{"id":345683,"date":"2020-04-22T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=345683"},"modified":"2020-04-23T16:20:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:20:48","slug":"the-government-cant-shut-down-but-the-economy-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/04\/22\/the-government-cant-shut-down-but-the-economy-can\/","title":{"rendered":"The Government Can\u2019t Shut Down, But the Economy Can?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Let\u2019s go to Lee in Leesburg, Virginia, we\u2019re gonna start with you on the phones today. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Wonderful, Rush, thanks for having me. Rush, I\u2019ll try to contain myself here, but we have to reflect on this. Every time there is a government shutdown going on the news media and the Democrats will jump in front of a train to stop any kind of shutdown from going on with the U.S. government. And then, furthermore, as the shutdown goes on day by day, it\u2019s like as if the end of the world is happening. And I just think this just goes to show, in my opinion, maybe, that if you cannot help the Democrat Party, they don\u2019t care what happens to you. They just step on you. And that\u2019s what\u2019s going on here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-345651 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-042220-pelosi-mask.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-042220-pelosi-mask.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-042220-pelosi-mask-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-042220-pelosi-mask-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I think you\u2019re more right than you\u2019re wrong. By the way, he\u2019s exactly right. Whenever there is even a possibility of a government shutdown, what happens? Republicans don\u2019t care about people. Republicans are gonna starve children. Republicans are gonna taint the food supply. Republicans are gonna make sure that there\u2019s no health services. And then when the government is shut down, we get stories of all the suffering of government employees. They wanted to get their Christmas or Thanksgiving turkeys, even though they do. They might lose out on salary. No, they don\u2019t. They\u2019re always repaid.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-294390 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-121218-Gov-Shutdown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-121218-Gov-Shutdown.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-121218-Gov-Shutdown-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, government shutdown, if it\u2019s about them, it\u2019s the worst thing, can\u2019t happen, worst thing that could happen. Then when the private sector gets shut down, when 22 million people are forced out of work and their businesses are boarded up and shuttered, people demand even more and longer shutdowns of the private sector. I don\u2019t blame you for being ticked off. A lot of people are, including me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I don&#039;t blame you for being ticked off. 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