{"id":223468,"date":"2017-02-28T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=223468"},"modified":"2017-03-01T16:30:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:30:42","slug":"trump-says-he-wont-fill-unnecessary-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/28\/trump-says-he-wont-fill-unnecessary-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He Won\u2019t Fill Unnecessary Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: President Trump, the Trumpster, appeared on Fox & Friends this morning on the Fox News Channel, and one of the three that were interviewing him (all three of them in there) Ainsley Earhardt, [Steve] Doocy, and Brian Kilmeade, and… Who was it? One of them asked with grave concern about the 600 jobs open in the government that need presidential appointment to fill the jobs. (paraphrased exchange)<\/p>\n

“Are you working on that, Mr. President? Are you working on that?”<\/p>\n

Trump said, “No, they\u2019re not necessary. I have no intention of filling many of these open positions even if they are appointed. We don\u2019t need \u2019em. Six hundred jobs? Let\u2019s cut \u2019em.”<\/p>\n

Open mouths.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, I mentioned right before the top-of-the-hour break that Trump was on Fox & Friends today and said, “What do you mean 600 jobs are open? I may not fill \u2019em. We don\u2019t need \u2019em.” Snerdley looked at me like… You should have seen him. The look on your face was, “Trump\u2019s an idiot.” Is that what you think? Under him, he should fill the jobs? (interruption) It\u2019s what…? It\u2019s what he said he was gonna do. It\u2019s nothing shocking.<\/p>\n

You even gave me a story. It\u2019s in Politico: “Trump is Delivering on His Promises<\/a>.” Why is anybody surprised by any of this? Trump was as open as any politician\u2019s ever been about his agenda. Five times a day, he\u2019s making speeches at rallies, and he\u2019s telling anybody who will listen what he\u2019s gonna do. And as he\u2019s arrived in Washington, he\u2019s started doing it — and once a week, we get a story like the one in The Politico today.<\/p>\n

This guy\u2019s keeping his promises. That\u2019s another thing. That does not happen. Promises and what really happens, the promises are understood to be come-ons, never to be acted on. “What does this guy think he\u2019s doing, acting on these things? This is bad for all of us. We can\u2019t permit this to work.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Some people think Trump\u2019s blowing it. These are appointed positions, meaning Trump could put his own deep state people in there for the rest of their lives and that he ought to fill the jobs. There\u2019s 600 of these appointed positions at various places in government. Go ahead and put your own acolytes in there, put your own Trump activists in there to do your work after you\u2019re gone. That\u2019s what some people think. But here\u2019s what happened. Brian Kilmeade said, “You have 600 open jobs that you could appoint. What\u2019s going on, Mr. President?”<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Well, a lot of those jobs I don\u2019t want to appoint because they\u2019re unnecessary to have. You know, we have so many people in government, even me, I look at some of the jobs, and it\u2019s people over people over people. I say, “What do all these people do? You don\u2019t need all of those jobs.”<\/p>\n

KILMEADE: No idea that you didn\u2019t want to fill them?<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Many of those jobs I don\u2019t want to fill. There are hundreds and hundreds of jobs that are totally unnecessary jobs. And instead of being credited with that bad messaging, they say, “Oh, you have to fill hundreds of jobs.” I say, “Isn\u2019t that a good thing? It\u2019s not a bad thing. It\u2019s a good thing.” We\u2019re running a very good, efficient government.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sorry, folks, these are my sentiments exactly. The government\u2019s the one thing that\u2019s not supposed to grow. The U.S. economy is supposed to grow. The two things can\u2019t really happen together. For government to grow, it\u2019s gotta take money from our economy to grow or print it or what have you. The idea that government should be there when it\u2019s needed but not be Santa Claus and mom and dad and grandma and grandpa and all that. I love this! Six hundred jobs, what are they gonna do that isn\u2019t already being done?<\/p>\n

\"\"What he means by “people over people,” that\u2019s Trump-speak for, “My God they\u2019ve got 15 people all doing the same thing at this department, that department, why do we need any more people doing the same thing?” People over people is the way Trump speaks of redundancy.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, I should point out here in that sound bite, Fox & Friends asking Trump, Trump says, “Nah, I\u2019m not gonna replace the 600 jobs,” Brian Kilmeade, even Kilmeade couldn\u2019t believe the answer. The idea of government having everything it does funded and all of its people there and we could never shut it down, oh, my God. Even somebody like Brian Kilmeade gets sucked into the idea that nothing can ever make the government smaller, oh, my God, panic city if they — (imitating Kilmeade) “You mean you\u2019re not gonna fill the jobs?”<\/p>\n

Six hundred, by the way, 600 jobs, that\u2019s not even statistical in terms of the number of jobs that need to be cut. Wait \u2019til you see what Trump has planned for the EPA. And I\u2019ll tell you, our buddy Ajit Pai at the FCC, oh, man, this guy is really, really rolling back all this silly regulatory stuff. He\u2019s getting rid of net neutrality, and he\u2019s turning the FCC into the actual commission on communications and broadcasting and dealing with the spectrum and making sure it\u2019s properly assigned, meaning frequencies that are used for every form of communication out there.<\/p>\n

But the FCC has been involving itself in your life in ways that are traditionally not constitutional. The FCC just appropriates for itself the power to regulate the internet. Who the hell do they think they are? So he\u2019s rolling that kind of stuff back. My Millennial tech bloggers hate it. They love government. They love regulation. They love control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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