I’m Immune to This Budget Business

RUSH: Scott, Jacksonville, Florida. Great to have you on the program, sir. What’s up.

 

CALLER: iPhone X mega dittos. Conservatives like myself, Rush, I mean, we voted for Republicans hoping to roll back all this government spending. And now I hear today that Congress, the Senate and the House, they’ve come to this agreement, everybody’s happy, and listen, I’m a Navy veteran. I’m glad for more military spending, but this is gonna add $300 billion to the deficit, so my question, Rush, is how do we as conservatives kind of justify this?

 

RUSH: You know, it’s a great question, and I was communicating with some friends before the program today on this, and I was telling them — I probably should not admit this, because it changes for me day to day. But I have to tell you, this whole budget thing, I think I’m immune to it now. I realized I’ve been caught up in this budget business for as long as I’ve been hosting this program, and I realized a couple things.

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Jacksonville Ford. Are great to have you on the program, sir,
what's up? iPhone? Ten? Negatttos? Conservatives like myself, Rush, I mean,
we've voted for Republicans hoping to roll back all this
government spending. And now I'm here today the Congress, you know,
Senate and the House. They've come to this agreement. Everybody's happy,

(00:21):
you know. And listen, I'm a Navy veteran. I'm glad
for more military spending. But this is going to add
three billion dollars to the deficit. So my question, Rush,
is how do we as conservatives kind of justify this?
You know, it's a great question. Uh. And I was
communicating with some friends before the program today on this,

(00:46):
and I was telling them I probably should not admit
this because this this it changes me day to day.
But I have to tell you, this whole budget thing,
I think I'm immune to it now. I I've realized
I've been caught up in this budget business for as
long as I've been hosting this program. And I realized

(01:07):
a couple of things. Spending never decreases, we never end up.
There's one time in thirty years where the budget was
balanced for one year ninety, I think other than that
this is smoking mirrors the budget. We never spend less

(01:29):
money than we spend the year before. We always spend more,
no matter who we elect, and no matter who's in
the White House and who runs Congress. And then I
got to realizing that I think one of the reasons
so many Republicans are signing onto this is a silly reason,

(01:51):
but in their world it makes sense. We've got, if
this happens, a two year budget deal, right. You know
what that means they don't have to worry about being
blamed for a government shutdown for two years. That alone
is worth finding it, is it not. They're probably gonna

(02:12):
throw a party tonight because they're not going to be
blamed for government shutdown every time that every time we
get an increase in military spending, there is no accompanying
cut back anywhere else. Despite the fact the news today
food stamp enrollment drops by four million in one month.

(02:35):
You think we're gonna cut the food stamp program. Hell's bells.
No way. Whoever runs these budget departments doesn't want less
money than they had last year. We advertise for food
stamp recipients. When we begin to lose them because we
gotta keep the budget. I know I'm sounding kind of

(02:55):
cynical here, but it's not cynicism. It's it's a it's
a realization that all the arguments the budget fight every
year is the best weapon the Democrats have to portray
rubb Republicans as racist, sexist, biggest homophobes of no compassion

(03:19):
who hate and want to starve kids. It never changes. Meanwhile,
we're told that the national debt's gonna wipe us out,
that the deficits gonna wipe us, the deficit. We've got
to get a handle on these deficits. The deficit is
keep it's growing because the national debt is growing. And

(03:40):
I know theoretically all this is bad, But in the
real world, all of the apocalyptic warnings I grew up
hearing have yet to happen. The national debt has not
choked us. The national debt is not destroyed us. We
may be living in the middle of the destruction and
don't see it yet, But um so, I for some reason,

(04:02):
I didn't get caught up in it. I think one
of the reasons why is I'm not I'm not personally
affected by these never ending allegations of being responsible for
a government shutdown. That's one of the most frustrating things
to me, that that that has been allowed to succeed
the way it has. And Scott, I really think it's
the driving force in getting this thing signed. And you'll notice,

(04:25):
what what are the immigration Pelosi? She does her eight hour,
stupid little filibuster. Did you hear what she said during
this filibuster? You know she's not well. She said that
one of her grandsons or nieces wishes he were darker skinned.

(04:47):
Now what is that about. That's simply the Democrats trying
to continue to build their bridge to minorities and the
illegal immigrants and African Americans and so forth, and white
privilege and and white white guilt. And oh my god,
I feel so bad. My grandson wishes he were darker
and there's nothing I can do about it. I feel

(05:07):
so bad that's supposed to I don't know what it's
supposed to. Frankly, folks are just more than I can handle.