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RUSH: Here\u2019s the point, folks. In my humble opinion, class warfare is actually warfare against the middle class — and I think this is largely misunderstand. The Democrats and the left have characterized class warfare this way. They\u2019ve told their charges, “Stick with us, pal, and we\u2019re gonna get even with those rich people. Ha-ha! We\u2019re gonna make \u2019em people and we\u2019re gonna redistribute their wealth and you\u2019re gonna have more. Everybody\u2019s gonna be fine. We\u2019re gonna punish them big time,” and, of course, I\u2019ve always asked: “How is that help you? Okay, some rich guy you don\u2019t know is forced to pay a higher tax rate. How in the world does that make your life better?” I used to make my mother mad all the time when I was a kid. <\/p>\n

She made me eat everything on the plate, and she did say — you know, it\u2019s a clich from my generation — “There\u2019s starving kids all over the world, starving kids in China! You eat that,” and I would say, “Okay, if I eat all of that, somebody in China is gonna be rubbing their stomach and say, ‘Ohhhh, wow. I feel full\u2019?” and my mother would say, “Don\u2019t sass me. Don\u2019t be a smart-aleck.” I said, “I\u2019m sorry, but I don\u2019t know how what I eat is affecting somebody in China.” Same thing here. They can talk about going after the rich all they want, but whose pockets are being lined here? Who are their crony capitalist partners? Well, it\u2019s all these lib Democrat front-runners on Wall Street. <\/p>\n

General Electric is not paying a penny in United States federal income tax! The fact is the left lives in the world of crony capitalism, and they seek to control the middle class, and they want to keep the middle class “middle class.” The thing the left does not want is precisely people expanding their wealth. You can\u2019t control \u2019em. The more people become independently wealthy, the less they need government. The left needs you dependent, the left needs you subservient. The left, the Democrats and the president want you needing them. They love it when you call 911 when the Chinese restaurant screws up! They love it when you call 911 when McDonald\u2019s is outta Chicken McNuggets. They love it when you call 911 when a drug deal goes bad and you don\u2019t get the right change. <\/p>\n

They like it! They sit back privately and (clapping) applaud and they say, “There\u2019s success out there. It\u2019s working. We are convincing more and more people that the solution to practically everything in life is to call us.” The same party that yells about tax cuts for the rich have made it so that General Electric pays no taxes. Do you think Bush did that? you think Reagan did that? That was Barack Obama, my friends. If you support \u2019em and you get this wacko president who wants these jellybean cars with these little propeller wings on \u2019em and solar power? You tell him, “Fine, I\u2019ll build one,” and he\u2019ll take care of you. You support the regime and they\u2019ll take care of you. You ignore the regime, and they will punish you. <\/p>\n

Remember Microsoft? Microsoft forgot something very important. They did not have a lobbyist in Washington. They didn\u2019t have an office. They weren\u2019t greasing the skids. Guess what? Massive lawsuit. Remember when Microsoft didn\u2019t have any lobbyists? They were punished for it. Now they do. Now Microsoft greases the skids. What we\u2019re living through right now is what happens when the left gets its way. That\u2019s what we\u2019re living through right now. When the left wins, when they get what they want, that\u2019s what we\u2019re living through. You can\u2019t find a job; you worry if you have a job that you\u2019re going to lose it. The price of gasoline skyrockets; the price of food skyrockets. <\/p>\n

The value of your home is such that it\u2019s underwater. What we\u2019re living through right now is what happens when the left gets its way. When the Democrat Party wins is what happens now, and somehow they have managed to convince a bunch of genuine blithering idiots. “Rush, if you keep insulting them, you\u2019re never going to persuade them.” They\u2019re lost causes anyway! Check out some of these Nimrods that post on some of these blogs, folks. Anyway, they\u2019re out there thinking, “Yeah, Obama loves me! He\u2019s gonna take care of me. He\u2019s gonna get even with these rich guys. He\u2019s gonna make sure I get my share.”<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Phil in Knoxville, Tennessee, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. I appreciate your patience.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, Rush, maybe you can explain this to me. We\u2019ve always been told that the majority of jobs come from small businesses. So we have this job panel and the members were like from GE and Amex and Intel and Xerox and all these smart types from college, and I just want to know, where\u2019s the owner of Bob\u2019s hardware and Darlene\u2019s ice cream and the local lumberyard and those people? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. The president\u2019s job council you mean?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I tell you, they\u2019re nowhere, because that jobs council is not about creating jobs. Jeffrey Immelt doesn\u2019t have to talk to Barack Obama about creating jobs. Jeff Immelt and none of the people, none of the CEOs that are on that council have to have a meeting about how to create jobs. They know how to do it. They know how companies work. They\u2019re CEOs. They don\u2019t have to teach Obama. That\u2019s not what that\u2019s about. This is crony capitalism, pure and simple. This is Obama forging deals and relationships with these CEOs to advance a political agenda, all the while making us think that there\u2019s some real heavyweight people getting together to discuss what\u2019s wrong with jobs in this country. <\/p>\n

These CEOs are the creme de la creme. There\u2019s not a single one of them that\u2019s gonna learn anything from Barack Obama. There\u2019s not a single one of them that\u2019s gonna learn anything from anybody else. They all know why the economy is in bad shape and what it takes to get it out of it. They all know that but they cannot, any of them individually, single-handedly bring it about. So it\u2019s another one of these phony get-togethers designed to make everybody think that the regime is focusing on the problem, so that these people out of work are being paid attention to and their interests are being looked after and it\u2019s not that at all. It\u2019s a dog and pony show, pure and simple. <\/p>\n

You don\u2019t need one meeting with one member or bureaucrat, any bureaucracy or government agency and a CEO to talk about jobs. Now, they may be talking about other things. “Okay, Barack, how much do you want to change regulations on my business?” That kind of stuff might be going on, but these guys don\u2019t need to have a council creating jobs. It\u2019s absurd. It\u2019s just a bunch of show ponies up there creating an illusion, pure and simple. <\/p>\n

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