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RUSH: I have a little think piece for you. You know, ladies and gentlemen, back in the old days, the fifties when I was growing up, my mother was happy to see my brother and I walk out of the house in the morning and not come back \u2019til afternoon — and she wasn\u2019t worried about us running into a purse snatcher or a mugger or rapist or any of that. I know that\u2019s not the case today. But if we fell off the bike… I remember my mother sent me to the Snack and Pack, which is our version of the 7-Eleven. Snack and Pack? That wasn\u2019t the name of it. Pack and Snack? Whatever it was it was about six blocks away on a bicycle. <\/p>\n

She sent me up there for something, and I was ticked off. I didn\u2019t want to go. So I got on the bicycle, and I headed up there and I got the stuff she wanted. I put it in the sack and it\u2019s on the left side of the handlebars dangling down and as I\u2019m coming down the hill on Keller Street right behind the stupid grade school I didn\u2019t like. My left knee on the bicycle struck the bottom of the sack, and the handles went sharp left and I went tumbling head-first off the bicycle. I cut my forehead and I\u2019m sitting there and I\u2019m ticked as hell. I\u2019m… I don\u2019t know. What am I seven, ten years old and I\u2019m just mad as hell that this happened. I didn\u2019t call an ambulance. I didn\u2019t. I got back on the bike. (interruption)<\/p>\n

No! I mighta cried, I don\u2019t remember, but I was ticked off. I was ticked off I had to go in the first place; I was ticked off that this happened. I remember when I got back home (this is the point of the story) and told my mother what happened, she said, ‘Grow up! Be a man about it!\u2019 Now today if that happened, whoever owned the house that I had fallen off the bicycle on, that parent would be sued for not having a warning sign or something out there. Here\u2019s my only point: We all know this is the case. <\/p>\n

Playing Little League Baseball, I\u2019d already made it, so the next year during tryouts I\u2019m the catcher during batting practice tryouts. The batting practice pitcher is not particularly good throwing. He\u2019s throwing wild pitches in the dirt. One of them gets behind me and I run back and cut the top of my head on the fence, you know, on the backstop. I go to the coach and said, ‘Coach, I\u2019m bleeding back there.\u2019 He said, ‘Don\u2019t worry about it, son,\u2019 grabbed a handful of dirt, rubbed it in there and said, ‘You\u2019ll be fine.\u2019 Today that coach would be strung up and probably fired for putting dirt in an open wound. You know, I\u2019m not longing for the old days. I\u2019m just pointing out how things are different. As a prelude to this, the Associated Press had reported that unemployment has been over 9% for the longest stretch in history. Fox News said that unemployment has been over 9% for the longest stretch since 1948. <\/p>\n

Now, in any case, how long do you think unemployment benefits were back in 1948? Well, I don\u2019t know if you know how long they were in 1948, but I can tell you this: Unemployment benefits did not exist for 99 weeks back in 1948. Did they? You know they didn\u2019t. Did the economy manage to grow anyway? It did. Did a lot of people die on the street in 1948? Did we cancel Christmas in 1948? I mean, we are told here that we\u2019ve got horrible, rotten circumstances and that we\u2019ve gotta extend unemployment benefits, and you go back during tough economic times in our nation\u2019s past… (interruption)<\/p>\n

Yeah, it was the Pack-a-Snack. My brother is reminding me. <\/p>\n

The Pack-a-Snack was owned by Porter and Edna Stubbs. That\u2019s exactly right. That was the place. Pack-a-Snack owned by Porter and Edna Stubbs. And that\u2019s where my mom sent me that day where I ended up cutting myself falling off the bike, which wouldn\u2019t-a happened if she hadn\u2019t ordered me up there. Anyway, there weren\u2019t 99 weeks of unemployment back in 1948 and yet everybody seemed to survive, and we had Christmas, and people ended up going back to work. Now we\u2019re supposed to believe that all of a sudden the left now is very concerned — so concerned! — about the deficit that they\u2019re even willing to increase taxes on the rich. Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh. (laughing) Some things never change. They\u2019re so concerned about the deficit! Oh, yeah, they\u2019re so concerned about it that the solution is increased taxes on the rich. That\u2019s how much they care about the deficit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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