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Rush...not as fun as tax homework
I'm slogging through this treatise on international tax (I can't believe I not only paid $3k for the class, but also $300 for the text) and I've got CNN on to distract the half of my brain that's generally rebelling whenever I do homework. And Rush is delivering his "first international address" courtesy of CPAC. 'Course, they broadcast Rush in his entirety, as opposed to anything actually important. blah blah bootstraps, blah blah success earns punishment, same old same old. The usual exploitation of angst and anger of the working white who struggle every day, only to see the benes going to the strange black urban people all over their TV sets.
But I HAVE to take a break to take a note of this: according to Rush, tax cuts got us out of the doldrums in the 80s.
Granted, I was a tyke in the 80s, but I DO remember my parents grumbling about all the high interest rates and what's so bad about inflation anyway, and why is there such a thing as "optimal" unemployment rates (that don't equal zero). I remember hand-me-downs and the tuna-instead-of meat diet (and Dad was a relatively well paid engineer for GE). So I I have to query of Mr. Limbaugh: didn't we MAKE the recession in the 80s ourselves? Er, the Fed that is. And didn't it end when we quit worrying about inflation so much? And Milton Friedman's monetarism lost a little of its glittery luster?
But maybe Rush missed the 80s. You know, he was distracted by all those white-man coke-trips to tropical islands with the 3:1 complement of airheads.
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I saw his say that as well. Of course he ignores the massive spending increases by Reagan (nearly tripling the national debt by the time he was done).
Limbaugh is a master manipulator. Did you catch that bit of him making a bigoted joke about Bobby Jindal and then tacking it a Biden gaffe from last year? There was no need for him to make that joke and that time in that venue. He did it simply because HE COULD. He has them eating out of his hand and he knows it. They are truly sheep.
February 28, 2009 10:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ha, yeah....and the joke about god pretending to be rush limbaugh at the start.
The man is a megalomaniacal disaster.
March 1, 2009 1:07 AM | Reply | Permalink