{"id":296330,"date":"2019-01-11T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=296330"},"modified":"2019-01-14T15:37:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T20:37:56","slug":"historic-shutdown-is-the-first-in-which-federal-workers-will-miss-a-paycheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/11\/historic-shutdown-is-the-first-in-which-federal-workers-will-miss-a-paycheck\/","title":{"rendered":"An Historic and Telling Day in Shutdown History"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Are you also aware, ladies and gentlemen, that today marks two milestones in government shutdown history? The first milestone is that today\u2019s shutdown ties the record for the longest shutdown in American history. We are into three weeks now. And this is the longest — well, it ties the record. We\u2019re gonna break it tomorrow. There have been 19 government shutdowns since the late 1970s. Now we\u2019ve tied to the record for the longest.<\/p>\n

\"\"The previous record was established during the shutdown under Bill Clinton, which was really the first one the Drive-Bys ever bothered to tell anybody about or report because they saw it as a way to attack Newt Gingrich. The other historic milestone — this may surprise you. The other historic milestone today\u2019s shutdown reached, this is the first day in any government shutdown, the first day in all government shutdowns that furloughed federal employees will miss a paycheck.<\/p>\n

Despite all these shutdowns we\u2019ve ever had, despite the big shutdown over the budget battle in 1995, when we were getting stories about how federal employees were gonna miss their turkeys for Thanksgiving and Christmas. And during the school lunch fiasco where Republicans were killing kids by starving them, this is the first paycheck that will be missed by federal workers because of a government shutdown.<\/p>\n

Now, it might be the first time ever furloughed federal employees missed a paycheck, but the checks went out almost immediately after the Clinton-Gingrich shutdown, and these missed paychecks will be made up. That has already been guaranteed.<\/p>\n

So if this is the first — I want you to listen to me carefully on this, because historical perspective is crucial going forward. If this is the first shutdown in the history of shutdowns where federal employees have missed a paycheck, then why have the Drive-By Media been reporting about all the hardships that federal workers are facing during all these previous shutdowns when today is the first day, the only day they\u2019ve ever missed a paycheck?<\/p>\n

The Drive-Bys have been shedding tears over missed mortgage payments, children going to bed hungry for three weeks now, but a paycheck hasn\u2019t yet been missed until today. There hasn\u2019t been any financial hardship until today. There wasn\u2019t any financial hardship during any of the previous shutdowns because no federal workers ever missed a paycheck. This is the first time.<\/p>\n

And something else to notice about this. Every time there has ever been a crisis in the nation — except the War of 1812, when the British burned the White House and the rest of the government. Every time there\u2019s a crisis, the Beltway not only has not felt the pain, but they have prospered. This is one of the things that\u2019s led to this gigantic disconnect. The people of this country are facing consequences daily because of open borders, but not the people in Washington.<\/p>\n

During the eight years of Obama when more people were unemployed and the labor force participation rate was at an all-time low and more people than ever were on welfare, the Drive-By Media never, ever talked about it. Never reported it. Never called it to anybody\u2019s attention. But when all that was happening — all that economic decline led and brought to us by Obama — none of it was experienced in Washington. In Washington, the unemployment rate was 3%. The per capita income in Washington… Well, what is it?<\/p>\n

Seven of the wealthiest 10 counties in America are suburban Washington, D.C. So whatever economic hardship is felt by the people — either from open borders and rampant illegal immigration or just economic decline or you name it — it\u2019s never experienced by people who live in Washington. It\u2019s never experienced by people who work there. Except today! Now for the first time ever — aside from the War of 1812 — Washington is actually seeing what it\u2019s like to worry about holding your job.<\/p>\n

Washington is actually worrying and confronted with the prospect of not getting a paycheck.\u00a0 Washington and federal employees — for the first time in the history of shutdowns — are now feeling the pinch about being laid off or fired or facing some other insecurity.\u00a0 First time!\u00a0 And the media is right here.\u00a0 The New York Times: “Washington\u2019s Strong Economy, Financed by Taxpayers, Takes Hit From Shutdown<\/a> — It was almost lunchtime at a food court downtown and Yonas A. Seyoum, the manager of the Esprinto Cafe, marched over to the cash register and printed out the morning\u2019s sales.<\/p>\n

“‘It\u2019s crazy,\u2019 he said, holding up a drooping receipt.\u00a0 He had done $52.71 of business in five hours, miserable even for January.\u00a0 ‘Not even enough to pay her,\u2019 Mr. Seyoum said, motioning to the cashier, a young woman leaning on the counter and playing gin rummy on her phone.\u00a0 He added: ‘It\u2019s like a ghost city \u2014 totally dead.'”\u00a0 So what\u2019s happening?\u00a0 We can have open borders and we can have rampant crime and assaults on innocent people.\u00a0 We can have the Obama administration with declining economics for everybody; people losing their jobs.<\/p>\n

\"\"It got to the point that Nancy Pelosi was talking about “funemployment”! To cover up unemployment, Pelosi was owl telling people what a great opportunity it was.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Pelosi said two things. (paraphrased)\u00a0 “One was most people don\u2019t like their jobs anyway.\u00a0 This is a godsend.\u00a0 Now they can spend their free time getting reacquainted with family and friends.”\u00a0 Funemployment.\u00a0 The second thing: “Since most people didn\u2019t like their jobs, this is where you can finally forget that drudgery job you don\u2019t like and start painting landscapes that you\u2019ve always wanted to paint.<\/p>\n

“Now you can get into arts and crafts that you\u2019ve always aspired to but you\u2019ve never had time because of that yukko job you had.”\u00a0 It was so bad that the Democrats came up with that as a way of trying to portray unemployment as a great opportunity, as a great thing bought to you by them and Barack Obama.\u00a0 Now we have the first government shutdown where the first federal worker is gonna miss a paycheck, and the media wringing its hands. (sobbing) “Oh, my God, the suffering! Oh, my God, the insecurity!\u00a0 Oh, my God, the empty cash register!\u00a0 Oh, my God!”<\/p>\n

Never do we get stories like this about you or your neighbors in a declining economy except when there\u2019s a Republican president.\u00a0 But during the eight years of Obama, there wasn\u2019t any concern for lost paychecks, lost jobs, increased insecurity.\u00a0 But, man, the media has come out in force in stories of vast and great sympathy and concern for federal employees who — for the first time in the history of shutdowns today — are missing their first paycheck ever. A paycheck which, by the way, has already been guaranteed to be replaced when all this is solved and the government reopens.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Diane as we go to Pittsburgh to start today on Open Line Friday. Thank you for calling. It\u2019s great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, happy birthday from Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Well, listen. The reason I\u2019m calling is I\u2019m disgusted with hearing about the bellyaching about people missing one paycheck. Where were these people, where was the media when we lost our steel industry and men lost their homes and they lost their families, and some of them committed suicide? I heard no compassion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, you didn\u2019t, especially when all that was happening during Democrat presidential administrations.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And why should I be worried about people who have been through a shutdown multiple times —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. You know exactly what they\u2019re doing. They\u2019re trying to get you angry at Trump. They\u2019re trying to make it tough to support Trump. They\u2019re trying to portray Trump as having no heart and no compassion, that federal employees are on the verge of missing a paycheck. Keep in mind in all government shutdowns in the history of shutdowns, in all shutdowns, this is the first time that federal employees are gonna miss a paycheck. And they\u2019ve been guaranteed they will be paid all of their back pay once their jobs reopen.<\/p>\n

But the hypocrisy is blatant here. Stories are all over the place about missing mortgage payments, possible foreclosure, all of this based on missing one paycheck, and yet having similar concern and sympathy for all the people economically damaged during the Obama administration, you couldn\u2019t find it because they didn\u2019t and still don\u2019t want Obama to look bad. It\u2019s no more complicated than that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: How many people are gonna die, according to Pelosi and Schumer, because of the government shutdown? It might be interesting to review how many people were gonna die according to every Republican idea as detailed by Chuck and Nancy and the Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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