{"id":15063,"date":"2012-07-24T17:55:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T17:55:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-24T17:55:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T17:55:32","slug":"developers_build_the_roads_and_bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/24\/developers_build_the_roads_and_bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Developers Build the Roads and Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Eleven US cities, &#8220;Eleven U.S. markets contain more than 100,000 small businesses each &#8212; and an additional 14 metropolitan areas have between 50,000 and 100,000 apiece. The total for these 25 markets, according to a new study by On Numbers, is 3.13 million small businesses. Government agencies have not created an official definition of a small business, so On Numbers uses its own parameters, encompassing private-sector business establishments with fewer than 100 employees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s Obama. He\u2019s out there saying (impression), &#8220;You got a small business? You didn\u2019t create that on your own! You didn\u2019t do that. You didn\u2019t build the roads. You didn\u2019t build the bridges! There are a lot of hard working people out there. You didn\u2019t do that much. You\u2019re nothing!&#8221;  Well, he\u2019s telling 3.13 million small businesses in 25 markets that they didn\u2019t do anything. And each one of them employ people. How many people do you figure these small businesses employ?  What would be the average employee number?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" width=\"585\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/114954\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If they\u2019re using 100 employees as a small business then could we say 20 and be safe?  So you got 3.13 million small businesses made up of 20 people at each that he\u2019s just offended.  He doesn\u2019t know who he\u2019s talking to.  He doesn\u2019t. Folks, he doesn\u2019t understand.  I know he\u2019s a &#8220;smart&#8221; guy, and he thinks he\u2019s smart, but he doesn\u2019t understand the American experience. Romney\u2019s right.  He does not at all have the slightest understanding of the American experience.  And he\u2019s undermined himself every time he opens his mouth trying to sound like an expert on it. <\/p>\n<p>All right, here\u2019s Robert in Bloomfield, Michigan.  Hi, Robert.  I\u2019m glad you waited.  Great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Rush, it\u2019s an honor.  You make me laugh.  You make me smile.  You stimulate my brain cells.  I really appreciate it. I love listening to you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Thank you very much, Robert.  I appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  I want you to know that Deloitte, Touche &amp; Ross was the firm.  Touche first ate Ross and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_65032\" class=\"img_\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushDittoheadNationConstruction.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And I would trust any numbers that they came out with.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Cool.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Wonderful firm.  Let me say that our president is totally clueless on business.  He\u2019s absolutely ignorant when it comes to roads and bridges.  I have developed thousands of lots in southeastern Michigan.  I have built over 5,000 homes, and I\u2019m not alone.  All across our nation, people have done exactly the same thing.  Thousands of developers and builders.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Right.  And you built the roads, too, didn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  That\u2019s right. All the subdivisions that people drive on, that was risk-reward. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  You built the roads and the bridges to get \u2019em to the houses that you built for \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Well, I built, as an example, two miles of a road called 22 Mile Road.  I built those miles of road because it tied up enough land to create the value. You\u2019re gonna create that infrastructure and spend a million dollars on a road. Why let somebody else buy the adjacent land after you put the improvements in, if you can afford to tie it up?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  This is an excellent, excellent point.  Forget businesses. Homes, subdivisions, the roads that get to \u2019em, and the developers that build \u2019em.  It\u2019s like Romney says: Obama\u2019s whole philosophy is upside down.  It does not comport with the American experience.  He\u2019s never been taught the American experience.  He has been taught to resent it and to dislike it.  He has no idea what it is, and as such, he cannot relate to it. <\/p>\n<p>He just cannot.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah, isn\u2019t this the same Barack Obama who used to run around saying all the country\u2019s bridges were falling down? They needed roads and shovel-ready jobs! His precious government built all the roads and bridges, right?  And he used to say that the bridges are falling down.  So what good was the government\u2019s work?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Jerry, Austin, Texas, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Good afternoon, Rush, it\u2019s Joey.  And thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Sorry, Joey.  Great to have you here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  All right.  Well, your speech has given me some inspiration.  I did some research, and it\u2019s about the first coast-to-coast and the first north-to-south road in America.  It\u2019s the single idea of an individual entrepreneur named Carl G. Fisher, who started in 1912, ran from Times Square to Lincoln Park, San Francisco.  Was built entirely by private investment capital of the people along the route, small businesses who grouped together or investment capital people who finished in 1922, named the Lincoln Highway.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_65058\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-24_7Self585.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Lincoln Highway, and it was private sector construction, eh?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Yeah, well, it was private individuals, private businesses, and a single entrepreneur who did that.  The Dixie Highway, the Miami Beach resort community, and participated in the Combs bridge.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  The Dixie Highway, I drive on the Dixie Highway, and you know what?  There are businesses on that road.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  That\u2019s right, businesses who actually came together to build that road.  It was entirely funded privately.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Some of them are red light businesses, but they\u2019re there.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Oh.  Wow.  Well, until 1956 when the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act was passed, actually was directly inspired by the Lincoln Highway, at which found the Feds took over the private industry of building roads &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, they didn\u2019t &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  &#8212; in the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, look.  The Interstate Highway System, I lived in a little town where I-55 was built right through it and a local businessman got the contract to pour the concrete.  His name was R. B. Potashnick.  R. B. bid for it, of course government money, but where does that come from? It was tax money.  The American people built the Interstate Highway System, not the federal government.  The federal government appropriated the money, but they got the money from the people via taxes to do it.  This notion that the government has a pile of money that nobody else has ever had and they use it for all this benevolent stuff is a crock.  But, anyway, I didn\u2019t know that, your story about the Lincoln Highway.  I love it.  I\u2019m glad you called.  I\u2019m glad you got squeezed in here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Eleven US cities, &#8220;Eleven U.S. markets contain more than 100,000 small businesses each &#8212; and an additional 14 metropolitan areas have between 50,000 and 100,000 apiece. The total for these 25 markets, according to a new study by On Numbers, is 3.13 million small businesses. 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