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<\/p>\nRUSH: Folks, I\u2019m gonna tell you something right here and right now.<\/p>\n
I am suspicious of anybody who doesn\u2019t want this economy reopened. It ought to be the overriding objective of everybody, including the health people. Even if it\u2019s just a desire, even if it is something they don\u2019t think that can happen, it ought to be the desire. When I see people, when I detect people who are not interested in this?<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t help it. I get suspicious. It ought to be the overriding desire of everybody. This is not sustainable. We are destroying the economy! Every day that it\u2019s shut down, we\u2019re destroying it. Every day. We did it to ourselves. The idea that there are people who think this could go on like this with no end in sight?<\/p>\n
That\u2019s absurd. It\u2019s absurd on its face. Everything happening today is in violation of basic human nature. Everything. We don\u2019t shut down for illness ever! We never have shut down for illness before. We\u2019ve never shut down for mass death. We\u2019ve never done it before. We\u2019ve never shut down on the projection of mass death.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve never done it before — and, I\u2019m sorry, when I encounter anybody… I\u2019m not talking just about Dr. Fauci. Anybody. I know that the Democrat Party wants to deep this shutdown for as long as they can as a political objective. They know how damaging this is to the president. They know how damaging it potentially is.<\/p>\n
When the election comes up. But throw the election out for just a moment. Forget politics for a moment. Anybody not interested in doing whatever has to be done to get the economy going, to get people living their dreams again — anybody who is not focused on that — is automatically suspicious to me, \u2019cause I can\u2019t relate to it.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t fathom it. To me, we are way beyond this making sense. I understand why we had to do it. But even then, we\u2019ve never done it before. Never. I just… (sigh) I\u2019m having daily, increasing trouble with this, and now more and more people are talking about it, which is giving the impression that it is finally imminent, and somehow this May 1st date has popped up.<\/p>\n
And now that it has, here comes the crowd that doesn\u2019t want it to happen. Do you realize how against our nature this whole thing is? Forget Americans. Human beings! Human beings are not designed, were not created to sit around. “But, Rush! But, Rush! There\u2019s a killer that\u2019s invisible out there that could kill anybody.”<\/p>\n
Death is present every day. Death surrounds us. Death, sadly, is part of the human existence. (interruption) No, I\u2019m not… I\u2019m imagining questions here. I\u2019m not suggesting we shouldn\u2019t have done it? To sit here… I\u2019m not even gonna go there because that\u2019s pointless. We did it. That debate\u2019s gonna be. Mark my words.<\/p>\n
That debate\u2019s gonna happen. You know, the debate is gonna center around the computer model because the computer models combined with the great thinking of American politicians is what shut us down. Computer models, which haven\u2019t been right yet. They haven\u2019t even been close to being right yet.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m hoping that there\u2019s a state somewhere out there that grows so fed up with this, some governor that grows so fed up with it that he just reopens. Something is gonna have to happen. Something has gotta give. This just is not sustainable in any which way you wish to categorize it.<\/p>\n
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I do not believe that it represents greed or selfishness at all to be desirous of people earning a living again and of people producing things in the American economy. What is the American economy? It\u2019s not a complicated thing. It\u2019s people getting up and living their lives, creating commerce amongst themselves.<\/p>\n
The American economy is virtually everything human behavior engages in. You are engaging in the economy when you go to the gym. When you go to yoga class, you\u2019re engaging in the economy. When you walk down the street, you\u2019re engaging in the economy \u2019cause you had to go buy the clothes you\u2019re wearing in order to walk down the street and not get arrested for nudity.<\/p>\n
Virtually everything you do is economic — and the more of it, the better. The more of it, the more prosperous everybody is. And it boggles my mind that there are people in responsible positions of power who do not seem to have it reopening as an objective. I can understand medical people being worried. I can understand this may not be time.<\/p>\n
I can understand medical people saying, “It\u2019s gonna be really, really risky.” But the idea that we shouldn\u2019t do it? Sorry, that doesn\u2019t compute. That\u2019s not workable. That\u2019s not doable. Not reopening is not doable. As you know, my friends, I have many people who are friends. I\u2019ve talked to people who don\u2019t think there\u2019s gonna be an NFL season. They don\u2019t think there\u2019s gonna be a Masters in November. They don\u2019t think there\u2019s gonna be anything. Now, some of these people are natural pessimists, but they\u2019re also examining what they\u2019re hearing, and they\u2019re not hearing…<\/p>\n
Other than from President Trump now and then, they\u2019re not hearing anybody talk about, seriously, opening. Not anybody. I mean, you can find guests on TV shows that are talking about it. But I mean in officialdom, they\u2019re not hearing a big push for it — and without a big push for it, isn\u2019t gonna happen.<\/p>\n
People are gonna have to do it on their own, and I suspect that there are gonna be some people who are gonna open their businesses \u2019cause they\u2019ve got not choice. They have to eat. They have to pay rent. They have to do something. They have to feed their kids. At some point, this has got to give. At some point, some Americans are not going to just continue to stay home.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna want to get on their yachts and take it down to the Caribbean and go to the Grenadines or something and take pictures of themselves escaping virus while we\u2019re not. But I\u2019m just admittedly really, really curious when I encounter people that don\u2019t seem to hold opening up with any interest or desire, \u2019cause that\u2019s not normal. It is simply not normal to want this circumstance that we\u2019re in to continue. It is not normal in any which way you define it.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Here is Jerry in Atlanta. Jerry, glad you waited.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, my pleasure, Rush. Thank you so much for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Two quick observations for you. One. Hey, I took last week\u2019s, the most recent weekly jobless claims number, which is about 16 million, and I divided that by the total number of COVID cases that have been reported from John Hopkins website yesterday, which is about 545,000. And that comes out to about every case that\u2019s been reported has cost about 30 jobs here in the United States. And so I thought that was interesting.<\/p>\n
And then here\u2019s the second thing I wanted to bring your attention to. This is where I think Trump\u2019s business mindset is kicking in. Trump knows that models matter because he knows that they build habits and he knows that habits make predictable results happen with less effort or thoughts. And he knows that a great model will provide a shortcut to great thinking. And I think he\u2019s seeing that we don\u2019t have great models and because of that we\u2019re not getting great thinking being done, i.e., the federal immunity card and so forth —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute. Why do you think Trump likes models or agrees — why do you think Trump agrees that we\u2019re not getting good thinking or information? What makes you think this?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Because what\u2019s not a model is doing something different every time because the results are not predictable. And I think they just keep getting these different numbers and different results every time, and they\u2019re completely way off. And that\u2019s not a model.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. But my point is that Trump, at least publicly, is responding, he\u2019s basing things on what the models are saying. He\u2019s not publicly disavowing them. He may be privately, but that\u2019s why I was asking you how you might think you know he\u2019s doing that, \u2019cause publicly everybody\u2019s on board. He\u2019s still using the 2.2 million number, 240,000, using those numbers to show how better they\u2019ve done, how much better they\u2019ve done. Anyway, I would love to query you further, but I\u2019m out of busy broadcast moments. Gotta go. Appreciate the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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