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Dec. 3, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 3, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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Views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying It just is deal with it live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida It's open line Friday sweet of sunny South Florida We had a cold front go through here a couple days ago.
It's barely going to make 72 today You ought to see people out there in their sweaters and stuff at 72 degrees The first come out at 65.
First furs come out, 65 degrees.
Fireplaces will be on tonight.
Happy to have you along.
Open Line Friday, your last hour, to make it count whenever you want to talk about fair game.
That's the rule on open line Friday.
A telephone number, 800-282-2882.
The email address, Lrushbo at Eibnet.com.
So I knew it, I got, I got.
Let's see what.
I have all kinds of people just up in arms here over my projection that the Philadelphia Eagles will not make the playoffs.
As I look at it now and I'll be honest, look it is.
I mean to make a projection like this.
You have to look at the schedule and and see who's gonna win and lose.
And I see two more losses for the Eagles and I think they're gonna lose against Dallas in Dallas and they're gonna lose against the Giants in New York on on December 19th.
The JETS play the Steelers that day and the Packers play the Patriots on December 19th.
December 19th weekend, a fabulous NFL weekend.
But I think the Eagles will.
They'll beat.
They'll beat the, the Vikings and the Cowboys.
They close it out at home.
But if, if they lose those two games at Dallas and the Giants, then they're gone.
They're done for looking at other teams in the conference and and projecting who they'll beat versus versus their schedule.
I mean, I already have somebody bet me a steak dinner on this, on this proposition.
Any rate, nice to have you with us, as I said, telephone number, if you want to be on open line Friday, is 800-282-2882.
The email address, Lrushbo at Eibnet.com.
I have a little think piece for you.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, back in the old days 50s, when I was growing up, my mother was happy to see my brother and I walk out of the house in the morning and not come back until afternoon, and she wasn't worried about us running into a purse snatcher or a mugger or a rapist or any of that.
I know that's not the case today, but if we fell off the bike and I remember my mother sent me to the Snack AND PACK, which was our version of the 7-Eleven Snack AND PACK that wasn't the name of it, the son of the PACK and PACK AND Snack that, whatever it was, it was about six blocks away on a bicycle.
She sent me up there for something and I was ticked off.
I didn't want to go.
So I got on the bicycle and I headed up there and I got the stuff she wanted put in a sack and that's on the left side of handlebars dangling down.
And as I'm coming down a hill on Keller Street right behind the stupid grade school, I didn't like.
My left knee on the bicycle struck the bottom of the sack and the handles went sharp left and I went tumbling headfirst off the bicycle.
I cut my forehead and I'm sitting there and I'm ticked as hell.
I'm I don't know what.
Am I seven, ten years old and I'm just mad as hell that this happened.
I didn't call an ambulance.
I didn't, I didn't, I got back on the bike.
No, well, I might have cried.
I don't remember, but I was ticked off.
I was ticked off.
I had to go in the first place.
I was ticked off that this happened.
I remember when I got back home, this is the point of the story.
I got in my home, told my mother what happened.
She said, grow up, be a man about it.
Now, today, if that happened, whoever owned the house that I had fallen off the bicycle on, that parent would be sued for not having a warning sign or something out there.
Here's my only point.
We all know this is the case.
Playing Little League Baseball.
Well, this is, yeah, Little League.
I'd already made it.
So the next year during tryouts, I'm the catcher during batting practice tryouts.
And the batting practice pitcher is not particularly good, throwing wild pitches in the dirt.
One of them gets behind me and I run back and I cut the top of my head on the fence, you know, on the backstop.
And I go to the coach, coach, I'm bleeding back.
Don't worry about it, son.
He grabbed a handful of dirt, rubbed it in there, and said, you'll be fine.
Today, that coach would be strung up and probably fired for putting dirt in an open wound.
You know, I'm just, I'm not longing for the old days.
I'm just pointing out how things are different.
As a prelude to this, the Associated Press had reported that unemployment has been over 9% for the longest stretch in history.
Fox News said that unemployment has been over 9% for the longest stretch since 1948.
Now, in any case, how long do you think unemployment benefits were back in 1948?
Well, I don't know if you know how long they were in 1948, but I can tell you this.
Unemployment benefits did not exist for 99 weeks back in 1948.
Did they?
You know they didn't.
Did the economy manage to grow anyway?
It did.
Did a lot of people die on the streets in 1948?
Did we cancel Christmas in 1948?
I mean, we are told here that we've got horrible, rotten circumstances.
We've got to extend unemployment benefits.
And you go back during tough economic times in our nation's past.
And yeah, it was the Pack of Snack.
My brother is reminding me here.
Pack of Snack, it was owned by Porter and Edna Stubbs.
That's exactly right.
That was the place.
Pack and snack owned by Porter and Edna Stubbs.
And that's where my mom sent me that day where I ended up cutting myself falling off the bike, which wouldn't have happened if she hadn't ordered me up there.
Anyway, there weren't 99 weeks of unemployment back in 1948.
And yet everybody seemed to survive.
And we had Christmas.
And people ended up going back to work.
Now, we're supposed to believe it.
All of a sudden, the left now is very concerned, so concerned about the deficit that they're even willing to increase taxes on the rich.
Some things.
So concerned about the deficit.
Oh, yeah, they're so concerned about it that the solution is increasing taxes on the rich.
That's how much they care about the deficit.
Some of the new bipartisan tone from the uh from the chasing Democrats via roll call.
Bob Menendez likens tax fight to negotiating with terrorists.
Menendez likens tax fight.
Do you allow yourself to be held hostage to get something done for the sake of getting something done when in fact it might be perverse in the ultimate results?
It's almost like the question: do you negotiate with terrorists, Menendez said when asked whether he and other Democrats would accept a compromise with Republicans on extending the Bush tax rates?
Negotiating with terrorists.
They have the majority.
The Democrats still have the majority everywhere you look, the House and the Senate.
It doesn't matter.
Claire McCaskill, Senator Missouri, likewise lambasted the Republicans.
She accused him of putting the wealthy into the middle class and warning: if Republicans win the debate over tax cut, it really is time to take up pitchforks.
If the Republicans win the debate over tax cuts, it really is time to take up pitchforks.
What does that even mean?
Who is going to pick up the pitchforks?
The left?
No.
The middle class and the poor.
If the rich get tax cuts, that's time for the pitchforks to come out.
That's time for the Robin Hood guys to ram the castle.
That's what she means.
But they're going to have to take it forward.
She's calling for violence.
I mean, the pitchforks, what do you do with a pitchfork?
Stick people with it.
Where's Bill Clinton when you need him?
At any rate, my only point here is that if you listen to the media today and the Democrats, things have never been worse.
Oh, it's horrible.
Even though we've elected Obama.
I'm just telling you that in the past, people in this country dealt with hardship.
They dealt with it.
It was what it was.
They overcame it.
And we are, in our culture today, not teaching overcoming hardship.
We're teaching suing it, blaming it, coddling people who are victims of it, but we're not teaching overcoming it.
It was just part of the distinct American culture in the past.
Today, it still is for a whole lot of people, but for an increasing number of people, it's not.
And those are the people represented by Democrats.
And the Democrats are more than happy to coddle people in their insecurities and in their poverty and whatever else.
They're willing to coddle them, keep them there because they are excellent.
What's the word I'm looking for?
When they bring these people up to Capitol Hill, not role models, but they'll use them.
They serve a purpose.
The poor, the downtrodden serve a purpose for Democrats.
Solving their problems, telling them how to solve their problems.
That's not what they're about.
Previous caller had it exactly right.
Audio sound bites.
Baghdad Jim McDermott.
Last night, Chris Matthews hard ball.
Matthews said to Baghdad Jim, you're not afraid of the Republicans' worst threat against you, which is to force taxes for everyone, force taxes up for everyone on January 1st.
You're willing to make that stand.
In other words, say, okay, guys, play it tough.
Over Christmas, everybody get to think about the fact that you guys wouldn't let us have a vote.
You're willing to go that far.
The president obviously isn't.
I care about the unemployed.
They should be the number one question.
This is Christmas time.
We talk about good Samaritans.
We talk about the poor, the little baby Jesus in the cradle, and all this stuff.
And then we say to the unemployed, we won't give you a check to feed your family.
You have to force the Republicans out in the open and take all their clothes off and let them stand there naked and say, we will not take care of the poor.
Right, we won't take care of them.
We're only talking about extending unemployment benefits for 99 weeks.
And by the way, just as I thought, this unemployment number of 9.8%, that's greasing the skids for extending unemployment benefits.
It's been beyond 99 weeks, actually, for a lot of people.
But here's this, here's this, this, this lie, yet again, Republicans don't care about the poor and comparing the unemployed to the baby Jesus in the cradle, which these guys constantly do.
How come, how come it's Christmas when the holidays talk about unemployment, but it's the holidays with every other issue.
But when we're talking about unemployment, the Democrats will gladly use the word Christmas.
But in any other subject, you can't say Christmas.
That's offensive to people who don't believe in Jesus.
You got to say the holidays or what have you.
Where's the separation of church and state, Baghdad, Jim?
What are you doing talking about Christmas as a Democrat?
It's Openblind Friday.
I, El Rushbo, to Brigantine, New Jersey.
This is Emerson.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Thank you for calling.
Taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I was upset.
I didn't know how to get enough people excited or upset with their politicians about for Americans, the DREAM Act is a nightmare, and it's $8.2 billion being spent on illegal kids to go to college.
How many children are just dying to go to college in our own country and can't afford it?
And I just can't see where there's anybody revved up or enough people that they really should get on it.
It should be on the talk shows all Sunday.
I called the National Republican Committee, and I said, you should be on the talk shows.
I called my congressman.
I said to myself, I got to do something about this.
So I picked up the phone and I got through.
So I guess it was meant to be.
I just can't believe that we're doing this.
It's just.
What?
It's a deductive and a joke.
Now, what is it?
Are you seriously concerned the DREAM Act is going to pass?
I would worry that it would even be considered, but they say that Harry Reid is.
Well, Harry Reid's considering it, but he's doing it.
This is to follow through on his outreach to Hispanic voters for his election campaign.
Nobody expects the DREAM Act to have any action.
I really hope not.
No, no, no.
It ain't going to happen.
Isn't going to have, they don't have, look it, they would have to get that done in the next two weeks.
They're not going to get that done.
The DREAM Act is going to die with the Democrat majority dying once the new Congress is sworn.
These guys go home for Christmas.
That's it.
They don't have enough time to do that.
Don't ask, don't tell.
They don't have time to do anything.
It's all just talk.
This is all just talk to try to appeal to Hispanic voters, pure and simple.
Now, they'd love to do it if they could, make no mistake about it.
But they're not going to have time.
I didn't know.
I had heard you talk several years ago about Al Gore's college, I don't know, indiscretion, whatever he did.
But anyhow, and he said the oceans were going to rise 20 feet, and he just bought a $9 million beach house in California.
I don't understand this.
Who's being told what?
You know, you are suffering from an affliction known as logic.
And you don't see that similar logic expressed elsewhere in popular regions of our culture, like the media.
And that's why you're frustrated.
You're right.
Al Gore says the sea levels are going to rise 20 feet and buys a home in Santa Barbara, which technically is beachfront, but it really isn't.
But then gets divorced or announces the divorce.
Ted Danson in 1988 said, if we don't clean up the oceans in 10 years, we're all going to die.
Well, it's been 23.
And we're all still alive.
And Ted Danson's even still acting on a TV show called Damages, which is not a bad show.
I don't know if they're going to do season four of Damages, but it was a good show.
Glenn Close plays a lawyer.
Anyway, look, I totally feel for you.
Those of us who live in Litteralville, we hear all this outrageous stuff.
Where's the outrageous reaction to it?
I have not watched True Blood yet, Snirdly.
There's nothing I can't just cannot get into.
Look, the DREAM Act, I just want to say this for True Blood and the vampire stuff.
The DREAM Act, Emerson, it's just Reed thanking the Hispanics for stealing the election form.
That's all it is.
It isn't going to be passed.
It's not going to get signed into law.
Tyrann said, no, I have not watched True Blood.
I hear it's a great show for people like vampires.
I just never been able to get into vampires.
You know, I live in Litteralville, and there aren't vampires.
Well, do you watch Star Wars?
Yeah, when I was younger, I did.
I know the Litteralville explanation doesn't cut it for a lot of people, but look, we all have areas of entertainment that this leave us called.
Vampires, I don't know.
Don't hold it against me.
I just never got into it.
To me, you get close enough to that, talking about Democrats.
I do that every day.
I don't need to go home and watch a television show about them.
Nope.
Oh, yeah.
Broadwalk Empire.
Nucky Thompson with Steve Buscemi.
Yeah.
Yeah, I watch that every Sunday.
I watch that.
That's a tremendous show.
And the finale is coming up Sunday.
Season finale is coming up Sunday.
Yeah.
Yeah, I do.
John in Indianapolis, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, Golden Retriever Dittos from Indianapolis.
Thank you very much, sir.
I have a problem with you.
Speaking of which, Golden Retriever, you won't believe this.
Two days ago, I'm talking about my old English sheepdogs, Abby and Wellesley, and they got a fan letter.
They got a fan letter from another sheepdog named Garcia.
Well, Mike Gold, he couldn't type, but we had to put him down.
He was a 12-year-old dog.
Oh, no.
One of the saddest days of my life.
Great pet for my kids, and we all loved him to death.
So it was a bad time.
But we're going to get another one at some point.
But, Rush, the reason I called is I think the Republicans are making a mistake in their anti-tax hike argument when they say that now is a bad time because of the slow economy.
There is not a good time to raise taxes on the so-called rich.
35% is too much.
And when you take people's money, you are taking their freedom.
If this government can't run on 35%, something's wrong.
And what's wrong is we have a Soviet-style bureaucracy that needs to be dismantled in Washington, D.C. We're taking money out of the productive private sector, and we're putting it into an abyss of corruption, ineffective.
There's no question.
The more that we learn about what goes on, corruption is the business of D.C.
That is what's what the Fed news this week told me, that corruption is the business of D.C.
But I'd like to ask people, too, we started a Department of Energy, so we would be energy independent 30-some years ago.
I don't know how many people worked there, but if that were a private business, wouldn't it have been shut down about 28 years ago saying this hasn't worked?
Well, same thing with the Department of Education.
Department of Education, you name it, Department of Labor.
What do these people do but suck our money and waste it?
Well, that's what statists do.
They exist to grow government, confiscate wealth.
Yep.
Pure and simple.
I'm glad you called.
Well, I'm sorry about your dog.
We had to take Punk into the vet.
Punkin' comes home Monday.
Punking had liver disease, turns out.
Thankfully, not due to old age.
But Punkin's been at the vet for like a week and a half now.
No, our sheepdogs got a fan letter from another sheepdog over on the west coast of Florida named Garcia.
And this sheepdog Garcia is in a novel.
Guest stars in a novel.
It's being written.
Don Bruns, I think is the author.
Anyway, I told Catherine I'm going to mention this, and she said, Snerdley is going to say you have been totally chick-ified if you start talking about your dogs having received a fan letter from another dog.
Well, it happened.
So I'll read the letter, man.
I forgot to bring it in today.
Mannheim Steam Roller, this stuff still gives me goosebumps.
And I like goosebumps.
When I listen to it, it's Open Line Friday, El Rushball, back to the phones, Florida Keys.
Allison, thank you for waiting.
Nice to have you here.
Thank you, sir.
I'm so upset.
I'm still shaking.
Calling to respond to the idiot with whom you were speaking earlier, the one who said that he doesn't understand why businesses don't just hire why they need incentive.
Yeah, right.
I can see you.
I could just see you fuming out there, Allison.
All this time you've been waiting to get on the air talking about that idiot.
I've calmed down some since I first spoke with Mr. Snerdley, but like I said.
Well, what upsets you about the guy?
Well, it's clear.
He has no clue what he's talking about.
He has no business experience.
It's not incentive.
It's called cash flow.
If you don't have cash flow, you can't make payroll.
You can't just pull payroll out of the air.
It's called customers, isn't it?
And that's another thing.
In order to have customers, you have to be competitive.
You have to be able to give them a price where they can then hire you.
But everything is going up.
Don't tell me there's no inflation between the taxes and the insurance and the permits and all the other regulations that we have to follow and pay for.
Our materials costs are going up.
The gas is going up so that the trucks is ridiculous what we pay for gas every month.
Still, it's going up.
And if we raise our prices in order to cover our costs, then the customers can't hire us.
They can't afford it.
And some of them, if they do, then they can't turn around and pay us.
And so we've got several accounts right now that haven't been paid.
And I'm sitting here at my desk right now trying to figure out who not to pay myself so that I can make payroll.
I can pay my guys.
The owner of this company hasn't been paid in over a year.
Now, how do you do that?
How do you decide who you're not going to pay?
It's tough.
A lot of them I've ended up putting on credit cards so that I have the rollover.
And I pay a little bit on the credit cards, but my big vendors, you know, I'm able to keep them paid with the credit card so that we can still get materials from them every month.
They still work with us.
But now I've got the credit cards are mounting, and it's strictly business.
It's not I'm not going out and buying TVs and stuff on this thing.
No, we're trying to keep this business running.
And then you've got people like whatever the hell his name was.
I mean, how can he be so stupid?
He's a good person and say that he's ignorant.
Because common sense, you would see it eventually.
But no, he told you at the house he's a liberal.
Therefore, he knows everything.
And they turned around and made it.
And the reason you're not hiring anybody is because you're selfish.
You could hire if you wanted to.
You just want to keep the money for yourself.
That's what he thinks.
And pay them with what?
Well, with what you've got a stash of money that you're not using.
You are a business.
No, no, no.
That's Obama.
Obama has the stash, remember?
No, I know.
I'm just telling you the way this guy thinks.
You're a business.
You've got a stash of money.
You're rich.
You drive a Bentley.
You've got a big house.
You have a boat to go along with your car.
You're selfish.
You could get rid of the boat and hire workers if you wanted to, but you're selfish and greedy.
That's what all of that meant.
You're being generous in saying that he thinks.
Well, yeah.
Popular use of the term.
But that's what they believe.
And it's, you know, there coulda, woulda, should have people.
You could have done it.
You should, you should.
He doesn't know the first thing he's talking about, but he thinks he knows everything about you.
How can he draw breath for so many years that he's able to dial a phone and yet he doesn't pick up on any of this stuff?
Doesn't he go to the grocery store ever?
I mean, you know, what well, now, what do you mean?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I want you to explain to people what you mean by that.
Doesn't he go to the grocery store?
If you go to the grocery store, you have to pay for what you get.
And if you don't.
If you pay attention, if you pay attention, the prices on the things that you buy have been going steadily up.
You don't have to pay for it.
You don't want to.
It's food stamps.
Yeah.
So, and he made the point about incentive himself.
You know, why should I do this?
I have no incentive to do whatever, you know, work or just quit your job.
Don't pay taxes.
Well, I think what you're illustrating here, Allison, is that that particular caller really does not understand free market economics.
He understands command and control economies.
How can there be so many people that don't understand it?
They just want to sit with it out.
Somebody give it to them, and they don't have to do anything for it, and they don't think.
Where does it come from?
It takes this money.
The government doesn't.
I ask myself this every time.
I've been doing this 23 years.
If I could go insane, because I could think after 23 years, there ought not to be any liberals left, right?
This is true.
And I could think of myself as ultimate failure.
So I've had to figure out how is it that what is so easily understandable, what is just nothing more than common sense, escapes these people.
And there are any number of people that people have written books about this.
There have been psychological dissertations about it.
And the best I can come up with is you're not dealing with people who think you just said that too.
Yes.
In order to have common sense, you have to think.
They don't think.
And I've come to the conclusion that some of them aren't even capable of thinking.
And you can't fix that.
No, you can't.
Ignorance, you can take care of it.
You can try to educate people.
But when they're stupid, that's it.
It's over.
And you figure, you know, I'll find out.
I know stupidity is a frustrating thing.
What do you do about it?
Because by definition, you can't do it.
Stupid is stupid.
Dumb is dumb.
I mean, you can't turn a pencil eraser into a washing machine.
People are what they are.
But how do you get through to people eventually so that it does happen?
You're trying to make payroll here.
I probably have a better record than most of getting through to people and converting people.
That's why I'm considered such a threat and so dangerous.
But you're not even talking his language.
When you sit out there, what does he not understand about making payroll?
You're not, I mean, you may as well, it's Mars-Venus.
I'm telling you, he doesn't, people like him don't have the slightest clue what you're talking.
What do you mean, make payroll?
To him, you're just making an excuse.
You're just complaining about how hard it is when you're the business owner and you've got all the money and you're the one that's selfish.
If you really wanted to hire somebody, you could.
And then you throw payroll back.
What do you mean, payroll?
On the 15th of every single month, you have to pay 941 taxes.
That's the federal withholding.
And you should be damn happy you have the chance to pay those taxes.
I have had to not pay myself several times just or delay my paycheck by two or three weeks.
Well, you know how he reacts to that?
The government will not wait.
They will get paid on the 15th, regardless.
You can go hungry.
We can go into foreclosure on your house, but we get paid.
Do you want to know what he says or thinks or how he reacts when you say, and I don't even pay myself.
You don't want to know what his reaction is?
I must not need it.
No, it's that, well, you don't have to pay yourself.
You have a big stash of money.
You're actually paying yourself before anybody else gets paid.
You're just greedy that you don't want to have to take away from what you already have.
That's all fire and damn nation.
No, you know what?
I'm telling you, that's how they look at business.
Businesses exist to create jobs for people and give them health care.
And when you don't see it that way, you're cold-hearted, cruel, and mean-spirited, and you're unfeeling.
It's just that simple.
I can tell you're going nuts out there trying to understand this.
And a lot of people are like you trying to go nuts trying to figure it out.
But keep in mind, that guy that you're talking, in the eyes of the media, he is the smartest man in the world.
He's got the compassion.
He has the perspective and so forth.
That's what frustrates you, too.
Look, I'm glad you call.
I got to run.
Allison, best to you.
Happy holidays.
I'm not trying to be funny.
Well, since Jim, I say Merry Christmas, too, since the Democrats are talking about Christmas, I can do that.
Speaking of Democrats, yesterday's activities by the House Democrats, voting to extend some of the Bush tax cuts, propel the researchers at Heritage to prepare for the next Democrat scheme.
And don't put it past them.
These House Democrats, to use backroom deals and other shenanigans right up and through Christmas Eve.
They did it last year.
Don't forget.
They worked overtime to keep Obamacare alive on December 24th last year.
I'll never forget that.
You want the whole list of what the libs may try to sneak through?
Check out the liberal Santa Claus list, the secret Santa list at askheritage.org.
We posted it just a few hours ago.
Askheritage.org, the secret Santa list.
Find out what they are waiving until Christmas Eve to try to sneak through when everybody just wants to get out of town.
And the point is, folks, that none of us can ever let down our guard.
Heritage never does.
That's why you'll see them pumping out so many different analyses this week.
But that's what they're great at: expert analysis in advance of Democrat mischief.
They do it, they love it, and they share it.
Make yourself a member of Heritage Foundation this coming year.
Support this kind of activity.
You can do that at askheritage.org.
Folks, here's here.
Let me.
This is, you know, very seldom do I point out something I think is really brilliant.
I know you think it's a lot, but that liberal caller everybody's reacting to, he has the same level of economic understanding as our president has.
That guy may as well have been Barack Obama.
I kid you not.
If you want to understand Obama, if you want, that guy was Obama.
That guy has the same degree of economic literacy as Obama's got.
Pure and simple.
The golden goose is always going to be gold.
And business is always going to have money.
Businessmen, businesswomen are selfish and greedy.
They could do all of this if they wanted to.
But since they won't do it, we got to do it for them.
And so we have to spend the money.
We have to give people unemployment checks.
We have to do the groove because they won't do it.
That's exactly, that's exactly who that guy was.
It may as well have been Obama calling us from Afghanistan instead of calling Hamid Karzai.
And here, here's Barney Frank.
This is last night on PMSNBC, the last word, Lawrence O'Donnell.
Question.
You got a lot of people, a top tax bracket in your district in Brookline and Dover or Wellesley.
How do you explain to them that their tax rates ought to go up in your district while everybody else should get a cut?
It's not the case that everybody who is doing well begrudges making a contribution.
Many of these are fairly sophisticated people, and they understand that if someone is making $500,000, so $250,000 of that will be subjected to a tax increase from 36% to 39%.
That's 3% of $250,000.
An increase of $7,500 in the taxes paid by someone making half a million has zero economic effect.
It's just a misconception that the Republicans are trying to peddle that everybody is selfish.
Is it me or is it getting harder to understand him?
I think it's getting worse, whatever it is.
It's getting worse.
But, well, I think he needs a drain in his mouth for one thing.
That would help.
But anyway, higher taxes are your contribution to government.
Higher taxes are your contribution to government.
All right, here's Gil in Philadelphia.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
16 times Dittos, Captain O. My Captain.
Thank you very much.
Listen, I own a small engineering firm here in Philadelphia, what's left of it.
Two years ago, I had 10 employees.
Now I'm down to a handful.
And the truth of the matter is that I would hire more people if there was a marketplace for their labor.
I mean, if I can sell my people's labor, I make money.
I have every incentive in the world to hire people, but there's no marketplace.
Right.
So what you're saying is you only hire people if you need them.
Well, if the marketplace needs them.
Well, that would be you.
I mean, you're doing the hiring.
In other words, you don't hire them because you're a nice guy, and you don't hire them because you're trying to give them health care.
That's absolutely correct.
That's not my motive at all.
My motive is the profit motive, and if it isn't there, I can't afford to hire them.
In my opinion, one of the problems with liberals is they don't understand the difference between money and wealth.
Wealth is generated when people go to work and provide a goods or a service to each other.
Money is just what exchange is hand.
It's a claim on labor.
And when the marketplace won't support the goods or the services, if nobody's there to buy them, then the economy doesn't grow.
It's that simple.
Well, of course, you're exactly right.
But I think you're being charitable in explaining liberals and wealth.
To liberals, wealth is what you inherit or what you can score from somebody, from some government or something.
Nobody earns wealth.
That's just inconceivable to them.
I mean, if somebody has got multi-million, they can't possibly have earned it.
Somebody had to give it to them, or they had to steal it, or there had to be something screwy about it because they can't conceive of anybody paying somebody that amount of money other than an athlete or a movie star.
Just they.
They don't.
You're right at the end of the day.
Sophistication levels of understanding of economics.
You know, economics is one of those things that is so complicated it seems, but it's nothing more than logic.
Economics is just logic, but the logic has to be explained to you the right way And when it is, you got a good economics teacher, professor, you'll have lights going off in your head like crazy.
So many things make perfect sense when it's explained properly because it's just logic.
Mathematics is just logic.
Look how tough that is for people.
Now, to liberals, wealth is also what you redistribute to buy votes.
Nobody ever, to Pelosi, Pelosi's idea of earning money, folks, is tweaking the tax code to help her husband avoid paying taxes.
And they've all got their own definitions of it, but it doesn't include helping you, only them.
Have a wonderful weekend.
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