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 a story claiming that all his polling data showing the American people favor tax increases is BS.
Apparently, you know, Bloomberg has a poll out that 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?
Public support of tax increases is a myth.
Rollcall.com.
It is by Colin Hanna and Alex Cortez.
And it 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 to.
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's only 25%.
We're dealing with such idiots.
I mean, I'm talking about uninformed, low-information idiots.
I think we're really being ruled and governed by a minority.
I really do.
I refuse to believe, for my own sanity, I refuse to believe that a majority of Americans really want all of this destruction.
I'm going to hold out, hope, and pray that, and I'm right about that.
Story not so much.
Well, maybe I could make this related.
It's a story from Raleigh, North Carolina.
Now, before I tell you what this 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 mine, 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 Bern 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?
Anybody 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'd be losing money.
And maybe it's crime area.
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 no financial reason to keep them open.
So, well, can you just hear the next question?
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 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 I 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 doesn't get paid to do it?
He should do it because people need to eat, Mr. Limbaugh, and it's a compassionate thing to do.
Okay, so the farmer gives away what he grows.
Well, no, Mr. Limbaugh, he should charge what it costs 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. Limbaugh.
It's the essence of fairness.
Okay.
And at 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. Can I, where is anybody going to get any money to live?
Well, the government will take care of that, Mr. Limbaugh.
We have health care provided.
We have food stamps and unemployment compensation.
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, Mr. Limba.
It's the essence of fairness.
And it's 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 costs them to get it into the store.
That's right.
Now you get it, Mr. Essence of Fairness.
And then 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 Castrati, 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. Limbaugh, say 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.
And Mr. Limbaugh did.
And then the Kroger wouldn't have to call them Ethorz.
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 grocery 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 student, that takes money, that's risk, that's work.
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 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.
Kroger, government, what's the difference?
They've both got all kinds of money.
You have to know that these people, they 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.
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 stick 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.
But if Kroger can't be profitable there, why is that?
See, that's never examined.
Why isn't Kroger profit?
No, the markup in grocery stores, as you well know, on the food items, next to nothing, they make their money selling jujubees and the stuff at the checkout counter.
They really mark up stuff that's non-food items.
The food items, because people have to eat, food items, what's the markup?
1%, 2% in a grocery store?
And food items.
Anyway, let me take a brief time out here, my friends.
Sit tight.
L. Rushmore, back with much more after this.
To the phones we go.
This is Bill in Pittsburgh.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Very, very longtime listener, first time caller.
You touched upon the subject earlier about Tora Dahl.
As a citizen, I was in an accident maybe 16 years ago.
I was telling your screener, and 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 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 a Pittsburgh hospital.
And as I walked in, the emergency room was literally wall-to-wall people.
And the nurse took me into a separate room and asked 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.
Dropped my trousers and hold onto the table.
And she gave me a shot.
And I saw it coming.
It was a nice-sized needle, and I'm not afraid of needles.
And before she 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, I said, what did you give me?
She said, I give you a shot of Toradoll.
And I said, is this something that if it continues to hurt?
Do I come in for another shot?
She goes, maybe one more shot.
After that, we would have to seek different therapy because you can't have too much of this stuff.
She did tell me it was damaging to certain parts.
You know, I just wanted to.
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 going to be a big fight.
It really appreciates it.
Okay, Bill, thanks very much.
Appreciate that.
Keep a sharp eye.
Okay, so we had all the violence in Michigan yesterday, and Jay Carney, 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 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.
was violent.
A couple of haymaker swings were connected with.
When you think of union thuggery, it was on, they tore down a tent, ripped a tent down.
Say, ask Jay Carney, what do you think of that?
Well, you know, really, violence is, it means different things to different people.
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 Giffords.
And 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 off.
It's 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 Junior.
There was a union guy shouting that at a Fox producer yesterday.
Get out of my face.
Get out of my face.
Shut that.
Get out of my face.
Big fat slob of a guy.
Typical.
I mean, just typical.
And the guy, that was not the guy that took the swings.
Another guy took the swings.
So here is yesterday, Lansing, 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 100 years of labor relations.
And there will be blood.
There will be repercussions.
What was it Obama just said to me?
Let's see here.
By 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 Hoffman Jr.
This is just the first round of a battle that's going to divide this state.
We're going to have a civil war in this state.
What they're doing is basically betray democracy.
Right.
That's yesterday afternoon on CNN.
He wasn't through.
It's basically creating a free rider status.
With people who vote and a majority votes, that should be the people that control in that particular company.
We've done this successfully all across the country.
Those states that do not have right to work have thrived.
The ones that do have right to work, like Mississippi or Texas, end up being the last in education, the last in people having good jobs.
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.
Remember what this is all about.
This is preserving a money laundering operation.
Again, this isn't about, it isn't 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 instance.
It's a money laundering.
So federal Treasury was raided 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, the 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, the 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 rock gut that Geis 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.
That'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 is a favored guy with Barack Obama and the Democrats.
As long as that happens, 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.
It isn't about right to work that you oppose so much.
It's because it's the freedom to free load.
They can suck all of the parasitical benefits in their heart wages that unions have negotiated and they get it for free.
Get the get out of my face.
Don't get down the table.
Get the s out of my face.
You hurt a lady.
I didn't hurt nobody.
You heard my face.
Okay.
You got a gun!
Did you 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 timeout, but we got more.
We always have more, so don't go away.
Wilmington, North Carolina is our next stop on the phones.
Hi, Jeff.
Great to have you on the EIB B Network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
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.
If you go through the whole, the whole, and everybody up there knows that.
They know if they cut the deficit, that the economy is going to go into a tailspin.
And it's going to 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, that's where 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 of 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 this.
I don't understand why the Republicans, when they say, or when the other side says we had a growth rate of 2.7%, they don't say, no, we didn't.
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.
I don't think either party has the temerity, the guts right now to actually deal with where we are out of fear of the fallout if people were told the truth.
Right now, we're just trucking right along.
We've got a little recovery going here.
Unemployment rates are coming down.
The rich are going to be paying their fair share.
Everybody's going to have health care.
You got your phone, your plasma, your food stamp debit card.
What the hell is it complaining about?
Except that it's all based on borrowed money.
Stop.
Don't, no, no.
Don't say that.
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 know that they know this, all those municipalities, all those votes that they're looking for that are coming through, like I said, school teachers, it even goes into colleges.
You think professors are going to be making $90,000 a year to teaching two or three classes a week?
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.
I know.
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, then they join the welfare rolls.
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 going to hold on to this country as founded, there has to be economic growth.
And because part of economic growth is 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 negative word now.
It is.
Didn't help Romney.
So it is a conundrum.
So many people are being propped up by the tax payments of others.
Oh, I don't want to get at Romney's loss.
It's over.
Snurdy's how much of his loss was his fault?
Hell, I don't know.
It doesn't matter right now.
That analysis is being done, will be done, has been done.
Doesn't matter at this moment in time.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Jeff, yeah.
Appreciate it.
Thanks very much.
One of my favorite French actors, Gerard Depardieu, is leaving France.
Gerard Depardie, I think, is going to Belgium.
They raised the tax rates on the rich.
They're up 75%.
And Gerard Depardie said, no more, I'm out of here.
And so now the French government has created this anti-Depardie 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?