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May 3, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 3, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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You know, I never heard this term.
I have to be honest.
I know pretty much everything.
But I've never heard of compressing women.
This term being used in Obama's uh autobiography.
You attach a picture to it, a mental image to compressing a woman.
But I don't think that's what happened here.
In an Autoba is compressing a woman sort of like slow jamming the news.
Really, all these new terms, anyway high.
Ladies and gentlemen, Rush Linboy, and we're back.
Sitting here high atop the uh EIB Southern Command Burrowed bunker.
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I mentioned earlier that the regime campaign effort, the re-election effort, has this slideshow up.
They've put up a website with a slideshow that covers an American imaginary American named Julia from age three, actually, up until age 67.
All the benefits, all the wonderful things that will happen to Julia in her life if Obama is re-elected.
And what it is is a whether it's intended or not.
It's a perfect illustration of liberal cradle to grave care for every citizen making every decision, making everything possible, and leaving nothing to chance, and of course, a life of utopian paradise.
Now we can't show you the actual slideshow, the uh artist renderings of each panel as Julia goes from age three to sixty-seven, but I can share with you the text.
And for example, take a look at how President Obama's policies help one woman over her lifetime and how Mitt Romney would change her story.
That's the headline.
Age three.
Under President Obama, Julia is enrolled in a head start program to help get her ready for scrub.
Because of steps President Obama has taken to improve programs like this one.
Julia joins thousands of students across the country who will start kindergarten ready to learn and succeed.
Under Mitt Romney, the Romney Ryan budget would cut programs like Head Start by 20%, meaning the program would offer 200,000 fewer slots per year.
Age 17.
Now, there are responses to this.
Julia NH3 is bummed.
Her share of the national debt just went up $16,345 under Obama.
Age 17, under President Obama, Julia takes the SAT and is on track to start her college applications.
Her hascral is part of the race to the top program implemented by President Obama.
Their new college and career-ready standards mean that Julia can take the classes she needs to do well.
Under Mitt Romney, the Ryan Romney budget would cut funding for public education to pay for tax cuts for millionaires.
Julia, the college student, is paying record-high tuition to attend college, by the way, is not stated in the Obama slideshow.
Age 18 under President Obama.
As she prepares for her first semester of college, Julia and her family qualify for President Obama's American Opportunity Tax Credit, worth up to $10,000 over four years.
Julia is also one of millions of students who receive a Pell Grant to help put a college education within reach.
Under Mitt Romney, the American Opportunity Tax Credit would be allowed to expire.
Pell grant funding would be slashed for 10 million students.
Julia, about to graduate, can't find a job despite all this assistance in the Obama economy because there aren't any.
Age 22.
During college, Julia undergoes surgery.
It's thankfully covered by her insurance due to a provision in health care reform that lets her stay on her parents' coverage until she turns 26.
Under Mitt Romney, health care reform would be repealed.
Romney says he would kill it dead.
Julia could not have the surgery.
Julia wouldn't have any health insurance because of Mitt Romney.
Julia also can't find a job because of the Obama economy.
Age twenty-three.
Under President Obama, because of steps like the Lily Leadbetter Fair Play Act, Julia is one of millions of women across the country who knows that she'll always be able to stand up for her right for equal pay.
She starts her career as a web designer.
Under Mitt Romney, he has refused to say whether he would have vetoed or signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Play Act.
As a recent college grad, Julia has twenty five thousand dollars in student loan debt, the highest in history, and is kept going up under Obama.
Age twenty-five.
After graduation, Julia's federal student loans are more manageable since President Obama capped income-based federal student loan payments and kept interest rates low.
She makes her payments on time every month, keeping her on track to repay her student loans under Mitt Romney.
Interest rates on federal student loans would be allowed to double, affecting Julia and 7.4 million other students.
And again, Julia has twenty five thousand dollars in student loan debt that's the highest in history with no hope of paying it off.
Julia the twenty-three year old is living with her parents by this time, having gone back home after graduation because there aren't any jobs in the Obama economy.
Julia, age twenty-seven.
For the past four years, Julia has worked full time as a web designer.
Thanks to Obamacare, her health insurance is required to cover birth control and preventive care, letting Julia focus on her work rather than worrying about getting pregnant.
Uh uh worry about her health.
Under Mitt Romney, Romney supports the blunt amendment, which would place Julia's health care decisions in the hands of her employer.
And repealing health care reform so insurance companies can go back to charging women 50% more than men.
This is what says on the Obama website.
Julia the mom has to pay more for health insurance despite Obama's promise to reduce premiums by twenty five hundred dollars.
And all of this is a bunch of lies.
But for for uh young ignorant, and I mean that not in an insulting way, they said we don't know.
Young, ignorant, idealistic.
Young people gonna read this.
Wow, Obama's doing all that for me?
Romney wants to take all that away.
They've been doing this for 50 years.
This is the same.
It's LBJ read on.
Age 31.
Julia decides to have a child.
Throughout her pregnancy, she benefits from maternal checkups, prenatal care, and free screenings under Obamacare.
Under Mitt Romney, health care reform would be repealed.
The implication is that Julia would have no checkups, no prenatal care, no free screenings.
Julia would have no health care.
Because Obama care will be cut by Romney.
In other words, what Obama's saying in his website here is that Mitt Romney wants to take health care away from everybody.
There isn't gonna be any health care.
There aren't going to be any hospitals, there aren't going to be any doctors.
Romney's not going to pay for it.
That's what they want people to believe.
There won't be any treatment.
There won't be any emergency rooms.
There won't be any screenings.
There won't be any mammograms.
Won't be anything.
There might not even be any abortions.
Age 37.
Julia's son Zachary starts kindergarten.
The public schools in their neighborhood have better facilities and great teachers because of Obama's investments in education and programs like Race to the Top.
Under Mid Romney, the Romney Ryan budget could force steep cuts in federal funding for schools in all 50 states.
Now, meanwhile, Obama, by the time this woman's 30, so Obama hadn't been president for 30 years.
Age 42.
Under President Obama, Julia starts her own web business.
Folks, that won't be possible.
Julia's gonna be so much student loan debt, still living with her parents if they're still alive.
There won't be any jobs.
She will not be a web designer because there won't be any web designer jobs because Obama has destroyed the economy.
Anyway, Julia starts her own web business.
She qualifies for a small business administration loan because she doesn't have any of her own money.
This gives her the money she needs to invest in her business.
And of course, Julia, as a typical lazy Democrat bum, wouldn't think of using her own money to start a business.
No.
Like every other lunatic, she would be thinking of going straight to the government for funding.
The government is well where funding takes place.
And that's right where Julia will go thanks to Obama.
President Obama's tax cuts for small businesses, there haven't been any.
Like Julia's, and she won't have a business.
Help her to get started.
She'll be able to hire employees.
No, she won't even be one herself.
She'll be able to hire employees, creating new jobs in her town and helping to grow the local economy and spreading health care.
Under Mitt Romney, the Romney Ryan budget could cut programs like the Small Business Administration by 20%.
Even if it did, it would be 80% too big.
Age 65.
Under President Obama, Julia enrolls in Medicare.
Sorry, there won't be any Medicare.
It's broke.
Julia enroll in Medicare, helping her to afford preventive care and the prescription drugs that she needs.
Obama's gonna live forever.
He's gonna set this up so that Julia NH3 is set for life.
Everything that she needs, Obama is going to have taken care of by 2016.
That's right, Snerdley.
Everything she needs.
She's gonna have she's gonna have double access to preventive care, first for herself and then for herself later, when she's elderly and decrepit and eating dog food.
She will need prescription drugs.
When she's gonna be forced to buy those on the corner, by the way, if nothing changes here, because Medicare is going to be broke.
Under Mitt Romney, Medicare could end as we know it, leaving Julia with nothing but a voucher to buy insurance coverage, which means six thousand three hundred and fifty dollars extra per year for a similar plan.
So Obama is gonna set Julia up from cradle to grave.
Every need handled every need she has a government program for that practically is free, including starting her own business.
Everything practically free.
Age 67.
Under President Obama, Julia retires.
After years of contributing to Social Security, she discovers there isn't any left for her.
The program has long been bankrupt.
But Julia, blithering idiot that she is, being taken care of by the state for the previous 66 years, has no clue that Social Security is broke.
Despite the fact that she's been contributing to it.
She receives monthly benefits that help her retire comfortably without worrying that she'll run out of savings.
Does you uh how many of you on Social Security now live this way?
Julia retires, age sixty-seven.
What are we?
This is about twenty seventy.
No.
Was it 2012, 67, 70?
Yeah, 2077, 2078, whatever.
Julia retires after years of contributing to Social Security, she receives monthly benefits that help her retire comfortably without worrying she'll run out of savings.
Is that describe you today who are on Social Security?
Julia in the future isn't going to have Social Security thanks to Obama, and she isn't going to have Medicare.
And by the time Julia gets to 67, the only question she's going to have is which re-education camp does she have to go to next?
Oh, no.
Age 75, Julia discovers that she has cancer.
But Julia is determined by an Obamacare death panel to be too old for treatments, and is given a pain pill for which she must pay and told to go visit the garden.
Now that's interesting.
I checked the email, and there were people that tuned in in the middle of that who want to know who the hell is Julia?
They didn't hear the setup.
They didn't hear me say this is an Obama website slideshow.
There are people, this is this is great.
Who the hell is Julia?
Why should I pay for her whole life?
Who the hell is you?
Who are you talking about?
And why do I have to pay for her from birth till the day she dies?
Why is it my responsibility?
Folks, I couldn't be prouder.
You people who caught the middle of that did not know what was going on.
It's an Obama website slideshow.
And every slide is accompanied by the text that I read, and your instinctive reaction to it is exactly what's required.
Because that's exactly what Obama is trying to do, is trying to tell every young person that they are going to be cared for and taken care of and provided for for their education, for their business, for their health care by his government from the time they're three until they die.
That's what he's promising.
No mention of the fact that well, who's going to pay for this?
Why should other people pay for Julia?
And by the way, with $16 trillion national debt, where is the money going to come from in the first place to pay this?
I'm confused.
Who is Julie?
Am I am I supposed to pay for her?
Am I am I related to her?
Is she my sister or something?
Well, I these are great emails.
Here's Josh in Lake Worth, Florida.
Josh, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Howdy, neighbor, how are you doing today?
Very good.
Thank you.
Pleasure and honor.
I got a theory to bounce off of you.
You uh you were talking earlier about uh no president or incumbent incumbent president has uh one re-election with more than 8% unemployment.
That's uh the statistic, yeah.
Right.
So uh my theory is I don't care what MSBNC and the other propagandists bounce off the television, they could say one percent unemployment.
But if the actual number is 20%, let's say, those six million individuals will go into the voting booth and they'll make a decision.
Um, you know, they could say what they want, they could flash numbers all they want, but each person is gonna make the decision.
So I I wonder if it even matters what number they throw up on the city.
Well, it it it does.
It does, and I'll tell you why.
Uh but better I'll tell you how.
I'll never forget this.
Late in the period between 2000 and 2010, starting in 2006-2007, the media every day was doing the best they could to convince people in this country that we were at the beginning of a recession.
The economy was turning down, Bush tax cuts were destroying everything, the war in Iraq was robbing us of precious money for programs here at home.
And I would get phone calls From people who believed it, who were doing fine.
But they were worried about their neighbors.
Because they'd seen on the news that the unemployment was rising and that uh government programs were in trouble.
So the media can make people who are doing okay believe that a problem is much worse than it is.
Or in this case, much better.
So if there are people who the last three and a half years thought the country was heading a downward spiral from which it wouldn't recover, and all of a sudden, beginning this summer at the Democrat convention.
The unemployment news is amazingly better, and the job output news and the uh uh the manufacturing numbers all of a sudden start getting better than people are going to think, well, you know what?
It's getting better out there.
And even if they're unemployed, like you say, even if they're part of these people unemployed, they might well, uh maybe my job prospects are getting better, and they'll re-enter the market and start looking for jobs.
We have this is likely to happen.
The media, as fractured as they are, still has the ability to make a whole bunch of people believe things which are not true.
The AP, Josh, right now, is insisting that all that really matters is the public believes the unemployment numbers are trending down.
They've said that in a story today.
All that matters is if the public thinks the numbers are coming down, that's all they need to hear.
And AP is saying they are prepared to report that.
In fact, they did.
They reported today the unemployment number is going to be below 8% on election day.
They told us.
I know your theory is, well, they can lie about it all I want, but there are going to be all these millions of people that don't have jobs and they're not going to care what the news is.
Because they're living the economic misery.
And I frankly think that's true too.
And I don't think that that's going to change.
It's gonna what'll matter is whether or not those people can be convinced that things are looking better for them.
Meety can do it.
We'll see.
Back to the audio soundbite show.
Last night on PBS, the news hour, formerly with Jim Lara, Jim Lara retired.
It's actually the Larer, uh, but but he pronounced it Lara.
Just it was his signature thing.
It's like he was from the South with one word.
Jim Lara.
Anyway, Gwen Eiffel is the co-anchor now, and she spoke with USA Today Washington Bureau Chief, Susan Page about the presidential election.
Gwen Eiffel said, when you talk to voters as you go out to these campaign events and you see the people that they're talking to, the people who come in the middle of the day, the middle of the week to a political event.
What are they curious about?
What are they telling you?
I talked to some voters today at the Romney event.
Some of them were Republican voters that have been a little slow to warm to Romney.
I started a Dingrich voter, another voter who thought, was Romney conservative or not?
They seem to be falling in line behind him.
Interestingly, several of the voters I talked to in Northern Virginia today were Obama voters four years ago.
That surprised me a little because these kind of events usually get true believers here.
I mean, that's a sign that there has been some erosion uh for President Obama in these suburbs.
Uh oh, uh panic at PBS.
This is the news hour with Gwen I Falara.
And Susan Page of USA Today said I was just at a Romney event, and I ran into some former Obama voters.
Uh-oh.
Because these things have happened in the middle of the day, these that's generally the true believers that show up at those things.
I mean, that that's a sign there have been some erosion for Obama in these suburbs.
Better do some more women compressing.
Deal with this.
So IFL, Gwyn Eiffel said, Well, are these are these former Obama voters showing up at Romney events, are they curious or are they switching?
They are switching.
And the voters in that category, now it's just a couple voters, it's not any kind of scientific sample.
But the issue they talk about, it's the economy, it's jobs, and it's the federal debt and deficit.
Wow.
And yet Barack Obama who killed Osama bin Laden.
Is that The issue, he doesn't want to go anywhere near.
It does.
It sounds like Tea Party people.
But they're Obama voters.
In Northern Virginia, that's D.C. suburbs.
This is another way to look at that.
And the D.C. suburbs are liberal Democrats.
I mean, that's all the people with their hands inside the Treasury building.
And they're upset with the economy.
The reason I wanted to plead these bites because of our last call, because it may well be, he may be right.
I hope he is.
It may well be that the media is going to have its toughest time ever convincing people things are good when they're not.
They did a good job of convincing people things were bad in 2006, 2007 when they weren't.
Now they're going to have to tell people, oh, you're out of work, doesn't matter.
I don't want to last long because everything's roaring back now.
Look at the unemployment number.
Oh, your house underwater doesn't matter.
Obama's got a program for that.
Your house hosts how how home values our experts say going to start going up here a couple days after the election.
That's what they're going to have to do.
Takes us at Dick Morris last night on the O'Reilly factor on Fox News.
Question looking at the board here, you've got Florida, which everybody says if Romney doesn't win Florida lights out, go home.
You've got North Carolina, Virginia, and Ohio, all of those four states, they're gonna they're gonna tell a tale of the whole country.
And it's kind of a little frightening, is it not?
The battle between Romney and Obama is going to be waged in those states.
Rather than four or five states in play, I think that it's more like twelve or fifteen.
I think Iowa will have a lot to do with it.
Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, I think will be just as key as Ohio.
He has a very good chance in Wisconsin and Michigan.
I think that he's gonna carry Pennsylvania.
The Republicans picked up five seats in Pennsylvania, the governorship, a Senate seat, and both houses of the legislature.
You're telling me Pennsylvania will go Democratic, no way.
He didn't mention North Carolina, that's gonna be big, and there are continuing troubles for Obama and the Democrats in North Carolina in paying for the convention.
They have passed a law that no um it's it's no lobbyists can donate, and very few private citizens, I forget the category.
Basically, the only people that can that can donate to the actual convention are unions, or pretty much the only people who can.
And they're ticked off because North Carolina is not a full-fledged union state.
There's been Wall Street Journal has a story on this today that is uh it's it's a great story.
Democrats are struggling to raise money for the party's national convention, in part because oh, here it they barred corporations and lobbyists from contributing.
Isn't that typical?
No corporate, we hate corporations.
We hate lobbyists during this period of time.
After it's over, we'll take all the money from what we can get.
Now the one set of donors they were banking on, organized labor says it's not gonna help pay for the event, or they're gonna scale back their contributions, partly because they're upset the convention will be held in a state considered unfriendly to unions.
Story goes on, but there's a lot of great pull quotes in it, but it's uh it it directly portrayed.
And West Virginia's Democrat governor Earl Ray Tomblin announced yesterday afternoon he will not endorse Obama for re-election in 2012.
The president's apparently made it his mission to drive the backbone of West Virginia's economy, coal, and the energy industry out of business, says this governor.
Hey, as governor's right.
Well, I don't know, but he's not gonna endorse Obama.
I don't that doesn't mean he's not gonna vote for Obama, but governor who faces a re-election challenge doesn't plan to support Romney either.
He said, I don't believe it either candidate has a real understanding of what's important to West Virginia.
As governor, I go to work every day to stand up for West Virginia to create jobs.
I know that I must work hard every day to earn the trust, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Um Obama won't work it.
He'll get West Virginia, at least probably get this governor.
But right now, and Senator Manchin is likewise.
I'll tell you if anybody in West Virginia voting for Obama, I uh I mean, I this is hard.
you you deserve what you're gonna get.
If you vote for this guy, he's do you not understand that he has admitted that he wants to drive the coal business out of business.
Coal and the energy industries are what West Virginia is all about.
The kind of energy that Obama wants to eliminate.
I don't know.
Real world.
New York City expects a total budget gap of four hundred and ninety-five million dollars for the current and next fiscal years due to weaker profits on Wall Street than previously forecast.
The tax revenue forecast for the two budget years was revised downward by 352 million.
Taxes paid by the growing tech, film, and television tourism and higher education sectors are not enough to offset weakness in the financial sector.
So Reuters' story, New York City faces shortfall on Wall Street weakness.
The vi So here again, the Democrats have spent all this time and money targeting Wall Street, blaming Wall Street, going after Wall Street fat cat profits, and in the um process of succeeding, they're slitting their own throats.
New York City with less revenue coming in.
Quick break.
Sit tight, my friends, much more straight ahead.
Back to your phone calls.
We get back.
Back to the phones to Lantana, Texas.
Scott, great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Great honor, sir.
Thank you very much.
Uh um if you go back to the original leftists, you know, 100 plus years ago, they're always talking about how profit is evil and is actually an economic cost that needs to be recaptured and uh spread out, so to speak.
Well, if you take a look at the Great Society, and you mentioned some data in the past hour about how seventy-two cents of every dollar comes out of the federal bureaucracy and twenty-eight cents stays in.
No, it's the other way around.
It would that was in the eighties.
It's 28 cents stayed with the government 72 cents went to the recipient.
But I'll bet you I'll bet you it's much worse today.
I will bet it is as well.
Well, I I like to point out that 28 cents on every dollar staying with the quote unquote uh bureaucracy in Washington is a whole lot more inefficient than the one or two percent that Exxon Mobile's getting right now.
Well, that's a yeah, and that's almost that's a theft profit to vote.
Exactly.
They don't have to do anything well, all they gotta do is take the money.
All they've got to do is collect the deductions.
By the way, you'd interesting thing you mentioned.
Um you talk about going back to the original leftist.
Who is that?
Uh well, it depends on how far you want to go, but I mean, if you talk about Lenin Stalin, Trotsky, I mean, you can go back to the Oh, you gotta go farther back than that.
Yeah, well, you go back to the the Fabian society.
Um actually, you can probably go back as uh as far as the uh the Garden of Eden.
I mean, uh Cain and Abel.
I mean, he came didn't like the profits that Abel was getting, even though they probably weren't registered in monetary value.
He wanted that spread around as well.
Well, it's an interesting the original leftist.
Find out who this guy is and string him up.
The original leftist.
There was one.
There has to be one.
That's a uh yeah, leftist one, not leftist two, not leftist three, leftist one.
They're who it'd be great to now you know that the wack was trying to say it's Jesus.
Oh, they would.
They do.
They try to claim what, snurdley, what do you mean?
Every Christmas homelessness is said to contain perhaps the next Mary and Joseph.
That that that Mary and Joseph ever dislike the homeless, they're wandering around and they couldn't find it because they have any money and uh they didn't guarantee the reservation of their American Express card had no place to stay.
Uh they do.
They invoke Jesus when they need it.
But I wouldn't say it's leftist one.
But there is one.
It's just if He said this.
Go back to the original leftists.
It just inspired a thought as to who is the original leftist.
That'd be a great assignment for some college student.
Go back in history.
Find the original leftist.
ABC News, after facing her own controversy for questions about her Indian heritage, Elizabeth Warren has accused Senator Scott Brown of being a hypocrite after he told the Boston Globe that he still ensures his 23-year-old daughter on Hill's own health care plan.
Warren says that Brown is still promising to repeal the very reforms that allow him to keep his kid covered, said Warren's spokesbabe Althea Harney in a statement.
Scott Brown spells health care, and she spells out the word uh hypocrisy.
ABC is a timing unfortunate for Brown.
He started out the week in a good situation, but now that now that uh Warren has proven she's an Indian because she got high cheekbones, it's a problem for Scott Brown.
This is in the media.
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