{"id":19194,"date":"2011-06-14T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:18:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:18:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:18:08","slug":"luddite_bamster_blames_atm_machines_for_high_unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/06\/14\/luddite_bamster_blames_atm_machines_for_high_unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Luddite Bamster Blames ATM Machines for High Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: There\u2019s a new reason for high unemployment as told by Obama. He had that interview with Ann Curry at the Today Show, and basically there\u2019s too much automation out there. He cited ATM machines as a reason for high unemployment. No, no. I kid you not. That\u2019s right! Obama explained to NBC News the reason that companies are not hiring is not because of his policies, it\u2019s because the economy is so automated. He said, &#8220;There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM; you don\u2019t go to a bank teller &#8212; or you go to the airport and you\u2019re using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125110.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" class=\"alignright\"\/><\/a>He actually said this. How many of you are familiar with the term &#8220;Luddite&#8221;? You know what a Luddite is? L-u-d-d-i-t-e. A &#8220;Luddite&#8221; is basically used to describe somebody backwards, old-fashioned, out of it, worthless, and so forth and so on. Now, the Luddites were the people who, in the early 1800s, attacked the textile looms in England at the start of the Industrial Revolution. They wanted to destroy the looms because they said that they would take away jobs from the people. It\u2019s a term of derision today, because they were so absurdly wrong. The loom added all kinds of work and productivity. It changed the textile business, as we all know. But Obama is now a Luddite! He is taking up the cause of the Luddites. The ATM machine, that\u2019s why there\u2019s high unemployment?<\/p>\n<p>How long have we had ATM machines? Did Bush invent those, by the way? I don\u2019t know. Did Bush invent the ATMs? &#8216;Cause everything\u2019s Bush\u2019s fault, according to Obama. By the way, ladies and gentlemen: &#8220;Twenty-eight months after Congress passed President Obama\u2019s signature economic stimulus law, and nearly one year after he declared the summer of 2010,&#8221; last summer, &#8220;to be &#8216;Recovery Summer,\u2019 1.9 million fewer people are employed.&#8221; We have lost nearly two million jobs since Obama\u2019s stimulus bill, and yet it\u2019s Bush\u2019s fault. &#8220;In February 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 141.7 million people were employed. By the end of May 2011 &#8212; the last month for which data are available &#8212; that number had fallen to 139.8 million, a difference of 1.9 million.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve lost two million jobs since the stimulus, and now today or yesterday we learned it\u2019s because of &#8220;automation.&#8221; That\u2019s what he told Ann Curry.<\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There\u2019s a new reason for high unemployment as told by Obama. He had that interview with Ann Curry at the Today Show, and basically there\u2019s too much automation out there. He cited ATM machines as a reason for high unemployment. No, no. I kid you not. That\u2019s right! 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