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RUSH: Tim in Glenview, Illinois, as we go back to the phones. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mega Carbonite dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. I just wanted to call about the debate and some of the things that Newt said regarding unemployment.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: My overall impression of the debate that Newt and Cain had was that I felt it was — I was kind of underwhelmed. It seemed like it was trumpeted up as an ideal Lincoln versus Douglas debate, but then they ended up — I mean, in one sense it was but it just felt a little too informal. When you think Lincoln versus Douglas you think —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Did they seem too friendly with each other as far as you\u2019re concerned?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, too friendly, exactly. You thought there might be some debate like on a particular topic.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Basically just a discussion. They weren\u2019t really debating anything, just being polite.<\/p>\n
CALLER: A formal discussion, exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Instead of eliminating, he wants to fix things?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Instead of eliminating, exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, it\u2019s a problem that professional politicians have. Government is a viable entity that should be involved in things. It\u2019s a trap that a lot of otherwise smart people fall into. You\u2019re quite quick to catch that, by the way.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. I\u2019ve been through the unemployment program. I\u2019m a 48 weeker so I know what it\u2019s like to get paid to do nothing and I felt guilty about it. I felt guilty about being on it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I don\u2019t like the program. I think it should not exist. I could have gotten a job but I took the unemployment and, you know, for 48 weeks I was living it up.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, speaking of that, I have a story here from the official unemployment writer for the Associated Press, state-controlled, Christopher Rugaber. “Most of the Unemployed No Longer Receive Benefits,” is the headline to the story. “The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America\u00c2\u2019s unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits. Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent — a shift that points to a growing crisis of long-term unemployment. Nearly one-third of America\u00c2\u2019s 14 million unemployed have had no job for a year or more.”<\/p>\n
Isn\u2019t this something that was unprecedented until the era of Obama? All these unemployment stats are worse than they\u2019ve ever been under Obama. Don\u2019t get the wrong idea here, though, folks. Mr. Rugaber of the AP is not delivering a testimony about how Obama has destroyed the economy. What he\u2019s doing is using the AP to push for the extension of unemployment benefits for the tenth time. That\u2019s why AP ran this story. “Most of the unemployed are no longer receiving benefits? Oh, no, how can a country as rich and prosperous as the US be so cruel and mean-spirited?” So the point here is to extend unemployment benefits. That\u2019s what the AP is doing, fully in line with the State-Controlled Media. Tim, thanks for the call. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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