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RUSH: It breaks my heart, folks, I can\u2019t tell you. Thirty-nine percent of the American people believe the US economy has now entered permanent decline according to a new poll from the CBS\/New York Times, and 63% of the country believe it\u2019s headed in the wrong direction. I don\u2019t know how to voice my frustration and sorrow over this. Real people are affected, and there\u2019s no empathy from this White House. I don\u2019t mean sympathy. There\u2019s no connection here. These people are just a bunch of robots. To the liberals this is just one giant social experiment. People\u2019s lives here are being gutted, and these are people that are, in large part, playing by the rules, trying as hard as they can, and every time they make a move, there\u2019s a new obstacle in their way, or the threat of a new obstacle in their way. <\/p>\n

Welcome back, folks. It\u2019s Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network. Great to have you here. Telephone number is 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to point out, polling data, even back in the Great Depression, nobody believed the situation was permanent, my friends. This is striking. Thirty-nine percent of Americans believe the economy has now entered a permanent decline, meaning they don\u2019t think it\u2019s ever going to reverse. Nobody thought that during the Depression. Nobody believed the situation was permanent. People still believed that prosperity was just around the corner. <\/p>\n

By the way, that corporate jet thing, I need to clarify one thing. It\u2019s even worse than I said. That $3 billion that would be generated by getting rid of the accelerated depreciation tax break for corporate jets, that\u2019s over ten years! Over ten years. That\u2019s how insignificant an amount of money we\u2019re talking about in terms of the corporate tax break. It would raise $3 billion over ten years, yet this year alone we\u2019re going to spend $42 billion on student assistance. And whatever assistance we\u2019re giving them, it isn\u2019t working because they aren\u2019t learning anything that is valuable to them. There are still reasons people should be optimistic, and that\u2019s one of the reasons we are here at the EIB Network, is to try to maintain, instill, promote optimism, \u2019cause we\u2019re gonna come through this and we\u2019re gonna triumph over this. And we\u2019re going to do it on Election Day in November, 2012. We actually started last November with that election. <\/p>\n

I want to take you to Wisconsin. We can cut our way to prosperity. The president of the United States says that we cannot cut our way to prosperity. We can. Scott Walker is the governor of Wisconsin. A little story here from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Cost savings from worker contributions to health care and retirement, taking effect today as part of the new collective bargaining laws, will swing the Kaukauna School District from a $400,000 budget deficit to an estimated $1.5 million surplus, the Post-Crescent in Appleton reports. The district tells the Post-Crescent that it plans to hire teachers and reduce class size.”<\/p>\n

What does this mean? Remember all the fights, protests, bickering, caterwauling and complaining from these public employees in Wisconsin about taking their collective bargaining rights away and mandating that finally, for the first time, they start contributing a little bit to their own pensions and their own health care benefits? That law goes into effect and immediately turns a $400,000 budget deficit into a one-and-a-half-million-dollar surplus in one school district. It\u2019s a win-win. Public sector employees are paid by the taxpayers. It is not too much to ask public sector workers to contribute a little bit to their own pensions and to their own health care. They\u2019re not having to pay for all of it. They\u2019re now having to pay a little. But that little that they are contributing themselves, which is now not having to be paid for by the taxpayers, has resulted in a flip from a $400,000 budget deficit to an estimated one-and-a-half-million-dollar surplus in one school district in Wisconsin. <\/p>\n

We talked yesterday about how Republican governors, conservative Republican governors, are showing the way. How this can be done, how this can be fixed. And, by the way, these public sector employees who are now contributing a little to their pensions and a little to their health care, they\u2019re still getting up every day. They\u2019re still able to turn on the TV and watch whatever channel they want. They\u2019re able to eat breakfast. They\u2019re able to get in their cars, go to the gas station, put gasoline in the tank and head to work. After work, they\u2019re able to go home, go to a movie, whatever they want to do. Their lives have not been destroyed. They\u2019ve not been turned into paupers. They simply have been asked to contribute a little bit to their own retirement rather than their taxpayer neighbors paying all of it, and, voila, we\u2019re running a surplus of one and a half million dollars in one school district in the state of Wisconsin. <\/p>\n

Cutting spending is what this is. State spending in Wisconsin has been cut because individuals are now forced to assume a small bit of responsibility for their own wherewithal. As an added bonus, we\u2019ve cut into the Democrat public sector union money laundering scheme at the same time. Not fully, not totally. But here\u2019s an example of conservatism works every time it\u2019s tried. Scott Walker\u2019s budget helps the children. A school district has a one and a half million-dollar surplus, and here we have with our own president yesterday, corporate jets versus children; Republicans hate the kids; Republicans hate the elderly; Republicans want everybody to die; the oil companies want their customers to get poisoned. Walmart wants their customers to die somehow if you listen to these people on the left. In the meantime, a Republican governor stood firm, stood tall during all of that and ends up cutting spending, ending the money laundering scheme and helping the children and producing a budget surplus in just one school district in the state of Wisconsin. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the jobs picture remains ugly as weekly claims are still high. This is from a flummoxed Reuters, flummoxed CNBC. They just don\u2019t get it. And Obama owns this ugly jobs picture. In fact, he painted it. “The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits was mostly unchanged last week, evidence that the weak economy is struggling to generate jobs. Applications have topped 400,000 for 12 straight weeks. Applications had fallen in February to 375,000, a level that signals sustainable job growth,” but it didn\u2019t stay there. <\/p>\n

Now, how embarrassingly adolescent was it for Obama to lecture Congress for being lazy? He\u2019s golfing, he\u2019s vacationing his way to irrelevancy. He\u2019s lashing out because Greek columns and godlike echoes in speeches no longer work, folks. He\u2019s mired in the quicksand of his own decisions. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I got an e-mail. “Dear Rush: It does not break my heart that so many people see a permanent decline.” It\u2019s about the New York Times\/CBS poll: 39% the American people think the economy is in a permanent decline. “I\u2019m glad so many think we\u2019re in decline. That\u2019s good news! We need people to realize what\u2019s happening and that it\u2019s the direct result of Obamanomics. Not Bush, not the GOP. It\u2019s all the result of the Democrats, liberalism. Bam! It looks bad, but we can fix it. We just need where you remember election. All is not lost.” Oh, I\u2019m not saying all is lost. I just… This is the greatest nation in the history of the world with unparalleled prosperity and opportunity for everybody in the world generated by this country, and for residents here — 39% — to think that we are in permanent decline? Whoa! That is such a great illustration of the damage done by Barack Obama. Now, if you want to look at that as good news in the sense that people realize what\u2019s happened? Well, if there is an accompanying “We gotta vote Republican” or conservative as a result of the opinion, fine and dandy. Still bothers me that people in this country have that attitude about it.<\/p>\n

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