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RUSH: You\u2019ve got a mix of incompetence and radicalism that is posing a huge threat to the future of the country. There\u2019s no question about it whatsoever. ‘What do you mean, incompetence, Rush?\u2019 Well, the New York Times has the truth today — and, by the way, it really would be a mistake to say it\u2019s incompetence. This was the way the plan was written. ‘Nearly three months after President Obama approved the $787 billion [Porkulus] package intended to create or save jobs,\u2019 and, by the way, that was always gets me: saving jobs. How the hell do you calculate a ‘saved\u2019 job? Honestly? <\/p>\n

You can\u2019t. You cannot! Now, they\u2019re doing it. They\u2019ve got their websites with a running total of jobs ‘saved,\u2019 but you can\u2019t do it. It\u2019s a lie. It\u2019s a myth. But I digress. We are 90 days after this stimulus package, $787 billion that was going to ‘create or save jobs.\u2019 How much money has been spent? Six percent of it. In the middle of ‘the worst economy since the Great Depression,\u2019 in the middle of ‘we\u2019re going to put people back to work,\u2019 in the middle of, ‘We\u2019re going to have make-work projects! Roads and bridges are shovel-ready! We\u2019re going to get \u2019em to go! Caterpillar is gonna go back to hiring people. When the stimulus bill signed, we\u2019re gonna be bats out of hell putting this company and country and economy back together.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Six percent of the money has been spent, and most of the 6% has been spent for ‘social service payments\u2019 to the states: food stamps, welfare, you name it. But this was the design. We tried to tell everybody. This is why the Republicans didn\u2019t vote for this thing. You can say this is incompetence. I say it\u2019s a lie. I think it\u2019s misleading. I think it\u2019s purposeful. This is about expanding the welfare state. ‘The stimulus bill has directly injected $45 billion into the economy mostly to help the states cover the cost of Medicaid and unemployment benefits, one-time, $250 checks that were mailed to Social Security recipients last week and income tax cuts that began to take effect this spring.\u2019 Somebody — AOL or somebody — is doing a poll on these tax cuts. Fifty percent say that the $13 a week is making no difference in their lives. <\/p>\n

Nine percent are saying it\u2019s making a big difference, fifty-eight percent say no difference, and the others don\u2019t know. So you have to combine the ‘don\u2019t-knows\u2019 and ‘no-differences,\u2019 because if you don\u2019t know if it\u2019s making a difference, it\u2019s not making a difference. I know it\u2019s not gonna be permanent. It\u2019s going away. You\u2019re going to be paying that back next January, this tax ‘cut\u2019 that you\u2019re supposedly getting. ‘At the same time…\u2019 Get this from the New York Times: ‘At the same time, some economists have questioned the administration\u2019s claims the bill has saved or created 150,000 jobs.\u2019 Some economists are questioning? What is happening here? ‘At the same time, some economists are questioning…\u2019 Six percent, and it\u2019s all gone to non-producers! It has not gone to out-of-work people to help them get a job, because it was never going to in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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