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"Fairness" and Phil Mickelson (Long article)
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | February 6, 2013 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 02/06/2013 1:53:36 PM PST by Kaslin

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RUSH: Last night on the Fox News Channel with Neil Cavuto, Stuart Varney guest hosted. He had on Keith Ellison, the congressman from Minnesota. Stuart Varney said, "Let's deal with the fairness question. I want to talk to you about the case of Phil Mickelson, California resident. On every dollar that Phil Mickelson makes, he has to pay 63¢ to the state and federal governments in income taxes. Is that fair?"

ELLISON: "Fair" calls forth the question, "Compared to what?" It's fair compared to allowing somebody who is surviving on minimal income like a senior citizen to cut home heating oil, which is what we're gonna have to do if the sequester goes into place. It's fair compared to asking a poor family on food stamps to get by with less. It's fair compared to say we're gonna cut down on the investment that we make into innovation, medical innovation for brand-new industries to put even more people back to work. So it's a matter of, "Compared to what?"

RUSH: Now, I just love the way this floating definition of "fairness" gets employed by these people on the left. "Fair compared to what?" How about fair compared to Phil Mickelson? How about fair compared to how hard he works? How about fair compared to the irresponsibility with which government is spending and wasting the money it's collecting from him? Anyway, Varney said, "So you think that 63%...?" The way to look at this, folks, is you throw the 63% number out. Phil Mickelson keeps 37¢ of every $1. That's the way to put this in perspective. That's the way to understand this. Keith Ellison just said: Yep, it's totally fair that Mickelson should only keep 37¢ of every dollar that he earns, and he wasn't finished...

ELLISON: Asking Phil Mickelson for able to say more money so that women and children can have a meal, is fair. Yes, I do. I think it's fair to ask Phil Mickelson for a little bit more money to make sure that we can continue to invest in infrastructure in this country, and for making that groundbreaking research and medicine is paid for, to make sure that people who have the basics, that college education is affordable. It's fair to ask Phil Mickelson to help with that. As a patriotic American, I'm sure Phil Mickelson would agree.

RUSH: Of course.

Stuart Varney v. Keith Ellison - Debate $1T Tax Plan; Is It Fair? - 2-5-13

"As a patriotic American," Phil would agree. Do you realize how absurd this is? We are in debt to the tune of close to $17 trillion. We have spent $17 trillion that we don't have over the course of this nation's history. But in the last four years, we have spent $6 trillion of that $17 trillion. Obama is the owner of $6 trillion of spending that we don't have. We spent $6 trillion! I want you just to visualize that. We have spent $6 trillion more than we have. We have an annual budget deficit of $1.3 trillion. We are spending money like it has never been spent before. We're spending money two and three and four times on the same items. Food stamps? There are 48 million Americans on food stamps!


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1 posted on 02/06/2013 1:53:39 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I watched Ellison’s idiotic appearance with Varney. I also heard most of Rush’s dissection of that idiocy.

I unsuccessfully attempted to call Limbaugh to point out something I don’t believe he mentioned during the show:
ELLISON IS A MUSLIM. If there is ONE group attempting to weaken and conquer the United States, it’s the muzzies.
What better way to further the weakening of this country already well underway thanks to muzzie wannabe Obama than to destroy its econmomy.

And the Dems in Congress would be hard pressed find a more dedicated proponent of that process than a muzzie??

Just askin’ (while it may STILL be legal to ask such questions).


2 posted on 02/06/2013 2:05:56 PM PST by Dick Bachert ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." T. Jefferson)
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To: Kaslin

I watched Ellison’s idiotic appearance with Varney. I also heard most of Rush’s dissection of that idiocy.

I unsuccessfully attempted to call Limbaugh to point out something I don’t believe he mentioned during the show:
ELLISON IS A MUSLIM. If there is ONE group attempting to weaken and conquer the United States, it’s the muzzies.
What better way to further the weakening of this country already well underway thanks to muzzie wannabe Obama than to destroy its econmomy.

And the Dems in Congress would be hard pressed find a more dedicated proponent of that process than a muzzie??

Just askin’ (while it may STILL be legal to ask such questions).


3 posted on 02/06/2013 2:05:59 PM PST by Dick Bachert ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." T. Jefferson)
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To: Kaslin

Muslim. E’nuf said.


4 posted on 02/06/2013 2:35:47 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I guess the silver lining here is that Ellison is clearly too stupid to wage an effective jihad.


5 posted on 02/06/2013 2:41:54 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The stupid part is due to his race.


6 posted on 02/06/2013 2:46:39 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe)
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To: Kaslin

It’s NOT fair that Ellison thinks he gets to determine what’s fair for someone else (Mickleson). It’s ONLY fair if Phil himself gets to decide what’s fair and what’s not fair. If Ellison can decide what’s “fair” for Phil, can Phil decide what’s “fair” for Ellison and his ilk?


7 posted on 02/06/2013 2:48:45 PM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Kaslin

Is it fair that people who are not disabled, collect disability?

Is it fair that Government workers retire earlier on money they never paid in?

Is it fair that 80% of immigrants never will pay in what they take out of social services?

Is it fair that Major Hasan shouted Allah Ackbar when he killed American soldiers?


8 posted on 02/06/2013 3:41:35 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Dick Bachert

I called up Ellison’s office today and “shared” what I thought about his idea of fairness.


9 posted on 02/06/2013 3:45:42 PM PST by happyhomemaker (Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Rom 12:12)
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To: Kaslin

The fact that Baraq can spend $1.40 for every $1.00 he takes in and use the 40 cents to buy the election with giveaways shows the power of the media and the effect of two generations of “progressive” education in the US.


10 posted on 02/06/2013 3:49:05 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: ConservativeInPA
The stupid part is due to his race.

I'm no fan of Ellison, but really?



11 posted on 02/06/2013 8:25:47 PM PST by rdb3 (We're all going to get what only some of us deserve...)
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To: Dick Bachert

I believe Ellison is a made-for-TV muslim, along the lines of every black “pastor” or “minister” or other black “man of the cloth”. I think he converted to the musloid cult as an “adult.” Sort of like all those inmate converts to the “faith”. He is a fraud - nothing but a hard-core progressive, redistributionist, race grievance fraud.


12 posted on 02/07/2013 6:14:15 AM PST by astounded (Barack Obama is a clear and present danger to the USA)
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To: astounded

And I would remind those who stumble across this comment that slavery is STILL practiced in parts of Africa (mainly by – American BLACK muslims LISTEN UP!! — MUSLIMS) and Asia today. How ironic that disgruntled American blacks are embracing a system that participated mightily in their initial bondage – and would, if Islam takes root here, probably put any who cling to their Christianity back INTO BONDAGE – or to the sword. In fact, as the majority of muslims consider black folks as “sub-human”, many of you black muzzies will get the axe.


13 posted on 02/07/2013 9:46:49 AM PST by Dick Bachert ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." T. Jefferson)
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