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Sept. 20, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 20, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #3
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No, look here.
This is not that complicated.
My only point is what does raising taxes on anybody have to do with controlling the federal government?
Hey, you want the federal government to pay more military pensions?
Fine.
Laudable cause.
Okay, so we raise taxes on the rich.
Fine.
What does that have to do with it?
Do you think Obama is going to raise or spend money on military pensions?
With increased tax revenue.
Do you think that's what folks?
It's not it's it's not about raising revenue.
It's who is managing and controlling the federal government.
And I'm telling you, as long as representatives of liberalism, the American left, the Democrat Party are running the government, it's going to be mismanaged.
It's going to be a mess.
It's going to be a debacle.
And the private sector is always going to be under assault.
And your chances of having your taxes reduced, having the private sector grow so that there is more job opportunity is nil.
It's just that simple.
It really isn't any more complicated than that.
There's plenty of tax revenue to fund the military, so it's a choice.
We're not undertaxed as a people or as a country.
Our problem is who's in charge.
Very simple.
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Look at this from the Miami Herald today.
A giant semi-submersible oil rig en route from Singapore will probably be drilling for oil in the Florida Straits between Key West and Cuba in mid-December.
The rig could arrive earlier, but the Spanish oil company wants to wait until after hurricane season ends before it actually begins drilling, which is December 1st.
The latest report on the progress of the Italian-made Scabeo 9 oil rig comes from Lee Hunt, the chief executive of the International Association of Drilling Contractors who just got back from a trip to Cuba last week as part of a joint delegation with the environmental group, the environmental defense fund.
Hunt also said the Mexican company plans on having one well drilled by the end of the year.
So you live in Key West.
Guess what?
There'll be oil rigs out.
You probably won't see them.
They'll be over the horizon, but they're going to be close enough to you that you're not going to like it, except they're not going to be ours.
A joint effort between COA and Mexico to drill for oil while we are under a drilling moratorium.
Slapped on this country by Barack Hussein Obama.
Mm.
Mmm.
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By the way, when it comes to the subject of military pensions, the Democrats, remember, we've got this supercommittee that's part of the debt raising deal.
The supercommittee, six Democrats, six Republicans.
Chuck Schumer's running the Democrat side of this.
And the whole point of this supercommittee, Democrats want to set the tax cutters against the supporters of the military.
It's the sole purpose of the supercommittee.
And that's why that this is this, I'm sure that is what this guy has heard.
And he's falling prey to the propaganda in the media about this.
The Democrats in the media out there saying, well, if the Republicans in the super committee, if they prevail, there's no tax increases here, then the military isn't going to get their pensions.
It's no different than your local mayor telling you that if you don't raise your property taxes or whatever, he's going to have to cut firemen and teachers.
It's the same bunch of lies as though there's nowhere else to cut but military pensions.
So what the Democrats want to Make the Republicans do is choose between lower taxes or cutting the Department of Defense, defense budget cuts.
That's, and this was easy to see from the get-go.
Because that's part of the deal that was made.
$500 billion in cuts to the defense budget or some such thing over a period of years is what will happen if the Supercommittee doesn't come to an agreement on some other way to cut spending.
You can raise taxes all day long.
It's not going to matter, folks, is nothing is going to change significantly until the Democrats are not in charge of Congress.
Or until the Democrats can't stop something in Congress.
Really is no more complicated than that.
Louis Gohmert has found some additional things in this Obama Bill speech that he made yesterday.
Get this.
One particular section, Representative Gohmert, who's a Republican from Texas, he discovered something called the prohibition of discrimination in employment on the basis of an individual's status as unemployed.
We're adding in this bill a new protected class called the unemployed, titled on page 129, Prohibition of Discrimination in Employment on the Basis of an Individual's Status as Unemployed.
And it says, right here in the findings, that we find that the denial of unemployment opportunities to individuals because of their status as unemployed is discriminatory and burdens commerce.
This is Congressman Gohmert reading this.
So the good news is that if you are unemployed and you go and apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, go see a lawyer.
You may be able to file a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.
Honest to God, there is a provision in the Obama bill that says you can sue for discrimination.
If you're unemployed and you go look for a job and you don't get it, you can sue for discrimination on a basis they didn't hire you because you don't have a job.
Now, you might think, well, this is strange for crying out loud, how look at all the unemployed.
That's exactly right.
There's no provision for people who are employed who want to change jobs, but if you are unemployed, there's a new uh classification of unemployed that can be discriminated against now in the Obama bill.
I I know this doesn't make sense.
It does make sense.
Well, what's see, maybe I'm too logical.
Because I have to, I have to go through this two or three times.
If you're if you're right, okay, if you are chronically unemployed, it is said companies don't want to hire you.
Who?
Who says that?
Who says that if you're chronically unemployed, companies don't want to hire you?
Where did that get started?
Who says that?
Is it an alley?
Is it an allegation that some liberal is making?
Who says it?
Okay, a lot of liberals are making the allegation that the disc that the unemployed long-term chronically unemployed being discriminated against because they're not being hired because they were unemployed for so long.
Right.
Okay, where I get caught up in this is, for most of the people we're talking about, how can you possibly not be unemployed when you're looking for a job?
In other words, what Obama wants to do is establish a new classification called the unemployed who can now be discriminated against by employers who can now be sued if they're not hired.
If they can go get a lawyer and make the case that they weren't hired because they were unemployed.
Well, uh, folks, uh, I would say that 99, 999 out of a thousand job applicants in this current circumstance are not going to be employed.
So that means that 999 out of every 1,000 people looking for a job could ultimately end up suing somebody if they don't get hired now because of mythical discrimination that exists against the unemployed.
Why then?
Let's now go to the unintended consequences.
Why then would any employer even dare granting an interview or an application to anybody who doesn't have a job?
Oh, so if you don't do that, then you're also discriminating.
So what we've set up here is a brand new, heretofore non-existent way for employers to be sued.
So the trial lawyers who have major connections to the Democrat Party have just now created a new one.
I guess it's the unemployed can't help it, they were born that way.
And next would be the unemployable.
Well, they can't help it.
They can't help it.
So the unemployed, some unemployed schlub goes in, doesn't get the job, calls trial lawyer A, who sues the employer.
Hey, you discriminated against my guy.
How?
Well, you didn't hire him and he's unemployed.
Well, that's not why I didn't hire him because he does he doesn't have the qualifications of what I need.
Uh-uh.
No, we're suing your butt.
Well, now, this really is another new way to stimulate job creation, right?
Set up a new pathway for the trial lawyers to sue employers.
And it's in the Obama bill.
It hasn't been submitted yet, by the way.
But it's in that thing that he's out there waving around, folks.
You want to hear how heavy the White House is with their propaganda?
This is a tweet just a few minutes ago from Jake Harney, the uh White House press spokesman.
This is the tweet.
Speaker Maynard once put revenues on the table.
Now he says no way.
Which means House Republicans are back to insisting we should slash education.
Now, does that sound like a disjoiner or disconnect?
Because it is.
Speaker Boehner once put revenues on the table.
Now he says no way, which means House Republicans are back to insisting we should slash education.
Now, federal government is going to spend nearly four trillion dollars this fiscal year.
Four trillion.
But if we don't raise taxes, we're gonna have to cut education spending.
I'm telling you, folks, this is a pure problem of who is in charge.
Speaker Boehner said not a word about cutting education.
Although, were I in charge, it would be one of the first places we cut.
Everybody says, Well, we're gonna cut, Rush.
Well, the entitlements of the entitlements, you can't cut in to where you gonna cut, Roach.
Education.
We are wasting so much money in education.
We're not getting anything for it.
Our problems education have not a thing to do with what we're spending on it.
Our problems in education are who's running it.
Pure and simple.
From the curriculum to the fact that liberals in support of teachers' unions are insisting that dilapidated, worn-out schools remain.
What's happening in education, folks, is in a political sense, nearly criminal.
The irresponsibility, the lack of real learning that's taking place, meaningful, helpful learning.
I don't know where these federal job training centers are, but I'd shut down every damned one of them.
Damn straight.
Why do we have a school system if we're gonna have job training centers?
One of the two ought not be necessary.
We either stick with the job training centers and get rid of school, or we get rid of the job training center.
What the hell is a school education for if it's not to get a job?
Why should anybody graduate that can't read?
This is where I would.
You people are, where would you cut?
My God, right there.
And I don't even stop with the EPA for there's so much.
Not just waste and fraud.
There is so much being spent on destructive BS.
Wipe it out.
It's being in total totally entirely wasted.
And its purpose is not for any good.
Particularly for the supposed recipients of all the spinning.
Who's it?
Peter Westchester, New York.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello, Rush.
Love the show, and thanks for the education.
Thank you, sir.
Basically, I'm just calling to express frustration with the Republican leadership.
I mean, they're like completely absent when it comes to educating the public to help push like the conservative agenda.
I mean, y any topic, especially like right now, like with the health care bill, facts come out like every day talking about the damage it's going to do or the lies that the Obama and the Democrats told.
And yet Boehner and Mc McConnell are just completely absent from the picture to basically help educate the public and capitalize on, you know, pushing the agenda forward.
And it's amazing to me because they they don't ever seem to be aggressive about helping to move the agenda along or at least expose Obama and Democrats.
Well, what are they doing then?
What do you what do you think their purpose is?
For not doing this.
Why are they not taking that leadership role?
I mean, the only thing I could think about is they're really not true conservatives, or at least to the same degree that um, for one thing, they're not really conservatives.
They're they're they're Republicans.
There's a difference.
You know, they the the the Republicans today ought to be all over Obama's Medicare cuts.
This is another two hundred and fifty billion dollars in Medicare cuts.
And the Republicans are taking the heat for these phantom Medicare cuts.
They ought to be all over this.
But somehow, I don't know.
I can only guess, speculate, that they have been told by their advisors and pollsters and consultants, don't go after Obama.
It's not what the American people want.
They want people in Washington to get along, whatever.
I think I I I'm not sure what you're doing.
I mean, the one thing you have to give Pelosi credit for was the fact Breed Pelosi and Schumer are out there every day, and even under George Bush, they would get out there and basically tell you why Bush was failing and why he was not a good president in their eyes.
Yeah, they would lie.
Exactly.
They would lie.
We don't have to lie.
Exactly.
I know.
Look at what happened to Paul Ryan.
He was eviscerated.
And there was no protection.
No, there was no backing him up.
There was nothing.
Well, there was at first, but it didn't last long.
Uh I don't know.
This this I don't I don't you say, why don't they teach?
They I clearly I don't think see themselves this way.
Even even today.
Um the Republican leadership is still saying after after this latest proposal that Obama put forth yesterday, after everybody has fact-checked it, everybody has exposed it as pure bogus clap trap rut.
The Republican position on Capitol Hill is there are areas where we have common ground with the president on this.
And we and I think they're really hypersensitive to the fact that they're portrayed as uh uh obstacles, the reasons things aren't happening.
I think they're just going overboard trying to show that they're willing to work here with people, their opponents and so forth.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Mike, you have a a uh Howard Dean soundbite recently delivered.
Play it.
I have I I had it here, but I don't have the transcript in front of me.
All I know is that he said something about uh Obamacare guaranteeing that no more private health insurance will be available at some point play the soundbite.
The fact is it's very good for small business.
There was a McKinsey study, which the Democrats don't like, but I do, and I think it's true.
Most small businesses are not going to be in the health insurance business anymore after this thing goes into effect.
I think Obamacare is a huge help to small business.
The only way it's a help is if they dump coverage.
That's right.
That's what they should do.
It is gonna happen.
Yeah.
Um everything that we predicted about this is starting to come true now.
President said it wouldn't have.
You're not gonna be able to get health insurance, even if you like your current doctor and plant, you're not gonna be able to keep it.
Once this is implemented, and Howard Dean thinks that's good.
It's gonna really help small business to offload that burden.
Obama said it wasn't gonna happen, but it's gonna happen.
Who's next on this program?
This is Scott Los Angeles.
Scott, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you here, sir.
Thanks, Rush.
Hey, I'm kind of afraid that we're falling for another liberal trap here.
And this has to do with Obama stepping aside and Hillary running.
Now there's several things.
I think that Hillary would not, like we've said, Hillary would have been a better leader, okay?
And I think that that's because she would have failed.
Like you said you wish that Obama had failed.
Unfortunately, he has succeeded.
He passed Hillary care with the name of Obamacare.
Hillary is a progressive from the nineteen thirties, as she said, and Barack Obama has come out and pushed forward all of her progressive programs, either through fiat, through the czars, through regulation.
And now Hillary can't run against Obama.
But if Obama steps down, we have guys like you and a bunch of other Republicans saying, well, Hillary would have been a better leader.
Oh.
Wait a minute.
And then Obama steps aside and says to his constituents, I endorse Hillary, so all the black vote goes to Hillary.
The independents who left Obama, they wanted Hillary.
Hillary was their choice, but when Hillary lost the primary, they voted for Barack.
My brother is one of these.
Right now, he would not vote for Barack Obama.
But if they put Hillary back and Barack goes, Hillary's the choice, all the Republicans have said she's a better leader because she would not have been able to get health care passed.
So they use the endorsement clips of Rush Limbaugh saying Hillary would have been a better leader, and my brother, who left the Democratic Party just a second.
Okay.
Where is this sound bite of me saying Hillary would have been a better leader?
Um I have not discussing this.
I have not once hoped that Hillary Clinton becomes president.
I do not have any desire for Hillary Clinton to become president.
Neither do I. I'm just suggesting to you here, uh whether we're being played or not, these people can't play me.
I know them better than they know themselves.
Okay, but the what I know is they will do anything to save liberalism now.
If they've got to throw Obama overboard, then that's what they'll do.
And if they think Hillary can save it, then they'll try to install her.
But I'm not for that.
I don't know where that got started.
I don't know.
I thought I had heard you say something.
You know, and it might just be that neither of them are good leaders.
They're both a disaster waiting to happen.
I 100% agree with you.
All right then.
But I'm afraid that there are some Republican people who have said that Hillary would have been a better president.
And the idea here, it's like to me it's like the liberal trick.
The two of them disappeared during the primary.
And I think they came out and they said, look, we're gonna run a plan.
And I think right now what we're seeing is Barack Obama is now to go out and destroy his presidency.
He could pass bad legislation.
He is to say, There are so many possibilities here.
One of them is that all they're doing is trying to rile Obama up and get him to go start making speeches like he made yesterday.
Rather than acting like a whipped puppy.
Who knows what's going on?
Other than they're trying to save liberalism.
But don't throw me.
You're making it sound like there are Republicans out there who don't think there's a chance to win in 2012.
I don't know who they are, but I'm not among them.
This is not to me an effort to get rid of Obama and replace him with Hillary.
The effort here is to get rid of Obama and to replace him with one of us.
The fact that they may be trying to get rid of him internally for reasons of their own is simply what I'm talking about, but not that I prefer one or the other to be our president because they're both a Linsky ice.
I don't I don't want either one of them.
Where in Sam Hill did this get started?
Well, Operation Chaos is two years old.
And Operation Chaos was up to keep chaos alive in the Democrat Party.
I'm thinking maybe, you know, Operation Chaos.
We've done Operation Chaos too.
This would be Operation Chaos 2 HD, we would call it.
Uh and and that would be to save Obama.
If I were going to do anything of that sort of save Obama when they're w when when your opponent's committing suicide, you get out of the way.
You know, you don't bring in Mariano Rivera.
Or you don't help them bring in the save ace.
I'm glad you gave me a chance to correct whatever mis uh m misunderstanding it is about that.
I am not supporting Hillary Clinton for crying out that would be president of the United States.
That's not even what Operation Chaos was about.
Who's next?
Yuri in Ashburn, Virginia.
Yuri, hello, and welcome to the program, sir.
Oh, Rush, mega dittoes from Ashburn, Virginia.
I am a longtime listener, actually, ever since I was in college, and just haven't given you up and I got my wife into it and things like that.
Um so thank you for what you do.
How are you today?
Well, I appreciate that.
Thanks.
I'm I'm I'm uh I'm okay.
I'm doing pretty well.
Well, good, good.
I I'm actually I'm a little upset, not at you, but at the uh the point you brought up about the um the jobs bill, the so-called jobs bill that's coming through um, you know, Congress, and hopefully it won't make it.
But the piece in there about not discriminating against the unemployed, and I was telling Bo earlier that I own my own company.
Um we do a lot of technology-based solutions, and we hire people monthly.
We're constantly expanding.
If we're plateauing, we're standing still.
But the the thing uh the point I wanted to make about that is starting that and then immigrating to the U.S. and really just fighting tooth and nail for every piece of this that I have, to hear this come through is absolutely ridiculous, and it's a little bit of a slippery slope.
And the reason that is, is this.
If you're unemployed short term, you know, I don't see an issue with hiring you based on your skill set.
But if you're unemployed long term, I still don't see an issue with hiring you based on your skill set.
The the only question that I have is if you're unemployed long term, where are you going to get your skills?
And the reason it's a slippery slope is a lot of us, you know, when we when we look at individuals to hire, we'll go ahead and say, well, are you skilled?
And if you know, if if we interview you and you are, we'll bring you on.
It doesn't matter if you're unemployed or not.
But if you're not skilled and we interview you and we let you know that you're not skilled, you happen to be unemployed.
Well, where's that line between an attorney saying, well, he's not skilled because he hasn't been employed, he hasn't been given that chance, and therefore you're discriminating against them.
It's like one thing is leading to the other.
Okay, so you're you're gonna be afraid to even ask people about their job history, right?
Absolutely.
And if I'm going to be afraid to ask people about their job history, then why why should I hire somebody who's been unemployed?
I'm not even going to review them on the other.
Well, then you don't understand the purpose of a job.
He's just looking for another job.
Yeah, that's exactly my point.
Yeah, but see, you've you you don't understand the purpose of the job.
You're not supposed to hire somebody to help your company.
You're not you're not supposed to hire somebody to increase the productivity of your company or to make you more money.
You're supposed to hire somebody and then pay them health care or other benefits.
That's that's what that's what your job is.
That's that's how the libs look at you.
Um you're being selfish.
If if the reason you're hiring somebody is to make your j your company bigger or more productive, uh jobs are are to spread the wealth around.
They're they're not they're not about your company.
That that's too funny.
Well, what exactly was it a crime to be selfish and in your own interest when my own interests, you know, in effect and it advertently serve, you know, the interests of my community.
By me providing these jobs and expanding and helping myself, I in effect help the individuals around me by you know putting more money into the economy and the people that have been, you know, just demonized in the past three and a half years, and maybe even before that during the Clinton years.
That's the old-fashioned view.
You're not supposed to care whether or not people can do the job.
You're just supposed to hire them and pay them the money.
Right, and that's exact and that's exactly the point.
You know, it does does no one see the negative and the adverse effects that are going to come out of this.
You know, of course they do.
No, let me answer that.
Uh and I've got to run here.
Of course they do.
That is the point.
It is purposefully destructive.
Don't for a minute think that this is accidental and somebody doesn't know what they've done, that there are unintended consequences here.
This is being purposefully looking, there's an ABC news story.
What uh what is this from?
I'm not sure this is uh this is from today.
As Obama travels today to North Carolina, yeah, this is today.
Obama travels in North Carolina.
No, it's from September 14th, a week ago.
As Obama travels today at North Carolina, deliver another speech, blah, blah, blah.
The longest of the long-term unemployed, the so-called 99ers, whose benefits have run out, say the president's plan ignores their needs.
They say that while it gives employers an $8 billion incentive to hire people out of work, it leaves them free to discriminate against 99ers.
People have been out of work for 99 weeks, and to hire instead the more recently unemployed.
So they want some mechanism that the longer you're not employed, the more qualified you are.
Or the more entitled you are to be hired.
And they want the employer to take that into account.
the employer doesn't, then you're discriminating.
And CNN has this thing June 16, 2010.
Unemployment experts say that they believe companies are increasingly interested only in applicants who already have a job.
Thank you.
Right.
So Obama's gonna fix that.
We're so um we're just screwed.
If this doesn't change, we are just literally totally purposefully screwed.
There is no question about it.
I just had an interesting email from a friend that's got a good explanation for why do the Republicans do X. We always get this question why don't the Republicans do X or why do the Republicans do X or whatever?
And this makes a lot of sense.
The Republican leadership is still obsessed with getting their message out to the old media.
That's who they think they have to impress.
In order to be covered and reported on, they think they have to go through the ABCs, CBS's, NBCs, the New York Times, Washington Posts of the world.
And that's for whom they tailor their messages.
It's been a habit.
It's been something that they've had to live with for a long time, and they haven't been able to break the habit.
Sean in Cross Plains, West Virginia.
Hi, I have about a minute, but I wanted to get to you.
Good afternoon.
Uh, thanks for taking my call.
First, I want to apologize, Rush.
In the past years, I've probably disparaged you, never met you, and I realize I am growing up and maturing.
I'm 45, grew up in West Virginia, where it's very democratic.
You're kind of from birth to uh death, uh, a Democrat, if that's the way your family have voted.
I have enlightened myself.
I have come to find out that Carter sold us out with a zero growth policy.
Clinton's the biggest socialist we've ever had with the NAFTA treaty, the GATT Treaty being passed, and Obama's continuing these oppressive policies.
That I think you mentioned education.
One of the greatest things I've ever uh had a chance to be a part of is the great Constitution of the United States, which was just celebrated September 17th, uh 1787 was the date we signed that document, which ensured our freedom if we're going to be able to do that.
Let me ask you a question.
Did did becoming educated in the Constitution, was that a factor in your conversion?
Um that and just actually continuing to hear all sides of the spectrum and not allowing just my family past voting history to influence my well, regardless how it happened.
Welcome home.
Welcome home.
We're ecstatic to have you.
And it's it's gonna, it's gonna, it's it's permanent because you did it on your own.
So we're glad to have you.
I'm ecstatic to get your call.
Be right back, folks.
That last caller that we had from West Virginia.
As I've always said here, folks, an informed citizen is a Democrat's worst nightmare.
And this guy did it on his own.
And I I'll bet you the Constitution was uh relevant factor in helping him.
Anyway, it's great, and we'll see you tomorrow.
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