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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 had been used in Obama's autobiography.
You attach a picture to it, a mental image to compressing a woman.
But I don't think that's what's happening here.
In an autobiography, is compressing a woman sort of like slowjamming the news?
Really, all these new terms.
Anyway, hi.
Ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh, and we're back sitting here high atop the EIB Southern Command burrowed bunker.
A telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
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 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 artist renderings of each panel as Julia goes from age 3 to 67, 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 3.
Under President Obama, Julia is enrolled in a Head Start program to help get her ready for scruple.
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 at age three 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 hasscrew 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 23.
Under President Obama, because of steps like the Lilly Ledbetter 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 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Play Act.
As a recent college grad, Julia has $25,000 in student loan debt, the highest in history, and is kept going up under Obama.
Age 25.
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 $25,000 in student loan debt that's the highest in history with no hope of paying it off.
Julia, the 23-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 27.
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, 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 could 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 $2,500.
I mean, all of this is a bunch of lies.
But for Young, ignorant, and I mean that not in an insulting way, they said we don't know.
Young, ignorant, idealistic young people are going to 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, healthcare 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 going to 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.
There 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 Mitt 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 30s, 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 is going to 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 enrolls in Medicare, helping her to afford preventive care and the prescription drugs that she needs.
Obama's going to live forever.
to set this up so that Julia at age three 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 going to have she's going to 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.
She's going to 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 $6,350 extra per year for a similar plan.
So Obama is going to 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.
How many of you on Social Security now live this way?
Julia retires, age 67.
What are we?
This is about 2070.
No, was this 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.
Does 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?
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, 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 great.
Who the hell is Julia?
Why should I pay for her whole life?
Who the hell is Julia?
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 Julia?
Am I supposed to pay for her?
Am I related to her?
Is she my sister or something?
Oh, these are great emails.
Here's Josh in Lakeworth, 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 were talking earlier about no president, our incumbent president has won re-election with more than 8% unemployment.
That's the statistic, yeah.
Right.
So my theory is I don't care what MSDNC and the other propagandists bounce off of television.
They could say 1% unemployment.
But if the actual number is 20%, let's say, those 6 million individuals will go into the voting booth and they'll make a decision.
You know, they could say what they want.
They could fetch numbers all they want.
But each person is going to make the decision.
So I wonder if it even matters what number they throw up.
Well, it does.
It does.
I'll tell you why.
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 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, all of a sudden, beginning this summer at the Democrat Convention, the unemployment news is amazingly better and the job output news and the manufacturing numbers all of a sudden start getting better.
Then 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, maybe my job prospects are getting better.
And they'll re-enter the market, start looking for a job.
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.
Now, I know your theory is, well, they can lie about it all I want, but they're 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 going to, what will matter is whether or not those people can be convinced that things are looking better for them.
The media can do it.
We'll see.
Back to the audio sound by Strigo.
Last night on PBS, the news hour, formerly with Jim O'Lara.
Jim Lara retired.
It's actually the Larror, 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 had been a little slow to warm to Romney.
I talked to our 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 there.
I mean, that's a sign that there has been some erosion for President Obama in these suburbs.
Uh-oh, uh-oh, panic at PBS.
This is the news hour with Gwen Eiffel-Lara.
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.
It's generally the true believers that show up at those things.
A bunch of Obama people there.
I mean, that's a sign there's been some erosion for Obama in these suburbs.
Better do some more women compressing to deal with this.
So Eiffel, Gwen Eiffel, said, well, 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's 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 play these bites is 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.
They want it going 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, 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 to 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 going to 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 12 or 15.
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 going to 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 going to 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, it's no lobbyists can donate and very few private citizens, I forget the category.
Basically, the only people 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.
Wall Street Journal has a story on this today that is a great story.
Democrats are struggling to raise money for the party's national convention in part because, oh, here 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 going to help pay for the event or they're going to 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 dire is the way it's being portrayed.
And West Virginia's Democrat governor, Earl Ray Tomblin, announced yesterday afternoon he will not endorse Obama for reelection 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 going to endorse Obama.
That doesn't mean he's not going to vote for Obama, but governor who faces a reelection challenge doesn't plan to support Romney either.
He said, I don't believe 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 Virginians to create jobs.
I know that I must work hard every day to earn the trust, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Obama will 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 mean, this is hard.
You deserve what you're going to get.
If you vote for this guy, 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.
In a real world of people paying attention, he wouldn't get one vote out of that state.
Real world.
New York City expects a total budget gap of $495 million 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.
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 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.
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 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 72 cents of every dollar comes out of the federal bureaucracy and 28 cents stays in.
No, it's the other way around.
That was in the 80s.
28 cents stayed with the government.
72 cents went to the recipient.
But I'll bet you it's much worse today.
I will bet it is as well.
I'd like to point out that $0.28 on every dollar staying with the quote-unquote bureaucracy in Washington is a whole lot more inefficient than the 1% or 2% that ExxonMobil is getting right now.
Well, that's a theft profit to boot.
Exactly.
They don't have to do anything well.
All they got to do is take the money.
All they've got to do is collect the deductions.
By the way, an interesting thing you mentioned.
You talk about going back to the original leftist.
Who is that?
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 this.
Oh, you've got to go farther back than that.
Yeah, you go back to the Fabian Society.
Actually, you could probably go back as far as the Garden of Eden.
I mean, Cain and Abel.
I mean, Cain 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, yeah, leftist one.
Not leftist two, not leftist three.
Leftist one.
It'd be great to know.
You know that the wackos try to say it's Jesus.
Oh, they would.
They do.
They try to claim.
What, Snerdly?
What do you mean?
Every Christmas, Homelessness is said to contain perhaps the next Mary and Joseph.
That Mary and Joseph, everybody just like the homeless, are wandering around and they couldn't find any money and they didn't guarantee the reservation of their American Express card and no place to stay.
They do.
They invoke Jesus when they need it.
But I wouldn't say it's leftist one.
But there is one.
He said this.
Go back to the original leftist.
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 insures his 23-year-old daughter on his 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 spokesman, Althea Harney, in a statement.
It says, not right, Scott Brown spells health care, and she spells out the word hypocrisy.
ABC says, timing unfortunate for Brown.
He started out the week in a good situation, but now that Warren has proven she's an Indian because she got high cheekbones, it's a problem for Scott Brown.
This is in the media.
We will see you tomorrow, folks.
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