{"id":214545,"date":"2016-09-30T18:25:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T22:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/09\/30\/the_national_debt_doesn_t_resonate\/"},"modified":"2016-09-30T18:25:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T22:25:34","slug":"the_national_debt_doesn_t_resonate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/09\/30\/the_national_debt_doesn_t_resonate\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Debt Doesn\u2019t Resonate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Steve in La Palma, California.  It\u2019s great to have you with us.  How are you, sir. <\/p>\n

CALLER:  I\u2019m great, Rush.  Decades of dittos from sunny southern California. <\/p>\n

RUSH:  Thank you very much.  I appreciate your call. <\/p>\n

CALLER:  Thank you.  I address liberals with two main points.  One is that the liberals have changed how we argue.  They say constitutionalists are right-wingers.  But the thing is, the Constitution is the foundation of all law.  Therefore, it should be the foundation of all political measurements.  We are not right-wingers.  We are constitutional centrists.  They seized the center, which helps them in the schools, you know, just discussing politics and such.  So we gotta bring the Constitution back.  Second thing, why is everybody forgetting about the horrible debt we\u2019re leaving to the children?  Everything Hillary proposes leaves more debt to the children.  And I call it fiscal child abuse because these kids are gonna have to pay for all these votes that the Democrats are paying for.  We\u2019ve gotta bring this to the front. <\/p>\n

RUSH:  Trump made a big deal in the debate about the national debt and how much it has grown under Obama.  I\u2019m gonna mention this again.  From the moment I was old enough to know what I was hearing, I remember my parents and grandparents warning about the national debt.  I remember all the adults warning about the national debt<\/p>\n

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back when it was barely a trillion dollars.  And they said the same thing.  And I\u2019m going back 50 years, folks.  I\u2019m 65 years and probably even before I was 15 I started paying attention to this stuff, and knew what I was listening to. <\/p>\n

So for 50 years I have heard people warn about the ramifications of running up this debt, that it is going to provide just a horrible, horrible burden for children and grandchildren.  And throughout the 50 years, I don\u2019t think anybody can dispute that the economy has grown, that up until about 15 years ago wages were increasing and wealth was advancing.  Now, I don\u2019t want to get into an esoteric conversation here about economics.  I\u2019m not making the case for big national debt.  I\u2019m saying that all my life I heard how it was gonna be the end of me, and it hasn\u2019t been.  <\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s a tough argument to make.  I think you can make it better on how irresponsible it is and how we don\u2019t have the money, but that doesn\u2019t seem to deter anybody from taking it.  The Democrat Party is Santa Claus and they don\u2019t care how much in debt the country is because they don\u2019t see it hurting them.  If you look at the number of people in this country who receive some kind of government check, they take it, they take it happily and if it\u2019s increased they take that.  They\u2019ll take as much as they can get, and they\u2019re not worried.  They don\u2019t see themselves as paying anything about it.  They don\u2019t see themselves as bearing any burden at all.  <\/p>\n

All they see is a government check coming in for this or for that, earned income tax credit, Social Security, disability, straight on welfare, whatever it is, there are a lot of people on the public dole.  And I don\u2019t see any of them refusing it because we can\u2019t afford it and it\u2019s gonna be too big a burden on our kids.  So in the big scheme of things making an argument like that as a central theme of the campaign, I think it falls flat.  It\u2019s clearly important, and at some point it is going to wreak havoc, and some would say it is now.  And the case could be made.  <\/p>\n

We have a stagnant economy.  We\u2019ve reached the point where the government is so much of the economy and it doesn\u2019t produce anything that we\u2019ve become stagnant.  And it\u2019s slowing down, it\u2019s not providing great career opportunities like it used to, college educations are more and more worthless because of the curriculum and what people are majoring in. Then you add the debt they have when they graduate, which sets them back 15 years.  They\u2019ve got 15 years of debt before they even start progressing on their own accumulation of wealth.  <\/line><\/p>\n

Making the argument doesn\u2019t seem to change the way people look at it or vote.  The country, everybody gets up every day and those who want to go to work, do, those who want to try to find a job, do.  Those they can\u2019t find a job have plenty to eat.  Those who can\u2019t find a job have a cell phone. Those who can\u2019t find a job have a car, gasoline in it, they\u2019ve got cell phones.  So I\u2019m strictly speaking here as a campaign issue, I don\u2019t know how effective it is.  We can all devise our own ideal campaign.  I think we\u2019re sitting on it, and it\u2019s staring us right in the face:  the status quo.  <\/p>\n

The only people that are just excruciatingly happy are for the most part liberal Democrats, and they\u2019re happy because they\u2019re enjoying the fruits of political power.  But we don\u2019t live in a country that is unified and has a sense of contentment or even joy.  There\u2019s angst everywhere.  Trump calls it out, and people say, “I can\u2019t believe he paints such a negative picture of this country, it\u2019s dire and dark and so forth.”  It\u2019s the exact picture the Democrats paint every election.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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