{"id":14546,"date":"2012-09-18T17:37:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:37:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-18T17:37:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:37:28","slug":"mitt_please_read_and_memorize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/18\/mitt_please_read_and_memorize\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt! Please Read and Memorize"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The latest Gallup numbers are in. Obama is down. This is the election poll, Gallup. It\u2019s Obama 47, Romney 46. It was 48-45. It was three; now it is two. And 47%, Romney said 47%, whatever he said, he said about 47%. So does Gallup. Gallup says Obama\u2019s got 47%, it\u2019s exactly what Romney said. But in the middle of all of this, I don\u2019t care where you look in the media, this last seven days was supposed to have finished Romney off, wasn\u2019t it? And yet Romney\u2019s up a point; Obama\u2019s down a point. The real world is that this past week has been an utter disaster for Barack Obama, and so is this election going to be. <\/p>\n

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I went back in the past. I think this Romney statement really is like saying the sky\u2019s blue. It\u2019s nothing that really shocks anybody. It\u2019s just that what it represents is an opportunity to the media and what it represents is an opportunity for the Obama campaign, but it\u2019s really no great… I mean, we\u2019ve said it. A lot of people have been saying this kind of thing. It\u2019s been one of the raging debates about where we are as a country, and have we lost the country. That\u2019s what this is all about. So went back, I went back to the news archives. And look what I have here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. This is USA Today, April 26th, 2011. Headline: “Americans Depend More on Federal Aid Than Ever.” It\u2019s not Romney saying it. Ha-ha. It\u2019s USA Today, shazam. It\u2019s the Drive-By Media saying it. <\/p>\n

“Americans depended more on government assistance in 2010 than at any other time in the nation\u2019s history.” Exactly right. It\u2019s why Obama has to be stopped. It\u2019s not what this country is, as Obama said his convention, “It\u2019s not who we are.” This is not who we are. Forty-seven percent of this country\u2019s population is helplessly dependent on the government because of policies created by Barack Obama and the Democrat Party year after year after year. Why are they dependent? Nobody\u2019s saying that all 47% of \u2019em are slackers. Nobody\u2019s saying that all 47% of \u2019em are losers. A lot of them are victims of Obamaism, of the Democrat Party. They\u2019re victims of liberalism. They\u2019re victims of an economy that does not grow. They\u2019re victims of an economy that shrinks. They are victims of an economy where there are fewer jobs and where there\u2019s less income to be earned. They are victims of failed Democrat Party policy after policy after policy. <\/p>\n

CNNMoney.com, February 7, 2012: “Government Assistance Expands — More than one in three Americans lived in households that received Medicaid, food stamps or other means-based government assistance.” By the way, speaking of food stamps, who the hell\u2019s out there singing their praises? Who the hell is out there advertising for \u2019em? Who the hell is encouraging more people to get on them? I ask you the question. I\u2019ll answer it. “Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!” and the Democrat Party. You know it and I know it. You\u2019ve seen the ads, billboards, magazine ads. Not newspaper \u2019cause there aren\u2019t any of those anymore, newspaper ads. I got the story. It\u2019s devastating. You won\u2019t believe what\u2019s happening to newspaper advertising. Folks, it\u2019s a wonder there\u2019s a newspaper being printed today. I kid you not. <\/line><\/p>\n

Who\u2019s out there advocating food stamps? Who is it that\u2019s advocating that you go out and find your benefits? That\u2019s Barack Hussein Obama. Is anybody out there advocating that you go make something of yourself? Is anybody advocating that you take control of your life, pursue excellence, follow your dreams, be ambitious, be the best you can be? If there is a candidate in this race that thinks that, believes that, and puts it into play, it is Mitt Romney. It\u2019s not Barack Obama. The 47% that we\u2019re talking about, that Gallup now confirms — dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut — are there in large part because of Democrat Party policies, because of the Barack Obama presidency, and there\u2019s no skirting it, there\u2019s no getting around it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not because of George W. Bush. It\u2019s not because of George H. W. Bush. It\u2019s not because of Ronald Reagan. It\u2019s not because of the way we\u2019ve always been doing it and we finally have to change it. It\u2019s because of the way we\u2019re doing it now. It\u2019s because of the policies of the Democrat Party as constituted today led by Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama. That\u2019s why. The number of people dependent on government is growing because they want that. They want more dependents. They want more need of government. They want more people thinking that government is where they get the fair shake.<\/p>\n

They want more people believing that government is how they eat; that government is how they get a car; that government is how they get a cell phone, cell service, flat screen TV. They want people thinking it\u2019s government, and personally Barack Obama, who makes it possible. And we know from Barack Obama town hall meetings in Tampa shortly after he was immaculated, people showed up and did indeed ask for a new kitchen from Barack Obama. Some asked for a new car. Some asked for an entire house. Some thought today we\u2019re on the inside and that\u2019s what it means, that\u2019s what we get. Who is it that just gutted the work requirements of welfare reform? Was it Mitt Romney? <\/p>\n

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No, it was Barack Hussein Obama who just gutted the work requirements of welfare reform, which means what? Which means it used to be that in order to qualify for welfare you had to show that you were trying to find a job. No longer. That was considered to be unfair and punitive by Barack Obama. By the way, the welfare rolls were reduced and falling up until the Obama economy, because of welfare reform. Why would you strip the work requirements out of welfare? Why would you do that? What\u2019s wrong with work? Work is a good thing. Work is where people take their self-worth. Work is where people evaluate themselves, identify themselves, take their identity. Why would you want to talk down about work? Why would you dissuade people from the idea that work is good? Why would you want to tell people it\u2019s not possible, the jobs aren\u2019t there. This is a new norm. Why? <\/p>\n

Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs? Who said unemployment creates jobs? Who said every dollar of unemployment adds $1.73 economic growth? Who said that? It was Nancy Pelosi. Who is she? Democrat Party. She used to be Speaker of the House, now the leader of the Democrats in the House. Who said food stamps create jobs? Nancy Pelosi, Democrat Party, Harry Reid. Really? Welfare creates jobs? See, we, meaning conservatives, we want better than this, for everybody. We want for everybody the opportunity to be the best they can be, the best they want to be. You talk about real love and compassion, that\u2019s us. <\/p>\n

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We\u2019re the ones that just don\u2019t accept this version of humanity, that people are incompetent, that they\u2019re inept, that they\u2019re not capable. That\u2019s the liberal view of people. You can\u2019t do it on your own. You need Pelosi or Reid or “Blabbermouth” Schultz or Obama. You need those people helping you. You need \u2019em looking out for you. You need \u2019em giving you your health care \u2019cause you\u2019re too dumb, stupid, incompetent, incapable to do it on your own. Mitt Romney doesn\u2019t think any of that. Paul Ryan doesn\u2019t think any of that. They have faith in people, believe in people, love people, want the best for everybody. I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s a golden opportunity that what Romney said to these donors has been made public. Work is how you become independent — it\u2019s what the Republican Party wants. That\u2019s what the Democrat Party fears. <\/p>\n

We want you independent of government. We don\u2019t want people depending on government. That\u2019s never gonna get anybody anything. That\u2019s not prosperity. That\u2019s existence, at best, subsistence, the norm. Nancy Pelosi\u2019s a millionaire. How did she become a millionaire, aside from marrying it? Do you think she did it on food stamps? John Kerry\u2019s a millionaire. How did he do it? He married it. Do you think John Kerry\u2019s a millionaire \u2019cause of food stamps or welfare or any of the other programs they want you to be on? <\/p>\n

Who really has the best intentions for the poor? I would submit to you it\u2019s Mitt Romney. Any Republican, any conservative looks at people in poverty and says, “It\u2019s not necessary, not in this country.” There are ways out of it. Not ways of sustaining it and calling that compassion. We don\u2019t define compassion by adding up the number of people who get food stamps. We define compassion by how many people no longer need any of that stuff. Not Barack Obama. Not Joe Biden. Not Harry Reid. Not Nancy Pelosi. And not the media. The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that\u2019s how they want you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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