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June 12, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 12, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Folks, I am kidding you not.
This newly discovered commerce secretary, whatever the reason, guy runs into a car and runs into it again when driving away from the accident.
On the Today show, just today, they had a correspondent, Kristen Welker.
She said the Commerce Secretary accidents over the weekend were a sign of how contentious the campaign season's gotten.
I kid you not.
We don't yet know.
There was no alcohol in the Commerce Secretary's blood.
I don't know what caused the accident.
Don't know if it's a mini stroke.
Nobody knows.
But an NBC infobabe actually said that it was a sign of how contentious the campaign season has gotten.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here.
As always, Rush Limbaugh, distinct high honor and privilege to host this program each and every day.
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Now, continuing here with Dana Milbank's column, the Washington Post, again, representative of the media and the left, they're shell-shocked.
This last week, you have to understand, they think, they've always thought, that Barack Obama is a 200 IQ genius.
They just, they believe it.
They don't question it.
They have assigned that super genius intelligence level to him, and that's it.
They don't consider any other possibility.
Despite all the gaffes, all the evidence to the contrary, they just don't even consider it.
Then this last week happens where the bottom falls out.
They are stunned.
They do not know how to explain it.
They're talking amongst themselves.
They're on television talking about it.
They're writing columns about it.
And here's Milbank in his column today, which the title Pile Up at the White House.
He focuses a lot on the Commerce Secretary accident.
But later in the piece, he says the AP asked about the president's unfortunate private sector is fine remark.
The Reuters correspondent asked about the economic headwinds from Europe.
Ed Henry of Fox News Channel asked about the looming contempt of Congress vote against Eric Holder.
Margaret Taliv of Bloomberg asked about the Supreme Court striking down Obamacare.
Nora O'Donnell of CBS News asked about calls for a special prosecutor to probe all these leaks.
Victoria Jones of Talk Radio News asked about the stalled talks with Pakistan.
Carney sought relief by calling on TV correspondents from swing states, but the one from Wisconsin asked about the failed attempt to recall Scott Walker.
The one from Nevada asked about her state's unemployment rate, the nation's highest.
The spokeskid got beat up yesterday.
The Press Corps actually did some journalism yesterday.
They had no choice.
Their own credibility's on the line.
There was no way they could prop up what happened last week.
There was no way they could recast it, and there was no way they could excuse it.
So everybody's shocked asking these questions about the smartest president ever.
AP Radio's Mark Smith asked whether Bryson, the commerce secretary, is on medical leave.
And Carney just kept saying, I refer you to the Commerce Department.
Well, let me tell you what's happened now.
Obama has tweeted the following.
If a teacher, police officer, or first responder has made a difference in your life, share your story here.
And it links to a website where they want people to send an email to Romney sharing their above-referenced story about whether a teacher, a police officer, or first responders made a difference in their life.
Because they're out there trying to claim that Romney wants to cut teachers and cops and firemen.
That's all they've got.
Romney wants to cut these jobs.
So what Obama does, he tweets out, hey, if a cop or a firefighter teacher made a difference in your life, share your story at this link.
It's an email to Romney.
Share your story about your dilapidated school.
So predictable.
What are they thinking?
Who's president?
All these problems.
Share your story about your dilapidated school.
Share your story about your whatever.
As if Romney is anti-teacher and anti-firefighter and anti-cop.
So let's go to the audio soundbites.
This is the AP correspondent, Ben Feller.
He said, can you assure us that the White House and the people who speak for President Obama will not take a somewhat flattering sentence from Governor Romney and use that out of context?
By public sector, we're talking about state and local governments who have had to lay off teachers from classrooms, firefighters from the force, and police officers from the force.
That was the context in which he was speaking, which I think everyone in this room was aware of at the time.
Certainly, we believe that you all ought to do your jobs and report on context.
You all ought to do your jobs and report on context.
There was a little back and forth here.
Remember, it was Mark Halperin yesterday who offered a truce.
Time magazine.
You know when the media offers a truce, their guy's getting pummeled.
So Halperin said, look, could we stop playing these silly little games?
Everybody knows that Obama didn't mean the economy's good.
And everybody knows that Romney doesn't want to lay off cops and teachers.
Can we just accept that and move on?
Well, no, everybody doesn't know that Obama doesn't think the economy's good.
The jury is still out on what Obama thinks about the economy.
The jury is still out on what he knows about the economy.
The jury is still out on what he intends for the economy.
He clearly does not want a growing and robust private sector.
But I'll tell you, Jay Carney, you better be careful because the last thing you and Obama want is the media actually doing their job.
You guys, you start challenging these people to go do their jobs and you are in for it.
Last night, we have a montage.
CNN's Anderson Cooper, there's a bunch of other people on CNN, and they're talking about Obama's six words taken out of context that the private sector is doing fine.
They're doing everything they can to massage this.
They're doing everything they can to say he didn't really mean what he said.
Six words that Republicans seized upon.
The president's statement has been taken out of context in this case.
Given the full context of the remark, it's not what he really meant to say.
I don't think it was the best six words that the president could have used.
Put it into a broader context.
Six words could cost President Obama re-election.
Those six words that launched a weekend of politicking.
The entire political and media establishment in this country have had their collective hair on fire over the last three days, over six words uttered by President Obama.
But it's the 43 words that follow those six that are really, really important.
Yeah, well, then why is nobody talking about them?
What are those 43 words?
Anybody have any idea what the 43 words are?
Who counted them?
The six words don't need any context.
The private sector is doing fine.
Look, folks, I'm not going to bore you.
I've explained this countless times, what Obama means by that.
All right, one more time.
When he says the private sector is doing fine, what that really means is The private sector is always doing fine.
Everybody in the private sector, the 1% to him is the private sector.
The rich, Walmart, big oil, big pharmaceutical.
That's to him is the private sector.
And they're rich, and they're getting richer, and they're always fine.
The mom-and-pop drugstore, the mom-and-pop shoe repair store, that's not the private sector to him.
The private sector is big corporations and big corporations are hated by the American left.
So the private sector is doing fine.
Unemployment does not happen in the private sector, not in his worldview.
When he followed it up by saying the public sector is where we're losing, in fact, as we said at the start of the show, the public sector is gaining employment.
Public sector employment is up 11.4%.
Unemployment in the public sector is at 3%.
I mean, the two are not even comparable.
The public sector is going gangbusters.
And it is not possible for it not to be.
Obama is taking as much out of the private sector as he can.
We've got 4 million people who were working when Obama took office who aren't.
Right there is shrinkage of the private sector.
So when he comes out and says the private sector is fine, people who have a genuine intelligence and an understanding of matters economic understand that that is a huge gaffe.
So he goes out there and tries to repair the damage, but doesn't say anything differently.
Everybody hopes and prays in the left that he got it fixed and straightened out.
So now they're talking, well, you took it out of context.
You got to look at the other 43 words and so forth.
But the private sector, as far as Barack Obama is concerned, is where all the unfairness is.
It's where the lack of social justice is.
It's where the immorality is.
The private sector is where all this phony American exceptionalism is.
The private sector is what Obama thinks he's got to apologize for to world leaders.
The private sector is where all the crime takes place.
The private sector is where all the discrimination takes place.
The private sector is where all the racism is.
The private sector is where all the discrimination is.
As far as Obama is concerned, that's never going to stop.
That stuff's always there.
That's what America is.
America Unjustly founded.
The private sector, when he's, the private sector is doing just fine.
He says that with a smirk.
He says it with resentment.
He wasn't saying the private sector is fine the way you and I would say it if it were and if we meant it.
Obama and leftists like him hold people in contempt.
Average ordinary Americans are held in contempt.
They really are.
Looked down upon as an arrogant condescension they have.
Private sector, that's where all the evil is.
That's where all the stuff that needs to be fixed is.
That's where all the transformation has to take place.
So when he says the private sector is fine, it's like, don't, I don't want to hear any complaints about Bill Gates.
And I don't want to hear any complaints about the Koch brothers.
And I don't want to hear any complaints about Warren Buffett.
And I don't want any complaints.
That's who he thinks the private sector is.
They're fine.
They're always going to be fine.
They're always going to be the enemy.
I'm always going to deal with them.
That's what he meant by it.
And that's what these people in the press.
They either know that or they're equally blind and obtuse and don't understand that.
But they look at everything.
Oh, my gosh, how's this going to help Obama?
How's it going to hurt Obama?
And that's the only context they see.
Brief time out here, my friends.
We'll come back and we'll jam with you on the phone till we get back.
Don't go away.
Soon, Snurdly. Soon.
Snerdley, bugging me, wants to hear what I have to say about what Apple did yesterday.
It's not just what they did yesterday.
There's a story about innovation in the new mobile software that Apple announced yesterday, come out this fall, that it's going to serve as a great illustration of what the kind of thing that happens in the private sector that Barack Obama hasn't the slightest understanding of, the slightest clue about.
Yet it's the kind of innovation that any president ought to be pointing to and saying, this is what we are capable of in America.
Instead of running around and talking about to fix the private sector, we need more cops and firefighters and police officers.
Is that really, frankly, you look at Detroit?
I hate picking on Detroit.
Detroit was one of the first major markets this program was heard in.
And we have a great relationship with our affiliate there, but it are bulldozing houses in Detroit.
The tax base is diminishing.
It's a Petri dish.
Detroit is a Petri dish for what happens with unchecked liberal Democrat power and control for decades.
And what Detroit needs is a rebirth of private sector growth and entrepreneurism, people moving back into the city and rebuilding it.
The idea that more police officers or firefighters would bring the city back, it's just that it would give Obama more control and more power, have more bureaucrats and so forth, and more union members and more dues and more campaign contributions to him and the Democrats, but that's about it.
And that's what Detroit's good for for them.
That's the real crying shame here is the value of Detroit to people like Obama is as many union people paying dues that end up being donated to Democrats as possible to heck with on-the-ground circumstances of people who live there.
Anyway, I'm starting to beat a dead horse here because you all get this.
Let me go to the phones.
going to start in Soldatna.
Is that right?
Soldatna, Alaska.
It's Carrie.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Actually, it's Carrie with a T, but that's okay.
Sorry about that.
I am so happy to talk to you.
I just, and I was, you know, I basically, my point is, and maybe I'm just a simpleton here, but to me, if the private sector is fine, then the public sector would be fine just based purely on the tax revenue coming in from the private sector to fund these services.
I don't understand why this is confusing.
Yeah, because what you're saying is the public sector doesn't have any money until taxes are collected.
Well, yeah, exactly.
And I'm not talking about, you know, the government infusing these through the federal government funds.
I'm just saying basically, you know, for small cities and municipalities and things.
I mean, to me, if your private sector is doing well, then you have the money to promote.
Well, exactly.
The Petri dish for this is North Dakota.
A booming state.
As I said yesterday, you know what's on the ballot?
You know what they're voting on in North Dakota today is whether or not to pass a constitutional amendment to eliminate property taxes.
And do you know why?
It's because they are so flush with tax revenue.
There is an oil boom in North Dakota.
There's an oil boom in Utah.
There's an oil boom in Montana.
There are little laboratories in this country that show exactly what the road to recovery is.
And it is a burgeoning, growing private sector.
Innovation, brand new ways of extracting oil previously unavailable to us.
And it's created a boom.
Sales tax revenue in the state of North Dakota, according to the Wall Street Journal yesterday, sales tax revenue is up 83%.
And they didn't increase the rate.
They didn't raise taxes.
They just have that much more commerce going on.
They are so flush with money that they can afford to eliminate the property tax.
And the proponents of this have a really good slogan on a polling data that says it's going to go down to defeat three to one, if you can believe that.
People are afraid to eliminate the property tax because they know it funds education and all that.
And they're afraid that if the boom wipes out or that if Obama goes in and says the boom's basically illegal and orders it shut down, imagine thinking that possible in this country, that your president would go in and shut down a boom economy.
But they do.
They have the fear.
Then they fear that state wouldn't have necessary funds to operate without the property tax.
But here's the great line.
And I'm paraphrasing.
A woman is quoted as saying, I don't believe that a tax should have the power to make you homeless.
Meaning, it's just not right that failure to pay your property tax results in you losing your house.
Come up with some other penalty.
But the idea that you can lose your house because of a tax, this is one of the rallying points that the proponents of this are using.
There are a couple of stories on this today.
One's in the New York Times, another one USA Today.
And they're both pretty good stories.
But nothing's changed.
The polling on this is that the residents three to one are opposed to eliminate the property tax.
Now, I'm just going to tell you, somebody came along here in Florida and asked me to join the effort to eliminate property taxes.
I'm right in there.
Who wouldn't?
And particularly on the basis, yeah, why should you lose, you know, I don't know if I can get this story in 50 seconds.
Some years ago, my property tax bill did not get sent to me.
It was sent to one of the multiple addresses of my financial guy, advisor, and it got lost.
Nobody did anything about it.
And I didn't think about it.
And the day before my house was to go up for auction on the courthouse steps, I got a call from somebody who was not even in the assessor's office.
Somebody just found out about it because people in the office, he told me, were hoping I wouldn't make the payment so I'd lose my house.
And he happened to know one of the people.
I was one day from having the house go up for sale.
This is, I don't know, 2012, maybe 10 years ago or a little bit longer than that.
Anyway, that's how they're selling that.
You shouldn't lose your house.
A tax shouldn't have that kind of power.
We'll be back in just a second.
And in fact, it was somebody in the assessor's office who confirmed it for me later on.
It said they weren't allowed to reach out.
But yeah, the bill got lost wherever it went.
Somebody didn't know what it was, didn't think to form me.
It was shortly after I moved here, and I was trying to keep my actual address secret so bills would be sent to a different address.
But with property tax, it has to go to the address of the property.
Or it did.
It was all convoluted.
I didn't get the bill.
And the bills come in November.
And you've got until April or May to pay it.
You can pay it all and off in November.
If you don't pay it, November, it goes up a little bit in December and so forth, like yours does.
So one day, I'm just right here sitting in this studio and the phone rings back when I could hear I could use the phone.
And there's some guy on the phone, very nervous, telling me that I might want to look into getting my property tax paid.
Okay, why?
What's the I didn't know any of this about had to be paid by April.
Well, you just better, you better, well, can I send you a check?
No, I'm not from the assessor's office.
I said, well, who are you?
So I'm just somebody.
I'm just, I just, I heard that your house is going to go up for sale tomorrow and the courthouse steps is going to be auctioned off because you.
So this is I don't know.
It's before the show starts, very close to the show.
So I started panicking and I started trying to find out what happened.
And, lo and behold, everything he said was true, and had to go run out and get a certified check and hand deliver it, and so forth.
And I later found out there were people in the assessor's office who were hoping, just because of political differences, that I wouldn't pay the bill and I'd lose the house.
Ever since then, I paid the bill in November.
This somebody came along.
Well and, by the way, I made sure I get the bill, I made sure that it went to the right address, which I thought had been done in the first place anyway.
So somebody came along and said, you know what we're gonna do to make a move to eliminate property tax in Florida.
It's not necessary.
I'm up I'm, I'm in there.
I have not been corrupted by this notion that government can't get along without me and my taxes and so forth.
Now, rephrase that.
The best way to illustrate what I really mean is North Dakota.
Here you've got a state that is running a surplus.
I forget the number.
Maybe the surplus is close to $900 billion, and that's a lot in a small state.
That's a lot of commerce, and the sales tax revenue is up 83%.
And that's they don't need the state does not need all of the money it's collecting via taxes.
It just doesn't need it.
And some people, look, the state, granted, it needs to be funded for certain functions, and we all agree that this is a civil and ordered citizenry in society.
But beyond that, the state shouldn't take more than it needs.
This is a fundamental argument that orients us every day here.
And yet you have some people who are so concerned what might happen to the state if they ever do run short and don't want to get rid of the property tax.
Now, what they're really afraid of is what will happen to them if the state runs out of money somewhere.
But if the state has hundreds of millions of dollars that it doesn't need, what's it going to do with it?
It's going to spend it.
That's what happens.
So I don't know how the vote's going to come out.
The pre-polling showed that one out of three was supportive of this, that the opposition was winning huge, the opposition to eliminating the property tax in North Dakota.
We shall see.
There are fireworks going on in Washington.
Eric Holder is testifying before the Senate today.
Fast and furious, any number of things are being discussed.
John Cornyn, senator from Texas, just told Eric Holder to his face that he should resign.
Just told him to his face.
It's getting contentious and it's becoming more problematic for Obama.
But these are the things that happen when you have a regime that is literally wresting control from as much of the citizenry as it can.
Up next is Harry in Richmond, Virginia.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi, how you doing?
I'm getting by.
What I'd like to know is what Obama has to do with the local fireman and policeman payments.
I was a city councilman for 16 years in a small town.
I don't ever remember getting a payment from the federal government to pay these salaries to these people.
That is precisely the point.
Obama and Axelrod running around.
The economy needs more jobs, teachers, firefighters, and cops.
Those are municipal jobs.
They're not federal jobs.
That's why I said earlier in the program, Harry, that what Obama is really talking about with those jobs is more bureaucrats, more administrators, more regulators.
He's not talking about uniform cops.
He's not talking about classroom teachers.
Those are just terms that he's using to soften the public and to appeal to the public's emotions and tug their heartstrings.
What he really wants is more bureaucrats, more regulators, more diversity coordinators and this kind of thing.
He wants more federal employees that are exerting power.
Yeah, I have a little experience with that.
1955, I worked in the local office of the Social Security.
The county was a population of 180,000.
We had 10 employees.
Today, with 140,000 in the county, they have 30 employees.
And at the time, I was the only one with the college education in there.
I quit because I could have done that job in ninth grade.
And the thing is, we had.
Could have done the job in the ninth grade.
Yeah, it would have been a little peculiar having a 14-year-old interviewing 65-year-old people.
But we're doing the same thing that they're doing today, except they're doing Medicare today.
And with all the computers and everything, they shouldn't have more than 12 people working in there.
And you can imagine in a small podunk town with that many people working, what's happening in these big areas where they have these big offices and motor offices, how many people they have working that they don't need.
So they just have been patting the payrolls for years.
Another thing about payments from the government, I was in there when Carter was president, and we had a work program that the government put to us $50,000, and they gave us choices, and it finally ended up that we could plant trees in our park.
Well, our town is practically in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains.
Trees you don't need.
You got plenty of trees.
You didn't need federal appropriations for trees.
Yeah, I get it.
Make work, pad the payroll, grow government.
That's the point.
Doesn't matter what the jobs are.
It's just an emotional linkage when you say, we need more cops, teachers, firefighters.
It's the same thing in reverse.
When a city, a municipality, is facing budget cuts, what's the first thing they tell you that they're going to eliminate?
Police officers.
No, no, don't.
Oh, I don't want more credit.
And next to the teacher, no, I don't want my child to be uneducated.
And then we'll have to get rid of the fire.
Oh, no, I want my house fire put out.
No, no, don't cut the budget.
That's how that's how it works.
Look at the same talking are there in the other end of the scale.
When you want to tug at people's heartstrings and get them to go along with expansion of government, you go for the same thing.
More teachers.
Oh, wonderful for my kitties.
And more policemen.
Oh, wonderful for my security.
And more cops.
Wonderful for my house and my barn.
And it's all a ploy.
But it's exactly right.
Obama doesn't pay for them.
Well, but these are not even federal jobs.
Wasn't it Clinton?
Clinton was the first to really popularize this with his 100,000 cops.
And here's how that program worked.
For the first year or two, the federal government would pay a local community if they went out and hired more cops.
And then after that, they would pay less and less.
And then after a certain number of years, I think it was only five, and maybe even less than that, the local community would have to pay totally for all the new cops that have been hired, which would mean they'd be fired.
They didn't have any more money when they ended up those five years or when they started.
It was purely a political ploy.
Michelle Obama is a great illustration of this.
Michelle Obama had what's popularly known as a no-show job.
Her husband, Barack Hussein Kardashian, was state senator from Illinois, and they needed money.
They had a right political future.
They were well chosen in the Democrat Party, but they weren't doing, I mean, they never had a lot of money.
So her husband gets his powerful gig as a state senator, and she ended up being hired as community outreach at some Chicago hospital, $370,000 a year.
And it was basically a no-show job.
She didn't have to go to work.
She did now and then.
When she left, they did not bother to replace her.
They just did away with the position.
She was hired by that guy who's now considered to be Obama's best friend.
No, the guy.
It might have been Rezco.
I think it was Rezco.
It could have been Bill Ayers, but she was hired by one of these.
But while she was there, by the way, she did do some work.
And while she was at the hospital, she was instrumental in reforms of the hospital policies that turned away poor people and sent them to other hospitals so the hospital she worked at wouldn't be negatively affected financially Yeah, it's called dumping.
Sweet Michelle did that.
Sweet Michelle, not by herself, she wasn't alone, but but she supported the policy that that sent people unable to pay to different hospitals when they showed up at the ones she worked at.
The indigent, the poor, the thirsty yes, the 99, the people hardest hit, women and children minorities Martians, I mean, you name it they were.
They were turned away anyway.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I must turn away from you only momentarily.
It's an obscene profit break timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Ericer is the name.
Eric Whitaker is the guy who hired Moochell Obama at the Chicago Hospital.
Eric Whitaker is the same guy who Reverend Right says tried to bribe him to shut up during the campaign.
According to that book that's out now, Eric Whitaker is who hired much runs, the Urban Health Initiative at the University OF Chicago Medical Center.
That was where he hired Moochell.
He and Obama have been buddies since they were at Harvard and Uh.
Ed Klein claims Claims that Whitaker offered Wright $150,000 to stay silent till after this election was over.
Reverend Wright refused Whitaker's offer.
According to the story, Obama said he was too busy to campaign in Wisconsin.
He was just too busy.
Last night in Green Bay, correspondent Matt Smith talked to Obama and said a lot of Democrats upset that you didn't campaign for Tom Barrett.
Somebody number seven here.
The truth of the matter is that as president of the United States, I've got a lot of responsibilities.
I was supportive of Tom and have been supportive of Tom.
Obviously, I would love to have seen a different result.
But the broader principle that what we want is an economy that is not just focused on the few at the top, but is a broad-based economy that invests in our future, that makes sure that we've got a strong education system that is thinking about workers and their ability to pay their bills.
What the name of Sam Hill does that have to do with whether or not you went to Wisconsin to help Tom Barrett?
He's done 153 fundraisers.
He flew over Wisconsin getting to and from these fundraisers.
He could have landed there.
He didn't want to get anywhere near it because he knew they were going to lose.
He was too busy being president.
I have a lot of responsibilities.
I was supportive of Tom.
I sent a tweet out there.
Who the hell do you think you are, you little pup reporter asking me these, I'm the president.
I got important things to do.
I've played basketball, which, by the way, David Moranis says he's not very good at.
This Moranis biography really, really makes fun of Obama's lack of talent.
No, no.
Moranis' book.
I don't forget the title of Moranis' book.
But it's devastating.
You know, Obama's got this big reputation, a great basketball player.
And Moranis just rips that away.
That facade gets totally torn apart.
And it's a racial thing.
It ends up being a racial thing.
Well, I don't know.
I'm just going to sing.
Oh, yeah, let's stay there.
Yeah, anyway, here he is.
I've got a lot of responsibilities.
Obviously, I'd like to see a different result, but the broader principle, we want an economy not focused on the few.
It's exactly what I said he thinks of the private sector.
The private sector is the few at the top, and they're always there, and they're always rich.
The private sector is where the discrimination is.
The private sector is where the racism is.
The private sector is where the people get shafted and screwed to private sector.
That's what he thinks of it.
We want an economy focused not on the few at the top, a broad-based economy, invests in our future.
Strong education.
So need new teachers.
Thinking about workers, their ability to pay their bills.
Workers, it's a communist term.
Workers.
Castro talks about his people as workers.
Too busy to campaign in Wisconsin.
But he was all around it and even flying over it.
The Moranis book is called Barack Obama The Story.
And I've got to take a break.
I can't believe how the time is flying here, folks.
From CBS and the Associated Press.
Liberals are threatening not to vote in November over disappointment with Obama.
He's not wacko enough for them.
No matter where he turns, the news is not good.
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