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RUSH: Auto bailout. The reason people oppose the auto industry bailout is not just because they don\u2019t think it will work, but a lot of people just don\u2019t want to subsidize workers who have bigger salaries and better benefits than many of them do. It\u2019s just an issue of fairness. It\u2019s not anti-union. It\u2019s, ‘Why should we be doing this?\u2019 Now, for Obama and the Democrats, this isn\u2019t about the working man, it\u2019s about clinging to the old Democrat coalitions. It\u2019s about power. Of course they want the taxpayers to finance their constituents. Same with the inner cities. They consider those folks their constituents as well. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t do anything for the general good. They are endlessly plotting on how to get and keep power. The Democrats have yet to improve the lives of the people that vote for them. They have yet to do so, and yet they continue to get the votes because they continue to succeed in blaming Republicans and everybody else for standing in the way of this so-called brilliant progress the Democrats have designed. Somehow it just never manifests itself. It\u2019s the same thing with the environmentalists. Global warming, if fully enacted with the Gore model — what happened today, Henry Waxman just secured control of the Energy and Commerce Committee from John Dingell, and Waxman is as nuts on global warming as Algore is. <\/p>\n

So Waxman now is in charge of the House committee that\u2019s going to be pushing all this legislation to advance global warming technology, which basically is anti-capitalist technology, on the American corporate sector. So that\u2019s going to industry our industries. They have managed to somehow walk the high wire on the issue between the unions and the environmentalists. Because, as they destroy these industries, the unions are going to get hurt. People are going to continue to lose jobs. You\u2019re seeing it. You\u2019re seeing right now. What\u2019s happening in the US economy is a prelude to what is on tap, should Obama be able to proceed unchecked with allies in Congress advancing his agenda. They\u2019re going to deliver on this job-killing cap-and-trade rule. <\/p>\n

Remember during the campaign Obama said his cap-and-trade plan would put the coal business out of business, not by saying, ‘You can\u2019t do it anymore.\u2019 What he was going to do was just make it so cost prohibitive that nobody would open a new coal-fired plant; it wouldn\u2019t make any sense financially because Obama\u2019s cap-in-trade program is going to make it impossible to earn a profit doing so. So, yeah, we\u2019re going to put the coal industry out of business. He thinks it\u2019s a good thing because of these magical alternatives that do not exist that somehow are going to magically materialize under his stewardship; and then when this happens, they\u2019re going to tell their union constituents that they will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on new ‘green jobs\u2019 and it will get the minimum wage up to nine-and-a-half an hour, and they\u2019ll have some moderate (not much, but some moderate) success at that. <\/p>\n

There are still going to be some people losing jobs. As the minimum wage goes up more jobs will be lost. It will be extremely damaging to our economy and nation, but the Democrats are betting that all this will secure their power for decades to come. You know, if you go back and you actually can find some objective history of the Great Depression and FDR, there are many indications that FDR made things worse. The New Deal did not fix the Great Depression. It made it worse. The New Deal prolonged it. But in the process, FDR secured massive power for himself, as well as his party. Obama has indicated that his model is FDR. So, we have Rahm Emanuel. Here, grab sound bite 19 again. This was Tuesday night in Washington. I just want you to listen to this. <\/p>\n

If you connect the dots — and, by the way, it\u2019s not true to say nobody knows what Obama\u2019s going to do. We do know what he\u2019s going to do. His voters didn\u2019t know what he was going to do. His voters were clueless. Did you happen to see the poll that Zogby did (it was commissioned by John Ziglar) after the election, on the knowledge Obama voters had. Give me the details of this. This is amazing. When I sit around and you hear people say, ‘Well, you don\u2019t know what Obama is going to do. He has no plan.\u2019 We do exactly what he\u2019s going to do, if we trust what he said and the indication… We trust what Rahm Emanuel says. We know what he\u2019s going to do. He\u2019s a radical leftist. Here, listen to Rahm Emanuel Tuesday night in Washington. This crisis is an opportunity. Now, the opportunity, he cast the opportunity as an opportunity for you: national health care, get tax cuts for the middle class, tax increases on the rich, all these things. The opportunity is for them to finally coalesce their power in a way they can\u2019t be beaten for years, because everybody is going to be dependent on the Democrat Party for what little they have on a daily basis in terms of economics. Here\u2019s Rahm Emanuel again Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

EMANUEL: You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is it\u2019s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. This is an opportunity. What used to be long-term problems — be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area — things that we had postponed for too long that were long-term are now immediate and must be dealt with. And this crisis provides the opportunity for us, as I would say, the opportunity to do things that you could not do before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Crisis is an opportunity. They\u2019re looking at an opportunity. Your misery is an opportunity. Your unsettledness — this volatility, this lack of stability — is an opportunity for them, not for you. And the opportunity for them is to get all these big programs and make everybody dependent on them. That coalesces their power. That\u2019s what FDR did with the New Deal in the Great Depression, and it didn\u2019t solve the Great Depression. It was World War II that finally took us out of the Great Depression. It was not FDR\u2019s New Deal policy. Obama\u2019s people don\u2019t know this. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re going to start in Midland, Michigan. Mark, it\u2019s great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Greetings from Michigan, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Yeah, the crown jewel of Democratic rule, land of soaring unemployment and the future penal colony of America. (laughing.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: The future penal colony of America. We\u2019re just joking. We\u2019re just joking about sending the pirates there if we nab \u2019em on the high seas. We\u2019re not going to be able to send them to Club Gitmo because it\u2019s going to be shut down.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they can come to Michigan, you know, we could probably dig a moat at the lower part of our state and just use it like an Australia.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, now, now, we\u2019re going to get Michigan fixed. Just hang on for Obama to bail out the unions and Jennifer Granholm, you\u2019re going to be fine up there. Ahem.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yes, I forgot. It\u2019s been so long. Rush, I work for the United Auto Workers, and I work at an auto parts supplier for General Motors. In fact, General Motors is our biggest customer. So, you know, I guess what I\u2019m supposed to do is give you the union line on why we should protect our jobs and why everybody should be given top dollar and why union management is all at blame and all at fault for all this mix that we\u2019re in, but I guess I can\u2019t do that because I\u2019m a conservative first, Rush, and we both know that the free market\u2019s what\u2019s going to solve this problem and not a bailout.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Wouldn\u2019t you agree?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s sad to say. You know, this autoworker business is kind of a tough one for me because, you know, I\u2019m all for everybody earning what they can. I\u2019m not going to sit here and tell people they don\u2019t deserve what they have bargained for and so forth. I\u2019m not one of these anti-union people that says you guys are destroying the country, but there is a large contingent of people that are starting to think that way now, which is not good PR for unions. You don\u2019t want people thinking of you that way any more than they already do. And, you know, labor has to be priced like any other commodity when you\u2019re running a business. It has to be priced competitively. And if it isn\u2019t then, of course, the place you work for can\u2019t compete against its competitors, and you\u2019re killing yourself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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