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June 11, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 11, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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We're used a little bit more time on this, and we're gonna move on to Obama and all the other stuff here with the private sector jobs and what gets counted and what doesn't, but we gotta do this.
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Look at this from the AP.
Not making this up, a guy hitchhiking across the country, writing a memoir called The Kindness of America was injured in a random drive-by shooting along a rural highway near northeastern Montana's booming Bakken Oil Patch.
So here's a guy, hitchhiking across the country, writing a book, kindness in America gets shot.
How many of you are laughing?
Don't do it, folks.
I know some of you are laughing out there at the Don't Do It.
If you're laughing, don't let anybody know you're listening to this program right.
Don't do it.
Speaking of the Bachinfield, this is you know something, this and I've got the story in the stack here.
As you know, this area of uh of the country, the Dakotas and Montana booming because of the oil that has been found there.
Literally boom times.
And in fact, some of the cities and towns in this area are so flush with money from taxes that there is a ballot initiative that will soon be voted on to eliminate property taxes.
Because there is enough money already in city coffers to handle the needs of the community.
And here's the shocker.
Pre-election polls indicate that the citizens will not vote to eliminate property taxes.
How about that?
If you had a chance to write off to eliminate your property tax, would you vote to do so?
Wouldn't even think about it, would you?
The reason they say that they are reluctant is because they don't think the boom times might last.
And they are afraid.
This is what we're up against.
It's a great little lesson.
They're afraid that this won't last, and that at some point the government will run out of money.
They don't want that to happen.
And so they're going to vote to maintain property taxes even though they're not necessary.
And these are conservative people for the most part.
That is how successful the left has been at inculcating people with the notion that government should never be deprived of revenue.
This is not good.
I mean, they're free to do what they want to do, obviously.
All I can tell you is if if I had a chance, if I had a chance to wipe out Well, I'm not going to tell you how much.
If I had a chance to wipe out my property tax, I wouldn't think twice about it.
I'd want to move the election up to today and go in there and vote.
Yes, get rid of it.
And I wouldn't have any second thoughts.
We'll get to the story as the program unfolds, as it continues to unfold.
About this speech, not that I want to make everything about me, it's that everybody else wants to make everything about me.
I don't.
May 16, 2008.
Grant uh sound by 31.
I haven't heard this in a long time.
This is four years ago, a little over four years ago now, May 16th of 2008.
I had a call from a guy in Texas named Jacob.
And he said, My question is, what would be your 10 to 15 minute speech to all the thousands of graduates graduating from college across the nation as they go forth to be future leaders.
So just off top my head, I had to remember the speech that I had written way, way back in the eighties, and that's what I did.
And we've cut this down.
Well, this is the whole thing.
We have a couple excerpts.
I decided let's play the whole thing.
It runs about three minutes.
This is what I told the guy.
Once long ago, I prepared a commencement address, way back when I was still in Kansas City.
What I would say to students if they were graduating high school.
I've thought about it and I've updated it since.
And ten to fifteen minutes is tough, but the first thing I would say is the world does not revolve around you yet.
And you are not the future leaders of this country yet, just because you've graduated.
Now it's up to you to decide what to do with the education that you have.
And I would launch into a spirited celebration of the American capitalist system.
I would tell them how much of a head start they have over quite a few other people because of their education.
Their education was for a purpose.
It was to get them into the free market and engage in capitalism and secure the growth of this country because, like their parents, they someday are going to be worried about the future for their kids, and they're not going to improve the future of their kids by joining protest marches.
Or wearing ribbons or putting bumper stickers on the backs of their cars.
They're going to have to go out, roll up the sleeves, and start working and become productive and further the capitalistic engine of the United States of America.
That's how growth is created.
And I'd probably just continue with that theme.
I'd spend some time inspiring them and teaching them a little bit about America to counteract what I thought they had been taught in their classrooms over the course of these past four years or five, depending on how long they've been there.
But it would be optimistic, it would be upbeat, it would be positive.
You live in the greatest country in the world, and you're going to hear every day how we're the worst.
You're going to hear how we're responsible for global warming, and we're destroying the world.
We are not anything but the world's solutions.
We are not the problem in the United States of America.
And I would try to instill in them a pride for being Americans, something that would swell their chests.
And I would take them through this country in various things that they should be proud of and can be proud of, because it's necessary because they're going to be bombarded daily in news co-workers and so forth with people whining and moaning and complaining it can't get done.
America's evil.
Uh and basically it would just my my objective would be optimistic inspiration.
I would hope.
This is a little bit of a stretch, but I would hope that immediately after the graduation, they would eskew the party and head right to a job interview.
That's how inspired they wouldn't do it.
Of course, I want them to go to the party.
But uh the it love for the country, appreciation for it, understanding their role in it, and someday they are going to be responsible for its greatness.
But that has to be earned.
It doesn't just come to you because you're an American.
So that was 2008.
Just to show that we're on the record uh with this stuff.
By the way, the North Dakota is is the is the location where people are voting on eliminating property taxes right now.
People oppose getting rid of their own property taxes three to one, according to pre-election polls.
It's not even close.
75% with a chance to get rid of their pro their towns and communities are flush with cash from tax revenue via other sources because of the oil boom that's taking place.
And a chance to get rid of their property tax.
No, they're worried that the government might run out of money someday that the boom might not last.
Now, some of you might say, that's a very responsible attitude for the citizen to have Mutter.
I know many of you look at it that way, but the one thing the beast has never been starved of is mummy.
And it's just it's been so successfully inculcated, browbeaten, propagandized into people's head, precious government can't do with anything less than uh what it has now.
Obama tried to clarify, went out Friday and said, private sector is doing fine.
People reacted.
Some people had conniption fits.
Obama said, okay, got to fix it.
Went out there and said, I know the economy is in bad shape.
That's why I did the press conference.
And everybody said, okay, fine.
He went up corrected himself.
But he really didn't correct himself.
He didn't say anything different.
I'll explain when we come back.
By the way, one of the uh one of the principal groups opposing doing away with the Bakken tax, the property tax is the public employee unions.
They are one of the prime movers in trying to maintain the property tax.
But they are effective, they're having they're having success in persuading the residents three to one to oppose the elimination of their own property taxes.
Barack Hussein Kardashian, the celebrity United States, went out.
Press conference impromptu on Friday.
State controlled media reporters said, What about the Republicans saying that you're blaming the Europeans for the failures of your own policies?
The private sector is doing fine.
Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy, they have to do with state and local government.
Oftentimes cuts initiated by governors or mayors, ladies and gentlemen, I think that he meant to say exactly what he said.
I don't see a problem here.
Private sector, as far as he's concerned, is doing fine.
If he if he if he thinks that the public sector is losing jobs, that's problem.
If there are fewer government workers, that's a major problem to Barack Obama.
As far as he's concerned, the private sector's fine.
As far as he's concerned, the way he's been educated and taught, the private sector is always just going to be there.
The private sector's a golden goose.
Doesn't matter.
If people lose their jobs in the private sector, doesn't matter.
There's always some rich people out there.
The private sector's cool.
The private sector's fine.
Everything's okay.
But people reacted and had a fit, and it forced Obama to go out and ostensibly correct himself.
So later in the afternoon, at the White House, after meeting with the president of Philippines, uh he spoke with reporters after that meeting.
He took a question.
Mr. President Mitt Romney says you're out of touch for anything and saying that the private sector is doing fine.
What's your response?
Listen, uh, it is absolutely clear that the economy is not doing fine.
That's the reason I have the press conference.
That's why I spent yesterday, the day before yesterday.
This past week, this past month, and this past year talking about how we can make the economy strong.
The economy is not doing fine.
Now, did he really walk back his statement the private sector's doing fine?
He did not.
I've seen all these reports.
The president revised his private sector is doing fine comment.
He didn't.
He said the economy's not doing fine.
The first thing he said, private sector doing fine.
Then during the ostensible correction, he says, listen, absolutely clear the economy is not doing fine.
What about the private sector?
He did not walk it back.
The bottom line is for somebody like Obama.
The private sector is just there, folks.
It's it's a golden goose.
It never goes away.
It's always a target.
It can always be raped and pillaged.
It can always be taken from.
It's just always there.
In fact, it's a problem.
The private sector's problem.
He's looking at the economy being down, at government jobs being lost.
That to him is a big problem.
And listen to Axelrod, spells it out.
CBS this morning on uh let's see, this is uh this morning.
And and the call Charlie Rose said, tell us one more time on the private sector.
What did the president mean to say?
He called a press conference to suggest urgent actions that we should take to undergird the economy against the clouds that are rolling in from Europe.
He's uh said repeatedly we need to do more to accelerate job creation.
Governor Romney's reaction to that was we don't need any more teachers.
We've lost 250,000 teachers in the last 27 months as we were gaining these private sector jobs.
I don't know anybody, and you talk to people all the time about the economy and the future.
Does anybody really believe that we don't need more teachers, that we can keep whacking teachers, and that we're gonna advance as a country?
Now let's move to Paul Krugman.
I want to hustle and get this in because he was also on the same program.
And Charlie Rose said, Tell me what's the private sector, and how do you define how well it's doing, Mr. Krugman.
That was an unfortunate line.
The truth is the private sector is doing better than the public sector, which is not well enough.
Actually, the real story about this economy is that this cutbacks at the public sector are what's hurting recovery.
By this point in Obama's presidency, if we had normal public sector job growth, we'd have around 800,000 more people, firefighters, school teachers, police officers.
Instead, we've got 600,000 fewer.
So right there is like 1.4 million jobs that we should have had in the public sector.
And of course, those are translating to more private sector jobs, too.
So that's what he was trying to get at.
And of course he screwed up the line.
We'll have to really analyze that, but those are not private sector jobs.
It is so instructive to listen to these liberals talk this way.
So instructive.
I've got to take a brief time out.
We'll come back and I'm gonna analyze all this for you, and then we'll get to the phones.
Don't go away.
So teachers are private sector jobs.
You know, Axelrod was on CNN with Candy Crowley on the State of the Union show on Sunday.
He said we need to accelerate job creation in the private sector.
And then he added, one of the ways we can do that is putting teachers and firefighters and police back to work because those are good middle class jobs.
Do you I'm I'm well, I'm alternately stunned and at the same time exhilarated by this because of how explanatory this is.
All of the jobs that he listed are actually public sector jobs.
All the money for them comes right out of the private sector.
But now we know where Obama gets his economic advice from.
Look, as nice as they are to have, teaching jobs, firemen, policemen, they are all paid for with money out of the private sector.
They are paid for with tax revenue from citizens.
They cut into the amount of money left for private sector jobs.
They don't grow the number of private sector jobs, they reduce them.
Now, I've got to be very careful here because nobody's against teachers or firemen or cops.
But those are public sector jobs.
Look at the way these people think.
They're combining two things here.
A, the never-ending appeal to tax revenue for firemen, cops, and teachers.
That is the education of your kids and the safety of you and your house and your family.
And they're trying to say that those jobs are being cut, and now we're not safe, and your kids aren't being educated, and that's because the private sector is being too selfish and too greedy and so forth.
I look, this is where I have to be very careful.
Nobody is opposed to cops or firefighters or teachers.
But they aren't private sector jobs.
They do not contribute to economic growth.
Their purpose is otherwise.
Public safety, public education, this kind of, but there's no growth in the economy if you add those jobs.
If there aren't other types of private sector jobs added, while at the same time we're adding to the fire rolls and the cop rolls and teachers, we are reducing the size of the private sector.
This is Marxism 101.
This is this is it and is it it's also ignorance and sophistry 101.
To these people, that's the private sector.
Do you think you think Obama knows anybody in the private sector apart from his campaign donors?
Does he know anybody in the private sector before he went into politics?
You know, it's no wonder he gets this all mixed up.
He doesn't know.
And I'm being charitable here.
The other side of this is he doesn't know, and this is just deceitful as it can be.
But in his book, Dreams of My Father, he described his only private sector job as being behind enemy lines.
It is the private sector's the enemy, and it's always there.
Your enemy never goes away.
Your enemy has to constantly be defeated, fought against, opposed, cut down to size.
That's how he looks at the private sector.
So they combine a bunch of things here, and they're utilizing fear.
And they're trying to tell you that the private sector is responsible for fewer teachers, fewer cops, and fewer firefighters, and that the corresponding fix here is more teachers, more firefighters, and more cops, and that's going to equal a private sector that's growing with economics.
It's not possible.
Those are all government jobs.
No matter how you slice it, the jobs they're talking about are government, they're not public sector jobs.
However, I'm still not nailing this in trying to explain their mindset.
It's old-fashioned.
It's antiquated.
It's 1930s type of thinking.
It's antiquated.
It's nostalgic.
And you you combine all this with the belief or the knowledge that Obama believes that there's too much private sector, not enough government.
That's what they're telling every everybody, Axelrod, Krugman, they're going on television, they're saying the real problem in the economy, we don't have enough teachers, we don't have enough firemen, we don't have enough cops.
That's not how that's absurd.
It's just flat out absurd.
Now, one possibility is that this is the the the as far as they're concerned, the slinkiest and most credible way out of the mess they've made of the private sector, because they know that there's a there's a um uh a sympathy and an attachment people have to cops and teachers and firefighters.
Nobody dislikes them.
You never blame them for anything that goes wrong economically and it's a and who doesn't want more cops to protect them and better teachers and all that.
So it's a it's a slick ploy.
But it is so wrong.
There's not there's no production.
What is I really don't want to be misunderstood here, but policemen don't hire anybody.
Policemen don't create jobs.
Teachers don't either.
And firefighters do not create jobs.
When Obama goes out and talks about, well, tax credit for everybody that hires a new employer.
Well, cops aren't going to hire anybody, and firemen aren't going to hire anybody.
They get hired.
Teachers are not.
This is, it's just, it's literally so absurd.
They're sitting around thinking this is that.
And so when he says the private sector's fine, he means it.
In his view, the private sector is fine.
He was ticked off he had to walk that back for semantic reasons.
He didn't want to walk that back.
He meant to say what he said.
The public sector is where the problem is.
Anytime government gets smaller, and I don't care how you define COP as a government job, even though it's municipal, not federal.
Still, it's a branch of government.
It's getting small.
But who's to say that that's even correct?
The stimulus, in case you've forgotten, the big stimulus was to make sure that these jobs were not eliminated.
Teachers, particularly.
Yet he's out there promising shovel ready, we're going to rebuild schools and roads and bridges and all that happy horse dung.
And that was all smoke and mirrors.
We all know that cops and firefighters and teachers do not dig ditches.
They don't build buildings or roads or anything.
He even started laughing about this whole business of shovel ready being a joke.
We really are dealing with ancient thinking people who are locked back in the 1930s.
Have no idea of innovation, no understanding of entrepreneurship.
None whatsoever.
They resent it.
It is to be punished.
It's to be taxed.
It's to be warned against.
There's no valor in those jobs, but firefighters, teachers, and cops, oh, who doesn't want that?
We're down.
We're losing these jobs, and therefore the economy is shrinking.
Folks, I'm not...
The charitable side of this is that we're dealing with genuine idiots.
That's the charitable way of looking at this.
If they're not genuine idiots, then they are the most practiced, deceitful.
And it's hard to argue against that, too.
I can't believe that they really believe what they're saying.
I cannot believe that they really believe that to grow the private sector, you hire more cops and firefighters and teachers.
I just can't believe they really.
That's their way out of the mess they've created.
With the path of least resistance.
Because who can who's it's it's it's like the new civil rights bill.
Whatever you put in, it's gonna pass because who's opposed to civil rights?
Well, who's opposed to more cops?
Who's opposed to more firefighters?
Who is against more teachers?
Nobody.
And here they are out there clamoring for more, claiming that that will fix the economy.
And they probably have an audience for look.
I gotta take a break because I want to start.
I gotta get some phones in here real fast.
So we'll do that.
We come back.
Sit tight, folks, don't go away.
All right, we're back.
Great to have you, and we move on.
I'm I don't know what to do.
Should I go to the phones?
I've got so much stuff to do.
I've got a Romney ad responding to all this.
All this Obama stuff uh and and doing let's do grab somebody at 32.
Gotta get this in, stay in context.
Don't want this as a standalone.
This is yesterday on Governor Romney's campaign site.
He released a new ad entitled Fine.
And in you'll you'll hear Obama in this uh Kardashian, five unidentified women so forth.
Here it goes.
The private sector is doing fine.
Well, we're seeing weaknesses in our economy.
Uh had to do with state and local government.
We've seen layoffs, catbacks.
It's all done.
I'm making $200 a month.
I've been looking for a job for two years.
Haven't found any.
I had to file my own personal bankruptcy.
Uh I had to close my business.
Here I am.
No health care and a slash pension.
I just lost my job recently.
I have to work part time in order to make ends meet.
Sometimes I feel my common feelings.
The private sector's doing fine.
The private sector is doing fine.
The private sector is doing fine.
And then there's a graphic on screen that says, no, Mr. President, we are not doing fine.
Obama isn't working.com.
Paid for by Romney for president.
Obama isn't working.com is a way.
I love that.
So, and there's a story here from the Daily Caller.
35% of union members now support Romney.
Details coming up, but first, Regina Canada.
This is John, as we go to the phones.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I want to argue tongue in cheek that I'm special today simply because I have the special privilege and opportunity to talk with one of the most influent influential and special people in America, and that is you, uh Sir L. Rushville.
Rush Rush, I've appreciated listening to you since 1992.
And as a teacher, I try to train my students to enter the private sector.
That's that's the goal.
In essence, David McCullough's message is so special and unique because it throws reality like cold water in our face.
And that doesn't feel good at first, but it reminds us of our special opportunity to achieve greatness because of the special sacrifice of our troops who have fought for our freedoms.
That's what's special.
Our creator has given us the special opportunity to uphold those uh rights and freedoms.
Can't disagree with that.
I think that's right on the money.
It is it is uh it is an opportunity that is not to be squandered.
Being born in this country, the opportunities for prosperity, for happiness, for greatness, for things that benefit others.
I it it's it's it's why so many people want to get into this country exactly right.
Didn't didn't Obama he did.
Obama said not long ago, told a bunch of fat cat donors before he started making people uh get rid of their cell phones when they showed up at his fundraisers.
He said that he sometimes forgets there was a recession.
Remember that?
Sometimes I even forget that there's a research because the private sector to him is always there, and it's always fine.
And it's made up of people like Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, that's the private sector to Obama.
The evil parts of the private sector are Walmart, big oil, big pharmaceutical, big this, big that, big food.
The parts of the private sector he admires the teachers, cops, firefighters.
This guy even hates doctors.
Remember one of his speeches he accused him of doing unnecessary surgeries to pocket the extra money.
He just the private sector is just there.
It's always there.
It's always there to be looted.
And it's always fine.
And he resents that, by the way.
He meant to say that, and nobody can convince me otherwise.
Here's Matt, Woodstock, Illinois.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Good morning, sir.
Hi.
One of the questions I have, I think the president should be required to explain specifically to the people exactly how the addition of these public sector jobs is going to increase the gross national product and to increase private jobs for the middle class.
Exactly.
He can't.
It's not about that.
It's simply about people working.
It's about jobs.
He doesn't care what kind they are.
The government-oriented, the more government oriented the better.
You're exactly right.
That's exactly the point.
There is no growth with these, and this is not to put them down.
This is why I said I have to be very careful.
Because I'm not critical of these jobs.
I'm being critical of the way Obama is talking about them and using them.
They're not even private sector jobs.
How do they grow the economy?
How does the gross domestic product increase when these people are hired?
It doesn't.
And that's what's wrong, and the gross domestic product is plummeting.
Economic growth is not happening in this country.
And it will not go up simply by hiring more of these kinds of people.
Just as it wouldn't if we had make work uh ditch diggers.
You know, one of his idols is FDR.
And what did FDR have?
All these makework jobs just to get people working paid for with a transfer of wealth.
Not with new creativity, not with new production.
It was just to get people working, and that's what he's looking at.
Just get people working.
It doesn't.
Well, I know they they think it worked.
Well, they think they think it worked, they think it, y'all guess they did think it worked.
But it was, it was morally good too.
You know, it was it was it was it was honest work.
It was hardware as digging ditches.
It was just all this.
It was it's it's the proletariat, the bourgeoisie versus the uh uh Hoy polloin, all this it's all this crap, you know, wrapped up in Marxism.
Which is sheer idiocy.
This whole notion that Obama slogan is forward.
You know, it's 180 about face full speed, is what we're doing here.
We're turning around and we're marching right back to the 1930s.
That's greatness.
And how do we do that?
Government has to spend more and more money.
This is this is so I can't tell you how instructive it is.
I can't tell you how explanatory it is.
And yet, ladies and gentlemen, there are countless other stories in the news, and I will have them.
We're gonna we're gonna load up the next hour of phone calls and then try to get to as much of the stack as I can, because we're loaded with uh with wonderful stuff.
And the details on the North Dakota story where the residents are gonna apparently vote against eliminating their own property taxes because they're worried that government might someday need the money back after this.
Everybody's talking about how Obama had a bad week last week.
Really?
He didn't ever have to explain his membership in the new party.
He wasn't asked a single question about Fast and Furious or Eric Holder's corrupt justice department.
He wasn't asked to explain his political cowardice when he refused to go to Wisconsin, stand shoulder to shoulder with his union buddies.
He played golf.
He was compared favorably to the Kardashians.
There's not going to be a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the national security leaks.
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