All Episodes
Previous Next
Dec. 1, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
36:55
December 1, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Yes, sir, Bob.
Here we are back at it.
El Rushbo behind a golden EIB microphone, the most listened to radio talk show in the country, never talking about things that don't matter.
No matter what you may think, I never talk about things that don't matter.
I never talk about things that are not relevant, either to today or the future.
So happy to have you back.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Did we not just win the election?
Does that mean we are on offense or should always try to stay on offense?
Okay, so let me give you an example of what I'm talking about.
So we're gonna keep what, 1,200, 1,500 jobs at carrier.
All during the campaign, Trump said that he was going to talk to Carrier.
He was going to talk to Ford.
He's going to make sure that he kept these jobs here.
You just heard Obama back in June on PBS say it's not possible.
We got to realize that these jobs leaving are old-fashioned, out-of-fashion jobs, and well, we need job training centers to train people to do the new jobs are going to replace these.
Now, theoretically, there's nothing wrong with that, but the problem with it is that people like Obama think you are incapable of doing anything yourself.
They need to set up regional job training centers.
job trainings.
Anybody that has a decent job or career has it because they love what they do.
People, liberals, communists, socialists, localists.
Look at people as workers.
They look at them as ants, worker ants, worker bees, and so forth, and they just plug them in to do jobs that need to be done.
There's no thought given to the individual because there aren't any individuals in socialism, but he's the same.
A job training center is not going to train anybody for the future.
What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.
If you really, really want to help people, stop denying them their dreams.
When they're young.
Let kids dream, let them fantasize, let them plan all these great things they want to be.
Stoke it.
Instead of limiting what you think people can do and limiting what you think their capabilities are.
And liberals by definition do that.
They don't think anybody's capable of much.
That's why governments need it.
That's why big guts are all these bureaucracies are needed.
And if this whole notion of job training centers, with the government in charge of making sure you know what to do when certain jobs are lost and new jobs come along, that's not how people have meaningful lives.
People's lives, meaningful lives derive from desire, from passion, from education, from knowledge, from growing up being inspired by people and believing that you can do things and that you should want to do things, and people encouraging you to try to do things, not looking down on your desire, not looking down on your uh uh self-assessment of your abilities.
We wouldn't need any job training centers if our education was working in the first place.
What is it the hell is a job training center?
What do we have schools for?
Anyway, so Obama didn't even want to try to keep the jobs at carrier for whatever reason.
Maybe he didn't want to even roll up his sleeves at work with the people there.
Maybe he resents because they're a corporation.
I mean, liberals hate corporations, folks.
Corporations are not people.
Um and the more people that are out of work, the better off for the Democrat Party.
I know you might snicker at that, but it's the damn truth.
The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is in their minds, because that's their source of power.
It's all blown up on them, though, because it's now been demonstrated they can't provide.
They can't take care of.
They cannot provide prosperity for people.
The false promise has been realized again, but we have to keep teaching it.
So now Trump decided that he's gonna try to keep these jobs.
And Carrier is an example where he's done it.
And I think we need to focus on the fact that he did it.
Now, a lot of people are coming along now and criticizing it.
Trying to.
Well, yeah.
Well, Carrier got seven million dollars in tax breaks.
Of course they're gonna stop.
Wait a minute now.
Go back to what I said at the top of the hour.
We won.
We are on offense.
Nobody got tax breaks.
Carrier got tax relief.
The language is key.
Carrier didn't get a tax break.
We didn't give Terrier a loophole so that they can now be criticized.
We gave them tax relief.
We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
One of the reasons why companies have so much money offshore is because it's cheaper.
It's simply cheaper to operate the business offshore than it is domestically because of the tax rate, 35%, which is higher than anywhere else in the industrialized world.
And one of the things the Trump team says they're gonna do is lower that to 15%.
And if they do, folks, you haven't seen anything yet.
If they succeed in that, and you watch the Democrats are gonna be in there opposing it, at least at the outset, as stridently as they can.
The economy working, the economy growing, corporations growing and hiring people, and wage increases occurring, the worst thing that can happen politically for the Democrat Party.
That's why they have to constantly rewrite the history of the 1980s.
That's why they constantly tell you the 80s was an illusion that was all built on debt.
And they use the uh analogy that we overspent on the credit card and we have these big deficits and it's so forth, have to pay it back.
They wanted you to do everything, believe anything but that it was legitimate.
If Trump and his team are able to lower the corporate tax rate 15%, you look out.
The left has told people that corporation is gonna hide the money or shelter the money or keep it for the CEO.
They're not gonna give it away, they're not gonna share it, it isn't gonna trickle down.
You watch.
And this carrier situation is a great example.
They were gonna leave for Mexico.
They have been given seven million dollars in tax relief.
Or is it billion?
I I forget which.
The number doesn't matter.
And I think it's it's in it's important for us to properly characterize this.
The left, the media are are gonna try to call this tax breaks, uh favoritism, uh, loopholes.
They do it all the time.
In high-tax New York, in high-tax California, the governors of those states are constantly offering tax breaks, tax exemptions to any number of companies if they will locate in those states.
The left does it all the time.
We point it out every time we learn about it because it's hypocritical.
It's always a teachable moment when they do it.
Now that it appears to have happened here, and but it's not the sole reason carrier is staying either.
It's one of the factors.
I'm sure that Mike Pence and Trump together talking to the people at Carrier were very persuasive.
All they had to do was remind them of the election results.
All they have to do is remind them of where the mindset of America is right now.
I'm sure all they had to do was remind Carrier of the great public relations awaiting them.
After the announcement the jobs are staying here.
There's all kinds of factors that go into this.
But there's no question there was some tax relief offered because one of the reasons the only reason carrier was moving are economic reasons, folks.
These are businesses.
They are not organizations that are started up to provide health care.
A business does not start up because it needs to provide jobs for a community.
That's not why it happens.
Another example of how woefully inept our economic education is.
The left would have you believe that a corporation exists for health care.
A corporation exists to provide jobs to the community.
A corporation exists to make charitable donations to the symphony or whatever, the homeless shelter or whatever it is.
That's not why businesses exist.
Everybody ought to relish profitability.
Profitability is where growth takes place.
Profitability is where job creation relies or lies.
Profitability is where wage increases are.
Profitability is where the country grows and everybody rises up with it.
We should want small business, large business all doing well.
We shouldn't want to punish them simple reason they've gone into business, which is what the Democrats do.
Go into business, sell a product, sell a surface, you're automatically a suspect to people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Unless you donate to them, and then you become their closest friends, and then we get cronyism.
But if you don't donate to Obama and you're a major corporation like big oil, then they're gonna blame you for climate change, destroying the planet, and they're gonna get everybody turned against you and hating your guts and so forth, and that's how they operate.
That's not how Trump operates.
It's not how Mike Pence operates.
They understand the simple mathematics of economics.
Economic growth, profitability, prosperity, jobs, increased jobs, increased wages.
If they're able to get that tax rate down to 15%, and we're gonna call it tax relief, not tax breaks, not tax loopholes.
It's important to control and reclaim the language here.
There's nothing there's nothing good.
There's nothing moral about taking money from people who earn it.
The left wants you to believe that true morality is defined by how much money you give the government, how much money you pay the government, how much money the government gets from you, because only the government does good stuff, only the government does good works, only the government cares about people.
It's bogus.
We want people to take care of themselves.
We want people to provide for themselves.
We want people to enjoy the fruits of their labors.
We want people to enjoy reaching out and making their dreams come true.
We want people to realize their life's dreams and passions.
You need a growing economy for this.
You need a positive attitude nationwide, you need a can-do spirit everywhere.
You don't need a blanket of can't do this, that's illegal, that's unfair, that's unjust.
All of these can't, all these won'ts never helped anybody.
Everybody's complaining about all the Trump's cabinet members, how rich they are.
It's horrible.
I'd rather have that than a bunch of people in Obama's cabinet that have never spent a minute making a payroll creating a job or a service or inventing a product.
What the hell is there about academics from the faculty lounge who don't know what they're talking about other than theoretically?
Why not have a bunch of people who have succeeded wildly, sharing what they know, implementing what they know nationwide.
I would much rather have that.
But this carrier example is a great example of how this can work.
Now, not every corporation's idyllic, not every corporation is a great bunch of people.
Like in any group of people, you're gonna have bad apples, bad actors here and there.
Some corporations, over the years, after having been granted tax relief, have packed up and left anyway after a while.
Don't misunderstand me.
I'm not singing the virtues of corporations simply because they exist.
But by the same token, I'm not gonna be like your average liberal and condemn them just because they exist.
The PR value here, hell, it's more than PR.
This is substance.
Jobs have been saved.
A president elect is able to fulfill a promise even before he assumes office.
Do you realize what something like this can do for the national psyche?
This is great for the national attitude.
This shows people that things can happen for the good.
It shows people that things can be done.
Contrast this to Obama.
And the health care summit he did on ABC way back in 2009.
Never forget this.
It's the early days of Obamacare.
It's still being discussed.
It hasn't been implemented.
And Obama's got this live hour on ABC TV, where people from across America are being allowed in to ask Obama questions about his forthcoming health care plan.
A woman stands up and says that her mother's approaching a hundred Years of age, still has the will to live, still has all of her faculties but needs a pacemaker.
Asks Obama, under Obamacare, will my mother get a pacemaker?
Now stop just that alone.
Imagine in the United States of America, a citizen asking the president if her mother will get a pacemaker.
Why should it be up to the president whether somebody gets a pacemaker?
And you know what Obama said?
He point blank said, probably not.
Probably not.
At that age, it might just be better to give her a pill and let her live out the rest of her life pain-free.
Actually said that.
Now contrast that to oh to Trump and the carrier rescue and the jobs saved, and the positive energy attached to it, and the can-do characteristics of it.
Here's a candidate who said he was going to try to get this done, and even before he's elected, he gets it done.
You can take the theory and throw it away.
You can talk about the tax breaks, but if you do, talk about tax relief.
And make sure you tell people that we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world and it's going to change, and carriers just getting an advance on what will be a reduced tax rate.
Drive-by's very nervous about this, by the way.
Drive-by's Democrats, this is the kind of stuff's not supposed to happen, not supposed to be possible.
Democrats tell people that we can't stop this from happening, that the corporations are evil.
The Democrats want you to lose your job.
They want corporations to shut down and move because it allows them to tell you how rotten and mean corporations are.
I know you may think, well, Rush, that's really tough.
I'm telling you it's the truth, folks.
I have I have been at work for 25, 29 years here trying to expray explain to people who liberals are.
They never ever should be back in power.
Never.
They literally do.
If a corporation shuts down and leaves, they don't care.
It gives them an enemy, it gives them a villain.
They love to criticize them, and it's got people in need, people out of work.
Hello, 99 weeks of unemployment benefits, and the Democrats get credit for caring.
Big whoop.
Well, you can do all that, but you're not going to grow economy, you're not going to grow a country, and you're not going to have a nationally positive attitude about anything.
So last night and this morning, a montage of carrier employees talking about Trump's deal to save their jobs.
People are actually uh handshake and hugging.
He's not even been sworn in yet, and is already showing us that he is a worker.
I was not a huge Trump supporter.
You know, I didn't really know how to take Mr. Trump, but I'm glad that he actually lived up to a promise and stuck with it.
I would like to tell him thank you for uh going out of your way and taking your uh holiday uh away from your family and uh working on the carrier and employees deal and uh sticking to your word.
Three weeks after he gets elected, he makes the announcement he done what he said he was gonna do with carrier.
Right.
And one more here, United Steel Workers local president uh Chuck Jones was on uh was on CNN last night, questioned you you were not a Trump supporter, you're pretty tough on him during the campaign.
What do you think of Trump now?
You think he's responsible for the carrier deal?
Yeah, I'm gonna give him a hundred percent of the credit.
I wasn't a Trump supporter.
Uh in fact, I hammered him pretty good.
And when I see him tomorrow, I'm gonna tell him, you know, I hammered you pretty uh hammered your pretty good, but I'm gonna give you credit because what you said you was going to do, you fulfill that promise, and I appreciate it.
Now, isn't that sound better than a bunch of people whining and moaning and complaining about whatever?
I'll take this any day, and we will be right back.
Don't go away.
Your phone calls are coming up in the next segment, folks.
Be patient.
Here's Major Garrett, CBS this morning, talking about Trump's carrier deal and how it's eclipsing things.
Carrier gives the president-elect an economic victory in the heartland, one that aid say is likely to eclipse all speculation, fevered and otherwise, about future cabinet picks and the scrutiny of not so populist cabinet secretaries.
You know, this is dominated so far.
All right, fine.
I have to address this.
Trump supposedly is violating promises he made by not selecting populist cabinet members.
Has Trump ever called himself a populist?
Who has?
He never has.
Who's calling him a popular?
Well, not just the drive-bys, but some of the never Trumpers are calling him a populist.
And they're using it derisively.
And so now Trump is picking people that a lot of Republicans might pick for their cabinet.
And all of a sudden Trump is a traitor.
I'm telling you, you people, Trump's supporters do not see it the way.
I'm amazed that professional journalists and observers still do not understand who it is that makes up the Trump support base and what it is they like about him.
They think it's all a bunch of populists, a bunch of alt-writers who are demanding fellow populists everywhere in the cabinet.
It's their imagination.
Trump's never said anything like that.
He's always said he's going to have killer people in his cabinet.
And that's what he's doing.
Economic killer people.
Back in a second.
One thing here before we get back to the phones on business.
There's a new poll out today from Gallup, U.S. economic confidence highest in nine years.
And by the way, it's the highest since Gallup has been polling this.
A lot of other people have been polling consumer confidence longer than Gallup, but Gallup's nine years, and this is the highest in their history.
From the article, Americans expressed more positivity about the U.S. economy last week than they have at any other time during the nine years Gallup has been tracking U.S. economic confidence index.
Americans' confidence in the economy recently shifted from negative to positive territory after Trump was elected president three weeks ago.
As far as Trump's cabinet's concerned, he's picking experts.
He's picking successful people.
Obama has picked amateurs.
He has picked theoreticians, people that hang around sipping whiskey at four o'clock in the afternoon, adult beverages in a faculty lounge, wringing their hands over how stupid everybody outside the faculty lounge is.
Not one person in Obama's cabinet has ever had a job outside of the academy or a think tank.
Or in Washington.
And that's not an exaggeration.
Not one person.
And by the way, what theories do they have?
What theories do the Obama cabinet have?
Well, the American private sector is unfair, unjust, and immoral, because it's got corporations in it who kill their customers, who rape people on price and so forth, and so these people come out and level the playing field.
All Obama has is a bunch of punishers.
At his Department of Justice, people like Lois Lerner at the IRS.
But this business about populism is so instructive.
You must understand things going in.
If I if you want to understand my explanation here, firstly, populism equals evil to the people accusing Trump of being one.
Populism is bad.
Populism is idiots running the show.
Populism is not conservatism, it's not liberalism.
It's just it's it's it's it's a made up of selfish people economically, and it's bad.
Populism is really, really bad.
And Trump is a populist.
Because he's not a conservative, he's not a liberal, and there are a lot of conservatives who do not want populism confused with conservatism at all.
And they're right, it isn't conservatism.
So here come these critics who still haven't figured out who Trump's support base is.
They still don't know why these people support Trump.
And the reason they don't is they are part of the problem.
And they do not think they are the problem.
They remain the smartest people in the world in their minds.
The media theoreticians at think tanks and in the academy.
They have this contemptible air of superiority about them.
And in circumstances like this, when they lose elections, it's like Obama.
It's not him, it's Fox News and his cabinet or other theoreticians.
It's not them.
It's the stupidity of the American people for falling for a scam artist like Trump.
And in fact, what's happened here is that the actual policies of all of these theoreticians and academicians has just been obliterated.
The entire Democrat Party agenda, led by Barack Obama, has been sent packing.
Specifically, look at the Obama administrations are running around now.
And the Democrats, you can see some of their strategists on TV wringing their hands over, how in the world did we lose the white working class vote?
Oh my God.
Well, they did it on purpose.
A Washington Post columnist in November of 2011 gave up the ghost.
He wrote an article, a column that ran in the Washington Post, Thomas B. Edsell.
And he explained how the Democrat Party, the Obama administration, had decided strategically to abandon the white working class in favor of a giant constituency made up of every minority group they can think of.
Gays, lesbians, transgenders, one armed amputees, and so ho, you name it, whatever the minority group was, they were going to go for it, and to hell with the white working class.
You know why?
We'll give you three guesses.
Racism, racism, racism.
They engaging in racism.
Resentment, resentment, resentment.
Who's responsible for the state of this country in their minds?
The white working class.
The white working class is where the bigotry is, where the racism is, sexists, the hell with them.
So Obama and the Democrats decided screw them.
Who do you think the bitter clingers are?
Who think Obama's talking about when he talks about the bitter clingers?
When things aren't going well, they grab their Bibles, they grab their guns, and they grab their Jack Daniels.
Who's he talking about?
Who's Hillary talking about?
She talks about a nation of deplorables.
And now the Democrats, after they lost the election, are running around wringing their hands over the white working.
What do you expect them to do when you spend eight years insulting them and blaming them?
So Trump's got them.
And now it has to be populism.
It has to be deceit.
It has to be scam artistry because these people are natural supporters.
No, you told them to go take a hike.
And they heard you plain and day.
Plain as day.
And so now, having lost that base, the Reagan Democrats, having lost the base that they reclaimed after Reagan left office, they've lost the base.
Now it's Fox News' fault, it's talk radio's fault.
It's talk radio and Fox News lying to the white working class about how bad a guy Obama is and how dangerous Obama is.
No, nobody has to tell them they know.
Their jobs are gone.
Their futures are gone.
Their grandkids are gone.
Their culture is gone, their culture.
They have been targeted as what's wrong with the country, and they don't think they are.
They think they're the backbone of America.
To Democrats that pick sides, the Democrats that don't unify.
It's the Democrats that point fingers at blame and divide people and have an us versus them type mentality as the setup.
And they've done it by accepting all these various minorities that they define.
They've combined them into one giant coalition against the white working class.
And that's what the Democrat Party became.
White working class, the elite rich whites, no, they're okay, because a lot of them are liberal Democrats and they give the Democrats money and they're on Wall Street and they're in Hollywood.
They're cool, they're fine.
They're sophisticated.
They drink Johnny Walker Blue or Glenn Moranchie, you know, Jack Daniels.
You know, they're not driving around in pickup trucks with a gun rack in the back and getting to church on Saturday night for a front pew seat.
They don't go to church.
They make fun of the people who go to church.
That's the people of Democrats like on the white side.
And it's come back to Biden.
So now it's Fox News' fault.
And so those people are running around trying to impugn Trump by saying he's populist and his supporters of Populists and populists are uneducated, unsophisticated fools.
Populists is a new name for the white working class, the Democrats told to take a hike.
And so now they're trying to tell these people that Trump is betraying them by not putting populists in his cabinet.
Trump's never called himself a populist.
And he's never said he was going to have populists in his cabinet.
He said he was going to have killer accomplished people in his cabinet.
He was got people like him.
People have built businesses, people have succeeded in life.
He's going to put them in there.
People know how to do it.
That's what he's done.
The drive-by is really not populist and then choosing a populist.
Trump is betraying and lying to his own.
He's not lying to anybody.
His supporters don't feel betrayed.
His supporters are euphoric.
His supporters are ecstatic.
And these people, the defiance, the obstinates, the refusal on their part to even try to understand this.
Mind-boggling to me.
To the phones we go.
And we're going to start in uh in Moses, Lake Washington.
This is uh Elliot.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you.
I appreciate you taking my uh call.
I just wanted to say today that I we can't take this recount thing um too lightly.
That I live in a state where we've had an election stolen out from under us three elections ago.
Christine Greguier, she just recounted the vote.
She was the uh incumbent Democratic governor.
And uh Dino Rossi, a Republican challenger, won the election.
But they just recounted the votes in Democratic districts looking for felons that uh shouldn't have been able to vote until they were able to find enough to uh get the result their way.
The Democrats have an incumbent advantage with the bureaucracy in Washington and these state governments that uh we need to be aware of.
I agree.
I agree.
What what Elliot here is saying is the reason why you cannot ignore these recount efforts is because they keep counting until they get the votes.
That's how Franken got it.
They can just keep counting.
They keep finding, they keep discovering, oh, look at here's 200 votes somehow, nobody noticed an election night.
Look at her all for Al Franken.
Shazam, and they count them up.
And they keep counting, and they keep finding.
How many of you, let me go back to election night this year.
How many of you stayed up for the duration?
And remember that there was about an hour and a half period in there from like I'm I'm guessing on the times, like midnight to 1.30 Eastern, where there wasn't one result.
Wasn't one new tabulation in any race.
Not just the presidential race.
There was a 90-minute period where it seemed like all counting had stopped because there weren't any updates on vote tallies.
Do you remember?
I an hour went by, and the chatting heads are sitting there talking and doing their analysis.
And it it it finally, after 45 minutes, maybe an hour, so you know what?
They haven't updated anything.
And that's when I noticed it.
And went on for 90 minutes, roughly 90 minutes, that there wasn't one update, not just the presidential tally, but governor races, Senate races, nothing.
And about a week and a half later, I found myself in the home of a very experienced political hand.
And the conversation turned to this event.
And I said, you know what?
You're right.
There was an hour and a half period where they weren't reporting it.
He said, let me tell you what was going on.
The networks got together.
I said, and Fox, Fox too.
They all got together and they ceased.
Because that's when they really had, they were doing everything they could to find some votes for Hillary.
This is what this guy told me.
I'd love to tell you who it was.
It would add credibility to the story, but I don't have permission to.
They were looking for votes.
They were shocked, everybody stunned.
You were watching it, you know they couldn't believe what was happening.
If you were watching all night at 9 o'clock, they were still thinking Hillary was when they at Fox, I remember when Chris Wallace was the first at about 9.30 to look at the tote board.
You know what?
Trump could win this.
And they all went, oh, come on, what are you Smoking.
Oh man, what do you and then it began.
And then another Foxy.
Yeah, you know what?
This is looking.
And it was happening on all the networks.
And then around midnight, nothing for an hour and a half.
And Hillary needs to find a path to victory.
That was a phrase that was being used.
They were, what path does she have?
Well, they were looking for one.
Now, when I say they, it's a combination of people that report people the states were still counting.
It's not the states.
They were counting, but they weren't reporting all these websites, no change, hour and a half.
The counting was going on, but they weren't reporting anything.
The point here is, I agree with Elliot profoundly.
I don't think a pe I don't think people are taking this assault on the electors seriously enough.
Even if it doesn't amount to a change, they know it doesn't matter.
There are many reasons why they're doing this.
To delegitimize Trump's win, to delegitimize his presidency, to delegitimize the electoral college, to use what happens here, whatever they can find here as an excuse to get rid of it.
The Democrats are going to use this whatever they can to get rid of whatever they think explains their defeat.
If it's the electoral college, if it's Trump, whatever it is.
And this recount gives them opportunities to discredit the entire process.
And that's what they're hoping to do, whether they can reverse it or not.
So I agree with him.
This is not something to be laughed off.
Look at how silly these people are.
They can't change the outcome.
Maybe not.
But that also may not be their ultimate objective either.
Back in just a second, don't worry.
Now look, folks, and don't doubt me, no matter how you slice it, the Democrat Party is waging war, the left waging war on our electoral system, which until November 9th was the worst thing anybody could do.
Remember what they said about Trump when he said he wouldn't accept the results until we got there and knew what he was dealing with.
And remember Hillary and the media talking how unconscionable, how that was violating the sanctity of our electoral system.
And now look at who's doing it.
Now look at who's trying to blow it up.
Before November 9th, it was a crime against democracy to even question the results.
But now that they have lost.
Now it's a matter of virtue to get to the bottom of what happened.
Because the polls all show that Hillary's gonna win.
I'm telling you, these people are snakes.
And the sooner everybody realizes it and instinctively recognizes that liberalism is what it is, until that we're never going to be safe, because they never go away and they never stop deceiving and lying or doing whatever they can do.
I'll tell you a little story in a minute.
I got a call here, Lawrence and Columbus.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my make sure Mr. Snurdly line one.
You either get a number or make sure she holds on.
Yeah, what's up, Lawrence?
I wanted to talk about the carrier piece.
I needed your opinion.
First of all, I applaud Trump and Pence for getting it done through what did you call the tax uh deferment.
Not deferment, tax relief.
Tax relief.
And and that's great.
And I he said it, he did it, and he saved jobs and they saved them domestically, and I think that's the most important thing.
I also read somewhere in a story that talked about this that United Technologies, which owns Carrier, was concerned that crazy Bernie Sanders was going to introduce legislation that said if you were a company that shipped jobs overseas, you wouldn't be eligible for government contracts, which is worth six billion to them.
Right.
I think Bernie's nuts, but I think he's right here.
I think he's a hundred percent correct, and I wanted your opinion for the wrong thing.
What do you mean?
Right about what right about what?
That if they leave, they should be punished.
With they shouldn't get why should you give government contracts to companies that leave this country and ship their jobs out?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I see.
A is it true?
And B, what's your opinion on that?
Uh well, my opinion is rather uh generic.
I am automatically suspicious, automatically suspicious, of government contracts to begin with.
Uh, because it's rife for cronyism.
And government money is guaranteed, it's a guaranteed overcharge.
It's it's a it's guaranteed this.
And uh I I I would much rather have corporations making it on their own.
Now, some people like defense contractors, you have to have some relationship, some corporate relationship to the uh to the uh to the government.
But I think the punishment, Bernie Sanders was talking about punishing.
He wasn't talking about good economic policy.
He was talking about punishing.
And that I think I don't sign on to.
That whole belief system.
Well, we're just speeding on through this here, folks.
Already two hours down and in the can on the way over to Limbaugh Broadcast Museum at rushlimbaugh.com.
One big exciting hour remains.
And we still got all kinds of stuff to plug into it.
You don't want to miss any of it.
▲
Export Selection