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Aug. 23, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 23, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, it's this Mark, the one from Wisconsin.
Almost all of us are Marks.
It's me.
Now, for those of you a little confused, Stein, he's the guy that has the accent.
He's the guy that writes the books.
He's the guy that says that America's doomed unless we fix our problems.
He hosted the program yesterday, but I busted in and intruded on his program to interview him on his own program.
If you didn't hear it, Mark's written a book, a very good book, about the crisis that we are facing in America.
He says it's over unless we get our fiscal hosts in order.
And the best way to really get into Mark's head and the thoughts in his books, we thought, was to have somebody else talk to him.
So we brought in another one of the marks, myself, and I was in for a little while at hour number two yesterday.
But today it's all mine, and I don't think Stein's coming around today to interview me because I haven't written any books because, A, I don't have that much to say, and B, I'm too lazy to write books.
I do want to open the program today by talking about a topic that we're going to get into in a little bit more depth later on.
But I want to open it because developments are breaking right and left.
That's the whole thing going on in Libya.
This is weird, but as best we can tell, Qaddafi's about to fall.
The latest reports indicate that they've broken through and taken control of this compound that he has in Tripoli where they have the heavy armor and the artillery and the strongest guards that he has are surrounding him.
Nobody knows if Gaddafi himself is still there, but the reports from outside are that there was very little resistance when the rebels stormed the compound and that they appear to have control of it.
They appear to have control of most of the streets of Tripoli, which is the capital, of course, of Libya.
Now, there was a lot of confusion because two days ago and yesterday it was reported that Gaddafi's two sons, who were the power behind him, were both in custody, and it later turned out that that wasn't true.
His son, who is believed to be the heir apparent, was walking around in a hotel saying, I'm not in custody.
In fact, we're fighting back.
We're going to win this thing.
So there's been a lot of confusion about this.
And I think that's probably what you have when you have a bunch of rebels that aren't united in any cause other than that they want to overthrow Gaddafi.
And one group is saying one thing and another group is saying another.
But most of the reports right now do indicate that they've gotten inside the Qaddafi compound and that they may have control of it.
What all of this means and whether or not it matters to America or not, I want to get into that a little bit later on in today's program.
But I wanted to bring you up to speed at the start of the show about what's going on over there.
To the EIB staff, keep track of the Libyan developments so I can bring state-of-the-art information to the Rush audience.
Keep track of what's going on over there.
If somebody comes out with like Qaddafi's head in a platter, probably we should pass that along.
If they do capture him, do you think they'll try him or will they?
They kill him on the spot?
What will they do to him?
They'll try him.
Snerdley says they'll try him.
I don't know.
Will he like a man surrender?
Will he fight to the death like what's his name, Bin Laden did?
Or will he whimper and plead and beg?
Or will he bring out wads of cash and try to bribe himself out of it?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Let me change the subject a bit, though.
I want to open with this.
The same page, the obituary page, today's New York Times, two stories, one right on top of another.
And in reading it, I had one of those moments where you kind of realize that something has happened.
Two prominent American songwriters.
Both were part of songwriting teams.
They both died yesterday.
One in Los Angeles, the other in New York.
Jerry Lieber, Lieber and Stahler.
More hits that I can mention, although I'm going to mention a lot of them.
And Nick Ashford, who was part of the great Motown songwriting duo of Ashford and Simpson.
Both died yesterday.
Obituary from the New York Times.
Jerry Lieber, prolific writer of 1950s hits, dies at 78.
Let me go through the list of some of the songs that Lieber and Stoller wrote.
Hound Dog, which they originally wrote for a blues singer, Big Mama Thornton.
Elvis Presley immortalized it.
Jailhouse Rock, Loving You, Don't.
Treat Me Nice.
King Creole.
Also, for the Drifters on Broadway.
Stand by Me with Benny King.
Jerry Lieber wrote with Phil Spector, Spanish Harlem.
With The Coasters, Charlie Brown, Youngblood, Doc Thomas, Searchin', Poison Ivy, Yakety Yak.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as songwriters.
More.
Ruby Baby, Fools Fall in Love, Love Potion Number Nine.
Chapel of Love, Leader of the Pack, Walking in the Sand.
I Am a Woman for Peggy Lee.
Is That All There Is?
Just a remarkable string of hit after hit after hit after hit after hit.
He was the lyricist.
Stoller wrote the music.
And then Nick Ashford of Ashford and Simpson.
Scanning through the obituary.
Listen to some of the hits that he wrote.
Ain't No Mountain High Enough.
It was 1967.
Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell.
What else?
For Ray Charles.
Also, Your Precious Love Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing.
You're All I Need to Get By.
Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand.
Anna Ross.
Then, as I said, Ain't No Mountain High Enough.
Let's Go Get Stone for Ray Charles.
Don't Cost You Nothing.
It Seems to Hang On.
Found a Cure.
They wrote I'm Every Woman for Chaka Khan and so on.
Solid, which Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson recorded themselves.
So why do I bring all of this up?
You know, those songs, song after song after song after song after song.
That's when we had an American style of music.
There was an American culture.
That was America.
Everybody listened to that stuff.
Everybody listened to those songs.
Everybody knew them.
Both of those songwriters had a remarkable ability to write lyrics that touched Americans.
There's always been British music and Italian music and Irish music and German music.
And when you mentioned some ethnicity, everybody knew, knows what that type of music means.
But we've had an American music.
And in that era, the 50s, 60s, and 70s, there was a common denominator in which everybody listened to the same type of music.
And it was uniquely American.
There were British songs there, and there was a lot of other influences.
And rock and roll changed everything.
I know all of that.
But there was still a core American music there.
And I noticed in looking at all of the topics that I prepared to talk about on the Russ show today, that they all kind of get back to this whole thing about who are we as a country.
On the program yesterday, I spoke with Mark Stein about his fears that we're done as a country if we don't get our spending under control, that America is going to go bust, that it's over, that we're going to degenerate into violence, as the entitlements end that there is going to be insurrection in the country.
And a lot of people don't want that to happen.
They look at ourselves spending ourselves into the ground and say, this is not America.
We're not a debtor nation.
We're not a nation in which everybody's on the door.
We're not a nation in which the people who have worked and saved all of their lives have nothing to show for it because we've given it all away to everyone else.
That's our battle for our culture, too.
So somewhere in the deaths of these two great songwriters, something struck me that at one time there was a general agreement in this country about who we are as a nation and what our culture is.
America wasn't Western Europe.
We certainly weren't Russia.
We weren't China.
We weren't third world nations.
We had our own culture.
We led the world.
We were the nation that believed in free market capitalism.
We were the nation that wanted to reward creativity and ingenuity.
We were the nation that said you can be all you want to be.
The Statue of Liberty meant something.
It didn't mean illegal immigration then.
It meant come here legally and you have a chance to make it in a way that you will never make it in the place that you came from.
And I think that's the thing that so many of us are trying to cling to.
It's what we so deeply resent about what liberalism has done to our country.
It's why we resent Obama's idiotic stimulus program.
Well, I'll solve our economic problems by carpet bombing the country with a trillion dollars in spending that I'll give to all of my pals.
No, I'm not just yearning for the good old days here.
I'm saying that there are values that are innately American and they translate into public policy decisions and they're being violated all across the board right now.
The American culture was not one that said that we should spend in one year alone $1 trillion $500 billion more than we're taking in.
The American culture is one that would never have imagined a $14 trillion, trillion with a TR, $14 trillion national debt.
The American culture wasn't one that said we're going to create all of these entitlements so that everybody is going to live off the handful that choose to be productive.
That's not what the American culture is.
I'm going to get into the spending problems we have, talk about how the entitlement mentality and the stimulus have just come together to create this terrible perfect storm.
But the big picture I'm trying to communicate here is that this is not who we are.
It may be what a lot of what a handful of lefties want us to become.
The people who've been gazing over at Western Europe forever and saying, well, we ought to have nationalized health care.
Everybody else does.
We ought to have higher taxes.
Everybody else does.
We ought to be socialist.
Everybody else is.
We've been different.
And when we were different, when we stood for things, and we believed in free market capitalism, when we believed in the individual, when we believed in the American spirit, we've thrived.
And there's no reason we can't tap into it again.
Look at the 80s and the 90s.
Look at the revolution that Reagan brought back to our country.
That renaissance in America occurred after we got our spending house in order.
Public policy leads all of that stuff.
And right now, our public policy is all screwed up.
It's what's demoralized the country.
We see no solution to any of these problems.
We don't know how we're going to dig out from underneath all of this debt.
Well, I think it starts with going back to the kind of values that made our country what it is.
And there is an American culture.
On today's program, if you want to talk about that, throughout the three hours, we'll take calls on that.
And I'm going to touch on a lot of different topics.
But I just find that that theme is interwoven through everything that I want to talk about.
Our role in the rest of the world with regard to Libya, the Republicans trying to decide who it is that their presidential candidate should be.
Is it the vision of a Romney or a Perry or a Bachman or a Palin?
It all gets back to who we are and who we are as a nation and what our values are and what we stand for and what collectively it means to be an American.
1-800-282-2882 is the number on the Rush program.
My name is Mark Belling.
I'm Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush.
I hope that that monologue made sense to you.
It made sense to me, but I was the guy that was saying it.
I inquired of the staff that I sound like a raving lunatic or was that coherent?
And they gave me kind of a nod like, well, we sort of think we understand what you're talking about.
What I'm driving at here is that the battle between the left and the right right now over government spending, over Obamacare, is really a battle about who we are and what kind of a country we are.
In the end, if we're the wrong kind of country, we're going to go bust and it's going to be over.
The reason we've avoided that, the reason we became who we are, is because we had a different philosophy that stood out from the rest of the world.
And it does tie into how Obama screwed up stimulus.
It does tie into mandating national health care.
It does tie into the fact that Medicaid is busting the budget.
It ties into all of these regulations in which we'll tell you how to do this and we'll tell this business how to do that and we're going to micromanage everything you do.
It all ties together who we are and what we stand for.
We're not a bunch of different groups and different special interests.
I go to concerts anymore.
The groups that I go to see, there's never any black people in the audience.
And there are a lot of black artists.
You go to their concerts, almost everybody in the audience is black.
Well, we've always had differences, but we had a culture that we shared in common.
Everybody loved the Supremes.
Everybody loved Bruce Springsteen.
Everybody loved Elvis.
There was something unifying.
And now we're being torn apart because of these competing philosophies.
And it's my contention that one of those philosophies, live off the government, spend more than you have, is uniquely un-American.
I hope that makes some sense to you.
Let's go to Nashville, which is about as American a city as you can find.
Kyle, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Well, thank you, Mark.
I'm working, fortunately, and I heard your, first of all, thanks for taking my call.
You know, thanks to Rush Limbaugh.
I just want to say thank you.
Thank you for radio.
Thank you for this country.
I was calling you because you mentioned about American exceptionalism.
And I just have a great example.
I don't mean to get emotional, but my son, Jack, he's 14.
And just like my father, we told him, we're teaching him that only in America, and that is so true, you've got the history of the world.
There have been great times in the past, but the whole history of the world all comes to one point, America.
I'm calling you because I just recently picked up this little book.
It's called Born in America.
And it's got a list of so many things that came from America.
And, you know, I don't know if the people know this out there, but the Chinese fortune cookie came from America, not China.
Just those little things, everything from radio, TV.
Is there a story?
We've been the innovator of the world.
The last 150 years of global history just revolves around the United States.
It's not a coincidence that Franklin was an American.
He literally had to have a revolution for him to become an American rather than a subject.
It wasn't a coincidence that Edison was an American.
It wasn't a coincidence that the polio vaccine was something that was developed here in the United States.
All of those things happened for a reason.
And I think they happened because we had a system that rewarded individual excellence, created a profit incentive to get ahead, and because we lived in a country that encouraged that kind of creativity and initiative.
Now we've got a president of the United States who's always ripping on anybody who makes a buck.
We've got to tax the world.
We've got to tax those who've got to have it.
We've got to regulate this.
We've got to take care of the people.
All he's ever concerned about is taking care of the people that aren't getting ahead.
And he thinks that the way to do that is by destroying all of the values that made us great.
That's why his stimulus was such a mess.
Thanks for the call, Carl.
He didn't go out and try to stimulate the private sector.
He didn't go out and try to stimulate individual initiative.
He didn't try to do anything that would get people to invest in themselves or invest in their businesses or invest in their country.
Instead, he took about $850 billion and gave it to a bunch of social service programs, gave it to public schools, gave it to government.
So let's build a couple of roads.
Let's do a few of these things.
Threw it into programs that never translated into anything.
Why?
Because he doesn't believe in America.
He never has, nor have any of his supporters.
These are the people that rolled their eyes when people would talk about patriotism.
They were the people who rolled their eyes when we talked about America being better than the rest of the world.
They're the ones who roll their eyes when they talk about the American dream.
These are people who've loved to talk about the world community.
They like to talk about internationalism.
They hated cowboy Bush.
They hated cowboy Reagan.
Well, they got power here and they took those ideas, that philosophy, which looked down its nose at America and American values, and they translated that into public policy.
And those public policies have been disastrous.
It is out of that that we get a one and a half trillion dollar annual deficit in one year alone.
That's not America.
Some of us stand for something else.
You know, when I was talking to Mark Stein on the program yesterday, nobody, where is Stein from?
He's got an accent.
Nobody knows where he's from.
He talks about the fact, I know he's from New Hampshire now.
Is he Canadian or is he Australian or is he British or I don't know where he's from?
But Mark makes this point.
One of the reasons that people like myself came to the United States is because we believed in what this country stood for.
We didn't want to see the United States go the way of Europe.
We didn't want the problems of Western Europe to be part of our lives.
We saw America as the nation that was going to look over there and say, well, we're going to do it differently.
Stein didn't say all of that.
In fact, he only said it in one sentence.
But you get the point.
The people that believe most in the American promise are those people who came from somewhere else, believed in it.
And it's not dead.
Look at the innovations we've had just in the last few years.
Almost everyone.
I know the world is manufacturing everything in China.
And I know that we farmed out half of our IT to India and other nations.
But Facebook was developed by an American.
Google was started by a couple of Americans.
Apple and all of the, I mean, that's Jobs or Jobs or Jabs.
Steve Jobs is an American.
Everything that you see right now that's changing the world is still coming.
We may be having the stuff manufactured somewhere else.
And we may have a lot of the human beings that are answering questions about a bee somewhere else, but the best ideas are still coming from here.
We still have the potential for more economic growth than anyone else.
We still have the potential to have a government in which the revenues produced by American businesses and individuals pay for all of our bills.
We don't have to have a massive deficit.
There are enough ideas out there, and there is enough profit potential from them for us to sustain even a pretty hefty welfare state.
We just can't sustain this morass of putting everybody on the government door for health care.
We can't sustain Medicare without reforming it.
We can't sustain Social Security with all the baby boomers living to be 100 without making some alterations in it.
We've got to do that stuff.
But we can.
We aren't doomed.
Barack Obama didn't come out and destroy the American spirit of the American brain.
You know, as long as I've been listening to Rush's program, and when I worked in Madison, Wisconsin, we were one of the original Rush Limbaugh affiliates.
I know Rush talked about a lot of things over the years, but the one thing that just seems to come through from him, because he's somebody who's lived the dream.
He had an idea, he believed in his talent, and he went on to incredible success in doing it.
The one thing that Rush seems to talk about over and over and over again is the power of the individual reliance upon yourself and your family and your friends and not on government.
And that's what I'm driving at here.
We have gotten into the mess that we're in by thinking that we can grow as a country by taking and taking and taking in the form of taxing and then spending and spending and spending and becoming so addicted to spending that we're spending even more than we're taking in.
And that's why we can't get out of this recession.
That's why the budget is on tilt.
I've got some examples here that I want to share, but I hope I'm effectively communicating that everything that we're debating in this country right now gets back to who we are and what kind of a nation we are and will be.
Columbus, Ohio, and Kevin, Kevin, it's your turn on EIB.
Yeah, I'm just getting sick of hearing about this American exceptionalism.
But now here you have a president who came up the hard way, didn't have a silver spoon in his mouth, and the only thing you guys have done is attacked him ever since he's been in office.
And is it because he's the wrong color?
Is that what it is?
I can't figure it out.
What's going on with that?
Yeah, that's what it is.
It's because he's the wrong color.
I mean, why do you even have to ask?
Why do you even have to ask that question?
I mean, anybody else to say whatever they want.
Look at this, Rick Perry saying this and that, treason, this and that.
But then nobody says anything.
See, so people, that's what people are getting tired of.
Now, you said Obama came up the hard way.
What do you mean by that?
I mean that he had been on food stamps before.
Have you?
You ever been there?
I came close with a couple of my bosses in early radio, but no, I've never been on food steps.
Okay, so he's on foodsteps.
I want you to get you to get back to where you were.
You said he came up the hard way.
He was on foodsteps.
What else?
What do you mean by saying he came up the hard way?
Everything that he's got.
What did he have a family that gave him because they have wealth?
No, he didn't.
He didn't.
That's right.
So why when someone comes up the hard way like you guys always profess?
Get back to that.
How did he come up the hard way?
How did he come up?
What hard way did he come up?
When it did happen, now he said he can't do anything right.
And it's just bullshit.
Thank you for the call, Kevin.
What I was trying to drive at here is that I think Barack Obama is a creature of his own experiences.
He's somebody who perhaps could have grasped this because the caller is right.
Barack Obama and his life could not have occurred anywhere other than America because he did have a screwed-up background.
We all know the family history.
But Obama, who was clearly a very brilliant young man and got into very, very good schools, after that didn't come up the hard way at all.
Once he got there, once he got to those Ivy League institutions, he immediately planted himself on the dole, getting one grant or another.
When he was an attorney, he was working for government officials and for agencies that got government grants.
He affiliated himself early on with Acorn and those other entities.
He was never producing or creating anything.
True, he was given the opportunity in this country to get ahead, but he took that opportunity and immediately became somebody who started to feed off the system.
That's what his background was.
He never worked in the private sector in the sense that he ever made anything or created anything.
He was always one of those guys that was part of the operation in Chicago, that huge apparatus of people who were either in government or affiliated with government or getting funding one way or another from government.
Look how quickly he tied himself to Tony Resco, who was the Chicago fixer.
That was the guy who bought the property adjacent to Obama's house and Obama happened to move in next door and paid the exact same price for a house that Tony Resco paid for an empty lot.
That's what Obama's background was.
Obama has been raised in a very, very cynical way.
You know, the biography that he wrote about himself that was so heavily praised talked about his view of the culture and what he took from his father who was never part of his life.
But you never had the sense that Obama bought into this idea of Americans producing and trying to create something.
So, I mean, when he says that Obama came up the hard way, I'm not sure that he did.
Obama came from a difficult background, but a lot that he received, particularly after he went to college, was stuff that was given in the form of government grants, things that happened as a result of connections.
He got himself into the Illinois legislature and because he could talk a good game, quickly became a candidate for the United States Senate.
You don't get any sense that Obama has ever really bought into the kind of thing that we're talking about here.
As for the caller, you guys are always ripping on him.
I'm not ripping on just him.
What am I supposed to do when the unemployment rate is at 9.1% still?
What are you supposed to do when the growth rate in the recovery is 1.2% in a good quarter?
What are you supposed to do when you've got a $1.5 trillion deficit?
Am I supposed to say that this is a good thing?
Are we supposed to pat him on the back?
This isn't ripping on him because he's black, which is an easy out.
That's got to be the reason.
How about because he's making a mess of things?
How about because we've got three entitlements already in this country that we cannot pay for?
We can't pay for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, not with the baby boomers all getting old, and not with there not being enough Generation X's behind them.
We can't pay for them without changing them and then going creating a fourth entitlement, health care, that we'll never be able to pay for.
You have employers who right now are on strike in this country.
They're not hiring anyone because they fear the regulations that are out there, they fear the tax increases that are coming, and they know that every new employee that they hire is somebody that's going to be, they're going to have to carry under Obamacare.
That's not just criticizing him.
It's criticizing his vision and the mess that he's creating here.
And yeah, we do have a right to fight back.
This is our country.
And he's threatening it.
If this deficit gets to 1.8 trillion next year and 2.1 and 2.3, you're talking very quickly about the national debt getting to 30 and 35 and 40 trillion.
Mark Stein on the program yesterday threw out a stat from his book that just blew me away.
By the year 2020, 20% of the world's GDP would be foreigners holding American bonds.
That's a disaster.
That caller wants me not to talk about that.
Public policy is what's driving that.
And it's public policy that is counter to not only the values, but the policies that have brought us to where we are today.
And we don't have to accept it.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush.
Fact-checking around here is just fascinating.
The Rush staff has given me – there's real doubt about whether or not Obama's mother ever did receive food stamps.
Obama was born in 1961.
His mother could not get food stamps then because she was married and they were not available then.
By 1965, when they moved back to Hawaii, food stamps were not available in Hawaii in 1965.
He said this.
Nobody knows if it's actually true.
My point is not to say that Obama didn't come up the hard way.
He certainly had advantages, though, that a lot didn't have.
I mean, his mother, even though she was a hippie-dippy and a world traveler and was living a vagabond lifestyle, and he had an absentee father.
I mean, she was an educated person.
He was very close to his grandmother.
He had a family structure that certainly helped him.
That's true.
That's true.
His grandmother was scared of black people.
We've gotten that.
That's true.
Nonetheless, he had a good family structure.
The point that I was making in response to that caller who says that we're begrudging Obama any type of success.
People have wanted him to succeed.
I know people who bought this notion after the 08 election that he was going to govern as a moderate.
Oh, look, look whose Treasury Secretary is, the tax chief Geithner.
He's coming right out of the these are conservative people.
He's got Wall Street people that are in there.
This is somebody who has been driven by his bio and his definition of what he believes America should be.
And he's never bought into this notion of, be it American exceptionalism or American capitalism.
He's always been somebody who believes that the role of our country is to carry everybody else.
And at its root, that's what Obamacare is.
And it's why stimulus has turned out to be the disaster that it is.
And it's why he is so utterly clueless as to how to bring down the unemployment rate.
He can't think in the mindset of encouraging companies to go out and make lots and lots of money so they hire lots and lots of workers so that those workers can go and produce lots and lots of more profits for those companies.
That's what drives America, but he's never really bought into it.
Let's go now to Meridian, Idaho.
And Kevin, Kevin, it's your turn on the Russian Limbaugh program.
Hey, how are you doing today?
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you.
I'm just a little bit disturbed earlier about what you were going on about the glory days of Reagan and how great it was in the 80s.
And as often happens, conservatives gloss over the fact that Reagan actually quadrupled our national debt during his eight years as president.
It did go up during Reagan.
You're right.
Bush Sr., I believe, doubled it.
And Bush Jr. added about $6 trillion.
So between those three Republican presidents, the vast majority of the national debt when Obama came in was created under those Republican presidents.
Yeah, I know.
Now, I agree.
I know, but with regard to the deficit, which is the annual margin, though, if your implication is that this is a Republican creation, nobody's denying that the deficits were run by Republican presidents.
Bush had deficits as well.
The point that I'm making is that Obama has exploded them.
One-third of the entire national debt, the entire national debt from the history of this country has been racked up under Obama.
One-third of it.
We're at about $4 trillion that he's racked up in his presidency alone out of a $14 or $15 trillion national debt.
That's the point that's raised here.
This country's always had presidents who spent more than we've taken, and especially when we've had recessions.
The point that I was making about Reagan was that Reagan lowered tax rates to get the American engine going again, and we had an economy that was producing lots of profits and was producing huge tax revenue for the government.
Do I think that we should be spending too much money?
Absolutely, yes.
And we've been spending too much money not just under Obama.
Bush spent too much money.
The first Bush spent too much money.
And Reagan probably spent too much money with the Democratic Congress that he was saddled with.
The point that I'm making is that Obama is taking that problem that we've had of excessive government spending and absolutely blowing it up and going crazy.
This is government on steroids.
It's out of control.
When you look at the deficits that he's running now, his deficit this year is four times larger than the worst that Bush ever produced.
That's the difference.
And surely you see that, Kevin.
Well, here's the question that I'm asking.
I guess you don't see it.
How can tax breaks create jobs?
Because nobody's going to open a factory just because they get a tax break.
The only reason you're going to open a factory is if there are people to buy your products.
That's right.
If you think that you have the ability to make more money, and right now there is no confidence on the part of the job creators that they're going to be able to make any more money because they fear that if they do make money, it's going to be taxed away.
And they fear that adding on additional workers is going to be a burden on them when Obamacare kicks in.
He makes the point with regard to tax breaks.
I'm merely saying that your bias has to be toward wanting people to make money, toward wanting people to get ahead, toward wanting the private sector to work.
The president that we have now is one who has a bias against the private sector.
He's always beating up on business.
If he's not beating up on banks, he's beating up on the drug companies.
If he's not beating up on them, he's beating up on the insurance companies and the oil companies.
He's always saying, don't go to Las Vegas.
Don't buy any corporate jets.
Don't do this.
Don't do that.
Don't do the other thing.
And instead, his focus has been what we can do as government to provide services for people.
That's what socialism is.
He's an anti-capitalist and he's a pro-socialist.
But that's not what America is.
That's not what our culture is.
He's trying to put in a model that doesn't fit with the type of nation that we are.
I'm Mark Belling, the guest host today for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
This theme that I'm talking about here, that there is an American culture and there are American values, and that's what we need to return to in public policy.
I want to wind all the way through the entire program today, and I've got a lot of other issues that I've got here on the stack.
Stories that we need to dig into.
But I want to keep talking about that, and I want to encourage people to keep calling on that theme because I think that's where we're really at.
And I think some people do get this, including a lot of people who aren't political.
All the public opinion polls, never mind the ones that say approval or disapproval about Obama or support Obamacare or don't.
The one that just keeps coming back is the one that they ask, is the country on the right track or not?
And that one's like at record lows, like 66, 67%.
Even liberals are saying we're not on the right track.
And I don't think a lot of those people answering that are particularly political or Democrat or Republican or even conservative or liberal.
They just have this sense that we're getting away from what we were, that we are not what we once were.
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