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RUSH: Can I give you a little news item here that to me expresses perfectly where we really are, as a culture, as a country, as an economy, as a society? I have it right here. It\u2019s a story from the AP, but it\u2019s everywhere. “Democrats want extension of unemployment benefits for 2 million Americans as part of fiscal cliff deal.” Guess what? This is a brand-new demand. “Hovering in the background of the ‘fiscal cliff\u2019 debate is the prospect of 2 million people losing their unemployment benefits four days after Christmas.” Okay, putting on my cap as mayor of Realville, does anybody think that either one of our two political parties wants to be blamed for that happening? <\/p>\n

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So can we conclude that there will be unemployment compensation benefit extensions? We can. Do you think the Republicans want to go to the mat on this one? I guarantee you, right now the Republicans don\u2019t want to be seen as being in opposition to anybody getting anything. But here\u2019s why this is happening, and that\u2019s the real nub of this. You see, the real irony is, unemployment benefits are ending because unemployment rates are falling. It\u2019s the way the law was written. States with jobless rates below 9% are losing their extended benefits. It was originally written, and this made perfect sense, that the unemployment compensation extensions would end as the employment situation improved. Well, statistically, the unemployment situation is improving. The unemployment rate nationally, 7.7%, down from 8.3, down from 8.2, down from 8.1, down from 7.9. <\/p>\n

So on paper, and as far as the low-information voter is concerned, and the low-information voter is a majority of the voters, the unemployment situation is getting better. There are jobs being created, according to what they believe, \u2019cause the number says so, unemployment rate\u2019s going down. Well, you would figure, if the unemployment rate\u2019s going down and more people are getting jobs, then we don\u2019t need to extend unemployment. No, precisely the unemployment rate is falling, we need to extend unemployment benefits. <\/p>\n

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Now, if that doesn\u2019t tell you how utterly out of kilter, how totally out of whack we are as a country, I can\u2019t think of anything else that does it better. Because, in other words, this is on paper now, you and I both know that the job situation is really not improving, but reality doesn\u2019t matter. Perception is what matters here. The perception is it\u2019s getting better. So the perception is the jobs picture is getting better. And precisely because the jobs picture is improving, we have to extend unemployment benefits. The jobs situation is improving, which means people are losing their unemployment extensions. <\/p>\n

However, the jobs picture really isn\u2019t improving. That\u2019s why we need to have extended unemployment, because there really aren\u2019t new jobs to be had. And the law says that state by state, as the unemployment rate goes below 9%, the extensions end. And for two million Americans, they end four days after Christmas. (chuckles) Did anybody think, again, that that news will be allowed to be made?<\/p>\n

That two million people lose their unemployment extension benefits four days after Christmas? That story will not be written. That headline will not appear. Now, the Democrats would love for it to. Just to confuse or complicate things a little bit here, the Democrats would love for that headline to be written. The truth is that if two million Americans lost their unemployment benefits and it could be blamed on the Republicans, the Democrats would sign onto that right now.<\/p>\n

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But the Republicans are very, very smart, see? And they know that that\u2019s what the Democrats intend. So the Democrats will not get that headline. Republicans are gonna outsmart them. Ha! (laughing) This is just so pathetically comical all you can do is laugh. The Republicans are going to outsmart the Democrats, and they\u2019re gonna agree to extend unemployment Democrats so that the Democrats don\u2019t get the story, “You lost your unemployment because of Republicans.”<\/p>\n

So the net end of this is, that while we apparently are in an improving economy with jobs being created — so much that the unemployment rate is down to 7.7% — we still are going to have to extend unemployment benefits for two million Americans who\u2019ve already been on unemployment six months. They haven\u2019t gotten to their 99 weeks yet. This is a key. These people that we\u2019re talking about haven\u2019t hit their 99 weeks because the unemployment rate in the states they live in is under 9%.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why they have to be extended. And since the Obama administration is about Santa Claus<\/a> — since the Obama administration is about buying loyalty and votes, since the Obama administration is about providing for people so that they don\u2019t have to work — why does anybody think that\u2019s gonna stop after Obama wins (and, to boot, four days after Christmas)? So in light of that, why does anybody on our side think their taxes aren\u2019t going up?<\/p>\n

“Well, Rush, go back to 2010. Obama didn\u2019t want the taxes to go up \u2019cause it was gonna hurt the economy.” Yeah? Well, that\u2019s because he still had another election to worry about. Now he doesn\u2019t for at least two years. He\u2019s at maximum damage potential right now, max damage. He can inflict the greatest damage possible for the purpose of transforming the country from capitalism to Western European socialism.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got two years here to double down, triple down, max out on it — and that\u2019s if he cares about the 2014 midterms. But if you listen to Democrats talk, they don\u2019t care about that. Hillary\u2019s already been anointed for 2016.<\/a> That election\u2019s over. This AP story, even the AP admits, “Since the collapse of the economy in 2008, the government has poured $520 billion — an amount equal to about half its annual deficit in recent years — into unemployment benefit extensions.”<\/p>\n

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You see? Do you realize that aspect of this, too? No matter how much we spend on unemployment, it\u2019s still never enough. We still need to extend them. It\u2019s never enough. Oh, and don\u2019t forget this. From Pelosi to Chuck Schumer to Obama and to all the Democrats, unemployment benefits are now an economic stimulant. Every dollar of unemployment benefits generates $1.73 of economic growth, you see.<\/p>\n

And the people who voted for Obama believe that crock. But they believe it, and so we have arrived at the point where the recipient of unemployment benefits is told that he or she is helping to grow the economy! So we\u2019ve even turned the morality aspect of this upside down. Now it is perfectly moral to extend unemployment benefits because those are growing the economy, without jobs. It\u2019s magical! It\u2019s a beautiful thing.<\/p>\n

And the Democrats do it because they care. The Republicans don\u2019t care. But Obama and the Democrats do care. Democrats claim… In this story, folks, I kid you not. They\u2019re claiming that extending unemployment benefits will create 400,000 jobs. It\u2019s a stimulus. It is. Unemployment benefits are a stimulant. They will create 400,000 jobs. Of course this is all a crock. But everything I\u2019ve just said, if a low-information voter is listening, they would agree with me 100% and would think that I\u2019ve finally seen the light.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, as you know, the White House is still in campaign mode. Obama\u2019s still campaigning for all of this with the American people. The Democrats are arming their soldiers on Twitter. Let me give you a tweet here. This is a sample tweet that the Democrats are using to persuade people to pressure Republicans into agreeing to raise taxes on the rich. Here\u2019s the tweet.<\/p>\n

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Quote: “Extending unemployment insurance would create five times as many jobs as Bush tax cuts for the rich.” Now, you and I know that that is patently absurd. It doesn\u2019t even compute. It is as far from reality and truth as you can get. But it\u2019s being tweeted like mad, and it\u2019s being tweeted like mad to people who are going to believe it. If you are also, at the same time, saying that extending unemployment benefits…<\/p>\n

In other words, “paying people not to work will create 400,000 jobs,” is what they\u2019re saying. I don\u2019t know about you, but it is scary as it can be to realize that a majority of people who vote believe that. Paying people not to work will create 400,000 jobs. This tweet here, paying people not to work will create five times as many jobs as the Bush tax cuts for the rich. I mean, this is so absurd, this wouldn\u2019t even make good parody or good comedy because there\u2019s not one element of truth in it.<\/p>\n

And yet, it\u2019s being tweeted all over the place, and Democrats are soaking it up. Paul Bedard at the DC Examiner, says, “He may have won the election but President Obama hasn\u2019t given up the campaign. Aiming to bring public pressure on Republicans to back higher taxes for the rich in the ‘fiscal cliff\u2019 fight, the Obama-Biden campaign today began urging supporters to join a local, online phone bank to help the president blast the GOP.”<\/p>\n

So they have revved up their get-out-the-vote apparatus, and they\u2019re calling people as though the election is today. Rather than tell them to show up and vote, they are telling them to put pressure on Republicans to support tax increases for the rich so as to create jobs. What are the Republicans doing in the midst of all this? I don\u2019t even have to answer that for you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Tom in Chillicothe, Ohio. Great to have you, sir. There you go.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, mega dittos from Ohio\u2019s first capital.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I want to dispute your interpretation of what Speaker Gingrich said. I don\u2019t think he said that we couldn\u2019t win in \u201916. He said we couldn\u2019t win as we\u2019re constituted now. That\u2019s what I got out of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, he did say the Republican Party today is incapable of competing at whatever level Hillary Clinton would be competing at.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think we\u2019re gonna need a guy that speaks Spanish, too, fluently.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, did you just hear me say that the Mexicans are leaving America in greater numbers than they are arriving?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re not leaving here. We got three Mexican restaurants, and we only got a town of 23,000 people and they\u2019re all staffed by Mexicans. We had a Mexican construction crew come through here and put up a Walgreens. I mean, I don\u2019t know where they come from but they\u2019re here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they come from Mexico.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I understand, but I don\u2019t know how they got here, but they\u2019re here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They drove.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, probably, I guess. I\u2019ll agree. But Obama quoted that vote. You know that. He put ads in Spanish in some markets, and I don\u2019t think Romney did anything like that. He didn\u2019t court the vote.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, but even if Romney had, what was Romney\u2019s message versus Obama\u2019s? See, Obama\u2019s message is benefit after benefit after benefit after benefit, and Romney\u2019s message was feature after feature after feature, and one of our features is freedom, and what does freedom mean to an Obama voter? I\u2019m not trying to be a wise ass. I\u2019m asking, what do you think freedom means to an Obama voter, as a feature, freedom, liberty, Founding Father sense, all that stuff, what does it mean to an Obama voter, not just an Hispanic, any Obama voter. What does it mean?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m not real sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Work.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, freedom to work?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Freedom to be the best you can be. Freedom to be great, freedom from obstacles, freedom from limitations in your way, freedom to be who you are, the best you can be. But how does that stack up against an immediate benefit offered by Obama? Whatever the benefit is. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t have an answer for that. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t either.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Doesn\u2019t stack up very well.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The Republicans don\u2019t have an answer for it yet, either. But what we\u2019re talking about here is long-term philosophical belief versus instant immediate benefit. That\u2019s what the Democrat Party is perceived as. I mean, there are instantaneous benefits to having Democrats in power. The Republican convention, what was it about? It was about family, country, God. It was about Hispanics, Mexicans, Latinos who had moved to this country to escape bondage, to escape communist tyranny. They came here with little or nothing, and they worked hard, and they sweated, and they slaved. They waited tables. They tended bar, and their children are now senators and governors. And what\u2019s the message? Work hard, and in 25 or 30 years, you might amount to something. <\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s message is, along with the mayor of San Antonio, we\u2019re gonna extend your unemployment benefits tomorrow. You don\u2019t have to worry about finding a job. Our message is, find an entry-level job, work hard, be the best you can be, it\u2019ll pay off at some point down the road. Obama\u2019s message is, why wait? Why work? This country\u2019s unfair anyway. The rich, they\u2019ve gobbled up all the money. There isn\u2019t any money left for you. And there isn\u2019t gonna be any money left for you until I tax the rich and give it back to you. There\u2019s no point in working. The rich have all the money. The rich have all the cars. The rich have all the nice houses, but not for long, because I\u2019m here to make sure that what was rightfully yours is returned to you. <\/p>\n

The average Obama voter doesn\u2019t say, “Wait a minute, I never owned a big car that the rich took. I never owned a house on the beach that the rich took.” They don\u2019t stop to think that. They just believe, “yeah, yeah, damn straight, that was mine. It was all of ours. The rich took it.” And on promise that it\u2019s all gonna be returned and given back, and until it happens, “Here\u2019s a phone and unemployment check and a food stamp debit card, \u2019til I\u2019m able to take care of the rich and get even with \u2019em, here.” <\/p>\n

So delayed gratification that you make happen yourself versus instant gratification because it\u2019s owed you. The Republicans are going to have to come up with a rejoinder to this. Now, the popular sentiment circulating in the party is ideas, ideas, ideas, and they will triumph. We\u2019ve got to get our ideas spread further out beyond our choir. We have to have our ideas spread. But our ideas are still going to be ideas up against benefits. Now, you see in the real world where we live, we don\u2019t have the money for these benefits, people are going to have to provide it to themselves because we don\u2019t have the money. To Obama, that\u2019s not a concern. He\u2019ll print it. He will borrow it. He will sell the A123 battery company to the ChiComs. Doesn\u2019t matter. <\/p>\n

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We don\u2019t have anything in common. Obama is perfectly fine with a $20 trillion national debt. He\u2019s perfectly fine saddling this country with debt that it can never repay. He\u2019s perfectly fine shrinking the private sector where all of these wonderful jobs 25 years down the road are. Perfectly fine with it. People say, “Well, okay, Rush, if there is nothing in common with them…” We\u2019ve gotta have a way to beat these people, folks, not compromise with them. We have to find a way to defeat them, and that\u2019s going to entail getting more votes than they get, and that\u2019s going to entail convincing people that long-term they are much better off believing in what is naturally inside them, rather than being co-opted by this message of instant gratification, because I\u2019ll tell you one thing that isn\u2019t gonna change.<\/p>\n

No matter what happens, there are still gonna be entrepreneurs in this country. Maybe a dwindling number, but no matter what happens there are always going to be filthy, stinking rich liberals, at least. And they\u2019re gonna have huge houses, and they\u2019re gonna have multiple cars, multiple estates. They\u2019re gonna have all the trappings of wealth. And no matter how much money Obama gives away, there isn\u2019t enough to give away to make everybody on the recipient end or on the receiving end wealthy. And so the divide is always going to be there. The rich are always going to be there, no matter what Obama\u2019s policies are. There may be a dwindling number of them, but this economic divide, haves and have-nots, income gap, whatever, it\u2019s always going to be there. The thing that\u2019s going to change is that the people in the middle class are forever going to be shut out of getting out of it, if Obama persists. <\/p>\n

If Obama continues to win, if the Democrats, beyond Obama, continue to win, the escape route from poverty is gonna be closed off. The escape route for the middle class is gonna be shut down, which is the objective, by the way. They don\u2019t want you self-sufficient and self-reliant. You don\u2019t need them, then. They don\u2019t want you being able to take care of yourself. That\u2019s why they want to be able to give you just enough to give you what the basics are that they think make you happy. A big screen TV, food stamp debit card, a telephone, and maybe those things change as a society, maybe it\u2019s a checkerboard in ten years, who knows what the hell it is, but whatever it is to keep you satisfied, to keep you not protesting, that\u2019s what they\u2019ll give you.<\/p>\n

But they\u2019re never gonna be able to make you rich. They\u2019re never going to be make you wealthy. They\u2019re never even going to be able to make you happy. An Obama voter is going to be perpetually angry, an Obama voter, a Democrat Party voter, is going to be perpetually ticked off, miserable, angry, at the unfairness of things. Because there\u2019s nobody alive that can change unfairness or fairness or make things fair, equal, equitable, it\u2019s not possible. The alternative to that is where everybody has a chance to improve themselves, and that\u2019s our way. With Obama\u2019s way and the Democrat Party way, millions and millions each year have that chance cut off. <\/p>\n

A, they won\u2019t be taught what\u2019s necessary to learn in order to improve themselves. The public education system will continue to be corrupted so that what people are taught is worthless. They\u2019ll just be propagandized so that they\u2019re kept angry at whoever the political opponents of the Democrats are. That\u2019s all that\u2019s happening here. We don\u2019t look at the world that way, and we don\u2019t look at people that way. We want people to be happy, fulfilled, moving upward. We want people to realize the bounty, the greatness that freedom and liberty and opportunity and being an American has always meant. That\u2019s being shut off. The roots to that definition of happiness are being closed off, roadblocks everywhere.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Mitt Romney was running around campaigning for the office of president of the United States, and among the things that he was saying was, “When I\u2019m elected, I will put Americans back to work,” and 51% of the people that voted said, “To hell with that!” (pause) “Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, reached another high in September, according to new data released by the United Stated Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n

“The most recent data on SNAP participation were released Friday, and showed that 47,710,324 people were enrolled in the program in September, an increase of 607,559 from the 47,102,765 enrolled in August. The number of households enrolled in the program also increased from 22,684,463 in August to 22,973,698 in September, an increase of 289,235. The average benefit, according to the new data, was $134.29 per person…”<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s add this up. It\u2019s $134 per person food stamps, $160 per person in poverty. So, let\u2019s see, it\u2019s $134, $135, $200 and… Whoa, no! It\u2019s $295 a day on food stamps and welfare. And, by the way, we\u2019re not solving either problem.<\/p>\n

Benefits, folks.<\/p>\n

Benefits!<\/p>\n

Benefits, right here, right now! <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Jake, Clearwater, Florida. Jake, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m fine. Thank you. I\u2019m feeling a little stupid today, but I\u2019m hoping I can overcome it later.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t believe there\u2019s any part of the Obama agenda that isn\u2019t tied to the Santa Claus factor, and one area where we lost that last time was in the youth vote of the university students that have been graduating over the last four, three, two years. While Obama was in office they sat around and watched their parents struggle to keep their houses, lose their jobs, their dollar values have gone down, house values have continued to drop, but yet these youths that can\u2019t go out and find a job bought into the Obama agenda and supported him strongly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So how do you explain that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The Santa Claus factor. He just gave more to them and promised \u2019em more than you can possibly —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but look at what you just described. You just described the youths, who are seeing all kinds of economic damage while he\u2019s president, happen, to their families. They are seeing their student loans skyrocket, which he owns, by the way. They are seeing no jobs worth having, able to be filled because they don\u2019t exist. They are living at home in many cases, having to move back home. There\u2019s nothing that they went to college for out there for them. By all reason and by all logic, in the past, they would blame the current occupant of the White House, who\u2019s been there for four years for creating this mess, but, no, they blame Bush, or for some reason they think Obama is their solution. <\/p>\n

They believe in magical thinking. They believe what Obama tells them, not what they see. Not what\u2019s happening to them. It\u2019s the first time in my life this has happened, by the way, that people living through horrible economic times are not influenced by it. The Republicans counted on that, and it didn\u2019t happen. It was clear. Romney was playing defense. Everybody assumed that this economy was in such bad shape, going nowhere fast, that none of Obama\u2019s policies had worked in reviving the economy. You know, the mistake that everybody made was — and you\u2019ve put your finger on it in a roundabout way — the mistake we made was thinking they want an economy rebounding. That\u2019s not what they want. A rebounding economy means jobs, which means work, which means deferred gratification. <\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll never forget, folks, when I was growing up I was telling one of my cousin\u2019s sons over the weekend, we\u2019re having a talk about this, he\u2019s not yet 30, and he has expectations. He wants a lot now, part of his generation, but he understands better than most the realities of life. But I was telling him, when I was growing up, when my father was growing up, they, meaning society, didn\u2019t let you become anything until you were 40. You had to build up experience. You had to prove you were trustworthy. You had to prove you could do the job. You had to prove that you were dependable. You had to prove that you were worth somebody investing a lot of money in you. And that took a lot of time. <\/p>\n

I remember when I bought my first house — well, actually my second. I don\u2019t count the first one \u2019cause it was odd circumstances. I had no business buying it. There was nothing celebratory about it. But the first house in Sacramento, I bought it from the developer. And we\u2019re at a bar, a place called Mace\u2019s in Sacramento, and he said at me — and I\u2019m 37 or 38 when this is all happening. “They don\u2019t let you make any money \u2019til you\u2019re 40.” And I knew what he meant. The “they” is not some conspiracy. It\u2019s just the culture. You had to work a long time to prove you were worth being invested in, a large salary being the investment. Earning a lot, being paid a lot of money. Well, you tell somebody coming out of college today they\u2019re not gonna let you make \u2019til 40, and you\u2019ve got a fistfight on your hands, \u2019cause they expect to have it made the day they get out of college. <\/p>\n

The expectations are they\u2019re gonna have what their parents had relatively immediately, because some of their generation has. They\u2019ve come out, big deals, lucrative deals on Wall Street, couple other places. So the exception game has changed, is my point, and there\u2019s not a whole lot of patience to sit around and work and work and work and slave away and slave away and have it finally pay off when you hit 40, just to use a round number. So if somebody comes along and offers a benefit to you that can be realized much sooner than putting in a lot of sweat and toil \u2019til you\u2019re 40, that\u2019s a part of our culture that is vanishing. It\u2019s not totally gone. I\u2019m not saying that everybody has these demands to be fully vested at age 25, but there are a lot who do. And when it doesn\u2019t happen, there\u2019s hell to pay. <\/p>\n

They are open to a political argument that will blame a political party for their plight rather than, hey, you know what, you just gotta be patient. It takes hard work. It takes a long time. You have to demonstrate over many years that you have talent, that you have ability, that you\u2019re willing to show up, that you\u2019re dependable, that you can be counted on. It takes awhile to build up that kind of experience. It takes awhile to learn enough to be able to do a job to the extent that you\u2019re gonna be paid a lot of money for it. That patience and such is just not present in as many people today as it used to be. So that old adage, they\u2019re not gonna let you make it \u2019til you\u2019re 40, that\u2019s out the window now. And I\u2019m not complaining about it; it\u2019s just the way it is. And if you\u2019re the Republican Party you\u2019re gonna have to come up with some answer to it. <\/p>\n

The Republican convention answer apparently didn\u2019t sell: Up from nothing, work hard, become somebody, become the best you can be, didn\u2019t sell. Or maybe it was something else at the convention that didn\u2019t sell, but whatever, it didn\u2019t. But immediate gratification, Santa Claus, we care about you, they don\u2019t, that did sell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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