After a day of discussing Obama and Boehner, the fiscal cliff theater, and the continuous class warfare banter out there (i.e., 'tax the rich', 'fair share', etc.), Rush finally had enough...
"I'm here to tell you, the solution to this problem does not involve punishing people who work! You know what needs to happen? Unemployment, 13 weeks, and that's it. Food stamps, a month or two, and that's it. If you're able-bodied, capable, you have your mental acuity about you, that's it. We are coddling the wrong people and punishing the wrong people. We're blaming the wrong people and we're exempting the wrong people, all in the name of phony compassion. It's not doing anybody any good. We're not teaching people to be productive and instead we're teaching them that there's nothing wrong with being slovenly. I hear all these ideas, raise taxes on the rich, take away their deductions, all that crap. It's stupid! It's what they did in the Soviet Union: punish success, punish achievement, punish ambition, kill it! Make everybody dependent on the government. The hell with that!"
"I'm telling you, if we go over the cliff, the sky's gonna be blue. The birds are gonna be chirping. The unemployed are gonna have their money. They're gonna be eating. They're gonna have their big screen, their cell phones. Nothing's gonna change. Nothing. Not in terms of disaster. It's only gonna get worse for the people who are working. The burden on them is gonna increase. Why do we want to punish them? What is the crime in working? What is the crime in success? We're criminalizing it for all intents and purposes. We're ginning up hatred for people that take care of themselves, resentment, all of this stuff. It isn't healthy. It isn't good. We gotta stop borrowing money, political money, buying things we can't afford. We can't afford all these goodies. We can't afford all these freebies. We are damn lucky there are still millions of enough people who want to take care of themselves. If everybody just chucked it and said, "You know what, I'm gonna let Obama be my dad, my mother, my Santa Claus," where would we be?"
"I don't want to hear anymore...about one more person that talks about punishing the rich in order to teach people a lesson. I've had it up to here with that. No more! We've gotta stop thinking this way. We have got to stop thinking we can teach people by virtue of having a disaster happen, because it has happened! We're in the middle of it. The problem is the disaster is effecting, disproportionately, the wrong people."
