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Nov. 11, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 11, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Well, that didn't take long, Axelrod denying what he said he said in the Huffing and Puffington Post.
Now that story has been out there all morning.
Not until I make hay about it does Axelrod say, hey, you know what?
I didn't say it.
Already walking it back.
Axelrod denies Obama would concede tax cuts.
This is from the National Journal.
Senior White House advisor David Oxrod said this morning that President Obama has not caved to Republican demands on the extension of Bush tax cuts, despite a report to the contrary in the Huffing and Puffington Post.
We're willing to discuss how we move forward, Axelrod said in an email to National Journal, rebutting the Huffing and Puffington Post story, but we believe that it's imperative to extend the tax cuts for the middle class.
We don't believe we can afford a permanent extension of tax cuts for the wealthy.
Well, and that's not the story didn't say that you did.
Agree to a permanent extension.
And then your buddies on the left are afraid it's going to be temporary and then temporary and temporary, effectively permanent.
Do you know that Axelrod's son works at the Huffing and Puffington Post?
Not I mean nothing wrong with that, but I mean uh Axelrod has thrown his own kids publication under the bus here.
You just can't trust those George Soros front groups, even when they're on your own side.
Greetings, folks, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
Great to have you back.
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I want to get back to the angry email from Patty, who was uh fit to be tied over my turn my show off yesterday, because I kept referring to the unemployed as people who don't want to work.
I was referring specifically yesterday to California, where they are paying 40 million dollars a day to pay people to not work.
Forty million dollars a day.
I'm not proud to be unemployed, said Patty.
I certainly wish I was gainfully employed.
The unemployment rate's almost 10% by the government numbers.
You and I know it's much higher than that.
Please stop referring to me and millions of others who work 20, 30 years or more and now have to find work in this terrible economy as people who don't want to work.
Thank you.
Well, I understand the sediment, and I'm happy, frankly, to see such spunk.
I'm happy that somebody get all fit to be tied over being characterized, somebody who didn't want to work.
That gives me hope.
As I say, it's just a shame the email doesn't come from somebody in California.
But we have been saying on this program, folks, for the longest time, the purpose, the number one objective of the Democrat Party is to establish a permanent underclass.
That's their that is that's the route to their real number one priority is re-election.
They want to get as many people as possible dependent upon the government.
They've done it in spades over the last four years, and especially now under Obama with Obamacare.
Uh and the purpose of this debt panel report is to lock that in.
To lock in an expanded government with 22% of GDP being spent by the government.
They want to create and preserve a permanent underclass.
They believe that's their only chance of holding on to their jobs and their power.
Nobody else wants their policies.
They're literally trying to make it so that they are the reason people have food.
Why do you think a Democrats come up with school breakfast, school lunch, school dinner?
Yes, there's now school dinner, and it's gonna be long before there's school midnight buffet.
And in school snack.
All of this is to buy votes, and it bothers me.
I it bothers me greatly.
One of the reasons I was fit to be tied yesterday is because I just get sickened over the human destruction that takes place with the Democrat Party in power, with liberalism, With leftists.
They destroy people's dreams.
Ambition.
They take away their humanity.
And they make them forever dependent.
And what do they what do you get when you're dependent?
You get nothing, and you always are agitated, and you're always living in fear that somebody's going to take it away from you.
You never learn how to provide for yourself.
You end up resenting those who do.
So we have a permanent class struggle created by the Democrat Party, created by the American left on purpose for their own power circumstances.
Now, my tipping point yesterday was those schlubs over in the UK protesting tuition increases at university.
Well, here, I have I got two stories today.
One is from the French news agency, and the other one is the UK telegraph.
Benefits culture is national crisis, says Ian Duncan Smith.
He's the work and pensions secretary in the UK.
The work and pensions secretary.
This, I guess, is the equivalent to the uh head haunch of the Social Security Administration, right?
Labor?
No.
Work and pensions.
Well, they have work in there.
Work and pensions.
Anyway, here's the story.
Ian Duncan Smith has described Britain's welfare dependency culture.
And we're headed there, folks, thanks to the Democrat Party.
And that's what this deficit panel is trying to create.
Britain's welfare dependency culture as a national crisis as he unveiled his reforms to the benefit system.
And there's that word.
I I just recoil at the word benefits, and Obama uses it all the time.
Talk about your benefits.
You gotta get your benefits.
We're training people that what government is is a source of benefits.
And they're always paid by somebody else.
Namely you and me.
The work and pension secretary also said that it was a sin that British workers are not capable of competing for jobs with foreigners.
Hello, United States of America.
Unveiling what has been billed as the biggest reform of the welfare system in 60 years, Mr. Duncan Smith said that one and a half million people had been out of work and on benefits for nine of the past ten years.
You've been munching Doritos on the couch for nine out of ten years, and you are beyond hope.
You're sitting out there with Twinkies and Doritos.
What the hell else you're gonna get when you're on Pension, unemployment benefits.
Some benefit.
Speaking at the Arlington Center in Camden, Ian Duncan Smith said, in prosperous times, this dependency culture would be unsustainable.
Today it's a national crisis.
He added, there is something wrong in our system.
Really?
Who knew?
Our reforms are about reconnecting that group of people parked out of sight of the rest of us.
Mr. Duncan Smith said that his reforms to the benefits system meant that it will always pay for you to take a job.
What a concept.
You can believe this.
The British government has gotten to a point where they have to convince people that it will pay to take a job, as opposed to seeking benefits.
Around 4 million jobs are created in the economic boom from the mid-90s, but four and a half million remained out of work.
Uh and on benefits before the recession had started.
He said a new universal benefit would lift 350,000 children and 500,000 working age adults out of poverty, while the number of workless households would be cut by 300,000.
Workless households.
Workless households.
Kind of like food justice.
The new scheme would also mean that 700,000 people at low wages would be able to keep more of their earnings by 2017.
We want them to see the opportunities of work.
Mr. Duncan Smith added the changes were a recognition that as a political class we've got this wrong for too long.
Okay, now that's that's the UK telegraph story.
And of course, the fact that would come to the biggest surprise to many people in this country is that businesses do not operate to provide benefits.
And the government doesn't exist to provide benefits.
And I can just imagine all these little new castrati sissies sitting out there dialing their phones trying to get through to me to tell me what a mean, rotten scoundrel I am about how I have no compassion.
And it's just the exact opposite.
it.
I want the best for everybody, and it ain't found in government benefits.
It's not found on the unemployment line.
I'm sorry, that's not where it's found.
So you get this UK telegraph story focusing on benefits.
The French news agency headlines it this way government to stop benefits for some unemployed.
The coalition unveiled plans to withhold handouts.
I kind of like that language.
The coalition unveiled plans to withhold handouts for up to three years for those who refuse a job Thursday in the biggest shakeup of the post-war welfare state a day after violent protests rocked London.
You want this.
This is the real reason for those protests yesterday.
It had nothing to do with tuition.
You had two groups out there protesting.
You had the students, and we were told in the news aftermath that there was to be a peaceful protest.
The students exercising their wonderful human right to go out and protest the rising constitution, blah, blah.
But then the anarchists heard about it, and the anarchists ran out there.
And the story in the UK press last night was that the anarchists hijacked the protest, turned it violent, and went to the home of the Tories, their headquarters, the conservatives, and started kicking in the windows of the office building where they are.
Now, I guarantee them to you, the anarchists were not showing up because of college tuition increases.
The anarchists are showing up because of this.
The anarchists were showing up because the government's pension and work secretary was talking about the end of handouts.
And so the anarchists, these and the anarchists were the ones carrying the signs over there said free education or up yours.
Free education.
Why not just have a free everything?
The government also plans a universal credit instead of the current system of separate benefit payments for housing and child care as part of reforms aimed at cutting Britain's massive deficit.
This government is unashamedly pro-work, said work and pensions secretary Ian Duncan Smith said this in a speech to a volunteer group before he unveiled plans before Parliament.
This guy is going to start more riots with this kind of talk.
In fact, I'm convinced that this is what caused the riots yesterday.
So the government wants to introduce a sliding scale of penalties for those who either decline a job offer or fail to apply for a job they are advised to, or don't turn up for mandatory four-week manual labor placements.
Okay, I gotta take a brief time out here.
Um this is you know, welfare now accounts for a third of government spending in the UK.
Welfare.
One-third.
One third of government spending, and you are, when you have to have austerity programs, because it's not sustainable.
They don't have the money to do this.
No, no society ever does.
No society ever will be able to support no government via taxes, whatever.
This is not, it just can't be sustainable.
So when they have to pull it back, all these poor people have been conditioned to think this is what life is.
They're of course they're gonna raise hell.
And we're looking at our future here.
We see it right in front of us.
And there are ways to avoid this, by the way.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
All right, we're gonna get to your phone calls here in just a second, but before we do that.
I'm I'm thinking two things.
I'm thinking, you know, d uh back to the controversy at the Democrat side of House leadership, uh Clyburn and uh Sydney Hoyer in this death match here to leadership race, and it's uh it's it's it's become apparent that what Clyburn's worried about is losing his car and driver.
I think I'll offer to buy him a car and driver.
The Democrat Party in the leadership is gonna stiff Jim Cleburn of his car and driver.
I'll pick it up, I'll buy it.
Politico's reporting big problems for Obama, not able to close the deal over there at the G twenty meeting, not even with South Korea.
We've decided to put the whole trip into song.
Where are we gonna start on the phone?
Indianapolis.
And John, nice to have you, sir.
You're up first today on the phones on the EIB network.
Rush, how are you, sir?
Very well, sir, thank you.
I got a new name for Miami.
Well, what is it?
The minnows.
Miami minnows.
I'm not getting you.
I mean, you know, I think that the NFL is going the way of NASCAR very much going away of NASCAR.
Where's go where's NASCAR going?
It's boring.
All these safety regulations, all this stuff that they got going on, they're putting the everybody out there in bubble wrap.
I mean, people want to see like the Roman Coliseum.
They want to see blood sport.
I mean, if these guys are going to be making this kind of money contractually, I mean if you think about it, think about it.
These guys are signed contracts, which equate to three generations of my family.
And they can't take a hit.
They can't drive their car.
They they cry.
I mean, how how this weakified is that.
This makes me sick.
I mean, can you imagine the steel curtain stand across from me wearing pink?
Can you hear the irony?
No, I literally can't.
A toothless Jack Lambert standing across from me as a quarterback wearing pink shoes.
Jack Lambert would retire before wearing pink cleats.
Well, I'll tell you what, as a sports enthusiast, I'm 43 years old, and every time it's just like I'm watching the golf channel.
I know you're a big golf guy, but when I watch sports on Sunday, it just puts me to sleep.
I mean, these guys are just walking around a bubble wrap.
You can't hit him, you can't touch them.
What's next?
Flag football, NFL.
Well, I I uh I've I've tried to warn people, you know, I can read the tea leaves.
I know where this is all headed.
And it's the political correctness.
You know, I see these polls.
And yet it wins.
Political correctness is practically undefeated, and yet supposedly everybody's opposed to it.
And yet it just keeps winning the day.
And I'm I don't know if it's gonna happen in our lifetimes, but the National Football League is not gonna be.
I mean, it's not today what it was in the sixties.
It's not today what it was in the 70s.
And it's you you can just see the whole the whole culture here is just being chickafied.
It just is.
It's just what's happening everywhere.
And it's a slow creep.
Slow creep.
But it's going to keep happening with...
You know, every every time there's um something that people don't want to see.
That's making me nervous to see that we'll be legislated out.
Dear Rush, are you going to mention anything about Obama being a no-show on Veterans Day?
I just did.
It is Veterans Day, and Obama is always is nowhere to be found.
He's over in uh in so South Korea's of the G twenty.
They sent Joe Bite me out there to the uh to the tomb of the unknown soldier today.
And it's no, I don't think it's an accident.
I don't, but no big deal.
Whether it's an accident or not, Obama's not there.
Plain and simple.
Maria in upstate New York.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Wow, Rush, what an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
Fantastic.
Um about something you were talking about earlier in the program, and it's what I think about Obama, which is he is just a facade.
I mean I guess we all sort of see it now.
But when it really hit me was when during his campaign he was over in Germany in Berlin.
Right.
And he was speaking to the German people to Europe.
And he was running as the American president.
And it just was such it it was such a uh contrived thing and it was a manipulative thing and it was to make people think that George Bush was such an idiot.
Um I got that's what America's troubles were was George Bush.
And I think America is a very the American people are such trusting people.
The the average American is a trusting person and they want to believe the best in just about everybody.
And I think the only reason that Obama was able to get this over our notes was because the press wasn't doing their job.
And I think it's something I mean obviously you've been talking about this for years and I think a lot of people again average Americans are just waking up because it's so blatant this time.
Yep.
And when I when he spoke at the Democratic convention um for John Kerry and I I have very few friends that are conservatives and I myself am fairly new I mean probably ten years a conservative and um I said to a friend of mine I could almost vote for that guy for president if I actually thought he were honest.
If you were kidding me you telling me that you saw Obama speak at the eight at the the uh at the two thousand four Democrat convention and you said you could vote for the guy?
I said I could almost vote for the guy if I thought he were being honest and I didn't know anything about him at that point but the more I got to see him the more I knew it was just a manipulation.
All right what is it gonna take you tell me what is what's gonna take I'm gonna ask you okay.
What is it gonna take for you in the future to never ever again get bamboozled by these people.
What is it gonna take for you to realize when you see a liberal speak that you should be suspicious of everything because the odds are eighty to ninety percent of it if not all of it is a lie.
Well I don't think I was bamboozled though.
I don't I think you could have almost voted for the guy.
No, what I'm telling you is when I see anybody with a D next to their name, no chance, no way, disqualified no way in it for anything not even dog catcher.
I see a D next to their name, they don't I mean I don't care what they say, I don't care what they look like, I don't care what they do, no right that's exactly the way I am but what I'm saying is is that may the things that you were saying about uniting America and not dividing America were actually true I could vote for him as someone who doesn't vote for Democrats.
What is it going to okay let me rephrase it then.
I'm glad you said that.
What is it going to take for you to realize America will never be unified Oh I think I kind of know that.
What is it gonna take for you to re America never has been unified.
Well yeah I mean I I think I know that there's never and I don't think you want there are forces of evil that want to destroy America that have to be defeated.
We're never going to unify with them.
And the people that are on that side have a D next to their names so whenever they show up and speak their objective is to fool everybody into thinking okay I can get I can get rid of the strife because they know people don't like the strife.
They know most people don't like the arguments the um the partisanship.
So they come on and they lie to make you think they can make it go away.
Right.
If 9-11 couldn't unify us nothing will.
Oh you're right.
You know what I remember about the Obama speech what?
Nothing.
What I remember about that speech is his wife I honest folks honestly I don't remember one thing because I tuned it out because I knew it was all a lie.
It was being delivered by a Democrat at a convention that had nominated John Kerry for crying out loud what are we Talking about here.
But when I saw Michelle come out there, and I saw that introduction, Barack Obama told me everything I needed to know about him.
She gave one of the most forceful, supportive, upbeat.
I have never seen a political wife speak of her husband that way in my life, and he came out and ignored her.
I don't see an elevator.
Here he is my man, my baby's daddy's my whatever.
He's a great man.
Barack oh he came out and ignored her and didn't pay her a bit of attention.
And I said, I we're what this this doesn't compute here.
You at least give her a kiss.
You at least put your arm around her, raise her hand with yours and acknowledge the applause, but he just she didn't exist when he came out there.
That's what I remember about it.
Yeah, I don't remember.
Aren't you glad you called today?
What?
Aren't you glad you called me today?
I am glad.
I mean, the my whole point was that I think that we, as Americans, the average American wants to believe the best about people.
But by the time Obama was running in his own campaign, and the things that he said, I became very fearful of the guy.
Right.
And when he when he was inaugurated that night, and he stepped down on that stage in Chicago, it sent a chill down to it seemed.
I'd never seen anything like it before, where a man who's just elected president of the United States walks out with his family, and then they walk off and leave him out there alone.
It's just not Okay, it's the same thing I saw in 2004.
It's very creepy.
They didn't exist.
Yeah.
You know, their ornaments.
And I'll guarantee you, when he got back to the hotel after that speech in 2004, he heard about it from her.
I'll guarantee you, she said, Never again, buddy, are you going to treat me and disrespect me that way after I went out and did all that for you, and you pretend I don't exist.
Well, Nessie, I'll have to go back and watch that online.
You go back and watch, you go back and watch, you'll see exactly you no, wait a minute.
You're not telling me you have it on tape.
No, online.
Oh, watch it online.
Yeah, I keep forgetting you can do that.
See, I don't watch videos online because I can't hear 'em.
Oh so I don't, I don't uh that's it's it's a f it's a fact of being deaf.
Computer videos mean zilch to me.
Uh at any rate, uh I'm glad I'm glad you called it, but this but the Berlin speech.
Well, you know what the point of the Berlin speech was?
Barack Obama said, to hell with America, I'm the world.
Yeah.
And that's also creepy.
Very creepy.
And it was very crazy.
And then when we tell you something, when I I looked at crowd shots, I looked at the camera shots, and the Germans instead of drinking beer.
It was like Oktoberfest.
They weren't listening to what the guy said.
The whole thing was staged for us.
The God Echo, the big crowd on the mall, this kind of stuff, and the Germans have just been recruited.
I wouldn't be surprised if they gave away the beer to get him to show up.
Those people do nothing but stage everything they do to play off what you describe as the uh the good intentions of the hope of the American people who want to see the best in everybody.
My objective, therefore, is to get as many people as possible to when they see a D next to somebody's name to be suspicious, and to accept nothing at face value.
You know, believe half of what you see of a Democrat and none of what you hear.
And we'll be back after this.
I've just had it confirmed they did give away free beer over there uh in Berlin, and there was I remember this, there was a uh a free rock concert.
Uh before Obama showed up.
Back to the audio sound bites.
Uh, do I want to stay with George Miller move on?
Um stand a hell with George Miller.
We gave him some airtime yesterday's finished.
Let's move on to Alan Simpson, babe.
By the way, uh people asking, what are you calling him Alan Simpson babe for?
Because he calls me Rush Babe.
He went out there, but when he was named to this commission, he said, I know Rush Babe isn't gonna like it.
Rush babe's got a problem with me.
I don't I I never have had a problem with uh Senator Simpson.
It's Wyoming a great state.
Uh uh but he he he calls me Rush Babe, so I'm calling him Alan Simpson, babe.
Yesterday on Capitol Hill, the bipartisan debt commission press conference.
This is Alan Simpson.
We have harpooned every whale in the ocean and some of the minimals.
And no one has ever done that before.
Yeah, well, the truth of the matter is that if you look at this, which and I've don't want to be redundant here, but this is a boondoggle, folks.
It's a it's a mistake, it's a trick.
This thing locks in levels of federal spending and taxation.
It's not going to get adopted either.
This is not going to be adopted in its form.
I don't know what they're doing, trial ballooning it or what.
But the thing that these two guys presented yesterday locks in federal spending at levels that we've never reached, other than during anomalies, and federal tax levels that we've never had.
This thing is just forget everything else you know about it.
The report yesterday locks in the concept of an ever expanding government.
It does not change one premise.
It does not suggest reforming, repealing, getting rid of health care.
Now, if you if you're in part of a deficit reduction panel and you don't even talk about the health care bill, you are not serious.
This thing locks in the nanny state.
This thing locks in socialism.
Here's Anthony Wiener last night on PMS NBC.
Anybody gonna like this plan?
Anybody?
What's infuriating, putting it aside the content, never said it are a plan to reduce the deficit so much they plan to reduce seniors and reduce display anyone else.
This is very bad.
Well, okay, reduce seniors.
That's what health care is gonna do, Mr. Wiener.
Healthcare is gonna reduce seniors and reduce just about everything else.
By the way, here's another thing.
Just to show you that this thing is is not serious and it isn't going to fly.
You know, every year the Congress does a budget, President submits his version, and the budget includes things that happen five years out, ten years out.
But if you ever notice those things are never locked in, they can't be.
The budget is for one year, and the next year's Congress redoes it.
The hell with what it said.
The only reason these Bush tax cuts survives because they happen during reconciliation.
And that's why they're gonna that's why they sunset.
It's a whole different matter.
The retirement age for Social Security goes up to 69 in 2050.
I'm sorry.
Does anybody think that the people and a Congress in 2050 are going to live with what the Yokels in 2010 wrote?
Would we sit here and live with what the Yokels in uh in 1970 wrote for us?
In large part we are on the entitlement side.
Look at where it's got us.
They're not gonna put up with it.
You can't you can't come up with a plan that's gonna lock country in fifty years down the road, and people not even born yet affected by it, not change it and put up with it.
Uh, let's see.
Do I want to skip uh number thirteen?
Grab number four, this is Boehner, and this is yesterday on Capitol Hill, a press conference.
An unidentified state-controlled reporter said, Have you spoken to the uh whoever to work out more security arrangements in terms of your travel?
I know it was an issue certainly with the last transfer of power.
Is that something that you have uh discussions on?
How you're gonna get back and forth at your district and around the country.
I have talked to our security folks about uh the security that's involved in my new role.
Uh but over the last twenty years, uh I have flown back and forth uh to my district on the commercial aircraft, and I'm going to continue to do that.
Now that's kind of a slap at Pelosi who takes Boeing 757s to travel with her family and her friends back to California so forth.
Bahner says that he is going to stay on commercial aircraft.
Jim Clymer will probably get some sort of government plane before this is all said and done.
Is leadership battle in the House.
Last night, PMS NBC, the uh Reverend Jack appeared, and the question, if they repeal health care, what are we facing in this country?
Social pushback of some sort.
What do you think?
Reverend O'Jax.
Well, they're kind of creeping genocide.
What is hypocritical is that those who vote against a health care bill themselves have comprehensive health care for their families.
You're talking about more working poor people.
Most poor people are not on welfare.
They're not their elicks, they work.
Half of the veterans who are homeless, uh, men were homeless of veterans.
Uh million and a half children who who are homeless and they often go to school without adequate health care.
So this really is a a mass marsh to the kind of humane uh uh human destruction, uh likes of which we've never known.
We deserve better.
I mean, this is just comical.
Repealing health care is going to cause all aging to cause creeping genocide.
Can I read this to you again?
This is too.
Well, it's a kind of creeping genocide.
What's hypocritical is that those who vote against the health care bill themselves have comprehensive health care for their families, talking about more working poor people.
Most poor people are not on welfare, they're not derelicts, they work.
Half of the veterans were homeless.
Men homeless are veterans.
A million and a half children who who are homeless, and they often go to school without adequate health care.
Oh no, I can't believe we're sending kids off to school without adequate health care.
How can that be?
Are you sending your kid off to school without adequate health care, folks?
How many of you are guilty of this?
Every day you see your children leave your house into the bus stop or maybe to your car or their own that you've bought them, and they drive off or are driven off without adequate health care.
Is that what you think?
So the real this really is a mass march for the kind of human destruction, the likes of which we've never known.
Repealing health care is a mass march for the kind of human destruction, the likes of which we've never known we deserve better.
And then he he there is another answer.
Um, he was asked a question of the Republican position on this is it is it heartless?
And uh he says, Yeah, it's heartless.
I can't help getting my mind going to homeless shelter in San Francisco.
I don't have time to play you his response, but that's what he says.
Here's more from the uh Reverend Jackson.
We as Americans deserve a greater sense of humanity and a return on investment.
It's better, it's better to have prenatal care and daycare on the front side than GL care and welfare on the backside and short life expectancy when it's unnecessary.
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