{"id":395074,"date":"2021-04-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=395074"},"modified":"2021-04-30T15:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:28:34","slug":"rushs-rebuttal-to-bidens-spending-spree-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/04\/29\/rushs-rebuttal-to-bidens-spending-spree-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush\u2019s Rebuttal to Biden\u2019s Spending Spree Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: What a speech last night, huh? That was amazing. I didn\u2019t think they would actually surpass expectations I had in terms of spending and minimizing legitimate concerns that the American people have. Our telephone number, 800-282-2882. I am Brett Winterble, your guide host today on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

This was an incredible thing to watch, ladies and gentlemen: $4 trillion is essentially what we\u2019re talking about here, a $4 trillion spending spree. And it was worth noting right out of the box (chuckles), Joe Biden stood there in the chamber with 200 members of the House, the Senate — all masked up, appropriately — Chief Justice John Roberts behind him, historically noted by the president.<\/p>\n

\"\"Of course, the first vice president who is a woman behind him, and that was Kamala Harris, and of course the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. And he opened up (laughing) with a borrowed line from Rahm Emanuel that was a borrowed line from a Chinese proverb, which is, “This is about a crisis and an opportunity.”<\/p>\n

He went on from there to discuss his plan to just spend us into prosperity and employment. It was incredible. Some could say that this was an attempt to replicate Santa Claus. In fact, let\u2019s go to Rush right out of the box here, because Rush made it abundantly clear we can never compete with Santa Claus.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And, folks, it\u2019s really, really hard to compete against Santa Claus. And that\u2019s how the government\u2019s viewed by a lot of people. In fact, to a lot of people, that\u2019s what government\u2019s for is to take care of people. Feed people and provide for us with government. You can\u2019t blame \u2019em. That\u2019s how they\u2019ve been taught.<\/p>\n

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BRETT: It\u2019s how they\u2019ve been taught. But the reality is Santa has a workplace, makes little toys for the good boys and girls around the world and delivers them out of the goodness of his own heart. The government doesn\u2019t do that. The government is not Santa Claus. The government is … Looter Claus, maybe? Really, it\u2019s almost as if the greatest act of looting was offered up last night there in this speech, and it\u2019s being sold to you like it\u2019s gonna be beneficial for all of us.<\/p>\n

This is a man who is already $2 trillion into spending and he\u2019s now proposing another $4 trillion. We\u2019re talking about $6 trillion in spending! It\u2019s an absurdly large number. It is an absurdly large number. To hearken back to the reference of looting, the people being looting are our children and grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

President Biden stood at that dais and told you last night, he wants to put people to work. He wants to put people to work. He wants to take care of the unemployed. He wants to make sure the unemployed in this nation are gonna be taken care of. That\u2019s what he\u2019s talking about. Tim Scott offered the rebuttal last night, and Tim Scott — to sum up what President Biden was saying — essentially said throwing money to this situation in this country right now is not the answer. Senator Scott.<\/p>\n

SCOTT: We should be expanding opportunities and options for all families, not throwing money at certain issues because Democrats think they know best. Infrastructure spending that shrinks our economy is not common sense! Weakening our southern borders and creating a crisis is not compassionate!<\/p>\n

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BRETT: It\u2019s important to understand what we\u2019re looking at here. It\u2019s important to unpack the underlying condition the country is dealing with right now. Right now, this minute — a little bit after 12 noon on the 29th of April — there is a specific reason why the economy is here, why people who are not working are not working. There\u2019s a specific reason why.<\/p>\n

Before we even get into universal pre-K; before we get into free junior college; before we get into free college four years after you graduate, 40 years after you graduate, “You will get four years, you get four years, get four years.” Before we even get into the notion of just the insane amount of spending this president is looking to do, we have to understand the underlying condition in this country.<\/p>\n

Is there unemployment? Yes, there\u2019s unemployment. Are there people who are underemployed? Yes, there are people who are underemployed. But it is because of shutdowns brought about by government, whether that\u2019s in business or schools. Government officials shut the economy down. Now, we can argue about whether or not it was important to shut the economy down given the pandemic. But the fact of the matter is government do this. This isn\u2019t a failure of capitalism. This isn\u2019t a failure of free markets.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a failure of Wall Street, the investor class, the individual, the striver, the business owner, the billionaire. The billionaires didn\u2019t shut the economy down. Government did that, at every level. The county, the state, the federal government was pushing for these things. This is a man standing at the dais wanting to throw money out to everybody out there. It\u2019s going to be a… Well, at first, I thought it would be FDR, but really it was a replication of more like the Great Society.<\/p>\n

Rush reminds us, though, the Great Society wasn\u2019t so great.<\/p>\n

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