{"id":309039,"date":"2019-05-13T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=309039"},"modified":"2019-05-14T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:38:02","slug":"democrats-want-to-shrink-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/13\/democrats-want-to-shrink-the-middle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Want to Shrink the Middle Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Philadelphia. This is Westin. It\u2019s great to have you. Hi?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very good, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: A quick side note before I get to my main point. This is a golden opportunity for Trump here. He should… You know, about the moaning about this $200 billion tax increase, essentially, that they\u2019re saying. You know, he should talk about his tax policy, and his regulation policy that has increased wages for Americans, reduced the cost of energy, all these things that have helped put a few more dollars in American pockets so they can maybe afford the extra cost of these tariffs. And then he should maybe even think about going a little further and say, “Okay, okay. I hear you. I hear you.<\/p>\n

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“Why don\u2019t we have another round of tax cuts to offset this supposed increasing costs?” Then, of course, you\u2019d watch them all clam up. But, you know, the left trade policy just goes along with everything else, their taxation, their regulation. It makes it more difficult for American companies to compete, it drives the cost up for Americans. You know, everything that they do is about hurting Americans, and it\u2019s because their real goal is to shrink the middle class, specifically the white middle class. I mean, you look at things like how we drove the steel industry out of this country, practically.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, let me pause you right there, because I\u2019m going to assume correctly so because I know people that when you say that the Democrats\u2019 purpose is to shrinking the middle class, there are a lot of people out there, Westin, that think that you\u2019re a kook. “Oh, come on! Nobody wants to shrink the middle class. That\u2019s a bunch of conspiracy kookism,” and, folks, it isn\u2019t. It isn\u2019t, and the Joe Biden campaign is where we\u2019re gonna be able to find the evidence.<\/p>\n

Guess who wants the white working class voter back? Video. Why does Joe Biden want \u2019em back? Because the Obama administration that he was a part of cast them aside in November 2011 in favor of a coalition of as many minority groups<\/a> as there were and as they could invent. They cast aside white working-class voters, blue-collar and white-collar on the basis that the demographics of the country were changing and that the white majority was gonna become the white minority at some point — and that\u2019s the middle class. They were essentially saying, “Get rid of the middle class. We want to replace the middle class with a welfare state.” There\u2019s no question. Westin is right about this.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Yeah, Rush, I mean, all you have to do is look at the census numbers. The middle class has been shrinking because of the policies of the left, that the Republicans unfortunately went along with.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but we\u2019ve also wanted the middle class to shrink by virtue of people being upwardly mobile out of it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely, and of course, you know, the upwardly mobile tend to vote conservative because they\u2019re earning their own money, they\u2019re —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there\u2019s some exceptions to that, too, like Wall Street, hedge funders. Those clowns are traditionally all left-wing Democrats, and that is another interesting situation. You know, the uber-wealthy in this country in terms of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, hedge funds, they all — they all — are loyalist Democrats. But they are not socialists. They are crony capitalists in a way. They love to use their connections with government to have government power corrupting their competitors.<\/p>\n

They love getting in bed with sympathetic Democrat presidents. That\u2019s what the cronyism (call it crony socialism or crony capitalism) is all about. When Republicans are in office, these guys don\u2019t try to cozy up. They try to get them out of office and put Democrats back in. But they are not socialist. They do not want a socialist country. They need a capitalist country producing income for people who have consumer spending power so they\u2019ve got money to invest, money to buy tech products, money to buy movie tickets, all the things that these elitists do.<\/p>\n

And this is another one of the great divides in the Democrat Party. As the Democrat Party youth brigade moves this party toward socialism, they\u2019re causing problems for these moneyed elites that bank role Democrat Party. Biden\u2019s caught in the middle of this now trying to put together this old coalition but people like Kamala Harris and Mayor Pete and others are running around savaging it. So you\u2019re on to several things here, Westin.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, one last thing. Remember, it\u2019s the middle class that votes for Trump, and that is one of the big reasons why you have the Hollywood elites and the Wall Street elites who want to see this shrinking of the middle class. “This is the rabble, this is the great unwashed, and we can\u2019t have these people electing the political leaders like Trump.” They\u2019re looking for that permanent seat of power that you always talk about, and by shrinking the middle class, they get ever closer to it.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Yeah, well, the reason for this is that the shrinkage of the middle class, when it happens with Democrats in power, is happening because of the rise of the welfare state, and that means, “Hello, illegal immigrants! Hello, asylum seekers! What wall? We don\u2019t want a border now. We wanted a wall back when we were in power. We don\u2019t want a wall now.” Biden\u2019s on tape, by the way. They found a tape of Biden at a small, little fundraiser where he was advocating a 40-story fence because of the methamphetamine and the drugs that were coming in across the southern border.<\/p>\n

A 40 story fence. Joe Bite Me, Plugs, was in favor of it. Well, what about now? Well, no way, because they\u2019re trying to expand this massive welfare state. That\u2019s gonna give them perpetual power, and that will result in the shrinkage of the middle class. If you import a bunch of people that will work cheap and you import enough of them, they\u2019ll end up taking jobs that now provide middle class lifestyles and so forth, and there you have your expanding welfare state.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kathryn, Lafayette, California. Great to have you with us. I\u2019m glad you waited. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you so much. Big time fan, longtime listener.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you so much. I appreciate you being there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggles) Hey, I think President Trump has been listening to you again. I heard that over the weekend he referred to Joe Biden as Sleepy, Creepy Joe. So he added the word “Creepy” so his Sleepy Joe moniker, and I think that\u2019s something that you had suggested on your program a few weeks back.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not sure. I think… Did I do that or…?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I heard you say —<\/p>\n

RUSH: (interruption) Okay. Okay. Well, staff is confirming what you say. I —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, you said, “How about Creepy Joe,” and I laughed out loud when I heard that, and I thought, “Wow, makes sense.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re very kind. I appreciate your… Of course, you\u2019re right. (whispering) We don\u2019t talk about it too loudly, but, yeah, you\u2019re right. I\u2019m glad you called, okay? Thank you ever so much. I wish I had more time today. But…<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, the bottom dropped out of the Beto O\u2019Rourke campaign, so he says he\u2019s gonna come back and do Beto 2.0. This will actually be Beto 3.0. You notice how many second and third chances Democrats get with the media? Beto, it\u2019s over! (chuckles) It\u2019s finished, Beto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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