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RUSH: I have a theory. We\u2019re going this payroll tax business. Folks, let me tell you something. Obama announced yesterday after meeting with the prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, that he\u2019s gonna veto any bill that extends the payroll tax cut if the bill lifts his ban on the Keystone pipeline. Now, all we\u2019ve heard for the last several weeks is how vital this whopping 2% payroll tax cut extension is to the preservation of the middle class. They even have a countdown clock at the White House. Days, hours, minutes until the middle class experience a thousand-dollar tax increase. It\u2019s amazing. And that is why the taxpayers are paying for all these recent campaign trips. See, Obama\u2019s not campaigning. He\u2019s pushing for this all-important tax cut. The White House website even has this countdown clock, which is ticking off the time to the expiration of the payroll tax cut. <\/p>\n
Have you noticed Obama is not worried what this is gonna “cost” the government? Have you noticed he\u2019s not worried what effect this is going to have on Social Security? This is the only funding mechanism for Social Security — and there\u2019s a concern out there, ladies and gentlemen, that reinstituting this thing will be next to impossible, which puts even further pressure on Social Security funding. But when it\u2019s a tax cut that they want, it suddenly doesn\u2019t cost the government anything! No, it\u2019s gonna “cost working families” a thousand dollars. In truth, just in pure dollars and cents, the payroll tax cut has already cost Social Security trust fund more than $100 billion; and according to all accounts it hadn\u2019t even created or saved a single job yet.<\/p>\n
Now, in the midst of all this is the Keystone pipeline. It\u2019s a no-brainer, right? In the normal ebb and flow, it is a no-brainer. It would increase on you supply of oil. It would reduce or dependence on foreign oil. It would lower the price of oil. It would create 20,000 jobs to start with the possibility of 200,000 by the time it was all done. No-brainer. Yet Obama is gonna go to the mat to make sure this Keystone pipeline\u2019s not okayed before the election. I think I may have figured out why. Everybody\u2019s focusing on the fact he\u2019s a Marxist and he\u2019s a hypocrite and all that. But if you look at it from his standpoint (and that at some point would be pure 100% selfishness), right now Obama\u2019s getting campaign contributions from both sides:<\/p>\n
The environmentalist wackos are giving him money to keep it shut down, energy companies are probably donating him money, hoping that he will okay the pipeline. If he makes a decision before the election, he cuts off one of those streams of campaign contributions. It could very well be something as simple as that. We know this guy\u2019s out for himself first and always, \u2019cause you know this pipeline\u2019s gonna be approved. One way or the other. (interruption) Yeah, I do. I think after the election, yeah, it\u2019s gonna be approved. It\u2019s a no-brainer. It\u2019s gonna be proved. Regardless who wins. I mean, the odds are less it would be approved if Obama wins but still. But the fact — remember, now, Obama is not worried about the votes of white working-class voters. Everybody\u2019s looking at this the wrong way.<\/p>\n
Everybody thinks Obama can get votes by authorizing the Keystone pipeline. No! He wants the money from both sides of the issue coming in as campaign donations. Remember, his campaign is focused exclusively on getting the votes of the poor. The philosophy is the plan is create more poor people and get their votes. It\u2019s been documented. The White House has admitted: White working class families, their votes don\u2019t matter; undesirable, we don\u2019t care about it. Therefore, trying to secure the votes of the American people on the basis of sound economic policy (i.e., okaying the Keystone pipeline) is not a factor. The campaign money is a more important thing from both sides of the issue.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The unions want that pipeline, and the unions trump the environmentalist wackos every time. That\u2019s why if Obama wins, after the election, that pipeline is gonna be authorized. That pipeline\u2019s gonna be okayed. The unions want it. Obama\u2019s buddies. Right now that\u2019s just campaign donations, both sides of the issue. That\u2019s why. The last thing Barack Obama is ever going to do — and I mean this as seriously as I\u2019ve meant anything. The last thing he\u2019s gonna do is what\u2019s good for the country. That\u2019s not his objective. It\u2019s not who he is; it\u2019s not what he\u2019s about. It never has been, and it never will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: I have a theory. We\u2019re going this payroll tax business. Folks, let me tell you something. Obama announced yesterday after meeting with the prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, that he\u2019s gonna veto any bill that extends the payroll tax cut if the bill lifts his ban on the Keystone pipeline. Now, all we\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n