Conservative radio host Rush
Limbaugh expressed disgust, though not shock, that the mainstream media
ignored an “earth-shattering” story out of Wisconsin that “should have
caused a political earthquake.”
The state of Wisconsin’s unemployment
rate is “rapidly falling” and the government’s budget ended the year
with a $912 million surplus, Limbaugh explained. He says the dramatic
turnaround is due in large part to the conservative policies of Gov.
Scott Walker.
What’s even more amazing, he continued,
is the fact that Walker is going to “rebate the money in the form of
tax cuts to the people, who he said own the money.” Limbaugh says the
news is “earth-shattering” because, in one of the bluest states, Walker
was targeted for removal twice but continued to implement conservative
policies that he was confident would help his state — and his strategy
appears to be working.
“They did everything they could to gin
up hate, anger, tried to destroy his reputation, his career, and his
life,” he said. “He hung in there. The state of Wisconsin instituted his
policy reforms, de-emphasizing the role of unions in the state.”
Wisconsin
Gov. Scott Walker, a member of the executive committee of the National
Governors Association, speaks to the media after meeting with President
Barack Obama at the White House Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in Washington.
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
“He’s going to cut income taxes and
property taxes, and he made the point that it’s not just a gimmick of
budgeting or accounting. It’s the result of serious, significant policy
changes,” Limbaugh argued.
“Now, folks, what I just told you was
not reported once anywhere in what you would consider mainstream media.
It was not reported on one cable network, much less all of them. It was
not reported in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the LA
Times,” he added. “It was reported in Wisconsin. There was an AP story
on it, maybe some local papers picked it up, but just as a filler.”
“And to me, for us as conservatives,
Wisconsin and Governor Walker, I mean, everything that we want to
happen, happened there,” the radio host concluded.
Walker is proposing a $504 million property and income tax cut plan
as a means to return some of the surplus money to the people of
Wisconsin. Some Democrats and Republicans are already criticizing the
plan and are calling for changes.
“The budget surplus is really your
money,” Walker recently said at a meeting of the Wisconsin Grocers
Association. “You earned it.”
However, some lawmakers are concerned
that Walker’s tax cut plan would increase the state’s projected budget
shortfall from $700 million to $800 million. The Republican governor
argues the estimates don’t take into account any revenue growth, which
he says will cover the difference.
RUSH: If you take a body of 11, 12 million immigrants who have an
average education of tenth grade and you give them access to 80
different means tested welfare programs, including Obamacare, Soc.
Security, and Medicare, who is going to pay for that? There is polling
data that shows overwhelming majority of such arrivals are not here to
join the Tea Party. They believe in Big Government. They believe in command-and-control
government over their lives. It’s just what they believe. You throw this
group of people into the mix with no assimilation and immediate access,
and you’re overwhelming a system that’s already incapable of fulfilling
its original purpose and charter. Now, I don’t want to anybody
misunderstand. I’m actually thinking that Kaus here has nailed it. I just wanted to share with you a take on this that I found humorous
in parts but interesting. You know, I guess my quibble with Kaus would
be that this was only meant to be a fig leaf and not a scam. Immigration
itself is the scam. It’s the mother of all — illegal. Amnesty is the
mother of all scams. But this securing the border talk is just a fig
leaf that enables the real scam. The scam is not the strategy. That’s my
quibble with what Kaus said. He’s laughing at the strategy. He’s saying, “Can’t they come up with a
better way to lie? Can’t they come up with a better way to scam us,
can’t they come up with a better plan that will fool people? Where’s
Bill Clinton when we need him? That’s what Kaus is asking. So I don’t
think their strategy is the scam. Amnesty is the scam. The substance of
this is the scam, not the strategy. That would be my quibble with Kaus’
take. But to each his own. http://dailyrushbo.com
