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Dec. 12, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 12, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Well, I just got it, and I'm just printing it, but I haven't had a chance to read it, so I can't do it right now.
But apparently, roll call has uh a story claiming that all this polling data showing the American people favor tax increases is BS.
Apparently, you know, Bloomberg has a poll out that uh nearly 50% of Republicans think that Obama's got a mandate to raise taxes.
And that most people fear that entitlements are going to be cut in the fiscal cliff deal.
And apparently all of that is BS.
What do we get here?
Uh uh public support of tax increases is a myth.
Rollcall.com.
It is by Colin Hanna and Alex Cortes.
And said myths are perpetuated in Washington with conventional wisdom created by one person, and then bouncing off of hundreds more in a self-reassuring circle of groupthink.
But in real America, you can find a truth if you look hard enough.
When a Democrat Party and a fourth branch of government, the media unite on an issue.
The result is a powerful megaphone of misrepresentation.
During the present fiscal cliff negotiations, the most egregious myth perpetrated by the Democrat media complex is the public supports raising taxes on the successful.
You might believe that the Democrats and the mainstream media are right, according to public opinion polling.
Just one example, recent ABC News, Washington Post poll found that 60% support raising taxes on incomes more than $250,000 a year, including a meaningful 39% of Republicans, and that's kind of hard to argue with.
However, when you ask the public what the top tax rate should be, you get a completely different picture of reality.
In a survey conducted by the Hill in February, 61% of likely voters said the top tax rate should be 25% or less.
A rate that's very much lower than the present top rate, demonstrating a majority support for lowering taxes below what they are today if you accept the answer on rates.
Fully 88% said the top rate should be at the current 35% or less.
Only 4% supported a top tax rate of 40%, which is closest to what Obama's proposing and what the Democrats want to increase the top rate too.
It is it is kind of stunning.
I mean, these guys do make a good point here.
that people who want tax increases think the highest rate is only 25%.
All right.
We're dealing with such idiots.
I I don't I don't I mean, I'm talking about the uninformed, low information idiots.
I think we're really being ruled and governed by a minority.
I I really do.
I refuse to believe from my own sanity.
I refuse to believe in a majority of Americans really want all of this destruction.
I'm gonna I'm gonna hold out hope and pray that and I'm right about that.
Story not so much real well, you maybe I could make this related.
It's a story from Raleigh, North Carolina.
Now, before I tell you what the story is, let me remind you of something that I've predicted.
I have predicted, and I don't know when it will happen, but it won't be very long.
And it'll be led by liberals, Democrat Party, and it'll be part of Obamacare.
Somebody in a position of power and influence is going to pipe up and start criticizing the idea that there is profit in medicine.
Why should doctors earn so much money?
Why should there be such profit in making people well?
Why should it cost so much so that doctors can get so rich, simply healing people?
We are entitled to good health.
We're Entitled to lawyers.
We're entitled to health care.
Why should being healthy or being healed make people rich?
I can just see that coming.
You know it's coming.
There are already people who think it.
And you know who they are.
So with that prediction of mind, listen to this story.
More than 100 people filled a Baptist church hall Monday night.
Angry, frustrated, and insulted that Kroger will soon pull two grocery stores out of Southeast Raleigh, stranding many elderly residents who walk to the grocery store.
They criticized the Ohio based chain for shuttering the groceries on Martin Luther King Boulevard and New Burn Avenue without notice.
I'm told they did have two months' notice, but the story in the newspaper says there was no notice.
It's a slap in the face at Southeast Raleigh, said City Councilman Eugene Weeks speaking at Martin Street Baptist Church.
It's a slap in the face of our community.
Now why is Kroger closing the two stores?
Anyone want to hazard a guess?
Mr. Snerdley, official program advisor observer, why do you think Kroger's closing these two stores?
Okay, Snerdley says probably lack of revenue, which would mean no profit, or maybe even they be losing money.
And maybe it's uh crime Mary, I don't know about that, but I would certainly say that they're closing these two stores because there's no profit in them.
That there's uh no financial reason to keep them open.
So well, can you just hear the next why should there be profit in people who sell food?
We all have to eat.
We cannot live without eating.
Why should people make money off of people who have no choice but then to eat?
Why should food cost anything?
And if that's too extreme, why should food cost any more than what it costs to produce it?
There is an ever increasing percentage of our population that is being conditioned to think this way.
They are being taught to think this because profit is under assault at every level of our education system and especially in higher education.
Such as universities and academe, profit is under assault.
Profit is evil, profit is exploitation, profit is taking advantage of people, profit is obscene.
I give you big oil.
For how many decades of your life has big oil been under attack because of the profit that they earn?
And of course, there's no corresponding economic education to explain the purpose of profit.
But there are people, low information people in this country who think that this grocery store ought to stay open is if it doesn't make any money.
People have to eat, and my neighborhood ought to have a store.
It's not fair.
And why should they have to make a profit?
Why can't they just sell this stuff at what it costs?
Well, why would anybody provide anything if that's the ground rule?
Of course, that's never taught.
Why would a farmer even bother farming the stuff if he didn't get paid to do it?
He should do it because people need to eat, Mr. Limbo, and it's a compassionate thing to do.
Okay, so the farmer gives away what he grows.
Well, no, Mr. Limbois, he's in charge what it cost him to produce it.
So if he has to buy a tractor or whatever, he said, you have to amortize that cost, but thirdly, no profit.
Okay.
So the farmer goes and buys a tractor, calculates what it costs him to take his oranges or whatever to the market and then just charge that amount.
That's right, Mr. Louis.
It's an effort of fairness.
Okay.
And then every level, then the guy who drives the Truck to bring the food to the store.
He should only charge whatever it costs him to do.
That's right, Mr. Well, can I where is anybody gonna get any money to live?
Well, the government will take care of that, Mr. Limbaugh.
We have health care provided with food stamp and uh unemployment compensation that the government will pay people.
Oh, that's so everybody offers everything they serve or produce for exactly what it costs them, and then they live off what the government gives them.
That's right, Metherl.
And if the essence of compassion.
This is the voice of Mr. New Castrati, by the way.
Okay.
So the Kroger Company is supposed to figure out what it costs to sell a can of Van Camp's pork and beans and sell it for exactly what it cost them to get it into the store.
That's right, now you get it, Mr. Fairness.
And then people because people have to eat, and that's how they could afford it.
Nothing would cost nearly as much as it does.
Well, why would Van Camps, Mr. New Castrato, go into business and make pork and beans if there's no because people have to eat them because they love pork and beans.
Haven't I heard you, Mr. Limboy, people do it because they love it?
Well, where is that in America today?
Okay, so the pork and beans guys can pork and because they love pork and beans and they love canning it.
That's right.
That's right.
And then Kroger wouldn't have to clothing the thorth.
My friends do not doubt me.
We have people being taught exactly the routine I just went through.
Your kids, more than likely, in certain places, are being taught exactly that.
Now let's take these people, though, in Southeast Brotley, whose Kroger store is being ripped out from under them.
Snerdley has sent me a little prof note here.
He says, Well, this is an opportunity for some small grocer to open up.
You don't get it.
How many Snerdley is thinking that that's the normal entrepreneurial American way of looking at that.
That's not how these people are looking at this.
An opportunity to open up a state, that takes money, that's risk, uh, that's work.
Well, what no?
That's not that's not.
I can almost understand these people's frustration.
And I'll bet well, I bet I can explain it to you.
I'll bet I can explain it to you.
Our president, Barack Obama, sets an example of continually increasing benefits to people that they don't have to pay for.
There are the now famous Obama phones.
There is never-ending unemployment benefits.
They are constantly extended way beyond, you know, up to 99 weeks and then some.
There are food stamps.
Wherever you look, there's stuff offered to you that you don't have to pay for.
Well, after enough time goes by with this kind of reality, couldn't you look at a grocery store the same way Obama has you looking at phones?
And why should...
It cost you anything.
Why shouldn't that store be open to provide you what you need because you want it?
You're an American, you have to eat, and you're entitled.
And we've got a guy who's run for president twice on the notion that he's going to make that reality take place.
Okay.
Kroger government watch the difference.
They've both got all kinds of money.
You have to know that these people think Kroger, big corporation, plenty of money.
They're only shutting these stores because they want to keep the money for themselves.
Don't smirk.
Do not smirk.
I'm you don't think these people, some of them look at it that way?
That Kroger's selfish?
They want to keep the money for themselves.
There might even be a little racism involved here if you spick at it long enough.
Could well be.
Are people not being conditioned by the highest leaders of our country to think that way?
They are.
It damn well is an opportunity for some entrepreneur to roll in there and open a smaller mom-and-pop store.
Okay.
But if Kroger can't be profitable there, why is that?
See, that's that's never examined.
Why isn't Kroger profit now?
The markup in grocery stores, as you well know, on the food items next to nothing, they make their money selling juju bees and the stuff at the checkout counter.
That they really mark up stuff that's non-food items.
The food items, because people have to eat, food items, what's the markup?
One percent, what two percent in the grocery store?
And food items.
Anyway, let me take a brief time out here, my friend.
Sit tight.
El Rushmore back with much more after this.
The Rushmore.
you you Thank you.
To the phones we go.
This is Bill in Pittsburgh.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Good afternoon, Russ.
Uh very, very long time listener, first time caller.
You touched upon the subject uh earlier about Toradol.
I uh as a citizen, I was in an accident maybe 16 years ago.
I was telling your screener, and uh it was late in the evening, and by the next morning I was literally able to stand up straight at all.
So I called my sister, who at the time was a physician, and I explained uh my problem, and she said, go over to the emergency room, and they'll take care of you when you get there.
And I said, Okay, so I had somebody drive me over, a neighbor drove me over to uh Pittsburgh hospital, and as I walked in, the emergency room was literally wall-to-wall people, and the uh nurse took me into a separate room and asked um what all occurred.
And I told her I was in an accident, told her what happened.
I thought it was late in the evening, and I called my sister, and she told me to show up here.
She said, drop your trousers.
I couldn't straighten up.
I was literally up to my waist and then straight out, parallel to the floor.
Drop my trousers and hold on to the table.
And she gave me a shot.
And uh I saw it coming.
It was a nice sized needle, and I'm not afraid of needles.
And uh before she uh even said anything to me, I was able to bend down, pull my trousers up, and I was literally, literally in seconds out of pain.
And I asked her what I said, what did you give me?
She I gave you a shot of Toradol.
And I said, uh Is this something that if it continues to hurt?
Um I come in for another shot.
She goes, maybe one more shot.
After that, we would have to uh seek uh different therapy because you can't have too much of this stuff.
She did tell me it was damaging to, you know, certain parts.
You know, I just want I just wanted to uh Okay, there we have we have testimony.
We have testimony from an actual patient who was told the same thing by his doctor.
And the NFL players want to be able to take this during the season without signing a waiver that would indemnify the league.
It's gonna be a big fight.
It really appreciates okay.
Bill, thanks very much.
I uh appreciate that.
Keep a sharp vibe.
Keep a sharp vibe.
Baba dumb.
Okay, so we had all the violence in uh Michigan yesterday, and Jay Carney, the White House Obama refused to condemn it.
Given a chance to condemn the violence that took place, and there was a lot of violence against a Fox News producer.
The uh the other networks didn't carry it.
If you don't watch Fox, you haven't seen it.
Literally, but it was brutal.
It was profane, it was violent.
Couple of haymaker swings were connected with.
Um it was it was exactly when you think of union thuggery, it was on this a tore down a tent, ripped a tent down.
Says Jay Carney, what do you think of that?
Well, you know, really uh violence is uh it means different things to different people.
Uh passion is, I think the better way to describe what was going on.
I mean, they won't get anywhere near it.
Let's go back, shall we?
This is January 12th of 2011.
In Tucson, University of Arizona, during the Together We Thrive, Tucson and America political event to pay tribute to the January 8th shooting victims.
I think that was Gabby.
Yeah, that was the Gabby Gifford's uh they turned it into a political event.
And here's what Obama had to say, among other things at that event.
At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized.
At a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who happen to think differently than we do.
Get dots important for us to.
Pause for a moment and make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals.
Not in a way that wounds.
That was Obama.
That was Obama genuine.
There was a union guy shouting that at a Fox producer yesterday.
Get out of my face, get out of my face, shut up, get out of my face.
Big fat slob of a guy.
Typic, I mean, just typical.
And the guy, that was not the guy that took the swings.
Another guy took the swings.
So here is uh yesterday, Lancing Michigan on the floor of the Michigan House of Representatives during a debate on the right to work bill.
State Representative Doug Geis, Democrat, said this.
We're going to pass something that will undo a hundred years of labor relations.
And there will be blood.
There will be repercussions.
What was it Obama just said?
So we see here.
The time our discourse becomes so sharply polarized.
Far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who happen to think differently.
We've got to stop speaking this.
There will be blood.
Here's Jimmy Hoffett Jr.
This is just the first round of a battle that's going to divide this state.
Uh, we're gonna have a civil war in this state.
What they're doing is basically betraying democracy.
Right.
That's yesterday afternoon on CNN.
He wasn't through.
It's basically creating a free rider status with people voting and majority votes.
That should be the people that control in that particular company.
We've done this successfully all across the country.
Uh those states that do not have right to work have thrived.
The ones that do have right to work, like Mississippi or or Texas, end up being the last in education, the last in people making having good jobs.
Wrong.
We don't want that here in Michigan.
Wrong.
Here are the numbers.
According to Michigan's Mackinac Center, using data taken from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, private sector inflation adjusted employee compensation in right to work states increased by 12%, 2001 to 2011, compared with just 3% over the same period in forced unionization states.
Wages are up, jobs are up, incomes are up in right to work states.
Jimmy Hoffa Jr., who pledges a civil war, and Doug Geis, there will be blood, are dead wrong.
But remember what this is all about.
This is preserving a money laundering operation.
Again, I this isn't about it about right to work.
It's about making sure that the Democrat Party gets its money.
It's a money laundering up very quickly.
Let me go through this again.
Use the stimulus as an example.
Basically a trillion dollars.
Over 75% of the stimulus in 2009 went to union workers to maintain their jobs.
It did not go to shovel ready jobs, didn't go to repairs of schools, roads, bridges, it didn't create jobs.
We lost jobs.
But it maintained union jobs.
It went to teachers, cops, firefighters, mostly teachers, public sector union workers in all the states that are blue.
The reason is you got to keep the union employees employed because they pay dues.
The dues go where?
The dues go into advertising and donations for Democrats.
Pure and sense of money laundering.
So federal treasury was rated of a trillion dollars.
It was sent to union members in the states, blue states, primarily, and came back to the Democrat Party.
Obama can't go to Treasury, just write the Democrat Party a check, but he can ask for stimulus spending to create jobs.
And in his first month, he gets what he wants.
It's the honeymoon.
He gets his stimulus and it goes to protect union jobs so that they don't lose their jobs during the economy to downturn.
And it goes to union dues continuing to flow.
Well, right to work states, you go to get a union job, you don't have to join the union, and you don't have to pay dues.
Therefore, Democrat Party doesn't get its money.
Union leaders lose their clout with the Democrats.
That's what this is about.
It's no more complicated than that, folks.
Right to work is not about fairness for employees.
It's not about any of this rot gut that Geiss or Hoffa are talking about.
This is also Jimmy Hoffa can stay at the Democrat Party's table of power by delivering union money to the Democrat Party.
It's all it is.
It literally is a money laundering operation.
Federal Treasury dollars go to union dues, which comes back to the Democrat Party.
And as long as that happens, Jimmy Hoffa's a favored guy with Barack Obama and the Democrats.
Long as that happened, Andy Stern is a favored guy with Barack Obama and the Democrat.
All these union leaders maintain their perks, their positions of power with the Democrat Party as long as they make sure that money, the union dues end up back in the Democrat Party, either with campaign donations or money spent on advertising.
It's that simple.
And when the state goes right to work, there aren't any union dues, and the Democrat Party's out that money, and there's hell to pay.
No more complicated than that.
Here, by the way, is the audio of the Fox news contributor being threatened and being beaten up by the union thugs in Lansing, Michigan yesterday.
What is it about right to work that you oppose so much?
It's because it's it's the freedom to freeload.
They can suck all of the parasitical benefits into hard wages that unions have negotiated and they get it for free.
Get out of my face!
Don't sit down the table.
Get the out of my face.
You heard a lady.
I didn't hurt nobody.
You heard my face!
Okay.
What do you do?
He's got a gun.
I'll kill the with a gun.
Should hear that at the end?
He's got a gun.
I'll kill Bleep with a gun.
There will be blood.
Yes, just your average decent American citizen union thugs here.
Desperate to hold on to their freebies.
Desperate to hold on to their deal.
That's what's happening.
I got to take another quick time out, but we got more.
We always have more, so don't go away.
Music Wilmington, North Carolina is our next stop on the phones.
Hi, Jeff.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Ross, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Um, I wanted to make the case, then I think the conservatives need to make it, whether it be the senators or whoever, that the whole economy is being held up by deficit federal deficit spending, which is either money printed or money borrowed.
Um if you go through the whole the whole and and and everybody up there knows that.
They know if they cut the deficit that the economy is gonna go into a tail spend.
All right, they're gonna and it's gonna have to happen at some point.
But if you go through the list, and I wanted to play off something you were speaking about earlier, which was that the local cities and the state governments are all being held up by this money.
All right, that's where this this whole thing comes down because all that money, whether it be school teachers, state workers, even doctors and nurses in hospitals, all that money goes away.
You're talking, I'm a private guy, I have a couple small businesses, and all that money isn't going to be spent.
We're in real trouble.
All right, and I hope that people can understand it.
I don't understand why the Republicans, when they say, oh, or when the other side says that we had a growth rate of 2.7%, they don't say no, we didn't.
We didn't have we had probably a growth rate of negative 10%.
It's all borrowed money.
And I don't understand why they don't continuously make that case.
Uh I don't think either party has the uh temerity, the guts right now to uh actually deal with where we are out of fear of the fallout if people were told the truth.
Right now we're just we're we're trucking right along.
We're got a little recovery going here.
The unemployment rates coming down, the rich are gonna be paying their fair share, everybody's gonna have health care.
Um got your phone, you your plasma, your food stamp debit card, what the hell is to complain about?
Except that it's all based on borrowed money.
Shh, don't no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Don't say that.
Most people most people's lives are borrowed money when you got right down to it.
That's very true.
However, if you look at it, if they ever cut back, and I'm I know that they know this, all those municipalities, all those votes that they're looking for that are coming through other, like I said, school teachers, it even goes into colleges.
You think professors are gonna be making ninety grand a year to be teaching two or three classes a week, right?
All that money starts to go away, then they start screaming, you know, how are my kids going to make it go to school?
Your business.
That's interesting.
I know what folks, what he's saying is if we ever did engage in serious deficit reduction, a lot of it is money that's being used to provide jobs for people.
And if that money's cut and they either lose their jobs or some of their income uh, then they join the welfare roles.
It's a self-perpetuating cycle.
And then where do they go to get new jobs in an economy like this?
That's why.
Before you start doing any of that, as part of doing that, you've got to have policies for economic growth.
It is the only salvation that we've got.
If we're gonna hold on to this country as founded, there has to be economic growth.
And because part of economic growth, the job opportunity, career opportunity, entrepreneurial opportunity, bad word, entrepreneur doesn't sell well.
Sorry.
It just doesn't.
I'm sorry, I wish it did, but it's a it's a negative word now.
It is.
Didn't help Romney.
So it it is a conundrum.
So many people are being propped up by the tax payments of others.
Oh, I don't want to get out of Romney's loss.
What it's over done.
It's Nerd Lee said how much of his loss was his fault.
Hell, I don't know.
Doesn't matter right now.
That's that analysis is being done, will be done, has been done.
Uh doesn't matter at this moment in time.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Uh uh, Jeff.
Yeah, appreciate it.
Thanks very much.
The End One of my favorite French actors, Gerard Depardie, is leaving France.
Gerard DePardier, I think he's going to Belgium.
They raised the tax rates on the rich, they're up 75%.
And uh Gerard Depart said, no more.
I'm out of here.
And so now the French government has created this anti-Depard movement, accusing him of being greedy and selfish and others like him.
And he's just one of many.
Can you imagine the first actor that might leave America if something like that happened?
Gerard Depardier.
Leaving France.
And we will be back tomorrow, folks, 21 hours.
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