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Dec. 6, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 6, 2010, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, did you see that the uh the Femi uh WikiLeaks guy, Julian Assange has uh called for the resignation of President Obama.
Well, I mean, just goes to show they're good in everybody.
Greetings, folks, nice to have you.
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Julian Assange now promising to release files.
That's if if if we nab him, if we arrest a guy, he's got some he's got some encrypted stuff out there that's not redacted, it'll flood the country, flood the world with it.
And some of these files supposedly will list the factories and sites that are essential to our national defense so as to make them easier targets for terrorists.
Now, to think there's still some people who don't realize that's his entire purpose is to bring down America's standing in the world.
In fact, I think we ought to call him Barack Hussein Assange.
Uh, because they have some things that they share in common.
But you know, here's stop and think of this now.
This this guy got hold of.
Well, look at all these State Department cables.
These are the people who want to digitize our health records.
These are the people are telling us they will not leak any of the nude photos they take with the scanners at the airports, and we can't even keep track of our own State Department stuff.
Well, he can't flood the world if his servers are down everywhere, but that's what he says he's gonna be.
If he if he learns that they're gonna take the servers down, he's got this, these things are already out there on people's computers.
All he's gotta do is release the encryption key.
And the encryption key ostensibly is 256 characters, making it veritably impossible to uh impossible to uh to check.
Anyway, uh, ladies and gentlemen, let's let's go.
I have a question.
I've got I've got a whole unemployment stack here.
But before I get to the uh unemployment news stack per se, I have a I have a question.
I am still uh I I'm still kind of reeling here over the the theories and the philosophy that we got week, and that is that unemployment benefits uh create robust economic activity.
Still trying to get my arms around that.
And not only that, unemployment benefits, if we fail to extend them, it's going to cost us 600,000 jobs.
Now, my my question, if unemployment benefits are so good for the economy, why hasn't it worked for the past 99 or 150 weeks?
If we look at all the people that have been unemployment, we ought to have a just a rolling recovery going on.
But of course, we don't.
It's uh it's it's absurd some of the things that being said out there.
Here is the unemployment stack, ladies and gentlemen, and the first story is from Ben Bernanke Bernanke was on 60 minutes last night.
He said that unemployment might take five years to fall to a normal level, and that Fed purchases of treasury securities beyond the 600 billion dollars announced last month in a controversial move were possible, might do it again.
At the rate we are going, it could be four or five years before we're back to more normal unemployment rate of about five percent to six percent.
That's optimistic.
Considering other things that I have heard, we're not gonna get out of this as long as Obama's president, in other words.
That's what he's basically saying here.
As long as Obama's president, we are stuck.
Uh and now from uh Peace uh business insider.
Guess what?
Unemployment's up again, even though Wall Street is swimming in cash and the regime is declaring the recession is over, the U.S. unemployment rate's gone even higher.
So, are you enjoying the jobless recovery?
The truth is that there shouldn't be any talk of a recovery as long as the official unemployment rate remains around 10%, the real unemployment uh continues to hover around 17.
Millions and millions of American families living every day in deep pain because of the lack of jobs.
Meanwhile, there are all these economic pundits that are declaring that we are just going to have to realize that chronic unemployment's the new normal.
And that if other nations can handle high rates of unemployment, then so can we.
Now this piece says if you have never been unemployed, it can be hard to describe how soul crushing it can be as the bills pile up and the financial obligations mount, the pressure can be debilitating.
The vast majority of Americans have at least one family member or close friend looking for work right now.
Times are really, really tough.
And unfortunately, the long-term outlook is very, very bleak.
We should have compassion on those who are out of work right now because soon many of us may join them.
And then they have a link here, 25 unemployment statistics that are almost too depressing to read.
It's a slideshow, and I'm not going to bother you, but I've got the link to it, businessinsider.com.
It's a long link.
But it's um it's not good.
And it's, I guess, typified here, there's a story, UK Daily Mail Online, no end in sight to U.S. economic crisis as scariest job charts ever shows post-recession unemployment is at its worst since World War II.
As unemployment in the U.S. nears the dreaded 10% mark, it's a it's a chart to chill the bones of any job hunter.
Now I can't describe a chart for you.
Not even someone with the immense talents that I have can describe this thing.
This looks, I mean, this is this looks like one of those computer model hurricane spaghetti things.
But down at the very bottom, and they're all jumped together, all these different lines starting in 1948 to the present, with uh unemployment rates at uh 7% minus 6%, so forth and so on.
Way, way down below everything is where we are now with the Obama regime.
I mean, it and it's just all of this, every day this news comes out, and and it gets worse and worse and worse, and the fix for this becomes obvious, and yet any time the fix is mentioned, just doing the opposite of what we're doing, Democrats have a cow.
Let's go to the audio sound bites, this hilarious Friday night.
Uh Sergeant Schultz had on his show Alan Grayson, the certifiably insane, soon-to-be former Congressman from Central Florida.
And during a discussion about the House debate to extend the Bush tax cuts, uh Congressman Grayson mentioned me on the House floor last week, Sergeant Schultz.
So why did you do that?
It was very entertaining, but what was the mission there, uh, Congressman?
Because when you listen to these people talk about tax cuts for the rich and how it's going to benefit the economy and create jobs, you have to realize it's a lie.
It's just not true.
They have a hidden agenda, they have a hidden motivation, and that's tax cuts for themselves.
They should confess that the reason why they keep pushing tax breaks for the rich is because they want a tax cut.
It's that simple.
Um, what to do with this.
What to do is there, in fact, uh no, we don't have a companion.
That's that's it for Congressman Grayson.
Well, uh the only reason they keep pushing tax breaks for the rich is because they want a tax cut.
In the first place, Congressman Grayson, you and it seems like all of your compatriots in the but Alan Grayson's worth 31.5 million dollars, by the way.
That's his net worth.
Alan Grayson, 30 at 31.3, 31.5 million dollars.
That's how much he has.
And publicly he would probably say, no, I don't, I don't, I don't want a tax cut.
I'm willing to pay more.
Well, then pay more, Congressman, but keep your hands off everybody else's money.
The problem we're not talking about a tax cut.
This is something that John Kyle tried to drill into Bob Schiefer's head yesterday on Slay the Nation.
It's impossible.
It's impossible to tell these Democrats and the media people we're not talking about a tax cut.
We're talking about two things.
Maintaining current tax rates or a tax increase.
Pure and simple.
Nobody is getting a tax cut.
Now there's if well, I know if if if Alan Grayson, if that idiot can end up with 31.5 million dollars, anybody can.
It's one of the greatest motivational details that I've ever imparted to you.
If Grayson can do it, you can do it.
But nobody's talking.
Tax cuts here.
Why doesn't Grayson move to a state where he can pay state income tax if he is so high on all this, leave Florida and go to his, like go to the Bronx.
He was born and raised in New York City, was born and raised in the Bronx.
Alan is head back there.
If you're not paying enough taxes, there's plenty of places in the country that'll take you.
Nobody is talking about a tax cut.
We're simply talking about extending current tax rates as opposed to a tax increase, which you start talking people at 250 grand or more.
And I think actually we don't have to do too big a sales job on this.
I think very, you know, most people have come to understand what this is all about, which is why Obama's gonna cave on this.
And it's why the Democrats, the left is livid ever.
I mean, there are stories today.
There's a we got sound bites too.
Krugman's ticked off.
Uh, let's see, who are there?
Everybody's ticked off on the Democrat side.
Claire McCaskill's ticked off, they're all ticked off at Obama.
And Mark Halpern at Time Magazine, you remember when 9-11 happened?
When 9-11 happened, there were actually a bunch of people, Democrats said, ah, damn it, why couldn't this have happened when Clinton was president?
A chance for Clinton to have some greatness.
Why does it have to be wasted on Bush?
Now, the bottom line on this is uh Clinton had his disaster.
It was the Oklahoma City bombing.
Now, Halpern is writing, there's it's it's a piece today.
It's all about what does Obama have to do to come back?
What is it doesn't matter if it's good for the country or not.
Halper says, hey, if there's another 9-11, another Oklahoma City bombing, if people get killed, that might be what it takes to bring Obama back.
The hell with what's good or bad for the country.
Well, Claire McCaskill, she's I think she goes to the same school as Alan Grayson.
She keeps saying they're giving money to millionaires and billionaires.
This is what they all, this is this is their latest mantra.
This is why I went to this whole little monologue last week about, oh yeah, okay, so if we extend the Bush tax cuts, Washington is going to write people a check?
Is that is that what's happening here for extend these Bush tax rates?
This is pure demagoguery, it's pure lying, and it is uh it's not working.
Washington News, White House Congress reportedly neared deal to extend all Bush-era tax cuts.
Media reports uh, including stories and all three network newscasts describe the White House and Congress very close to a deal to extend temporarily all Bush era tax cuts.
The potential deal being cast as somewhat of a defeat for the president, and is a highly disheartening development for Democrats and liberal activists.
ABC's World News tonight reported the president's preparing to break one of his biggest campaign promises, as it appears Republicans will get all the tax cuts extended.
They're not tax cuts anymore, they're tax rates.
In a second story, ABC's World News Tonight said the White House views this as the best, last best chance to get priorities passed, including extending unemployment benefits.
But the flip side is this is happening while Democrats still control Congress.
The view of many on the left is if the president has to move this far right now, it's going to be much farther next month when the Republicans are in the majority.
CBS evening news reported liberals have been begging Obama not to cave to GOP demands that the White House is worried about losing Twice if no deal is reached and all tax cuts expire, the economy could buckle, the president would get the share of the uh of the blame.
He already is starting to get the largest share of the blame.
Uh, NBC Nightly News John Harwood said it appears that they're headed toward a perhaps two-year extension of all those tax rates.
New York Times on the front page.
Senior Democrats on Sunday said they were resigned to defeat in the highly charged tax debate, and they voiced dismay.
The AP reports some Democrats continued to object to any plan that would continue Bush-era tax rates at the highest income levels.
Political reports a Republicans seem more sanguine someday about the direction of the debate and the negotiations than did Democrats McClatchy reports, despite talk of compromise, the rising level of partisan rancor in recent days remains a possible glitch.
Congressional leaders surprised many rank and file members by insisting on votes last week in the day.
It goes on and on and on about how Obama's caving.
When he has the majority in the House of Representatives.
Nothing short of luck.
Wait till you hear this piece.
Anyway, a lot on the plate today here, my friends, and we got plenty of knives and forks.
In fact, pitchforks.
So we'll take a brief obscene profit timeout here.
We'll come right back and continue with all of this right after this.
And we're back on a cutting edge of societal evolution.
By the way, I want to know how was there a Great Depression, ladies and gentlemen, if 20% unemployment would be twice as good as 9%?
I mean, if if unemployment, and they had unemployment benefits back then, it was called relief.
Remember that?
Well, you probably don't, but it was called relief.
And if all of this unemployment benefits is so great for the economy, how did we ever have a Great Depression?
How did it how how the two just don't go together?
And I also have another question.
Just last week, the media was ringing its hands over the lack of compromise.
And wondering whether Republicans compromise with Obama.
Well, here's compromise taking place.
And when Obama does it, it's called caving.
Not everybody loves compromise, I'm told.
So Obama's gonna compromise with the Republicans.
We're going to extend all Bush era tax rates in exchange for Obama's extended unemployment benefits and his stupid little start treaty.
And everybody's upset that Obama's caving.
We thought the news media de pundit class loved compromise.
But you see, ladies and gentlemen, they don't, because compromise doesn't mean compromise.
Compromise means Republicans cave in.
And when the appearance is that Obama is caving in, why we can't have that.
Mark Halpern.
There's a line in Mark Halpern's piece at Time Magazine.
The headline, What Obama needs to come back, nothing short of luck.
And there is a line in this piece toward the end of it.
No one wants the country to suffer another catastrophe.
But no one wants the country to suffer another catastrophe.
But when a struggling Clinton was faced with the Oklahoma City bombing, and the floundering George W. Bush was confronted by 9-11, they found their voices.
And a route to political revival.
Perhaps Obama's crucible can be positive, the capture of bin Laden, the fall of the Iranian regime, a dramatic technological innovation that revitalizes American manufacturing, something to reintroduce him to the American people and show the strengths he demonstrated as a candidate.
If I were drinking coffee, I'd be spitting it out right now.
While he negotiates his way through the lame duck session of Congress, prepares for his State of the Union show and the budget, embraces for the new normals of 2011.
The president had better figure out How to react when the moment comes.
No one wants the country to suffer another catastrophe, but President had better figure out how to react when the moment comes.
Without that moment, whatever it is, and strong leadership at its wake, Obama may find his luck has run out.
But not a word in this piece about the country's luck.
It's all about Obama.
Nothing is real.
The coalition that got Barack Obama elected president just two years ago has been shattered.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Ha ha ha.
Pfft.
A gaming out the trajectory of the next two years can be done any number of ways, but Obama's efforts to rebuild a politically robust alliance will be the most telling.
It may be the biggest challenges of his career, and he'll need happenstance along with skill if he's to get it done.
And it goes on and on and on.
And this is the mindset of the media.
Well my gosh, what's what's Obama gonna do?
How's he gonna get back to magic?
Hey, Mark, he can't.
He's lost it.
He's a fraud.
Like Tiger Woods never gonna be again what we all thought he was.
Mark Halpern, Time Magazine wonders what Obama can do to come back.
Doesn't wonder what America can do to come back.
You know, America needs to come back.
I think it's a little bit more important at Obama coming back, but not to Mr. Halpern.
What Obama needs to come back, nothing short of luck.
Uh I would say I'm on a first name basis with Mark Halpern.
Mark, Obama has his crisis.
It's the economy.
He's got a crisis, my friend, and he has bungled it.
He's even had his choice of foreign policy crises.
North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, he's bungled them too.
And now he's got the WikiLeaks attack.
Which Julian Assange thinks is more damaging to the U.S. in 9-11.
You got Julian Assange demanding Obama resigned because Obama had to be in on the spying at the UN.
And look how he's jumping into the fray to solve that.
He's in over his head, Mark, he's an agitator, community organizer, far left fringe leftist, and he's got designs on getting even with his country.
The rest of it he doesn't care about.
He's got it's it's it's paddily obvious out there.
With unemployment high and promising to stay there, it's nearly impossible in the short term for Obama to shift opinion and be seen as a successful president.
But he can't achieve anything in 2011 and 2012 or get reelected unless he can win back support from some of his core groups.
You know, when when are people gonna realize he can't do that because he was a fraud?
There was an image presented of Obama that was not real.
He can't go back.
Once a fraud is exposed, there is no more real.
Look at I don't mean to beat up on Tiger Woods, but when you when you acquiesce in a marketing plan to present you as Mr. Perfect in everything, and then we find out you aren't.
Sorry, dude.
You can't go back to that.
You have to start anew, and you have to you have to whatever, but never gonna be the same for Tiger Woods, and it's not gonna be the same for Obama.
And Halpern here says this is pure optics.
He's talking about optics, he's not even talking about substance.
And that's all the media cares about is the optics.
How does Obama appear?
How's he look?
I'll tell you, overqualified.
He looks overmatched or underqualified, whatever.
He looks like he's he looks small.
He looks frail, he looks tiny.
Does not look up to the job.
Doesn't even look interested, and except for he's really not.
Here's the thing.
Mr. Halpern, here's the real bottom line.
I was in New York over the weekend.
I went out I arrived Friday night, the end of the work day, let him audit me.
Didn't do any work in New York, arrived Friday night, went out to lunch with some friends, and we got talking about all this, and we concluded, well, they agreed with me because it was my point and I have been making this point.
From Obama's perspective, he's been overwhelmingly successful.
He's carrying around this little thing a notepad, and He's clicking, he says he's accomplished 70% of what he wanted to get done.
From his standpoint, he has been successful.
Now, if you have a different objective, if you're looking at this as optics, you want people to love Obama, you want this massive fraud recaptured.
That can't happen.
Simply cannot happen.
What could Obama do to win back the independence?
What can he do?
That's why Halpern said, please give us a disaster.
Give us a disaster, let Obama show his medal.
He's got disasters.
He's creating the disasters in many ways.
He's extending the disaster.
He's got his crisis.
He's got he's got the economy.
Just an amazing piece.
A window, if you needed it, into the mind, the view, the uh mindset of the state controlled media, audio sound bites.
Let's go back to me on this program last month, November 17th.
What I said about the Democrat Party and the 2010 midterm elections.
They're in disarray.
What are they in disarray about?
What could they possibly be in disarray about?
And that is they don't know what the impact of their decision is going to be.
They got folks, they got select.
And they know.
I mean, they did the public consumption is it was messaging.
They know it wasn't messaging.
They know full well why they lost big, and it's Obama.
And they know they've got even more seats in the Senate at risk in 2012.
See, there's two kinds of Democrats.
Well, probably many more than them, two primary kinds.
One kind that wants to stay in power, wants the Democrats to run things, uh, and just wants to get along here, the Democrat Party being a normal functioning, everyday leftist party.
And then there's the Obama Democrats that want to destroy the country.
And they're succeeding.
And the other Democrats do not like this.
They did get shellaced.
Look at all the state legislatures they lost, all the governorships they lost.
50, what was it, 60 seats?
61 seats in the House now.
Whatever.
Could be as many as 63.
I mean, it was a huge shellacking.
And they know it's because of this guy.
Here, this is Jim Vande High.
Uh CBS slay the nation during the round table.
Bob Schiefer spoke with Van der Hy about the Democrat Party.
He said, look, it it does appear that uh that they're gonna get this.
I mean, as as far as the unemployment benefits, that's very important to millions of Americans with Christmas coming along here.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are privately livid because they feel that the White House basically telegraphed a compromise several weeks ago when David Axarod had made some comments, uh, and that they've done so in private meetings ever since.
So this is sort of inevitable, and you had that feeling with the Senators today.
They both felt like this is inevitable.
This is the extension of the tax rates.
Because here's what these Democrats know.
The Democrats know the Republicans were going to cave on unemployment extension benefits of Christmas anyway.
And start, you know, let Obama have his toy.
No big deal.
Nobody's gonna go to the map over those mat over those two things.
But here's Obama uh caving, and they're livid.
Van der High is exactly right.
Dan Rather, this morning on MSNBC Jansing and Company, the host Chris Jansing asked, rather, look, not extending tax cuts on the wealthy GOP's not agreeing to offset the cost of extending these tax cuts.
Are the Democrats not pounding that point home enough?
This is a political nightmare for Barack Obama as president.
The more left portion of his party hates this.
It hates it with a passion.
And politically, within his own party, if this goes through, Barack Obama will be in position of he will have his shirt tail on fire, his back to the wall, and the bill collector at the door, which is metaphorically a way of saying he's almost guaranteed, if this goes through, to have a serious challenge in a Democratic primary for president in 2012.
Now, let's not get ahead of ourselves here when uh when Rather starts talking this, you know, rather's not never right about anything, so it's always, I think, oversold how good or bad somebody or something is doing at a particular time, but it doesn't mask the fact that they are livid.
As exactly as I told you, uh back on November 17th.
Here is um here's this the Chris Matthews' Sunday show on NBC's talking to uh uh National Journal Congressional Correspondent Susan Davis.
You heard of her, right, Susan Davis?
Nor have I. Anyway, she's on Matthew's show.
Uh they're talking about the Democrat Party.
Matthew says, Susan, tell me something that I don't know, which frankly would be easy.
Pick something.
Here's what she said.
Trouble in the Democratic Party.
One of the things that was highlighted this on this week on Capitol Hill is uh congressional black caucus and the anger towards their leadership over the censure of Charlie Wrangle.
And I think it's gonna be both a political problem for Nancy Pelosi and perhaps for the White House as well.
They very strongly think that the censure was out of line.
Wow, so now they're Obama can't do anything around.
Now the Democrat Party's in disarray over censuring Charlie Wrangle.
Who, if you listen to him, he didn't do anything wrong.
And then on TV One's Washington Watch with Roland Martin.
What the hell network TV one?
What is TV one?
Is anybody can somebody tell me what TV One is?
Well, I know Roland used to be on CNN used to be angry on CNN all the time.
TV one just comes on at night in some places.
Well, I know what New York won is, and this isn't it.
I never heard of TV one.
I'm not trying to offend anybody here.
I don't know what it is, but obviously it's there because we found it.
You probably never heard of it either.
At any way, Roland Martin spoke with um uh uh serious XM radio host Joe Madison about the Democrat Party's extension of Bush tax cuts and said, Look, on the tax cuts again, I go back to the issue.
Do you believe that he'll stand firm like we heard during the midterm election campaign, or has he already basically opened the door for compromise?
Cynthia Tucker's also in this soundbite.
You cannot compromise with people who don't want to compromise.
It requires both sides saying, I'm willing to compromise.
Boehner, McConnell, Rush Limbaugh, all of them have said we want this man to fail.
That's right.
Did they just not meet with him and say, oh, I think we had a great meeting, da-da-da-da.
And then Wolf that very next day walked out and, as we used to say in my neighborhood, ladies, excuse me expect, punk slapped him.
They went out and punk slapped him.
I don't I don't remember that.
Uh if you can't say bitch on TV one, then bitch slapped is what they really mean.
They're not punks.
You can't say that on TV one, huh?
And TV one's not worth its salt, because it's cable.
But anyway, after that meeting, the Republicans went out.
They said it like Sally Field.
Oh, he liked us.
He really liked it.
These guys are the ones that don't like compromise.
I thought compromise was good.
Now that Obama does it, oh no, no, no, we can't do that.
The point is, folks, there isn't happiness out there.
And now Bill Marr, separated at birth from Julian Assange, was on um CNN's Farid Zakaria GPS Sunday morning, and Farid Zakaria GPS said uh so Obama.
How do you think he's uh responded to the shellacking so far?
He looks beaten down.
That's what disturbs me.
You know, I th I thought when we elected the first black president as a comedian, I thought two years in, I'd be making jokes about what a gangster he was.
For him to be talking about compromising with the Republicans on the Bush tax cuts.
Where are they going to draw a line in the sand?
He just seems to be another in a long line of Democrats that come across as wimpy and wussy and whatever word you wanted to ascribe to it, uh, of not standing up for what they believe in enough.
So now Obama's wimpy and wussy.
Uh well, I'm gonna cut Marr some slack on the gangster business.
He's just being a comedian.
Uh but he does, he keeps talking about how Obama needs to go gangster.
He does.
He needs saying Obama needs to go gangster on the GOP, and I guess he's upset that Obama hasn't gone gangster on the GOP.
He's a wuss.
He's a wimp and he's a wuss.
Now, Mr. Halpern, I'm sure you're hearing all this.
How does how do you go?
The real question is not how does he get it back?
How did he stumble so far with all the heads-up behavior you gave him with all of the puff pieces that were written and broadcast about Obama?
Anyway, uh brief time out here, ladies and gentlemen, once again, and uh your phone call's coming up, telephone number 800 282-2882 back right after this.
Okay, we're gonna go to the phones at 800-282-2882, and who we got, David in Buffalo.
We're gonna start with you, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mega Devos, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You better get it.
Hey, I wanted to bring up uh that Bernanke interview on 60 Minutes uh yesterday.
Mm-hmm.
And the the point I wanted to make is we have Obama, Reed, and Pelosi making one point, which is that unemployment creates stimulus within the economy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Bernanke yesterday was saying that we need to get people off of unemployment because they lose their skills, uh, they get very complacent of doing nothing, and uh it's just poor all the way around in the long term.
Well, it's exactly where Obama Reed and Pelosi want them, unskilled, though doing nothing, and dependent.
And how is I mean, how is that gonna help anybody in the long term?
It helps the Democrats in the long term, in their minds.
It helps them.
Look at Mark Halpern's piece.
It's not about what's good for the country, what's good for Obama?
Oh my god, what can Obama do to come back?
Oh no, what can we do to help Obama?
Nobody wants a catastrophe, but we got we have some of this uh Bernanke interview.
Uh last night on 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley talked to him.
Here's one bite, Pelly said we lost about eight million jobs from the peak, and I wonder how many years you think it'll be before we get all those jobs back.
Well, you're absolutely right.
Between uh the peak and the end of last year, we lost eight and a half million jobs.
We've only gotten about a million of them back so far.
Uh and that doesn't even account the the new people coming into the labor force.
At the rate we're going, it could be four or five years before we are back to a more normal unemployment rate, somewhere in the vicinity of, say, five or six percent.
I'm gonna I folks, I look at I hope he is right, but it's gonna be longer than that.
The number of jobs that we would have to create a year if no new workers graduated from college, if people stopped growing up, if people stopped entering the job market, it would take, we'll figure it out.
Eight million, how many how many years at let's say 200,000 jobs a year?
How many years would that take?
Well, if you're gonna use eight million, two hundred thousand, uh I'm not good at math in my head.
Then you add people coming into the workforce uh to the people who've lost their job.
We're not talking five or six years to get to five or six percent unemployment.
We're we're talking ten to fifteen.
Folks, we have this this next presidential election, and these next two years are gonna be crucial.
We've got about six to ten years to reverse this before the mathematics becomes geometrically out of our control.
I mean, even now, the notion of paying down this debt.
How do we everybody knows you can't pay this down?
You're not gonna pay down this debt.
You're not gonna get rid of it.
But you have to start Attacking it, you have to start reducing it.
You have to start cutting things.
You have to.
It's it it's time to reprioritize 50-year-old programs that were created and formed during entirely different economic times and entirely different purposes than those to which they've evolved.
This is this is serious, serious stuff here.
The length of time to get back to five or six percent.
Look, it just took two years to go from 4.7 unemployment to where we are now.
Two years.
And we're looking at much, much longer than that.
To correct it, we gotta get rid of this guy politically.
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