{"id":15448,"date":"2012-06-11T17:27:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:27:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-11T17:27:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:27:16","slug":"obama_thinks_the_private_sector_is_doing_fine_and_he_did_not_walk_it_back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/06\/11\/obama_thinks_the_private_sector_is_doing_fine_and_he_did_not_walk_it_back\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Thinks the Private Sector is Doing Fine and He Did NOT Walk It Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:  Barack Hussein Kardashian, the Celebrity of the United States, went out for a press conference, impromptu on Friday. A State-Controlled Media reporter said, &#8220;What about the Republicans saying that you\u2019re blaming the Europeans for the failures of your own policies?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: The private sector is doing fine. Where we\u2019re seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government &#8212; oftentimes cuts initiated by, you know, governors or mayors.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I think that he meant to say exactly what he said. I don\u2019t see a problem here. The private sector, as far as he\u2019s concerned, is doing fine. If he thinks that the public sector is losing jobs, that\u2019s a problem. If there are fewer government workers, that\u2019s a major problem to Barack Obama. As far as he\u2019s concerned, the private sector\u2019s fine. And, as far as he\u2019s concerned, the way he\u2019s been educated and taught, the private sector\u2019s always just gonna be there.<\/p>\n<p>The private sector\u2019s a golden goose. Doesn\u2019t matter. If people lose their jobs in the private sector, it doesn\u2019t matter. There\u2019s always some rich people out there. The private sector\u2019s cool. The private sector\u2019s fine. Everything\u2019s okay. But people reacted and had a fit, and it forced Obama to go out and ostensibly &#8220;correct&#8221; himself. So later in the afternoon at the White House, after meeting with the president of the Philippines, he spoke with reporters after that meeting. He took a question. &#8220;Mr. President, Mitt Romney says you\u2019re out of touch for saying, &#8216;The private sector is doing fine.\u2019 What\u2019s your response?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_63345\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaEconomyFineAxelrodKrugman.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: Listen. Uhhh, it is absolutely clear that the economy is not doing fine. That\u2019s the reason I had the press conference. That\u2019s why I spent yesterday &#8212; the day before yesterday, this past week, this past month, and this past year &#8212; talking about how we can make the economy stronger. The economy\u2019s not doing fine.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, did he really &#8220;walk back&#8221; his statement, &#8220;The private sector\u2019s doing fine&#8221;? He did not. I\u2019ve seen all these reports that the president revised his private-sector-is-doing-fine comment. He didn\u2019t. He said, &#8220;The economy\u2019s not doing fine.&#8221; The first thing he said was, &#8220;The private sector is doing fine.&#8221; Then, during the ostensible correction, he says, &#8220;Listen. Uhhh, it\u2019s absolutely clear the economy\u2019s not doing fine.&#8221; What about the private sector? He did not walk it back. The bottom line is, for somebody like Obama, the private sector\u2019s just there, folks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/241jxCN1AfQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a golden goose. It never goes away. It\u2019s always a target. It can always be raped and pillaged. It can always be taken from. It\u2019s just always there! In fact, it\u2019s a problem. The private sector is a problem. He\u2019s looking at the economy being down as government jobs being lost. That, to him, is a big problem. And listen to Axelrod. He spells it out. On CBS This Morning this morning, co-host Charlie Rose said, &#8220;Tell us one more time. On the private sector, what did the president mean to say?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AXELROD: He called a press conference to suggest urgent actions that we should take to undergird the economy against the clouds that are rolling in from Europe. He\u2019s said repeatedly we need to do more to accelerate job creation. Governor Romney\u2019s reaction to that was: We don\u2019t need any more teachers. We\u2019ve lost 250,000 teachers in the last 27 months after we were gaining these private sector jobs. I don\u2019t know anybody &#8212; and you talk to people all the time about the economy and the future &#8212; does anybody really believe that we don\u2019t need more teachers, that we can keep whacking teachers and that we\u2019re gonna advance as a country?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, let\u2019s move to Paul Krugman. I want to hustle to get this in because he was also on the same program. Charlie Rose said, &#8220;Tell me what\u2019s the &#8216;private sector\u2019 and how do you define how well it\u2019s doing, Mr. Krugman?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KRUGMAN: That was an unfortunate line. The truth is the private sector is doing better than the public sector, which is not well enough. Actually, the real story about this economy is that these cutbacks at the public sector are what\u2019s hurting recovery. By this point in Obama\u2019s presidency, if we had normal public sector job growth, we\u2019d have around 800,000 more people &#8212; firefighters, school teachers, police officers.<\/p>\n<p>ROSE: M\u2019right.<\/p>\n<p>KRUGMAN: Instead, we\u2019ve got 600,000 fewer. So right there is like 1.4 million jobs that we should have in the public sector. And, of course, those would translate into more public sector jobs, too. So that\u2019s what he was trying to get at. And, of course, he screwed up the line.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We have to really analyze that, but those are not private sector jobs. It is so, so instructive to listen to these liberals talk this way. So instructive.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_63349\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Axelrod.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH: You know, Axelrod was on CNN with Candy Crowley on the State of the Union show on Sunday. He said, &#8220;We need to accelerate job creation in the private sector.&#8221; And then he added, &#8220;One of the ways we can do that is putting teachers and firefighters and police back to work. Because those are good, middle-class jobs.&#8221; Do you realize&#8230;? Well, I\u2019m alternately stunned and at the same time exhilarated by this, because of how explanatory this is.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>All of the jobs that he listed are actually public sector jobs!<\/p>\n<p>All the money for them comes right out of the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>But now we know where Obama gets his economic advice from. Look, as nice as they are to have &#8212; teaching jobs, firemen, policemen &#8212; they are all paid for with money out of the private sector. They are paid for with tax revenue from citizens. They cut into the amount of money left for private sector. They don\u2019t grow the number of private sector jobs, they reduce them. Now, I\u2019ve gotta be very careful here. Because nobody\u2019s against teachers or firemen or cops. But those are public sector jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the way these people think.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re combining two things here: A, the never-ending appeal to tax revenue for firemen, cops, and teachers. That is the education of your kids and the safety of you and your house and your family. And they\u2019re trying to say that those jobs are being cut and now we\u2019re not safe and your kids aren\u2019t being educated. And that\u2019s because the private sector\u2019s been too selfish and too greedy and so forth. (pause) Look, folks, this is where I have to be very careful. Nobody\u2019s opposed to cops or firefighters or teachers.<\/p>\n<p>But they aren\u2019t private sector jobs. They do not contribute to economic growth. Their purpose is otherwise. They have an entirely different purpose: Public safety, public education, this kind of thing. But there\u2019s no growth in the economy. If you add those jobs &#8212; and if there aren\u2019t other types of private sector jobs added while at the same time we\u2019re adding to the fire rolls and the cop rolls and teachers &#8212; we are reducing the size of the private sector. This is Marxism 101. It\u2019s also Ignorance and Sophistry 101.<\/p>\n<p>To these people, that\u2019s the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Obama knows anybody in the private sector apart from his campaign donors? Did he know anybody in the private sector before he went into politics? You know, it\u2019s no wonder he gets this all mixed up. He doesn\u2019t know! And I\u2019m being charitable here. The other side of this is he does know and this is just deceitful as it can be. But in his book, Dreams from My Father, he described his only private sector job as being &#8220;behind enemy lines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is.<\/p>\n<p>The private sector\u2019s the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s always there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_63351\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/obama-sam-eFile.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Your enemy never goes away. Your enemy has to constantly be defeated, fought against, opposed, cut down to size. That\u2019s how he looks at the private sector. So they combine a bunch of things here, and they\u2019re utilizing fear. They\u2019re trying to tell you that the private sector is responsible for fewer teachers, fewer cops, and fewer firefighters. And the corresponding fix here is more teachers, more firefighters, and more cops. And that\u2019s gonna equal a private sector that\u2019s growing with economic growth. It\u2019s not possible.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Those are all government jobs. No matter how you slice it, the jobs they\u2019re talking about are government jobs. They\u2019re not public sector jobs. However, I\u2019m still not nailing this in trying to explain their mind-set. It\u2019s old, old fashioned. It\u2019s antiquated. It\u2019s a 1930s-type of thinking. It\u2019s antiquated; it\u2019s nostalgic. And you combine all this with the belief or the knowledge that Obama believes that there\u2019s too much private sector, not enough government.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what they\u2019re telling everybody? Axelrod, Krugman, they\u2019re going on television and they\u2019re saying: &#8220;The real problem in the economy is we don\u2019t have enough teachers. We don\u2019t have enough firemen. We don\u2019t have enough cops&#8221;? That\u2019s not how&#8230;? That\u2019s absurd! It\u2019s just flat-out absurd. Now, one possibility is that as far as they\u2019re concerned, this is the slinkiest and most credible way out of the mess they\u2019ve made of the private sector. Because they know that there\u2019s a sympathy and an attachment people have to cops and teachers and firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody dislikes them. You never blame them for anything that goes wrong economically. And who doesn\u2019t want more cops to protect them and better teachers and all that? So it\u2019s a slick ploy, but it is so wrong. There\u2019s no production. I really don\u2019t want to be misunderstood here, but policemen don\u2019t hire anybody. Policemen don\u2019t create jobs. Teachers don\u2019t, either. And firefighters do not create jobs. When Obama goes out and talks about (impression), &#8220;I\u2019m gonna get a tax credit for everybody that hires a new employee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, cops aren\u2019t gonna hire anybody and firemen aren\u2019t gonna hire anybody. They get hired! Teachers are not&#8230; (sigh) It\u2019s just literally so absurd. They\u2019re sitting around thinking this is the problem? And so when he says, &#8220;The private sector is fine,&#8221; he means it. In his view the private sector is fine. He was ticked off he had to walk that back for semantic reasons. He didn\u2019t want to walk that back. He meant to say what he said! The public sector is where the problem is. Any time government gets smaller&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And I don\u2019t care how you define it. A cop is a government job. Even though it\u2019s municipal not federal, still, it\u2019s a branch of government and it\u2019s getting smaller. But who\u2019s to say that that\u2019s even correct? The stimulus? In case you\u2019ve forgotten, the big stimulus was to make sure that these jobs were not eliminated &#8212; teachers particularly. Yet he\u2019s out there promising shovel-ready jobs. &#8220;We\u2019re gonna rebuild schools and roads and bridges,&#8221; and all the happy horse dung. And that was all smoke and mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>We all know that cops and firefighters and teachers do not dig ditches.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t build buildings or roads or anything.<\/p>\n<p>Obama even started laughing about this whole business of shovel-ready being a joke. We really are dealing with ancient-thinking people who are locked back in the 1930s. They have no idea of innovation, no understanding of entrepreneurship. None whatsoever. They resent it. It is to be punished. It\u2019s to be taxed. It\u2019s to be warned against. There\u2019s no valor in those jobs. But firefighters, teachers, and cops? &#8220;Oh, yeah!&#8221; Who doesn\u2019t want that? We\u2019re down, we\u2019re losing these jobs, and therefore the economy is shrinking.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, the charitable side of this is that we\u2019re dealing with genuine idiots. That\u2019s the charitable way of looking this. If they\u2019re not genuine idiots, then they are the most practiced, deceitful people &#8212; and it\u2019s hard to argue against that, too. &#8216;Cause I can\u2019t believe that they really believe what they\u2019re saying. I cannot believe that they really believe that to grow the private sector, you hire more cops and firefighters and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>I just can\u2019t believe they really believe that. That\u2019s their way out of the mess they\u2019ve created. That\u2019s the path of least resistance, because who can oppose it? It\u2019s like a new civil rights bill. Whatever you put in it is gonna pass because who\u2019s opposed to civil rights? Well, who\u2019s opposed to more cops? Who\u2019s opposed to more firefighters? Who is against more teachers? Nobody! And here they are out there clamoring for more, claiming that that will fix the economy. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Grab sound bite 32.  Gotta get this in, stay in context.  I don\u2019t want this as a stand-alone.  This is yesterday on Governor Romney\u2019s campaign site.  He released a new ad entitled, &#8220;Fine?&#8221;  You\u2019ll hear Obama in this, Kardashian, five unidentified women, so forth.  Here it goes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_63354\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Romney-Solyndra1_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>OBAMA:  The private sector is doing fine. Where we\u2019re seeing weaknesses in our economy, have to do with state and local government.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Unidentified Woman 1:  We\u2019ve seen layoffs, cutbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Unidentified Man 1: When it\u2019s all said and done, I\u00c2\u2019m making 200 dollars a month.<\/p>\n<p>Unidentified Woman #2: I\u2019ve been looking for a job for two years, haven\u2019t found any.<\/p>\n<p>Unidentified Man #2: You know, I had to file my own personal bankruptcy. I had to close my business.<\/p>\n<p>Unidentified Woman #3: Here I am. No health care, and a slashed pension.<\/p>\n<p>Unidentified Woman #4: I just lost my job recently.<\/p>\n<p>Unidentified Woman #5: I have to work part-time in order to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>Unidentified Man #3: Sometimes I feel like I\u2019m a failure.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA:  The private sector is doing fine. The private sector is doing fine. The private sector is doing fine.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  And then there\u2019s a graphic on screen that says, &#8220;No, Mr. President, we are not doing fine.&#8221;  ObamaIsntWorking.com, paid for by Romney for President.  ObamaIsntWorking.com is the website. I love that.  There\u2019s a story here from the Daily Caller: 35% of union members now support Romney.  Details coming up. <\/p>\n<p>Regina, Canada.  This is John as we go to the phones.  I\u2019m glad you called, sir.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hi, Rush.  I want to argue tongue-in-cheek that I\u2019m special today, simply because I have the special privilege and opportunity to talk with one of the most influential, special people in America, and that is you, sir, El Rushbo.  Rush, I\u2019ve appreciated listening to you since 1992, and, as a teacher, I try to train my students to enter the private sector.  That\u2019s the goal.  In essence, David McCullough\u2019s message is so special and unique, because it throws reality like cold water in our face.  And that doesn\u2019t feel good at first, but it reminds us of our special opportunity to achieve greatness because of the special sacrifice of our troops who have fought for our freedoms.  That\u2019s what\u2019s special.  Our Creator has given us the special opportunity to uphold those rights and freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I can\u2019t disagree with that.  I think that\u2019s right on the money.  It\u2019s an opportunity that\u2019s not to be squandered, being born in this country, the opportunities for prosperity, for happiness, for greatness, for things that benefit others.  It\u2019s why so many people want to get into this country, exactly right.  Obama told a bunch of fat cat donors before he started making people get rid of their cell phones when they showed up at his fundraisers, he said that he sometimes forgets there was a recession.  Remember that?  &#8220;Sometimes I even forget that there\u2019s a recession.&#8221; Because the private sector to him is always there, and it\u2019s always fine, and it\u2019s made up of people like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, Steve Jobs.  That\u2019s the private sector to Obama. <\/p>\n<p>The evil parts of the private sector are Walmart, <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15445\">Big Oil,<\/a> Big Pharmaceutical, big this, big that, Big Food.  The parts of the private sector he admires, the teachers, cops, firefighters.  This guy even hates doctors.  Remember in one of his speeches he accused \u2019em of doing unnecessary surgeries to pocket the extra money.  The private sector is just there.  It\u2019s always there.  It\u2019s always there to be looted.  And it\u2019s always fine.  He resents that, by the way.  He meant to say that and nobody can convince me otherwise. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Matt, Woodstock, Illinois.  I\u2019m glad you called, sir.  Great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Good morning, sir.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_63352\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushDittoheadNationSTOPObamaism.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  One of the questions I have, I think the president should be required to explain specifically to the people exactly how the addition of these public sector jobs is going to increase the gross domestic product and to increase private jobs for the middle class.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Exactly.  He can\u2019t.  It\u2019s not about that.  It\u2019s simply about people working.  It\u2019s about jobs.  He doesn\u2019t care what kind they are, the more government oriented the better.  You\u2019re exactly right.  That\u2019s exactly the point.  There is no growth, and this is not to put them down.  This is why I said I have to be very careful, \u2019cause I\u2019m not critical of these jobs.  I\u2019m being critical of the way Obama is talking about them and using them.  They\u2019re not even private sector jobs.  How do they grow the economy?  How does the gross domestic product increase when these people are hired?  It doesn\u2019t.  And that\u2019s what\u2019s wrong.  The gross domestic product is plummeting.  Economic growth is not happening in this country and it will not go up simply by hiring more of these kinds of people.  Just as it wouldn\u2019t if we had make-work ditch diggers. <\/p>\n<p>You know one of his idols is FDR, and what did FDR have, all these make-work jobs just to get people working, paid for with a transfer of wealth, not with new creativity, not with new production.  It was just to get people working, and that\u2019s what he\u2019s looking at, just get people working.  I guess they did think it worked.  But it was morally good, too, you know, it was honest work, it was digging ditches.  It\u2019s the proletariat, the bourgeoisie versus the hoi polloi.  All this crap wrapped up in Marxism, which is sheer idiocy.  This whole notion that Obama\u2019s slogan is Forward.  You know, it\u2019s 180 about-face full speed is what we\u2019re doing here.  We\u2019re turning around and we\u2019re marching right back to the 1930s.  That\u2019s greatness.  And how do we do that?  Government has to spend more and more money. <\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t tell you how instructive it is. I can\u2019t tell you how explanatory it is.  And yet, ladies and gentlemen, there are countless other stories in the news, and I will have them.  We\u2019re gonna load up the next hour, phone calls, try to get to as much of the Stack as I can, \u2019cause we\u2019re loaded with wonderful stuff, and the details on the North Dakota story where the residents are gonna apparently vote against eliminating their own property taxes because they\u2019re worried that government might someday need the money. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Everybody is talking about how Obama had a bad week last week.  Really?  He didn\u2019t ever have to explain his membership in the New Party.  He wasn\u2019t asked a single question about Fast and Furious or Eric Holder\u2019s corrupt Justice Department, he wasn\u2019t asked to explain his political cowardice when he refused to go to Wisconsin, stand shoulder to shoulder with his union buddies. He played golf.  He was compared favorably to the Kardashians.  There\u2019s not gonna be a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the national security leaks.  All this talk about what a bad week Obama had?  Maybe, but, then again, you could see where it maybe wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Axelrod. We\u2019ve got him on CNN with Candy Crowley yesterday. They\u2019re having a discussion about Obama\u2019s statement on Friday that the economy, the private sector is doing fine. She asked Axelrod. Here\u2019s what he said.<\/p>\n<p>AXELROD: The private sector. We need to accelerate job creation in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>CROWLEY: Riiight.<\/p>\n<p>AXELROD: One of the ways that we can do that is putting teachers and firefighters and police back to work because those are good middle-class jobs. That\u2019ll help &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CROWLEY: That\u2019s the public sector.<\/p>\n<p>AXELROD: But that\u2019ll help accelerate the recovery.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: She even said it! Candy Crowley, CNN, State-Controlled Media, she even said (paraphrased exchange), &#8220;But that\u2019s public sector.&#8221; And Axelrod said, &#8220;Well, that\u2019ll help. That\u2019ll help. That\u2019ll help accelerate the recovery.&#8221; Ohhhh, there you go! &#8220;Accelerate the recovery.&#8221; Just get more people working. We don\u2019t care how. We don\u2019t care if the jobs mean anything. We don\u2019t care if anything\u2019s produced. We don\u2019t care whether there\u2019s economic growth. Just more jobs! Just more jobs! Go hire cops and teachers and firefighters. Yeah, just go create more crime and get more cops.<\/p>\n<p>Create more illiteracy, hire more teachers. Start more fires, hire more firemen. That\u2019s what we gotta do. That\u2019s exactly what we do, and that\u2019s gonna give us a growing economy. These people are standing in quicksand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Barack Hussein Kardashian, the Celebrity of the United States, went out for a press conference, impromptu on Friday. A State-Controlled Media reporter said, &#8220;What about the Republicans saying that you\u2019re blaming the Europeans for the failures of your own policies?&#8221; OBAMA: The private sector is doing fine. 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