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Limbaugh: Obama is "destroying" the "private sector" and "I have to think that it may be on purpose"

November 01, 2009 9:34 am ET

From the November 1 edition of Fox Broadcasting's Fox News Sunday:

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    • Author by worrierking (November 01, 2009 9:37 am ET)
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      The private sector destroyed itself.

      And almost brought everyone else down with them.
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      • Author by Conchobhar (November 01, 2009 9:42 am ET)
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        That just about says it all. The jury's still out on the almost part, though.
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      • Author by eb (November 01, 2009 10:11 am ET)
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        And people like Limbull were cheerleading the deregulation that encouraged the private sector to destroy itself. I have to think that may be on purpose.
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        • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (November 01, 2009 10:16 am ET)
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          As I've pointed out elsewhere, conservatives look at any regulation of any industry or business as creeping socialism/communism. We must deregulate, though the heavens fall, and this time it seems they did...
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    • Author by AB-001 (November 01, 2009 9:47 am ET)
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      Obama must singularly be enormously powerful and awe inspiring to pull off a feat of such economically epic proportions that few in the history of the world would be capable of

      Either that, or Fox is an alternative outlet to Limbaugh's hyperbolic nonsense
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      • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (November 01, 2009 10:00 am ET)
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        Well, it seems to me that to the Limbots, Obama is conveniently either all-powerful or completely powerless, depending on the circumstances. When Obama is destroying everything that is good and holy about Amur'ka, he is omnipotent and omniscient; when he's unable to get the Olympics or Mideast peace or economic prosperity or something else, he's a total incompetent who hasn't done anything at all...
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        • Author by eb (November 01, 2009 10:38 am ET)
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          yea sure. It turns out that the mighty private sector so easily crumbles under Obama, who by the way has continued Bush's wall street bail out policies and has not even considered a single payer health plan... and yet he is labeled an evil socialist. You would have thought FDR would have destroyed the private sector with all that socialism, yet boom years were to come.

          Funny how job losses are blaimed on Obama for the recession that raged under Bush. I supposed as soon as Obama stepped into the oval office the recession was supposed to be over.

          Limbauh's statements show how little faith he actually has in the private sector. Apparently it can be casually discarded and its wealthy promoters seem helpless to defend it. If the private sector worked so well, it wouldn't be in so much trouble right now. It has basked in the glory of deregulation for decades.

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          • Author by chefacree@aol.com (November 01, 2009 11:13 am ET)
               
            The republicans had years to do something good for this country and honest to god i can not find one thing they did to help the country or the poeple.Can anyone?
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    • Author by Alone in Texas (November 01, 2009 10:00 am ET)
         
      "Anyone with any economics literacy"

      Rush,that is certainly not you.
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    • Author by roundhouse (November 01, 2009 10:22 am ET)
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      These ideologues might have more traction if their gutless Republican party had any plan whatsoever to solve the healthcare crisis, or any problem for that matter.

      As it is now, their only option is failure.

      Republicans suck.
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    • Author by pros2pros2940 (November 01, 2009 10:32 am ET)
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      That's an amazing feat to have accomplished given it all happened before Obama took office.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (November 01, 2009 1:00 pm ET)
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      Limbaugh: Obama is "destroying" the "private sector" and "I have to think that it may be on purpose"

      What about George W. Bush Rushie? You can not forget him. Oops he did!
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    • Author by pilotx (November 01, 2009 1:39 pm ET)
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      While repubs and conservatives are all about destroying the public sector. I guess like Seinfeld said it all evens out.
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    • Author by Samurai Cowboy (November 01, 2009 2:43 pm ET)
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      I keep posting this, but I want to make certain that it gets around.
      "In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States........During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves.
      http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/11-the-media-can-legally-lie/
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      • Author by fantagor (November 01, 2009 5:43 pm ET)
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        Yeah, I've spread that story, too, just to read dumbfounded comments from liberals, and to hear the eerie silence from the right.

        Randy
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    • Author by dash63 (November 01, 2009 8:04 pm ET)
         
      Those regulations were put on wal1street for a reason, and should have never been removed. But its done now, The free market will recover, it will adjust its self, if left to do this, the governments role should be limited. If we rush in and bail out General Motors (I forget the billions). And they go bankrupt anyway ,then what have we done to rescue the economy, If we give the A.I.G. billions and they give there C.E.Os millions in bonus's
      after they tanked there company, what lessons have been learned.
      We get the government to run Detroit, We get cash for clunkers.
      Why exactly do you figure all those people were driving those old cars. Alot of those cars will be coming back,when people find that they cant afford them, and then I guess the government will buy them back? Government can help the private sector but it must take a limited role.Government health care sounds like a great idea, whos paying for it? You can bet somebodys paying for it, and it aint the rich. And so on , and so on, and yada yada.
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    • Author by blueline99 (November 02, 2009 10:54 am ET)
         
      The nearly $800 billion stimulus plan has spent $107.1 billion thus far... which was what the plan was for 2009. The stimulus package biggest criticism was that it wasn't the jolt that the economy needed for a quick turnaround.

      The right criticized it for being such and they were right. It was never the intention. The bulk of the spending is 2010 - 2011. The stimulus package is meant for a sustained growth out of the recession... not just a quick fix... because guess what, there is no quick fix to the mess that the Financial industry created for this economy.

      Rush and the Right wing are intellectually dishonest, self-serving and generally deceitful.
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