Shared Sacrifice

President Obama was at Northern Virginia Community COllege in Annandale, talking to students about shared sacrifice... or more to the point, pointing out that he wanted to raise the taxes on the wealthy.

Limbaugh of course scoffed at everything he had to say.

RUSH: Obama, where was he? He was at the Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale. Let me just give you one sound bite of this. This audio sound bite number 24. I think we can squeeze this in just to set the stage 'cause there's more of this to come.

OBAMA: This is not because we want to punish success. I suspect there are a bunch of young people in this gym that are gonna end up being wealthy, and that's good.

RUSH: Yeah.

OBAMA: But we are gonna have to ask everybody to sacrifice -- and if we're asking community colleges to sacrifice, if we asking people who are gonna see potentially fewer services in their neighborhoods, then we can ask millionaires and billionaires to make a little sacrifice. I'll tell you what I'm not gonna do. We're not gonna reduce the deficit by sacrificing investments in our infrastructure.

RUSH: When are you gonna start?

OBAMA: We're not gonna allow our roads and our bridges to grow more and more congested while places like China are building new roads and new airports and thousands of mile of high-speed rail.