{"id":28574,"date":"2008-03-03T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:10:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:10:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:10:25","slug":"socialism_is_not_compassionate2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/03\/socialism_is_not_compassionate2\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialism Is Not Compassionate"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Apple Valley, California. Hi, David. I\u2019m glad you called. It\u2019s great to have you here on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. My question is this. I\u2019m really, uh&#8230; I &#8212; I think I\u2019ve decided to vote for Barack, and because of this, I don\u2019t see a problem with &#8212; with socialism &#8212; socialism, the way I understand it, and I think the way I understand socialism &#8212; it might be wrong, but can there be a &#8212; could there possibly be a way to have a compassionate socialism-type system in America?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: By definition, socialism cannot be compassionate. It\u2019s an illusion, but it cannot achieve it. It cannot achieve equality like it promises &#8212; unless everybody\u2019s equally miserable. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughs)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, it does not allow for individual achievement. That\u2019s a problem. If you outpace somebody else, out-earn somebody else, then you have to be punished for that and that, of course, isn\u2019t compassionate. There\u2019s nothing about socialism that\u2019s compassionate. It appears to be. It\u2019s rooted in caring about all the ills and the inequities, inequalities and so forth that we see in society, but it never has fixed a thing. It\u2019s never solved a problem, \u2019round the world. But it will make people who believe in socialism feel better about themselves, because it will make them think their lives have meaning and that they care and that they\u2019re oriented toward having all these inequities and ills and societal problems fixed.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: So is national health care socialism in your opinion?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125114.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: Oh, absolutely. It\u2019s a disaster, too. Look at anywhere they\u2019ve got it. In Great Britain, it\u2019s literally falling apart; Canada the same thing. It doesn\u2019t work. You end up with the wealthy able to go buy their own health care somewhere else. Doctors opt out of the system, and make contracts with individuals who can afford their own health care. It doesn\u2019t work. Services are not provided to people. There are waiting lines for, sometimes, essential surgeries in Great Britain. But the biggest problem with socialism, David &#8212; I don\u2019t have a whole lot of time &#8212; is it robs individuals of their own identity, their own ambition, their own desires, and their own passions, and it robs them of their dreams because it doesn\u2019t allow any of that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, because I\u2019m just wondering, you know, I know that a lot &#8212; there\u2019s a lot of things that we do for some people. Like you have to go to school until, I guess, what, 16 or 18 or truancy and that kind of thing. Is that socialism in your mind, too?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No. The public education system in the country is&#8230; What\u2019s bad about it is that the government running it has given it all kinds of problems. If it were privatized, and you still mandate that kids get an education, there\u2019s nothing wrong with that. If it were privatized, people actually doing it to make a profit and they were measured against other schools by virtue of the performance of the students, rather than oriented toward protecting the teachers, whether they\u2019re any good or not then you\u2019d have a whole different education structure in this country but you could still mandate that kids go. You could pass whatever law you want. Socialism&#8230; Again, I\u2019m going to have 45 seconds here. But socialism is basically the government involved inasmuch as possible or everything, and they are the final arbiter. They are the decision-maker. They tell you what you can and can\u2019t do, when you can and can\u2019t do it, what you can and can\u2019t say; and what happens to you if you violate any of these rules. But beyond all that, it just saps entrepreneurism! It saps the creation of wealth. It eschews it. You try to have a functioning society without the creation of wealth. It cannot happen. It eschews the ownership of private property, limiting people\u2019s use of their own property for a number of things. It\u2019s a bad, bad deal out there, David. It\u2019s very bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Apple Valley, California. Hi, David. I\u2019m glad you called. It\u2019s great to have you here on the EIB Network. CALLER: Hi, Rush. My question is this. 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