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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast.

And a very good Friday to you.

Open line Friday, 800, 282, 282, 2882.

Thrilled to be here with you today as your guide host.

And still considering what it was that we saw laid out 24 hours ago, 48 hours ago,

with President Joe Biden speaking in the House of Representatives to the semi-joint gathering of the Congress and the Senate,

laying out a $6 trillion spending package.

Just let that number sink in.

It's really an unbelievable thing, and it prompted Lindsey Graham to describe what it was

that Joe Biden was talking about there at the Congress as saying he embraced socialism

and made Barack Obama look like Ronald Reagan.

Now, for what it's worth, Joe Biden was no Ronald Reagan because his numbers were pretty much anemic when it came to the people tuning into the speech just a couple of days ago.

22.6 million viewers, less than half of Trump's audience in 2017 for that debut speech.

And this was a speech that we knew going in was going to be anchored, absolutely anchored

to the notion of free money, free money, free stimulus, free stuff, don't worry about it.

It's going to be great.

You get a trillion and you get a trillion and you get a trillion and you get a trillion and you get a trillion, to paraphrase Oprah Winfrey. But the reality of what's being offered by Joe Biden is starting to really set in with people. They're starting to understand what this means, what the stakes mean here. It's barely, barely 10 years since this last experiment was played out with then-president

Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at the time.

When against the worst meltdown, breakdown collapse since the Great Depression.

That was the original one.

We were going to have to start shoveling out money, almost a trillion dollars in stimulus money,

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