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<\/a>According to Pew, 85% of middle class Americans say it is more difficult now than a decade ago to maintain their standard of living, 85%. Eighty-five percent say it is more difficult now than it was ten years ago to maintain their standard of living. Sixty-two percent say a lot of the blame lies with Congress. A slight majority says a lot lies with banks and financial institutions. Eight percent blame the middle class. In other words, 8% blame themselves. Apparently Pew didn\u2019t ask anybody if they blamed Obama. Maybe they didn\u2019t want to know. <\/p>\nBut then I went over and I was reading the AP\u2019s report of the Pew study, and, in fact, Pew did ask about Obama. They just didn\u2019t report it. AP did ask what people think Obama\u2019s relationship is to the worst decade they\u2019ve had since World War II. Thirty-four percent of the respondents did blame the regime. That\u2019s up. It used to be that a vast, vast majority — and it still is a majority — blame Bush, but 34% of the respondents blame the Obama administration. For some reason, AP buried that way down in the bottom of the piece. Pew didn\u2019t report it at all in their own study. You had to go out and find it. <\/p>\n
Now, probably the most disturbing part of the Pew study is this: Sixty-three percent of the general public, including 67% of the middle class, think that people who want to get ahead can make it if they\u2019re willing to work hard. Only 63% — in the United States of America — only 63% think that people who want to get ahead can make it if they\u2019re willing to work hard. Well, it\u2019s more than you thought it would be? In 1999 it was 74%. We\u2019re down 14% in 12 years. In 1999, 74% thought so. Now we\u2019re down to 63%. So, folks, it even gets worse here. Only 43% in the middle class, only 43% say that their children\u2019s standard of living will be better than their own. Forty-seven percent think it\u2019s gonna be worse. <\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna want this change immediately, and the Romney-Ryan<\/a> campaign is appropriate, I think. They\u2019re saying and doing the right things in relationship to this. Now, get this, though. I might have been wrong. It\u2019s a tough thing to believe that I might have been wrong, but I might have wrong about what is the most demoralizing part of the study. Get this: Fifty-two percent of middle class adults say that Obama\u2019s policies in a second term would help the middle class. Thirty-nine percent say they wouldn\u2019t. That\u2019s demoralizing. This is the Pew study: 52% of middle class adults say Obama\u2019s policies in a second term would help the middle class. Only 42% say electing Romney <\/a>would help the middle class. <\/p>\n About as many, 40%, say that it would not. That\u2019s not good, folks. If it\u2019s accurate, it just shows what a good job the news media and the education system have done in dumbing down the country. But I\u2019m gonna choose to not fall prey to what I think are attempts to demoralize and dispirit everybody. See, here\u2019s what it boils down to: I think that the country could survive four more years of Obama. But I don\u2019t believe the country can survive in a country full of people that would reelect him. That\u2019s the great fear.<\/p>\n You know, we can handle Obama, but I don\u2019t know what we can do about a majority of people that would reelect the guy. Bob Tyrrell, American Spectator, has a column out today. He says bluntly: “Obama\u2019s Looking for the Moron Vote,” these people that hang around with their mouths open all the time because they don\u2019t know what else to do. “Duhhh.” Idiots. He makes it plain that Obama is going for “the Moron Vote.” And there\u2019s no question Obama\u2019s going for the Moron Vote.<\/p>\n That\u2019s what Obama\u2019s calculation is.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s always boiled down to that for us. I know it has for you, too. Four years, we can handle Obama. But can we handle a country with a majority of people that would reelect the guy? I mean, Biden! Biden is the poster boy for the Moron Vote. The more I think about it, the more I think they\u2019re sending Biden out to act and be stupid purposely, to relate to the people they\u2019re trying to get to vote for \u2019em. “Hey, we\u2019re just like you! We got a guy here just as moronic as you are, just as stupid as you are — and look at him!<\/p>\n “He\u2019s the vice president. Look what could happen to you, too. All you gotta do is vote Democrat, be as dumb as a skunk, and you, too, might even end up being vice president.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: Hilarious story from the AP. Unemployment applications went up, and AP said that this is a sign that the job market is improving, that it is steadying out. An increase in unemployment compensation requests, and this is good news for the employment market. And then there\u2019s this. There\u2019s a Pew Research Center poll out. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/000MostDangerousMan.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>This is not the way Americans used to think, and it\u2019s not the way they used to feel, in addition to think. It\u2019s not the way that they used to fashion their own futures. It\u2019s not the way they looked at the future for themselves and for their kids. I\u2019m here to tell you this is what four years of Obama\u2019s hope and change have gotten us. This has nothing to do with Bush. And I\u2019m gonna tell you, this is one of these statistics that doesn\u2019t show up in a whole lot of polling data and this gets buried in AP\u2019s own story. The fact that people have this attitude is going to translate into changing something now. This is not the kind of thing, “Well, you know what, let\u2019s give this guy four more years.” The down slope has been long enough, even if they do want to say they included some of Bush. Let\u2019s say the down slope\u2019s been ten years, they don\u2019t want four more years for it to bottom out and then pick up. <\/a><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/BidenStraightJacket.jpg\"\/)