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RUSH: I have a serious proposal to make: the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan 2009. There is a serious debate in this country as to how best to end the recession. Recessions will end on their own if they’re left alone. The average recession will last five months to 11 months. The average recovery from each recession will last six years. What can make the recession worse is the wrong kind of government intervention. The wrong kind of government intervention is precisely what President Obama has proposed. I don’t believe that his stimulus plan is a stimulus plan at all. I don’t think it’s designed to stimulate anything but the Democrat Party. It’s designed to repair the power losses from the nineties forward of the Democrat Party and to entrench this party for, quote, unquote, eternal power like Franklin Delano Roosevelt did with his New Deal.


Keynesian, stimulus spending by the government on infrastructure, roads and bridges and the like; and supply-side proposals — and it’s important to remember this, because it is the people’s money in either case that’s going to be spent here. It’s our money. It is not Washington’s. Now, the Rasmussen people have a new poll out, and notwithstanding the media blitz in support of the Obama stimulus plan, most Americans, Rasmussen finds, are skeptical. Rasmussen finds that 59% fear that Congress and the president will increase government spending too much in the next year or two. Only 17% worry that they will cut taxes too much. The American people, in polling, are not certain that the Obama stimulus plan is the way to go, despite what you’re hearing from the Drive-By Media.







That’s bad. The markets should be looking at the market. But they’re not. The markets are looking to Washington. That’s where we are. That’s what ‘is’ is. So let’s float a trial balloon on this compromise. This satisfies every claim and demand of bipartisanship. This satisfies the people who lost the election. Those people are also people for which the president is the president. He’s not just the president of the people who elected him. His job, he says, is to get the economy going. This would do it. This would not disenfranchise the people who did not vote for him. And as I say, not only would it work but it would provide a side-by-side test where we could see which part of this stimulus plan does better, so that the next recession we will know what to do.

The problems Americans face are great, but they are not insurmountable. They never have been insurmountable. There is no reason to get up every day and tell the American people that their future is bleak. There is no reason, as the administration is doing, to depress their hopes. There is no reason to suppress the notion that recovery can happen quickly, because it can, if we work together. In this new era of responsibility, let’s use elements of both the Keynesians and the supply-siders to responsibly determine which theory best stimulates our economy — and if elements of both work, so much the better. We will know. The economy doesn’t have to be liberal versus conservative, or Democrat versus Republican.

And it certainly shouldn’t be focused on whether or not one party gets reelected. The reason it has is because there is such a division in how the economy is viewed by the two parties. I got a question from a friend just a moment ago when I was talking about the Obamas redecorating the White House, using the same decorator that redecorated the executive suite at Merrill Lynch. Question: ‘How come taxpayers get so mad at businesses who misspend their money but can’t make that connection when Congress misspends their money?’ It’s a great question. How is it that people that misspend a trillion dollars — who know how to waste money and lose money faster than anybody — are thought of as saviors; whereas the people in the private sector, whose job is to generate income for people, are so despised?

And here’s the answer. The people, unfortunately in this country today, see themselves benefiting when government overspends. They see the rich getting richer when private sector executives overspend. So the Democrats have foisted, successfully, class envy. The economy need not be right versus left, Republican versus Democrat, but it is because one group wants the economy to be hands off — government hands off, let the people who make this economy work, let it work. The other belief is that that leads too much inequity, unfairness. Government must choose winners and losers so that nobody’s feelings are hurt blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, that’s old hat.

The American people are made up of Republicans, Democrats, independents, moderates, whatever they want to call themselves, but our economy doesn’t know the difference. Our economy should not be focused on whether or not one party gets reelected. This is about jobs now. It’s about families. It’s about solving a real and significant problem. So let us come together as one. The economic crisis is an opportunity to unify all of the people in this country if we just set aside the politics. The leader of the Democrats and the leader of the Republicans (me, according to Obama) can get this done. This will have the overwhelming support of the American people, because it will bring both sides together. The Obama-Limbaugh… Let him call it his. The Obama Stimulus Plan of 2009. Let’s stop the acrimony. Let’s start solving our problems, together. Why wait one more day?

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