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RUSH: Time to party down, gang. Time to party. Well, \u2019cause of what I\u2019m saying about Romney. Sununu and the Huckster are not happy with me over what they think I\u2019m saying about Romney. Anyway, we\u2019ll get to all that. Don\u2019t get me distracted. It\u2019s party time. It\u2019s time to party down, folks, it\u2019s never been better. Eight and a half percent unemployment, the economy is back, Obama\u2019s policies are working. The media is having orgasm after orgasm after orgasm. I kid you not, 8.5%. It\u2019s time to throw a party. They have so dumbed down our expectations. And all of this, every syllable of it I predicted. Get into the eights and it doesn\u2019t matter, it is going to be mediagasm after mediagasm after mediagasm. <\/p>\n
But it\u2019s deeper than that. It\u2019s deeper than that. Obama considers the military to be the focus of evil in the world. The US military is responsible for the misery in the world and all the imperialism. But I don\u2019t get the difference, I mean in a strictly intellectual sense. So the next time you have some leftist talking to you, either celebrating, angry, what have you, about the need to cut the military you ask \u2019em, “Well, how come we can\u2019t cut firemen then? How come we can\u2019t cut cops?” No difference, they\u2019re first responders. Cops and firemen, sacrosanct, we can\u2019t cut one of them? Why, our country will fall apart; our communities will fall apart; our children will be hurt; our children will be unsafe. Soldiers, get the hell rid of \u2019em. Cut \u2019em, cut the military, pare it back. Thanks to Barack Obama, the visceral hate for the military, most leftists have it; Obama has it. <\/p>\n
He takes his anti-war mentality, applies it as president, loves securing military defeat and humiliation, but when it comes to the cops, oh, no, no, no. Not one police officer will lose his job. We will not have a press conference, we\u2019ll not go anywhere explaining why that police department had to be cut back, why that police department had to be cut back. No, no, no, no, no. No excuse will ever be offered, no justification. In fact, every effort will be made to make sure that we don\u2019t cut a single cop. In fact, it\u2019s even worse than that. Obama and the Democrats will tell you that that\u2019s what the Republicans want to do is cut cops and firemen and make your kids less safe. Whenever we have to get serious about austerity, bringing budgets back into line, as you know, the Democrats “Well, the first thing we have to do is cut cops and firemen and teachers.” No. But when it comes to cutting the military, why, that\u2019s a snap, why, we don\u2019t even think about it. <\/p>\n
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Those of us who have the truth and the facts on our side are seen as nitpickers, just can\u2019t get with the program, don\u2019t want America to do well. Every bit of this, every bit of this was entirely predicted. So here we are at 8.5% unemployment and we\u2019re being told we need to celebrate this. As fraudulent as that number is, it\u2019s party time. The black unemployment rate\u2019s still 16%. The number of jobs that have been destroyed in the country is over two million. The universe of available jobs is way down. There\u2019s nothing worth celebrating in this, is my point. And yet we are being told that it\u2019s party time, time to celebrate. Since when do we celebrate millions of unemployed people, millions on government benefits because they can\u2019t find jobs, and then claim this is progress or claim that this is a recovery? This is offensive to me. But it\u2019s where we are today. <\/p>\n
Ladies and gentlemen, this assumes that we accept the notion of a systemically high unemployment level, the new normal. This is it. This is great news. This is the Obama recovery working. Millions of unemployed, we celebrate it. Millions on government benefits \u2019cause they can\u2019t find jobs, we celebrate it. And then we claim this is progress. So we accept the notion of a systemically high unemployment level when in fact we know this isn\u2019t necessary. We know how to break through the roadblocks that Obama has constructed to get to real economic growth. There is no economic growth taking place and that\u2019s the truth that\u2019s not being reported and that\u2019s what underlies the myth and the fraud that\u2019s being reported today. <\/p>\n
There is no economic recovery taking place and yet we\u2019re being told that there is and furthermore we\u2019re being told to celebrate it and we\u2019re being told that Obama has made it possible. Fraud after fraud after fraud after fraud. Yeah, that\u2019s right, it wasn\u2019t but a few short months ago the black caucus was ticked off. The Congressional Black Caucasians, they\u2019re all ticked off because there wasn\u2019t significant job creation in their community, and there still isn\u2019t. Unemployment in the black community is still at 16%. <\/p>\n
Our buddy James Pethokoukis: If the same number of jobs existed in the country today as existed when Obama was inaugurated, the unemployment rate would be 10.9% today, not 8.5%. It\u2019d be 10.9, 11%. So all this money… Let\u2019s take a look at what got us here, folks. I know sometimes people ask, “Rush, do you ever feel like you\u2019re beating your head against the wall?” Yeah, I do. Of course I do. Don\u2019t you? Don\u2019t you feel like you\u2019re beating your head against the wall when you know you\u2019re up against a bunch of fraud and all you\u2019ve got is the truth on your side and you\u2019re banging your head up against the wall and you can\u2019t convince people of it?<\/p>\n
Well, people are being convinced. I guarantee you, though, there are a lot of people today who are buying into this: The ill-informed, the uninformed. If the election were held today, even with this news, Obama loses. But this is January. We\u2019ve got 11 more months of this kind of stuff. (interruption) No, I\u2019m not going anywhere. (laughing) I\u2019m not going anywhere, and you\u2019re not worried. Okay, well, then so be it. But let\u2019s take a look. We got 8.5% unemployment, and it\u2019s time to party down! How did we get here? All of the money that\u2019s been spent, all of the debt that\u2019s been created, all of the deficits. Marco Rubio has sent a letter to Obama: “You are about to make this a deadbeat nation.”<\/p>\n
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So 8.5% unemployment, millions of unemployed people, millions of jobs lost, millions of people on government benefits because they can\u2019t find jobs — and this is the progress we have, this is what we have to show for trillions of dollars in deficit spending. Trillions of dollars! The unemployment rate is still higher than when Obama took office. The media is reporting, “The unemployment rate lower than it\u2019s been in three years!” They don\u2019t tell you lower than since Obama was inaugurated, but that\u2019s the truth: $5 trillion in deficit later, we have an 8.5% unemployment rate. That\u2019s it? This is what we\u2019re supposed to party down over? And of course we have to provide the perspective here because few others will.<\/p>\n
So we\u2019ve got $6 trillion in new deficits. We ignore the millions who have dropped out of the workforce, we ignore all those who are holding part time rather than full-time jobs, and the best Obama can come with — the best the Democrats can come up with, the best the media can come up with — is 8.5%, and we\u2019re supposed to celebrate today. How much have these jobs cost? Morning news reports this is a good picture. There are six million fewer jobs today than there were in 2008, folks! There are six million fewer jobs available in this country than there were three years ago. The unemployment rate is 15.2% when you include those who have dropped out and those who want full-time jobs but have to take part-time jobs. That\u2019s the latest figure. So the Obama plan: Shrink the workforce, expand the welfare state, and then claim economic progress. Then slash the military, take that money and subsidize public sector employees who vote reliably Democrat, like NEA members.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the Obama plan in a nutshell — and that\u2019s where we are.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The Associated Press has given away the game, as far as reporting on the economy and how it will be this year. In their article today on the jobless rate in December with this really exciting party down 8.5% unemployment rate. AP claims, “The unemployment level may matter less to Obama\u2019s reelection chances if the rate continues to fall. History suggests that presidents\u2019 reelection prospects hinge less on the unemployment rate itself than on the rate\u2019s direction during the year or two before Election Day.” Isn\u2019t that convenient? And, of course, regardless what the unemployment rate is, what direction do you think it will be reported to be going? (interruption)<\/p>\n
That\u2019s, of course, correct. They will be reporting the unemployment rate as falling. All predictable.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The Washington Post on the unemployment news (this is Michael Fletcher): “Unemployment Outlook Remains Mixed — Indications are that the nation\u2019s gloomy jobs picture continues to brighten, but experts disagree on two crucial points: The pace of improvement and whether the recent gain in momentum will continue through 2012.” It\u2019s actually not “mixed;” it\u2019s quite clear. Some people are trying to mix up the unemployment outlook, is what\u2019s going on here. The game being played is to massage and make up and falsely report the outlook here. But throughout this Washington Post piece, the “experts” agree: It still remains gloomy. How could it not? Look at all of the millions of people who have given up looking for work!<\/p>\n
Look at the millions of jobs that we used to have that we don\u2019t have, the millions of people on government support programs who otherwise would not be on them because they can\u2019t find jobs — and yet we\u2019re told today that we shall celebrating. It\u2019s time to party hardy, time to party down. From… What is this? I don\u2019t know what this website is. CrewOf42.com: 15.8% is the black unemployment level, and it is up in December, despite 200,000 jobs being created. I guess none of them were for African-Americans. It\u2019s 15.8% for black unemployment. Overall unemployment rate lowest in three years, and that\u2019s great news, but the black unemployment rate is worse than ever at 15.8%. So where will be the Congressional Black Caucasians on this? Certainly they\u2019re not going to be happy. <\/p>\n
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