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May 23, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 23, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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Great to have you with us as always, my friends, Rush Limbaugh at 800 282-288-2, the email address L Rushball at EIB net.com.
And we welcome for the first time to the EIB network, Republican presidential candidate, former Minnesota Governor Tim Palenti, who uh announced just today that you're in, you're going for it.
Welcome to the program, Governor.
Great to be with you, Rush, and yeah, we're in Des Moines and we made that announcement just about an hour ago.
So we're locked and loaded and heading forward.
Let me ask you as a as a just a general set the table question.
You obviously want to be president because there are things you want to accomplish and you want to see the country accomplish.
You gaze out across the country.
What do you see?
What's the American situation today?
What about it needs to be improved or changed?
Well, a few things, Rush.
Well, you know, as I travel the country, there's a sense amongst people that the America that we knew and love is perhaps slipping away, and that the future may not be as bright.
And so people describe that in different ways, but it comes back to one thing.
Government is getting so heavy, so expensive, so discouraging, so slow that it's suffocating the American spirit.
And if you believe this country isn't about government, but it's about people and individual responsibility and industriousness and hard work and faith and family and the like, government's crowding that out, and people are discouraged.
And so we've got to get the government under control, back into its limited original role, and get the deficit and the debt fixed and get this economy growing.
Those are the big issues facing the country, and of course, we got to be secure and focus on national defense and security as well.
Okay, now I'm not trying to stir anything up here, but I do have seriously.
But I have a 2006 quote that I of yours that I want to run by you, and in in in advance or for the preface to quote, um, you know, the it within the Republican Party and the conservative uh wing of the Republican Party, there are there are many disagreements about uh how the Democrats should be fought and how they should be opposed.
And one of the prevailing points of view is in in inside the Beltway conservatism is that big government is not all that bad with the right presidents.
Um there are people that believe in an active, powerful executive of an engaging government that's big enough to handle the requests and demands of the people.
Um these conservatives are saying the American people have spoken.
They do want government benefits, they do want this in 2006.
Uh if I have it right, you said the era of small governments over.
Uh uh that that the uh government has to be more proactive, more aggressive, which is somewhat similar to what I've been hearing not recently, but in the past year from the inside the beltway Republicans.
What you just said seems to be in conflict with that, though.
Well, actually, I'm glad you brought that up, Rush, because it gives me a chance to clarify because it uh other side has pushed that falsely for a number of years, and what happened is in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, not exactly a conservative publication.
I made reference to an article that David Brooks wrote, which was entitled The Era of Small Government Is Over.
I didn't say those words myself.
I was referencing his article.
He is one of the guys I was talking about.
You're right.
Yeah, and so the next day, the very next day, the Star Tribune, after a big battle, printed a clarification or a correction in their correction page.
Of course, the main article was on page one, and the correction was buried in some footnote in page three.
But that incorrect quote has haunted me, and I'm glad I had a chance in this big national forum on your great show to clarify it, because if you go to the next day's newspaper, you'll see the clarification uh in the Star Tribune.
But beyond that, look, I governed for eight years, and people don't care about words or failed amendments in Congress.
They care about what you got done.
There's only four governors in the country that got an A grade from the tough grading libertarian Cato Institute.
I'm one of them, and the other three aren't running for president.
They're from Louisiana, South Carolina, and West Virginia.
So I'll put my record up against anybody.
That's not perfect, like everybody I got a few things I did I wish I didn't.
But the fact is, I'm the I'm a conservative in a blue state, and I got the record to back it up.
What's your proudest achievement as governor?
I mean, you ran a liberal state, you're a Republican.
You had to do certain things to get elected there.
What's your what are you most proud of?
Well, I'm proud of the fact that I brought Minnesota's spending down from a over 40-year, two year average to twenty-one percent down to barely zero, or uh and then for the first time in the state's history actually cut state spending in real terms.
So if I had to pick one thing, it was getting Minnesota a very liberal place to come to terms with its excesses.
It wasn't easy rush.
I had a government shutdown first in 150 years.
I set a record for vetoes in my state.
I used executive power to unallot more money out of my budget in my eight years of the state's budget than the hundred and forty-two years of governors preceding me.
So I drew lines in the sand, I had big battles, and I won most of them, and we put Minnesota on a more conservative path.
What kind of uh relationship did you have with public employees of unions?
Well, I I took them on before it was popular.
You know, we shut down the whole transit system, for example, for forty-four days.
I think it was the third or fourth largest, excuse me, longest transit strike in the history of the country because the bus drivers, the government bus drivers wanted to work fifteen years and then have the government pay for their health insurance for the rest of their life.
Of course, it was financially out of control, and I said we're not doing that anymore.
So I had all the you know the protests, the signs out my window.
I had one guy holding a sign that said Palency is a weapon of mass transit destruction.
But we won.
They came back on day 45, we got that benefit shut off.
I also reformed public employee pensions in my state and salaries before it was popular and cool to do it.
I did it five years ago.
I know you're not in the uh State House any longer, but there's an issue royaling the state right now, and that's the Vikings and their new stadium.
Uh and how much of it should be publicly financed, the usual threats are being made.
If the public doesn't chip in and build a new stadium, the Vikings are gone, they'll move to LA or someplace.
Is that true?
Well, uh this interview is about you.
I'll keep it focused on you.
All right.
What what what's the are you still are you a prize?
What's the status of that in w in in Minnesota?
Well, the legislature ends today, and uh they didn't pass that bill.
There's probably going to be a special session, so it'll probably come back up, but the public doesn't support it.
Of course, uh people appreciate the Vikings as an asset in Minnesota.
But when I was governor, uh, you know, I we we didn't get that done for a reason because they wanted a bunch of money from the state.
We did build a baseball stadium in Minnesota for the twins, but there was no state money involved in that.
The twins and a local county paid for that.
Uh we didn't put any state dollars into that.
You know, the people, I asked you earlier what the situation in America is, and uh many people in this audience, uh I think it's a a great cross section of the country, really do feel in fact.
L let me tell you a story.
I I went to a wedding in Fort Lauderdale over the weekend, and I had a guy come up to me, actually three or four, but this one particular guy was the most strident.
He came up to me, sixty-three years old, and he says he's quitting.
He's very successful entrepreneur, he's quitting.
He's tired of the regulations, he's tired of the oversight, he's tired of the obstacles, he's tired of the taxes.
He's he's simply tired of all he has to go through to remain successful.
And he said something to me, he said, you have to uh you have to keep fighting.
And this embarrasses me by the way, uh, but I I want to say what he said.
He you you've got to keep telling the truth.
The American people are fed up.
They are not going to put too many people are going to tune out.
The situation in this country is so dire.
The current administration is simply destroying whether by accident or by design.
They are destroying the engine of job creation.
And my point is I run into this a lot.
People genuinely, Governor, believe that.
It's not it's not just opposition rhetoric to a sitting president.
There are people who are genuinely afraid of what the future holds for their kids and grandcred kids in terms of something that used to be traditionally American.
That was an opportunity for prosperity.
People think it's being whittled away.
And by the time their kids and grandkids reach uh the age they might have a chance in it, the chances are going to be slimmer and slimmer, and they're scared.
They're not just opposed to the Democrats in Obama, they're really scared.
Do you get that when you talk to people?
Absolutely.
And you know that's why I started that that at the top of this interview.
There, the American spirit is being crushed and discouraged by this president in the direction he's taken the country.
And when government pushes into things that used to be the province of families or faith or places of worship more broadly or community or neighborhood or charity or private markets or entrepreneurial activity and they shove us aside, or worse yet, say we'll take it over, or they make it more expensive, or they slow it down, or they make it more difficult.
They not only grow their budget, they not only grow their footprint, but they do something else.
They say to that American spirit, basically, no thank you.
And people are worried because the country is slipping away in that regard.
And they're I think this is the last best chance we're gonna have.
Now you said something else called telling the truth.
I just gave a speech an hour ago here in Des Moines, Iowa that was entitled Time for the Truth.
And we took on directly, Rush, the what it's gonna really take to solve the debt and the deficit.
And we called for the phasing out of ethanol subsidies.
I'm coming down to Florida tonight to give a speech tomorrow about really reforming social security and that's the one.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
You in Iowa called for the end to ethanol subsidies?
Yes, I did.
What was the reaction you got to that?
Nobody applauded uh at this particular moment in the speech, but I gotta tell you it has to be done.
And if we're not willing to tell the truth, and we're not willing to actually do it, then we're all just wasting our time.
Then I'm gonna come down there and play golf with you because we're just a debating society and wasting our time because this is it.
This it's gonna be mathematically irretrievable to get this thing back after this next election.
So I'm swinging for the fences, not because I want to get elected, but because we're gonna save this country and we're gonna do it by telling the truth.
And the American people go ahead.
That's that's politically gutsy because the theory is in a campaign for the nomination, gotta get the base.
I mean, you've got to say what it takes to get elected, and certainly questioning ethanol subsidies in Iowa is not the way to do that.
The theory is say what they want to hear in Iowa, say what they want to hear in New Hampshire, get the nomination, and then go for that.
What what's your I mean th y this is your truth agenda, I guess.
Yeah, and I also rush when I was in Minnesota as governor, also a big egg state and a big renewable fuel state.
I cut ethanol subsidies there when we had financial difficulty.
So this isn't some something new for me.
But I'm in my heart and in my gut, this is the deal.
Uh we have to tell the truth and campaign like we're gonna govern and govern like we campaign, and there is no way we can dupe the American people with all this lofty rhetoric and fluffy speeches and think that's gonna get the trick done.
We need leadership.
I'm coming to tomorrow and talk to seniors about social security.
I'm going to New York the next day and tell them the bailouts and the special deals are over, and we're gonna continue down that road.
Where are you gonna be in Florida?
We're gonna be in uh Miami, I think, for a town hall meeting, a Facebook town hall meeting, and the topic's gonna be Social Security reform and uh Well, if you didn't get up here by uh three thirty, we got probably twelve holes in.
I said if I can't get this done, then I'm gonna waste my time and go play golf.
We'll take a break.
We're talking to uh presidential candidate, Republican uh candidate Tim Pollenty, the former governor of Minnesota, we'll be back right after this.
Okay, we're back with former Minnesota Governor Tim Palency, who is in Des Moines today, one hour ago, announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
I don't know if you know this today since you're out of town.
Uh your hometown paper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, has the story of your announcement on the obituary page, which leads me to a question I have for you.
It says the headline is Polity offers tell the truth theme for race, and right next to it is today's obituaries.
I it's it is funny, but I gotta tell you something.
Mitch Daniels, he he pulled out, and we all know why.
His wife doesn't want what Sarah Palin got.
They she doesn't want any part of it.
Uh you and I both know that whatever Democrat seeks to run, the media's not gonna question their authenticity or their legitimacy, but you will be.
You are you're gonna be called every cliche and conservative name, but racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, uh all of these things.
How are you going to deal with that?
Well, the same way I dealt with it in Minnesota Rush.
I mean, that's the land of uh McCarthy, Mondale, Humphrey, Wellstone, Ventura, and now U.S. Senator Al Franken, and I got pummeled.
I mean it's a it's a deeply blue and probably the most liberal state in the country, and that's why you gotta have the fortitude for this job.
I'm not Polly Anish about what's coming and all the hits we're gonna have to take.
But Mary and I, my wife Mary, you know, we're very wide eyed about this, but we believe in this cause, uh, but I think we're stealed and prepared for what's coming, and I got a lot of good practice getting the you know what beat out of me in Minnesota, and uh if we can do it there, we can do it anywhere.
Well, now you you what about money?
Mitt says he's gonna be able to put his hands on a billion dollars.
Obama's throwing that figure around.
Uh you believe that's what it's gonna cost to win the presidency this year.
Well, uh the president's backed off that number somewhat, but on the Republican side in the early days, you know, Mitt will be my friend Mitt will be the unquestioned money champion.
I mean, he's just got the national network and all of that.
Uh is Mitt really your friend, or do you guys just say that stuff?
No, he's my friend.
I know him.
We serve together, and you know, we don't agree on everything, but he's a he's a good guy, and I my he is my friend, and I try to take Reagan's eleventh uh commandment seriously.
But look, uh, we're gonna we're not gonna be the Mercedes campaign or the BMW campaign when it comes to fundraising, but we're gonna have a good steady Buick, and we're gonna have enough to be competitive and and win in these early states.
And whoever the Republican candidate eventually is, it's gonna be me.
I think is gonna be able to match Obama.
But early on, uh Mitt will be the unquestioned money champion.
There's no question about that.
You feel qualified to debate Obama on foreign policy.
Yeah, I think I'm gonna have, with the possible exception of John Huntsman, the most international experience of the field, most mostly because they're all governors.
But I've been to Iraq five times.
I've been to Afghanistan three times.
I've been all over the Middle East, including Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, meeting with world leaders.
I've been to Bosnia, Kosovo, I've been all over Europe, led trade missions to South America, Asia, India.
So I've got a lot of international experience for a governor, and I feel strongly that Obama's headed in a very dangerous direction.
I've spoken very forcefully about that.
I should say Rush on the money thing, uh, in the campaign more broadly in the Facebook Town Hall from Miami tomorrow.
I hope people will check out our website at Timpalenty.com.
Uh that'll give them all the information they need about our campaign.
Okay.
You've been to China too, haven't you?
Several times.
Yeah, I've looked yes, I have.
The question I actually misphrased it.
I know you're qualified.
You have the guts to.
One of the things that that uh frustrates Republicans is that there seems to be this reluctance on the part of everybody in this party to take President Obama on.
Frankly, the reason Donald Trump excited people is because he took it straight to Obama.
Uh Netanyahu on Friday.
There's some negative blowback, which you can expect.
But people were cheering that because Republican voters in this country for two and a half years have watched their party act afraid of President Obama, afraid of the media, afraid of what people are going to say about them.
You're d you're debating Obama.
You're gonna have the ability to say, Mr. President, you're just flat out wrong about the way you've gone about creating jobs.
If you think he's wrong, are you gonna will you be able to say that to his face?
Of course, Rush.
And if you look at my comments on foreign policy as an example, we blasted him on the 1967 boundary comments.
I've been pounding on him relentlessly on foreign policy uh on Libya on the Middle East.
And I think I've been the first and hardest-hitting opponent of his of anybody in the field.
And those, you know, that's all on the website again too in other places.
So there's no uh hesitancy on that front.
And as I get better known and more visibility, those will be more widely distributed, obviously.
But don't uh mistake any sort of uh you know uh unfamiliarity with my record with a hesitancy to attack Obama.
We do that all the time.
We do it hard, and I'm an old hockey player, you know, I still play some hockey.
I don't uh I know exactly what it takes to go dig the puck out of the corner, take some elbows, give some elbows, and uh we'll make sure that that gets done.
But don't confuse people uh in your listeners with being loud with being strong either.
I mean, there's a lot of people in bars who shoot their mouth off, and usually they're the ones who can't back it up.
You look at my record, I back it up.
I want to play for you one 30-second soundbite from uh your video that you released on Tim Polente.com.
Uh Mike at Sunbite 26.
Uh this is your uh this is a segment of the video where you talk about the American dream, and you can expand on this when it's over.
I know the American dream.
Because I lived it.
And I know for it to be there for the next generation.
We're gonna have to do more than give fancy speeches.
We've had three years of that, and it's not working.
Join me tomorrow.
And around the country in the days and weeks ahead, you won't hear empty promises.
You'll hear solutions.
Together, we'll change our country.
And this time, it'll be for the better.
People really want that.
They really want somebody to do that.
Governor.
Well, Rush, it starts with what, you know, making sure you understand what made America great.
You know, the way forward isn't complex.
It's not some big mystery.
All we got to do is go back to the things that made the country great.
The founders gave us the roadmap.
They put it in the founding documents.
You could look back at the chapters of success of this country and see what made us great.
We just got to bring those forward and remind each other of what they are and apply them to the challenges of our time.
And for the last group that's going to decide the election, we gotta have a candidate who can connect at a heart and gut level.
I got great white papers on Sarbanes Oxley and Dodd Frank and healthcare foreman will have those online.
But you also got to make a heart and gut connection.
And I grew up in a meat packing town.
My mom died when I was young.
My dad was a truck driver.
He lost his job not too long after my mom died for a while.
And he got promoted later to dispatcher.
But brothers and sisters couldn't go to college, not because they didn't have the capability, they just didn't have the opportunity.
And I've lived the American dream.
And uh through hard work and a lot of other help and a loving family and many other things.
But when you share that story, I know when people say, hey, you Republicans, you don't know what it's like to put not be able to afford gas in your car or pay your health care or worry about college costs or you know how you're even gonna, you know, pay the mortgage.
I say, yeah, I can't I I can because I've walked in your shoes, and that gives me the chance then to convince them what why being a conservative, why joining our team is better, because they just don't stiff arm us right out of the gate.
Governor, thank you.
You are um you're good.
You closed with fifteen seconds left in the segment, and you didn't even know it.
Your instincts, right on the money.
Thanks so much for your time.
Great to talk to you and uh and best of luck in your quest.
Thanks for the opportunity, Rush.
I appreciate it.
I hope people check out Timpolenty.com.
Tim Polente.com.
Governor Tim Pollenty, our guest, and we will continue after this.
We be back.
We be back on the EIB network, the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
I did this guy at the wedding.
He's a buyer and seller of companies.
He employs a lot of people.
And what I didn't say to Governor Polletti, because I this stuff does embarrass me to not not when it happens, but to pass it on to you is embarrassing.
But he said, you've got to keep doing what you're doing, or we're gonna lose the country.
I I'm 63 and I've I'm just I'm depressed, I'm worn out.
I'm doing one more deal and I'm finished.
I I want to try to enjoy is what he said to me.
I want to try to enjoy what I have before they take it away from me.
And he's not a dumb guy.
He was he was there as uh one of the uh mentors of the bridegroom from uh young age, bridegroom's father had passed away earlier in life, and uh this guy was sort of like a surrogate father in a sense, terms of uh being at the wedding, and and uh he made it a point, took me outside.
We talked about this must have been a half hour over two different uh conversations during the reception and and dinner, and a number of other people came out and joined the conversation as it uh as was taking place, and it was uh it was a common sentiment that uh that people had.
Uh and I just got an email note from a woman who says, My husband and I, she they're 65, is the same thing, small business people, and they've never felt more depressed.
And whoever the Republican nominee is is gonna have to understand that sentiment is a representative sentiment of over half the country right now.
People genuinely worry, not even so much for themselves but their kids and grandkids.
And what will there be of the America they knew for their offspring to inherit and seek to be part of?
Ryan in Newburgh, New York, welcome, sir to the EIB network.
Hello.
Pleasure to get to talk to you, sir.
Make it up from Newburgh, New York.
Thank you for very much, sir.
Um what you said about before about how Republicans get basically more vilified because of kind of moral conundrums as far as affairs and you know, out of wedlock children when they get into office.
I I take it as kind of a double-edged sword.
I mean Republicans usually take the moral high ground because, you know, as opposed to Democrats, we usually have it.
And you know, to me it's kind of the equivalent of if you found out that your janitor was having an affair on his with his you know mistr with a mistress or a you know another cleaning lady, you wouldn't really take it as much.
It's okay, the janitor, who cares.
But if you found out that maybe your you know your clergyman was having you know, kind of extramarital affairs or just a affair with a woman in general, you know, they would kind of go after him more just because of who he is and where he stands morally.
Well, you're saying the Republicans set their bar high because they make a a point out of morality in their campaigns.
Pretty much, yeah.
I mean, not that that's a bad thing at all.
I mean I mean that's the way it should be.
But that's why I think they kind of go after him more, because if you make a stance on, you know, family values morality.
Well, etc.
There's no question that the the the left of the media would love to focus on hypocrisy because they can't attack us on the substance of issues.
They can't beat us in the arena of ideas.
So yeah.
You're exactly right.
Uh they certainly will try to go the hypocrisy route and and make a big uh big deal out of that.
And uh same talking, the same people, the Democrats tell you the left is not they they can't possibly be hypocrites because they don't have these kinds of standards of denial of fun and behavior.
A Democrat, we don't judge people.
You can do whatever you want, so they can't possibly be hypocrites.
In fact, in order to be a liberal, there must be nothing that you are not a hypocrite about.
Plain and simple.
Ryan, I appreciate the call.
Uh Austintown, Ohio is next.
Gil, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush from the formerly blue state of Ohio.
Thank you, sir.
And wanted to say that as you are here for us every day, we're here for you.
And at the the very first call of your of the day, you had a fellow calling in complaining about Netanyahu downgrade the United States, and how dare he do that anywhere, let alone the Oval Office.
And I know that if you were Well, wait, but then he he castigated me for uh liking it.
Exactly, exactly.
But I but I also know from your your your long wedding weekend that uh as the hours went on, you you probably would have said to him that if anything Netanyahu was either imitating Obama and therefore he should like Netanyahu, or that gentleman who calls should be angry at Obama because Obama goes around the world and does that.
You know, that's an excellent point.
I wish I'd have thought of that.
Obama does go around dissing his own country.
Precisely, precisely.
Apologizing for it and all that.
Yeah, you're right.
That's an excellent point.
We're here for you.
I should have known that.
I shouldn't have thought of it.
That's very but let me ask you, Gil, are you still there?
I am.
This this is this is so rare.
It is so rare when somebody points something out to me that I should have pointed out myself.
That just doesn't happen.
I want to give you something.
Oh my goodness.
I want to give you an engraved, an EIB Rush Limbaugh signature engraved iPad 2.
Oh my goodness.
Oh, yeah.
And this is it's a top dog big daddy, sixty-four gigabytes 3G with AT and T. Mike.
Do you have an iPad?
I do not.
I do not.
Are you well, do you want one?
I mean something I I I so much would appreciate that.
And it would be just extra special coming from you, of course.
Well, I'll tell you what, you you get the iPad, then you go to the app store and you get the Rush Limbaugh app, and you'll be able to watch this program live in high definition ditto cam on your iPad.
Oh, my I'll be so torn because I would love to watch, but I also love listening to 570 W KBN where you come through so nicely.
Well, you do both.
You can do both.
You can watch and listen to the audio on the radio.
I can multitask.
You can, absolutely.
Okay, hang hang on, hang on, don't go away because uh we need uh uh shipping information.
Very good.
Thank you.
You want white or black.
I would rather go with the white, I think.
Really?
Okay, cool.
It just looks so clean that way, yeah.
All right, and uh what color smart cover do you want?
Uh what are the options?
Well, I got I got a sharp looking gray.
I've got a female powder boy, you don't want that.
Uh we can stop with the sharp looking gray, that'll do.
And a b or a black or a black.
Hmm.
Well, why don't we go with the gray vat and then go with the black iPad?
Uh okay.
Black iPad gray cover.
You got it.
That'd be wonderful.
Thank you.
Okay.
Okay, we'll send out you'll have it tomorrow.
We'll send out FedEx tomorrow.
So don't, but don't go away, otherwise we don't won't know where to send it.
A brief time out.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away, folks.
And we're back on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
El Rushbo having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
By the way, the uh the Obamas, that's with an apostrophe.
The Obamas of Ireland are cutting their Irish vacation short.
They're leaving for London tonight to avoid the plume from the volcano in Iceland.
This is the third time that a volcano has cut their European vacation short.
No, no, no, take that back.
That was in November.
They had to cut their Indonesian vacation.
Not Europe, Indonesian vacation got cut short.
Do you know they're staying in Buckingham Palace?
I I read there they've taken over 200 rooms or a hundred rooms in Buckingham Palace.
Some of the people, some of the staffers that work at Buckingham Palace have been kicked out of their quarters to handle the Obama entourage.
And the suite where the Obamas are staying, we came in there and we're ripping all the windows out and we're putting in eight-inch thick bulletproof glass windows or something where the Obamas are staying at uh Buckingham Palace.
Queen probably not happy about this.
I know I wouldn't be crazy about it if President came to my place and everybody that lived there got kicked out.
But it is what it is.
Uh from a dismayed AP.
Some of the states that have drained their unemployment insurance funds are cutting the number of weeks at a laid-off worker can count on those benefits.
Legislators are trying to limit tax increases for businesses to replenish the pool.
They're hoping the federal government keeps stepping in when the economy slumps.
What are these are these are these legislators so ignorant of economics they think raising the unemployment tax on businesses will help their state economies?
Michigan, Missouri, Arkansas recently reduced the maximum number of weeks that the unemployed can get state unemployment benefits.
Florida's on the verge of doing it.
Unemployment in those states ranges from 7.8% in Arkansas to 11.1% in Florida.
30 states borrowed more than 44 billion from the federal government to continue payments to laid off workers.
states hastened the insolvency of their funds by keeping balances at historically low levels going into the downturn.
I'm confused, these people, the way they think.
Bottom line is the states are reducing the amount of time you can collect unemployment.
Even after porculus, after stimulus, after all of the bailouts of the states from the government, they're still cutting.
Which ultimately is good in most ways because it's going to finally force people to try to go find work.
But you know, there's another word.
I this is starting to get a pet peeve with me.
It's been it's been growing.
This word benefits, this word benefits is really starting to grate on me.
Just the work benefits, benefits.
I hear Obama telling you got to qualify for your benefits.
Yeah, how do you qualify for your do nothing?
Benefits.
Anybody going through life looking for benefits deserves how little you get in life.
The states are cutting their jobless benefits so that they don't have to raise taxes on business anymore.
Is what they're what they're doing.
They've increased the unemployment tax on business 44%, some of these states Just since 2009.
And they've they've maxed out.
They simply can't do this.
It's it was a flawed premise from the get-go to try to save the situation and deal with it.
And now they've gotten to the point where they should have been doing this from here.
Look at the video.
Watch Obama's limo bottom out right there.
It bottomed out on the driveway.
Poor old Barry Obama from Money Gall.
You know, the Obamas from Ireland.
Look at that.
Now you watch everybody's gonna get out of the car and try to figure out what do we do now?
Because everybody in that car right now is a sitting duck.
Here come the doors, the driver looking around.
What do we do now?
I don't know how they got the car off of there.
The video that I saw earlier.
Uh, and I don't know.
No, Snerdl, come on.
Don't know what side Michelle was sitting on.
Why does it even matter?
What are you asking me that?
Okay, apparently what happened here is that the Obamas got into another limo to continue on with their journey.
Uh they had to leave the B city.
They're gonna have to get a tow truck and raise the thing up.
I can't believe some heads are gonna roll over this.
With all the advanced planning, they didn't take a limo and see if they get it in and out of there.
With all the advanced planning that they uh they do here.
And you know, I just this this folks, there's no accidents, there's no uh there's no coincidences.
Obama's beast limo bottoms out on a return to his ancestral home.
They want us to believe that.
Just like his policies are bottoming out.
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