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- From: rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: Summary Mon 1/25/93
- Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.110120.26392@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:01:20 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.211533.20466@netcom.com>
- Sender: rja@mahogany126 (Russ Anderson)
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- From the Summary (Mon 1/25/93):
- > o Lloyd Bentsen, America's new Treasury Secretary, was on
- > one of the Sunday talk shows and confirmed that it's "bye-bye,
- > middle-class tax cut" and "hello, consumption taxes." Rush joked
- > last Friday about how Democrats will soon be taxing air, but the
- > latest Clinton economic plan comes really close to this absurdity
- > by taxing energy according to BTUs expended.
- >
- > "You people don't even now the scope of what's ahead of you,"
- > Rush warns. He notes that EIB recently had a "quite candid"
- > discussion with "Lloyd Bentsen," and he plays a couple of sound
- > bites from that interview. On the middle-class tax cut, "Bentsen"
- > says "those fools in the middle class buy that tax cut line every
- > time." On the deficit, "Bentsen" said "$18 billion - why, that's
- > nothing."
- >
- > Rush notes that only his show can produce this sort of candor in
- > America's elected officials.
-
- I think it is interesting compare/contrast Rush's (and many other
- Conservatives) reaction to Bentsen's comments with Wall Street's.
-
- Rush (and others) comments have been quite negative (see above).
-
- Meanwhile both the Stock market and Bond martkets continue to rise.
- A story in the Wall Street Journal yesterday (Tues, Jan 27, 1993,
- page C1) tells how investers, after fearing last Sept that a Clinton
- presidency would result in exploding deficits, are now convinced
- that Clinton is will reduce the deficit and that interest rates will
- remain low. Long term (30 year) interest rates continue to fall.
- Small stocks (small buisnesses that create most new jobs) have
- especially been going up as Wall Street bets that those buisinesses
- will have increasing profits.
-
- I think the contrast is quite striking. It may explain the public
- perception that Conservatives don't know how to handle the economy
- and that the country's economy will be better with Clinton in the
- White House.
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