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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLimbo's "firefighters" comments, in context:
The drug addled child molester was talking about this just a few days more than a year ago. In light of the death of the firefighters in Arizona, someone drug (pun intended) this up and cherry picked a quote that, to me, seems to change what ViagraBoy was spewing.
Herewith the hate, in this excerpt from his transcript of June 11, 2012:
RUSH: You know, Axelrod was on CNN with Candy Crowley on the State of the Union show on Sunday. He said, "We need to accelerate job creation in the private sector." And then he added, "One of the ways we can do that is putting teachers and firefighters and police back to work. Because those are good, middle-class jobs." Do you realize...? Well, I'm alternately stunned and at the same time exhilarated by this, because of how explanatory this is.
All of the jobs that he listed are actually public sector jobs!
All the money for them comes right out of the private sector.
But now we know where Obama gets his economic advice from. Look, as nice as they are to have -- teaching jobs, firemen, policemen -- they are all paid for with money out of the private sector. They are paid for with tax revenue from citizens. They cut into the amount of money left for private sector. They don't grow the number of private sector jobs, they reduce them. Now, I've gotta be very careful here. Because nobody's against teachers or firemen or cops. But those are public sector jobs.
Look at the way these people think.
They're combining two things here: A, the never-ending appeal to tax revenue for firemen, cops, and teachers. That is the education of your kids and the safety of you and your house and your family. And they're trying to say that those jobs are being cut and now we're not safe and your kids aren't being educated. And that's because the private sector's been too selfish and too greedy and so forth. (pause) Look, folks, this is where I have to be very careful. Nobody's opposed to cops or firefighters or teachers.
But they aren't private sector jobs. They do not contribute to economic growth. Their purpose is otherwise. They have an entirely different purpose: Public safety, public education, this kind of thing. But there's no growth in the economy. If you add those jobs -- and if there aren't other types of private sector jobs added while at the same time we're adding to the fire rolls and the cop rolls and teachers -- we are reducing the size of the private sector. This is Marxism 101. It's also Ignorance and Sophistry 101.
Read the whole drug addled ramble here: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/06/11/obama_thinks_the_private_sector_is_doing_fine_and_he_did_not_walk_it_back
All of the jobs that he listed are actually public sector jobs!
All the money for them comes right out of the private sector.
But now we know where Obama gets his economic advice from. Look, as nice as they are to have -- teaching jobs, firemen, policemen -- they are all paid for with money out of the private sector. They are paid for with tax revenue from citizens. They cut into the amount of money left for private sector. They don't grow the number of private sector jobs, they reduce them. Now, I've gotta be very careful here. Because nobody's against teachers or firemen or cops. But those are public sector jobs.
Look at the way these people think.
They're combining two things here: A, the never-ending appeal to tax revenue for firemen, cops, and teachers. That is the education of your kids and the safety of you and your house and your family. And they're trying to say that those jobs are being cut and now we're not safe and your kids aren't being educated. And that's because the private sector's been too selfish and too greedy and so forth. (pause) Look, folks, this is where I have to be very careful. Nobody's opposed to cops or firefighters or teachers.
But they aren't private sector jobs. They do not contribute to economic growth. Their purpose is otherwise. They have an entirely different purpose: Public safety, public education, this kind of thing. But there's no growth in the economy. If you add those jobs -- and if there aren't other types of private sector jobs added while at the same time we're adding to the fire rolls and the cop rolls and teachers -- we are reducing the size of the private sector. This is Marxism 101. It's also Ignorance and Sophistry 101.
Read the whole drug addled ramble here: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/06/11/obama_thinks_the_private_sector_is_doing_fine_and_he_did_not_walk_it_back
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Limbo's "firefighters" comments, in context: (Original Post)
Stinky The Clown
Jul 2013
OP
It's no better in context, Stink. Yes, the nature of the bile changes, but it's still bile.
Buzz Clik
Jul 2013
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Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)1. It's no better in context, Stink. Yes, the nature of the bile changes, but it's still bile.
Stinky The Clown
(67,816 posts)2. Hehehe
The only difference is the direction he was pissing, not the pissing itself.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)3. Well said.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)4. Public sector jobs don't contribute economically because those people don't spend their salaries.
They hoard your precious taxpayer-money and hoard it and hoard it... Those people never buy stuff, never take out loans, never invest... They clearly survive on magic.
KT2000
(20,585 posts)5. Offshore accounts
don't you know all those teacher and firefighters have accounts in the Caymans.