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<\/p>\nRUSH: The media is full of BS fake news today. You probably heard there\u2019s a COVID relief bill. Have you heard that, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) COVID relief bill. (interruption) Did you know about that, Brian? It\u2019s a $900 billion COVID relief bill. But that\u2019s not what this is. This is things don\u2019t change. Congress did not pass a massive COVID relief bill.<\/p>\n
They passed a massive giveaway to questionable socialist nations and sketchy Democrat Party constituencies. Georgia, part of the old Soviet Union, got millions of dollars for something that\u2019s not even specified. Vietnam got $169 million. Egypt got $1.3 billion. Pakistan (or, as Obama says, Pok-ee-stahn) got millions of dollars for something to do with gender. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
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Are they in favor or opposed to it? Whatever, they got millions of dollars for it. Sri Lanka got $15 million to fix a boat. Not kidding: $15 million to repair a boat. Ukraine. Our old friends in Ukraine: $453 million. I guess that is so they can keep paying Hunter Biden and his dad. Why? $453 million to Ukraine. What this is, is classic income redistribution or money laundering.<\/p>\n
Ukraine. It could well be. But guess what, folks? Restaurants and bars? Places where people meet and congregate, the hardest hit of our small businesses? I mean, this division of our economy is being wiped out — almost purposefully in blue states. Restaurants got nothing in the $900 billion COVID relief bill. But you know what? Chuck Schumer got relief, he got money for comedy clubs.<\/p>\n
Do you know why? Jerry Seinfeld lobbied him. (interruption) You hadn\u2019t heard that? Well, what are you reading? Jerry Seinfeld basically lobbied Chuck You Schumer. “Hey, the comedy clubs are being really hit hard here.” So, Schumer threw in some money. I don\u2019t know how much it is, but it\u2019s a little bit of a tap. But the point is that the hardest hit of all of our small businesses in a COVID relief bill got zilch, zero, nada.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s restaurants and bars. The Kennedy Center for the arts and whatever else, $40 million. Meanwhile, Americans, $600 each. Now, if the COVID relief bill consisted only of giving each American $600 and they left it at that, then the cost of the COVID relief bill would have been $198 billion. But the COVID relief bill — which is 5,000 pages and which members of Congress didn\u2019t read, which they never do read (nothing\u2019s changed) — is $900 billion.<\/p>\n
So $600 for every American would equal a $198 billion bill, yet this bill is more than $900 billion. Do the math. We\u2019ve given away $700 billion to corrupt cronies, corrupt countries that are allies of the Democrat Party. It needs to be vetoed. Trump needs to veto it. I don\u2019t know if he will. I don\u2019t believe he will. But it needs to be vetoed. Now, the bill is being touted — and I can\u2019t wait to get into this.<\/p>\n
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The bill is being touted as a major, major achievement in attacking climate change. I kid you not. They are bragging about how this bill is going to do so much for climate change. It\u2019ll take me a little while to explain all this. I\u2019ve got all the time in the world; I think you do too. Here\u2019s this gender programs in Pakistan. “$15 million for democracy programs, $10 million for gender programs in Pakistan.”<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka: “up to $15 million for the refurbishing of a high-endurance cutter.” It\u2019s a patrol boat: $15 million to fix a boat, Mr. Snerdley — there it is — in Sri Lanka. “$505 million to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to address key factors that contribute to the migration of unaccompanied, undocumented minors to the U.S.”<\/p>\n
$505 million to these Central American countries to, quote, “address key factors that contribute to the migration.” So we\u2019re gonna spend $505 million to study to find out why unaccompanied, undocumented minors come to the United States. We can tell \u2019em that today. I\u2019ll do that for a hundred mill. I\u2019ll cut \u2019em a break. I will tell \u2019em why undocumented, unaccompanied minors migrate to the United States for $100 million, not 505.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s see here. What else. Yeah, there\u2019s $453 million for assistance for Ukraine. There\u2019s a tax break for racehorse owners. I wonder how that ended up in the bill? Meanwhile, you and I, we get 600 bucks. Oh, and they extended unemployment benefits for a few weeks and so forth. But see? Nothing changes when the establishment asserts control.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: One other thing in this bill. “Family members…” I kid you not on this. “Family members of illegal aliens are now able to get stimulus checks under this new bill. It\u2019s retroactive, so they can also get the previous $1,200 given out” way back when. This is a tweet from Ryan Fournier<\/a> at 10 a.m. this morning. “Family members of illegal aliens are now able to get stimulus checks…”<\/p>\n It seems that in every piece of legislation that comes down the pike that involves government grants to individuals, it seems like illegal aliens end up being at the top of the priority list, which should not surprise people who have been paying attention to me and people like me for the recent years. Now, back to the climate change aspect of the bill.<\/p>\n I like John Barrasso, folks. He\u2019s the Republican senator from Wyoming. But this… He said, “Republicans and Democrats are working together to protect the environment through innovation.” That\u2019s his comment on the COVID relief bill. “This historic agreement includes three separate pieces of legislation that will significantly reduce greenhouse gases.”<\/p>\n Meaning we\u2019re gonna capture and store carbon dioxide produced by power and manufacturing plants. Why, this is the way Democrats talk! “We\u2019re gonna authorize a 15-year reduction of hydrofluorocarbons that are used in everything from cars to air-conditioners that are considered a major driver of global warming and are being targeted worldwide,” and we have a Republican senator touting this in a COVID relief bill.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: We got David in St. Louis. Welcome, sir. Great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi. How are you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n RUSH: Just fine. Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n CALLER: Good. That\u2019s good.<\/p>\n RUSH: How are you doing, David? How is it going with you?<\/p>\n RUSH: Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute, now. I hear you on this. But we are now, because of COVID and all the spending… (Snort!) We\u2019re $30 trillion or on the way there, $30 trillion in debt. It doesn\u2019t matter anymore to these people. It literally doesn\u2019t. There are no limits. It\u2019s like debt is irrelevant. It isn\u2019t a problem. We haven\u2019t seen the economy crash from debt in our lifetimes, so why would it crash now?<\/p>\n So there are no guardrails. There\u2019s no red light on spending. Whatever they need. So $900 billion? Now, they know that you\u2019re sensitive to it. But the reason that they won\u2019t tell you this is they may not know. (chuckles) They haven\u2019t read it. It\u2019s 5,000 pages, 5,000 pages to give every American 600 bucks. That\u2019s not what the bill does — and look, folks, I\u2019m not one of these budget hawks anymore because of what I just told you.<\/p>\n The idea that there is some kind of limit on federal spending for the sake of the economy, for choking off the private sector\u2019s access to capital, these people — and you have to admit that it started this year. The Trump administration. There was literally no limit on the spending. COVID-19 came along, and we weren\u2019t going to be hassled.<\/p>\n We\u2019re not gonna have our hands tied by any budget limits. We had to do what we had to do to deal with this, and we got Operation Warp Speed, and we now have two vaccines out there. We also have bailed out the American people throughout the year. Not sufficiently, but we\u2019ve done it. We\u2019ve bailed out certain businesses, certain business sectors and so forth.<\/p>\n But the point is, we\u2019re 30 trillion in debt. I remember when the Tea Party formed in 2010 because they were upset at the amount of spending in Obamacare, which was less (at least on paper) than a trillion. Look, I\u2019m not trying to be a harbinger or a messenger of negativism. This is just the way it is. Let me read you a tweet from somebody. I\u2019m not gonna tell you who the tweet is but I want to ask you if you agree with the sentiment here.<\/p>\n Are you ready? Here comes the tweet. “This is why Congress needs time to actually read this package before voting on it. Members of Congress have not read this bill. It\u2019s over 5000 pages, arrived at 2pm today, and we are told to expect a vote on it in 2 hours. This isn\u2019t governance. It\u2019s hostage-taking.” Who wrote it? (interruption) That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n This is the establishment going back to doing things they love, the way they love. This is exactly why Trump was elected. I think this is exactly why Trump was reelected. But he\u2019s had it taken from him, stolen. I will always believe that, no matter how difficult it becomes to prove. They\u2019re celebrating this. The establishment is celebrating this.<\/p>\n The Republican establishment is celebrating this accomplishment as somehow a great attack on climate change. It\u2019s a COVID-19 relief bill! It should cost no more than $198 billion if the objective is to give every American $600, which, frankly, if we\u2019re gonna start giving money away to deal with COVID, is this enough? Now, we might start saying, “Well, the budget, Mr. Limbaugh.<\/p>\n “We gotta be very careful here about budgets. Can\u2019t break the budget.” Oh, now it\u2019s a little late for being concerned about that, not as we approach $30 trillion. There\u2019s terminology in this bill like “promoting technologies and creating jobs.” The technologies involve “carbon capture, emission reduction, replacements for the hydrofluorocarbons used as coolants in air-conditioning and refrigeration systems.”<\/p>\n This big… This is the prelude to the Green New Deal, and it\u2019s in the COVID relief package, and we\u2019ve got Republicans out there singing its praises. There\u2019s a great deal more than just climate change jammed into this thing too. Nobody in Congress or media had a chance to read it before it was passed, and that is an answer to guy in St. Louis.<\/p>\n His question: Why am I the only one telling you what\u2019s in it? Because they didn\u2019t read this before. They couldn\u2019t have. They were given two hours. It\u2019s 5,000 pages. Come on. Not even their clerks or their legislative assistants could have read it. I mean, there\u2019s money for invasive species mitigation, water management on a Tibetan plateau, gender programs in Pakistan and piles of money for India, Tibet, and other nations.<\/p>\n Dig in if you want, but don\u2019t doubt me. It is all in there. But it has turned into a climate change bill. That is the primary sales point and how they\u2019re getting around, excusing it.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: You know what? We actually do the news on this program. There is journalism taking place on this program. Now, I myself would have to say that I am a reporter in the sense that I report what I learn that\u2019s going on out there that you may not know otherwise.<\/p>\n So if the COVID relief bill has basically 10% of its money for the American citizen, what the heck else is in this bill? And that\u2019s what we reported. That\u2019s what we demonstrated. And it is for the usual, senseless, funny, oddball, weirdo things that end up in every piece of legislation that happens to be timed right before a possible government shutdown every December.<\/p>\n It\u2019s loaded with pork. It\u2019s loaded with giveaways to friendly socialist nations. There\u2019s far more money in this bill for other countries. There\u2019s $15 million in this bill to fix a boat, folks, a military boat in Sri Lanka. I\u2019m not kidding. One boat, 15 mill to fix it, to repair it. So in that sense we report. There\u2019s probably more actual journalism happening on this program than you\u2019ll notice at the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n Pick your network.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Here\u2019s a quote from Rand Paul or a sound bite from Rand Paul<\/a> who was upset about the COVID bill. This was on the Senate floor yesterday.<\/p>\n PAUL: If money really grew on trees, why not give more free money? Why not give it out all the time? Why stop at $600 a person? Why not a thousand dollars? Why not $2,000? Maybe these new free-money Republicans should join the everybody-gets-a-guaranteed-income caucus. Why not 20,000 a year for everybody? Why not 30,000? To so-called conservatives who are quick to identify the socialism of the Democrats, if you vote for this spending monstrosity, you\u2019re no better.<\/p>\n Well, you used to be able to do that. For example, you have your minimum wage increase advocate and you\u2019re talking to him. “We need to raise the minimum wage to 20 bucks,” and you say, “That\u2019s not enough. Twenty bucks? Why not $30 an hour?” “Okay, I\u2019ll go for that! Thirty bucks an hour.” “Fine and dandy. Wait, let\u2019s not stop there. How about $50 an hour?”<\/p>\n “Well, that may be a bit much.” “Why? Why is $50 too much and 30 bucks is fine?” You\u2019ll eventually learn that they have no basis for making their claim or their demand for 30 or 20 or 18. It\u2019s nothing more than a political football that they kick around, and they use it to point out how mean-spirited and unconcerned minimum wage opponents are. “They don\u2019t care about people!”<\/p>\n Rand Paul is exactly right. If we\u2019re gonna give every American $600, why not give every American 30,000? “Well, can\u2019t do that. It\u2019d be too much.” Why? We\u2019ve got the guaranteed national income bunch out there that\u2019s proposing something similar. Why is it too much? He\u2019s exactly right about this. Why not 30,000? Why not 20,000? Instead you\u2019re gonna get $600, which would cost $198 billion. But the bill spends $900 billion.<\/p>\n There\u2019s $700 billion in this bill that you are not getting.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I want to share with you what Tulsi Gabbard has posted. In fact, a couple things from Tulsi Gabbard. Grab audio sound bite number 5. This is Tulsi Gabbard last night on her Twitter page<\/a>. She\u2019s a member of Congress from Hawaii, and she posted a video explaining why she voted against the COVID relief bill.<\/p>\n GABBARD: There is no way that anybody in Congress had the opportunity or the time to go through and read this bill to know exactly what was in it. I\u2019ve been here long enough to see how provisions are snuck into these bills. Here\u2019s what\u2019s left for you. You get 600 bucks. I\u2019ll tell you, in Hawaii, that in most cases won\u2019t even cover 25% of your rent. It is an insult and a slap in the face to every single American in this country who is struggling because of this COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n $600 is a slap in the face to every American struggling due to the pandemic. You deserve better.<\/p>\n I voted against the 5,593-page spending bill that gave billions to corporate interests, the military industrial complex & other countries, leaving crumbs for you who need help most. pic.twitter.com\/82F1HYF43T<\/a><\/p>\n — Tulsi Gabbard ? 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<\/a>You know, let me reread that with proper emphasis on proper words. “Family members of illegal aliens,” it says here. “”Family members of illegal aliens are now able to get stimulus checks under this new bill. It\u2019s retroactive, so they can also get the previous $1,200 given out.” So they\u2019re gonna get $1800, the families of illegal aliens.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/GOPCongressMOney.jpg\")
CALLER: I\u2019m just a little upset with… There\u2019s not one politician, not one on either side of the aisle that\u2019s willing to say what you did today. You know, the president should have a news conference where he goes up there and tells everybody about the ridiculous amount of money being spent everywhere besides our country.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122220-aoc-tweet.jpg\")
<\/a>Mr. Snerdley correctly identified the author of this tweet as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>. Do you agree with the sentiment? (interruption) You do. So you agree with AOC 100%? (interruption) It\u2019s hard not to, I\u2019ll admit. Hard not to. So that\u2019s the answer, David. This is exactly it. Welcome to the end of the Trump experiment. That\u2019s what this means.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-tearaway-Hot-Air-122220.jpg\")
<\/a>As Jazz Shaw as Hot Air writes in a post<\/a> about this, “You see, that\u2019s how they like to describe such ‘initiatives\u2019 to put a pleasant spin on them. A better translation of those passages would be to say that taxpayer money will be shoveled into ‘green energy\u2019 and carbon reduction companies who will ostensibly be working to achieve those goals while (just coincidentally) making a ton of money for a small number of people.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-102220-Pelosi.jpg\")
Evidence of that in our first busy broadcast hour today was some of the elements of the COVID relief bill. We have a $900 billion piece of legislation called the COVID relief bill in which every American is to be given $600. Now, if that\u2019s all the bill contained, it would cost $198 billion. So let\u2019s round that up to $200 billion. But it doesn\u2019t cost $200 billion. It costs $900 billion.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122220-Rand-Paul-2.jpg\")
<\/a>RUSH: He\u2019s exactly right, folks. I have used the same argument on the minimum wage. Minimum wage advocates come out there say, “We need to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. We need to raise the minimum wage to $18 an hour,” and I have told you that you\u2019ll finally hit a number, if you keep going… If you raise it to these advocates, if you suggest, “No, that\u2019s not enough; we need to spend more,” you\u2019ll eventually reach a point where they will say, “No, that\u2019s too much.”<\/p>\n\n