{"id":34818,"date":"2011-05-19T01:20:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:20:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:20:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:20:03","slug":"obama_manages_america_s_decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/obama_manages_america_s_decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Manages America\u2019s Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: We\u2019re going to start in Cincinnati. This is Jerry, it\u2019s great to have you here, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, sir. How are you? I was watching Hannity Sunday night, and they had two guys on there that were talking about how bad things are and the economy and spending money and all this and that and how there is a tipping point to where we will not be able to recover from. And I\u2019ll be honest with you. I\u2019ve never felt this bad about the situation that we\u2019re in since I was in the third grade in school and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What happened in the third grade in school?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they had us crawling under desks because of the bombs.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) I have not felt this helpless since then.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know something, I had to do those drills, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We had to go with my parents to look at bomb shelters.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was never as concerned about that then as I am about this now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. And I have the same stupid feeling, like, what is going to happen? You know. Is it too late, or what\u2019s going on?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s not too late.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I didn\u2019t think it was.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019d be in New Zealand if it was too late. I\u2019ll tell you when it\u2019s too late. I\u2019ll tell you when it\u2019s time to panic. I\u2019ll tell you when we reach the tipping point. We\u2019re nowhere near it. We\u2019re still the United States of America. A majority of American people have clearly expressed they don\u2019t want a shred of what\u2019s happening here, and we will stop it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank God. <\/p>\n

RUSH: The American people still, in the end, get what they want. This is not what they thought they were getting. They have been scammed totally. They thought they were getting something postpartisan, postbickering, postracial. They thought they were getting smooth talking and everybody was going to love us. They\u2019ve gotten nothing, nothing, zilch. Nobody, nobody — I mean you got some statistically 20, 30% — nobody is happy. The left thought they were getting somebody who was gonna stop the war in Iraq and close Gitmo the first day in office and put Bush and Cheney in jail and so forth. They\u2019re unhappy. You have people in the middle who thought, oh, wow, okay, we\u2019re going to get rid of the extremes on all sides, we\u2019re going to be reasonable here, we\u2019re going to get along and put people back to work. Whatever people\u2019s expectations were that voted for the guy have not anywhere near been met.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thanks for your efforts because you\u2019re one of the few lights out there still shining.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Well, it\u2019s a real dilemma for me here, a challenge, because those of you who have listened to this program since its interception — that would be its beginning for those of you in Port St. Lucie and Rio Linda — know that one of the defining characteristics of this program has been optimism, can-do, best country on earth, best people on earth, most opportunity on earth, everything\u2019s going to be okay kind of program, encouragement, good cheer, all this kind of stuff. But at the same time we have not delved into false optimism. I have not told you things that I think are better than they are just for the sake of saying it. We\u2019re at a time now where it\u2019s a delicate balance because to define honestly the circumstances we face and be optimistic about it is a tough challenge. ‘Cause I\u2019m not optimistic about where we are, I don\u2019t like where we are. The optimism is that we can stop it because we have. But it\u2019s never going to stop coming at us. <\/line> <\/line> Liberalism has been on the march for centuries. It\u2019s just never gotten this close to power in this country before. But I am encouraged. Now, after the election last year, if you woulda pinned me down and said, ‘Are you depressed?\u2019 I would have said, ‘Yeah,\u2019 because I knew, and a number of us knew, that Obama was a 100% fraud, and it was frightening that so many people got taken in by the guy, \u2019cause that makes us think, oh, we\u2019ve lost the country. If you lose the people, if the people decide they want to go Europe socialism, they decide they want to be wards of the state, then we\u2019re finished. And I was wondering, has that happened? ‘Cause I knew exactly who Obama was, what he was going to do, and it was easy for anybody to spot, just look at who he\u2019s hung around with, just look at who raised him, who\u2019s educated him. He was apologizing for the country while he was campaigning. He was apologizing for the country all over the world, in Berlin, wherever he went he was apologizing for America and his buddies were doing the same thing. So he was not a mystery to me, but the fact that so many people got fooled by the guy really depressed me. <\/line> <\/line>So then in January even before the guy is immaculated, the Wall Street Journal says, ‘Can we have 400 words from you on your hopes for the Obama administration.\u2019 ‘I got four for you: I hope he fails.\u2019 And the tide began to turn. And even people on my side, ‘Rush, you can\u2019t do that!\u2019 Somebody had to say it. I said it \u2019cause I meant it from the moment he won the election. His brand of politics, his view of the world, his view of the country has got to fail. So, as usual, my friends, I was out in front, this time by about six months. Then the tea parties sprung up and nobody led them, I mean those tea party people effervesced right out of the grassroots. A lot of them were people who had never, ever been to a town hall, had never been to a town meeting, were really casually invested in politics. But they knew, they said, ‘This is not our country, this is not what we voted for,\u2019 or what have you. This kind of debt that\u2019s being run up, this spending, it\u2019s gonna trap us all, it\u2019s going to roll back our lifestyles and opportunities for kids and grandkids, people instinctively knew this. <\/line> <\/line> So for the sake of time here, my depression evaporated very soon once I learned, once it became apparent that a clear and sizeable majority wants no part of Barack Obama\u2019s agenda. So America is still America. America is the people. The people are who make this country work, and the people are hurting. Many millions are out of work and are forced to depend on government to get by, and a lot of them are embarrassed by it and don\u2019t like it. But it\u2019s their only hope, it\u2019s their only chance. They see that nothing is being done from their government to facilitate a change in their lives for the better. They see it continually deteriorating. As such, more and more people are joining the clear majority who want no part of this. So are we at a tipping point? Well, you have to define the tipping point. But if the tipping point is an aroused populace who\u2019s simply not going to take it anymore, yeah, we\u2019re there, and you\u2019ll see the result in November and even before. <\/line> <\/line> It\u2019s going to be an ongoing daily struggle because these people are on the march, and they have only one intention, and that\u2019s to manage America\u2019s decline and see to it that it happens, because they think we deserve to be a nation in decline. If I could wave a magic wand one time and make everybody believe something for just two minutes, it would be this bunch of people in the White House and throughout Washington who are with Obama, been appointed by him or whatever, do not like this country as founded, they resent it, they think it\u2019s unfair, immoral, unjust, from our military to our capitalist system, and they are out to change it because we deserve a comeuppance. We\u2019ve been too rich, we have stolen all the goods and services from around the world, we\u2019ve kept the rest of the world poor while enriching ourselves, and even the people that really made this country, they\u2019ve gotten the shaft, too, the blue-collar world, these people are going to fix it. They\u2019re going to give this country a bitch slap.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: David in San Antonio, Texas. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re up next.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine, sir. Thank you very, very, very, very much. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m doing well. First-time caller, longtime listener, and I wanted to tug your ear on this issue about China. We\u2019ve talked a lot about how in debt we are to China.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I wanted to know, how much are we in debt to China? And then I have a follow-up question. Depending on how much that is, why can\u2019t we use this unspent stimulus money to pay off that debt?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it doesn\u2019t work that way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It doesn\u2019t? Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The debt to China is that they have purchased — now it\u2019s Japan because they started selling some of the T-bills, but Japan is the largest holder of our debt, meaning they are buying Treasury bills at a interest rate, and that\u2019s where the debt is. We\u2019re essentially financing our deficit with money that we don\u2019t have by selling futures, by selling Treasury bills that they buy that they can hopefully at some point down the road when they redeem \u2019em they\u2019ll show a gain on them. And they\u2019re very worried here because we keep adding to the debt and adding to the debt, which makes their percentage of it worth less at the time, and they can\u2019t call it because they need us for their own economic growth so they\u2019re in a little bit of a catch-22, but they are showing signs of selling it off. They did sell off about — I forget the exact number, $75 billion worth of T-bills, which makes the Japanese the number one holders. I don\u2019t really know the exact number of Treasury bills that they hold. I think it\u2019s in the seven or $800 billion range, but that\u2019s a wild guess. I\u2019m gonna have to look that up.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So we would not really be able to pay off our debt to China, really?<\/p>\n

RUSH: With unused stimulus money?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, or any kind of money, actually.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. If we pay China off we\u2019re just paying somebody else to assume their debt, we\u2019re not solving anything.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, okay. Then why is it such a big deal?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why is what such a big deal?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, why is it such a big deal that — I mean I think in the political arena, you know, we\u2019ve talked about, you know, China is owning us and with this huge foreign debt to China it is such a big deal, it\u2019s always talked about, and it\u2019s like we can never get out from under it, it seems.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a big deal because they have a hammer over us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Right. There\u2019s not a way to get out of it, though, right?<\/p>\n

RUSH: They have assumed the responsibility of keeping us afloat.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. <\/p>\n

RUSH: And if they decide to turn it against us and use it as a hammer there\u2019s not a whole lot we can do other than nuke \u2019em.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s a bit extreme, but — <\/p>\n

CALLER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The bottom line here — look, David, the bottom line is the reason we\u2019re in this problem is that we\u2019ve gone in debt to get further in debt. This stimulus money, we don\u2019t have it. The stimulus money was printed or borrowed. We\u2019re not paying anybody back. We\u2019re paying interest, but we\u2019re not retiring our principal. This is like a credit card you pay the minimum for the rest of your life and the principal keeps going up. That\u2019s what we\u2019re doing. We don\u2019t have this money. The stimulus is a great example. In fact, the whole concept of government stimulating the economy is absurd. The only way that would work, David, is if somewhere in Washington there is some actual money that has full value that\u2019s stashed somewhere that is not borrowed and not printed. And we take that money and we inject it in the private sector, that would put more money, more capital into the private sector, and then you would have stimulus. But that\u2019s not what we did. <\/p>\n

To get that $787 billion of stimulus we had to take it out of the private sector. It comes in the form of taxes or we borrow it. But there\u2019s no new money, there\u2019s no additional capital in the private sector. In fact, capital has been taken out, it hasn\u2019t been put back in. Less than 30% of the stimulus has been spent. It\u2019s in Washington. It\u2019s used to grow government. Federal workers now earn more than private sector workers on average. The federal workforce is growing. The unemployment rate there is only 3%. In the private sector it\u2019s 10%. The government\u2019s growing. They\u2019re stimulating nothing but themselves, the Democrat Party and their belief in expansionist government. They\u2019re not stimulating anything in the economy. And they know it. When I hear people say, ‘Well, you know, Obama just doesn\u2019t get it.\u2019 Yes, he does! And if he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing the people advising him to do this know what they\u2019re doing. There\u2019s not one sane individual who would do what they are doing if they honestly wanted the private sector to grow. Not one person. <\/p>\n

Obama, he talks Alinsky very well. (imitating Obama) ‘Private sector? That\u2019s where all jobs are, we need to grow the private sector.\u2019 Well, then do it, get out of the way, get out of their way. They\u2019re telling you you are in their way. Your expansionist government plans, cap and tax, health care, amnesty for illegals, they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re dealing with here. They\u2019re not going to invest in growth until all this shakes out. And if it shakes out with Obama getting everything he wants, they\u2019re going to close shop. This is purposeful, managing the decline. Think of it that way. If it\u2019s a little easier for you to get your arms around and have it not be so disturbing: ‘They\u2019re managing the nation\u2019s decline.\u2019 If, ‘They\u2019re destroying the country on purpose,\u2019 is just too coarse and too harsh, you don\u2019t want to believe that, then ‘managing America\u2019s decline.\u2019 Because you have to agree we\u2019re in decline, don\u2019t you? Would you all agree with me that we\u2019re in decline? Well, we certainly aren\u2019t ascending. <\/p>\n

The one thing that\u2019s ascending right now is conservatism. But you have a job, your prospects look good, gonna flood the market with three million more college graduates, and this bunch, they think the minute they have the diploma in their hands, that a $250,000-a-year job and a $500,000 house is waiting for them the next Monday. The Baby Boomers, they don\u2019t want to quit. They don\u2019t want to retire. They like working. And even if they wanted to quit, they can\u2019t. If they wanted to retire, they can\u2019t. So they\u2019re not going to leave their jobs, unless they get canned and get laid off or what you. And in addition to that, these Baby Boomers are going to start putting all kinds of new pressure on entitlements: Social Security and Medicare and all the rest. I hope that helps, David. Debt is a bad thing, personally, for a family, for a country. The only difference is, a government can print more money and go into greater debt on its own. A state can\u2019t do it, you can\u2019t do it, personally or in your family. <\/p>\n

Here is Kevin in Slayton, Minnesota. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Is that still acceptable?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Always.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Very good. My question, Rush, is I became aware that a neighboring state, South Dakota, a state attorney made a news announcement concerning joining 17 other states and looking into possible legal ramifications with the federal government over this health care program.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There are a lot of states that are trying to opt out of it. There are a lot of states that are trying to constitutionally insulate themselves from it. I think the number 17 is right. It may be a little higher now. It\u2019s on a constitutional basis and John Boehner, by the way, is being very vocal about the fact that all this is unconstitutional. The federal government cannot mandate you buy anything. This whole health care bill, if it were to be challenged constitutionally could be wiped out, but somebody has to bring the challenge. Somebody has to bring it, and you have to wait \u2019til it actually happens before the challenge is brought. Sort of like you can\u2019t go to the police and say, ‘Hey, my house is going to get robbed Saturday, I heard people talking.\u2019 ‘Well, we can\u2019t do anything about it \u2019til it actually happens.\u2019 Same thing here. I\u2019m confident there are people you and I have never heard of that are working on ways to defeat this that you and I probably haven\u2019t considered. <\/p>\n

You know, folks, I was thinking about something in the last break, because I\u2019m getting not a lot, but a decent number of e-mails today: ‘Thanks for the help, Rush; thanks for the encouragement; really, Rush, why, you\u2019ve convinced me there\u2019s no hope,\u2019 this kind of stuff. Let me tell you the truth of things out there, ladies and gentlemen. Even if — I want you to hear this, Snerdley — even if I said to you today, ‘Folks, it\u2019s over, we can\u2019t stop it, we\u2019ve gotten beyond the point of no return,\u2019 that would not affect what\u2019s gonna happen. People in this country are going to continue because it\u2019s their life. People are not mind-numbed robots here. The people who oppose Obama do not oppose Obama because they\u2019ve been told to, because they have been hypnotized or any of that, they oppose him because in their hearts, in their good old American hearts they know this is not their country. <\/p>\n

We are not a nation of people that\u2019s going to roll over and say, ‘Okay, have at us, have your way,\u2019 no matter what I say. The people inside the Beltway, even our smartest political minds there, do not understand that aspect of the American mind-set today. There\u2019s a bubble when you\u2019re in DC and you don\u2019t really see the things going on outside the place. But trust me, it is a severe and serious outrage that is bubbling up out there. People are not going to accept this. They\u2019ll do whatever they have to to stop it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: RUSH: Hey, folks, I was wrong. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. No! I was not wrong. I didn\u2019t know something. The ChiComs are still the largest holders of US debt, and they\u2019re proud of it. (laughing) They\u2019re upset that the Japanese have the title. So I have here the ChiCom Post: ‘The government now says that [the ChiComs] did not lose its place in December as the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury debt. The Treasury Department said that under annual benchmark revisions released Friday,\u2019 this is a February 28 story ‘China\u2019s holdings of U.S. Treasury securities stood at $894.8 billion at the end of December, keeping it in first place ahead of Japan.\u2019 (laughing) I frankly am stunned! The ChiComs are bragging. They don\u2019t want to lose the title as the number one holder of American debt. (laughing) Folks, that\u2019s like you wanting to have the largest balance MasterCard has ever seen and they believe along and announce that your neighbor has the largest balance. ‘Oh, no, no, no! I still have the largest balance.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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