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RUSH: I heard this last night, I heard it this morning and I\u2019ve run it by a couple people and I\u2019m told that it\u2019s BS, and it better be BS. What I heard last night was that in these meetings that happened between the Republican leadership, the Democrat leadership, and Obama on the Bush tax rates, the deal is this. Remember this is what I\u2019ve been told now is BS. The deal is that we would give Obama his unemployment extension, and we would give Obama whatever he wants on the START treaty in exchange for a two- to three-year temporary extension of the current tax rates for everybody, the so-called Bush tax cuts. <\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know what your reaction to that is when you first hear it, if this is the first time you\u2019re hearing it. I kind of went both ways on it. Why are we giving anything away? We won. And then, okay, were we gonna cave on unemployment extension anyway? What do you think? You think the Republicans at the end of the day would cave on that or would they plant the flag and say, ‘Nope, no more. No more unemployment extension benefits. We\u2019re not gonna do any more, we\u2019ve done it enough.\u2019 Will they risk being said to be cold-hearted and mean-spirited and anti-poor and all this? Or would they cave on that anyway? On the START treaty, are they gonna cave on that at the end of the day because they don\u2019t want to be accused of being pro-nuclear weapon or whatever the Democrats in the media would say? So is that a bad deal or is it not? What is the objective here? To get the current tax rates extended temporarily, permanently, what have you? <\/p>\n

The GOP doesn\u2019t care about START. I don\u2019t know anybody that cares about START except Putin and Obama. It\u2019s a bad thing, nobody cares about it. But this deal, and I\u2019ve been told, ‘Rush, you better be very careful on this,\u2019 because people that I\u2019ve talked to said this is BS, it\u2019s not the deal. Let\u2019s just put it this way. I won\u2019t be surprised if at the end of the day that is the deal. Give away START, they don\u2019t care about it, unemployment benefits, extensions, look, we know these guys and at this stage of the game I don\u2019t think they, at Christmastime, want to be accused of desiring people to be out of work and poor with no money. So we\u2019ll see. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: On this unemployment compensation benefits extension, let\u2019s be clear about this and let\u2019s remember: the Republican opposition to this has not been on the substance of it. The Republican opposition has been on ‘paying for it.\u2019 You know, Bunning and these guys said, ‘Look, if you want to extend unemployment compensation benefits, pay for it. Don\u2019t raise the deficit. Use some unspent TARP money for it. Use some unspent stimulus money.\u2019 Democrats don\u2019t want to go for any of that. They want brand-new debt to pay for this. They don\u2019t want to use existing allocated funds, already appropriated funds that have yet to be spent on anything. The Republicans are not saying, ‘We hate the unemployed, and we want \u2019em to suffer. We don\u2019t want \u2019em to have any more.\u2019<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve not said that. Now, that\u2019s been how it\u2019s been characterized and positioned. Now, I, as I said yesterday, don\u2019t need to get votes. I think it\u2019s about time somebody again stood up for the whole notion that at some point there better be a cutoff, because we\u2019re already getting interviews with people saying, ‘Yeah, it\u2019s much easier to take the 325 bucks a week unemployment rather than look for a job.\u2019 We\u2019re already getting to that point. Look, folks, human nature is what it is. If somebody\u2019s going to give you 325 bucks to not do anything, let\u2019s face it: Out of a country with 300 million people you\u2019re gonna have a significant number of them who will take the deal, and this is just another illustration of my complaint about — well, one of my several complaints about — liberalism. <\/p>\n

It destroys people. It dehumanizes them. It takes their dignity away, takes their humanity away. At some point the notion of giving somebody in a tough economy 325 bucks a week to not do anything is compassionate. ‘Rush, it really is. We\u2019re good people for doing it.\u2019 At some point, though, you are destroying these people. You are relegating them to a lifetime of 300-bucks-a-week unless they choose to do something. (interruption) Don\u2019t give me this! What? ‘Headline: Limbaugh Urges Christmas Cutoff for the Unemployed — No Toys for the Kids, Talk Host Says.\u2019 Let \u2019em try that. Nobody can get that from what I just said here. (interruption) Well, they can try. (interruption) Okay. I don\u2019t care. Let \u2019em. <\/p>\n

My only point is, as I said over and over again, liberalism hurts people. It destroys their lives and it destroys them. It takes away their dignity, and it takes away their humanity. And I\u2019m telling you that at some point somebody\u2019s gonna have to stabbed up and say that repeatedly giving somebody 325 bucks a week to not do anything is gonna end up being detrimental because that\u2019s all they\u2019re gonna end up being worth. They\u2019re not gonna be able to go out and make any more of themselves than that because they\u2019re not going to have to. It\u2019s the old argument that continued unemployment benefits increases unemployment. I mean, there\u2019s no doubt about it. Logic is logic. It can\u2019t be refuted. <\/p>\n

Not to mention that the employers\u2019 unemployment tax is gonna go through the roof during all of this to pay back these — what is it? — $300 billion a year that this is costing. Why would an employer hire anybody when they\u2019re gonna have to pay twice as much unemployment insurance for them? It\u2019s like water: People tend to find their own comfort level. Remember Merrill Lynch back in the late eighties, early nineties. In a job interview they\u2019d ask you, ‘How much money do you want to make?\u2019 and if you gave them a figure you were disqualified. Now, you didn\u2019t know that, but if you gave \u2019em a figure, that was the end, even if it was a high figure. And the reason was that they figured, ‘Okay, that\u2019s the person\u2019s comfort level, and once they get there, they\u2019re gonna stop working.\u2019 So they didn\u2019t want to hear a figure. They wanted to hear, ‘As much as I can!\u2019 That was the proper answer. You give \u2019em a number and you didn\u2019t know it (chuckles) but that was the last interview you got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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