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RUSH: Now, this next sound bite, a lot of people are reacting to this. The Heritage Foundation on their morning blog, The Corner, long piece about this. Any number of places I\u2019ve seen people are having visceral reactions to this next bite. This was yesterday in Durham, North Carolina. Obama was there at some corporation talking about job growth and his policies and so forth. He had Jeff Immelt of NBC, GE, and others from his private sector jobs commission. These guys are there to advise Obama on private sector job creation. And in the midst of this appearance, there\u2019s a Q&A with an unidentified member of Obama\u2019s council, jobs and competitive council. And one of the members asked Obama a question.<\/p>\n

COUNCIL MEMBER: I\u2019m sure that when you implemented the Recovery Act, your staff briefed you on many of the challenges of the permitting process and the impact on putting Americans back to work, and that\u2019s exactly what we see in American businesses —<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they laughed about it. We cut it but there\u2019s laughter. Immelt and these members start laughing about this, yeah, shovel-ready was not as shovel ready as we expected. This is from The One. This is from The Messiah. This is from the expert. This is from the man who gave us almost $800 billion to pay people to do these shovel-ready jobs. There weren\u2019t any shovel-ready jobs. The council member admits it. Oh, yeah, well, shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected. Laughing about it, after passing himself off as the lone expert here, he\u2019s the guy that\u2019s got the only way out of this mess. He\u2019s admitting that he didn\u2019t know what he was talking about, and now he\u2019s laughing about it, as did all the other members of the commission. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve gotta take a brief time-out, our first of many obscene profit breaks here today at the Rush Limbaugh program. <\/p>\n

Obama spoke to a half empty crowd or arena in Miami last night and got heckled by a bunch of AIDS activists to boot. The media is treating this shovel-ready thing as a joke. I don\u2019t think people losing their jobs and losing their lives and losing their homes is a joke. Breaks your heart, folks. We all know people to whom this has happened. We all know people to whom thisIS happening. And we know that people are doing their level best to come out of their circumstances, and they\u2019ve got this giant obstacle in the way, and it\u2019s this president\u2019s policies, his way of looking at the world, socialism, Marxism, what have you, and the government was supposed to be the big savior here. The government, Keynesian economics, massive federal spending, job creation. You can\u2019t expand the amount of water in a swimming pool by taking buckets of water from one end and putting it in the other end of the pool. You\u2019re not changing the amount of water. You\u2019re just redistributing where the water is in the swimming pool. It\u2019s all gonna level out anyway and be where it was before you started.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same thing with the US economy. You can\u2019t take dollars from one area and move \u2019em to another area and claim you\u2019re growing the economy. You can\u2019t take money from people who are earning and producing it and give it to people who are not and claim that you\u2019re engaged in social justice. You can\u2019t take money from people who have it, give it to people who don\u2019t and claim you\u2019re growing the economy. That\u2019s not how economic growth takes place. The whole thing was flawed. And now it turns out it was just a joke, shovel-ready wasn\u2019t as shovel-ready as we expected. The joke is that the money was never intended to go to shovel-ready jobs. It was intended and went to state and local union employees, a money laundering operation. The money stayed in the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, shovel-ready. “Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we thought.” Ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha! Everybody laughs. Let me give you some others: “Affordable health care is not as affordable as we thought.” That statement will be made by Obama down the road. He\u2019s just now figuring out that there weren\u2019t any shovel-ready jobs? His health care act is called The Affordable Health Care Act. Guess what? “The Affordable Health Care Act was not as affordable as we thought.” All this talk about fiscal responsibility? Guess what? “Fiscal responsibility was not as responsible as we thought.” Now, who\u2019s to blame? The environmentalists and the unions, that\u2019s why a lot of this stuff is not working. <\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s constituents. Those are the people who stand in the way with permits and red tape and prevent any kind of project for moving forward. Obama, his new jobs push (and this is along with Jeff Immelt, the head of Obama\u2019s jobs council; Larry Summers) is a push for a new round of stimulus. That\u2019s what was going on. They want more stimulus. They want Stimulus 3! This whole notion, “Well, shovel-ready wasn\u2019t quite as shovel-ready as we thought,” means they want another round. That\u2019s what\u2019s being set up here: Another stimulus. They\u2019ll say, “It didn\u2019t work the first time. It was too small. Permits and regulations got in the way. This time we\u2019ll do it the right way; we\u2019ll do the stimulus the right way.” <\/p>\n

Yeah, “Club Gitmo was not as closable as we thought,” Obama will say.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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