{"id":383020,"date":"2021-02-24T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=383020"},"modified":"2021-02-25T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:39:30","slug":"democrats-survive-on-good-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/02\/24\/democrats-survive-on-good-intentions\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Survive on Good Intentions"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: It is always an honor to sit in this seat on the EIB Network, and I give Mark Steyn the credit for announcing that he feels, when he fills in for Rush, that he\u2019s still filling in for Rush. And so do I. On today, the day that God has made, is a gift for us and the time in which He\u2019s decided we\u2019ll live. This is a weird way to say it. I am having more fun than a guest host-human, should be allowed to have, and it\u2019s somewhat bittersweet.<\/p>\n

It was a week ago when we learned of Rush\u2019s passing and Kathryn, his beloved wife<\/a>, came to these airwaves to announce that. It was then… Tomorrow will be a week anniversary from when I had the unbelievable honor to bid Rush farewell with all of you and this team of Rush\u2019s that mutual love is so profound. It is just profound, you guys.<\/p>\n

So there is a bittersweetness to this that it\u2019s a week since Rush\u2019s passing. I can\u2019t tell you how enjoyable this is to take today\u2019s news topics. A $1.9 trillion COVID package looks like it\u2019s gonna pass. The Democrats are willing to do a budget reconciliation move, meaning they can pass this with no Republican votes. Basically, they just shove it through, and it includes things like $135 million for the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/p>\n

Apparently, I guess, they\u2019re creating lick-on mRNA injections so you don\u2019t have to get stuck. Just lick a National Endowment for the Arts painting. Right? So it is fun also to realize that in the news of today we still have Rush Limbaugh. Rush spoke about the fact that Democrats survive on good intentions. Democrat regimes survive that way. Okay.<\/p>\n

So there\u2019s bloat and $10 billion stolen from the COVID relief package. But come on. They meant well. Rush spoke about the fact that when it\u2019s against Republicans, it\u2019s not the evidence that matters<\/a>. Remember this? It\u2019s the what? The seriousness of the charge. We do remember. For Democrats all that matters is good intentions, and that is how leftist regimes survive.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Let me answer my own question. I\u2019m best at that anyway. Because, A, it\u2019s a good question, B, the answer\u2019s even better, and C, this is the kind of thing that the network\u2019s gonna play for their guests to react to on future shows. My question to the good doctor we just had on the phone. If every government agency is over budget — and it is, by default. I mean, we\u2019re spending a trillion dollars a year that we don\u2019t have. We\u2019re nowhere near balanced, so it doesn\u2019t matter. Every agency is over budget.<\/p>\n

\"\"So my question to him was, it really doesn\u2019t matter, does it, what the budget is? They\u2019re gonna spend it. So when they spend it, why don\u2019t they spend it on staffing the VA with doctors? And if the answer comes back, “Well, there\u2019s a limit. You know, there\u2019s a budget and we can only spend…” No. That doesn\u2019t wash, folks. The budget doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

This government is spending on whatever it wants to spend. Look at Obama\u2019s budgets that are submitted every year. I don\u2019t care if they\u2019re DOA. I don\u2019t care if they never get voted on. Look at the desire. There is no spending limit. There is no real limitation on spending. That\u2019s why the Tea Party exists. You know it and I know it.<\/p>\n

Left to their own devices, these people would spend money without any regard for the consequences, in a fiscal sense. So why do they not actually spend it on doctors? And here comes the controversial answer: That\u2019s not the purpose of government. The purpose of government from the left\u2019s standpoint is not results. If it were, LBJ\u2019s Great Society wouldn\u2019t be a dismal failure.<\/p>\n

Remember, we\u2019re not supposed to look at the results of liberal programs, are we? There aren\u2019t any that are successful. Every social program to come down the pike that the Dems-liberals have authored, has busted up minority families, destroyed the border system in this country. I mean (sigh), it\u2019s a disaster.<\/p>\n

The social fabric, the cultural rot taking place in this country is, again, the result of policy put in place by Democrats. But with what? Good intentions! Yes, we are only supposed to judge the good intentions. Social Security, Medicare, War on Poverty, you name it. All of \u2019em are disasters, and because of that, we\u2019re only supposed to look at the intentions.<\/p>\n

The VA\u2019s got a lot of good people in it, but it\u2019s always the case, the mind-set of the people that run it, when you have a Democrat like Obama particularly, in office, results are not what matters. It\u2019s a real simple question: If you are gonna go over budget, if money really doesn\u2019t matter — and isn\u2019t that, when you get down to it, the thing? Money doesn\u2019t matter. They\u2019ll always say, “Well, budget, we can\u2019t hire more doctors. (sigh) Budget limitations.” But they never use that excuse to say they can\u2019t grow the size of the agency.<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re going to spend money you don\u2019t have anyway, why not spend it on getting more brain surgeons, spinal surgeons. If that\u2019s what the VA needs, get \u2019em in there. Why not get a bigger bang for the buck on actual medical care in the VA? Why not do that? I don\u2019t know, but it\u2019s a choice. If they\u2019re going to spend more money than they have anyway…<\/p>\n

This is my point. The analogy I could best give you would be the House Bank. If members of Congress could go write personal checks for any amount of money regardless what was in their account, then it really didn\u2019t matter what their salaries are.<\/p>\n

If a member of Congress earned $150,000 and has $5,000 in the bank, but can go write a personal check for cash for 25 grand — on credit with the assumption it will be paid back — then he doesn\u2019t need the money to cover the check. Okay, well, it\u2019s the same thing with every cabinet-level department. The money doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

If we\u2019re over budget anyway and if there\u2019s no concern for being over budget — and there isn\u2019t. When\u2019s the last time anybody submitted a budget with less money than the year before? There really isn\u2019t any concern about this. Hello, that\u2019s why the Tea Party exists. So my only point is, if the money really isn\u2019t an obstacle, it\u2019s just something you pretend is for the consumption of the public…<\/p>\n

You have to make the public think you care about the budget. You have to make them think you care about federal spending, but when the rubber meets the road, you don\u2019t care. You\u2019re spending on whatever. It\u2019s not yours, and that\u2019s the fun of being in government: Unlimited amounts of money and just go spend it.<\/p>\n

But if there is never an effort to balance the budget, then what does it matter if you go over budget by a dollar or $10 trillion? Well, the only limiting factor is what you think you can get away with, and there may be a little bit of conscience, but more likely a political calculation. So if there\u2019s no real concern for the budget, if there\u2019s no real concern for going over budget…<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re going to spend money that you don\u2019t have anyway at the VA, and if you\u2019re gonna spend that money on something other than doctors and patient care, then what are you doing? Well, you\u2019re obviously not concerned with results, medical results. You\u2019re doing something else with the money. You\u2019re growing the administration. You\u2019re providing more jobs for fellow-traveling liberals.<\/p>\n

\"\"You\u2019re providing more administrative jobs to get more career liberals in the bureaucracy — career — that are never gonna be fired once they\u2019re hired. They can\u2019t be, not political-appointee jobs. You\u2019re growing it. Put more liberals to work that come out of college with this degree or that degree, or maybe don\u2019t have any degree. Just hire \u2019em.<\/p>\n

This is how you grow government. This is how you expand your influence of your department. It\u2019s the same thing with the IRS or whatever agency it is. This is why it matters to me who wins elections. This is why conservatism versus liberalism matters when it comes to spending and responsible spending and responsible budgeting and so forth.<\/p>\n

This is just we\u2019re out of control here. But even with all the money that we\u2019re spending — and it\u2019s incomprehensible the amount of money we\u2019re spending, it\u2019s incomprehensible — look at the lack of results we\u2019re getting for it. For crying out loud, with all the money we\u2019re spending on “creating jobs,” why aren\u2019t they ready?<\/p>\n

With all the money we\u2019re spending growing the economy, why isn\u2019t it growing?<\/p>\n

With all the money we\u2019re spending on you name it, why isn\u2019t it happening? Well, there are many reasons. A, government can\u2019t do all those things. But, B, they\u2019re not spending the money on those things. They didn\u2019t spend it on shovel-ready jobs, rebuilding roads and bridges, and the precious schools.<\/p>\n

Liberals spend the money on growing the actual infrastructure of government. They create new jobs for nameless, faceless, loyal liberal troops to populate the expanding government. True believers. They\u2019re ideologues to the hilt. If they really cared and they\u2019re gonna go over budget anyway, why not pay some doctors at the VA?<\/p>\n

TODD: Just absolutely as if it\u2019s today. The Barack Obiden regime wants to give $135 million to the National Institute for Arts and call it COVID relief. How did Rush do it? Principles. Show me your budget. I\u2019ll show you your priorities. Show me your results. I\u2019ll show you your budget. Utterly brilliant.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Todd Herman in on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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