They cannot yet declare an end to the recession that began in December 2007.
The uh such an acknowledgement is rare in the history of setting dates to business cycles and could affect the behavior of investors and consumers.
Despite a recent uptick in employment and income, the decision of the committee at a meeting on Friday reflects a lingering worry that the economy could turn downward again in a so-called double dip recession.
Why?
Why are we on the verge of a double dip recession?
Several economists on the committee, which has seven active members, said they considered such a turn to be unlikely, but they said the duration and severity of the contraction have made it hard to determine with authority that a recovery has begun.
Now, Obama said he stemmed the severity of the plunge with the TARP money.
Uh wasn't his program, by the way.
He promised he would stop unemployment at 8% with the stimulus, which they no longer call the stimulus, and subsequent spending programs are not called the stimulus.
They're called jobs bills now.
So these guys say, and this is an important story, a double dip recession cannot be dismissed yet, and the current recession may not be over.
Now there are signs, some people say that the economy's crawling back, but it's unstable.
Why?
Well, there's an article today in the Wall Street Journal.
Burton Folsom explains it.
He's uh he's a uh guy from the uh uh Hillsdale College.
He points out that FDR did not stop the Great Depression, that it was tax cuts after World War II that did that.
FDR created roadblocks to recovery, just like Obama is, and nobody wants to talk about it.
Do you know what the I think nine years, nine years after the new deal, the unemployment rate in America was still 15 to 20 percent.
Nine years afterwards.
Now, what are we being told now after Obama's raw deal?
We're being told to expect 10 to 11 percent unemployment as the new norm.
So we have a replication of FDR going on here in a number of ways, except being led by somebody that's even more radical than FDR and his crowd were.
Rasmussen, 66% say the Amer of America say that they are overtaxed.
Remember, Obama was asked a simple question by an American citizen last week.
She asked at a town hall meeting if it was wise to seek more tax increases via his health care plan during a recession.
That she felt most of Americans were paying enough taxes as it was.
And that's when he went in this meandering, wandering 17-minute answer to say that he doesn't believe America is overtaxed.
So Rasmussen conducted a poll published yesterday that says 66% of Americans disagree with him.
When thinking about all the services provided by federal, state, and local governments, 75% of voters nationwide say the average American should pay no more than 20% of their income and taxes.
75%.
However, the latest Ransmussen Reports National Survey finds that most voters, 55%, believe the average American actually pays 30% or more of their income and taxes.
66% believe that America is overtaxed, only 25% disagree with that, and get this next.
Lower income voters are more likely than others to believe the nation is overtaxed.
Now, these people are the ones paying no federal income tax.
So why do they think so?
Why do they think America's overtaxed when they're not paying any income tax?
No, it's not guilt.
They're still paying lots of other taxes.
They're still paying FICA, they still have all these sales taxes, they have property tax if they own, or their rents are going up or whatever.
I mean, the the less money you make, the harder it is to get by, and every every expense you have is considered an obstacle to improvement, and they think, whether they're paying no income tax, they think that their taxes are too high too, which kind of surprised me.
Uh the tax issue provides, however, a wide gap between the political class and mainstream Americans.
81% of mainstream American voters believe the nation is overtaxed, while 74% of those in the political class disagree.
Now the political class is elected officials, people that work in government, uh, and their ancillary-related bureaucracies.
Which stands to reason.
Here you have uh uh the political class, the elites, you can even include some of the people in the media in this, the political class, totally out of touch with the American people, and in the process continuing to govern against the will of the American people.
81% of Republicans believe the nation's overtaxed, and so do 73% of voters not affiliated with either major party.
We can call them the independents.
And that's why so many independents are part of the Tea Party and move into the Republican Party in droves.
Back to this New York Times story.
Recession arbiters wary of certifying an upturn.
They don't know when to declare the recession over.
I think, on second thought, what that really means is they just don't know yet what would be the optimum time for the Democrats and for Obama to declare the recession over.
My guess is that they will have definitive data to declare the recession over sometime in September.
Late September or October.
Let's let's uh let's see if that doesn't happen.
April 12th, let's make a prediction right now that that will be the case.
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