{"id":385119,"date":"2021-03-08T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=385119"},"modified":"2021-03-09T16:47:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:47:44","slug":"rush-warns-washington-these-giant-spending-bills-infuriate-average-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/08\/rush-warns-washington-these-giant-spending-bills-infuriate-average-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Warns Washington: These Giant Spending Bills Infuriate Average Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: The Washington Post had an analysis. Let me just give you the headline, because we\u2019ll get into the body of the text to come. This is about the alleged COVID bill, which is the alleged bailout bill, which is an enormous amount of pork (and worse) spending. This is the Washington Post, and next segment we\u2019ll tell you what they said about Trump\u2019s effort to help people get around the lockdowns, financially.<\/p>\n

“Biden\u2019s Stimulus Showers Money on Americans, Sharply Cutting Poverty in Defining Move of Presidency.” Now, it\u2019s true that they have raised the income of, for instance, the Boston bomber. I don\u2019t know how much money he was getting for work in prison, but he\u2019s getting a $1400 check, the Boston bomber. So is Dylann Roof, who murdered nine people. So clearly their income has shot up by perhaps 1400%. But there is almost no actual spending related to the COVID lockdowns in this, almost none. We\u2019ll talk about that.<\/p>\n

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Listen here to what Joe Biden was told to say about this spending orgy.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: This nation has suffered too much for much too long, and everything in this package is designed to relieve the suffering and to meet the most urgent needs of the nation.<\/p>\n

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TODD: I mean, I can\u2019t even respond to that intelligently other than a “ha” which just popped out of me. Frank Hill at the North State Journal went through and looked at this monstrosity. There might be in this $1.3 trillion, there might be $600 million tied to relief from the government-imposed lockdowns. There is $1.5 billion for Amtrak, which is an organization that sells $9 microwavable hamburgers and loses money on them.<\/p>\n

If you go to an Amtrak station such as in Washington, D.C., you can buy a McDonald\u2019s hamburger for 99 cents and pop on the train, or you could wait, get on the train, get a lesser hamburger for nine bucks, and know that Amtrak loses money on that. That\u2019s just one example. And, of course, there\u2019s bailouts for pension funds in blue states where government retirees are making $350,000 per year.<\/p>\n

None of that is related to the medically useless, deadly, politically advantageous-for-Democrat-friends lockdowns. There\u2019s $200 million for museums, et cetera, and then you\u2019re gonna hear, “Oh, well, we\u2019re gonna make the schools safe from the COVID flu.” No, you\u2019re not. There\u2019s $128 billion for K through 12 public education, which is really just for the unions.<\/p>\n

Ninety-five percent of that money will not be spent until between 2022 and 2028. None of it in 2021. So this is “showering Americans with money,” and there\u2019s more. We\u2019ll get into some of the details in this bill. If you are like me, a longtime, lifelong listener to Rush, you\u2019ve heard his brilliant monologues over the decades explaining government spending and how we need to look at it. As Rush said here.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: When is the last time that you recall anybody…? Conservative, Republican, think tank, when is the last time anybody has really, really, really been upset over government spending? When\u2019s the last time you can remember it?<\/p>\n

The Tea Party — which was average, ordinary Americans who\u2019d never been in politics before; they had never been activists. This was the beauty of it. This was the power of it. They were not professional political people or employees. They were just outraged over Obama. They were outraged over this wanton spending with seemingly no concern and no even imaginary limitations and what that might mean for their children and their grandchildren. The Tea Party\u2019s being portrayed as the Alt-Right, white nationalist, racist movement even now.<\/p>\n

\"\"Okay. So follow along here. Tea Party gets started, Tea Party takes over, Tea Party secures the Republican control of the House of Representatives in 2010, a 50-vote margin. It was overwhelming. The Democrats and media even began targeting the Tea Party as a bunch of racist, sexist, bigots, which is the default. But they\u2019re being positioned as the mainstream, while at the same time the left-wing extremists are being ignored and tamped down and Pelosi and Schumer are being built up as the moderate, normal, standard Democrat issue.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s go back. The Tea Party comes into being for a lot of reasons, but spending was one of the things that woke \u2019em all up. Now, these are people that had never been in organized politics before. They had voted, but they had not donated to anything. They\u2019d maybe go to town halls once in a while. But these were the essence of citizen involvement in government.<\/p>\n

They were not being paid. They were not on anybody\u2019s donor list or any of that. And that\u2019s what gave them power. There was no leader. There was no Tea Party leader. There was no figurehead responsible for it. It was an effervescent, natural eruption of conservative citizens of all ages, religions, creeds, sexes, orientations, you name it.<\/p>\n

It scared the hell out of Washington, D.C., long before Donald Trump came along and scared the hell out of Washington, D.C., precisely because it couldn\u2019t be controlled. You couldn\u2019t demonize the Tea Party by taking out one person, the leader.<\/p>\n

It was just a mass movement at the same time by average, ordinary Americans. And it was spending that was Obama\u2019s stimulus and then health care that scared the hell out of \u2019em. Well, eventually the Republicans listened, and the Republicans started attacking Obama on the spending, and the Republicans started attacking the Democrats in general. And the budget deal after budget — we had reconciliation. We didn\u2019t have budgets. We didn\u2019t do budgets. The Democrats found a way out of having to do budgets.<\/p>\n

There were no debates. People got even more infuriated. So the Republicans listening to the Tea Party, realizing what a voting bloc it was, actually began talking spending discipline. And what happened? During all of that, remember the time the Republicans offered a plan to address the deficit after Obama\u2019s stimulus and after Obama\u2019s Obamacare? What did Democrats do? The Democrats prepared an ad showing Paul Ryan pushing a grandmother in a wheelchair over the cliff.<\/p>\n

We all got outraged by it. Some people laughed at it. Some Republicans, “Come on, Rush, nobody\u2019s gonna take that seriously.” I\u2019ve been hearing this my entire career. “Come on, Rush, nobody\u2019s gonna take what the Democrats do seriously, nobody\u2019s gonna fall for that.” And yet here we are. A lot of people have fallen for a lot of Democrat crap over the last 50 years. And here we are.<\/p>\n