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RUSH: Reno, Nevada. Bill, welcome to the program, sir. Great to have you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure talking to you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Listened for many years. There was a comment earlier this week on the radio about the lack of experience of the Democratic nominees for the presidential race had, and I remember in 1972 I voted for George McGovern, and years later, listening to PBS I heard an interview with Mr. McGovern, and he had gotten into a business venture in New England and it was a bed-and-breakfast that went bankrupt.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He and his partner lost money.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I remember that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And he stated that if he had known what business was like, he would have voted differently in the Senate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He said specifically, your memory is fabulous. He said if he had known what it took to make a payroll —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He had never run a business. It was a little hotel or something, and it was in New England.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep. Up in Maine somewhere, I think.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Up in Maine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He and his partners lost it, and so that sort of brings it to the forefront. What is your opinion of the experience level of these different Republican as well as Democratic people that are trying to get into the White House? I mean, like Bush, he always seemed to be what he was, you know? And that\u2019s why I voted for him. But after that thing from McGovern, it really — I always thought, you know, who knows what they\u2019re doing, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is not hard to understand. It\u2019s hard to explain why voters don\u2019t care about it, but it\u2019s not hard to understand. You\u2019re familiar with David Broder, the dean of Washington columnists, the Washington Post, right? He wrote a piece yesterday, said, you know, these Democrat candidates are running around here and they\u2019re talking about all this experience, and they don\u2019t have any. They don\u2019t have any businesses. Not one of them has ever run a business. None of them knows the first thing about it, and he said, ‘This is really going to come back to haunt them on Election Day.\u2019 Right now it doesn\u2019t matter because it\u2019s primaries, but any number of these Republicans are going to be able to say that they have run businesses, that they\u2019ve made payrolls, and they\u2019ve turned them around and they made big successes out of their businesses in the private sector. <\/p>\n

Now, the Democrats, from Hillary to Obama, let\u2019s throw Edwards in there, too. He\u2019s run a business, an ambulance chasing firm. You mine for money in one of those things. You troll the streets looking for injured people. If you\u2019re John Edwards, you need movement to make money; you need people moving around, getting in accidents. That\u2019s not really entrepreneurial. It\u2019s just having sharp eyes and making sure you\u2019re the first lawyer on the scene. But these other Democrats, Bill, they don\u2019t care. If you listen to Hillary and Obama, what are they going to do to business? They\u2019re going to punish it. They\u2019re going to take ExxonMobil\u2019s profits. Hillary said this. They\u2019re going to make sure that these businesses stop screwing the American people. Business to them is a competitor. To them, the only thing that matters — they\u2019re liberals — the only thing that matters is government. That\u2019s their source of power and that\u2019s where they\u2019re going to utilize it, and everybody is a potential target to liberals, including business. <\/p>\n

So, to them, having no business experience is perfect, because they could say we haven\u2019t been corrupted. They think — or they want people to believe that they think that all business is corrupt; that it cheats people; that it steals; that it treats employees unfairly; that it fires \u2019em left and right. They only pay the CEO a lot of money, and they deserve to be punished. They get votes on this basis. It\u2019s called class envy. So I think Mr. Broder — I hope he\u2019s right, but I don\u2019t think that a lot of Democrat voters, a lot of liberal voters give a rat\u2019s rear end about the fact that Democrat candidates don\u2019t understand business. But it does point out one of the real, real problems, is that when you\u2019re liberal and you believe in government, folks, your big enemy is capitalism, your big enemy is freedom and liberty, enjoyed by the American people. Your biggest friend is an always expanding government with more and more power. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why liberals get so cranky and out of sorts when they don\u2019t run government because they can\u2019t do anything without it. They cannot empower people — well, that\u2019s mistaken to say. They don\u2019t want to empower people. They want to enslave people. They want to make people dependent. They can\u2019t do that if they don\u2019t have control of the government. They are totally at a loss. When the government\u2019s not actively engaged in creating more and more dependence, people more and more fend for themselves. This is the ongoing battle, and that\u2019s anathema to liberals. So it\u2019s a great question. I\u2019m glad you called with that, because as far as liberals and a lot of their voters are concerned, business is to be screwed, business is to be gotten even with, business is to be cut down to size, CEOs are to be punished, taxed through the roof so the little guy feels like the big guy feels some pain, too, pure and simple. <\/p>\n

Bill in Salt Lake City, welcome to the program. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: A longtime listener. I\u2019ve been listening to you since 1985 on our station north of Sacramento in the Air Force.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow. Twenty-two years.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. One of the local civilians out there turned me on to you. We listened to you as we worked. I got a question about stimulating the economy. Wouldn\u2019t it better if we focused towards business? They do a lot to generate growth in our economy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How do you mean, tax cuts for business, or —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, definitely tax cuts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Well, we\u2019re going to have to wait and see the details of what the president\u2019s proposed. It\u2019s $145 billion, but from what he said, the vast majority of it is tax cuts, and he made a big, big deal about making the current tax rate reductions permanent, beyond 2010. He reminded people the big tax increase is going to happen if those things are not made permanent. But, about your point. When you look at small business, small business is the largest employer of people in the country. A lot of small businesses, who are Subchapter S corporations, are allowed to file their tax returns on an individual 1040. So a stimulus package that does include significant tax cuts will end up benefiting a lot of Subchapter S-corp businesses, small businesses, those businesses that do take the option of filing a personal 1040 form will benefit from this. And this, I\u2019m sure, is something not lost on the administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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