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Dec. 10, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 10, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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Uh, folks, I don't want to be misunderstood on this.
I'm not trying to be defeatist, just realistic.
There's no there's no area of common ground.
There's probably going to be a deal.
It's not going to solve anything.
There might even be a deal on spending restraint on the entitlements, like maybe $300 billion.
They'll come up with something to say they cut spending, but it's the amount of money we spend in ten minutes.
They're just there I don't know that there's going to be a deal, but if there is one, it's not going to fix any problem.
And that I know.
Greetings and welcome back.
It's great to have you, Rushlin Baugh here at 800-282-2882.
Look, Obama's got a 58% approval rating.
Obama wants unemployment compensation extension.
Republicans can't oppose that.
They'll never win another election if they do.
But my point is there's no common ground here.
Obama wants to go over the cliff.
Or let me rephrase that.
If we go over the cliff, he won't care.
Obama does not want any spending cuts.
He does not want any solution to the debt.
They want to spend more money.
The entitlement programs are what keep the Democrat Party in power.
The gravy train.
There's not going to be any meaningful reduction there as long as the Democrats run the Senate and Obama runs the White House.
When was the last federal budget that we had?
We haven't had a budget in four years.
There is no mechanism to control spending.
All there is is the debt limit every time it comes up and these continuing resolutions.
But we can sit here all day long and say, well, I wish Baymer Bahner would hold fast on uh on tax increase.
He's not holding fast.
We're he's already authored, offered $800 billion in the loopholes and closing loopholes and deductions and all that.
And of course, that's not enough now.
Need the rates up as well.
I just I'll speak to you just personally.
For me, uh I have disappointed some of my friends in this.
But I told everybody before the election, if Obama wins, folks, everybody's taxes are going up, and I mean including the middle class, everybody's.
I have never expected that taxes on the top two percent are not going up.
If not if Obama won for crying out, where where without it's I don't know, I didn't make any sense to me that taxes would not go up if Obama wins.
Obama stands for things.
Obamaism means things.
Obama's trying to transform the country.
He is trying to diminish the private sector and grow the government.
Government employment, take a look at it.
73% of the new jobs in the last two years are government jobs.
The unemployment rate among government workers is 3.8%.
We can sit here and play games all day long and talk about negotiating with Obama on the cliff.
But at the end of the day, when we have nothing in common with the I mean, literally, folks, there's nothing that we want that they want.
And verse visa.
They don't want any spending restraints anywhere.
The entitlement programs, government spending is the source of their power.
Literal power, winning elections.
That's where it comes from.
They're not going to give that away.
Just like they're not going to give us any of the Hispanic vote willingly, and they're not going to give us any of the under 30 single women vote willingly.
There's no way to negotiate for this.
Now when it comes to the cliff and tax increases versus spending cuts, the options are let Obama have what he wants and go over the cliff or to hold fast, in which case we're going over the cliff anyway.
And even if there's a deal, it's not going to do anything with the two things here.
There's the fiscal cliff and there's the debt cliff.
Now we aren't going to do anything about the debt cliff, even if there is a fiscal cliff deal.
That's Just the reality.
We are up against pure 100% undiluted statists here.
And there is nothing we believe in that they share in common with us.
And vice versa.
Now, most negotiations are just the exact opposite.
Both sides at least have something in common that they want in the end result.
That does not exist here.
Okay, negotiations between an athlete and a team.
The thing in common is that the player wants to stay with the team and the team wants to keep the player.
How they get that done is the negotiation.
And sometimes they don't, and the player leaves.
In which case it means the team didn't really want the player at the end of the day.
So maybe they didn't even have that in common.
But you can think of your own negotiation and whatever avenue of life that you've been engaged in them, and you'll know what I mean.
You've always had something in common.
You go into a negotiation with a lot of crazy demands that you're willing to throw away.
You never expected to get them in the first place to make it look like you're compromising.
Obama has no throwaways.
When he says he wants 1.6 trillion, he doesn't mean 800 billion.
He means 1.6 trillion.
In fact, he probably means 2 trillion if he could get it.
When it comes to spending cuts, entitlement reform would say Britt Hume was right on the money today in his terminology.
Entitlements are the Democrat Party's crown jewels.
Why would they give any of that away when they don't have to?
The Democrats do not think they lose going over the cliff.
They think they win.
The Democrats think they win no matter what.
If you were the Democrats, you'd think the same way.
You'd be puffing your chest out right about now.
You'd be popping your buttons.
You think you couldn't do anything wrong.
Now that will lead them down the road to making all kinds of mistakes, but that's down the road.
Can I give you a little news item here that to me expresses perfectly where we really are as a culture, as a country, as an economy, as a society.
Have it right here.
It's a story from the AP, but it's everywhere.
Democrats want extension of unemployment benefits for two million Americans as part of fiscal cliff deal.
Guess what?
This is brand new demand.
Hovering in the background of the fiscal cliff debate is the prospect of two million people losing their unemployment benefits four days after Christmas.
Okay, putting on my cap as mayor of Realville.
Does anybody think that either one of our two political parties wants to be blamed for that happening?
So can we conclude that there will be unemployment compensation benefit extensions?
We can.
Do you think the Republicans want to go to the mat on this one?
You think they want they don't guarantee it right now the Republicans don't want to be seen as being in opposition to anybody getting anything.
But here's why this is happening.
And that's the real nub of this.
You see, the real irony is unemployment unemployment benefits are ending because unemployment rates are falling.
It's the way the law was written.
States with jobless rates below 9% are losing their extended benefits.
It was originally written, and this made perfect sense that the unemployment compensation extensions would end as the employment situation Improved.
Well, statistically, the unemployment situation is improving.
The unemployment rate nationally 7.7%, down from 8.3%, down from 8.2%, down from 8.1, down from 7.9%.
So on paper, and as far as the low information voter is concerned, and the low information voter is a majority of voters, the unemployment situation is getting better.
There are jobs being created, according to what they believe.
Because the number says so.
Unemployment rate's going down.
Well, you would figure if the unemployment rate's going down and more people are getting jobs, and we don't need to extend on employment.
No.
Precisely because the unemployment rate is falling, we need to extend unemployment benefits.
Now, if that doesn't tell you how utterly out of kilter, how totally out of whack we are as a country, I can't think of anything else that does it better.
Because, in other words, this is on paper now.
You and I both know that the job situation is really not improving, but reality doesn't matter.
What perception is is what matters here.
The perception is getting better.
So the perception is the jobs picture's getting better.
And precisely because the jobs picture is improving, we have to extend unemployment benefits.
Jobs situation is improving, which means people are losing their unemployment extensions.
However, the jobs picture really isn't improving.
That's why we need to extend unemployment, because there really aren't new jobs to be had.
And because of the law saying that state by state, as the unemployment rate goes below 9%, the extensions end.
And for two million Americans, they end four days after Christmas.
Does anybody think?
Again, that news will be allowed to be made.
That two million people lose their unemployment extension benefits four days after Christmas.
That story will not be written, that headline will not appear.
Now the Democrats would love for it too.
Just to confuse or complicate things a little bit here, the Democrats would love for that headline.
The truth is that if two million Americans lost their unemployment benefits, and it could be blamed on the Republicans, the Democrats would sign on to that right now.
But the Republicans are very, very smart, see, and they know that that's what the Democrats intend.
And so the Democrats will not get that headline.
This is so pathetically comical, all you can do is let the Republicans are going to outsmart the Democrats, and they're going to agree to extend unemployment benefits so that the Democrats don't get the story, you lost your unemployment because of Republicans.
So the net end of this is that while we apparently are in an improving economy with jobs being created so much that the unemployment rate is down to 7.7%, we still are going to extend unemployment benefits for two million Americans who've already been on unemployment six months.
This is the key.
These people that we're talking about haven't hit their 99 weeks because the unemployment rate in the states they live in is under 9%.
That's why they have to be extended.
And since the Obama administration is about Santa Claus, since the Obama administration is about buying loyalty and votes, since the Obama administration is about providing for people so that they don't have to work.
After Obama wins and to boot four days after Christmas.
So in light of that, why does anybody on our side think their taxes aren't going up?
Well, Rush, go back to 2010.
Obama didn't want the tax to go up because it's going to hurt the economy.
Yeah.
Well, that's because he still had another election to worry about.
Now he doesn't for at least two years.
He's at max damage potential right now.
Max damage, but he can inflict the greatest damage possible for the purpose of transforming the country from capitalism to Western European socialism.
He's got two years here to double down, triple down, max out on it.
And that's if he cares about the 2014 midterms.
But if you listen to the Democrats talk, they don't care about that.
Hillary's already been anointed for 2016.
That election's over.
And this AP story, even the AP admits since 2008, the federal government has poured $120 billion, an amount equal to about half its annual deficit in recent years into unemployment benefit extensions is still enough.
You see, no you realize that aspect of this too.
No matter how much we spend on unemployment, it's still never enough.
We still need to extend them.
It's never enough.
Oh, and don't forget this.
From Pelosi to Chuck Schumer to Obama and to all the Democrats, unemployment benefits are now an economic stimulant.
Every dollar of unemployment benefits generates a dollar seventy-three in economic growth, you see.
And the people who voted for Obama believe that croc.
But they believe it.
We have arrived at the point where the recipient of unemployment benefits is told that he or she is helping to grow the economy.
So we've even turned the morality aspect of this upside down.
Now it is perfectly moral to extend unemployment benefits because those are growing the economy.
Without jobs, it's magical.
It's a beautiful thing.
And the Democrats do it because they care.
And the Republicans don't care.
But Obama, the Democrats do care.
Democrats claim, I uh in this story, I folks, I kid you not, they're claiming that extending unemployment benefits will create 400,000 jobs.
It's a stimulus.
It is.
Unemployment benefits are a stimulant.
They will create 400,000 jobs.
Of course, this is all a crop.
But everything I've just said, if a low information voter is listening, would agree with me 100% and would think that I've finally seen a light.
And we will be back.
Don't go away.
And we're back.
El Rushboat, cutting edge societal evolution.
Now, as you know, the White House is still in campaign mode.
Obama's still campaigning for all of this with the American people.
The Democrats are arming their uh their soldiers on Twitter.
Let me give you a tweet here.
This is a sample tweet that the Democrats are using to persuade people to pressure Republicans into agreeing to raise taxes on the rich.
Here's the tweet.
Quote.
Extending unemployment insurance would create five times as many jobs as Bush tax cuts for the rich.
Now, you and I know that that is patently absurd.
It's it doesn't even compute.
It is as far from reality and truth as you can get.
But it's being tweeted like mad and it's being tweeted like mad to people who are going to believe it.
If you are also at the same time saying that extending unemployment benefits, this is paying people not to work will create 400,000 jobs, is what they're saying.
And I don't know about you, but it is scary as it can be to realize that a majority of people who vote believe that.
Paying people not to work will create 400,000 jobs.
This tweet here.
Paying people not to work will create five times as many jobs as the Bush tax cuts for the rich.
I mean, this is so absurd.
This wouldn't even make good parody or good comedy because there's not one element of truth in it.
And yet it's being tweeted all over the place, and Democrats are soaking it up.
And Paul Bedard at the DC examiner says he may have won the election, but Obama hasn't given up the campaign, aiming to bring public pressure on Republicans to back higher taxes for the rich in the fiscal cliff fight.
The Obama Biden campaign today began urging supporters to join local online phone banks to help the president blast the Republicans.
So they have revved up their get out the vote apparatus, and they're calling people as though the election is today, rather than tell them to show up and vote.
They are telling them to put pressure on Republicans to support tax cuts or tax increases for the rich so as to create jobs.
What are the Republicans doing in the midst of all this?
I don't even have to answer that for you.
And sadly, another obscene profit timeout.
But don't go anywhere.
We'll be right back.
And back to the phones we go.
El Rochebo here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Stories.
This is Tom in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Megadiddos from Ohio's first capital.
Thank you.
And um I want to dispute uh your interpretation of what uh Speaker Gingrich said.
I don't think he said that we couldn't win in 16.
He said we couldn't win as we're constituted now.
That's what I got out of it.
Yeah, he did say the Republican Party today is incapable of competing at whatever level Hillary Clinton would be competing at.
I think we're going to need a guy that speaks Spanish too, fluently.
Well, uh did you just hear me say that the uh uh Mexicans are leaving America in greater numbers than they are arriving?
They're not leaving here.
We got three Mexican restaurants, and we only got the town of 23,000 people, and they're all staffed by Mexicans.
We had a Mexican construction crew come through here and put up the Walgreens.
I mean, like uh I don't know where they come from, but they're here.
Well, they come from Mexico.
Well, I I understand, but I don't know how they got here, but they're here.
They drove.
Well, probably, I guess.
I'll I'll agree.
But but Obama courted that vote.
You know that.
He uh put ads in Spanish on uh in uh uh some markets, and uh I don't think Romney did anything like that.
He didn't quote the vote.
No, but even if Romney had what was Romney's message versus Obama's?
See, Obama's message is benefit after benefit after benefit after benefit, and Romney's message was feature after feature after feature, and one of our features is freedom.
And what is freedom mean to an Obama voter?
And I'm not trying to be a wise ass.
I mean, what do you think freedom means to an Obama voter?
As a feature, freedom, liberty, founding father sense, all that stuff.
What does it mean to an Obama voter?
Not just not just in Hispanic, any Obama voter.
What does it mean?
I'm not real sure.
Work.
Well freedom to work.
I mean freedom to be best you can be, freedom to be great, freedom to freedom from obstacles, freedom from limitations in your way, freedom to be who you are, the best you can be.
But how does that stack up against an immediate benefit offered by Obama?
Whatever the benefit is.
Well, I don't have an answer For that.
I don't either.
The Republicans don't have an answer for it yet either.
But what we're talking about here is long-term philosophical belief versus instant immediate benefit.
And that's what the Democrat Party is perceived as.
I mean, there are instantaneous benefits to having Democrats in power.
The Republican Convention, what was it about?
Exactly right.
It was about family country God.
It was about Hispanics, Mexicans, Latinos who had moved to this country to escape bondage, to escape communist tyranny.
They came here with little or nothing, and they worked hard and they sweated and they slaved.
They waited tables, they tended bar, and their children are now senators and governors.
And what's the message?
Work hard, and in 25 or 30 years, you might amount to something.
Obama's message is, along with the mayor of San Antonio, we're going to extend your unemployment benefits tomorrow.
You don't have to worry about finding a job.
Our message is find an entry-level job, work hard, be the best you can be.
It'll pay off in some point down the road.
Obama's message is why wait.
Why work?
This country's unfair anyway.
The rich, they've gobbled up all the money.
There ain't any money left for you.
And there isn't going to be any money left for you until I tax the rich and give it back to you.
There's no point in working.
The rich have all the money.
The rich have all the cars.
The rich have all the nice houses.
But not for long.
I guess I'm here to make sure that what was rightfully yours is returned to you.
The average Obama voter doesn't say, wait a minute, I never owned a big car that the rich took.
I never owned a house on the beach that the rich.
They don't stop to think that.
They just believe, yeah, yeah, damn straight.
It was mine.
It was all of ours.
The rich took it.
And on the promise that it's all going to be returned and given back.
And until it happens, here's a phone and unemployment check and a food stamp debit card till I'm able to take care of the rich and get even with them here.
So delayed gratification that you make happen yourself versus instant gratification because it's owed you.
The Republicans are going to have to come up with a rejoinder to this.
Now the well, the popular sentiment circulating in the party is ideas, ideas, ideas, and that they will triumph.
And we've got to get our ideas spread further out beyond our choir.
We have to have our ideas spread.
But our ideas are still going to be ideas up against benefits.
Now you see, in the real world where we live, we don't have the money for these benefits.
People are going to have to provide it to themselves because we don't have the money to Obama.
That's not a concern.
He'll print it.
He will borrow it.
He will sell the A123 battery company to the Chicons.
Doesn't matter.
We don't have anything in common.
Obama is perfectly fine with a $20 trillion dollar national debt.
He's perfectly fine saddling this country with debt that it can never repay.
He's perfectly fine shrinking the private sector where all of these wonderful jobs 25 years down the road are.
Perfectly fine with it.
We have nothing in common with it.
That's why I guess people say, oh, okay, Rush, if there's nothing in common with it.
We've got to find a way to beat these people, folks, not compromise with them.
We have to find a way to defeat them.
And that's going to entail getting more votes than they get.
And that's going to entail convincing People that long term they are much better off believing in what is naturally inside them rather than being co-opted by this message of instant gratification because I don't I'll tell you one thing, it isn't going to change.
No matter what happens, there are still going to be entrepreneurs in this country.
Maybe a dwindling number, but no matter what happens, they're always going to be filthy, stinking rich liberals, at least.
And they're going to have huge houses and they're going to have multiple cars, multiple estates, they're going to have all the trappings of wealth.
And no matter how much money Obama gives away, there isn't enough to give away to make everybody on the recipient end or on the receiving end wealthy.
And so the divide is always going to be there.
The rich are always going to be there.
No matter what Obama's policies are.
There may be a dwindling number of them, but it's this economic divide, haves and have nots, income gap, whatever, it's always going to be there.
The thing that's going to change is that the people in the middle class are forever going to be shut out of getting out of it.
If Obama perceives or persists, if Obama continues to win, if the Democrats beyond Obama continue to win, the escape route from poverty is going to be closed off.
The escape route for the middle class is going to be shut down, which is the objective, by the way.
They don't want you self-sufficient and self-reliant.
You don't need them, then they don't want you being able to take care of yourself.
They don't that's why they want to be able to give you just enough to give you what the basics are that they think make you happy.
Big screen TV, food stamp debit card, a telephone, you know, and maybe those things change as society.
Maybe it's a checkerboard tenures.
Who knows what the hell it is?
But whatever it is to keep you satisfied, to keep you not protesting, that's what they'll give you.
But they'll never gonna be able to make you rich.
They're never going to be able to make you wealthy.
They're never even going to be able to make you happy.
An Obama voter is going to be perpetually angry.
An Obama voter, a Democrat Party voter is going to be perpetually ticked off, miserable, angry at the unfairness of things.
Because there's nobody alive that can change unfairness or fairness or make things fair, equal, equitable.
It's not, it's not possible.
The alternative to that is where everybody has a chance to improve themselves, and that's our way.
With Obama's way and the Democrat Party way, millions and millions each year have that chance cut off.
A, they won't be taught what's necessary to learn in order to improve themselves.
The public education system will continue to be corrupted so that what people are taught is worthless.
They'll just be propagandized.
So that they're kept angry at whoever the political opponents of the Democrats are.
That's all that's happening here.
Well, we don't look at the world that way, and we don't look at people that way.
We want people to be happy, fulfilled, moving upward.
We want people to realize the bounty, the greatness that freedom and liberty and opportunity and being an American has always meant.
That's being shut off.
That's being the roots to that definition of happiness are being closed off, roadblocks everywhere.
Ah, look at that.
I've got to take a break.
Sorry, folks, but we will continue.
There's much more straight ahead.
Do not go away.
Mitt Romney was running around campaigning for the office of President of the United States.
And among the things that he was saying was, when I'm elected, I will put Americans back to work.
And 51% of the country that voted said day.
Oh, with that.
Participation in the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
Food stamps reached another high in September.
According to new data released by the Department of Agriculture, the most recent data on food stamp participation was released Friday.
It showed that forty seven point seven million people were enrolled in the program in September, an increase of over half a million from August.
607,000 new food stamp participants from August to September.
The number of households that are enrolled in the program also went up.
22.6 million to 22.97, almost 23 million households in September, an increase of about 300,000 households.
The average benefit, according to new data, 134 dollars per person.
Let's add this up.
160 dollars per person in poverty.
So let's see, 130 is it, 135, 200 and whoa, no. 130 and 16 295 a day on food stamps and welfare.
And by the way, we're not solving either problem.
Benefits, folks, benefits, benefits right here, right now.
Here's Eric in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Diddle's Rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
Great to have you here.
Thank you for having me on.
Just want to let you know I find it a little ironic with right to work legislation passing most likely tomorrow in Michigan.
A lot of local media is interviewing union bosses.
And they're uh just a little uh upset that people that are paying in or not paying in, excuse me, not paying in union dues are gonna maybe have to get represented.
Don't you find that a little ironic?
Um, if you uh the union workers are upset because people are gonna be able to join a union or get a job without paying union dues.
That's correct.
And the union representatives are upset.
They're upset because your question to me.
Well, it's no question.
It's just more or less a comment that I find it ironic that they're now joining our our method of thinking here.
Well, you know, this is fascinating.
It's since you're if you if you look try this, sixty-four percent of Americans are against the federal government taking steps to enforce federal anti-marijuana laws.
In Michigan, right to work is becoming de rigueur, the norm.
If you it's fascinating to me, um it's too bad people are not motivated to support states' rights in other areas.
I mean, you the federal government has anti-marijuana laws.
States are legalizing it.
Federal government's moving in to stop them, and sixty-four percent of Americans are against the federal government doing this.
We need, you know, these states uh one thing it could be said.
The states do provide an opportunity to stop some of this stuff that's happening.
The states do.
And the right to work in Michigan is a classic illustration of, you know, the closer you get to home, the more you find out how people really live and want to live.
The farther you get from federal government policy, the farther you get from Obama, you find out how people really want to live.
This right to work in Michigan is a big deal.
Michigan is is uh ground zero for union activity.
And Michigan is about to become a right to work state where you can get a job without having to join a union.
So the unions, the unions are going to lay siege in Lansing, like they laid siege to Madison.
If you saw what the unions did in Wisconsin, Eric, stand by and be patient, because they're going to repeat this in Michigan.
And they're going to try to intimidate the governor and everybody involved here.
Not going to take this lying down.
But it is, it's a, it's a, to me, it's an interesting contrast.
Because if you just look at federal policy and what's happening, you would automatically conclude that we have lost the country, that we're outnumbered.
But then you go to a state here or a state there, and you find people behaving in totally opposite or different ways than what you would think they want.
Just observing national policy.
Quick timeout again.
Thanks for the call, Eric.
We'll be right back.
Ladies and gentlemen, does the National Football League have a drinking problem?
You might have heard that a Dallas Cowboys player was driving intoxicated, had an accident, his teammate, practice squad member, died in the crash.
The driver was released after a $500,000 bond, charged with manslaughter of some degree or another.
Two weeks in a row.
Guns and automobiles.
Is there a drinking problem in the NFL?
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