{"id":296486,"date":"2019-01-14T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=296486"},"modified":"2019-01-15T15:51:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:51:37","slug":"this-shutdown-is-a-great-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/14\/this-shutdown-is-a-great-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"This Shutdown Is a Great Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, this government shutdown. You know what? This such a great opportunity. The media\u2019s now doing tug-at-your-heartstring stories about the hardships being experienced by people because of the government shutdown. I\u2019ll tell you, this is a great teachable moment. We\u2019ve always believed in smaller government, reducing the size of government.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-296483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-011419-Teachable-Moment-DC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-011419-Teachable-Moment-DC.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-011419-Teachable-Moment-DC-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Listening to the complaints &#8212; I saw something on CNN just before the program started. And it was about I think farmers or people that work in agriculture somewhere who may not be able to go on without government subsidies. My initial quote, &#8220;Why are they getting government subsidies in the first place? I don\u2019t get any government subsidies.&#8221; How many of you get a government subsidy to keep doing what you do? Unless you work for Elon Musk, unless you work for stupid solar or wind, what kind of subsidy do you get to survive every day?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-296466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-011419-Trump-WH-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-011419-Trump-WH-001.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-011419-Trump-WH-001-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All these people on the government dole one way or another are now starting to complain and whine and moan about it? I don\u2019t expect it to happen, but it\u2019s an excellent opportunity for people to find out just how corrupt this government is in terms of how it\u2019s buying and leveraging support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: We&#039;ve always believed in smaller government, reducing the size of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":296483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Shutdown Is a Great Opportunity - 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:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/14\/this-shutdown-is-a-great-opportunity\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"This Shutdown Is a Great Opportunity - 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