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\"Listen<\/a>\nRUSH: I played for you, an hour ago, a three-minute sound bite<\/a> from my television show 1995 illustrating how Democrats use scare tactics to get everybody to agree with growing the budget and expanding government… By the way, this is a challenge for me. The Democrats are talking about what a great era the Clinton era was. They tell us now, when they want to come and raise taxes, “Well, look, let\u2019s go back to Clinton-era taxes. We had an economic boom and everything was great back then!”<\/p>\nOf course, we played sound bites, a sound bite from 1995 of Democrats employing the same scare tactics then as they do today. It really is quite instructive. If you missed it, we got the link. It\u2019s a YouTube video now at RushLimbaugh.com. It\u2019s also… You\u2019ll see. It\u2019s The Daily Show, except the conservative version of it, the forerunner to The Daily Show, ahead of its time. Our TV show was literally ahead of its time, I kid you not. We made the point that the government\u2019s only gotten bigger since 1995. Democrats have gotten everything they want.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThey say bigger government equals solution to problems — and, of course, it doesn\u2019t work that way.<\/p>\nI made all that very clear in the first hour. There\u2019s another way of explaining it that I don\u2019t think low-information voters and even a lot of high-information voters can comprehend. But here it is. Back in the Clinton years, like in 1995, government spending was 18% of GDP. Another way of saying that, for those of you in Rio Linda — and, by the way, speaking of, in Rio Linda, that\u2019s tantamount knowledge expressed by me of the existence of low-information voters. That is why I\u2019ve been singling Rio Linda out for 25 years, to make things clear to them in ways that is not necessary for others. So I\u2019m on the cutting edge here in I can\u2019t tell you how many ways. <\/p>\nAnyway, 18% of GDP, what does that mean to anybody? I can sit here and say it all day long, okay, it\u2019s 18% of gross domestic product. Okay, what does that mean? Well, it\u2019s 18% of the whole economy. Well, okay, so what? Well, it\u2019s too high, 18% of all economic activity is the government which doesn\u2019t produce anything. The only way it gets 18% is by taking it from people. Maybe try it that way. “But, Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Limbaugh, the government does such wonderful things with the money. It takes care of people. It feeds the hungry and clothes the naked and it provides home for the homeless and medicine for the sick.” That\u2019s how the low-information New Castrati think of it. <\/p>\nAnyway, the size of government back during the Clinton years, back during this panacea, was 18% of the economy, the GDP. Today it\u2019s 24%. So it\u2019s grown by a third. And how\u2019s that working out? I mean, the government is now nearly 25% of the whole economy, and it doesn\u2019t produce anything. The only way it can get that big is taking money from other people. Not other people, everybody. It is the only way. Now, knowledgeable economists say that 18% of GDP is a good size. Knowledgeable economists — I\u2019m not trying to sound like Obama. I\u2019m talking about genuine, real economists, say that a government that is 18% of GDP, given a country like ours, makes sense, because 18% of GDP is enough to be able to provide for the national defense, defend and protect the Constitution, and take care of the people who can\u2019t take care of themselves and still have enough left over in the private sector for there to be the opportunity for plenty of prosperity on the part of the people. <\/p>\nNow, when you get above 18%, now, we\u2019re 24%, what that means is, the size of the economy where you live is getting smaller \u2019cause the government\u2019s taking it away. And they don\u2019t produce anything with it. They just take it, and they\u2019re doing much more now than providing for the common defense, and defending and protecting the Constitution and building roads and bridges and providing for the needy. Now they\u2019re doing much, much more. And we can\u2019t afford it. Anyway, I think that may be a helpful way of explaining, and it dovetails, by the way, if I might now, into the unemployment situation, because the Drive-By Media and the Regime are ecstatic today. <\/p>\nThe unemployment rate went down from 7.9 to 7.7%. We\u2019re in a circumstance now, folks, where it has been like this for so long that many low-information voters are gonna assume that this is normal when it\u2019s absolutely a disaster. Unemployment, the entire employment universe, everything about employment in this country at present, is a disaster. And yet, the media and the Regime today are treating this drop as though it\u2019s nirvana. <\/p>\nJ.C. Penney announced today that they had laid off around 2,200 people at a hundred stores and offices. This is in the Chicago Tribune, and this is happening every week now. So while you hear that the unemployment rate went down to 7.7%, know that a minimum of 2,200 people lost their job, that\u2019s just J.C. Penney, more and more happening all over the country. And one of the hidden bits of news in the unemployment report today, another 130,000 people dropped out of the labor force, which means that the number of jobs that are available to be filled fell by 130,000. <\/p>\nNow, here\u2019s the important number on that. Since Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009, the universe of jobs has shrunk by over 8.5 million. There are 8.5 million fewer job opportunities in this country than there were four years ago. That\u2019s how many businesses have closed. That\u2019s how much downsizing at businesses large small there has been. There are just 8,500,000 fewer jobs. Our population hasn\u2019t dropped by 8.5 million. Our population is either steady or increasing a little bit. But there are more and more people coming out of college that want jobs that just aren\u2019t there. And another 130,000 people dropped out of the labor force. <\/p>\n<\/p>\nThat means they\u2019ve burned through their unemployment compensation benefits. They\u2019ve gone through their 99 weeks and there isn\u2019t anything and they\u2019re just out in the ether now. They are not counted as unemployed, by the way, because they\u2019ve given up looking. So the way the government does this, if you\u2019re not looking for a job you\u2019re not counted as unemployed. You\u2019re just forgotten. That\u2019s how the unemployment rate can come down. People who drop out of the system are treated by the liberals and the media as if they never existed, much like unborn babies. Unborn babies, aborted babies, are forgotten. They never existed. The same thing with people who drop out of the employment system. <\/p>\nTheir 99 weeks of unemployment, they burn through it, there\u2019s no job, they\u2019ve quit looking, bye-bye, we don\u2019t know who you are anymore. You never existed. And here\u2019s another dirty little statistic about it. In February, one of the reasons there is any good news in this unemployment report, multiple job holders, people who hold more than one job, went up by a record amount. Full time employees dropped. Part time employees increased. When you hear employment, you think the full-time, career oriented job, those are going away lickety-split. They are vanishing. <\/p>\nThe number of people holding two or more jobs went up. And they are counted. Yes, Obama\u2019s the reason. It\u2019s his economy. So the people who hold multiple jobs — one or two, three jobs — they are increasing. It takes that many jobs for many people to make ends meet. Full-time employment is dropping. People working part-time is also increasing. There isn\u2019t any good economic news or unemployment news today, no matter what you hear anywhere.<\/p>\nBREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\nRUSH: One more thing on unemployment, and we come back from the break here bottom of the hour and we\u2019re gonna get to your phone calls. <\/p>\nWhite unemployment, 6.8%. Black unemployment, 13.8%. Hispanic unemployment 9.6%, teenagers, 25.1%. The actual unemployment rate made up of people who are out of work and not looking for a job, and out of work and are looking, is 14%. But that doesn\u2019t even tell you how bad it is. What you need to know is we\u2019ve lost 8.5 million jobs in four years. That\u2019s how bad this economy has been. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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