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RUSH: From Reuters: ‘The White House is looking to cut its budget deficit by using some unspent funds from the US government\u2019s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.\u2019 This is a joke, right? This is a joke? This is like you owing a big balance on your credit cards. You go out and borrow $15,000 to pay off your credit cards and think you\u2019re out of debt. How stupid do they think we are? ‘Members of the Obama administration are still debating the idea, the paper said, adding that the administration would still like to keep some of the unspent money in case of emergencies.\u2019 Like what, 22% employment? <\/p>\n

You know what we need? You know, instead of one of these stupid summits out there on jobs, a job summit at the White House, which I guarantee you is going to be either a small business shake down with the unions, or it\u2019s just a show, it\u2019s community organizing in action: you talk about it, you talk about it, you talk about it, you come out with a optimistic press release at the end of the day and nothing happens but it\u2019s made to look like you care. You know what kind of summit we need? We need a summit of the unemployed. That\u2019s who Obama needs to talk to, a summit of the unemployed. Bring them to Washington and ask them what they think needs to be done here. (interruption) Well, you know, we could do that, Snerdley. <\/p>\n

We could do a little on-air town hall unemployment summit right here on the same day he\u2019s doing his job summit. Book it. We\u2019re going to do that. Whenever they announce the date for this we\u2019re going to do a full three-hour unemployment summit talking only to the unemployed, getting their ideas for what ought to happen. That\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do. We\u2019ll counter it with our own, and our summit is going to be a lot bigger than theirs and our summit is going to be heard by a lot more people than theirs. And we\u2019re not going to be able to lie about our summit because our summit\u2019s going to take place live with no script and no teleprompter, and we\u2019re not even going to know who the guests are. We\u2019re just going to invite the unemployed to call. <\/p>\n

Now, you\u2019re going to have to cooperate with us on this day, folks, if you have a job you gotta stay away. Not that you won\u2019t have any good ideas, we just want to talk to the unemployed. We want to find out \u2019cause nobody\u2019s doing stories on these poor people. In fact, the stories we get on how wonderful it is to be unemployed, stories on how, oh, they\u2019re coming together with their families, they\u2019re relearning values like sharing and doing with less, oh, yeah, we\u2019re not getting any sob stories at all. We\u2019re getting it\u2019s a wonderful thing to be unemployed. It\u2019s a great thing to be laid off by Boeing. It\u2019s better to be laid off by Boeing than to still have a job at Boeing. Who was it that reported that? Some AP, NBC, whatever it was. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, I\u2019m thinking about this reducing the deficit with some TARP money. Why don\u2019t we just cut to the chase? Why doesn\u2019t Obama just write a check for the entire whatever the national debt is? Just write a check for $12.5 trillion or whatever the national debt is and pay it off! Why just nibble around the edges at this? Why take five or six hundred billion dollars from TARP and apply it to the deficit? Just write a check for the whole thing. If you don\u2019t want to go for the national debt just white a check for $12 trillion and give yourself a $200 billion surplus this year. Just write a check for it. Simple! How about a summit to figure out ways to balance a budget? You know, we\u2019re doing a summit on jobs. <\/p>\n

Balancing the budget that\u2019s complex, too. Get some union leaders, left-wing bloggers in there to toss around some ideas — and then after they leave write the check, just write a check and write it off. How about a summit on what to do when a Muslim extremist jihadist is in the military doing whatever the hell he wants and maybe sending money to Pakistan? How about we do a summit on how the hell our military is being corrupted here and who knows what other institutions are being corrupted and infiltrated? And let\u2019s do a summit or how is it that a guy can be paid $90,000 in American taxpayer dollars and be sending that money over to Al-Qaeda or whoever in Pakistan? We need a summit on that. How about, Obama, you convene a summit to better explain global warming when record cold temperatures are everywhere? <\/p>\n

We need a summit for that, too. And this is not the first Obama summit. Back on February 23rd, 2009: ‘President Obama took a step forward toward cutting the nation\u2019s budget deficit at a White House summit, a difficult task facing the new president a week after he signed a $1 trillion stimulus bill. At the Monday afternoon summit a bipartisan group of lawmakers economists independent experts and advocacy group representatives will discuss Social Security, health care and defense costs that have led to a projected $1.2 trillion deficit.\u2019 These summits obviously have worked so well in the past. This budget summit when they all broke out into groups? You remember that? We laughed at them. They had groups that reported back to Obama after two or three hours of meeting and, voila! They had solved the deficit. <\/p>\n

And look at us now. Look, I know it\u2019s not funny, but it is… Well, it is funny. There\u2019s no getting around the fact that this is funny based on the incompetence of it all, but it\u2019s not incompetence that\u2019s driving this. You and I are being played for the biggest bunch of suckers that these people think have ever trod the earth. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me tell you something. Just a moment ago, I was trying to find the date in December for the jobs summit so that we could plan our unemployed summit. I couldn\u2019t find it, but I found this buried in a Fox News story: ‘At the White House, Obama held a fiscal responsibility summit in February.\u2019 A health care summit in March. An Afghan-Pakistan summit in May. It\u2019s November. We still haven\u2019t made a decision. These summits do zilch, zero, nada. They are community organizing left-wing shows. He\u2019s also attended G20 and G8 meetings abroad as well as attended Russia, Mexico, NATO, and Americas summits. And let\u2019s not forget the beer summit, with Skip Gates and that ‘stupid\u2019 cop from Cambridge. Meetings, meetings, meetings, summit after summit after summit, looking busy while the country goes to hell in a handbasket. <\/p>\n

If we need a summit in addition to our summit of the unemployed that we\u2019re going to do here, we need a real summit where we can bring in the smartest free market economists and educate Obama on how jobs and wealth are created. Actually rather than a summit, how about Obama just do a little reading. He seems to have enough time here. Milton Friedman, Friedrich von Hayek, Adam Smith, scores of others. Maybe he could subscribe to the new conservative best-seller book list that the Huffington Post is calling for. Here\u2019s the truth, folks. I gotta say it. I have to say it again. Obama is not open to learning and understanding. He is on a mission, and when his mission succeeds, the rest of the nation\u2019s actions, people, the whole country fails. That\u2019s his mission. His success is the failure of capitalism or the destruction of capitalism. What we are witnessing is a failed presidency. It\u2019s evidenced each and every day. We are in the midst of a failed presidency. We are being led by a destructive ideologue who is on a mission, and he\u2019s told us, to ‘remake this country.\u2019 <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I hope Obama does a summit on bikinis and invites me. I mean he\u2019s doing a summit on everything else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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