{"id":217016,"date":"2017-01-12T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=217016"},"modified":"2017-01-13T16:19:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:19:33","slug":"suddenly-economic-optimism-abounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/12\/suddenly-economic-optimism-abounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly, Economic Optimism Abounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The World Bank Group… This another left-wing bunch like the IMF, the World Bank, the State Bank. How many of these damn World Banks do we have, what do they do, and where do they get their money? (interruption) What are you frowning at me for? (interruption) Where do you think they get it? Where does anybody in the world get their money? Us! And what do they do with it? They pass it around. They supposedly make loans with it. It\u2019s one… This World Bank stuff…<\/p>\n

The thing I know about the World Bank is that whoever runs it has 25 different homes; the lead home is usually somewhere there\u2019s a ski lodge. They\u2019re definitely gonna have a home in the Hamptons. They\u2019re gazillionaires! Anyway, “President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s proposals to cut taxes<\/a> on corporations and personal income will boost economic growth, according to a new report from the World Bank Group. Trump has proposed cutting the corporate tax rate from its current level of 35% to 15%, with the intention of bringing jobs back to the United States.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“The World Bank Group estimates that this cut alone would boost U.S. gross domestic product growth by roughly 0.9 to 1.3 percentage points over eight quarters.” You know what I\u2019m noticing here, folks? It is stunning to me. Let\u2019s go back. Before the election, corporate America was lining up with Hillary Clinton — the banks, the automobile companies, Silicon Valley, you name it. Trump wins the election, and the same people can\u2019t wait to sidle up to him! They can\u2019t wait, and they actively campaigned against him.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019ve done this long enough to remember — and it\u2019s not that long ago — where corporate CEOs were really private sector entrepreneur believers, and they thought the best thing government could do was get out of everybody\u2019s way. Not that long ago. But now that is not the case, because cronyism has been introduced. And now various CEOs and corporate leaders have figured out that actually it\u2019s more helpful to have a crony relationship with people in power, because then they have access to federal funds instead of having to use their own.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a way to get favors that their competitors don\u2019t — and it\u2019s distorted, I can\u2019t tell you how much. And I could never understand why people… It took me awhile to figure this out, \u2019cause I believe that ideologically driven people are ideologically driven people for a reason and are not (sigh) malleable, and I found these guys were. I thought, “Once you believed that Big Government\u2019s a problem, you believe Big Government was a problem,” and it used to be the case. But now all these guys or many of them are sidling up to government, using government, becoming friends and associates with people in power.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what\u2019s happened here. I\u2019m amazed at all… Like the World Bank, before the election, wanted nothing to do with Trump! Now that Trump has won, they\u2019re out there actually telling the truth about Trump\u2019s policies. But they did nothing but try to undermine his election. So here\u2019s the World Bank — who knows full well before the election that, if Trump wins, it means good things economically, and yet to the extent that they got involved it was anti-Trump. And you could see that about any number of others, CEOs and companies, corporations, or what have you.<\/p>\n

Look at all of the CEOs and the banks and you name it that were just donating — giving money left and right — to the Clintons and their foundation and donating to her campaign. The way to say it is, I think there\u2019s a lot more gutlessness out there than I ever dreamed there was, and now there is fear of Big Government. I made the mistake of assuming that all these people sidling up to government were doing so because they agreed, say, ideologically with Obama. That wasn\u2019t it. They were scared to death of the guy, and it was more like a protection scheme to get close to him.<\/p>\n

But, anyway, this World Bank is just one example. The World Bank is made up of total leftists who haven\u2019t been fans of Republicans and conservatives for years, and yet here they are. Now, it could well be… Now, this is getting too in the woods. It could well be they don\u2019t believe this. They\u2019re putting this news out to set up Trump for failure. “Well, we expected Trump\u2019s policies to cause growth around the world by 2%,” and then when it doesn\u2019t happen, they go back and… But they\u2019re not doing anything to cement their relationship. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re that far in the weeds. I think they actually think it\u2019s gonna work!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And yet somebody running for office on the premise of reducing the corporate tax rate, they oppose! Then he wins, and all of a sudden they turn around and support him. I guess what I\u2019m asking is, “Where were you when we needed you? Where was your honesty during the campaign?” And then there\u2019s this from Roll Call. This is amazing, too: “Economy Was Top Issue Among Millennial Voters<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Well, hell\u2019s bells! Why didn\u2019t we hear about that during the campaign? I mean, through the campaign what we heard about Millennials was they couldn\u2019t have cared less! They cared about safe spaces. They cared about this and that, maybe they should live at home with their parents and health care. Anyway, I have more details on this that are fascinating, too, but I have to pause.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Oh, the Millennial thing, the economy, just one little observation here on this story, the study, the economy, top issue among Millennial voters, you know what I bet that is?\u00a0 I bet that\u2019s student loans.\u00a0 I think Millennials are quite understandably obsessed about student loans.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been screwed by \u2019em.\u00a0 I mean, college education has been ruined from what it was intended to be. College education is now, for many graduates, an albatross.\u00a0 It becomes yet another obstacle because of the debt that students incur in the process getting a degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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