Half of Obamaville Lives in “Poverty” — Which is Exactly What Democrats Want
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | October 15, 2011 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:03:43 PM by Kaslin
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RUSH: We had this story yesterday, didn’t have a chance to get to it. “Squeezed by rising living costs a record number of Americans — nearly one in two — have fallen into poverty, or they are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. One in five American children live in poverty.” Now, stop and think of this, folks. One in two Americans are now poor or low income. Now, this is the kind of story that usually comes out when a Republican is in the White House. Seriously. You don’t get these kinds of stories when a Democrat’s in the White House. We had a story yesterday about homeless children. I said to myself, “We don’t get these kinds of stories when a Democrat’s in the White House. What’s going on?”
And then, and then I remembered. The New York Times, in an op-ed two weeks ago on a Monday, Thomas B. Edsall (now at the Huffing and Puffington Post) wrote a piece in which he said that the Obama campaign was writing off white working class families. They were going to focus on the poor. The focus is on the votes of the poor and the votes of minorities. They are forgetting white working-class voters, meaning they know they can’t get those votes. The white working class is hurt; the white working class wants to work. Obama has policies that are destroying the creation of jobs. They know it. So Obama’s not even gonna make a pretense in the campaign.
Therefore what’s Obama need? More poor people! More people who are told they’re poor. More people who are told they’re poor because Wall Street stole from ‘em. More people who are told they’re poor because the 1% have taken everything from ‘em. So when you see a story — it’s at US News World Report, it’s at MSNBC, it’s everywhere — one in two Americans are now poor or low income. Well, Obama’s not failed. It’s like I said on Greta last night. I reminded everybody: January 16, 2009, Wall Street Journal calls, “Can you give us 400 words on what you hope for the new president?” I said, “It won’t take 400, I can do it in four: ‘I hope he fails,’” and an excrement storm erupted.
I, for six months, was the only guy carrying that message and that water.
So I said last night to Greta, “He has not failed.” From his perspective, he has had resounding success: Bankrupting the country, joblessness, increased debt, a transfer of money from the private sector to the public sector to government that’s never been done before on this level. The cutting down to size of the private sector, the class warfare, he’s succeeded — and when you see one in two Americans are now poor or low income, and you understand Obama’s gonna spend a billion dollars in his reelection targeting those people? The more poor the better. (New…..
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