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March 24, 2009 |
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Story #1: US Government to Buy Chicom Condoms
RUSH: Did you people see this yesterday? I'm sure you did. The US government is going to buy Chinese condoms, and that will end jobs in Alabama. "In a move expected to cost 300 American jobs, the government is switching to cheaper, offshore condoms, including some made in China." Do you think these Chinese condoms will have lead in them? That could be interesting.
So we're going to trust birth control, we're going to trust AIDS to the ChiComs? They can't even make pet food, they can't even make kids' toys, and we're going to shut down 300 condom jobs start buying condoms from China? Continues the Kansas City Scar newspaper: "At a time when the federal government is spending billions of stimulus dollars to stem the tide of US layoffs, should that same government put even more Americans out of work by buying cheaper foreign products? In this case, [ChiCom] condoms. That's the dilemma for the folks at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which has distributed an estimated 10bn US-made AIDS-preventing condoms in poor countries around the world. But not anymore."
I mean, how hard is it going to be to manufacture faulty condoms in the name of the United States government? And what happens if these diseases still spread? I guess the US gets to blame the Chinese condoms, whether they have lead in them or not.
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Story #2: Enviro Wacko: Reduce UK Population to 30 Million
RUSH:You know, when I read a story like this... I will admit, folks, that sometimes I have to catch myself, because I get depressed, too. We have to just continually reargue and refight old battles that we've already won, and it gets frustrating. Remember back in 1974 or '75, an absolute blithering idiot (but an academic) by the name of Paul Ehrlich wrote a book called The Population Bomb? I forget exactly what year, but we've already passed the year in which he predicted starvation and pestilence around the world would be out of control because there would be just too many people. He said we wouldn't be able to feed people. We wouldn't be able to have jobs. We would run out of natural resources because there's "a limit on the population that the earth can support." And Julian Simon, who is now deceased, made a bet with Ehrlich. Simon said, "Paul, pick ten minerals and elements. Pick anything out. Pick ten things, and I will bet you that they are cheaper and in greater supply 20 years from now, ten years from now, whatever, than they are today." Ehrlich jumped at the chance, and Julian Simon was right on every one of them. Things like copper, tungsten. They became more plentiful as the population grew, and the prices became cheaper. Therefore, Ehrlich was discredited by reality.
And even though we have more people in the world than he predicted we could support; the standard of living around the around the world has increased in places where there are basic free markets. Where there aren't, of course, the standard of living has declined, such as Zimbabwe, the former Rhodesia, now run by Robert Mugabe. So we've had our ups and downs, but for the most part, the world is roaring right along, and everything Ehrlich said was eventually.
Now this, from the Sunday UK Times: "Jonathon (sic) Porritt, one of Gordon Brown's leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society. Porritt's call will come at this week's annual conference of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), of which he is patron. The trust will release research suggesting UK population must be cut to 30m if the country wants to feed itself sustainably. Porritt said: 'Population growth, plus economic growth, is putting the world under terrible pressure. Each person in Britain has far more impact on the environment than those in developing countries so cutting our population is one way to reduce that impact.'"
This is so wrong, but forget it being wrong for a moment. Who the hell are these people? How are you going to reduce the British population to 30 million? Well, abortion is one way, but that may not cover it because right now abortion is still elective. If abortion doesn't do it, how are you going to do it? How are you going to reduce the population 30 million? You have to kill people, do you not? And if you're going to say, "Well, we're going to limit the number of offspring that every family can have..." Oh, so you're going to try the ChiCom way? Good! Let them use ChiCom condoms at the same time they're trying to limit their number of offspring.
This is leftism. This is Democrat Party-ism. This is liberalism. And what's really wrong about this is to say that a prosperous citizen of Great Britain does more damage to the environment than the average Third World citizen. The average Third World country does more to ruin and pollute this world, the earth, than any advanced country and its citizens do. And guess who's standing in the way, in large part, of the evolution to prosperity and technology in the Third World? It's these "green" idiots who don't want them building dams, or building air-conditioning, or driving cars. They want them living these primitive lifestyles, which are basically lived in filth. And you wonder about the spread of AIDS? You wonder about the spread of malaria? You wonder about these things? It's filth! These people are being forced to live in filth. Obama's own brother, for crying out loud, George Obama, lives in a shack! George has not even been sent 20 bucks! He's still living in a shack! A hut! "Hut, Sweet Hut!"
So, anyway, here we have somebody in Gordon Brown's government who says we have to reduce the UK population to 30 million. I don't know what it is now, but the only way you can do that is to kill people. And look at the basis: we're killing people to save trees and vegetables and earth and air, and this is considered responsible! We've already had the argument, like I said! Paul Ehrlich has already been discredited! (Not by his own people -- he's still a hero at Stanford -- but he's been discredited by reality.)
Yet here it pops up again. So what have I had to do? I had to spend five minutes on something that every damned American ought to know is BS! We have to constantly re-teach this stuff, have to constantly fight all these battles. The war on ignorance is what we're facing. The war on Obama is the war on ignorance, and I'm telling you, ignorance is the most expensive commodity that we have in this country. The ignorance of way too many people costs us so much money on the basis of who the ignorant vote for and what the ignorant demand. And what do the ignorant do when they don't have their demands realized? They get on buses, and start harassing executives in Connecticut with the full sponsorship of an organization bought-and-paid-for and groomed by President Obama: ACORN.
Story #3: Idiot Arctic Researchers Continue to Freeze
 RUSH: So while the Third World is living on dirt floors, we had these idiots on a trek to the North Pole who got stranded. They were going up there to check the sea ice; they were skiing. In March. And they got frozen out -- but they finally were saved. And do you know what saved them? An airplane, made in Canada, DeHavilland Twin Otter. The Twin Otter is a very versatile airplane. If you want to put skiis on it, you can do that. If you want to put pontoons on it for water landings, it will do that. It will land on a carrier, power-on landings. It will do any number of things. So it landed and saved them, rescued them, dropped them food and got 'em out of there.
An evil, combustible-engine airplane saved these lunatics skiing to the North Pole in March to check sea ice! This lunatic from the UK should have been on that trek. I've flown on two different Twin Otters. One was a commuter when I went home. I was in Pittsburgh, and I had to land in St. Louis, and they had a commuter flight down to where I lived in Cape Girardeau. It was a Twin Otter, and I was just amazed by the name of the airplane: Twin Otter. It's kind of an ugly airplane, but it got the job done. I got worried. We flew over the Mississippi River because the flight attendant, you know, gave us instructions on ditching and life vests. Then when I was in touring Israel, we got from Jerusalem up to the Golan and some areas on a Twin Otter. A Twin Otter took us up there.
So that's the airplane that rescued these lunatics up near the Arctic Circle on skis. It's not a new airplane. These airplanes belch pollution like you would not believe. I'm surprised that these Looney Toons even got on the airplane in protest. But survival will do that to you.
Story #4: Dems Suggest Nonprofit Status to Save Newspapers
RUSH: How about nonprofit status for newspapers in order to save them? "Nonprofit may describe a newspaper's balance sheet today," (because so many of them are losing money,) "but it does not describe its tax status, unless of course, if Senator Benjamin Cardin ( D-Md.) gets his way. The Senator introduced a bill on the Senate floor today that would allow newspapers to elect to receive tax-exempt status all they have to do is promise not to endorse any political candidates (but they can report on the campaign)" So here we have the Democrat Party -- Pelosi first, out in San Francisco, relaxing regulation in order to get ownership of the Chronicle -- and now tax-exempt nonprofit status for newspapers, as long as they don't endorse anybody. And it's all happening right in front of our eyes, folks.
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