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<\/p>\nRUSH: Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was on with CNBC today, Jim Cramer, said he believes the economy may be able to reopen next month. You think this is a possibility if the doctors let us — that we could be open for business — if the doctors let us? I do, Jim, Mnuchin said, soon as the president feels comfortable with the medical issues, we\u2019re making everything necessary, American companies, American workers can be open for business.<\/p>\n
Let me tell you, there\u2019s a battle going on in the White House about this thing. And it\u2019s team scarf versus team Kudlow. Kudlow, Mnuchin, the economic team, they want this open. And team scarf, they still want to focus on social distancing and all this other stuff. As I understand it — you know, all White Houses have internal battles and groups of people that have competing interests, and I think that\u2019s what inspired them.<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s Christina in Fresno. It\u2019s great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Hi. I am Tea Party red in a deep blue state. And our county, Fresno County has 982,000 people. The health department said there\u2019s confirmed 156 cases, three deaths, and one of them was an elderly man, and then only 15 hospitalizations. For that, they\u2019re killing the economy. I say bury the dead, treat the sick, and open up the economy.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute. Wait a minute, 156 cases, three deaths, 15 hospitalizations, in your county?<\/p>\n
CALLER: In the county of over 982,000 people.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s California. There has to be — this isn\u2019t social distancing. It cannot be social distancing that\u2019s making these numbers pop up in California. So 983,000 people, 156 cases, three deaths, one was an elderly guy, 15 hospitalizations, and the whole county shut down. Whole state.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And our hospitals are not overrun. You know why? Because they have stopped all elective surgery. So you\u2019re gonna see deaths from people who put off their bypass surgeries.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute, how many people are hospitalized, 15?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Fifteen with corona.<\/p>\n
RUSH: With corona. So the hospitals are not overrun, and even with that they have shut down elective surgeries so deaths from people —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wow. Okay. I\u2019m glad you called, Christina. That was well said, by the way. Brevity is the soul of wit, and you get that all in in 60 seconds. Well done. I appreciate it \u2019cause I have to take a break.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: CNN is shocked by the jobs numbers again and think they have the answer to it, which means they don\u2019t. Here first is Christine Romans, who\u2019s always surprised. No matter what the unemployment news is, no matter what the jobs numbers are, no matter what the economic number is, Christine Romans is perpetually surprised.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know what they expected when we are self-inflicting this damage. There isn\u2019t any other way to describe this. This damage is self-inflicted. Here\u2019s Christine Romans reacting to the jobs number…<\/p>\n
ROMANS: Another really ugly week, 6,606,000 new jobless claims — those are 6.6 million layoffs! That brings three weeks of job losses to 16 — (whispers) wow — 16.5 million jobs in just three weeks! Never seen anything like it before!<\/p>\n
RUSH: So we have 16 million people out of work and 14,800 coronavirus deaths. Is that a wrong way to characterize it? Is that bad? (interruption) Is that insensitive to juxtapose? (interruption) It\u2019s factual, it\u2019s factual, but is it purposely, uh, inflammatory? Is it intentionally inflammatory, unnecessarily provocative to say that there are 14,800 COVID-19 deaths and now 16 million Americans have lost their jobs?<\/p>\n
Well, here\u2019s CNN\u2019s answer. Here is CNN\u2019s solution to the problem.<\/p>\n
CHATTERLEY: The bottom line is, we can\u2019t jump ahead of the science. The safety net, the cushion, the need to keep as many people in their jobs — remember small- and medium-size businesses represent about 80% of employment in this country. The need to get money flowing to them and then to the states. You can\u2019t choose between them, but the cushion over the next four to six weeks is so important to enable us to recover more strongly off the back of it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So that\u2019s Julia Chatterley, who is an economics correspondent. Basically, the solution is the government needs to keep sending out money. That\u2019s the answer to… (interruption) We don\u2019t have the money we\u2019re sending out. (laughing) The answer is to open up. The answer is… You got 16.6 million people out of work, the answer is to open up. Is that unnecessarily provocative to point that out?<\/p>\n
Is it unnecessarily insensitive to point that out? Is it a conspiracy theory to point out that…? (interruption) Yeah, it may be a conspiracy theory. (laughing) So you have 16 million people in a matter of three weeks out of work. (interruption) “Without evidence, Rush Limbaugh said to open up. Without evidence.”<\/p>\n
What do you mean, without evidence? There are 16.6 million people out of work and 14,800 coronavirus deaths. “But wait, Rush. But wait. It was gonna be 2.2 million, so we\u2019re doing really good. It was gonna be 240,000. It was really, really good, Rush.” Yeah. Yeah, I know.<\/p>\n
Okay. Back to the phones. Julie in Milwaukee. Great to have you. I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Mr. Limbaugh. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I just have a comment. I feel like this whole situation with COVID got blown way out of proportion because you, as “America\u2019s Adult,” were out of the office for a couple weeks, and everybody seems to have lost their common sense and believing the lamestream media as gospel.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What do you mean America\u2019s adults were out of the office for couple weeks? Who are you talking about?<\/p>\n
CALLER: You. You were out of the office for a couple weeks as America\u2019s Adult.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh-ho! This is on my shoulders! (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, no, no. I\u2019m not blaming you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh-ho-ho! (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALER: I\u2019m just saying, like, there\u2019s no common sense anymore because all they have —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, I appreciate that. I do. I\u2019ve often referred to myself as one of the last American adults.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I know. I didn\u2019t put two and two together there and think you were talking about me.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: And another thing about Trump, it\u2019s like, enough with him believing in the stupid messiah holdovers. Like he needs to just clean house and be done with all of them.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s not gonna happen now. I mean, Fauci and the scarf queen are now established as experts because of the briefings. Trump\u2019s endorsed \u2019em. He can\u2019t turn around and ditch them right now — and who knows.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They could be saying, “You know, if you get rid of us, if you put this country back to work, we walk!”<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Who knows. Who knows. “Rush Limbaugh advancing a conspiracy theory that Birx and Fauci are holding the president to blackmail without evidence…” No. I\u2019m just having fun here, just speculating. (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m glad you called, Julia. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Here\u2019s Bruce. Bruce in Siesta Key, Florida. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Thank you very much for taking my call, and God bless you on your journey.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You asked, “How long is this gonna continue?” As long as we let it. Rush, you\u2019ve said for years, conservatives, we don\u2019t march, we don\u2019t protest \u2019cause we\u2019re working.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Uh-oh. Here we go! (laughing) Now we\u2019re not working. So we better start protesting and marching.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, tell me: What would be wrong with a parade down every Main Street in this country with delivery vans and company trucks and employees holding up signs, you know, talking about their business and say, “Put America back to work! Make America work again.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: I tell you what” If you try that where I live the town will follow the parade, get everybody\u2019s names and publish their names on the front page of the town website to try to humiliate \u2019em.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, then we\u2019re all doomed.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) And then try to get \u2019em arrested and find and so forth. I get your point. We were gonna let this go on as long as we let it go on. But look, a lot of people that you\u2019re talking about have total faith in President Trump.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, and I do too. But I don\u2019t believe for a moment that CNN poll that you cited yesterday that said 60% of the people are worried about going back to work. I don\u2019t believe that for a moment.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, what was that poll? It was more people worried about… No. The poll said more people are worried about money than the virus.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You cited a CNN poll yesterday too. But nonetheless, you\u2019ve said it a hundred times. This can\u2019t go on.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No. It isn\u2019t sustainable. And yet it goes on.<\/p>\n
CALLER: But we\u2019re sheep. We\u2019re letting it happen too. And I\u2019m disappointed.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I understand your sentiment. I totally understand your sentiment on this. The reason that I am not as forthcoming as you are blaming the American people or putting it on their shoulders is you\u2019ve gotta remember what they\u2019ve been told. And you gotta remember that they believe it. This is the thing that frosts me if you want to start talking about things. They were told that there could be 2.2 million people dead because of this. They have been told that you can get it by breathing and talking to someone. Now there\u2019s a video out there showing how the pathogen is spread when somebody coughs in a grocery store, how many aisles the pathogen travels to infect people.<\/p>\n
The people of this country have been scared to death into staying home. They have been told, “No vaccine, no cure. This is instant death. This is instant hospitalization, and it\u2019s an ugly death. You can\u2019t breathe. It\u2019s horrible.” They have been dutifully frightened. And one of my concerns for when this is over is how many of \u2019em are gonna still be afraid to go out because of all they\u2019ve been told about this.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, 14,800 dead. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s a good number. I\u2019m saying you put it in context based on what we\u2019ve been told, measure it against other diseases or behaviors that kill people, and it\u2019s not even anywhere near the top. And we have never shut this country down for any disease. We\u2019ve never shut it down because we invented the wheel. We never shut the country down after airplanes crash. When have we ever shut the country down like this? We never have done this.<\/p>\n
The Great Depression did it, but that wasn\u2019t on purpose, like this is. That\u2019s what\u2019s scary to me about it. We did this ourselves. We wiped out three years of unparalleled economic growth, in three to four weeks. We wiped it out on numbers that turned out to be very wrong. And the people that gave us the numbers are still the ones giving us the numbers even though they haven\u2019t been right yet.<\/p>\n
They are not being held accountable. They are allowed to change their data. They are allowed to change their data points. They are allowed to change their input data. They are allowed to say that you, because you are following orders from on high, from Chairman Fauci, are the reason why this thing is working out so well.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now out of intensive care. That\u2019s good news. You know what? We\u2019re talking about here the scarf queen and Dr. Fauci and my understanding that there\u2019s an internal battle going on between team scarf and team Kudlow. You know what I think ought to happen at these briefings? I think team Kudlow needs to have a greater presence in these briefings.<\/p>\n
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No, no. I\u2019m serious about this. There needs to be at these briefings information for people on these loans that are being made for every single small- and medium-size business, how to maintain their payroll. There need to be procedural instructions given. There need to be some information, economic reopening of this country. That needs to be something front and center at these briefings.<\/p>\n
How many more statistics do we need on ventilators in the states, statistics on the masks? And how many more statistics do we need on we\u2019re doing better than other countries and making this and producing that? And how many more times do we need to hear, “We love telling you to mitigate and we love that you\u2019re doing it. Social distancing, don\u2019t stop.” How long do we need to hear this? Team Kudlow or anybody that can speak economics, get \u2019em out there.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Scott in Modesto, California. How are you doing, sir?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m doing great. Mega dittos and my prayers are with you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: My feeling is this. You know, you\u2019ve got millions of people that are chomping at the bit to get back to work.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We think.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I believe so. And these folks need to get food on the table and pay the electric bills and heating bills. And what would happen — my suggestion is that come Monday morning, say millions of people get up and just start going back to work, what are they gonna do? And they would have a very powerful backing. It\u2019s called the Constitution. It\u2019s free assembly and freedom of speech.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I love the idea, if all of a sudden on Monday people say screw this and went back to work, for that to happen the people that owned the business would have to open \u2019em up.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So I think okay, what could stop this? It\u2019s something called government and fines and jail for violating the orders of Dr. Scarf and Dr. Birx to stay at home and mitigate.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m sorry. I agree with that, but like I said, but what if millions do it? They don\u2019t have enough resources to stop the people of the United States doing what they need to do.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, ever heard of Waco?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: When people pose ideas like this that I love, I\u2019m instinctively drawn to, okay. How can it be stopped? How could the government think of stopping it. I love the idea. I think it\u2019s fascinating. I love the way you\u2019re thinking. It would illustrate American ingenuity, entrepreneurism and control over their own lives, but I\u2019ll guarantee you, I\u2019ll guarantee you that somebody would do something to shut it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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