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June 1, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 1, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in direct from the mountain vastness of northern New Hampshire.
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And we are certainly glad that they are back with us today, our friends at KZRG.
Weiner Wednesday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
And really, I've got to get my contract 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 can't wait for Congressman Antony's Wiener to depart the news along with him.
Preferably, that would be an ideal situation.
I mentioned how easy it is to confuse Uyghurs and Wieners.
So if President Obama wanted to spring Congressman Antony's Wiener from his present difficulties and move him to Bermuda, I'm sure by the time 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.
The plot thickens on the Anthony Weiner 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.
So he doesn't, he's in a worse situation.
Well, this is this is a terrible situation.
I mean, because Paula Jones was able to pick the distinguishing characteristics out of a lineup, but Anthony Wiener can't pick his own distinguishing characteristics out of a police lineup.
So I don't know.
It's interesting that the Conservative Member of Parliament up at Niagara Falls, Ontario, he is able to identify his crown jewels, as the Toronto Sun called them.
There's a story out of Bangladesh.
Somebody attempted to pull the full Dominique Strauss Kahn on her, and this Bangladeshi woman sliced off the offending body part and took it to the police.
So she'll presumably have no difficulty picking the relevant offending weapon out of a police lineup.
But in this case, Representative Anthony Weiner is unable, Democrat of New York, because we should say this, by the way, you may have read about Congressman Wiener in some of the newspapers and noticed that the word Democrat doesn't appear until the 37th paragraph.
So we should say, Congressman Weiner, Democrat of New York, is incapable of picking his own 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.
Lots of other news today.
Food stamps hit a new high.
That's great news, isn't it?
Another just-in-time for recovery summer.
Food stamps have gone up, have increased by about 50% since Obama took office.
Around about 30 million people on food stamps.
By the way, that's way too high in January 2009.
It's now up to about 44 million people on food stamps.
44 million people in this country on food stamps.
That's like 15% of the population.
That's like 50%.
That's amazing to me.
That is amazing.
That is America.
You know, we're about a month out from July the 4th.
What did they used to call it?
Independence Day, Independence Day.
What a cockamame idea that is.
Why don't you just call it Dependence Day?
Why don't we just call it Dependence Day and all march down the street dressed as giant food stamps instead of being dressed as Uncle Sam and Betsy Ross?
44 million people.
Thank you, President Obama, for Recovery Summer.
44 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.
If you're an author and you write a book and large numbers of people buy it, the New York Times and other people always refer to it as the surprise bestseller because they're basically thinking, who the hell would buy that crazy guy's book?
So it's always the surprise conservative bestseller, the surprise conservative bestseller.
So 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 2016.
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 U.S. economy.
Private sector jobs in the U.S. rose by just 38,000 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 difficult about this.
Why is Wall Street baffled by 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, somebody walks in the door, you can't just say, hey, great to have you with you.
It's terrific to see you.
I'm going to pay you $1,000 a week.
I'm going to pay you $500 a week, whatever it is.
You can't just say that anymore.
You've got to say, okay, I'm going to pay you $500 a week, and then I've got to factor in what I've got to give to Barack Obama and Harry Reid for the privilege, for the privilege of putting $500 a week in your pocket.
And the United States government and state governments in places like New York, where you have all your stupid commuter mobility tax 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 on your payroll because the government makes the cost of payroll very high.
It adds significantly to it.
Aside from just what you have to pay in money to the government for the privilege of providing a job for an American worker, 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 we were talking about with Gloria from Pampa, Texas, we were talking with Gloria about the way basically the regulatory authorities just make it up as they go along.
So 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 24-7 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.
No employer has a clue the burdens that is going to impose by the time it shakes out.
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows.
And when things are uncertain, you don't hire unless you have to.
Here's a professor, Stephen Carter.
He's 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 $500 a week.
I want to get $600.
He's talking about the government increasing the cost of you giving your employee $500.
And we've done too much of that now.
That's really the story.
That's the story of the United States in the 21st century, that we've made it impossible for 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, 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 you don't know what's going to happen, when you don't know what Obama and Harry Reid have got up their sleeves next, why would you hire someone?
You know, it's all about uncertainty.
Business is price certainty.
You know, we talk about shipping jobs overseas and everyone seems to think, oh, well, you know, they must be, they're taking these jobs to places where there's cheap labor.
No, that's not it.
If it was all about cheap labor, 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 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 the Obama regulatory frenzy, the Obama spending frenzy, Obamacare, and all the rest of it has put a big question mark over business certainty.
And that's why we have essentially economic stagnation.
Get used to this because 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 hiring American workers.
It doesn't matter in the government.
In the government, you can give people pension, absurd pensions and vacation rights and healthcare packages and let them retire at 50 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.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in Farush, lots more to come.
Let's go to Scott in Salisbury, Massachusetts, just to my south from the great state of New Hampshire to the bay state of Massachusetts.
Scott, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How you doing, Mark?
I'm doing good.
How you down there in Mass?
Well, it's a little warm, but it's all right.
No, it's good.
It's good here.
The snow, we're a couple of weeks more and the snow should be gone.
So we're loving it too.
Good to have you with us.
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 by the way, you know what the average federal employee gets at the moment?
It's about twice as much as the average American private sector worker gets.
Oh, yeah.
But in pay and benefits, it's pretty much exactly twice what a private sector worker gets.
Right.
But Maz, to my point, I live in Massachusetts, so I had to deal with the Mitt Romney bill.
Right.
And it is ridiculous to get a doctor.
It can take a whole day to get into see the emergency room.
If you have to go to see your doctor, it takes like maybe a month on a waiting list, basically.
Right.
Right.
And my whole, I just think he's handling it incorrectly.
He should probably 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 did it cover 3% more people and they're over $2 billion in the hole now?
Yeah, and 70% of all the people newly insured in Massachusetts are being basically subsidized by the state, which means being subsidized by you.
You're waiting, as you've just pointed out, you're waiting, I think it's more than 30% longer than most Americans wait for health care.
And I think Boston now has the longest wait time in the country to see a new doctor.
So it's pretty much a failure on every level.
But you're right.
Romney's line is that he, you know, Obamacare is a disaster, but it's a one-size-fits-all disaster.
And Romney's saying, Massachusetts, it's let a thousand disasters bloom.
That's the point of federalism.
Every man can have his own disaster in his own neighborhood.
And I think, you know, that's a sophisticated constitutional argument, but it's not enough.
It goes beyond that.
This is really gets what happened to Romney Care in Massachusetts is a good microcosm of what happens with any government solution.
That you can have a can-do technocrat like Mitt devising something, applying all his years of business experience, coming into government, constructing a plan, 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 what happened in Massachusetts, Mitt would be better off to say, I learned a big lesson.
I learned a big lesson there.
I learned I had to relearn the Ronald Reagan lesson, that government is the problem, not the solution.
And that I would have been better in Massachusetts to liberate, to actually get government out of healthcare and restore it to something like a normal private sector business model.
Because when you governmentalize it, 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 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, I mean, our doctors certainly appreciate the money, but in northern New Hampshire, hospitals are full of Quebecers who can't get treatment in their own 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 about the nature of big government and big government solutions to these issues.
And by the way, you know, MIT's thing about 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 an advanced, ethnically homogeneous, well-educated population like Denmark or Sweden, Norway, that will work for a couple of generations because it's constrained geographically.
There are a lot of sort of communitarian goodwill that exists.
If you try to do it for 350 million people, you have exactly what we have with Obamacare: waivers for cronies, corn husker kickbacks, paying off somebody at some state up here in the northwest, but not some state down here in the southeast, 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 southeast.
If you attempt to do it for a nation of 350 million people from you at Cape Cod, Scott, all the way out to Hawaii, you're inviting disaster on a scale unknown to man.
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, you know, I think you're setting in motion some pretty serious decisions because people aren't going to, a one-size-fits-all healthcare thing is going to be a disaster on a scale unknown.
That's what Romney needs to.
If Romney's going to 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.
And that way things can be managed easier.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's by the way.
Government should take place at the lowest, most accountable level that is feasible.
That's why if you're going to have stupid things like, if you're going to have, why is it federal bureaucrats wandering around South Carolina backyards trying to determine if children's magicians have got unlicensed rabbits in there?
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, 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 rabbit monitoring services to South Carolina at a national level, government will just leech 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 been looking at the vital, the vital existential threat to the United States of unlicensed rabbits being used in children's magic shows that the United States Department of Agriculture is cracking down on.
But USDA, USDA, is not just poking around the top hats of magicians for rabbits.
It's also going after non-magic rabbits.
Senator Claire McCaskill is asking USDA to reconsider the $90,000 penalty it is imposed on a Nixer man, Nixon Missouri this is, who sold hundreds of bunnies without a license.
John Dollarheight says he sells these in, he lives in somewhere in rural Missouri and he sells these bunnies for 10 or 15 bucks apiece.
So he made about $200 in profit from selling rabbits from April 2008 to 2009.
He says he didn't know he needed a license to sell the animals.
So he's been given a $90,000 penalty, $90,000 penalty.
Now, if he doesn't pay that fine, he could be liable for additional fines of almost $4 million.
So he sold, he sold some bunny rabbits for about $10 or $15 a piece, and he made about $200.
He's now been assessed a $90,000 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, Pastor Martin Niemaller, said first they came for the Jews and I did nothing because I wasn't a Jew.
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 9000, $90,000 on a guy who's made $200 selling bunny rabbits?
Like you, just around here, this part of New Hampshire, my daughter, we went to some local fair and my daughter was smitten by 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 we wake up a couple of 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 when when uh when, the when the guy goes, how much of these, I go, how much of these bunny rabbits, for the guy to uh say oh uh, to check whether he's got a license to sell them.
But you you you, you might as well, you might as well do it for everything.
One in 20 activities required a license.
One in 20 commercial activities required a license in the 1950s.
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 going to 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, 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?
Because it's not federal anymore.
There's nothing federal about this, not when they're 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 30 million uh ill uh, undocumented Americans out of the country uh, but it can crack down on every single unlicensed rabbit uh.
There wouldn't be an an 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 track on it so they can go.
So they can go and find some guy in the middle of rural Missouri $90,000 for selling $200 worth of rabbits.
But they can't enforce the border.
They can't enforce the border.
This is tyranny.
And it's easy to laugh this stuff off because it's bunny rabbits.
It's pretty funny.
But eventually, it's every area of life.
One in three professions now.
More and more areas of life.
To do anything, you require the permission of the state.
And you are no longer 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 take on things.
It's not humorous.
It's tragic, Bob.
It's tragic.
That is the truth.
That's what Karl Mark Twain did.
There's always the tragedy in the humor.
I just wanted to point out that when you're talking about magicians, that 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.
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 how that destroyed the used car market.
No, no, that's true.
And in fact, it impacted car sales for months and months after.
And the other thing he did, while you're talking about the, because misdirection is the magician's art.
So he said with his stimulus thing, he was, what was he going to do?
He was going to create or save so many jobs.
Yeah.
Create or save.
That's fantastic, isn't it?
It's not as if he's got the empty top hat and he's going to produce a brand new job out of it.
He's not even saying that.
He's saying, oh, 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.
You're right.
It's a magic act.
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 Uri Gellers of the world who pretend to bend spoons with psychic ability when they're just doing magic tricks.
Well, Obama has modus operandi, and every single program he comes out with, the economic growth interference program, the healthcare interference program, the border protection interference program, comes up with different slogans for the stimulus.
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 magician's thing.
You take the eye and you redirect it.
And of course, also, the other great thing he has is, of course, flags of many lands because he takes out his top hat and he pulls flags of many nations that he's gone around the world apologizing to out of the top hat.
So you're right.
There is something of the magician about him.
It's interesting that a lot of these, 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 the monarchy in 19th century London.
And I think that's the thing about Obama, that he can't survive close scrutiny.
And that's why if you look at this ad they've been running showing Paul Ryan shoving a granny off a cliff, that's just the way it's going to be.
That's going to be the misdirection for the 2012 election.
We're going to see Paul Ryan shoving the granny off the cliff.
They're going to get, that's how we are, by the way, a year and a half out from the election.
You think what it's going to be like in October, October 2011.
And the thing is now, he can't, 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 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 driving by the gas station every morning.
No, no, no, no, no.
Don't look 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 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 with Paul Ryan pushing Granny off the cliff in spring of 2011, 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 way they're going, 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.
That is the issue.
And we have changed the terms of the debate on that.
And the misdirection from Obama, the third-rate children's magician, Hopi Changy, just look as I'm swaying my watch in front of you and chanting, and just chant Hopi Changy 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 Hopi change.
The misdirection isn't working anymore.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
More to come.
Mark Stein, in for Rush.
Let's go to Clyde in Beaumont, Texas.
Clyde, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you.
Hello, Mark.
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 reduction in the Social Security tax rate for most of 2011.
And he said his experiment didn't work, and so he was pushing tax increases.
And that's amazing because the Dunder head, George Bush, got a tax cut to work.
And just about the stupidest president 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 Obama said he'd been experimenting with tax cuts.
The way Baby Boomer, the old pop stars, used to say they'd been experimenting with LSD.
It's like, oh, man, I experimented with tax cuts.
Boy, that messed with my head.
I'm not going there again.
That's what a trip he had.
Yeah, well, it was about.
But you know, this is his whole thing.
He didn't.
He didn't liberate the economy.
That's the problem with his stimulus thing.
There were no tax cuts.
There were no, any tax cut element to Obama's stimulus was outweighed by the sheer waste of money.
I'm not far from 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 $5 million and put an eight-line and eight lanes of traffic 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 for customs and border protection officials to play bowls in.
And that's why he didn't try tax cuts.
He didn't stimulate the economy.
He stimulated government.
And that's all he did.
That's all he knows how to do, Clyde.
He's 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's true.
Tax cuts only work if 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 done 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 a community organizer promotional grant application form filler workshop grant.
And that's what he's done all over this country.
He's stimulated completely worthless activities to the point where the productive class can't crawl out from under the heap of junk that this vast bloated government has now buried them in.
And the private sector is no longer big enough and strong enough to crawl out from under the burdens that have been placed upon it.
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.
I tried tax cuts 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 obligations of the United States government right now.
As I said, the real obligations are about $140 trillion, 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 and Harry Reid and the rest of them to continue doing this.
So they've got to stop doing it.
They've got to do less of it.
They've got to get out of the way.
They've got to 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 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.
You've got to have less OSHA in your life.
You've got to have less Obamacare in your life.
You've got to have less government and enable the economic engine, the cart.
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, into all cart.
America is decaying into all cart with a little emaciated nag at the front that is no longer strong enough to pull the cart.
That is the problem.
Thanks for your call, Clyde.
I can't believe that.
Obama says he experimented with tax cuts.
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 Congressman Anthony's Wiener tweets all through the show.
His latest position is that he is unable to say with certitude whether the rogue tweet is actually of him because presumably there were so many photographs of this particular body part of his out there that he can't tell he can't tell one from another.
It could be one of him.
Maybe he's like Saddam Hussein.
Saddam Hussein used to have all these look-alikes that he used to have wandering the land to take care of his sort of third and fourth rank mistresses that he couldn't be bothered with himself.
Saddam Hussein used to have all these look-alikes.
Maybe Congressman Antony Zwiener has all these look-alikes for his relevant part.
But at any rate, that's his current position.
He is 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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