{"id":3470,"date":"2016-05-06T16:38:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T16:38:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-07-06T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:25:37","slug":"my_rebuttal_to_obama_s_economic_lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/05\/06\/my_rebuttal_to_obama_s_economic_lies\/","title":{"rendered":"My Rebuttal to Obama\u2019s Economic Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: So the economy is in the tank. It\u2019s confirmed. All the April economic news is out, jobs news and everything. So what does Obama do? Come out and spin it. He\u2019s doing a presser or some sort of press availability now at the White House timed exactly to coincide with the beginning of this program, which he is wont to do. Here are the numbers that you need to know: 160,000 new jobs in April, the vast majority of them part time. That is 50,000 below “expectations.” The expectations are meaningless. It\u2019s a bunch of economic experts that don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re constantly surprised every month, the media reports that the experts are surprised over what actually happened given their predictions. But the bottom line is you can create all these jobs or not create all these jobs. People\u2019s incomes are not rising! People do not have more disposable income. People do not have more liberty and freedom with their money. So all of this is just irrelevant, but there\u2019s Obama out there trying to spin this and use this. What he\u2019s doing, is this is an occasion to call for more government spending to “get the economy going.”<\/p>\n


\nWe\u2019re in our eighth year with Barack Hussein Obama, and we\u2019re still not spending enough money! Even though we have doubled the national debt on his watch, it still isn\u2019t enough. No. We need more. We need more government stimulation, stimulus. We need more government spending, and it needs to be “fair.” That\u2019s the problem. The money that\u2019s been spent so far hasn\u2019t quite been fair. “We need to redistribute the money.” Have you seen the DOJ is gonna do, what Obama wants the DOJ to do? We\u2019re gonna get rid of the term “felon.” <\/a> Too judgmental!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, my friends. We\u2019ve got to broom the term “felon.” There\u2019s one other term that we\u2019re getting rid of. What is it? Did I put this at the bottom of the Stack? Did I put it at the bottom of…? I\u2019ll find it here in just a second. But we are getting rid of the term “felon” and one other — convicted criminal or some such thing — \u2019cause those are those are too stigmatizing and too judgmental. “This is not fair to those people! It creates an unfair image of them. They\u2019ve gotten out of jail; they\u2019ve paid their debt to society. To continue to call them convicts and felons, our official government? We\u2019re not gonna do it.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just another in a never ending assault on the dominant culture that existed since the days of the founding of this country. The 160,000 new jobs supposedly created in April is the fewest announced created jobs in seven months. The labor force participation rate plummeted yet again. The number of Americans not working is 94.04 million<\/a>. I don\u2019t know what the adult population of the country is. I guess 210, 220 million. Forty percent of them are not working. You cannot have economic growth with that. You can\u2019t have economic growth, and you can\u2019t have rising productivity.<\/p>\n

Without rising productivity, you can\u2019t have rising wages, increased salaries. You just can\u2019t have it. Ninety-four million Americans! Somebody has to buy their food. Somebody has to pay for them to eat. Somebody has to pay for them to get in their cars. Somebody has to pay for them to use their cell phones. Somebody has to pay for when they get sick. Speaking of when you get sick, the government has purloined one-sixth of the US economy in the terms of Obamacare. So not only is the government spending more and choking more, it is making the economy where the American dream languishes, smaller.<\/p>\n


\n“Economic growth has slowed sharply…” It never did pick up. This is the thing. Measured against what did economic growth “slow”? Sure. There hasn\u2019t been any appreciable economic growth since Obama was inaugurated. There hasn\u2019t been any to write home about. Otherwise the number one issue in exit poll after exit poll after exit poll, in primary after primary after primary — to the tune of 80% to 85% — wouldn\u2019t say the number one most important issue to you: The economy. The second most important issue to you: The economy. Third most important issue to you: The economy.<\/p>\n

Every primary — Republican, Democrat — the most important issue is the economy, \u2019cause nobody is getting ahead, and nobody feels confident that the pieces are in place to get ahead. Where\u2019s the anger over that? Where\u2019s the panic about that? Where\u2019s the all-is-lost attitude about that? Where has it been for the 7-1\/2 years? “JCPenney ‘Taking Emergency Measures to Stay Afloat.'”<\/a> I didn\u2019t click the link. It\u2019s just another American corporation in trouble for all kinds of reasons that you can trace back to, in part, the United States government. Not every business would be doing great.<\/p>\n

Some of them are run by people that don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. Some have made mistakes. I don\u2019t try to lay it all off on the government. But the government\u2019s become one of the biggest impediments to corporate success because of crony capitalism. The government\u2019s sidling up and making deals with certain CEOs, certain industries, and certain businesses. The biggest result of that is a company in order to grow no longer has to innovate. A company doesn\u2019t have to come up with a better product. Company doesn\u2019t have to come up with a better service \u2019cause the government\u2019s got their back.<\/p>\n

And when the government\u2019s got their back, the government doesn\u2019t have the backs of their competitors. Competitors take it in the shorts, and the corporation CEO that sidled up to Obama — you crony socialism or capitalism or what you want — they\u2019re protected. But the main thing is they don\u2019t have to defeat their competitors in order to grow. The government\u2019s taken care that. They don\u2019t have to innovate. They don\u2019t have to come up with better products. They don\u2019t have to produce better services and people. So when you see “JCPenney ‘Taking Emergency Measures to Stay Afloat…'”<\/p>\n

I doubt that Obama has any special arrangement with JCPenney — and then, of course, one of the big headlines here: “Record Americans Renounce Citizenship.” That\u2019s something… I don\u2019t know what the numbers are. I didn\u2019t click on the link again. All I know is this is not the kind of new stories that you saw every day 20 years ago, 15 years ago, 25 years ago. But you do see it in the latest last five to eight years. You see a lot of it. Americans are renouncing their citizenship. So that\u2019s the real world. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening now. On the Democrat side, we got Hillary Rodham Clinton, a woman who has lied to people about the way she got her name.<\/p>\n

She told people that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. She told Sir Edmund Hillary that she was named after him. Now, for those of you who don\u2019t know, Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mt. Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mt. Everest years after Hillary Clinton was born. Nobody had heard of Edmund Hillary when she was born, \u2019cause he hadn\u2019t done anything yet. But it doesn\u2019t matter. She\u2019s running around telling everybody that she was named after him, and everybody properly oohed and ahhed and so forth. It\u2019s just one of countless similar lies that Hillary Rodham Clinton has told her entire life, her entire career in politics.<\/p>\n

And now we learn that Elizabeth Warren — who has also lied about having one one-hundredth of a cell of Indian blood so that she would qualify as a minority in order to get a job at Harvard — has now been designated the official Trump attacker in the Clinton campaign. As I say, talk about being off the reservation.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s what JCPenney is doing. They\u2019re reducing both full- and part-time employees. They\u2019re reducing their hours, both sides. Those who typically work 25 hours a week are being cut to 10 or 15 hours a week — and, of course, there won\u2019t be any health care benefits. Then we\u2019re gonna turn around, and we\u2019re gonna listen to Obama, Hillary, the Democrats… Well, not Hillary. Not Hillary, and not Bernie. We\u2019re gonna listen to Obama and other Democrats tell us what great recovery we\u2019ve got! “Well, yeah, this economy is just trucking along!”<\/p>\n

Hillary can\u2019t say that because she\u2019s running for office. She\u2019s out there talking about how rotten it is, and that doesn\u2019t seem to calculate with anybody. “Really? You\u2019re out there ripping the economy? You\u2019ve been part of it! It\u2019s yours! Everything happening in this economy is stuff that you believe. Every policy implemented, you believe; you supported it.” She\u2019s out there ripping it. It\u2019s the only choice that she has. She ought to be a sitting duck! Hillary Clinton ought to be a sitting duck. Hillary Clinton ought not have a prayer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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