{"id":13592,"date":"2013-01-04T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-04T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T18:43:00","slug":"boom_town_washington_has_no_clue_what_you_re_going_through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/01\/04\/boom_town_washington_has_no_clue_what_you_re_going_through\/","title":{"rendered":"Boom Town Washington Has No Clue What You\u2019re Going Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/43724\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is Natalia in Odessa, Missouri. Great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hello. I want to make a comment, a message to everybody sitting on Capitol Hill right now. (crying) I have two sets of twins under the age of three. My family is about to do without! (sobs) Obamacare\u2019s $135 is gonna come out of our paycheck and hit us, plus the Social Security taxes have risen another $80 per check. (sob) That\u2019s almost $300 my family, four kids under the age three, is gonna do without. We just filed Chapter 7 a few months ago! The economy is still recovering. How are we gonna survive when they are hitting us with these tax rates?<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_71190\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaDoctorHealthcareMONEY.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, Natalia, I\u2019m gonna tell you the truth. I don\u2019t think&#8230; It\u2019s what I just said. I don\u2019t think the people in Washington have the slightest clue what you\u2019re going through. If you go to Washington, you know what? Every restaurant\u2019s open. Every restaurant\u2019s profitable. All the shops are open. The unemployment in Washington and the surrounding environs is 3%. Washington\u2019s where all the money is, and everybody in Washington is doing well, and nobody\u2019s being fired. Nobody\u2019s being laid off. They\u2019re getting raises, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t have the slightest clue in Washington what this economy is actually like for people like you.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, to our caller from Enid, Oklahoma. She was crying. This woman has four kids, two sets of twins.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_71197\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaGolfDCSwim.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>She can\u2019t afford the additional $130 that the payroll tax increase is costing her. She can\u2019t fit that into her budget, and it\u2019s not just that. She talked about the new costs related to Obamacare. She\u2019s got four kids, two sets of twins. She needs assistance with health care. And see, Obama was gonna make all this fine! Obama was gonna take her tears away. Obama was gonna fix this. It\u2019s getting worse, folks. She calls here in tears.<\/p>\n<p>Did you hear what she said? She started off her call saying, &#8220;Would people in Washington please listen to me?&#8221; Her instincts are that people in Washington have no clue what really is happening to her and her family and people like her, and I firmly believe that.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, back to the caller from Enid, Oklahoma, in tears.  So $130 a month is wrecking her family\u2019s financial security.  I don\u2019t know if she believed it or not, but Obama was telling everybody their premiums are gonna go down $2,500.  Everybody\u2019s premiums, if they\u2019re gonna be able to maintain insurance, are going up, as are their taxes.  Everybody\u2019s taxes are going up.  In fact, the UK Daily Mail has a story talking about how workers making $30,000 a year are going to take a bigger hit on their paychecks than those earning $500,000 under this new deal, and I\u2019ll give you the details on how that\u2019s true in a moment.  But it is true. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The real money in this country is still in the hands of all those people in the <a target=\"_blank\" view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13588\">middle class. <\/a> There aren\u2019t enough rich people to balance the budget.  The rich people\u2019s taxes are gonna generate $60 billion and Obama just gave ten billion of that away for Sandy relief. <\/p>\n<p>People are falling for outright lies.  But I don\u2019t think Washington is in any way aware of how $130 &#8212; oh, they talk as though they are, and they go through the motions.  This woman says $130 is destroying her family\u2019s financial, $130 a month.  Have you been to Washington lately?  It\u2019s a boomtown.  The economic meltdown did not touch them.  The unemployment rate\u2019s 3%.  All the restaurants are open and they\u2019re full.  All the boutiques and all the shops are open.  Cheap little condominiums are still selling for $800,000 and up.  There is no housing crisis in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  All of our money is being redistributed to Washington.  It\u2019s a boomtown.  There\u2019s no evidence of the economic collapse in our nation\u2019s capital.  In fact, I think the ZIP codes around Washington happen to be now in the top five wealthiest ZIP codes in the country.  Stands to reason.  That\u2019s where all the money is.  That\u2019s where it goes to be redistributed.  It\u2019s where all the people get their mitts on it.  They don\u2019t have the slightest clue.  Look at Obama.  He goes off to Hawaii, what is a trip out and back, four million bucks on Air Force One?  Not to mention what it\u2019s costing us to rent his home when he\u2019s out there.  They haven\u2019t the slightest idea. <\/p>\n<p>Obama couldn\u2019t pay for one one-hundredth of the lifestyle that he\u2019s living on his own, never.  He couldn\u2019t do it.  But he\u2019s living it.  And a lot of people in Washington, there is no real estate problem.  There is no restaurant closing problem.  There are no shops closing.  There are no vacancies in the malls.  Everything\u2019s open and booming and buzzing.  Meanwhile, what\u2019s everybody in Washington thinking they gotta do?  Reach out to Hispanics. Reach out to minorities.  That\u2019s where the problem is.  So it\u2019s one of a situation of relatability.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This is Natalia in Odessa, Missouri. Great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hi. CALLER: Hello. I want to make a comment, a message to everybody sitting on Capitol Hill right now. 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