{"id":37031,"date":"2010-12-08T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:15:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:15:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:15:25","slug":"inertial_security_a_retirement_plan_for_unemployed_americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/12\/08\/inertial_security_a_retirement_plan_for_unemployed_americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Inertial Security: A Retirement Plan for Unemployed Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Now, on another subject, why aren\u2019t we creating a retirement program for the unemployed? Don\u2019t they need pensions for all the years they\u2019ve not worked so they can go to Florida and not <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" class=\"alignright\"\/>work? I mean, we have pensions&#8230; Like Tim Pawlenty. He had a bus strike. They wanted full health care and pensions after working for 15 years. We\u2019ve been told that the unemployed receiving benefits are an economic stimulus and that not paying these people not to work would cost us 600,000 jobs, or some number. Well, why&#8230;? Why even contemplate the notion of having them go back to work, then? <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re extending unemployment benefits. We\u2019ve done it six times since 2008. We do it because it\u2019s Christmastime and there aren\u2019t any jobs. Why not just create a Social Security-type program for \u2019em now and just start giving \u2019em that money and say, &#8216;You never have to go back to work.\u2019 Look at the unemployment rate. It would come down immediately, \u2019cause all those people unemployed would simply no longer have to work because they\u2019d be on this new retirement plan that we create. They need pensions, too. The unemployed need pensions, too, for all the work they haven\u2019t done and to pay for all the years that they haven\u2019t worked. Where are our hearts, I ask?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, even more than pensions, what about reparations for the unemployed? How about a Social Security-like retirement program for them? Get all the economic stimulus there, and then this reparations. It\u2019s not their fault. It\u2019s society\u2019s fault that they don\u2019t have any jobs. Just plug \u2019em in there on that Pigford lawsuit like is already being done. Give \u2019em reparations.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I have a name, a brilliant idea here: A retirement program for the unemployed. All these other people have pensions after working 10 years, 15 years, 20 years. Some of their pensions are 80% of what they earn. Some are a hundred percent. They get health care and other benefits added to it. But look at the unemployed. For crying out loud! And the unemployed, according to Democrats, are one of the great economic stimuluses that we have. The unemployed! That\u2019s what Pelosi is saying. A number of Democrats are saying that. It\u2019s because, &#8216;for every dollar of unemployment benefit, it\u2019s like putting two dollars into the economy, because the unemployed really spend it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I mean, they really spend it fast, \u2019cause they don\u2019t have any other money &#8212; and if we don\u2019t continue to fund unemployment benefits, then we\u2019re gonna lose 600,000 jobs,\u2019 which I would think would be good. The more unemployed, the greater economic stimulus, according to these people. I note that whenever a Democrat makes this point on television, not one TV anchor or personality scratches on her head and says, &#8216;Would you repeat that to me? Do you really mean to say that we will lose 600,000 jobs if we stop paying people not to work? Is that&#8230;? Are you really saying we stimulate the economy with these unemployment benefit checks? Do you really believe that? Is that what I\u2019m hearing you say?\u2019 Not one reporter does this. They just accept it. <\/p>\n<p>Now, if a Republican were saying something like this, I guarantee you, Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington) would be boring in trying to understand this. Now, the only thing better, the only thing better than the unemployed stimulating the economy would be illegal aliens unemployed. An unemployed illegal alien, according to Pelosi, that would really stimulate things. So these people are perpetually unemployed now, and they\u2019ve said this is the new norm. This is a new norm: 9.5, 10% unemployment. Therefore, we need a pension plan for these people, and I\u2019ve got the name of it. We just call it Inertial Security, not to be confused with Social Security because we\u2019ve already got that, but this is a retirement plan, a pension plan for the unemployed. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only fair. It\u2019s not their fault they\u2019re outta work. It\u2019s society\u2019s fault. Give \u2019em reparations, too, maybe. But we\u2019ll call it Inertial Security. Now, I\u2019m being asked, &#8216;isn\u2019t the deal collapsing okay? Isn\u2019t it a good thing for our side?\u2019 In one way, yeah. In one way. Because the Democrats are going to be responsible for tax increases on everybody. Now, they\u2019re gonna blame it on the Republicans, and Obama would love for the deal to be scuttled. He doesn\u2019t care about the people. He\u2019d love for the deal to be scuttled so that he could then say (impression), &#8216;I had\u2019a deal. You heard me in my press conference. We were ready to roll, aaaand, uh, Democrats had to oppose it \u2019cause of the last minute things the Republicans put in there.\u2019 He wants to blame the Republicans for this. <\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m not gonna be crying any spilt milk if it falls apart, or crying over spilt milk. I don\u2019t want my taxes to go up. I really don\u2019t. But this isn\u2019t just personal. &#8216;Cause if this doesn\u2019t get done now, guess when it does? It\u2019s gonna get done with the new guys, with the cavalry arriving next month, and it will be an even better deal, and then it will be Obama on the hook for keeping &#8216;a tax increase for the middle class,\u2019 and that he does not want going into the election of 2012. There\u2019s a lot of posturing going on right now. Dingy Harry is talking like they\u2019ve got the votes to pass it. He\u2019s focusing on other things. They secretly want this. When you send Biden over there to McConnell to get this deal going, you know that the powers that be on both sides want this to happen. <\/p>\n<p>So a lot of this opposition to it, I think, is political posturing. Barney Frank, some of these obscure liberal Democrats you don\u2019t even know, they\u2019re the ones going on TV now, and they are posturing for their own reelection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, on another subject, why aren\u2019t we creating a retirement program for the unemployed? Don\u2019t they need pensions for all the years they\u2019ve not worked so they can go to Florida and not work? I mean, we have pensions&#8230; Like Tim Pawlenty. He had a bus strike. 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