{"id":215231,"date":"2016-12-21T17:59:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T22:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/12\/21\/the_trump_stimulus_will_be_different\/"},"modified":"2017-01-03T12:13:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T17:13:32","slug":"the_trump_stimulus_will_be_different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/12\/21\/the_trump_stimulus_will_be_different\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Stimulus Will Be Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:&nbsp; You know, my instincts oftentimes, my friends, are infallible.&nbsp; Yesterday, talking about the Trump stimulus plan I told a caller, &#8220;It\u2019s not gonna be like you\u2019re used to&#8230; It\u2019s gonna be a mixture of federal, state, local and private money.&#8221; &#8220;Private money?&nbsp; What do you mean, private money?&#8221; &#8220;Trump\u2019s gonna get investors.&#8221;&nbsp; Well, lo and behold, the Washington Post has a quasi-story on this, once again documenting that I, El Rushbo, am highly tuned. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We had a couple calls yesterday, the day before, and I\u2019ve alluded to it myself without the calls that Trump\u2019s big, big, big deal is the stimulus.&nbsp; And it is. This infrastructure bill is something he\u2019s really serious about, folks.&nbsp; Listen to him, he brings it up every rally that he\u2019s had.&nbsp; He\u2019s embarrassed of our airports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2016\/12\/19\/trump-team-plans-for-infrastructure-task-force-to-advance-top-spending-priority\/?utm_term=.2b91fff22e37\"><img id=\"eZObject_132335\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Trump-SITYS-WAPO-Task-Force.jpg\"\/><\/a>If you drive around New York, I swear, you know, you come in to New York, you land at Newark, say, or Teterboro and you cross the George Washington Bridge and you end up on the FDR, you\u2019re going through Harlem by Yankee Stadium, you look at all those roads and bridges and you wonder if it\u2019s gonna collapse when you drive over it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it\u2019s rusted out, looks like it\u2019s in really, really bad shape. And there\u2019s all kinds of examples of this all over the country.&nbsp; Trump wants it fixed.&nbsp; He\u2019s talking about a trillion-dollar stimulus bill, and that immediately generates red flags because the last time we heard a stimulus bill talked about and passed it was Obama\u2019s. It was touted as $787 billion but by the time it was all finished it was near a trillion dollars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And of course no bridges were rebuilt, and no roads were repaired, other than those that were already in the in the pipeline to be, and there certainly wasn\u2019t any additional modernization of airports.&nbsp; In other words, nothing that wasn\u2019t already in the pipeline from previous budgets for upgrade or repair was added to it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s stimulus was pure political.&nbsp; It went to donors, who then formed companies like Solyndra.&nbsp; Obama paid back donors with his stimulus.&nbsp; He funded industries that he wanted to advance at the expense of fossil fuels and he made sure that union workers, as many as possible, did not lose their jobs.&nbsp; If you look at the allocation of Obama\u2019s stimulus, you\u2019ll find a shocking percentage of it went to union employees, including teachers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But it didn\u2019t rebuild any roads, not any new roads, new bridges, or airports.&nbsp; Trump was serious about actually doing it, but a trillion dollars we don\u2019t have.&nbsp; We do not have a trillion dollars.&nbsp; We didn\u2019t have Obama\u2019s $787 billion, and believe me, the people that elected Trump and the people that were four square behind Trump know full well we don\u2019t have the money.&nbsp; And they believe Trump when he has said we don\u2019t have the money.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re $20 trillion in debt, 19, $20 trillion in debt.&nbsp; We don\u2019t have any money.&nbsp; And the people that voted for Trump believe that the days of mass addition to the national debt are over.&nbsp; That\u2019s one of the attractive aspects of Trump.&nbsp; Okay, so here\u2019s Trump now talking about a trillion-dollar stimulus.&nbsp; And immediately there\u2019s all kinds of people getting really worried about this, because this is right out of the Democrat Party playbook.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Government spending, federal spending on projects paying back donors, funding the unions, all of the, you know, political expenditures, busting the deficit, busting the national debt and nothing getting done.&nbsp; That\u2019s the track record.&nbsp; And in fact here\u2019s another reason why people are scared.&nbsp; Grab audio sound bite number four.&nbsp; This is Chuck-U Schumer yesterday on Powerhouse Politics, ABC News.&nbsp; It\u2019s a podcast, Jonathan Karl talking to him about the infrastructure bill.&nbsp; He asks Schumer, &#8220;Do you think you\u2019ll be working with Trump on this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SCHUMER:&nbsp; We think it should be large.&nbsp; He\u2019s mentioned a trillion dollars.&nbsp; I told him that sounded good to me.&nbsp; But I told him that, you know, you couldn\u2019t do the kind of infrastructure building we need in America with just tax breaks.&nbsp; I said to do this in the way that at least we wanted to do it, he\u2019d need to alienate a good number of his right-wing Republicans, and he said he realized that.&nbsp; We\u2019re not gonna oppose something simply \u2019cause it has the name &#8220;Trump&#8221; on it, but we will certainly not sacrifice our principles just to get something done.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_132337\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SchumerMakersVSTakersPIX.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:&nbsp; All right.&nbsp; So you add Trump stimulus, trillion dollars, rebuild roads, bridges, whatever, then you add to it Chuck Schumer saying he\u2019s on board, &#8220;Oh, man, we can\u2019t wait, trillion dollars, sounds good to me.&#8221;&nbsp; Conservatives are shaking, they\u2019re quivering, they\u2019re frightened, &#8220;Oh, my God, oh, my God, this is exactly what we were afraid of.&#8221;&nbsp; And then Schumer puts the cherry on top by saying that he told Trump the only way to do this is by alienating a good number of right-wing Republicans, and Trump said he realized this.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>So now you have some Never Trumpers, you have some conservatives who are on the on the verge &#8212; they\u2019re probably writing the pieces right now, the See, I Told You So pieces.&nbsp; They can\u2019t wait to go on Fox News and say, &#8220;I told you it was too good to be true.&nbsp; Trump\u2019s just a New York City liberal.&nbsp; Here he is in bed with Schumer, and a trillion dollars sounds good to him, and Trump admits he\u2019s gonna alienate right wingers.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s not said that.&nbsp; Schumer is saying it.&nbsp; So what kind of stimulus is Trump thinking about?&nbsp; Well, we turn to the Washington Post, and it actually is pretty close to some things I\u2019ve already heard.&nbsp; The Trump stimulus &#8212; and I\u2019m gonna go out on a limb here, \u2019cause I really think Trump has different ideas of doing things like this.&nbsp; I think Trump tells the truth when he talks about our political leaders being stupid and doing things in dumb, stupid ways.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think the people he\u2019s chosen for his cabinet are expressly, purposely for projects like this, people who know where to find money, investment money, federal money, state money, where to find it and put it to use to actually improve things, build things, construct things.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think this is going to be your average, ordinary, run-of-the-mill political legislation with a giant authorization bill that is filled with new spending and tax breaks and incentives, the same way it\u2019s always been done that nobody wants any more of, and it never results in actual progress.&nbsp; It never results in whatever the objective is actually happening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Remember, part of Obama\u2019s stimulus was, who was it, John Deere was all of a sudden saved not having to lay people off, or was it Caterpillar?&nbsp; It was Caterpillar, never gonna have to lay anybody off, and Caterpillar kept laying people off even after Obama\u2019s stimulus.&nbsp; The Trump stimulus, he has assured everybody is gonna be revenue neutral.&nbsp; But when people hear that they smirk, too.&nbsp; Well, that\u2019s what everybody says, revenue neutral, but it\u2019s never.&nbsp; Obama told us that Obamacare was gonna revenue neutral, and nothing\u2019s ever revenue neutral.<\/p>\n<p>So built-in opposition to that claim.&nbsp; Trump\u2019s stimulus is not in one year. He doesn\u2019t want a trillion dollars next year.&nbsp; He wants it over ten years.&nbsp; So it\u2019s $100 billion a year, and he does want to fund quietly of with tax incentives, the kind of which we don\u2019t know yet.&nbsp; He also wants the states where these projects are to throw in some money, and he wants private money.&nbsp; And everybody\u2019s saying, &#8220;Private money?&nbsp; How in the hell do you do that? (stammering) Why &#8212; why &#8212; why would anybody in the private sector throw money after a federal government project?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, be it would be an investment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, how?&nbsp; What &#8212; what &#8212; what kind of investment?&nbsp; How would they make any money on it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, have to wait and see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_132338\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/TrumpStage-RNC-2016.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">But the Washington Post has a little bit more detail on how this is all gonna happen, and apparently&#8230; Well, they say that the administration, Trump administration is going to have a task force, rather than existing bureaucracy.&nbsp; And this task force might even bypass the cabinet departments that would normally be used on a project like this.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2016\/12\/19\/trump-team-plans-for-infrastructure-task-force-to-advance-top-spending-priority\/?utm_term=.303f2550cf82\">Washington Post says,<\/a> &#8220;The task force head [to manage his stimulus] is &#8216;not Cabinet level,\u2019 this individual said, but would play a critical role in coordinating among federal, state and local officials as well as private investors as the new administration prepares to inject hundreds of billions of dollars into projects across the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump has pledged to mobilize anywhere from half a trillion to a trillion dollars into upgrading the nation\u2019s aging roads, bridges and transportation hubs,&#8221; i.e. airports and train stations. Airports the biggie.&nbsp; &#8220;But that plan might not rely on direct federal spending.&#8221; Hello!&nbsp; That\u2019s exactly what I\u2019ve been saying for past few days!&nbsp; It will not rely on direct federal spending.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Venture capitalist Wilbur Ross,&#8221; who was in Trump\u2019s cabinet, a rich guy, which is all anybody knows about him, &#8220;Trump\u2019s nominee to run the Commerce Department, and University of California at Irvine business professor Peter Navarro have proposed an investment tax credit that they say would cost $137 billion and stimulate about $1 trillion of private investment. Ross and Navarro say the plan would be revenue-neutral&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And of course, the rest of the Post story is, this is not possible.&nbsp; How in the world can you come up and turn $137 billion, no matter how you get it, into one trillion?&nbsp; That kind of return, that just doesn\u2019t happen.&nbsp; And that\u2019s the exact kind of thinking that has put us into the circumstances we\u2019re in where nothing new ever gets done, takes years to get started.&nbsp; There hasn\u2019t been any innovative thinking whatsoever.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have the traditional ways to find the money in the budget: Create new money, print new money, whatever. Take it from here; take it from there. Nothing ever gets done.&nbsp; This is a revolutionary new way of thinking about it.&nbsp; Everybody\u2019s pooh-poohing, like they pooh-poohed every aspect of Trump\u2019s campaign because it was outside the box. It was outside the establishment. It didn\u2019t make sense. No way it could work, just like, &#8220;No way Trump can win.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Look, folks, I think banks are gonna have a lot more to do with whatever Trump\u2019s doing here than the federal Treasury.&nbsp; I think that\u2019s where this is all headed.&nbsp; But that\u2019s&#8230; I\u2019m getting way ahead of the game.&nbsp; Let me share something with you.&nbsp; CNN, an hour ago: &#8220;Trump transportation secretary Elaine Chao&#8230;&#8221; That\u2019s the wife, by the way, of Mitch McConnell. &#8220;Trump Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Hedges on Massive New Infrastructure Injection.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_132350\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/TrumpHard-Hats-B2.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Elaine Chao\u2019s already answering the questionnaire in preparation for her confirmation hearings, and she\u2019s making it clear she\u2019s not big on this kind of stimulus spending and she prepared to say that.&nbsp; And you say, &#8220;Well, my God! Why would Trump appoint her if she\u2019s out there saying that she doesn\u2019t necessarily agree and like the way Trump\u2019s gonna do it?&#8221; Well, back to this task force that I mentioned to you.&nbsp; One of the possible wrinkles in the entire Trump plan is that this task force &#8212; which I told you is not cabinet level &#8212; would assume part of the role traditionally played by the transportation secretary, especially when it comes to roads and bridges.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s nominated Elaine Chao.&nbsp; It sounds to me like what Trump is doing, he\u2019s got all these cabinet people. He\u2019s nominated them and so forth. But when he\u2019s really gonna go get something done, he\u2019s gonna have a task force outside of the normal cabinet channels.&nbsp; Which wouldn\u2019t he when his cabinet secretaries, appointees, are already saying they don\u2019t like the way he\u2019s going about this.&nbsp; They\u2019re not personalizing it.&nbsp; I just&#8230; I still don\u2019t think people grasp the newness here.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m searching for a way to explain this.&nbsp; Let me try this: Just five hours ago, AP had a story on Trump\u2019s infrastructure bill: &#8220;Trump\u2019s Commitment to Infrastructure Vow Is Being Questioned.&#8221;&nbsp; And from the article we glean the following: &#8220;It is not at all clear that President-Elect Trump\u2019s plans to spend massively on infrastructure are going to be unfold as he promised.&nbsp; Lately, lobbyists have begun to fear that there won\u2019t be an infrastructure proposal at all, or at least not the grand plan they\u2019ve been led to expect.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Does anybody not see the fallacy in that?&nbsp; Trump has exclusively, he has explicitly told anybody who\u2019s paying attention that lobbyists aren\u2019t gonna have anything to do with what he does.&nbsp; The very fact that there may not be a grand infrastructure proposal that everybody in the establishment\u2019s used to seeing is probably the secret to this, and let\u2019s go back to Chuck-U Schumer.&nbsp; Grab audio sound bite number four.&nbsp; <\/line><img id=\"eZObject_132351\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schumer2PIX.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">I want to parse this a bit, because this sound bite is designed to scare the heck out of all of you who supported Trump.<\/line>\n<p>Here\u2019s what he said about the Trump stimulus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SCHUMER:&nbsp; We think it should be large.&nbsp; He\u2019s mentioned a trillion dollars.&nbsp; I told him that sounded good to me.&nbsp; But I told him that, you know, you couldn\u2019t do the kind of infrastructure building we need in America with just tax breaks.&nbsp; I said to do this in the way that at least we wanted to do it, he\u2019d need to alienate a good number of his right-wing Republicans, and he said he realized that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Stop the tape.<\/p>\n<p>SCHUMER: We\u2019re not gonna &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;I said to Donald Trump&#8230;&#8221; This is Chuck-U. &#8220;I said to Trump, &#8216;To do this in the way that we [Democrats] want to do it,&#8221; which is not a factor, by the way. The way the Democrats want to do it is not a factor.&nbsp; Anyway, Chuck Schumer says, &#8220;I said that Trump, the way we want to do it, he\u2019d need to alienate a good number of his right-wing Republicans, and he said he realized that.&#8221; That does not mean that Trump agreed that the way Schumer wants to do it is the way it\u2019s gonna be done and that alienating&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of course Schumer wants to alienate Republicans, but Trump doesn\u2019t.&nbsp; But this sound bite is designed to make it look like Schumer has already got an agreement with Trump to do it the way Schumer wants to do it, which would then alienate Republicans.&nbsp; Yet the AP\u2019s out here saying that lobbyists can\u2019t even find the plan.&nbsp; They don\u2019t even think there\u2019s gonna be a traditional infrastructure proposal, at least not the grand plan they had been led to expect.&nbsp; What Schumer means is, he\u2019s only gonna help out if he can raise taxes.<\/p>\n<p>But I don\u2019t think&#8230; How can I explain this?&nbsp; There\u2019s another&#8230; By the way, one of the piece of analysis to this that you need to be aware of, because the point I\u2019m trying to make that everybody in Washington still cannot help themselves.&nbsp; They\u2019re still plugging Trump into their system, and they haven\u2019t figured out that their system is what was defeated.&nbsp; Trump is not going to try to plug himself into their system.&nbsp; He doesn\u2019t like it, he thinks it\u2019s dumb, he thinks it\u2019s stupid.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_132352\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/TrumpCrowd-BIG.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">So one of the added criticisms that establishment media and others are saying: &#8220;You know, if Trump really does this, is he not even thinking the pork barrel aspects of this?&nbsp; For example,&#8221; they say, &#8220;if Trump does a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill, does he have no idea how many members of Congress and the Senate are gonna be adding their little projects here to get their little portion of the pie?&nbsp; And that failed for Obama!&nbsp; You know, Obama said that we could give all kinds of investment money to clean energy like Solyndra, but how did that work out?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>And so they\u2019re still plugging Trump into the system. So Trump\u2019s deal won\u2019t work because the pork barrel people will go in there and destroy it, or because the lobbyists are not gonna get what they want, or because Chuck Schumer isn\u2019t gonna get what he wants.&nbsp; Meanwhile, they\u2019re making the mistake of assuming that the way Trump is going to do this is the way it\u2019s always been done, this isn\u2019t gonna be the way Trump does it because that way never works!&nbsp; One of the reasons we\u2019re in the mess we\u2019re in is that the people in the establishment, the political class, keep screwing these kind of projects up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And the hubris, if you will, or the conceit that makes all these people think that Trump is no different than any other president, &#8220;He\u2019s gotta come up here and basically let us write the bill and he\u2019s gotta go by and associate with us and make sure we incorporate what he wants.&#8221;&nbsp; The key to this is these lobbyists, in this AP story.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure AP thinks this story is very, very damaging to Trump.&nbsp; What they don\u2019t understand, is that this story really uncovers how Trump is gonna do this.&nbsp; Again: &#8220;It\u2019s not at all clear that President-Elect Trump\u2019s plan to spend massively on infrastructure are gonna unfold as he promised.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lately lobbyists have begun to fear that there won\u2019t be an infrastructure proposal at all, or at least not the grand plan they\u2019ve been led to expect.&#8221; To me, understanding Trump, understanding his campaign, taking a look at how Trump as succeeded in business &#8212; and the people he\u2019s done it with and the people he\u2019s put in his cabinet &#8212; the exact point is that there may not be a massive infrastructure proposal at all.&nbsp; Maybe there isn\u2019t gonna be some grand plan that can be carpet bombed, cherry-picked, and nuked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Trump is just gonna get his cabinet guys like Wilbur Ross and some of these other brilliant, successful people to go out and make this happen.&nbsp; Meanwhile, all these guys in Washington only know one way, and that\u2019s their way, with legislation and the federal Treasury and the itinerant pork barrel projects, &#8220;That you have to have because that\u2019s just the way we do things here, Mr. Limbaugh, and we gotta have the earmarks and we gotta have the pork barrel projects, and I just don\u2019t see how Trump can succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019ve been saying that since July 16th of 2015.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_132367\" class=\"img_right\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/477321340_large.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Right in front of \u2019em is the news that Trump\u2019s gonna have a task force, and he may not even use his transportation secretary in this whole project!&nbsp; &#8220;Well, well, that won\u2019t compute! What do you mean, he\u2019s not gonna use his transportation secretary?&nbsp; How can you modernize the airports and not involve the transportation secretary?&#8221;&nbsp; Well, we\u2019re about to find freaking out! Pardon my French, folks.&nbsp; But what\u2019s so hard to understand about the fact that Trump\u2019s not one of these guys, that Trump the doesn\u2019t like the way these guys have been doing it? (interruption)<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Well, apparently it is hard to figure out, or at least maybe it\u2019s hard to admit or accept. &nbsp;(interruption) Mmm-hmm. &nbsp;(interruption) Uh, it\u2019s&#8230; Mr. Snerdley just said, &#8220;You know, it\u2019s very hard to figure out, it\u2019s very difficult to understand how you could spend that much money without going through Congress.&#8221;&nbsp; Hmm.&nbsp; Well, some of it will go through Congress, obviously.&nbsp; There\u2019s gonna be some of it that\u2019s gonna be federal money, but it\u2019s not all gonna be federal money.&nbsp; This is what everybody\u2019s missing. (chuckles) I\u2019m just&#8230; Look, folks, I\u2019m not wired.&nbsp; I don\u2019t know anything, meaning I haven\u2019t got any inside information.<\/p>\n<p>I just pay attention.&nbsp; I pay attention to who people are and what they say.&nbsp; And some people I believe it when they say it and some people I don\u2019t.&nbsp; Trump I happen to believe what he says about when he\u2019s talking about successes in business and succeeding. I know how he\u2019s done it.&nbsp; It\u2019s not always been ways that many people would approve of, but it won\u2019t be long to find this out, but he\u2019s been leaving people in the dust since this whole thing began.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And I think intelligence guided by experience: Why now are we gonna all of a sudden start plugging Trump into the system that he just snookered and blew to smithereens and has criticized as ineffective and wasteful and never gets anything done?&nbsp; Why would he plug himself into that?&nbsp; Why would he set himself up for failure?&nbsp; I just don\u2019t think he does that. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Greg in Cleveland, great to have you with us, sir.&nbsp; How are you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Rush, thank you so much for taking my call.&nbsp; Merry Christmas to you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Right back at you.&nbsp; Appreciate your call, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Well, thank you so much.&nbsp; I want to make a quick point, but I want to mention what I like so much about your show and that is your objectivity. For someone who backs one party to heavily, when you give your reports, it\u2019s objective, and that\u2019s exactly what you don\u2019t get from the mainstream media, so I appreciate that about you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; I appreciate that, sir.&nbsp; You\u2019re very shrewd.&nbsp; I thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Ha-ha.&nbsp; Well, good.&nbsp; I\u2019ll make a quick point.&nbsp; In my opinion, the biggest obstacle that our country faces is congressional gridlock.&nbsp; I\u2019m not hopeless at all.&nbsp; I feel very hopeful that this president-elect, by his personality, he seems to be such a doer and just a nonpolitician.&nbsp; I think that that\u2019s the type person that it would take to break up the gridlock.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; I know what you mean when you talk about Trump being an outsider and not a prisoner to the systems that entrap everybody.&nbsp; But I have to tell you about gridlock.&nbsp; I happen to love it.&nbsp; I think gridlock is the greatest invention the Founding Fathers gave us.&nbsp; The less Washington does, the better.&nbsp; The fewer laws we make, the more freedom we have.&nbsp; The more they\u2019re busy doing things, the more money they waste, the more freedom we lose, the more regulations we face.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_132375\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RushHisArmsWide585.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">I love gridlock and gridlock was built into the system.&nbsp; It works exactly.&nbsp; That\u2019s what the separation of powers is all about.&nbsp; Gridlock is designed into the system so that what happens is really the result of popular and public support by virtue of the elected representatives of the people doing their bidding.&nbsp; Not all the time.&nbsp; There are exceptions to it, of course.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>But Trump coming in, I\u2019ve got this story from The Politico that I\u2019ve been thinking about delving into today, but there\u2019s not enough time.&nbsp; You try to be here tomorrow, Greg, because this story, &#8220;Trump Posse Browbeats Hill Republicans,&#8221; this is all about how people on Capitol Hill are bracing themselves for Trump and the things they\u2019re leaking already to the media about the Trump team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in The Politico, which means and could be fake news.&nbsp; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/12\/donald-trump-congress-republicans-232800\">But it\u2019s a fascinating piece<\/a>.&nbsp; Not enough time to deal with it now.&nbsp; But it\u2019s right up the ally you\u2019re talking about here.&nbsp; I know what you\u2019re saying.&nbsp; You\u2019re thinking an outsider like Trump can come in and run rings around people that don\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing to actually get things done, and that\u2019s what you mean by defeating gridlock.&nbsp; In that sense, I agree with you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Right, to get things done.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; To get things done that need to get done, yeah.&nbsp; Now, what kind of iPhone do you want, 7 or 7 Plus?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; The regular 7.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Cool!&nbsp; Okay.&nbsp; And your carrier?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; It\u2019s Consumer Cellular.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; All right.&nbsp; Consumer Cellular.&nbsp; So do you happen to know if it\u2019s a CDMA network or GSM, did that make any sense to you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Actually I don\u2019t know that offhand.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Do you know if it\u2019s related to T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&#038;T?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s connected to AT&#038;T.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Here\u2019s what I\u2019m gonna do.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_132379\" class=\"img_right\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/627346284_large.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:&nbsp; I\u2019m gonna send you an unlocked iPhone 7, no SIM card in it.&nbsp; It\u2019ll work wherever you hook it up.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Very good.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; What color do you want?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; That\u2019s very generous of you.&nbsp; Thank you so much.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; You\u2019re more than welcome.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Do you have it in matte black?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; I do.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; That would be super.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Absolutely do.&nbsp; Write it down in there, iPhone 7, matte black, unlocked, SIM-free.&nbsp; It is an AT&#038;T network.&nbsp; So I\u2019ve got you covered either way. I\u2019ll send you the unlocked SIM-free and that way you can take it to them and have it set up as a virgin phone and it will work.&nbsp; After that it\u2019ll work on any network you want if you ever want to change.&nbsp; That\u2019s the beauty of the SIM-free unlocked phone.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:&nbsp; You know, my instincts oftentimes, my friends, are infallible.&nbsp; Yesterday, talking about the Trump stimulus plan I told a caller, &#8220;It\u2019s not gonna be like you\u2019re used to&#8230; It\u2019s gonna be a mixture of federal, state, local and private money.&#8221; &#8220;Private money?&nbsp; What do you mean, private money?&#8221; &#8220;Trump\u2019s gonna get investors.&#8221;&nbsp; Well, lo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Trump Stimulus Will Be Different - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/12\/21\/the_trump_stimulus_will_be_different\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Trump Stimulus Will Be Different - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH:&nbsp; 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