{"id":13735,"date":"2012-12-11T18:34:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:34:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-12-11T18:34:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:34:01","slug":"jeffrey_immelt_communism_works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/12\/11\/jeffrey_immelt_communism_works\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Immelt: Communism Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: In Vero Beach, Florida, this is Neil. Neil, thanks for calling, and I appreciate your waiting. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I appreciate your time and effort, and first-time caller. I just wanted to say that God bless your mind and I appreciate your points of view. I often use your monologue as ammunition to defend conservative ideas against my liberal friends. I just wanted to comment on the Van Jones sound bite you played earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: And about his idea of “paying America back.” You know, I think Obama has that same idea, too, that we need to pay America back. And I think what he has wrong is it\u2019s his idea that government is America and not the people. But, if anything, we are America. You are America. The people who live, work, and breathe in America are what makes America America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where did you…? Where did you get that idea?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh… (chuckles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who taught you that?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

CALLER: My parents, my conservative friends. You, as a matter of fact.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I know. I\u2019m being facetious. You\u2019re right. Van Jones is only parroting Obama. Van Jones is not the original thinker here. Obama is. Obama\u2019s the guy who\u2019s got like-minded people in these positions. It\u2019s Obama who thinks it\u2019s time to pay America back. And you\u2019re right. By “America,” he means the government. The government is the command-and-control central authority. The government is America, not the people. You\u2019re exactly right. It\u2019s a great way to explain it to people.<\/p>\n

Now, let me find this Immelt piece. Here it is. In fact, we\u2019ve got the sound bites, if I can find \u2019em. What\u2019s the number of…? Mike, do you happen to know off the top of your head…? Five and six. Or is it just five? Of all pages to have on the bottom. Here\u2019s Jeffrey Immelt. He was on Charlie Rose last night. He\u2019s the GE CEO. Charlie Rose said, “Like America, China is changing. The growth rate has gone from double digits to right around 8%. What does that mean for China, what does it mean for the US, and should it change expectations?”<\/p>\n

IMMELT: State-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but their government works. You know?<\/p>\n

ROSE: They get things done.<\/p>\n

IMMELT: Uh, they have five-year plans. I — I always tell our team, “Read the 12th five-year plan, “which is the segment we\u2019re in. Typically what they\u2019re doing makes sense in the Chinese context. That\u2019s what they\u2019re doin\u2019 now. You know, the new president comes in, Mr. Xi comes in, he\u2019s got an agenda. They\u2019re driving environment, they\u2019re driving company reform, they\u2019re driving more consumerism that are the right things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You hear that admiration?<\/p>\n

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This is the CEO of General Electric who\u2019s speaking in admiring terms about a communist government. Now, this 12th five-year plan, you ought to… You want to read a five-year plan? Go read the second one. Go read Mao\u2019s second five-year plan. That\u2019s where 36 to 40 million Chinese were starved to death, on purpose. Have you ever noticed in every communist country\u2019s history there is mass killing?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s famine. There is pestilence, disease. There is mass death in every communist country\u2019s history. That is always denied by the intelligentsia in our country, but nevertheless it exists. So you say, “Okay, well, why does the GE CEO sound so enraptured with a communist government?” What would you say is the answer to that, Snerdley? (interruption) It\u2019s partly money. Of course maybe money at the top.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s also control.<\/p>\n

You see, he “get[s] things done.” Charlie Rose says, “They get things done.” They\u2019ve got five-year plans, their government works. They just dictate stuff, and it happens. They don\u2019t have this messy democracy. You don\u2019t have to get votes and support. You don\u2019t have opposition. You don\u2019t have to negotiate with anybody. You just go do it! You just decree that it be done and it is done, whatever you want.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ll take out the competition for you.” If the ChiComs want to do business with General Electric, Immelt can say, “Fine, but we want to be the only ones,” and the ChiComs can say, “Fine, cool,” and they\u2019ll take everybody else out for him, and he doesn\u2019t have to beat them in competition. He\u2019s got a government wiping out his competition for him, if that\u2019s what he wants. Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, longs for this, too.<\/p>\n

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Thomas L. Friedman every other day, it seems, in the New York Times, writes pieces longing for the kind of government in this country that they have in China: A small group of really intelligent people making decisions on the fly without any delays, without any roadblocks. The right decisions for the right people at the right time! (And they long for it.) It\u2019s no different than why actors and Hollywood types, and leftists in general, love Fidel Castro.<\/p>\n

They are envious of his power.<\/p>\n

They are envious of the command-and-control.<\/p>\n

Having opposition, who needs that? Having to negotiate with a bunch of idiots, who needs that? Having to deal with a bunch of Republicans who are gonna point out when you aren\u2019t paying any income taxes on $5 billion worth of earnings, who needs that? So Charlie Rose said, “Well, look, if you say to Obama, ‘Here\u2019s what I would do if I was you,\u2019 and it\u2019s valuable to the president, Jeffrey, hearing that from you, because he knows that you are giving it the most crucial analysis, because it affects you directly. Right?”<\/p>\n

IMMELT: You know, and people are never gonna believe this, Charlie.<\/p>\n

ROSE: Mmmeh.<\/p>\n

IMMELT: But, you know, believe it or not the 25 people that worked on the job council weren\u2019t there (snickering) selling their own book of business. You know, they were there legitimately trying to help the country. And that\u2019s kind of like, it is possible to be, um, a global CEO and still love your country and — and — and I can manage that paradox okay. It\u2019s not always easy, but I can manage that paradox okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s still possible to be a global CEO and still love your country. But those of us on the jobs council, we aren\u2019t there trying to sell our own book of business. We were genuinely try to help the country. Okay, I don\u2019t think Obama has met with this bunch since January. It\u2019s either January or July, the last time Obama met with his jobs council. But a jobs council… If you need a jobs council, you\u2019re defeated already.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re the president of the United States, of this country, and you need a jobs council? You need a jobs czar? What you are admitting is that everything comes from government. You want somebody to tell you how government can create jobs. And, of course, that\u2019s not how jobs get created in this country or not how they were created in this country.<\/p>\n

So here we are longing for the command-and-control of a communist system. “Hey, it works for them!” Obama loves the ChiComs, too. Obama thinks they snap their fingers and they get brand-new airport build. They snap their fingers and all kinds of global warming regulations are agreed to and met. They just snap their fingers and everything good happens. It\u2019s magic! Communism. Command-and-control. When you\u2019re head of the command-and-control, why, it\u2019s just great.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what these guys all aspire to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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