{"id":396696,"date":"2021-05-10T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=396696"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:17:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:17:25","slug":"rush-to-gop-go-on-offense-over-bidens-welfare-state-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/10\/rush-to-gop-go-on-offense-over-bidens-welfare-state-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush to GOP: Go on Offense Over Biden\u2019s Welfare State, Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: We\u2019re having a conversation earlier today. Ali, who is — I don\u2019t know her specific teaching title. I\u2019m pretty sure at this point it\u2019s a senior fellow at the Limbaugh Institute where the education continues. Joe Biden\u2019s dementia had said that — what did he say? — dogs and cats making over $400,000. I mean people, and he corrected himself a few times. They are not gonna pay more taxes. Oddly, oddly, there\u2019s lots of ways to be taxed.<\/p>\n

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One of them is to watch the price of everything that is happening. Of course, everything\u2019s prices are going up because government is getting more expensive by the minute. And there\u2019s only so many $6 trillion handouts you can have before businesses notice this. And taxes on business is going up. But businesses just simply don\u2019t pay taxes.<\/p>\n

And now there\u2019s the talk of the universal tax rate, a floor, a global minimum tax to outlaw competition, to outlaw efficiency. By some readings of some of the recent legislation that\u2019s come out of Joe Biden\u2019s dementia, it\u2019s illegal for states to lower your taxes if they want federal monies — and I\u2019ve been watching over this weekend as I\u2019ve seen, you know, gas prices up six cents. You see the cyber attack?<\/p>\n

Oh, wait \u2019til you hear Rush on this. Wait. You want to know another example of why he was so special? You wait \u2019til you hear his analysis that we\u2019re going to take from the Apple incident and apply this to the cyber attack on this fuel pipeline. Wait \u2019til you hear that. It\u2019s unbelievably salient. That\u2019s coming up. We\u2019ve seen higher consumer prices in everything.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, on Mother\u2019s Day<\/a>, like you, I hung out with my mom, whom I love — and my wife whom I love — and we went out a bunch of places. Everywhere we went, save one super-successful restaurant, everybody was begging for employees, begging for employees. I talked to three separate business owners who looked me in the eye and said, “No one wants to work.”<\/p>\n

There are states like Washington where with the average now benefits, you can get $41,000 bucks per year for not working. The average income in Washington state is around $43,000 to 47, depending on how you calculate it. There\u2019s no reason for people to work when there\u2019s this universal basic income being installed on people, and what will happen is happening now.<\/p>\n

\"\"When you have to pay 25 bucks an hour as many small towns to have people work in a restaurant, there aren\u2019t going to be small restaurants. They can\u2019t afford that scale. So you\u2019ll end up with mega restaurants where the food is developed out of a lab, overseas, shipped over here and heated up in microwaves. Mmm, mmm. Mmm. Mmm, mmm, mmm.<\/p>\n

Oh, really fancy places where they can afford to pay that. That\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna see. So Rush said it then and it applied every day<\/a>. Democrats, they don\u2019t care what the American people pay for gas or anything else. They only care that the left can use it to harm Republicans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Republicans cannot win with these gas prices, while the Democrats have an inexperienced, arrogant, condescending, moron elitist who doesn\u2019t understand why anybody would object to continually rising gas prices — which is going to drive up the cost of everything — then they are the latter half of dumb and dumber. This is a gold mine opportunity. You\u2019ve got a Democrat Party presidential nominee — we can get the tape — who has said the only thing that bugs him about four-dollar gas is how fast we got there.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t like the speed and the rapidity with which the price went to four dollars. Well, the Republicans continue to tell us that they can\u2019t win, that this isn\u2019t their year. That\u2019s BS. This year is served up on a silver platter. Now we\u2019ve got the Democrats wavering and caving on this because they see the reality. People vote with their pocketbooks. Democrats are on the wrong side of the biggest issue since 9\/11. This is a huge, huge opportunity. There isn\u2019t anything else right now.<\/p>\n

Republicans ought to be all over the radio with this. Everybody in a car who has a radio is a potential target, because a car is what takes gasoline, and people in their cars are listening to radio. That\u2019s why the Republicans need to be on the radio. How mad do you get every time you pull in, how mad do you get when you see the price? And you know that there are people who are standing in the way of doing anything about it within the economic laws of supply and demand.<\/p>\n

\"\"You don\u2019t expect a magic wand, but you do expect some responsibility. Then you realize it\u2019s the Democrats who want you mad; it\u2019s the Democrats who want you suffering; it\u2019s the Democrats that want you mad and suffering \u2019cause they think you\u2019re going to blame Republicans and elect them. Every gas station owner is a potential Republican voter. Every cabdriver, every trucker, everybody that owns a boat, anybody who drives anything is a prime target here for Republicans.<\/p>\n

All this doom and gloom and this apocalyptic stuff about their chances from the Republicans is insane. Why run around and create your own negative self-fulfilling prophecy? I understand, “Rush, they\u2019re just trying to lower the expectations.” Screw the expectations. Where is an aggressive campaign on offense about this? I mean, to me, ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m venting the obvious. But it just seems to me the Democrats ought to be the party on the run here.<\/p>\n

TODD: And in Walmart parking lots in front of restaurants, in front of any establishment right now, Republicans should be there saying, “Do you see the price increase?” and handing out a picture of Joe Biden\u2019s dementia, communicating to people who are still going to work. Folks, there are people in our states around this country pulling in 40 grand a year, working hard in their careers.<\/p>\n

They live next door to people who are pulling in $40,000 a year in this form of this back-doored universal basic income, and they\u2019re doing the math. It doesn\u2019t make sense for them to work. We can only carry so many people on our backs. It is a good thing to be charitable. We should be charitable, and we are as a people. But when you put weight on the back of the people who can be charitable, they\u2019re going to break down.<\/p>\n

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TODD: There should be a name for the dynamic where the media gets to say, “An unexpected lowering of expectations in jobs… Unexpected cut in…” No, it\u2019s not “unexpected.” There\u2019s this funny dynamic that exists. When you tell people (Fauci impression), “Look, if you go to work and — and you happen to run into coronavirus, it may rip the skin from your body and then celebrate it by deep frying it and feeding it to your children.”<\/p>\n

Or you could stay home and bring home 40 large a year for not working. There\u2019s a weird dynamic where people go, “Let\u2019s see. The entire technocrat state is telling me that this is the most deadly virus known to man — and at the same time, the figurehead — Joe Biden\u2019s dementia — is saying, “Hey, listen, don\u2019t be a chump. Here\u2019s a bunch of money for not working.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny how people will put that together and say, “Maybe I won\u2019t work,” and so you have this unemployment report that is, in a sane world, catastrophic. And then you have the individuals, the business owners who are watching their business model be stomped into the ground by a new floor on income — and here\u2019s the unfairness of this. What\u2019s going on that began in March of last year when there was no Great Reset?<\/p>\n

Because that was a “conspiracy theory,” even though we have Joe Biden\u2019s dementia saying, “We\u2019re gonna build back better!” It was BuildBackBetter.gov, when he doesn\u2019t screw it up by saying “Build Back Barter” or “Build Back Buttress,” but actually says build back better, that\u2019s what he says. We\u2019re installing this UBI. We\u2019re watching jobs sink. We\u2019re watching no comeback from the technocrat-enforced, medically useless, deadly, politically advantageous lockdowns.<\/p>\n

And we\u2019re seeing the market change. And here\u2019s unfairness to this. Now, think about this, please, just I beg you to think about this. What is…? What is the minimum wage for a business owner? What is it? It\u2019s zero, and sometimes it\u2019s less than zero. What do I mean? Oh, you still have to pay for your building and your vendors and your power and your legal and your taxes. Sometimes income means the opposite of income.<\/p>\n

\"\"Here\u2019s another way to look at this. What is the minimum effort an employee must commit or contribute to get a minimum wage? In all of humandom, there is no dynamic where minimum effort isn\u2019t required for something. You might need to commit the effort to get off your couch and change the channel if you lose your remote. That\u2019s the minimum effort. Sometimes that\u2019s really hard for people.<\/p>\n

If you want to lift weights, you\u2019ll have to lift the weight. It won\u2019t lift itself. But only in the realm of economics do we pretend otherwise. So Gina Raimondo, she is the commerce secretary for Joe Biden\u2019s dementia, and at last week\u2019s disappointing jobs report (which “fell short of expectations”), Republicans pointing to the enhanced unemployment aid, they say this disincentivizes people to go back to work. But the commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, claims there\u2019s no data to support that argument.<\/p>\n

RAIMONDO: People are still telling us the number one reason they\u2019re not going to back to work is fear due to the virus, and more people were looking for work last month than the month before.<\/p>\n

TODD: Oh, I have an idea. (Fauci impression) “Well, really, I\u2019ve been lying for some time about the — the — the idea that this virus is deadly to everybody. It\u2019s really just people in their eighties who are vitamin D-deficient and obese. For most everybody else this is less deadly than the common flu. So look, listen, my bad. Let\u2019s chalk it up to I like to be on the teevee.” That would be a refreshing moment of honesty.<\/p>\n

“[P]aying people not to work is dampening what should be a stronger jobs market,\u2019 Neil Bradley, the [U.S. Chamber of Commerce]\u2019s executive vice president and chief policy officer, said in a Friday statement. … ‘One step policymakers should take now is ending the $300 weekly supplemental unemployment benefit. … Based on the Chamber\u2019s analysis, the $300 benefit results in approximately one in four recipients taking home more in unemployment than they earned working.'”<\/p>\n

Ring. “Hello? Office of Chief Policy Officer Neil Bradley, U.S. Chamber of Commerce.” “You backed Biden!” “Uh, that\u2019s mean.” “You backed Biden. You begged for socialism. Now you\u2019re going, I don\u2019t think I like the socialism. Take the socialism off me!” ” No, it\u2019s just a leech. It\u2019s good for the blood,” right? Funny! Unexpected consequences. Now, you know this. (chuckles) You know, Rush said this all along, didn\u2019t he? As you\u2019ll hear in this here sound clip.<\/a> He said it all along.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, there is this sad reality here that there are a number of Americans who are, quote-unquote, “earning” more on welfare, unemployment, whatever you want to call it, than they were working.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And some of them are making the decision that they would rather do that than go back to work and earn less. Now in one way (chuckles), it makes common sense. If you\u2019re gonna pay somebody $60,000 a year to not work and their job pays them 40 or 50, what do you think they\u2019re gonna do? We don\u2019t know how many that is. But what we do know is that that disincentive to work has to be fixed.<\/p>\n

The federal government simply cannot be responsible for providing incentives for people not to go back to work in this circumstance, when we need the economy rebounding and fast. That is what the Democrat Party stands for. That\u2019s what Joe Biden wants to do. Biden, Pelosi, all these Democrats — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whoever you think — Crazy Bernie.<\/p>\n

Whoever the leaders of the Democrat Party are, that\u2019s what they believe in: Paying people not to work. It\u2019s even worse. Listen to me. Do not doubt me on this. What the Democrat Party, what Pelosi specifically is attempting to do… Folks, this is really hideous. With their proposal of a $3 trillion extension COVID-19 support package, what they are trying to do is convince as many voters as possible that socialism works, that you never have to work again, that your government can give you plenty enough money where you can have a decent life.<\/p>\n

They can give you $60,000 a year without you ever having to work. That is one of the lying premises of socialism, that everybody can be rich, that everybody can be comfortable, and that everybody can be the same, that nobody will have more than anybody else, that it can be a quasi-utopia. Well, that can\u2019t be done in perpetuity, and the Democrats know it, and they wouldn\u2019t do it in perpetuity. This is one of the most disingenuous, misleading, cruel things that I think they have ever tried.<\/p>\n

And that is the attempt to convince as many voters that the government can provide everybody $60,000 a year for not working. That\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna try to convince people. It is hideous, \u2019cause it\u2019s not possible, folks. But to a bunch of people that have been ill-educated all their lives and do not know the truth of Marxism, socialism, communism? People in their twenties and thirties who believe that socialism is utopia, it\u2019s a panacea, and the Democrats are gonna finally make it happen?<\/p>\n

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