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RUSH: This next story, and, by the way, it\u2019s from the Associated Press. Yes, my friends, the Associated Press, the last remaining Drive-By Media monopoly and the headline: ‘Strained States to Make Cuts Felt by Everyone.\u2019 This is another story of widespread gloom, widespread pain. It is by Andrew Welsh-Huggins, I\u2019m sure a doctorate in Drive-By Media-ism, working for the Associated Press, which is out to pollute as many innocent Americans\u2019 minds as possible. ‘With a new fiscal year beginning in most states next week, budget cuts are about to bite.\u2019 State budget cuts. Yes, that first sentence is supposed to send us to the corners, cowering in fear and quivering in panic. Oh, no! Our states face budget cuts, oh, no! ‘That means less money for school children in Florida.\u2019 They\u2019ve already got more than they need, and it isn\u2019t working. So what! ‘It means the end of help with utility bills for poor Rhode Islanders–‘ Poor Rhode Islanders? Ever been to Newport? Ever been to Providence? ‘–and a good chance tuition will increase at Auburn University in Alabama. <\/p>\n

”Everything is rising and you have to wonder — when is it going to stop?\u2019 said Lauren Hayes, an Auburn senior. She\u2019s expecting a tuition hike, after state lawmakers reduced higher education funding by $157 million and the university responded by proposing a $660 increase for in-state students. Overall, the state fiscal picture is gloomy and the pain from reductions — many of which take effect July 1 — will be widespread.\u2019 You want to hear some of these widespread doom and gloom things, folks? Hear this. ‘In Florida, basic spending on schoolchildren will drop by $131 per student. And bonuses for schools that earn top grades from the state will shrink to $85 per student from $100.\u2019 (gasping) A $15 cut. ‘In California, with the nation\u2019s biggest anticipated deficit at $17 billion, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed deep cuts in Medi-Cal, the state\u2019s health insurance program for poor families and children. In New Jersey, lawmakers have proposed eliminating free state police patrols for rural communities that lack police departments. Under the plan, those communities would pay a combined $12 million for the service, the first time they\u2019re being charged a fee.\u2019 Really? ‘The fee doesn\u2019t sit well in Shamong Township, a 46-square mile municipality with a budget of less than $3 million and several state-owned properties, including a park and state forest. ‘The state really is our biggest resident, and now they\u2019re going to charge us to police themselves,\u2019 township administrator Sue Onorato said. The survey also found that 18 states reported their upcoming budgets will be smaller than spending plans for the current year.\u2019<\/p>\n

Have you ever noticed, folks, in all these stories, we\u2019re supposed to start crying, (crying) ‘They\u2019re cutting the state budget! The state\u2019s going to have to do with less.\u2019 (crying) Meanwhile, whenever there are stories about how you have to drop latte from your daily regimen because it\u2019s four bucks, there are no tears for you. When your kids might have to walk longer distances to school in Montgomery County because of the price of diesel, there\u2019s only expressed pain for the school district. No pain for the kids that have to do the walking, no pain for the parents. We\u2019re supposed to feel so bad for the states. Could it possibly be that the states are already so bloated with so much money? If you looked into it, you would not believe the number of things the states spend money on that are totally irrelevant, and the states that are in big trouble, I wonder which party\u2019s been running \u2019em for a while, such as California. And I wonder what the income tax rates are in these states. I\u2019ll bet you they are pretty damn high already. I do. I get so frustrated. We\u2019re supposed to feel so sorry when government has to cut back. It\u2019s all our money. It never was theirs. If they misappropriate it, if they overspend it, and have to cut back, look at what happens. They make it look like suffering will be among the states, and occasionally a citizen here or a student there. <\/p>\n

Okay, so we\u2019re going to have to cut back the amount of money in Florida we spend per student 125 bucks. From what? Twelve thousand a student, 9,000, whatever it is? A lot of people are having to cut back a lot more than that because of things out of their control largely brought on by irresponsible leaders. You can trace all these problems to politicians in both parties at the federal and state level. It\u2019s actually a matter of human nature. It\u2019s far easier to spend somebody else\u2019s money than it is your own, and it\u2019s not their money. And they think they\u2019ve got an endless supply just by raising your taxes or increasing fees or what have you. And then we\u2019re supposed to cry, we\u2019re supposed to cry a blue river because they\u2019re running out of money. ‘That\u2019s right, Mr. Limbaugh, where you live in Florida, it might mean less alligator control. How would you like to lose a leg to an alligator because the state didn\u2019t have the money to come take it away from your property?\u2019 Fine, I\u2019ll get a gun and shoot the damn thing, Mr. Liberal. ‘You can\u2019t do that! It\u2019s a violation of the Endangered Species Act.\u2019 I\u2019ll save myself if I have to. Why am I going to rely on the state anyway? ‘Some people have to, Mr. Limbaugh, because of their misfortunate, they\u2019re unfortunate, and they don\u2019t have as much and they have to rely on the state.\u2019 Well, I know that\u2019s true. It would be wonderful if people could be taught to become more self-reliant, particularly when it comes to their needs. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s federal, state, local, I don\u2019t care, any kind of government, when you start depending on them for your needs, you are a prisoner, you are a slave, whether you\u2019ve got slave blood or not.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Every time we get one of these sob stories, what is it that we get these sob stories? ‘The state\u2019s running out of money! Oh, no, it\u2019s horrible!\u2019 Have you always noticed that when the state is running out of money, the stories always focus on cuts in, quote, unquote, ‘essential services.\u2019 Essential services like the fire department, the police department, alligator control, education, or whatever. Those are always the areas we\u2019re told about that we\u2019re going to have budget cuts, all these essential services. Have you noted we never, ever hear about cuts in the bureaucracy of these states? We never, ever hear that. The state is never going to cut back itself. The state\u2019s never going to be telling the AP nor the federal government, ‘By the way, We\u2019re going to lay off a thousand people here from the state department of education.\u2019 Never. They won\u2019t do that. What they\u2019ll do is say, ‘Oh, my God, we gotta cut the amount of money per student that we\u2019re spending!\u2019 and this is how they get the public to get all wrapped up. <\/p>\n

‘You\u2019re going to take money away from my kid?\u2019 You ought to do some investigating, folks, in whatever state you live in. All this stuff is on websites. You ought to the find out just what your state budgets are every year. Find out, for example, if your state is trying to raise $5 million for a polar bear exhibit to amplify global warming, for example, while they are cutting ‘essential services\u2019 to you. I will bet you a dollar to a doughnut you can find things that you don\u2019t even know your state is spending money on, and when they come around to having to cut, they never cut themselves. They never reduce the bureaucracy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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