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Speaker 1: Scott Jacksonville Ford. Are great to have you on the program, sir,

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Speaker 1: what's up? iPhone? Ten? Negatttos? Conservatives like myself, Rush, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we've voted for Republicans hoping to roll back all this

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Speaker 1: government spending. And now I'm here today the Congress, you know,

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Speaker 1: Senate and the House. They've come to this agreement. Everybody's happy,

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Speaker 1: you know. And listen, I'm a Navy veteran. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: for more military spending. But this is going to add

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Speaker 1: three billion dollars to the deficit. So my question, Rush,

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Speaker 1: is how do we as conservatives kind of justify this?

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a great question. Uh. And I was

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Speaker 1: communicating with some friends before the program today on this,

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Speaker 1: and I was telling them I probably should not admit

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Speaker 1: this because this this it changes me day to day.

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Speaker 1: But I have to tell you, this whole budget thing,

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Speaker 1: I think I'm immune to it now. I I've realized

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Speaker 1: I've been caught up in this budget business for as

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Speaker 1: long as I've been hosting this program. And I realized

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Speaker 1: a couple of things. Spending never decreases, we never end up.

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Speaker 1: There's one time in thirty years where the budget was

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Speaker 1: balanced for one year ninety, I think other than that

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Speaker 1: this is smoking mirrors the budget. We never spend less

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Speaker 1: money than we spend the year before. We always spend more,

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Speaker 1: no matter who we elect, and no matter who's in

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Speaker 1: the White House and who runs Congress. And then I

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Speaker 1: got to realizing that I think one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: so many Republicans are signing onto this is a silly reason,

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Speaker 1: but in their world it makes sense. We've got, if

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Speaker 1: this happens, a two year budget deal, right. You know

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Speaker 1: what that means they don't have to worry about being

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Speaker 1: blamed for a government shutdown for two years. That alone

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Speaker 1: is worth finding it, is it not. They're probably gonna

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Speaker 1: throw a party tonight because they're not going to be

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Speaker 1: blamed for government shutdown every time that every time we

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Speaker 1: get an increase in military spending, there is no accompanying

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Speaker 1: cut back anywhere else. Despite the fact the news today

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Speaker 1: food stamp enrollment drops by four million in one month.

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Speaker 1: You think we're gonna cut the food stamp program. Hell's bells.

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Speaker 1: No way. Whoever runs these budget departments doesn't want less

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Speaker 1: money than they had last year. We advertise for food

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Speaker 1: stamp recipients. When we begin to lose them because we

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Speaker 1: gotta keep the budget. I know I'm sounding kind of

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Speaker 1: cynical here, but it's not cynicism. It's it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a realization that all the arguments the budget fight every

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Speaker 1: year is the best weapon the Democrats have to portray

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Speaker 1: rubb Republicans as racist, sexist, biggest homophobes of no compassion

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Speaker 1: who hate and want to starve kids. It never changes. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: we're told that the national debt's gonna wipe us out,

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Speaker 1: that the deficits gonna wipe us, the deficit. We've got

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Speaker 1: to get a handle on these deficits. The deficit is

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Speaker 1: keep it's growing because the national debt is growing. And

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Speaker 1: I know theoretically all this is bad, But in the

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Speaker 1: real world, all of the apocalyptic warnings I grew up

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Speaker 1: hearing have yet to happen. The national debt has not

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Speaker 1: choked us. The national debt is not destroyed us. We

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Speaker 1: may be living in the middle of the destruction and

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Speaker 1: don't see it yet, But um so, I for some reason,

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Speaker 1: I didn't get caught up in it. I think one

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Speaker 1: of the reasons why is I'm not I'm not personally

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Speaker 1: affected by these never ending allegations of being responsible for

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Speaker 1: a government shutdown. That's one of the most frustrating things

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Speaker 1: to me, that that that has been allowed to succeed

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Speaker 1: the way it has. And Scott, I really think it's

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Speaker 1: the driving force in getting this thing signed. And you'll notice,

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Speaker 1: what what are the immigration Pelosi? She does her eight hour,

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Speaker 1: stupid little filibuster. Did you hear what she said during

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Speaker 1: this filibuster? You know she's not well. She said that

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Speaker 1: one of her grandsons or nieces wishes he were darker skinned.

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Speaker 1: Now what is that about. That's simply the Democrats trying

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Speaker 1: to continue to build their bridge to minorities and the

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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants and African Americans and so forth, and white

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Speaker 1: privilege and and white white guilt. And oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I feel so bad. My grandson wishes he were darker

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Speaker 1: and there's nothing I can do about it. I feel

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Speaker 1: so bad that's supposed to I don't know what it's

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Speaker 1: supposed to. Frankly, folks are just more than I can handle.