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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I have a question. I have a whole unemployment stack here, but before I get to the unemployment news stack per se, I have a question. I\u2019m still kind of reeling here over the theories and the philosophy that we got last week, and that is that unemployment benefits create robust economic activity. I\u2019m still trying to get my arms around that, and not only that, unemployment benefits, if we fail to extend \u2019em, it\u2019s going to cost us 600,000 jobs. Now, my question, if unemployment benefits are so good for the economy, why hasn\u2019t it worked for the past 99 or 150 weeks? Look at all the people that have been on unemployment. We ought to have just a rolling recovery going on. But of course we don\u2019t. It\u2019s absurd some of the things that are being said out there. Now, here is the unemployment stack, ladies and gentlemen, and the first story is from Ben Bernanke. Bernanke was on 60 Minutes last night. He said that unemployment might take five years to fall to a normal level and that fed purchases of Treasury securities beyond the $600 billion announced last month in a controversial move were possible. Might do it again. ‘At the rate we\u2019re going, it could be four, five years before we are back to a more normal unemployment rate\u2019 of about 5 to 6 percent. That\u2019s optimistic, considering other things that I have heard. We\u2019re not gonna get out of this as long as Obama\u2019s president, in other words. What he\u2019s basically saying here, as long as Obama\u2019s president, we are stuck. <\/p>\n

And now from Business Insider: ‘Guess what? Unemployment is up again! That\u2019s right — even though Wall Street is swimming in cash and the Obama administration is declaring that ‘the recession is over\u2019, the U.S. unemployment rate has gone even higher. So are you enjoying the jobless recovery? The truth is that there should not be any talk of a ‘recovery\u2019 as long as the ‘official\u2019 unemployment rate remains at around 10 percent and the ‘real\u2019 unemployment continues to hover around 17 percent. There are millions and millions of American families that are living every day in deep pain because of the lack of jobs. Meanwhile, there are all of these economic pundits that are declaring that we are just going to have to realize that chronic unemployment is the ‘new normal\u2019 and that if other nations can handle high rates of unemployment then so can we.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, this piece says: ‘If you have never been unemployed, it can be hard to describe how soul-crushing it can be. As the bills pile up and the financial obligations mount, the pressure can be debilitating. … The vast majority of Americans have at least one family member or close friend that is looking for work right now. Times are really, really tough and unfortunately the long-term outlook is very bleak. We should have compassion on those who are out of work right now, because soon many of us may join them.\u2019 And then they have a link here, \u201925 unemployment statistics that are almost too depressing to read.\u2019 It\u2019s a slideshow and I\u2019ve got the link to it, Business Insider, but it\u2019s not good. It\u2019s typified here in a story at the UK Daily Mail Online: ‘No End in Sight to U.S. Economic Crisis as ‘Scariest Jobs Chart Ever\u2019 Shows Post-Recession Unemployment is at its Worst Since World War Two — As unemployment in the U.S. nears the dreaded 10 per cent mark, it is a chart to chill the bones of any job hunter.\u2019<\/line> <\/line>Now, I can\u2019t describe the chart for you. Not even someone with the immense talents that I have can describe this thing. This looks like one of those computer model hurricane spaghetti things. But down at the very bottom — they\u2019re all jumped together, all these different lines starting in 1948 to the present with unemployment rates at 7%, minus six, so forth and so on. Way, way down below everything is where we are now with the Obama regime. All of this, every day this news comes out, and it gets worse and worse and worse, and the fix for this becomes obvious, and yet any time the fix is mentioned, just doing the opposite of what we\u2019re doing, Democrats have a cow. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. This is hilarious. Friday night, Sergeant Schultz had on his show Alan Grayson, the certifiably insane, soon to be former congressman from central Florida, and during a discussion about the House debate to extend the Bush tax cuts, Congressman Grayson mentioned me on the House floor last week. Sergeant Schultz said, ‘Why did you do that? It was very entertaining, but what was the mission there, congressman?\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

GRAYSON: Because when you listen to these people talk about tax cuts for the rich and how it\u2019s gonna benefit the economy and create jobs, you have to realize it\u2019s a lie. It\u2019s just not true. They have a hidden agenda, they have a hidden motivation, and that\u2019s tax cuts for themselves. They should confess that the reason why they keep pushing tax breaks for the rich is because they want a tax cut. It\u2019s that simple.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what to do with this? ‘The only reason they keep pushing tax breaks for the rich is because they want a tax cut.\u2019 In the first place, Congressman Grayson, you and it seems like all of your compatriots in the media — Alan Grayson is worth $31 and a half million, by the way, that\u2019s his net worth, Alan Grayson, 31.3, $31.5 million. That\u2019s how much he has. And publicly he would probably say, ‘I don\u2019t want a tax cut, I\u2019m willing to pay more.\u2019 Well, then pay more, congressman, but keep your hands off everybody else\u2019s money. We\u2019re not talking about a tax cut. This is something that Jon Kyl tried to drill into Bob Schieffer\u2019s head yesterday on Slay the Nation. It\u2019s impossible to tell these Democrats and the media people we\u2019re not talking about a tax cut. We\u2019re talking about two things: maintaining current tax rates or a tax increase, pure and simple. Nobody is getting a tax cut. If Alan Grayson, if that idiot can end up with $31 and a half million, anybody can. It\u2019s one of the greatest motivational details that I\u2019ve ever imparted to you. Grayson can do it, you can do it. But nobody\u2019s talking tax cuts here. <\/line> <\/line>Why doesn\u2019t Grayson move to a state where he can pay state income tax if he is so high on all this? Leave Florida and go to the Bronx. He was born and raised in New York City, was born and raised in the Bronx. Alan, just head back there. If you\u2019re not paying enough taxes there are plenty of places in the country that will take you. Nobody is talking about a tax cut. We\u2019re simply talking about extending current tax rates as opposed to a tax increase, which you start talking people at 250 grand or more, you\u2019re talking about job creators. I don\u2019t think we have to do too big a sales job on this. I think most people have come to understand what this is all about, which is why Obama\u2019s gonna cave on this and it\u2019s why the Democrats, the left is livid. I mean there are stories today, we got sound bites, too. Krugman is ticked off. Everybody\u2019s ticked off on the Democrat side. Claire McCaskill\u2019s ticked off. They\u2019re all ticked off at Obama. And Mark Halperin at TIME Magazine — do you remember when 9\/11 happened? When 9\/11 happened, there were actually a bunch of people, Democrats, who said, (paraphrasing) ‘Ah, damn it, why couldn\u2019t this have happened when Clinton was president? A chance for Bill Clinton to have some greatness, why did it have to be wasted on Bush?\u2019 Now, the bottom line on this is Clinton had his disaster. It was the Oklahoma City bombing. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, Halperin is writing, it\u2019s a piece today all about what does Obama have to do to come back? It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s good for the country or not, Halperin says, hey, if there\u2019s another 9\/11, Oklahoma City bombing, people might get killed, that might be what it takes to bring Obama back. To hell with what\u2019s good or bad for the country. Well, Claire McCaskill, I think she goes to the same school as Alan Grayson. She keeps saying they\u2019re giving money to millionaires and billionaires. This is their latest mantra. This is why I went through this whole little monologue last week about, oh, yeah, okay, so we extend the Bush tax cuts, Washington is gonna write people a check? Is that what\u2019s happening here, if we extend these Bush tax rates? This is pure demagoguery; it\u2019s pure lying, and it\u2019s not working. <\/p>\n

Washington News: ‘White House, Congress Reportedly Near Deal To Extend All Bush-Era Tax Cuts — Media reports, including stories on all three network newscasts, describe the White House and Congress as very close to a deal to extend — albeit temporarily — all Bush-era tax cuts. The potential deal is being cast as somewhat of a defeat for the President, and as a highly disheartening development for Democrats and liberal activists. ABC World News reported, ‘The President is preparing to break one of his biggest campaign promises,\u2019 as ‘it appears Republicans will get all the tax cuts extended.” They\u2019re not tax cuts anymore. They\u2019re tax rates. ‘In a second story, ABC World News said the White House ‘views this as the last best chance to get priorities passed, including extending unemployment benefits. But the flip side is, this is happening while Democrats still control Congress. The view of many in the left is, if the President has to move this far right now, it\u2019s going to be much farther next month,” when the Republicans are in the majority. <\/p>\n

‘The CBS Evening News reported, ‘Liberals have been begging President Obama not to cave to GOP demands,\u2019 but ‘the White House is worried about losing twice\u2019 if no deal is reached all tax cuts expire: ‘the economy could buckle, and the President would get the share of the blame.” He already is starting to get the largest share of the blame. ‘On NBC Nightly News, CNBC\u2019s John Harwood said that ‘it appears that they\u2019re headed toward a perhaps two-year extension of all of those tax rates.\u2019 The New York Times reports on its front page, ‘Senior Democrats on Sunday said that they were resigned to defeat in the highly charged tax debate, and they voiced dismay.\u2019 … The AP reports ‘some Democrats continued to object to any plan that would continue Bush-era tax rates at the highest income levels.\u2019 Politico reports Republicans ‘seemed more sanguine Sunday about the direction of the debate and the negotiations than did Democrats.\u2019 McClatchy reports, ‘Despite talk of compromise, the rising level of partisan rancor in recent days remains a possible glitch. Congressional leaders surprised many rank-and-file members by insisting on votes last week on the tax cuts.” It goes on and on and on about how Obama is caving, when he has the majority in the House of Representatives. And here\u2019s the Time piece: ‘What Obama Needs to Come Back: Nothing Short of Luck.\u2019 Wait \u2019til you hear this piece. <\/p>\n

Anyway, a lot of on the plate today, my friends, and we\u2019ve got plenty of knives and forks, in fact pitchforks. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to know: How was there a Great Depression, ladies and gentlemen, if 20% unemployment would be twice as good as 9%? And they had unemployment benefits back then. It was call ‘relief.\u2019 Remember that? Well, you probably don\u2019t. But it was called ‘relief,\u2019 and if all of these unemployment benefits are so great for the economy, how did we ever have a Great Depression? How did it happen? How? The two just don\u2019t go together. And I also have another question. Just last week the media was wringing its hands over the lack of compromise and wondering, ‘Will the Republicans compromise with Obama?\u2019<\/p>\n

Well, here\u2019s compromise taking place, and when Obama does it it\u2019s called ‘caving.\u2019 Now, everybody loves compromise, I\u2019m told. So, Obama is gonna compromise with the Republicans. We\u2019re gonna extend all Bush-era tax rates in exchange for Obama\u2019s extended unemployment benefits and his stupid little START treaty, and everybody\u2019s upset that Obama\u2019s caving. We thought the news media and the pundit class loved compromise. But you see, ladies and gentlemen, they don\u2019t because compromise doesn\u2019t mean compromise. ‘Compromise\u2019 means ‘Republicans cave in,\u2019 and when the appearance is that Obama is caving in, ‘Why, we can\u2019t have that!\u2019 <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Okay, we\u2019re gonna go to the phones at 800-282-2882, and who we got? David in Buffalo, we\u2019re gonna start with you, sir. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Hey, I wanted to bring up that Bernanke interview on 60 Minutes yesterday.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Hm-hm.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: The point I wanted to make is we have Obama, Reid, and Pelosi making one point, which is that unemployment creates stimulus within the economy.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Yeah.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Yet Bernanke yesterday was saying that we need to get people off of unemployment because they lose their skills, they get very complacent of doing nothing, and it\u2019s just poor all the way around in the long term.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Well, it\u2019s exactly where Obama, Reid, and Pelosi want them: unskilled, doing nothing, and dependent.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: And how is that gonna help anybody in the long term?<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: It helps the Democrats in the long term, in their minds, it helps them. Look at Mark Halperin\u2019s piece, it\u2019s not about what\u2019s good for the country, it\u2019s what\u2019s good for Obama, ‘Oh, my God, what could Obama do to come back, oh, no what can we do to help Obama? Nobody wants a catastrophe, but…\u2019 We have some of this Bernanke interview last night on 60 Minutes. Scott Pelley talked to him. Here\u2019s one bite. Pelley said, ‘We lost about eight million jobs from the peak, and I wonder how many years you think it will be before we get all those jobs back?\u2019<\/line> <\/line> BERNANKE: You\u2019re absolutely right. Between the peak and the end of last year we lost eight and a half million jobs. We\u2019ve only gotten about a million of them back so far, and that doesn\u2019t even account the new people coming into the labor force. At the rate we\u2019re going it could be four or five years before we are back to a more normal unemployment rate, somewhere in the vicinity of say five or six percent.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Folks, I hope he\u2019s right, but it\u2019s gonna be longer than that. The number of jobs that we would have to create a year if no new workers graduated from college, if people stopped growing up, if people stopped entering the job market, it would take — well, figure it out, how many years at say 200,000 jobs a year, how many years would that take? Well, if you\u2019re gonna use eight million, 200,000 … I\u2019m not good at math in my head. Then you add people coming into the workforce to the people who have lost their job, we\u2019re not talking five or six years to get to five or six percent unemployment. We\u2019re talking ten to 15. Folks, this next presidential election and these next two years are gonna be crucial. We\u2019ve got about six to ten years to reverse this before the mathematics becomes geometrically out of our control. <\/line> <\/line> I mean even now the notion of paying down this debt, everybody knows you\u2019re not gonna pay down this debt, you\u2019re not gonna get rid of it, but you have to start attacking it, you have to start reducing it, you have to start cutting things, you have to. It\u2019s time to reprioritize 50-year-old programs that created and formed during entirely different economic times and entirely different purposes than those which they\u2019ve evolved. I mean this is serious, serious stuff here. The length of time to get back to five or six percent, look, it just took two years to go from 4.7 unemployment to where we are at, two years, and we\u2019re looking at much, much longer than that to correct it. We gotta get rid of this guy politically, he\u2019s gotta lose and the Democrats have to lose significant power over the next couple of years.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Friday afternoon in Washington on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats held a press conference to talk about the extension of the Bush tax rates. It\u2019s the subject that won\u2019t go away. It\u2019s dividing the Democrat Party. Here\u2019s Claire McCaskill from Missouri. That\u2019s my home state. It should be pointed out that Claire McCaskill is worth (I saw this earlier) $19 million or so. She\u2019s in the top ten wealthiest people in the Senate, I believe. She ranks up there. Here is a portion of what she had to say.<\/p>\n

MCCASKILL: They need to pull back the curtain and realize that you\u2019ve got a Republican Party that\u2019s not worried about the people in the Tea Party. They\u2019re worried about people that can\u2019t decide which home to go to over the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, now, two things about this. She may be right in one sense (chuckles), and that is certain elements of the Republican Party may not be all that happy with the Tea Party. But, ‘They\u2019re worried about people that can\u2019t decide which home to go to over the Christmas holidays\u2019? Have you ever had more than one house? Snerdley, have you ever had more than one home? I mean to live in. Dawn, have been have you ever had more than one home? You ever have more than one home to live in? I mean different locations. You might own two on the same street \u2019cause you\u2019re trying to sell one, but you had two homes in different towns? (interruption) You haven\u2019t? Then you don\u2019t know how hard it is to decide which one to go to! <\/p>\n

It can be a tough decision. There are a whole lot of variables involved here. She doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s talking about. The Republicans don\u2019t care about that. She\u2019s misreading that. But she\u2019s got a bunch of homes, I\u2019ll guarantee you. I\u2019ll bet she spends a lot of time figuring where she\u2019s going to be and which one she\u2019s going to be in at what time. (interruption) Well, the price of jet fuel is a factor. Look, John Kerry has seven of \u2019em! John Kerry has got a home outside Pittsburgh, he\u2019s got a home in Boston, he\u2019s got a home in Washington, he\u2019s got a home out there in Sun Valley, Idaho. There are so many variables. Like half the time he probably does not want to be where his wife is gonna be. <\/line><\/line>I mean, they probably have kitchen table discussions — dining room table — saying, ‘Where we going to spend next weekend?\u2019 It can take \u2019em, I don\u2019t know, maybe an hour to figure it out, and they\u2019re Democrats. The more choices you have, the more time it takes you to make \u2019em. Who\u2019s she to start making fun of this? Republicans are more concerned about people have to choose which home they\u2019re gonna spend the holidays in? She\u2019s talking about herself! I\u2019ll lay you ten to one it\u2019s a big problem in her house. That\u2019s why it\u2019s even on her mind. I know these people left and right. Face the Nation. Jon Kyl was on with Bob Schieffer talking about tax cuts, Schieffer said, ‘Senator Kyl, is the Senate gonna get down to business and resolve this?\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

KYL: I hope so. We can. We should. I would just make one point: Nobody\u2019s talking about tax cuts. We\u2019re talking about extending the rates — <\/p>\n

SCHIEFFER: It\u2019s —<\/p>\n

KYL: — that have been in existence —<\/p>\n

SCHIEFFER: Yes.<\/p>\n

KYL: — for the last decade. <\/p>\n

SCHIEFFER: Yes.<\/p>\n

KYL: So just to be sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘What about you, Senator Kyl? Is temporary good enough on those upper-income extensions?\u2019<\/p>\n

KYL: First of all, we\u2019re not talking about tax cuts.<\/p>\n

SCHIEFFER: I gotcha.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t ‘gotcha.\u2019<\/p>\n

KYL: We\u2019re talking about extending, for another period of time, the rates that have been in existence for the last decade essentially. Those tax rates helped our economy and job production. They did not create the problem that we have today. That was a problem created, as you know, by the crash of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the housing market, the so-called bubble. It had nothing to do with these tax rates.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right, but it doesn\u2019t matter. That\u2019s not what Schieffer\u2019s point was. He\u2019s sitting there thinking, ‘I don\u2019t want to talk about that.\u2019 Anyway, Claire McCaskill: $19.42 million net worth in 2008. Claire McCaskill. And do not illegal aliens have two homes? Illegal aliens have a home here and they have a home wherever they came from, and they aren\u2019t exactly rich, and they try to figure out which home (laughing) they\u2019re gonna spend Christmas in. Shouldn\u2019t we want people to have two homes, what with the housing crisis we\u2019ve got today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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