Posted on 06/08/2012 10:58:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: Now, folks, maybe I'm getting a little old. I am. We're all getting older. And maybe my mind is starting to wander. But I could have sworn about an hour ago, a little over an hour ago, I coulda sworn that I just heard the president of the United States say in his remarks about the economy that the private sector's doing fine. He said the private sector's doing fine. He said the problem is government jobs. That's the jobs we're losing. State, local government, those are the jobs that are in peril. Private sector is doing fine.
Now, not even Obama can believe that, and does he really expect us to buy it? Maybe that was meant to be a dirty joke that we don't get. Maybe that was a double entendre, private sector doing fine. There's a transcript. Here it is. "What about the Republicans saying that you're blaming the Europeans for the failures of your own policies?" Obama: "Well, truth of the matter is, as I said, we created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months, over 800,000 just this year alone. The private sector's doing fine. Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government." Now, notice he's trying to blame the weakness in our economy on budget cuts being made by state and local government.
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RUSH: So he's blaming the weakness, Obama is, the weakness in our economy on budget cuts made by state and local governments. I offered a thought the other day, I don't think there's anything forward about Obama or progressive. I think Obama's locked in the thirties. I think that's his nirvana. You know, a lot of people want to go back to Ozzie and Harriet and the fifties, the innocent, burgeoning fifties. Obama really wants to go back to the thirties. He wants to redo the New Deal. That's where he's stuck.
He went on to say, "If Republicans want to be helpful, if they really want to move forward and put people back to work, what they should be thinking about is how do we help state and local governments." In other words, he's calling for yet another stimulus. He wants to shovel even more billions of dollars into the pockets of his campaign foot soldiers in the public sector unions. That's what he's talking about.
He had Wisconsin in mind, I have no doubt, when he said that the budget cuts -- state, local budget cuts -- are where families and people are losing their gigs, their jobs and so forth. And when you look at Wisconsin... The big number out of Wisconsin? Did you see how many people gave up being members of unions? It's like 40,000. Forty thousand people! When Scott Walker passed this initiative to allow them to opt out of the government deducting dues, 40,000 people left unions.
They went from 60,000-plus members to 27,000 or 28,000.
It was a huge, huge blow.
But Obama knows that these votes are not gonna buy themselves. Now, how out of touch do you have to be, when the real unemployment rate is over 11%, to say, "The private sector is doing just fine"? "The private sector is doing just fine." Now, maybe he's not senile, but he certainly is obsessive-compulsive. Of course, we could be looking at this from the wrong end, folks. I mean, you've gotta be open to all possibilities. Maybe, in Obama's mind, the private sector is doing just fine. There's another story out there today that the number of people on food stamps has doubled under Obama.
That, to him, might be the private sector doing just fine.
There might be 88 million adults not working, but they are eating. "The private sector is doing just fine." He may look at it that way. Maybe that's exactly what he wants. Maybe he wants that. Maybe the private sector doing just fine is a lot of people not working but eating, with their cell phones on and their TVs on, and depending on government for all of that. Maybe that's what he means by, "The private sector is doing just fine." He wants more people to be made dependent on government so they'll vote Democrat.
The private sector is doing just fine.
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This lying reprobate makes Clinton seem like a Boy Scout.
"The Private is doing just fine!"
Obama abandons private sector union workers ==== again ==== while showing care and love for public sector union workers.
Why don’t the laid off gubmint employees get jobs in the private sector? Huh?
And so, you know, if Republicans want to be helpful, if they really want to move forward and put people back to work, what they should be thinking about is how do we help state and local governments and how do we help the construction industry?"
This says it all right here. This guy is utterly CLUELESS as to how the world works. Just where in the hell does he think state and local revenues come from? The "public sector" produces absolutely nothing of value. It's astounding that he is just that stupid.
I despise this arrogant pos
You said it all
He said "The private sector is doing fine. Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government." I truly thought I misheard him! It didn't make any sense at all. Wow---to find out that what I heard is what he said! I am almost incredulous but I don't know why I should be.
Were those remarks on his prompter? Does he read them ahead of time? How in the world could his staffers be so ignorant to write this? Unbelievable.
I hope their are commercials and billboards created with this quote---it needs to be repeated over and over and over.
Right now Fox News is showing that arrogant pos welcoming the NY Giants to the White House
The GOP already has an ad on You Tube: http://youtu.be/241jxCN1AfQ?hd=1
Right now Fox News is showing that arrogant pos welcoming the NY Giants to the White House
*Click* goes my remote control and the screen went black
Rush also has it on his site
Please excuse the idiotic typo!! I know the proper use of 'their' and 'there!
Good for the GOP! BHO just handed advertising gold to his opponents. It is just shocking!
The “public sector” produces absolutely nothing of value. It’s astounding that he is just that stupid.
Oh Lord...those roads you drive on are nothing???
Truly, I NEVER watch or listen to him. I think the only reason I did this time is because I was only going to be there for a minute. In a way, I am glad I had the experience.
Ha!!
I remember when Ford said there was no Communist threat in E. Europe.
In the mean time...there was a standing army of about a half a million Russians sitting on the Niemen, with tanks and bridging equipment (hardly defensive stuff)...he never heard the end of THAT!!!
Think the MSM will give “O” the same treatment?
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