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Dec. 2, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 2, 2013, Monday, Hour #2
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We've got our man Friday running the dials today.
He's he he he's a fillin'.
He's a temp, he's a substitute.
We know all about those things in Wisconsin right now.
We don't have Aaron Rodgers and everything fell apart.
I I haven't really noticed any deterioration, though, not having Mamon here today, and HR is doing my call screening producing, instructing me on what to say, whispering in my ear, and so on.
No, you're not gonna like this because people are going to try to play along, even though I'm telling them not to play along.
We're gonna play a game here, our number two of today's Rush Limbaugh program.
It's a brief game, but it's not one in which you can actively participate.
It's just going to be in your head.
It is a mind game.
I'm going to have a one question quiz.
Don't call in those of you who know the answer because HR will then ball me out for having people call in.
We don't want you to call it.
You're gonna play this one on your own.
If you know the answer, you're a political geek, which is not an insult.
It means you are an extremely aware person.
But the fact is is that I suspect, even among Russia's audience, which is way more well informed than the average American, you wouldn't be listening to this program unless you desire to be informed.
Most of you won't be able to answer the question.
And that's going to lead me to the point that I want to make.
Quick now.
Who's the White House chief of staff?
Name him.
It is a him.
Name him.
You can't, can you?
Now I know there are some people who listen to Rush who know everything.
They're the equivalent of the people who are into the NFL draft and know exactly who's going to be picked with the twenty-second pick in the seventh round of the draft.
A few of you know.
Hardly anybody does.
I know anything.
So what?
Well, let's think about that for a minute.
By the way, the guy's name is Dennis McDonough.
Yeah, I know.
Who?
I know.
I still remember one of the advantages of doing this program only once in a while is you do remember the things that you say on a national program that you're proven correct about.
I remember when I did my first broadcast of Russia's program after Obama had become president.
And I said on this show that these people are way less competent than you think, that he wasn't choosing that first string of liberalism or the second string.
He was choosing the fourth string and a bunch of his hacks from Chicago, and that they would be in over their heads.
Everything they have done since then has failed.
I do think he wanted the stimulus to work.
There are many people who think that his sole goal is to destroy America.
I understand.
He wants to destroy America as we know it, and wants to make us a nation that is entirely dependent on the government, in which we all need the government to provide everything for us.
But I do think he wanted the economy to improve just so he could take credit for it.
He wanted to prove that if you spend millions and millions and millions of dollars in federal money, it can turn the private sector economy around.
They wanted to prove this point.
They wanted to prove that Paul Krugman was right all along, that government spending is what controls the private economy in the United States.
The stimulus was an utter flop.
It failed.
Everything he's done with foreign nations, with with other nations, in an attempt to get the United States will, if not imposed, influence other countries, has failed.
The punting on Iran, the latest example of that.
He's flopped at all of it.
And then we get Obamacare.
Which they literally can't even get off the ground.
This isn't the Zeppelin that crash.
This is the Zeppelin that's sitting there on the ground, not even able to get up in the air, not even an inch.
This website.
The things that we hear about it are stunning.
Even for people who have a low opinion of the president of the United States and argue that this guy is a community organizer who's never done anything in his life, which is all true, and is in over his head, you would think that the signature achievement of his administration, the thing he is more proud of than anything else, the thing that he staked his entire credibility as president on, that he would have been able to come up with a way to get people to sign up for it.
We're reading some of these stories about the level of incompetence here.
By the way, even some in the mainstream media.
Yesterday's New York Times had a story that went on longer than most novels.
Behind the scenes of the website failure.
And you see all this finger pointing from a bunch of anonymous people.
Well, you were supposed to do this, you should have done that.
Sibyllia should have done this.
The person in charge of Medicaid should have done that.
Nothing, of course, got done.
This was the thing that he has wanted to work more than anything else as president.
The easy part is putting together a website that people can sign up on.
I can't even imagine how many people have bought something from Amazon the last five days.
I bet almost everybody's sign up process went through, and almost everybody's stuff is going to show up at the time that it's supposed to show up.
This is not complicated.
Setting up a website is not complicated stuff.
But they couldn't get it done.
Even their fix isn't a fix.
Which brings me back to Dennis McDonough.
Who is that?
The White House chief of staff, prior to Obama becoming president, is a legendary position.
The chief of staff is the gatekeeper for the president.
The chief of staff is like the CEO of the United States of America government.
The president is the chairman of the board.
The chief of staff decides who gets to see the president.
The chief of staff decides day-to-day strategy.
The chief of staff works long-term strategy.
The chief of staff is the one that cracks the whip on the entire White House staff.
That's what the chief of staff is there for.
You go back and look at not only Republican, but Democrat presidents in the last 40 to 50 years, some of the most important, powerful, and sharpest people, regardless of their ideology, held that position.
And he's got a guy in there who we never hear from at all.
One of the reasons this website wasn't working is there was nobody in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, and September, demanding that this thing be up and running, riding hurt on this.
So why does Obama have such a nobody as chief of staff?
I suspect because he's threatened by having a strong chief of staff.
Now let's contrast the Dennis McDonough, the guy that nobody's ever heard of, with past chiefs of staff of presidential administrations.
W. had Joshua Bolton and Andrew Carder.
Even Clinton, Leon Panetta was one of his chiefs of staff.
John Podesta Erskin Bowles were chiefs of staff.
MacLarty was a chief of staff.
H. W. Bush.
Sam Skinner, a lifer.
By the way, father of uh James Skinner, who used to be on Fox and is married to the NFL Commissioner.
James Baker.
Reagan, also James Baker, Donald Regan, Howard Baker, Ford, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
Even Nixon, ruthless and perhaps discredited, but remarkably powerful people, Haldeman and Alexander Haig.
You can go all the way back to Dwight Eisenhower.
Sherman Adams is a legend.
These were people who were charged by the president of the United States of running things and getting things done.
Whether you agree with each of those presidents' ideology or not, most strong presidents found some of the sharpest, shrewdest people in American life to charge with the task of running their presidential administration.
And Obama has come up with a bunch of nobodies.
Dennis McDonough is merely the latest.
He was preceded by Jack Lou.
Yeah, I know.
Now he's made him Treasury Secretary.
Jack Lou, his name ought to be Jack Lou Who.
Bill Daly, brother of the former mayor of Chicago, he actually is a pretty sharp guy.
Chicago insider.
He lasted like three or four weeks.
Expressed frustration with the job, couldn't get anything done, he was gone.
Before that, Rama Manual.
We see how great his administrative skills are.
Is there a city in America other than Detroit a bigger train wreck right now than Chicago?
Obama came into power and figured that just the sheer power of his intelligence, he was so smart, that he didn't need a strong team around him.
There has never been anyone in the White House who was more overestimated his own intellect than President Obama.
He assumed that because everyone has told him how smart he is, that he actually was smart.
My fellow Rush guest host Mark Stein has written a great piece about this.
About the remarkably high regard that the Obama people have for themselves.
So he brings in a bunch of Chicago hacks, Ram Emanuel is a Chicago guy, the real chief of staff, Valerie Jarrett, she's the enforcer, she's a pal.
Chicago.
Nobody who actually has any experience running a government.
He himself, community organizer who never organized anything.
State Senator who never voted yes or no, merely voted president.
United States Senator, nobody can even associate a bill or an issue that he worked on when he was there.
When he was at Harvard Law Review, he published how many articles?
I believe maybe none.
If ever a president needed a chief of staff, a Democratic insider, a power broker, a guy who knew how to do the deal.
Maybe they would have figured out not to have overpromised on keeping your own insurance and keeping your own doctor.
Maybe they would have figured out that they're going too far, that they're overreaching with Obamacare, that they need to moderate a little bit, get a few Republican votes.
Maybe they would have figured that with stimulus they would spend at least one or two dollars that might somehow dribble into the private sector.
Instead, this is amateur hour.
You can't fathom if Reagan had ever done something as stupid as Obamacare, if Reagan had nationalized health insurance.
Can you imagine for a minute that James Baker would ever have allowed this fiasco to occur?
He would have been requiring memos every day for a year prior to the launch.
Even Clinton.
I know, it's so bad that we wistfully reminisce about the presidency of Bill Clinton.
Even Clinton, you get the idea maybe that Leon Panetta or Erskine Bowles would be riding a little herd on this.
He would have been better off making Hillary the chief of staff.
Lord knows she's good at yelling at people.
Jerry Ford's administration.
Here's a guy had been in Congress forever, had never really run anything.
He knew he needed strong people.
They went on to become legends, Rumsfeld and Cheney.
Nobody thinks Dennis McDonough's ever going to become anything.
He has one of the most important jobs there is right now, and nobody even knows who he is or that he's there.
*sniffing*
Somehow the United States of America is being run by a bunch of kids who should be in junior achievement.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
Yeah, I was thinking about the point that I made in the last segment behind just about every really successful person is a strong chief of staff.
Who's Rush's chief of staff?
Oh, that's you.
All right.
Not the best ex.
Well, he even calls you guys overrated, doesn't he?
I have HR here doing the program.
Probably not a good idea to make fun of the staff when you're only halfway through a program.
By the way, before I leave Obamacare entirely, David Plough was Obama's campaign manager.
He went on this week with who who hosts this week now.
This week with David Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, Cookie Roberts, Stephanopoulos, is he on it now?
I honestly don't know.
He went on there and he I I'm not making this up.
He says Obamacare is pretty much going to be working well by 2017.
That's what he said.
2017.
After he's gone.
Does anybody get Will Farrell?
Is Will Farrell funny?
This whole Ron Burgundy thing, your your your wife thinks so.
He just strikes me as like a poor man's Dan Ackroyd.
Like he does everything that Dan Ackroy did only not quite as good.
All right, now let me get to this.
You read some stories, and you almost feel as though you're in a parallel universe.
On Thursday, all over America, 100 cities, they're going to try to stage one day strikes at all sorts of fast food restaurants.
They say they should make $15 an hour.
Fast food restaurants.
One day strike.
In this miserable economy, why would anyone walk away from their job and run the risk of being $15 an hour to work at Wendy's or Mc $15 an hour?
That's what they want.
The current federal minimum wage is what?
Seven and a quarter?
So they're not saying, well, we should make eight or not.
$15.
When you think about leftyism running amok, this is right near the top of this.
$15 an hour to work at a fast food restaurant.
Okay, let's imagine somehow magically you could do that without charging $37 for a Big Mac.
Let's just make it $15 an hour.
What do you think the guy who's making $10 somewhere else is going to want?
He's not going to be satisfied with they're paying $15 at Wendy's.
They're paying $15 at Carls Jr.
I deserve $18.
How about the person who actually is making $15 now?
Imagine the insult to that person's self-worth.
That's what they pay at fast food restaurants.
So let's just all pretend that you can raise fast food wages to $15 an hour, that that wouldn't therefore result in everybody else demanding that their pay be doubled everywhere across the economy.
And that you could somehow do this without driving prices for all of the goods and services that we have through the rough.
In fact, why not, you know, as long as we're going to take fake numbers, win a twenty, win at 30?
Why not pay them $100,000 an hour?
Everybody can be a billionaire.
See you can't pay for it.
But beyond that, there's another point that no one wants to make.
And since I'm only a guest host, I'll make it here.
They don't deserve $15 an hour.
If they deserve $15 an hour, they'd have a job that paid $15 an hour.
Why do you think they're only paid seven or eight or nine or ten?
And by the way, it's a myth that fast food workers all get the minimum wage.
Most don't even start at the minimum wage.
And usually if you're there for two to three months, they immediately start bumping you up.
But you'd be making $15 an hour if your boss thought he needed to pay $15 an hour in order to keep in in order to keep you.
If you were worth $15 an hour, and there are jobs out there that do pay $15 an hour.
Why haven't you applied for one of them?
Why did?
Why didn't you get it?
Why did somebody else get the jobs that do pay $15 an hour?
The reality is that entry-level jobs are called entry-level jobs for a reason.
They are entry-level jobs.
In the miserable economy that we are in, yes, you do get some pretty qualified people to work in entry-level jobs.
That's because millions of Americans don't even have a job because they can't find a job because we are in an economy presided over by a president who's seen virtually no job growth in four and a half years, five years now.
So if you're complaining that you're at this job level, it's only because there aren't many employers that are hiring anyone for anything.
Still, entry level is supposed to mean something.
It's where you enter the economy.
It's for the People who have enough skills to be hired, but not enough skills to do much of anything else.
Fast food restaurants require you to show up, require you to be clean, require some math skills, require you to handle the duties that you're that you're charged with.
It's not supposed to be a destination.
It's not supposed to be your career unless you don't have the ability to do anything else.
This notion, well, I'm worth more than $7.25.
Well, prove it.
This notion that somehow you have to be overpaid, you have to be given more than your job actually entails.
You have to be given a level of pay that is not commensurate with what you do is all coming from a bunch of crybabies who don't think it's their own responsibility to find a job that pays $15 an hour.
The reason they're at eight bucks or whatever it is that they're getting paid is really that's all they're worth.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
1-800-282-2882 is the phone number.
I'm going to continue my rant on this business of these crybaby whiny people who say that somehow they should be paid $15 an hour because they flip the bucket over on the French fry greaser or whatever it is that they do.
Fast food jobs are great.
I wonder what the percentages of the of Americans who at one point in their life work in a fast food restaurant.
I bet it's huge.
It requires people to learn responsibility.
Fast food restaurant work, you know, if you're in any kind of restaurant, any kind of a business, you're working your tail off.
You're doing this, that, and the other thing.
You're required to follow strict orders.
Most of the chains require that you make all of these menu items exactly the same.
It re teaches people discipline.
It teaches people the need to show respect for others.
It teaches people the need to show up on time.
It teaches people in order, you know, to be clean so that you're presentable.
It gives people discipline in life.
Furthermore, it's an industry that allows Americans to go and feed themselves without spending a lot of money in a convenient way.
The reason we have so many fast food restaurants is because lots of people like going to fast food restaurants.
There are in this country probably several million people who are really successful right now, who started out in fast food restaurants.
Some of them stayed in the industry.
You go and you become the night manager, then you become the manager, and now you're a franchisee.
Those stories have happened, they're real.
Lots of people who own several individual stores in these chains started out cutting the sandwich or slicing the lettuce or driving the pizza.
But that's the point.
You go into those jobs in order to learn how to move up and do something else.
People don't feel anymore as if there ought to be any onus on them to improve themselves.
We have to artificially pay you something right now that implies that you've reached your destination.
You're not happy making $9 an hour.
Figure it out.
Angle your way into being a manager at that store.
Use the money that you're earning at that business to improve yourself.
Not everybody is cut out to go to college or even technical school.
So what?
Do what you can to make yourself a valued employee.
We live in a world right now in which the union mentality and SEIU is driving all of this.
Service Employees International Union, which is one of the most liberal unions we have, they're pushing this thing because they want to get unions into the fast food restaurants, and they're arguing that all of these people are underpaid.
Imagine what's going to happen to those restaurants when they are unionized.
This is driving all of them.
They tell everybody that they are being undercompensated for what they are doing.
You're supposed to start out in life at something.
And generally speaking, the thing that you start out at that is the easiest or requires the lowest number of skills is the thing that's going to pay you the least amount of money.
That's the way it works.
Everybody right now is looking for a handout from someone.
It's the reason that so Many people buy into the democratic notion that everything should come from government.
Give me this, give me that, give me the other thing.
Remember the person in the video during the Obama campaign, she was going to vote for Obama because she had her Obama phone and all this other stuff.
Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me.
But it's still not enough.
You get all this stuff from government, but now you want even more from your employer.
Not because you've earned more, not because you've done more, but because you feel as though it just ought to be given to you.
Now, of course, logically, if we gave every fast food restaurant worker $15 an hour and raised everybody else's pay, the $15 would go just about as far as the $8 go now.
Because pay is a way of keeping score.
And then we'd have to raise welfare because the lower income people who don't have any job at all can't keep up to pay for it to pay their bills because of the inflation that will occur if we drive off everybody's way.
But that's the logical argument.
I'm focusing now more on the selfishness part of this.
This idea that somehow you are entitled to make a high amount of pay because you work hard.
You're working hard is why you have a job at all.
The idea that we are not responsible for our own destiny is toxic.
There isn't a person in the United States other than a handful of people in government who've ever made it anywhere because they continue to be given things.
You've got to figure out how to go out and take it.
And I don't care what it is that you do.
Talk show host, fast food restaurant employee, car salesman.
The reason I don't have enough money is because they should be giving me more.
Figure it out.
Who's they?
Why don't you figure out how you can't become one of those they handout mentality in the United States used to be something that we rejected.
There used to be people, I'm not going to take welfare, I'm not going to take any kind of man, I'm not going to take a giveaway.
People light up now for giveaways.
The president of the United States wants to make everything an entitlement, including health care.
Now people who have a job somehow the pay is way, way, way, way too low, somehow because they have so exaggerated their own self-importance and self-worth.
And I guess we know where that comes from.
We have been so liberal with the handing out of esteem.
These kids when they're in school, you're special, you're special.
Every kid has been told they're special.
Every kid has been told they're super, every kid has been told they're smart.
Their parents never yell at them, the teachers never sanction them.
They're always told that they're wonderful people.
Then they get out of the real world and they find out that man, I'm just average.
This is shocking.
I'm special.
I shouldn't be making eight dollars an hour.
I'm special.
No, you're not.
You're just one of those guys behind the counter at a fast food restaurant.
Well, I don't care.
I'm special.
I'm smart.
I work hard.
The company's making all the money.
Give it to me.
Well, why don't you figure out how to make a little bit more yourself?
This idea that it all should be given, given, given to us, means that nobody's ever going to go out and do anything to make their own lives better.
Houston, Texas, Pete, you're on EIB with Mark Bellington.
How are you doing today?
I'm great.
I'm done yelling, by the way.
That's the end of it.
Well, you've made a lot of my points for me, and you know, my biggest one is it's the big liberal lie that minimum wage increases are to help the poor.
They're not.
They're to give a false prop-up to programs like Social Security and Medicare by increasing the payroll taxes that they collect that are not deductible and there is no return on the poor so that they can falsely show that they've got this much more dollars going into the market.
Well, the other thing, the other thing that it the other thing that it does, Pete, is that it gives people this false notion that employers have all this extra money that they're simply pocketing and using to go on cruises and buy private jets and and all of that other stuff, as opposed to the reality that the fast food business is one in which the profit margins are extremely narrow.
You know, uh I go to McDonald's, I don't know how they make money off that dollar menu.
You can I I can go to a McDonald's and get three big P big what do I get from my I pay three dollars and eighteen cents with our six percent sales tax in Wisconsin, and I have enough for two meals.
I don't know how they make that money, but they have to have those prices that low in order to compete.
If they start raising their prices in order to maintain their margins, what the rather raise their wages in order to maintain their margins, what they're gonna have to do is eliminate people.
And the minimum every time we raise minimum wages, we end up seeing declines in employment because the person who's only marginally skilled is no longer somebody that the boss can justify paying nine or twelve or fifteen or seventeen dollars an hour or two.
Thank you for the call.
Let's try Westerville, Ohio and Art.
Artists your turn on the Russian Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Mark, good morning.
Uh, this is our uh and my comment was uh corollary to what you're talking about, which I agree with completely about the fast foods.
But 45 years ago, 1970s, uh I started out 1960s actually working part-time in retail for uh a discount department store chain that got me through college, uh helped with that.
It was a part-time job.
Afterward, I went into retail business, worked for a discount department store chain that's uh no longer around, but uh progressed to a department manager and assistant manager, and even at that time probably ninety percent of the employees were part-timers.
Uh that was the nature of the the work, it was the nature of the job.
So this what's being vilified today is Walmart is typically being the poster child for it for not offering full-time employment, for not offering better wages.
They're currently paying a whole lot um on average more than minimum wage, but it is dominantly a part-time uh job market that is in the retail industry.
Well, you're right.
The same thing is true of fast food.
And the point that I'm making is there's a reason there are some jobs are mostly part-time, and there's also a reason why some jobs aren't paid as much as our others.
We live in a world though in which people just don't want to hear what I said in the last segment.
You're not worth any more than this.
If you were, you'd be paid that.
People are paid on the basis of what you need to pay someone in order to do the job that they have.
And the reality is is that employers realize that people who work in fast food restaurants literally do come a dime a dozen.
It is up to the individual to prove that they are worth more than that by moving up and by motivating themselves.
If we make every job that anyone holds a destination, what's the point of trying to be a manager?
If, for example, somebody's going to be paid fifteen dollars an hour to work at a McDonald's, how much is the night manager supposed to be paid?
Eighty, ninety?
It becomes absurd.
Everybody wants to think that they are worth so much.
But what they don't want to accept is that your own worth is determined by what you do with your life, not some artificial number that you want to go out and demand that you do not deserve.
If you want to make more money than you're making, figure out how to do it.
And I understand in this miserable economy, that's hard.
Middle management's being wiped out.
Obama's been toxic for the middle class.
There is no job growth out there.
Somebody who has a job at a fast food restaurant is probably demanding more money because he can't figure out how he can get any more.
Still, the expectation and the number they throw out is ridiculous, and it tells you something about people's inflated view of what they themselves are really worth.
Thank you for the call.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
That's some headlines here.
Wall Street Journal, top of page one today.
Holiday sales sag despite blitz of deals.
The New York Times, gloomy numbers for holiday shoppings, big weekend.
If there's anything I'm not an expert on, it's retail sales over the Thanksgiving, Christmas weekend, Black Friday, and all of that stuff.
I don't know what motivates people to shop all during this one period, other than I understand the deals are good, the door busters, while you're fighting to shop on Thanksgiving night.
So I don't really get that.
Maybe these numbers are skewed because the whole concept of Black Friday and the opening weekend is over.
Well, with online retailing being so pervasive, people don't feel as though they have to shop at any particular time.
Maybe it's going to be more scattered through the season.
I don't know that.
But let's assume there is something to this story.
Doesn't it tell you again that the economy that we are in kind of sucks?
We keep getting told that there's a recovery.
We keep getting told that the numbers keep gradually improving.
The quarter to quarter growth rate is in the range of one percent.
They were supposed to be slightly going up, but then you see signs like this.
The retail sales number is a remarkable barometer of what's going on with the middle class.
Consumers spend money on gifts and themselves when they feel confident about the future.
If indeed the Christmas season is flat or even down, and this trend that we saw over the weekend continues, what does that tell you?
Now, the last time I was here on the Rush program, I did a long segment, about an hour, on my theory that Obama has been a spectacularly good president for people who are rich, and that he's been a spectacularly carriable president for people who are poor and an atrocious president for people in the middle to lower middle class.
In other words, exactly this the opposite of what his ideology is.
Obama has been great for somebody who has financial assets.
If you're a holder of real estate, investment real estate, real estate has recovered tremendously.
If you're in the stock market, if you're somebody in the stock market with millions, you've done gloriously well under Obama.
Because the policies of the Federal Reserve and the policies of Obama seem to be aimed almost entirely at driving up the holders of assets.
The Fed policy, the loose money policy, the bond buying has inflated assets.
Even today, another story.
Miami real estate market overseas money pours into Miami real estate.
Miami real estate was in a bubble.
It crashed.
They overbuilt everything.
All that stuff that was overbuilt, it's now all sold.
There's cranes all over the place.
Go to Miami Beach, go to downtown Miami.
High end condos priced again through the roof.
They can't build them fast enough.
Overseas investors, they want to be part of this.
They want to take advantage of the fact that they can borrow the money for almost nothing because the interest rates are artificially low, and they see that the value of these assets keeps going up.
Well, what good does that do?
The low income person.
Virtually nothing.
His presidency has been premised on inflating the value of assets, which has helped people who are really well off.
For those that he says he cares about, and for those who predominantly voted for him, there's been no job growth, there's been no wage growth, and now here we are five years into it, and there's the same consumer malaise that there's been all along.
I'll tell you something else is driving this.
It's Obamacare.
All of these people that are finally being able to work their way onto this decrepit website.
They're being quoted these prices and they see what's happening to the cost of their health insurance.
If your health insurance cost as an individual goes way up, how much are you going to be spending this Christmas?
He's placed all of these burdens on the American people in order to finance his scheme.
But those people that he's putting that burden on are primarily in the middle to lower end.
Obamacare isn't going to be that bad for somebody who's rich.
If you make five million dollars a year, what do you care if your health insurance premium goes up a few thousand dollars?
You're not going to cut back on anything.
That person in the middle income, he's scaling back right now.
And you see it, I think in these holiday sales.
The great, great irony of the Obama presidency is the person who so deeply resents the one percenters, and who says he cares so much about people on the lower end.
The one percenters have thrived under him.
Real estate, stocks, those assets continue to inflate.
Everybody else?
We're just drifting along.
I'm Mark Ellingon for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Bellings sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Now here's an interesting story.
Iran's hardliners keep their criticism of nuclear pack to themselves.
Nonetheless they exist.
Some of the hardliners in Iran don't like the deal that Iran made with the United States on Iran's nuclear Program.
You're talking about people that are hard to please.
They're able to keep building their nuclear program.
They only have to scale back like 20%.
We're not going to do any real monitoring.
All of our sanctions are gone.
We all agree to kind of wink, wink, nod, nod, look the other way.
You're going to be a nuclear power in about two years.
The United States has totally folded.
You can now you can now buy all the stuff that you want.
All of our sanctions are going to be dropped, and you're unhappy?
Our guy completely sold us out and rolled over to you, and some of these hardliners are still.
You want to prove a point about not being able to reason with Islamist extremists.
This is like a guy who goes into a Cadillac dealer, buys a brand new CTS, by the way, beautiful car, pays $4,700 total for it, and then walks out of the dealership thinking he's been screwed because they didn't throw in free satellite radio.
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