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June 1, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 1, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Uh Wiener Wednesday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, and really I I'm I'm I've got to get my contract uh more thoroughly lawyered.
I don't mind doing Uyghur Wednesday, but I do think it's a bit of a come down, Wiener Wednesday.
And I certainly I certainly uh can't wait for uh Congressman uh Antony's wiener to depart the news, along with him, uh preferably that would be an ideal situation.
Or if um I mentioned how easy it is to confuse Uyghurs and Wieners, so if President Obama wanted to spring uh Congressman Antony Zweiner from his present difficulties uh and move him to Bermuda, uh I'm sure by the time uh the Bermudian government realized they were getting an extra wiener rather than a Uyghur, it would be too late and the plane would have gone back to the United States.
Uh the the the plot the plot thickens on the Addie Wiener front, by the way.
He is now told Luke Russett at MSNBC that he I quote, I can't say with certitude if the picture in question is of me, unquote.
I can't say with certitude, no, no.
Uh so uh he doesn't re he he's in a worse situ He well th well this is this this is a terrible I mean uh because uh Paula Jones was able to uh pick the distinguishing characteristics out of a uh lineup, but uh but Anthony Weeder can't pick his own distinguishing characteristics out of a uh out of a police lineup.
So I don't know, we if we got the uh it's interesting that the uh conservative uh member of parliament uh up in uh up at Niagara Falls, Ontario, he is able to identify uh his uh his crown jewels, as the Toronto Sun called them.
Uh there's a story out of Bangladesh.
Uh somebody uh attempted to pull the full Dominique Strauss Khan on her, and this Bangladeshi woman uh sliced off the uh the offending body part and took it to the police.
So she'll presumably have no difficulty picking uh picking the relevant uh offending uh weapon out of a police lineup.
But in this case, uh Representative Anthony Wiener is unable, Democrat of New York, because we should say this, by the way.
You may have read about the Congressman Wiener in some of the newspapers, and notice that the word Democrat doesn't appear until the thirty-seventh paragraph.
So we should say Congressman Wiener, Democrat of New York, is incapable of picking his own uh distinguishing characteristics out of a police lineup.
He's just told MSNBC's Luke Russett.
I can't say with certitude if the picture in question is of me.
Uh lots of uh other uh news today.
Food stamps hit a new high.
That's great news, isn't it?
Another j just in time for recovery summer.
Food stamps uh have gone up, have increased by about fifty percent since uh Obama took office.
Uh around about thirty million people on food stamps.
By the way, that's way too high uh in January two thousand nine.
It's now up to about forty-four million people on food stamps.
Forty-four million people in this country on food stamps.
That's like fifteen per cent of the population.
That's like fifty that's amazing to me.
That is amazing.
That that is that is America.
You know, uh we're about a month out from July the fourth.
What did they used to call it?
Independence day.
Independence day.
What a cockamamy idea that is.
Why don't you just call it Dependence Day?
Why don't why don't we just call it Dependence Day and all march down the street uh dressed as giant food stamps instead of being dressed as uh Uncle Sam and Betsy Ross.
Forty-four million people.
Thank you, President Obama for recovery Summer.
Forty-four million people on food stamps.
And here, here, by the way, Michael Barone did a wonderful column about this at the weekend.
The way bad news on the Obama economy is always unexpected.
I know this as an author.
When uh when if you're an author and you write a book and large numbers of people buy it, uh the New York Times and other people always refer to it as the surprise best seller because they're basically thinking, who the hell would buy that crazy guy's book?
So it's always the the surprise conservative best seller, the surprise conservative best seller.
So I n I recognize this phenomenon.
In the same way, bad news under the Obama administration is always surprising.
Because after all, what could be wrong?
What could be wrong?
We've got the greatest, smartest president ever in the White House.
We've got Joe Biden as his vice president.
Joe Biden's offered to run.
He told a room full of big money donors to the Democratic Party that he was available in twenty sixteen.
What could go wrong?
Why aren't we living the dream?
So bad news is always unexpected.
More unexpected job numbers from the Wall Street Journal.
Private businesses barely added jobs in May, as large companies cut workers, according to a report released Wednesday.
The news is sure to raise further fears about the second quarter US economy.
Private sector jobs in the US rose by just thirty eight thousand last month, according to a national employment report published by Payroll Giant Automatic Data Processing Inc.
and the consultancy macroeconomic advisors.
It isn't difficult to figure this out.
Nobody's hiring.
There's nothing there's nothing difficult about this.
Why is Wall Street baffled by the the slowing economy?
Because there's uncertainty.
Why would you hire someone?
You won't hire someone because you don't know the costs of hiring that person.
You don't know what you're going to be on the hook for by the time Obama's through with you.
It's bad enough as it is.
You can't just uh somebody walks in the door, you can't just say, Hey, great uh great to have you with you.
Uh it's uh terrific, terrific to see you, I'm gonna pay you uh thousand dollars, uh thousand dollars uh uh a uh uh uh a week, I'm gonna pay you five hundred dollars a week, whatever it is.
You can't just say that anymore.
You've got to say, okay, I'm gonna pay you five hundred dollars a week, and then I've got to factor in what I've got to give to Barack Obama and Harry Reed for the privilege, for the privilege of putting five hundred dollars a week in your in your pocket.
And the United States government and state governments in in places like New York where you have all your stupid commuter mobility tax uh and your various absurd forms of workman's comp have raised the level of hiring someone.
So you have to think very carefully about whether you need another individual uh on your payroll, uh, because the government makes the cost of payroll very high.
It adds significantly to it.
And aside from just the what you have to pay in money to the government for the privilege of providing a job for an American worker, uh you also have a ton of paperwork to do because you've got to do this, that, and the other.
And nobody knows at the moment what the costs are going to be, because as as uh we were talking about with Gloria from uh Pamper, Texas, we were talking with Gloria uh about the way basically the regulatory authorities just make it up as they go along.
So uh given that Obamacare is basically just one big regulatory field day for a sixth of the economy.
In other words, we've just given the biggest, the biggest wildest binge weekend.
We've just given all-time twenty-four-seven spring break to regulatory bureaucrats with Obamacare.
They can frolic and gamble in it to their heart's content doing whatever they like, because that's the way John Conyers and co-wrote the law.
Uh they we nobody, no employer has a clue the burdens that is going to impose by the time it shakes out.
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows.
And when it and when things are uncertain, you don't hire uh unless you have to.
Um here's a professor Stephen Carter is on a plane and he's sitting next to a businessman on a 737, and the businessman is explaining why even though his business is successful, he's still not going to hire anybody.
How can I hire new workers today when I don't know how much they will cost me tomorrow?
He says.
Now he's not talking about wages.
He's not talking about your worker coming in through the door and saying you were paying me five hundred dollars a week, I want to get six hundred.
He's talking about the government increasing the cost of you giving your employee five hundred dollars.
And we've done too much of that now.
That's really the story.
That's the story of the United States in the twenty first century.
That we've made it impossible uh for the the productive sector, as one of our callers was saying earlier, for the makers, we've made it impossible for the makers to crawl out from under the takers.
Government government, the government class is simply too big.
It's squatting on the shoulders of the productive class and it's crippling the productive class.
And when it's when it's when you don't know what's going to happen, when you don't know what Obama and Harry Reed have got up their sleeves next, why would you hire someone?
You know, it's all about uncertainty.
That's what the business is price certainty.
You know, we talk about shipping jobs overseas.
And everyone seems to think oh well, you know, they must be uh they they're taking these jobs to uh places where there's cheap labor.
No, that's not it.
If it was all about cheap labor, you'd you'd open your factory in Somalia, you'd open your factory in Sudan, you'd open your factory in Rwanda.
You don't want cheap labor.
What you want is certainty.
When you outsource to a a place on the other side of the planet that you know very little about the one thing you're looking for is certainty certainty in a business climate.
And and the Obama regulatory frenzy, the Obama spending frenzy, Obamacare and all the rest of it has uh put a big question mark o over business certainty.
And that's why that's why we have essentially economic stagnation.
Get used to this it's the way it's going to be now the government has made it too expensive to hire American workers.
The government has put a premium on the cost of uh uh of of hiring American workers doesn't matter in the government in the government you can give people pension absurd pensions and vacation rights and health care packages and let them retire at fifty because they're sticking somebody else with the tab.
But when you're a private sector worker, you've got to come up with that.
If you've got a private sector business and you want to pay somebody $500, the cost you have to – the money you have to give the government for the privilege of hiring an American and paying her $500 a week is a figure you want at least a ballpark figure on that.
And the Obama administration and the Harry Reid crazy Nancy Pelosi spending binge of the last couple of years has yanked the rug out from the certainty about employment.
decisions in the United States.
That's the problem.
1 eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two Markstein in Farush lots more to come.
Let's go to Scott in Salisbury, Massachusetts uh just to my south from the great state of New Hampshire to the base state of Massachusetts.
Scott, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you doing, Mark?
I'm doing good.
How are you down there in Mass?
Oh it's a little warm but it's all right.
No it's good it's good here.
The snow we a couple weeks more and the snow should be gone so we're we're loving it too.
Uh good to have you with us.
What's what's on your mind?
Well first of all what you were just saying I think no federal employee should get more than the military gets right and and by the way you know you know what the f average federal employee gets at the moment it's about twice as much as the average uh American private sector worker gets.
Oh yeah but in in pay and benefits it's it's uh pretty much exactly twice what a private sector worker gets right but um as to my point uh I live in Massachusetts so I had to deal with the Mitt Romney bill.
Right.
And um it is ridiculous to get a doctor.
It can take a whole day to get into the emergency room.
If you have to go to see your doctor it takes like maybe a month on a waiting list basically and uh my whole def I I just think he's handling it incorrectly just say you know states were meant to do experiments.
I mean in the beginning it was you know different religions went to different states.
Right.
And you know he experimented and it obviously didn't work.
I mean it's what what did it cover three percent more people and they're over two billion dollars in the hole now.
Yeah and and seventy percent of all the people uh newly insured in Massachusetts are being basically subsidized by the state which means being subsidized by you.
Uh you're waiting as you've just pointed out you're waiting I think it's uh more than thirty percent longer than than uh most uh Americans wait for health care and I think Boston Now has the longest wait time in the country to see a new doctor.
So y it's pretty much a failure on every level.
But you're you're you're right uh in i r Romney's line is that he you know Obamacare is a disaster, but it's a one size fits all disaster.
Right.
And Romney's saying Massachusetts, it's let a thousand disasters bloom.
That's the point of federalism.
Uh every man can have his own disaster in his own neighborhood.
Uh and I think I think y you know, that's a sophisticated constitutional argument, but it's not enough.
What uh w it goes beyond that.
It g this is really gets what happened to Romney care in Massachusetts is is a good microcosm of what happens with any government solution.
That you can have a a uh can do technocrat like Mitt devising some bringing all applying all his years of business experience coming into government, constructing a plan, uh getting the legislature to back the plan.
What happens then by the time the Democrats pork up the plan, by the time it gets into the hands of the regulatory bureaucrats, it's a nightmare.
And that's why uh what happened in Massachusetts, Mitt would be better off to say, I learned a big lesson.
I I learned a big lesson there.
I learned I had to relearn the Ronald Reagan lesson, uh that government is the problem, not the solution.
And that I would have been better in Massachusetts uh to liberate uh to actually to actually get government out of health care uh and r and restore it to something like a a normal private sector uh uh business model.
Because when you governmentalize it, uh you're pretty much guaranteeing waste, you're pretty much guaranteeing cost overruns, you're pretty much guaranteeing incompetence because that's the nature of government bureaucracy.
And you know that, Scott, because you're living the Romney care dream.
Yeah, businesses are leaf leaving the state and going basically to New Hampshire.
You know, and just taking off because they don't want to pay all of it.
Yeah, well, don't do too much of that, because you know uh I mean uh our doctors certainly appreciate the money, but in Northern New Hampshire hospitals are full of uh Quebecers who can't get treatment in their own uh province that they've paid for all their lives, and now Southern New Hampshire is filling up with Massachusetts patients who can't get timely health care in their own state.
That's telling you something uh about the nature of big government and big government solutions uh to these issues.
And by the way, uh, you know, Mits Mitt's thing about uh a one Mitt's thing about, you know, a one size fits all disaster, which is what Obamacare is, is relevant to this point.
Insofar as big government works, it works in tiny countries.
You know, you look at the populations of those Scandinavian countries.
It's very easy.
It's very easy to construct a big government for den uh uh an advanced, uh ethnically homogenous, well educated population uh like Denmark or Sweden, Norway, that will work for a couple of generations uh because it's constrained geographically, uh people there are a lot of um uh uh uh s uh sort of communitarian goodwill uh that exists.
If you try to do it for three hundred and fifty million people, you have exactly what we've had uh w what we have with Obamacare.
Waivers for cronies, cornhusker kickbacks, uh paying off uh somebody at some state up here in the Northwest, but not some state down here in the uh in the South East, because you need to pay off the guy in the Northwest to get his vote, but you don't need to pay off the guy in the South East.
If you ex if you attempt to do it for a nation of three hundred and fifty million people from you uh at Cape Cod, Scott, all the way out uh to Hawaii, you're inviting disaster on a scale unknown to man.
Uh generally speaking, this country, big countries have broken up.
This country hasn't broken up because it's had a decentralized government.
And if you centralize things, I think you're setting in motion uh you know, I think you're setting in motion some pretty uh pretty serious decisions, because people aren't gonna uh a one size fits all health care thing is gonna be a disaster on a scale unknown.
That's what Romney needs to if Romney's gonna go that route, he needs to toughen it up a bit, Scott.
I mean everything's supposed to be based on a local level.
Yeah.
That way things can be managed easier.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's by the people.
Yeah, it's not difficult.
Uh government should take place at the lowest, most accountable level that is feasible.
That's why if you're gonna have stupid things like if you're gonna have why is it federal bureaucrats wandering around South Carolina backyards uh trying To determine uh if uh if children's magicians have got unlicensed rabbits in there.
You you imagine the inefficiencies.
Government is like I don't know what you guys have for your plumbing down in Massachusetts, but up here in New Hampshire, everybody's got septic tanks, a septic tank, uh there's a pipe that runs out of the septic tank.
I hate to sound like one of those Starbucks inspected by New York, but the leech pipe is full of holes.
That's what government does when you try to deliver uh rabbit monitoring services to South Carolina at a national level.
Uh government will just leech whatever whatever money you allocate to that government will just leech it out all the way along the route.
It's not an efficient delivery system, not on a national scale.
Rabbit news, rabbit news.
We've we've been looking at the vital the vital uh existential threat to the United States of uh unlicensed rabbits being used in children's magic shows uh that uh the United States Department of Agriculture is cracking down on.
But USDA, USDA, is not just not just uh poking around the top hats of magicians for rabbits.
It's also it's also going after non-magic rabbits.
Senator Claire Masc McCaskell is asking USDA to reconsider the ninety thousand dollar penalty.
It is imposed on a Nixa man, Nixon, Missouri, this is, who sold hundreds of bunnies without a license.
Uh John Dollarhite says he sells these in uh in he lives in somewhere in rural Missouri and he sells these uh bunnies for ten or fifteen bucks apiece.
So he made about two hundred dollars in profit from selling rabbits from April 2008 to 2009.
He says he didn't know he needed a license to sell the animals.
Uh so he's been given a ninety thousand dollar penalty.
Ninety thousand dollar penalty.
Now, if he doesn't pay that fine, he could be liable for additional fines of almost four million dollars.
So he's sold, he sold uh some bunny rabbits uh for about ten or fifteen bucks apiece, and he made about two hundred dollars.
He's now been assessed a ninety thousand dollar penalty.
This is the United States of America.
What's wrong with you guys?
This is tyranny.
This is tyranny.
It starts with the bunnies.
What was the fellow what was it was Pastor Martin Niemola said first they uh first they came for the uh Jews and I did nothing because I wasn't a Jew?
Uh first they came uh first they came for the bunny salesman and I did nothing because I wasn't interested in selling bunnies.
But this is tyranny.
How can you assess a fine of ninety thousand nine oh ninety thousand dollars on a guy who's who's made two hundred dollars selling bunny rabbits?
Like you're just some my around here in this part of New Hampshire.
My uh my daughter, we we went to some uh local fair and my daughter was smitten by uh two bunny rabbits, and she insisted on buying them, and we were assured by the guy that they were both male rabbits, so we had nothing to worry about, and uh we wake up a couple uh weeks later and we've got a zillion other things, and they're now all over the place, because half of them don't get on with each uh with each other.
Um I had no I it would never have occurred to me to s when when uh when the when the guy goes, uh how much of these b I go, how much of these bunny rabbits?
Uh for the guy to uh say, Oh, uh uh to check whether he's got a license to sell them.
But you m you m you you might as well, you might as well do it for everything.
One in twenty activities required a license.
One in twenty commercial activities required a license in the nineteen fifties.
Now it's one in three.
One in three.
So hardly we're getting to the stage now where a majority we're soon approaching gonna be at the stage where to to engage in any form of commercial activity will require the permission from the state.
Uh I don't I don't have a license to do this, uh HR.
Is that legal in New York?
I'm sure it's not.
I'm sure it's not.
I'm sure I should I should have an uh official uh uh uh uh uh an uh uh an official talk radio uh license before I'm allowed to go on air and talk to people.
Everything is licensed now.
You need permission from the state.
This guy lives in rural Missouri.
Why should he require permission from the national government? 'Cause it's not federal anymore.
There's nothing federal about this.
Not when they're in collecting ninety thousand dollar rabbit fines coast to coast.
That's not a federal government of limited powers.
That's a highly centralized national government.
It can't keep thirty million uh ill uh uh undocumented Americans out of the country.
Uh but it can crack down on every single unlicensed rabbit.
Uh there wouldn't be an uh uh an illegal immigrant problem if they just uh if they just gave some of these unlicensed rabbits uh to Mexicans and said you got when you cross the border you've got to have an unlicensed rabbit with you.
Then the United States government could keep tracking it.
So they can go So they can go and find some guy in the middle of rural Missouri, ninety thousand dollars for selling two hundred dollars worth of rabbits.
Uh but they can't they can't enforce the border.
They can't enforce the border.
This is tyranny.
Uh and and you can and and it's easy to laugh this stuff off because uh, you know, it's bunny rabbits.
It's pretty funny.
Uh but eventually it's every area of life.
One in three professions now.
Uh you more and more areas of life.
Uh you to do anything, you require the permission of the state.
And you are no longer a free p uh free peoples if you do that.
Let's go to Bob.
Bob is in Columbus, Ohio.
Bob, thanks for waiting.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Well, thank you.
And it's a great pleasure and honor, and I always enjoy your humorous uh take on things.
Uh it's not humorous, it's tragic, Bob.
It's tragic.
That is the truth.
That's what Carl Mark Twain did.
It there's always the tragedy and the humor.
Um I was just wanted to point out that when you're talking about magicians, Dad is Obama.
He uses all the magicians' tactics of deception, misdirection, human props, and he most importantly owns the name game.
And for example, the litmus test was the trade in destruction program.
No one ever heard of that, but everybody's heard of cash for clunkers.
Right, right, right.
And you give it a good slogan.
There was no cash, there were no clunkers.
There was a you had to have the vehicle run.
Most people don't even realize this.
And you were given a discount for buying a car, a trade in, and then they destroyed your trade in.
Right, right.
They made it inoperable.
He got away with that.
No one's ever studied on the how that destroyed the used car market.
But No, no, that's true.
And in fact, it uh impacted car sales uh for months and months after.
And the other thing he did while you're talking about the uh because misdirection is the uh is the magician's art.
So he said with his stimulus thing, he was what was he gonna do?
He was going to create or save so many jobs.
Yeah.
No create or save, that's fantastic, isn't it?
It's not as if he's got the empty top hat and he's gonna produce a brand new job out of it.
He's not he's not even saying that.
He's saying, Oh, I've got the I've got the top hat and we've got six existing jobs in them, and I'm going to save them.
And everybody goes, ooh, look at that, it's amazing.
He's saved so many jobs.
Uh you're right, it's a magic act.
And and not only that, but he's a fraud.
A magician will admit to trickery and illusion and let the audience know that they're using deception.
That's the difference between Obama and a true magician.
The frauds are the Yuri Gellers of the world who c pretend to brand bend spoons with psychic ability when they're just doing magic tricks.
Well, Obama has uh modus operandi.
And every single program he comes out with, the economic growth interference program, the health care interference program, the border protection interference program.
He comes up with different slogans for the stimulus.
You know, the he has a group of people that come up with these terms and it's very difficult.
No, that's true.
That's the classic that's the classic magician's uh magician's thing.
You take the eye and you uh redirect it in the course also the other great thing he has is uh is of course flags of uh flags of many lands, uh because he keeps uh he he he he he takes out his top hat and he pulls uh flags of many nations that he's gone around the world apologizing to uh out of out of the top hat.
So you're right, he is a uh there is something of the uh the magician about him.
It's interesting that a lot of these uh the a lot of the tricks, a lot of the tricks, the magic wears off.
You can't really let daylight in on magic, as Walter Badgett used to say about uh the monarchy in nineteenth century London.
And I think that's that's the uh the thing about Obama that he can't uh he can't survive close scrutiny, and that's why uh the if you look at if you look at this uh ad they've been running showing Paul Ryan shoving a granny off a cliff.
That's just the way it's gonna be.
That's gonna be the misdirection uh for the twenty twelve election.
We're gonna see Paul Ryan shoving the granny off the cliff.
They're gonna get that's how we are, by the way, a year and a half out from the election.
You think what it's gonna be like in October uh October twenty eleven.
And the and the thing is now he can't he he's not getting good.
The Democrats have lost the ability to say, no no no no, don't look don't look over there, don't look at that.
Don't look at that big multi-trillion dollar hole.
Don't look over here, look at over here at the jobs I've saved or created.
No no no no don't look over here at the price of gas when you're when you're driving by the gas station every morning.
No no no no no don't look at the at the price at the cost of groceries.
No no no no look over here.
Look over here.
We're saving.
Just look in my eyes.
I've got the I've got this big brand new magic multi-trillion dollar watch that shows you how many jobs I've saved and created.
Just look as I'm waving the watch and it will all be all right.
I don't think he can if they're already showing ads uh with Paul Ryan pushing Granny off the cliff in uh spring of twenty eleven uh there's a desperation to that.
You shouldn't have to go to that this early in the electoral cycle.
And the way we're going with the w the way they're going, that's that shows not strength but weakness.
It shows that on the core argument, the issue, the whole the spending, the crippling burden of government, the governmentalization of every aspect of life, the sick freak spenderholics who when they're not spending your money are tweeting their private parts to co eds in Seattle which is about the only thing they do on their own dime by the way,
as far as we know uh that is the issue and that remain and we have changed the terms of the debate on that and the misdirection from Obama the third rate children's magician hoopy changey just look as I'm swaying my watch in front of you and chanting and just chant Hopi changey and stare into the watch with the nice Obama face on it and the big magic O and stare into the vast nothingness of the O and you'll soon be hypnotized by the hopey change.
The misdirection isn't working anymore.
Mark Stein in for us more to come Mark Stein in for Rush let's go uh to Clyde in Beaumont, Texas.
Clyde you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show great to have you Mark uh I was just watching TV today and they said the Republicans met with Obama on increasing the debt limit and that at that meeting Obama said that he had experimented with a tax cut that was the the reduction in the Social Security tax rate for most of twenty eleven.
And he said his experiment didn't work and so he was pushing tax increases.
And that's amazing because the the Dunderhead George Bush got a tax cut to work.
And just about the stupidest president the re the the media has ever seen Reagan got a tax cut to work.
But the smartest president we've ever ever had can't get a tax cut to work.
No I like the way I like the way you put it when uh Obama said he'd been experimenting with tax cuts.
Uh the the way uh the the way baby boomer the old pop stars used to say they'd been experimenting with LSD.
It's like man, I experimented with tax boy that mess with my head I'm not going there again.
What if he's got a trippy head Yeah well there was a b but you know th this is his whole thing.
He didn't he didn't expect he didn't liberate the economy.
Uh that's that's the problem with his stimulus thing.
There were no tax cuts uh uh there were no t the ta any tax cut element uh to Obama's stimulus was outweighed by the sheer waste of money.
I'm uh I'm uh not far from uh the Morse's line border crossing in the middle of rural Vermont which has two cars an hour under the stimulus it was scheduled they were going to rebuild the whole thing for five million dollars and put an eight line in eight lanes of traffic uh at a rural border post that services two cars an hour.
So there'd be two of the lanes of traffic would be for two of the cars and six of the lanes would be uh for uh customs and border protection officials to play bowls in and that's and that's why he didn't try tax cuts.
He he didn't he didn't uh stimulate uh the economy he stimulated government and that's all he did.
That's all he knows how to do, Clyde.
We've gotten these massive regulations coming with Obamacare and all that, and those things are just destroying any chance of even a small decrease in Social Security taxes to improve the economy.
It might have worked except for his other economic policies.
Yes, that that's true.
Tax cuts uh own tax cuts only work if uh what you give with one hand you don't then take away with your other hand and your feet and your teeth and any other body part that can wrench stuff out of people.
What he's what what he's done uh is he's done what he knows.
What he knows is government.
So he thinks the way to stimulate the economy is to set up a grant for uh a community organizer promotional grant application, form filler, uh workshop grant.
Uh and that's what he's done all over this country.
He's stimulated completely worthless activities.
Uh to the point where the productive class can't crawl out from under the heap of junk uh that this vast bloated government uh uh has now uh has now buried them in.
Uh and the and the private sector is no longer big enough and strong enough to crawl out from under the burdens that have been uh that have been placed upon it.
Uh that is that is the issue.
That is the issue here.
The idea that I mean this is incredible to me that he actually sat in a room.
I hope those Republicans laughed at him.
I hope they laughed at him when he said, Oh, we tried tax cuts, been there, done that, it doesn't work.
I tried tax cuts.
Uh I tried tax cuts uh two years ago when I took office.
They didn't work, so we're not trying them again.
You can't raise revenue to cover the costs.
You cannot raise enough revenue to cover the uh obligations of the United States government right now.
As I said, the real obligations are about a hundred and forty trillion dollars, which is twice the total wealth of the United States of America.
There's not enough money on the planet.
There's not enough money on the planet.
The Chinese, the Saudis, none of these guys want to give us the money to enable Obama to and Harry Reed and the rest of them to continue doing this.
So they gotta stop doing it, they've got to do less of it, they've got to get out of the way.
They gotta get out of the way, and they've got to let the productive class in this country get to work, start new businesses, hire American workers, and uh and uh uh and engage in productive economic activity.
And the only way you can do that is you've got to have less government.
You've got to have less Obama in your life, you've got to have less Harry Reid in your life, you've got to have less EPA in your life, uh, you gotta have less OSHA in your life, you've got to have less Obamacare in your life, you've got to have less government uh and enable uh the economic engine, the cart.
Uh the cart of government requires a horse that's strong enough to pull it.
Right now America is decaying into all horse and a little emaciated nag at the front uh uh into all cart.
Uh America is decaying into all cart with a little emaciated nag at the front that is no longer strong enough uh to pull the cart.
That is the problem.
Uh thanks for your call, Clyde.
Uh I can't believe that.
Obama says he experimented with tax cuts.
I maybe we'd be better off if he'd experimented with LSD.
It's ridiculous this.
Mark Stein for Rush, more ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
We know Wednesday on the EIB network.
We have stayed on top of the developments in uh Congressman Anthony's wiener tweets all through the show.
Uh his latest position is that he is unable to say with certitude whether the rogue tweet is actually of him.
Because um presumably there were so many photographs of this particular body part uh of his out there that he can't tell he can't tell one from another.
There could be one of him.
Maybe he's like Saddam Hussein.
Saddam Hussein used to have uh all these uh look-alikes that he used to have wandering the land uh to take care of uh his sort of third and fourth rank mistresses that he couldn't be bothered with himself.
Uh Saddam Hussein used to uh he used to have all these lookalikes, maybe uh maybe uh Congressman Antony Zweiner has uh has all these uh lookalikes for his rel uh relevant part.
But at any rate, that's his current position.
He has unable to say with certitude whether the part in question belongs to him.
A man who cannot recognize his own distinguishing characteristics.
This is on whom the fate of the Republic has come to depend.
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