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July 23, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 23, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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You know what we do here?
So let's do it.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Here we are at the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Great to have you with us, my friends.
Open line Friday.
You get to discuss pretty much whatever you want.
Uh whether I care about it or not.
If I don't care about it, I might tell you I don't care.
Depends on my mood.
Or I might fake that I care and try to have a conversation.
Anyway.
Regardless, it's always fun.
It's your chance.
Uh to find out how easy this is.
Because we go to the phones, the content of the program is all yours.
800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Uh the apology to Luke Russert.
He is the son of the late Tim Russert of NBC News.
The reason that I am apologizing in advance to Luke Russert is that we are going to play audio sound types, uh sound bites of Luke Russert discussing his situation with Charles Wrangell.
Luke Russert actually behaves as a journalist.
As you will hear in mere moments.
Luke Russert does not cower.
Luke Russert does not act as though he's a member of the ruling class.
He actually asks a member of Congress, a member of the ruling class, questions he's not used to getting.
And when he is disrespected by the member of the ruling class, he continues to bore in.
Now the reason for my apology is that whenever I in the past have praised a member of the media, that person has gotten in trouble with his colleagues.
It is never a good thing to be called out and singled out for praise as a journalist by me.
But in this case, there can be nothing other than praise for Tim Russert's son Luke, who is flashing a little bit of his dad here.
Here is a here is how an actual reporter does his job.
This is how journalists used to do their jobs.
This is what reporters used to do.
We have uh well one soundbite here, but a couple others will follow with people analyzing what Luke did.
What are you talking about?
You just trying to make copies what I got.
I mean, he was presently seriously.
How do you think I got my job?
I was elected.
How do you think I lose it?
Well, there's two ways.
You could lose it, but your colleagues voted you out of here because of ethics violations, or if your constituents did not find it.
Why are you young?
I guess you do need to make a name for yourself, but basically, you know it's a dumb question.
If you do allegations of made by some people, he'd not found tax on properties in the Dominican Republic originally.
It doesn't be true, does that not?
It doesn't sound like NBC asking these dumb questions.
It just shows what is really happened to a channel that did have some respect.
Charlie Wrangell, insulting Tim Russert's son, Luke.
Who began this?
Do you worry about losing your job?
And Wrangle said, What are you talking about?
You just trying to make copywood job, the one I got?
Yeah.
I mean, these are really serious violations.
Wrangle says, I mean, how do you think I got my job?
I was elected.
How do you think I lose it?
Luke Russert, there's two ways.
You lose it by your colleagues voting you out of here because of these ethics violations or your constituents.
Get rid of you.
Wrangle, what station are you with?
Well, you're young.
I guess you I guess you need to make a name for yourself.
But basically, you know it's a dumb question, and I'm not Russell.
Well, how's it a dumb question?
Wrangle.
The allegations.
Russert, sir, sir, you didn't file taxes on properties in the Dominican Republic.
Wrangle.
It doesn't sound, it doesn't sound Russert allegedly.
It doesn't sound like if that comes to be true, does that pose a problem?
Wrangle.
It doesn't really sound like NBC.
Ask any dumb questions just shows what's really happened to a channel that used to have some respect.
There you have it.
That's what it used to be like.
This is how it used to happen.
Reporters actually asking questions of people who hold positions of power.
So this morning and morning Joe on Mess NBC, Mika Brzezinski spoke with Carl Bernstein, who is uh contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
And also Luke Russert about Wrangell and so forth.
And uh Mika Brzezinski says, I I want to split the screen between Luke and Carl Bernstein.
Carl, did that ever happen to you?
How did Luke do?
Luke did really fine.
It's also important, I think, to keep in mind that the Wrangle story is really a side show about the larger institutional corruption of the Congress.
Now, this is uh this this Luke did okay.
Luke did fine.
But look, uh, this is just uh Wrangell story, just a side show.
So Bernstein has to try to diminish what Luke Russert did by saying what he did was not a big deal because Wrangle's not a big deal, it's a huge deal.
It is a career Democrat who hasn't paid taxes, who's got multiple offices, who is corrupt as the day is long, who's finally been caught at it, and of course, the ruling class circles the wagons.
Just the larger corruption.
What does he mean?
Like Mark Foley?
What larger corruption does he mean?
Luke did okay.
So back to morning Joe Mika Bzzinski, Carl Bernstein and uh and Luke Russert, she said, Luke, when he was treating you that way, I mean, you're you're a young kid, starting out compared to where he stands, but your reaction was interesting to me because you were stone faced because it seemed to me, uh, it seemed to you that uh you you thought it was a legitimate question.
Absolutely is a legitimate question.
There are a whole bevy of allegations against him.
He has four rent control departments in Harlem.
Oh, you're only supposed to have one as your primary residence.
That's a problem.
He used official stationery allegedly to solicit money for a school named after him at the City College of New York.
He also allegedly did not report hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of income on rental properties in the Dominican Republic.
Well, it was that million dollar thing that Kelly talked about from the oil company in order to try and solicit money for his school.
So there's a whole plethora of allegations against him.
It's not just one thing.
Luke Russert.
And of course, what's Wrangell's reaction?
Here's a really sound like NBC asking these dumb questions.
It just shows what's really happened to a channel that used to have some respect.
And here's Mika Bzzinski.
Hey, Luke, he was treating you that way.
You're a young kid.
You're just starting out compared to him.
What was your reaction?
Seems to me, it seemed to you that he didn't like what you were doing.
What did you think, Luke?
And Luke fired both barrels.
This is how it used to be done.
This is the kind of information reporters used to be rattled off about politicians in both parties, not just the Republican Party.
Now it's been a long time.
I understand.
I know it's been a long time, but still this is how it used to happen.
We want to put this in even greater context and greater perspective.
The new media has been doing the job Luke Russert did for a long time, but with not nearly the respect.
Everybody is patting Luke Russert on the back, sort of.
I don't know if Luke's been sort of taken aside backstage.
Look, you know, okay, this time as okay, but you don't you're not gonna last here if you go after these guys the way you went after uh Wrangle.
I don't know if anybody's talking to Luke Russert that way.
Uh but Wrangle said it.
This isn't what NBC's about.
NBC used to have some respect.
NBC never went after us Democrats.
So I wonder if somebody's gonna take Lucas said, Luke.
You know.
Young mistake.
I mean, sounds good, everybody likes it.
You don't go after Democrats this way here at NBC, Luke.
I don't know if anybody's saying that to him.
But back on February 23rd on Capitol Hill, Jason Matera, Young America's Foundation had this exchange with Representative Charles Wrangle.
I was wondering, with uh Americans just struggling to pay their bills, losing their jobs.
Why the hell do you drive a taxpayer subsize Cadillac?
Use four rent control apartments for the market rate and fail to pay taxes on rental properties.
Well, you write the tax code.
Why don't you gotta f this?
No, I'm serious.
Why are you such a disgrace?
Well, that's a man you've got business.
So that was Jason Matera of the Young Americans Foundation back in February 23rd, 2009.
So the new media have been going after Wrangle in many ways.
That's what way Luke Russert has uh distinguished himself.
He uh he stood out here.
Uh when you consider uh, ladies and gentlemen, the uh the long time honored tradition of political corruption in Harlem as embodied by Adam Clayton Powell, uh Charlie Wrangell, David Patterson.
It's no wonder that Bill Clinton chose to put his office up there.
No wonder at all.
I wonder if there will be what did I do now?
What what you mean what did I do now?
I didn't all I did not attack Harlem.
I'm simply pointing out here uh that there is a time honor.
This is a tradition they're proud of up there.
I mean, this is they're proud of this in Harlem.
You got Adam Clayton probably got Wrangler.
Clinton moved up there.
Uh they kicked Freddie's fashion mart out of there.
Uh it's it's uh it's that this is the the only problem here is that you know, Luke Luke is young, he hasn't he hasn't learned yet.
I wonder if there'll be congressional hearings to investigate Luke.
Um I mean, he we went after the Democrat chairman of Ways and Means Committee.
Uh at least he wasn't cursed at, like Jason Matera was.
I wonder if Charles Rangel will call Luke Russert disabled.
Like he did Sarah Palin.
He referred to Sarah Palin as disabled.
Now, Snerdley's all worried that I've that I've I've stepped in it now by by referencing Harlem.
Look, it is what it is.
Adam Clayton Powell was re-elected numerous times in Harlem after being expulsed, after being expelled from Congress.
If they got rid of him, he was re-elected on March 1st.
This is a story.
On March 1st, the House voted 307 to 116 to exclude Adam Clayton Powell for various acts of corruption, such as paying his wife for a no-show job.
Uh Powell won the special election in April to fill his own vacancy.
They kicked him out.
He ran for his own seat again, and he was re-elected after being expelled.
It's a time-honored tradition up there.
He didn't take the seat, however.
Uh uh, he sued.
The case was Powell versus McCormick to retain his seat.
He was again elected in November of 1968.
And he he always urged his supporters to keep the faith, baby.
Just keep the faith, baby.
And they did.
All right, to the phones we go.
Here is Phoenix and David.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Pleasure speaking to you again, Rush.
Thank you.
I've been uh a longtime listener, turned on to your show by my father.
And uh here I am calling you again with regards to the new financial regulatory bill.
Yes.
It was signed into law.
Um I don't even know where to begin with this monstrosity because I neither does anybody else because we're not gonna know what it contains until there's the next crisis.
Exactly.
That was my point.
We know a little bit that they're gonna tax the banks, and um if I understand it correctly, they're gonna create a new bureaucracy that's gonna oversee um, you know, big banks that are too big to fail.
Now, wasn't it the point of the regulator before to do that to prevent it from having here's here's what here when you strip it all away.
This is this is what you need to take away from the financial regulatory reform bill.
It's being sold as a package of uh consumer reforms uh that the uh the banks and the credit card companies can sock you with hidden fees, right, uh exorbitant interest rates, and that's that's how they try to drum up public support for it.
They've also they also say it's not a bailout bill, but it is, and it's expressly a bailout bill.
It gives the federal bureaucracy the authority to either bail out a company or a bank or to shut it down.
This is the real key.
The theory is that we're in this economic recession because Wall Street was greedy, they made investments and they made loans, i.e., subprime mortgages that were irresponsible, and they have put all of us at great peril because of their own irresponsibility and greed.
So now this bill is supposed to be able to deal with that.
So from now on, if the wizards of SMART in the administration, in the regime, at the Secretary of the Treasury, uh, or the Council of Economic Advisors, I mean, this is a big this is a big Congress has given away all kinds of power here to the executive branch.
And whoever the bureaucrats are in this can look at a company, any company and say, you know what?
We think you might fail, and we think you might fail, and it'd be a bad thing for the country.
We're gonna shut you down before you fail.
They can do it.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, uh that aside, just the taxes alone on the banks is gonna make it harder for me and my family to put food on the table.
And um, I think the the new regulations are just gonna exacerbate the problem.
Uh not to mention the taxes that I see coming down the pike.
Oh, exactly.
Exactly.
This is about taking over more and more of the private sector, pure and simple.
And they got a couple of big banks to go along with them because what's going to happen here is small banks, small entities, are gonna be snuffed out, essentially.
Right.
And I'm not a big Wall Street investor or anything, but I have retirement that's wrapped up in stocks.
So are they saying that I'm greedy because I have money coming down, you know, coming through my retirement in years to come?
Yes.
I mean, that's just ridiculous.
No, they are.
They're saying personal attacks.
It's it's not so much that you're greedy, it's that things are not fair.
There's no justice.
Right.
Uh, because while you have investments and you have a nest egg, however large or small it is for retirement, there are plenty of Americans who don't.
And that's just uh uh uh systemically unfair.
And and so your your uh nest egg must be redistributed to other people.
It's not fair that you should have an advantage that others don't, uh, particularly uh if the advantage that you have has come about from your having stolen what you have from these other poor people, which is the assumption that guides Obama and and all of these uh people in the ruling class.
I mean, Obama's slogan seems to be if it ain't broke, reform it until it is broken.
Well, and see, I'm afraid this is gonna skyrocket the skyrocket the misery index past Carter levels, and how are we gonna undo all this?
Well, uh the the the tax increases slated for January and the tax increases that are uh part of the uh health care reform are are going to raise the misery index.
And everybody, look at 2011 uh if if these tax increases do hit, it's gonna take even more money out of the private sector.
You're talking about double dip recession.
I mean, it's gonna be it is going to be disastrous.
The scary thing is, is it's by design.
Keep saying it, but the scary thing is it's on purpose.
This is how you rest even more control over the private sector.
You come up with regulations designed to see when here here's the thing.
When government makes a mistake, and people will admit that it does, what do we do?
Ha!
We have a new government program to fix what went wrong.
If government screws up, what do we get is more government.
If the private sector screws up, what do we get?
A trial.
We get criminal charges.
We get all kinds of impunations.
Uh individuals in the private sector's reputations are targeted.
Acorn and SEIU people show up on the executive's front yards and protest.
Uh so government gets bigger under the guise of fixing what it broke.
When something goes wrong in the private sector, you sue them, you shut them down like big oil, uh, or you take them to court.
So when you when you hear uh, ladies and gentlemen, when you hear the ruling class wailing and moaning and decrying the Wealth disparity.
What they're really complaining about is the wrong people have wealth.
Only they, the ruling class, deserve to be wealthy.
Only they, anybody else who's wealthy, their wealth is going to be taxed.
It's going to be redistributed.
And it's not just bank taxes.
The financial reform is going to introduce at least 243 new regulations.
It's not just taxes.
It's not just the debt.
Every bill weaves a spider's web of red tape that'll tie businesses up so tightly they'll not be able to move.
And we're not going to know the ramifications and the manifestations of this until these bureaucrats start implementing whatever they're empowered to implement at whatever point during an economic circumstance, crisis or otherwise, after this thing goes into law.
It's a disaster waiting to happen.
I'll tell you when America began its slide into disaster.
If you, if you want to pin a lot of people, a lot of people think it began with Woodrow Wilson and the codification in our government of liberalism and so forth.
A lot of people think it started with FDR.
We recovered from all of that.
World War II and the post-war boom in the 50s and 60s.
We recovered from all that.
I actually happen to believe that the slide into disaster began with the ascendancy of the Kennedys and their gang from Harvard.
The Ted Sorensons, the uh the uh oh, I'm having a mental block on this historian.
Theod uh uh passed away not long.
I can't think of his name, but that all that whole bunch, the best in the bright, Robert McNamara, Theodore, no, well, Theodore White was one of them, but uh Arthur Schlesinger, that whole crowd, that that the best in the brightest, David Halberstam wrote a book about how this bunch gave us the Vietnam War.
They knew better than anybody else.
Now, David Halverstam was part of the ruling class himself.
He thought he was one of the best and brightest, too.
But that that marked the full ascendancy of the uh the aristocracy.
If we had an American aristocracy, the Kennedys, and and everything that that manifested itself from their time at Harvard, uh, and it's it's just balloon.
Now we've got the Kennedy School of Government.
What is the Kennedy School of Government?
The Kennedy School of Government is a an explicit training ground for people like Tim Geitner, or anybody else in this regime of Barack Obama.
America sucks for these reasons.
Here's what's wrong, here's what you do when you get to Washington.
The only fix is America's inherently unjust and immoral.
It was founded on principles that are incorrect.
The Bill of Rights doesn't go far enough because it doesn't empower government to do anything.
So you end up with the State Department, you end up with the Council of Economic Advisors, even the CIA, the CIA recruits from these places.
Yale, Harvard, the Ivy League, and that I think that's when the the slide into uh into disaster began.
And it has grown and grown.
And it's it's now settled in.
And these people do think that they're smarter than everybody else simply because of where they went to school.
They have no real world experience.
They don't know very many people, if any at all, who actually make the country work.
These are people who can't.
I I had a fascinating note the other day from a from a friend I for it was it was bouncing off of a news story, and I don't recall specifically what the news story was.
But it was, oh, I do.
It was about some guy, somewhere, some obscure guy who wants to remain anonymous, who came up with the design for the cap that BP used to cap the well.
Now, nobody is saying that his design was used by BP or that the BP knew him, but his design was submitted.
He submitted it somewhere, and what actually ended up being used by BP looks strangely suspicious to this guy.
And he was, he's just a you know, a backyard garage engineer.
And the uh email I got pointed out this Guy's a fixer.
Here's a is an average American, doesn't even want to be known he's not seeking fame, which is really odd in this country, who came up with an idea to fix this.
It may have, there's a good chance it was implemented.
It was a plumber.
He was a pl is a plumber, 40 something years old, and somehow BP ended up with his design and what his or something close to it.
So the point is, there are all kinds of people in this country who fix things.
I don't care what it is.
If your satellite receiver isn't working, you call somebody to come fix it.
Your washer dryer, your car, we have people who fix things.
Who take things that are broken and fix them?
And they're individuals, they're entrepreneurs.
Some of them have jobs employing these talents where they fix things.
None, none of the people in Washington can fix anything.
Do you think if Tim Geitner's satellite receiver goes up, do you think Tim Geitner has the slightest idea how to even troubleshoot it?
Or carr or his washer or dryer.
Yet these people tell us they can fix an economy that they have ruined.
They tell us that they can fix diplomatic problems around the world.
When in truth, all they do is break things.
Because they can't fix.
They can't repair.
Geitner cannot even do his own taxes.
And he's the secretary of the treasury.
That was his excuse for being a tax cheat.
Well, yeah, I didn't understand the tax code.
I uh do my own taxes.
Uh farm it out.
Uh counting in an error.
I'm just waiting.
Well, what do you think I am?
I just got out of Harvard.
You think I can do a tax form?
Yeah.
This is a it's a contrast between what the people I've always said are the ones who make the country work.
And they're anonymous.
They're not seeking fame.
A couple of them may put their kids up in a balloon and hope to get a TV show out of it.
But most people, most people still are not in it for the glory.
And the people who are in it for the glory always be suspicious.
Do not doubt me on this.
If you run into anybody, we have a name for them in show business.
We call them fame whores, and they are everywhere.
There are people who want fame for fame's sake of the just the simple sake of it.
And they are not the people to entrust a confidence.
The ruling class can't do anything.
They're mandarins.
The people with six-inch fingernails.
These are the they never get dirty.
And yet here they are telling us they have all the answers to uh to all of these problems.
They couldn't design, they can't fathom how most of the devices they use even work.
And yet they will sue manufacturers for violating some sort of federal law or not following some equal employment opportunity thing.
And they really are threatened by fixers.
They're f they're threatened by doers.
Doing is beneath them.
Theorizing.
Grand schemes, grand, great ideas.
That's what they're good for.
You and I are not capable of those kinds of things.
By the way, uh Charles Wrangell has apologized to Tim Russert's son Luke.
He probably found out who Luke Russard is.
He probably did not know who Luke Russert was when Luke was asking him questions this afternoon in Harlem.
Wrangell had a press conference.
I called this morning and had a very good conversation with Luke Russett and apologizing for the way I treated him on television.
But it's awkward when you can't give answers to questions, and sometimes reporters feel compelled to go beyond what I can do.
And so I'm restricted to a note.
I think everyone should be happy that I have not gone beyond that.
What?
That's an apology.
He says he apologized.
Good conversation to Luke Russard, apologize the way I treated him.
But it's awkward when you can't give answers to questions, and some reporters feel compelled to go beyond what I can do.
So I'm restricted to a note.
I think everybody ought to be happy that I have not gone be What we're supposed to be happy that you've done or not done what.
Luke Russert this afternoon on Angry Mitchell, NBC News in Washington.
She said, Can you share anything from that conversation?
A former chair of the Ways and Means Committee said he actually called you and apologized for how contentious he was during your interview with it.
I won't get into specifics because that was between he and I, but what I will say is that it was a very cordial and warm conversation.
He called and actually apologized to me and said you were doing your job.
Essentially he said you outsmarted me and he thanked me uh for doing my job and being a member of the press, and I'll leave it at that.
But it was it was a nice gesture on his part to call me about a little less than an hour ago.
Now keep in mind uh uh he has not apologized, Wrangle is not apologized to Jason Matera.
He has not apologized to Sarah Palin.
Uh he called Sarah Palin disabled.
But when he found out who Luke Russard is, he had to call a pr had a call Luke Russert and apologize, then call a press conference to tell everybody he'd apologized.
Open line Friday, L. Rushball, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Dennis in Plano, Texas, you're next.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, Rush, I just uh wanted to in l in light of uh what you were talking about earlier about the ruling class.
By the way, I'm not a Luke Russard fan.
I had never heard that.
That's wonderful.
I'm glad to know that there's a member of the mainstream media who really is willing to ask questions.
But uh I read an article from the Providence Journal a while back, written by a lady named Froma Harup.
I suppose you probably know who she is.
Uh the Providence Journal From a Harup.
Yeah, she writes not just in the Providence Journal, but she wrote an article and she I thought epitomized the ruling class attitude.
She l started out by talking about how the uh how all conservatives were just ignorant and uneducated and so on.
But she made a statement that I thought was very interesting.
She said uh that anyone who believed that the George Bush tax cuts did not result in a reduction in revenue was guilty of what she called, and I quote, absolute error ignorance, absolute ignorance.
Well, Rush, I'm just a country boy, but I have a computer in my house, and I don't have to rely on college professors or uh uh politicians to give me facts and figures.
I can look it up myself.
I got this thing called a search engine.
So I went online and I looked it up, and I found a website, found several websites really that talk about this.
One of them that was the most concise was a place called census.org.
Census.gov.
And it showed the uh the outlays, the uh budget receipts and outlays between 1960 and 2009.
And it's fascinating, Rush, that uh from a hair up apparently I don't know what her education is, but it certainly wasn't economics or even fifth grade math.
But uh you'll notice that uh if you look at 2002 when the uh Bush tax cuts were enacted, and you move up the line that uh the only reduction was in 2003 slightly, but the Bush tax cuts really didn't really take effect until then anyway, but they went up uh receipts to the government went up in 04, and by 05 the receipts to the federal government from income taxes were higher than it was in 2000, which is the peak of the dot-com bubble.
Well, you know, I'm I don't understand, Rush, why this is it makes it so easy for people like us just to to find out what the facts are, and uh it's amazing that they don't seem to really care very much about things like facts, figures, logic.
Uh it's an arrogance that is uh beyond belief to me.
I guess they're they feel like they're appealing to uh people who would never bother to go out and look these things up, they would just take their word for uh for what they say.
Um the the easiest way to understand this, uh and I you know some people say Rush, it's it's i i people are not gonna believe you.
It's is it's it's gotta be more complicated than that, but it really isn't.
Liberals lie.
Um she is a liberal.
She is lying.
She is a member of the so called press.
She does fake news.
She lies.
Now, it may also be that she is stupid.
It may also be that she genuinely doesn't know.
It may entirely be that this woman lives in a zero-sum game world, where if somebody loses a job, somebody got a job.
If somebody got canned, uh, then somebody got hired.
Uh that if you lost a dollar, somebody got a dollar.
She may have been educated that way.
But we all know, I mean, you uh you you go to the Reagan years, uh Reagan reduced tax rates from 70% to 28%, and the revenue to the Treasury doubled from about 500 billion to almost a trillion dollars over eight years.
Uh the capital gains reduction to 15% caused more revenue during Bush uh to roll into the Treasury.
I can remember newspaper stories about how shocked uh government officials were at the large amount of revenue pouring in, uh, despite the fact capital gains had been taxed.
Now, journalists are people who could not hack an education major in college.
This is this is who they are.
So I I the easiest way to understand it is they have their world view.
Their world view is high taxes punishing the rich make things fair, that raise revenue, uh, and and which is able then to be redistributed to the poor.
She may genuinely have been raised that way and educated and never questioned it and believed it because to her, in a zero-sum game world it makes sense.
So she's either dead wrong, dead stupid, or lying.
One of the two.
Well, one of the three.
They don't care, Rush, whether it's ignorance or lying.
To them, it doesn't seem to matter.
You know, this got my interest up, and so I started looking back even further.
And, of course, you've mentioned this before about the John Kennedy tax cuts, which also increased revenue.
But another probably the most telling was the one in the recession of 1920.
And I don't know whether you've mentioned this or not, but I read this article.
It was absolutely amazing to me how the conditions in 1920 were very similar to 1929.
But Warren Harding cut the top tax rate to 25%, cut federal spending by 50%, and within five years, the unemployment rate was one point eight percent.
And this I I was just amazed.
Apparently, though, we don't want to we don't want to confuse ourselves with facts and figures and history.
No, we want to go over the we don't, because the agenda is the important thing.
Exactly.
And but i here's it here's something else that we can cite to illustrate the folly, the stupidity, the ignorance, or the lies.
What did you say her what's her first name?
From F R O M A Froma Harup.
I don't know where that came from.
That's her name.
Okay, fine.
Well, uh, in recent days, the uh the ruling class nomenclatura's apparatus, uh, the fake journalists, have been reporting that numerous Democrats would like to rethink ending the Bush tax cuts.
Now remember, we've been told for the last year and a half, well, actually two and a half years when you count the 2008 campaign, that the reason we are in the dire economic straits that we're in is because of the Bush tax cuts.
And Obama and Biden say we can't go back.
We're not, we're not these are the guys we gave them the keys to the car, they drove them to bitch uh in a ditch.
We are not going back.
Um those Bush tax cuts created all these problems.
Now, all of a sudden, when it's re-election time, a bunch of Democrats say, you know what, uh, maybe too soon to end these tax cuts.
We may not want to take that much revenue out of the uh uh uh uh uh economy right now.
So when it comes to things that are really important to them, like getting re-elected, then they will go with the flow and go with the truth.
Now, when these Democrats say maybe it's a mistake to end the Bush tax cuts in January, they are admitting that they know that tax cuts increase economic activity, which ought to be all anyone knows or should need to know that these people are just a bunch of lying bags.
Well, back after this.
Hey, get this now, Ben Bernanke, who yesterday said in congressional testimony, we need more stimulus out there.
We gotta have more stimulus.
The Fed chairman today said that extending some of the Bush tax cuts set to expire would help strengthen a U.S. economy still in need of stimulus.
So tax cuts would equal stimulus.
How long is Ben Bern will he even get home this afternoon?
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
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