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In reply to the discussion: Limbaugh is even sicker than I thought. What he said about firefighters... [View all]Stuart G
(38,726 posts)look at the second message down...that is where this is taken from...this was said over a year ago..look for yourself..and at a link...I have a lot of trouble reading anything this shit says....I did darken what I thought was important. Evidently posted at Snoops on July 14, 2012..
I hate Rush, yes, hate.....is the only word...
but this is what Snoops says is the context of the quote..at least according to Snoops...
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=81269
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"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. "