Rush Limbaugh Wants Obama to Fail

» left by Anonymous 3 years 71 days ago.

You obviously don't understand the fundamentals of economics. Congress is printing new money and flooding the system with it - making the money you have in your pocket worth a lot less. You and I will have to pay it back. Money needs to flow into the economy from business profits,not government bailouts. Bailouts are socialistic and weaken the economy. Business profits go to employee salaries, therefore back into the economy. This process strengthens the dollar. Tax cuts encourage this process. You already know all of this, don't you?

 

Tax cuts would allow business and people to keep more money - money they can put into the economy. Printing money will cause inflation. Congress is bailing out the big 3 to save the unions, not the big 3, or the ecomony. The unions have contributed a ton of money to the democrats. The democrats are bailing the unions out to pay them back for their support. The taxpayer is the one who pays, but gets nothing in return.Did you notice Obama signed an executive order mandating that money for federal projects be granted only to unionized companies? I guess if you are part of a union, you have a real job, therefore you can contribute to the economy. If you are not union, you don't have a real job that will contribute to the economy, right?

 

Either way, the bailout money will help some unions who donate money to the democrats regularly, but it will not help the economy because it will weaken the dollar. Tax cuts are the way to go. Still, Obama thinks unions are the only place to go to get a real job. Obama is using taxpayer money to pay his supporters back. He doesn't want to cut taxes because that would not give him control over who gets the money - it would give the private business owner control. That , of course is a bad thing, right Barack? He wants to control where the money goes, so he can make sure unions get it. You want a job? You will have to join a union, right Barack?

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» left by Raphael Bailey from Fort Myers, Florida 3 years 70 days ago.

Regarding Rush Limbaugh wanting President Obama to fail…

 

Addressed to “Anonymous”.. 

 

If the fundamentals of economics will cause Pres. Obama to fail, that’s one thing.  That Rush Limbaugh says he HOPES the President to fails… is another.

 

I could understand if Rush Limbaugh said, “I don’t think it will work.”  But, he is saying, “I hope he fails.”  Now that is pure evil.

 

As for the idea that benefiting workers is a bad thing… and only the well off should benefit through tax cuts, is to assume that all people who so benefit will then do things to benefit the economy.  There is no way to guarantee this.

  If I receive a tax cut, I may just buy a condo on the South of France with it.   Or, I may purchase a foreign car with it…  or, I may take a vacation abroad… or, I may put the extra money into a hedge fund that invests in other countries.  None of these examples would directly benefit the United States.

 

If we could put people to work on the nation’s infrastructure, this would lay the foundation (literally) on which some businesses may be supported.

 

What do we remember about Rome, in addition to its conquests?  Well, the aquaducts, the Roman roads, the Coliseum… to name a few things.  These projects were initiated by the ruling Caesars, the Senate… in effect, government projects.

  Who decided to build the Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam)? …that project that also came in handy to be a “make work” project as the depression of 1929 came in? …that project that opened up the access to water to the desert areas of the Southwest U.S.?

  That was a government project that laid the foundation for agriculture, industry, and people to move to that area and then to create more jobs.

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» left by Anonymous 3 years 69 days ago.

The essence of capitalism is simple. You use your skills to benefit your employer or your customers, and you get paid for your efforts. You use the money you earn to pay your bills, then you do what you want with the rest of it, within the law. You do what you want with the rest of it because it is YOUR money.

 

Workers should benefit when they earn those benefits. Unions are socialized environments. That means you get paid even if you don't produce much. That means unionized worker can do little or nothing and still get paid the same amount as the next person who works hard. That is socialistic. Would you like the money you worked for to go to paying my mortgage? I'm guessing you would not. Why not? Because that would mean your money is given to me - for my benefit - so I can keep my house. This is socialistic. This is Obamaland. This is what Rush does not want to happen. Neither do I.

 

Workers should get only what they earn. That is the way capitalism works. Only the well off benefit from tax cuts? This is a lie and a myth. The well off pay most of the taxes. You can easily verify this by going through the IRS 1040, line by line, with the 1040 instruction booklet at IRS dot gov. You will see that the more you make, the more you pay. Below a certain threshold, you pay nothing in federal taxes. Most state tax returns use your federal adjusted gross income (AGI) as the starting number for their tax returns - with the same scale that says if you are poor you pay little to nothing. If you are wealthy, you pay a lot more. Go ahead - read through these sources. Go to the IRS website and any state's department of revenue website. These tax returns are all online nowadays. Download their personal income tax form and plug in your numbers - see what you would owe. Multiply your income by 20x and fill out a federal and any states return. See what you would owe. The wealthy pay a lot more than the middle class do. The people that are telling you the wealthy get all the tax breaks don't want you to know the wealthy pay the most.

 

If you receive a tax cut, yes you can spend that money anywhere you want - even overseas. That is called FREEDOM. Do you like freedom? Or do you want someone else telling you what you can do with the money you earned? What if I told you you HAD to buy a motorcycle with YOUR money, or you HAD to buy a Ford Focus? Would you like that? I am guessing you would not. Why should YOU be able to decide where I spend MY money, overseas or anywhere else? Why should I be able to decide where you spend your money? Why should over government decide where anyone spends their money? Do you really want to live that way?

 

Barack Obama is doing his best to make sure that taxpayer money goes to people who he thinks are victims of whatever, for one reason or another. This is taking from you to give to someone else. Infrastructure is important, but economies do not thrive because the congress or the president order them to. This reality still exists, even though Obama is president. Economies thrive when people buy things they want and need, with money they have earned. Unions are there to guarantee paychecks. That is not capitalism. That is taking from Peter to pay Paul, just like you paying for my mortgage with your tax dollars. Do you want to do that? Socialism guarantees you a paycheck AND tells you how to spend it. Do you really want to live that way?

 

Once again, Obama and the democratic congress do not want to give us big tax cuts, because that would allow us to decide where the money goes. Congress wants to be the one to decide where our tax dollars go, so they can be sure those who have supported them ( this includes unions ) get paid handsomely for there support. You, by your own words, want to tell everyone where and how they can spend their money. That is socialistic.

 

By the way, you asked me earlier if I though that allowing workers to benefit is a bad thing. You should really be asking President Obama if he thinks non unionized workers benefiting was a bad thing. If he told you the truth, he would say yes, he thinks it is a bad thing. That is why he signed an executive order preventing non unionized workers from getting the bailout dollars. At the same time time, President Obama says he wants everyone to work - yeah right. He wants HIS SUPPORTERS TO WORK. The rest of us? Who cares, right Barack? I point this out to demostrate Obama's hypocrisy. Capitalism and private dollars are the only way this economy will recover - period.

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» left by Raphael Bailey 3 years 40 days ago.

Well, your comments about capitalism….  some are misguided.  First of all, capitalism can only work in an environment of a strong central government.  If you doubt this, please show me a capitalist environment of our scale that was done without a strong central government to provide protection, and to provide most infrastructures.

 

As for workers selling our labor, and getting wages, to then do what we want with the wages...    That notion assumes that the individual worker has a way to quantify  the salary he or she deserves.  If a company is NOT a public corporation, the bosses have no right to share all the accounting numbers with neither workers nor public.

   History shows that the owners of the means of production will try to get the most out of a worker, while paying the least.  Efficient, yes.  But, it’s brutal also. 

  In fact, if capitalism could use slave labor, that's what they would do.  But, the US, and most governments around the world have made slavery a crime.

 

  Workers do not get what they deserve.  They get what the bosses say they deserve.  Workers then often work in desperation 'cause they don't have any choice.

 

  When workers tried to unite in the late 1800's, to seek higher wages from capitalist bosses, the capitalists obtained thugs, hired guns, to come in and bust up worker meetings.  The results were many workers killed and injured, and the bosses were making millions of dollars in a time when a million dollars meant something, and workers labored for $5/week.

 

  We know the song, "Sixteen tons, and what do you get?  ..Another day older, and deeper in debt."   "....I owe my soul to the company store."

  Most workers, without unions, work in quiet, and sometimes noisy desperation.

 

  Is this capitalism?  No wonder unions had to come along.  No wonder the Federal Govt., by congressional laws, had to protect unions. 

  If it weren’t for unions, and then governments executing laws to protect workers, Western Europe, England, Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia would not be the dominant world leaders that they are.  They all have strong governments, and strong unions.

 

 

  Unions may become abusive at time, in their work rules, and demands.  But, don't think for one minute, that the capitalist give a rats anus about the worker.

 

  Let's remember that if it weren't for a Federal Government, capitalists would continue to pollute our streams, rivers, and oceans.  If not for a Federal Government, capitalists would not provide safe work conditions.  If not for a Federal Government, child labor laws would not have been enacted to protect children from exploitation.

 

...and, if NOT for a Federal government, most of the infrastructure on which capitalism runs would not be in place.

 

There has never been a pure capitalist environment, nowhere in the world.  Before there were strong central governments, you had gangsters, capitalists blowing up competitors' factories, capitalists NOT wanting competition.  They would form fiefdoms of monopolies and cartels.  And, THAT gave rise to the beginnings of the anti-trust laws.

 

And, if you are saying that capitalists always get it right and governments always get it wrong.  Bring up your points so I may learn.

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» left by Kerry H

3 years 69 days ago.

Considering the long range scope, government expansion and waste of the so called Stimulus Bill passed by Obama and his cohorts, those of us living and yet to be born would have been better off with it's failure. With the direction Obama and Company want to take America, I and many others are hoping that they fail at it, which is exactly what Rush was saying. More power to him....

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» left by Anonymous 3 years 68 days ago.

TO THOSE WHO STILL THINK THE RICH PAY LITTLE OR NO TAXES - BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE ARE STILL TELLING YOU THAT -  AND YOU STILL BELIEVE THEM:

 

The New York State Legislature is thinking about raising the income tax for New York residents. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg responded with these exact words:

Quote: "One percent of the people that live in the city, the households that file in the city pay something like 50% of the taxes. In a city that's about 40,000 people so, you know, a handful left, any raise would make it revenue neutral. The question is, What's Fair? If 1% are paying 50% of the taxes, you want to make it even more? A little over half the people, half the households who file tax returns don't pay any taxes. And about 30% of the households who file get a credit from the government. The government sends them a check. That's the earned income tax credit." End of quote.

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» left by Anonymous 3 years 51 days ago.

It's ironic, isn't it? Even in his truly lowest of unpatriotic remarks Mr. Limbaugh utters he demonstrates the truest evidence of free speech in an America he wants to see fail. Rush Limbaugh is himself the best reason the Democratic Stimulus Plan argument will succeed... Why would you AGREE with him...unless you want to fail,too? Thank You, Mr. Entertainer!

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