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RUSH: From Sunday morning ABC\u2019s This Week Needs David Brinkley. This is during the panel discussion, George Will with Christiane Amanpour. Amanpour said, ‘We talk about symbolism, what the president needs to do. Politically he\u2019s moved to the center.\u2019 Typical. He hasn\u2019t, Christiane, he won\u2019t move to the center. Anyway, ‘He\u2019s heeded the call of the people, so to speak,\u2019 she says. ‘But when it comes to real solutions how do you kick-start and how do you make a dent in that 9.4% unemployment figure?\u2019 And this is what George Will said to Christiane Amanpour.<\/p>\n

WILL: I had lunch this week with Austan Goolsbee, who was your guest a few weeks ago, and he said, look, people seem to feel that in the basement of the White House somewhere there\u2019s an enormous switch, you go down and throw it, and jobs are created. The fact is the terrible frustration in the White House must be that everything that really matters is beyond their control, which is how to create jobs. It\u2019s not going to happen because of the government.<\/p>\n

RUSH: George Will admitting that Austan Goolsbee is frustrated that the White House is powerless to create jobs. That\u2019s good to know after how many trillions of dollars falsely spent on it. And who is it that believes there\u2019s a switch in the White House that creates jobs? Who is it? It\u2019s Obama. He\u2019s the one that always thought there was a switch down there and that the Republicans would not pull the switch because they like people being in pain. <\/p>\n

Raleigh, North Carolina, Lucas, nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I just wanted to address the question of saved jobs, because I think you\u2019ve asked rhetorically a number of times what a saved job is, and I was just thinking about emergency room doctors. Surely you aren\u2019t saying that an emergency room doctor or EMT, you aren\u2019t saying they don\u2019t save someone\u2019s life because the person hasn\u2019t been declared legally dead yet. I mean emergency room doctors save lives even when the person comes into the emergency alive. So surely you can save a job. If a business was unable to get a loan and couldn\u2019t keep someone employed, but they got some federal funding that allowed them to keep another employee, that\u2019s as effective as creating a job and preventing one from going to China.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You have missed the point, and I shall illustrate it by asking you a question. Name for me the emergency room jobs saved by President Obama.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I was asking about the lives saved in the emergency room, it was an analogy, a metaphor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You said if you can save lives in the emergency room, you can save jobs?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I was saying when an emergency room doctor saves lives, he\u2019s saved a life. The analogy is saving a job. You don\u2019t have to have the job die first to have saved one. We prevented jobs from going overseas —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, so I\u2019m asking you — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — that Obama made in the economy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine. So give me a list of the jobs — I don\u2019t care what kind of jobs they are — give me a list of the jobs that Obama has saved, name one.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, teachers jobs, people who would have been unemployed if the government had not provided money to the states to employ teachers and police officers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How many of those are there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I believe tens or hundreds of thousands at a minimum —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You see —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — I don\u2019t know the exact numbers, I\u2019m not an economist.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the problem. Now, wait — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — would have had because my — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

RUSH: The — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — North Carolina would have had to cut teachers and police officers, but we did get some federal funding —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I\u2019m gonna ban cell phones from this show. It is impossible to have a conversation with people on a cell phone. If you\u2019re on a cell phone don\u2019t call because it\u2019s pointless, I can\u2019t talk to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I understood every word you said, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, then you\u2019re rude. You didn\u2019t stop talking.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I apologize. I thought I left plenty of room for a conversation. I\u2019m trying to be polite.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, you didn\u2019t. I was trying to ask you a question while you were speaking, and I don\u2019t think you heard me. Not your problem. It\u2019s a technical problem.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, while I was speaking. I\u2019m sorry — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, like you can\u2019t hear me now. (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — talking for you. Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: My point is I was trying to tell you that all that vaunted money to save teachers jobs, the teachers never got it. The states held the money or used it to pay down debt or some such thing. They didn\u2019t get it. But anyway, my point about saved jobs is that Obama creates a category, a government category of saved jobs and then starts attaching a number to it. (imitating Obama) ‘We have created or saved 3.2 million jobs. And without us, why, we would have been through a depression.\u2019 And that\u2019s the kind of lie I\u2019m talking about. There is no way to calculate a single saved job, particularly by the federal government, unless you\u2019re talking about their own workforce, and only if they can show us where they plan to fire somebody and then didn\u2019t. That\u2019s it. Saved jobs around the country, there is no category, there\u2019s no scientific or any other method for calculating a saved job, and there haven\u2019t been any jobs created, otherwise we wouldn\u2019t have a rising unemployment rate. <\/p>\n

So you inadvertently swerved right into the point that we\u2019ve always been making. This is smoke and mirrors. The sad thing is that you\u2019re concocting ways for it to be true based on things that didn\u2019t happen. New York Times, August 17th, 2010, by Motoko Rich: ‘Given Money, Schools Wait on Rehiring Teachers.\u2019 Remember the story, Mr. Snerdley? They didn\u2019t use the money to rehire the teachers and everybody kinda scratched their head, ‘Well, wait a minute, there was a specific bailout for teacher money, and the states didn\u2019t use it for that. What happened?\u2019 They used it on other things. Anyway, save a job now you\u2019re gonna lose it down the road anyway unless there are genuine market forces that are behind the creation of jobs. That\u2019s the whole point. George Will just said he talked to Goolsbee in the White House. Goolsbee can\u2019t figure it out. There\u2019s no switch down there to create jobs, \u2019cause they don\u2019t, the government doesn\u2019t, the White House doesn\u2019t. You can\u2019t create jobs. I expected you to say, ‘You know, that guy before me, George Will, kinda just took my point away,\u2019 but you plowed ahead. Anyway, thanks for the call. Appreciate it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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