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Sept. 13, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 13, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I am L. Rushbow, a man, a legend, a way of life.
The reason Goddad.
And as usual, here each day with half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com again.
Obama's jobs bill, Barry's bill.
He shows up in the Rose Garden yesterday.
I don't have bill.
Well, here's my bill.
He's waving his little bill around.
Here's my little bill.
No Democrats filed it.
As of a half hour ago, no Democrat had officially filed the bill in the House of Representatives, where it's got to start.
So the fierce urgency of waiting for three weeks after a vacation to announce this plan.
There's no bill the night he gives a speech.
Then he comes up with a bill yesterday, but no Democrats walked it through the process.
Well, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz's head of DNC should have walked up, which means, by the way, that it also can't be scored by the Congressional Budget Office.
So as long as it hasn't been filed, then the Congressional Budget Office has nothing to look at and score it against all of its claims.
So while and every dime of spending in this new porculus comes from tax increases.
The media is full of stories about how Obama plans to pay for his latest round of stimulus spending.
And some of the media seem to be a little bit surprised here that he's calling for an increase in taxes on the rich.
The rich now defined as anybody making more than $200,000 a year.
Now, if if you qualify, and if you're a small business person, you do.
Here are the tax increases, changes, what have you that we know about.
And we know because there's a PDF of the bill.
In fact, I have a PDF copy of the thing.
There's 155 pages.
There are 235 mentions of the word tax in the 155-page bill.
At any rate, what Obama wants to do is limit...
Mortgage deductions, as well as the deductions for charitable contributions, state tax deductions.
He's been trying to get these same exact tax increases passed for more than three years.
He has included these tax increases in every one of his budgets.
He even brought up these same tax increases during the deficit debt ceiling debates back in August.
He trotted out these same tax increases back in 2009 as a way to pay for Obamacare.
Now these tax increases of Obama's have been shut down every time he has pushed them, even when the Democrats had their supermajorities in both the House and the well, House and the Senate.
But he is so obsessed with redistribution.
He is so obsessed with punishing the quote unquote rich and doing away with loopholes like mortgage deductions.
Can't help himself.
As Newt pointed out, Newt had a great line.
Every one of Obama's green energy proposals is a tax loophole.
So Lindra was a tax loophole.
Every one of Obama's green energy ideas is a tax loophole.
Now, when you're talking about raising taxes on income of $200,000 or more, you are talking about most small businesses.
And these are the people who do 70% of the hiring in this country.
Steve Moore at the Wall Street Journal says that Obama's tax increases, when you add them all up, amount to a $500 billion tax increase on small business.
Now, Stephen Moore is right.
I'm going to tell you what whatever tax breaks he's talking about giving small business people a hire workers is peanuts.
And it always has been.
I don't care if he raises that uh, what was it, $2,500 uh tax credit for every worker hire.
That's nothing.
Even if you raise that to 10, it's nothing.
It costs so much more than that to hire somebody.
In addition to cutting tax deductions, and the mortgage interest deduction is something he wants to get rid of or really limit, let's put it that way.
He also wants to limit the deductions of state income taxes that you pay.
He also plans to get rid of oil subsidies to the tune of about 40 billion dollars.
Now, never mind.
They're really not subsidies, they're just slightly lower tax rates than a lot of other manufacturers get.
They're not really we're not subsidizing the oil companies.
So in Obama's world, the people who supply the fuels.
The people that supply the energy that power and fuel our economy have to be punished.
They just have to be.
There's something cruel about these people.
There is something inherently evil about these people who supply the energy that fuels our economy.
These people epitomize something terribly wrong about America, and they've got to be punished.
But sure, go ahead.
Go ahead and cut the mortgage deduction.
Slap a higher tax on energy.
That's going to really stimulate the housing market.
That's going to really boost the economy.
Right off the cliff.
And then Obamacare.
Michelle Bachmann hit Obamacare hard last night.
And she was on the money.
I mean, making the point that an executive order alone will have no is not nearly enough to get rid of this.
Now there's a great piece in the American Spectator that, let's see, this is uh, I think it ran yesterday.
Maybe it's in today's issue, I'm not, I'm not sure.
It's by Grace Marie Turner.
Obama's strategy of silence.
Same strategy that FDR used on social security, social security.
Once you get it, shut up.
Once it passes, shut up.
Don't say anything about it.
And that's why Obama has stopped talking about it.
Here's a pull quote.
That's why it's so crucially important that Obamacare not slip to a second-tier issue in the political debate.
The threats to our liberty and our economy and our future prosperity could not be greater than with Obamacare.
Grace Marie Turner also in this piece outlines how the regime's strategy is in place to affect the Supreme Court.
And why they are so eager for Romney to be our nominee.
Remember, Obamacare is a signature issue.
It is the ball game.
You remember the intense discussions about this during the debate on this bill.
And you remember the intense repeal discussions that took place immediately after it was passed.
There has been a cooling off.
It's impossible for that not to happen.
It's just not possible to maintain a fever pitch emotional level and infinitum.
But we've got to get that back.
Because this bill must be repealed.
Let me just give you a quick reminder.
All of this that I'm going to tell you, you've heard.
You know it.
You remember it from the debate.
I wish to remind you again.
If Obama is re-elected, and Obamacare is left in place, we will awaken in 2014 to a series of shocks.
The American people who paid scant attention is who think that Obamacare is simply health care for everybody at a lower price that somebody else is paying for.
They are going to be shocked in 2014, when they're facing a mandate to buy health insurance policies that will be one of the most expensive items in their budget.
When job creation continues to stall because employers are reluctant to hire new employees due to these federal mandates and fines and even higher health care costs.
Americans will suffer and have a shocking awakening when businesses will be required to find out their employees' total household income so that they can avoid the $3,000 per employee annual fine.
They will have a shocking awakening when states find that adequately funding schools and roads and police protection, all that almost impossible now because of the dramatically expanded Medicaid costs that are going to be transferred to the states, which will crush their budgets.
Your state has a budget problem now, or if your town or community has a budget problem now, you haven't seen anything until Obamacare is fully implemented.
Why do you think there are over 2,500 or 3,000 waivers?
That, by the way, will expire when calendar 2013 hits.
They will expire long very soon after the election.
Those waivers had to be granted, otherwise Obama would be doomed.
If anybody were to see in shocking numbers what life will be like under Obamacare before the 2012 presidential election, he wouldn't get 10 votes.
That's why the waivers.
Hospital emergency rooms will still be flooded with patients, but money for uncompensated care there will vanish.
Thank you.
Tens of millions more people will line up for subsidized health insurance, adding one trillion dollars or more to the cost of the law.
And then the shocking awakening in 2014, taxpayers realize that estimates of the cost of Obamacare were dramatically understated with more and more deficit finance dollars poured into an unreformed health care system.
In the face of this tsunami of change, it is crucial to direct the conversation back to the health care law's defects.
There are two hot button issues that will surely force Obamacare back into the center of the political debate.
Employment-based health insurance and Medicare, both of which affect two huge constituencies with health coverage that is threatened by Obamacare.
Start with employer-based insurance.
The White House knew that providing security to those with coverage was a key selling point for passing legislation that's designed to ensure an estimated 32 million more Americans.
So there was a mantra.
If you like your health insurance, you can keep it.
A recent survey of employers conducted by a McKinsey and company found that up to 50% of these employers say that they will definitely or probably pursue alternatives to their current health insurance plan after Obamacare takes full effect in 2014.
That means as many as 78 million Americans could be forced to find new coverage.
Yeah, you can keep your plan if your company keeps it.
The whole point of Obamacare is to get your company to drop health care from its benefit role.
The whole point is to drive private sector health insurance out of business.
The whole point is that by 2020, we've all only got one place to go for health insurance, and that's the equivalent of the DMV.
That is the entire point of it.
So that there ultimately is no choice and no competition.
And no, Matilda, none of this is about health care.
Nobody in charge of this bill cares a whit whether you live or die.
They don't care whether you get cured of your disease.
What they care about is totally controlling your life.
What they're into is power.
The power to make decisions for you that will make you more dependent on them and thus entrench them in their little fiefdoms of power.
The idea that Barack Obama or the Democrat Party have any altruistic aims or interests in any of their legislation is something that can be disproved by the results of any liberal program that's come to pass prior to today.
They don't work.
They cost more than promised.
In fact, not only do these liberal programs not work, they end up destroying people.
Families, lives, opportunity.
Yet people keep investing in the good intentions.
the big hearts that are behind all these ideas.
So it is important not to get sidetracked by vaccinations.
questions.
A bunch of social issues and stuff, because this is the seminal issue.
I'd say as far as Rick Perry is concerned.
Any way you slice it, this in-state tuition for illegal aliens is a far more serious problem for Rick Perry than this vaccine is going to end up being.
Because he's admitted the mistake on the vaccine.
He has not admitted the mistake on illegal immigration.
And if he does that too late, it's going to be seen as political opportunism and a last-minute conversion.
That, just trust me, from a political sense, this in-state tuition thing is going to pose a greater problem for Perry than his vaccine business is.
I've got to take a break.
Your phone calls are coming up after this.
Seattle, Washington.
As we go back to the phones, this is Enya.
Great to have you.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rosh.
Uh, greetings from the beautiful state of Washington.
Uh, by the way, from your intro, I I just got back from Alaska, and I just wanted to let you know the glaciers are fine, they're there, everything's good on that.
Yeah, in fact, they're they're getting a bigger, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, it doesn't happen.
They're huge, they're not going anywhere.
But um just about uh Bachman's big count that she she did with uh Perry yesterday and trying to get them, you know, on the on the HPV vaccine.
I'm a mom, and there is an opt-out, you know, on this whole thing.
I I really see usually I really like Bachman.
I think she she's very genuine.
I just didn't see that the real thing on that one.
Um it was just much ado about nothing.
I I think he was honest.
Uh Perry came out as being sincere, and it was just if that was it, if that was her big thing, I I just don't I didn't see it.
And I just want to share that.
There's no Okay, well, I hear what you're saying.
Okay, he admits that he made a mistake in the way it was implemented.
He admits he made the mistake, and then the pylon continues.
And people did see that as a little bit gratuitous.
That's what you're saying.
I uh understand, especially since there was uh an opt-out.
Again, remember now from Bachman's perspective.
She's the Iowa straw poll winner.
Perry announces he totally takes over.
This is a campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
She's got to get back in that upper tier.
She's got to go after the number one guy.
That's what she's doing.
Speaking of Obamacare, uh, ladies and gentlemen, a federal judge, another federal judge, this one in Pennsylvania, has just ruled that the mandate in Obamacare is unconstitutional.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the requirement in the national health care overhaul law that individuals buy health insurance is unconstitutional.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled just today in a question of U.S. Supreme Court's expected to settle.
The suit decided by Judge Christopher C. Connor in Harrisburg is one of more than 30 lawsuits nationwide that have been filed over the 2010 law that is President Barack Obama's signature initiative.
We cannot ever let go of the fact that this bill, this law must be repealed.
It is ball game.
People were saying that before it was passed as a means of trying to alert people to the fundamental overhaul of society this piece of legislation is.
It is ballgame.
It's a brand new entitlement.
And say what you want about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
Once they're there, they're never gotten rid of, are they?
There isn't the luxury of time to get rid of this.
This has to be a priority of whoever gets the Republican presidential nomination.
It has to be a priority of these debates.
More and more people are going to be watching these debates because more and more people are going to start realizing these are good.
They are entertaining television.
They are fast moving.
It is, with some exceptions here and there, conservatism on parade.
Well done.
By any number of people.
And with the exception of the usual two that I keep mentioning, there's not a one of them that would not be profoundly preferable.
And I'll throw in, you know, if Christie gets in the race or if Palin gets in the race, I'll include them in that.
And both of them still could.
You don't know.
Not too late for those people to make up their minds what they want to do.
If Palin does get in, you're going to see Michelle Bachman ratchet it up like you haven't seen anything yet.
Oh, she'll have to.
So it's going to.
It is electric now.
And it's going to become even more so.
Now, as I said earlier on the program, all you have to do is go to the Drudge Report.
Look at the headlines on the Drudge Report right now.
To know without doubt what Barack Obama's goals for this country are.
And how close he is to ruining this country as you and I know it and love it as it was founded.
Making as many people in this country poor as possible.
Obliterating what has been the defining greatness of this country through its history, the middle class.
Here are the headlines.
Record 46.2 million below poverty line.
22% of American children live in poverty.
Dramatic drop in median income.
Poverty soars.
Highest since 1993.
I got a picture here of Obama and Michelle at the supermarket.
No, it's not Michelle.
It's Obama's very it's a low res picture I'm looking at, but he's had a soup kitchen.
So here are some details.
And again, I would say to all of you Republicans that are going to meet, what is it, the 22nd is the next debate on Fox?
September 22nd is the maybe it's the 23rd, but I think it's 26.
Yeah, 20 seconds of Thursday.
They won't do it on a Friday night.
So the next debate's on Thursday the 22nd.
You might you Republicans want to focus entirely on Obama that night?
Because the optics for this guy are unbelievably bad.
His policies are destroying the economy and the lives of millions of people every day, right in front of our eyes.
He puts himself on 911 in a soup kitchen as a tribute to who?
To what?
The hijackers of 911 were not just trying to take down a couple of buildings.
Where were those buildings?
What were those buildings called?
The World Trade Center.
They were targeting the U.S. economy.
So on 911, our president shows up in a soup kitchen in tribute to what.
Okay, so we've we've had the discussion now about vaccines.
And we've had the discussion of Social Security Ponzi scheme.
Here's what the American people care about.
They don't have any jobs.
The prospects, I mean, even who is it?
The CBO, the Yeah.
Congressional Budget Office, whatever they're worth.
Jobless rate to stay 9% through 2012.
The new norm.
Jobless rate to stay 9% through 2012.
22% of American children lived in poverty last year.
More than one fifth of Americans under 18 lived in poverty last year.
These are census figures, by the way.
But I saw this as how can this be?
The economy turned the corner.
We've come back from the brink.
Obama saved us.
Obama created her saved millions of jobs.
He's redistributed the wealth.
The woman in Tampa got her new kitchen, got a new house.
We're on the right track.
Obama's the world's greatest expert on jobs, jobs, jobs.
He's focused.
He won't rest.
He's even got a bill.
How can there be so many children living in poverty?
Poverty rate rises as incomes decline.
Census figures.
Amid a still struggling economy, more Americans fell below the poverty line last year, according to new census data released on Tuesday.
The nation's poverty rate rose to 15.1% in 2010.
That's the highest since 1993.
About 46.2 million people are considered in need.
Government defines the poverty line as income of 22,314 a year for a family of four.
$11,139 for an individual.
I remember, what was it, 1979?
I started work for the Kansas City Royals at $12,000 a year.
I'm gonna go to my inflation calculator.
I'm gonna find out what twelve thousand dollars in nineteen seventy-nine was today.
Where's that?
Do I have this in a let me check it real quick here?
Yep, hang on here a second, folks.
Real quick.
Okay, twelve thousand dollars in nineteen seventy-nine.
Today it's uh thirty-seven thousand.
So twelve thousand dollars a year in nineteen seventy-nine is equivalent to thirty-seven thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars a year today.
Just to put in perspective what the poverty numbers are, uh you're in poverty if you're an individual making eleven thousand one hundred thirty nine dollars a year.
The OMB updates the poverty line each year to account for inflation.
As for middle class American families' income fell in 2010.
The median household income was $49,445 down slightly from $49,777 the year before.
And now get this.
Get this is the last line in this story from CNNMoney.com.
The figures weren't very surprising, given the unemployment rate remained above 9% in 2010, and a number of Americans who have been unemployed for six months or more surged to an all-time high during the...
What this wasn't unexpected.
For the first time we get an economic story of utter disaster, and it wasn't unexpected.
CNN Money.com is telling us that the poverty numbers and the plunge in median income, all this were expected.
That means tolerate expected.
Who knew?
Why did they know?
Well, whoever knew could only have known if they understood what Obama's policies have done.
I'm not going to blame this on Bush.
...
But the economy turned the corner.
It turned the corner.
It turned the corner leading back to the Great Depression.
And on the way it passed Misery Avenue.
That's the corner Jimmy Carter led the nation to when he was in office.
They're headed right back there.
Yep.
That's the corner we've turned, folks, back to Misery Avenue.
Melee's place, which a cul-de-sac.
You just drive around in circles in there.
Bloomberg's version of the story, U.S. poverty climbed to 17-year high in 2010.
By the way, all those people in poverty are not going to be paying taxes or even paying into Social Security and Medicare.
But they're going to get it.
We call it a Ponzi scheme.
However, however, there's another side to this, ladies and gentlemen.
Over at the Heritage Foundation, there is a guy by the name of Robert Rector.
And I have been citing Robert Rector's work since the late 80s.
He has a partner, Rachel Sheffield.
Rector studies poverty, not just in the United States, but around the world.
And from the first days in the late 80s, early 90s when I began citing Robert Rector's work, left-wing media watchdogs have been harping on me for making things up.
What Rector and Rachel Sheffield do is learn facts about the poor.
Just who are this?
What is poverty in America?
What do the poor in this country not have?
And what do they have?
And you'll be surprised if you've not heard this before.
The updated list coming right after this.
Talent on loan from God.
In his address to the joint session of Congress last week, President Obama called for $477 billion in new federal taxes.
Well, no, he says spending, but it's four hundred seventy-seven billion dollars in taxes.
Which he said would give hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged young people hope and dignity while giving their low income parents ladders out of poverty.
Well, today the U.S. Census released its annual poverty report, which declared that forty six point two million people, roughly one in seven Americans, were poor in 2010.
What Obama didn't tell us as he was pleading for more spending is what it really means to be poor in America.
In a new report, Robert Rechter, Rachel Sheffield at Heritage lay out what the U.S. government's own facts and figures really say about poverty in the U.S., the results might surprise you.
Especially if your view of poverty is the conventional one perpetuated by the media, namely destitute conditions of homelessness and hunger.
In reality, the living conditions of those defined as poor by our own government are much different than the popular image.
The following are facts about persons defined as poor by the Census Bureau.
Are you ready?
80% of poor households in America have air conditioning.
Nearly seventy-five percent, nearly three-fourths of people defined as poor have a car or truck, and thirty-one percent of those have two or more cars or trucks.
Nearly two-thirds of the people defined as poor in America have cable or satellite television.
Which means they've got TV sets, too.
Nearly two-thirds of people defined as poor by the Census Bureau have at least one DVD player.
Seventy percent have a VCR.
Well, what are you gonna do, Snerdly?
I mean, it's uh some places that's all they uh it would figure.
Blu-ray, I doubt the census is even heard of Blu-ray yet.
They're just including that in DVD.
Half of the people defined as poor by the Census Bureau have a personal computer, and one out of every seven of them have two or more personal computers.
More than half of poor families with children defined as poor by our government have a video game system with uh either an Xbox or a PlayStation.
More than half.
I don't even have an Xbox or a PlayStation.
The poor have something that I don't have.
Well, more than half the poor.
43% of the poor have internet access.
One third of the people our government considers poor have a wide-screen plasma or LCD television.
How else you gonna watch Jerry Springer is right?
Or Jersey Shore or Glee?
One fourth twenty-five percent of the people our country defines as poor have a digital video recorder system.
Like a TiVo.
As for hunger and homelessness, Rector in Sheffield Point to 2009 stats from the Department of Agriculture showing 96% of poor parents stated their children were never hungry at any time during the year because they couldn't afford food.
83% of poor families reported having enough food to eat, and over the course of a year, only four percent of poor people became temporarily homeless, with forty-two percent of poor households actually owning their own homes.
Forty-two percent of households our government categorizes as poor own their own homes.
Ever heard of subprime.
The average poor American has more living space than the average Swede or German.
And there's even more of all these facts in their report understanding poverty in the U.S. This is not to say poor have it easy.
Don't misunderstand this.
It's all about how poor, and poverty is categorized in this country versus anywhere else.
Now, Obama's brother living in the shack, that's poor.
By the way, um, what percentage of poor children in America get two free meals a day at Scrual, even in the summertime?
Yeah.
It's an amazing thing, poverty in this country.
Be right back, folks.
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