{"id":30429,"date":"2008-09-17T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:20:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:20:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:20:20","slug":"united_socialist_states_of_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/09\/17\/united_socialist_states_of_america\/","title":{"rendered":"United Socialist States of America?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: We are on the verge, ladies and gentlemen, of becoming a socialist country. The federal government now owns 80% of AIG, my insurer. That means that you are going to be propping up the outfit that insures me. I\u2019m going to be, too, but so are you. If you want to fix AIG, put the guy who built it back in there, Maurice Hank Greenberg, not to be confused with Hank Ace Greenberg who ran Bear Stearns. Where\u2019s that now, by the way? <\/p>\n

We have a socialist retirement system. We have a socialist health care system for the elderly. We have automobile and aviation companies on the verge of bankruptcy or government ownership due to legislation and regulation in oil prices that could be half of what they are if Congress got out of the way. Look at me. The problem with General Motors and Ford and Chrysler and domestic auto manufacturers is not that they don\u2019t know how to run their business. They are all kicking butt internationally. Ford, General Motors are selling cars out the wazoo internationally. You know what they don\u2019t face? The same kind of onerous regulation they have here. You want to fix the Ford auto industry, General Motors, local, domestic auto industry, just get rid of the CAFE standards. The idea that people that run the auto companies do not know how to make cars that people want has been obscured by the fact that they\u2019ve been forced to make cars fitting mandates offered by government, people in government who have never built a car, have never designed a car, have never marketed nor sold a car. Just get government out of their way, and then let \u2019em sink or swim on their own. How is it that all three of them are up the creek? All three of them face the same onerous regulations. <\/p>\n

What about oil prices and the effect on the price of a car and the mileage and the kind of car you want? Get Washington out of the way on that, not this phony bill that Nancy Pelosi ushered through the House. We can drill everywhere there isn\u2019t oil now, and you know why they had to usher this through? ‘Cause they knew it was a losing issue for them. We had \u2019em right between the eyes. We had \u2019em right in the palm of our hands. They were on the wrong side of this drill, drill, drill, right here, right now, business, so they usher through this stupid thing. It\u2019s the same, the Gang of Ten, gang of 16, now gang of 20 in the Senate — oh, yeah, we\u2019re going to allow drilling, we\u2019re going to drill, drill, drill, but it\u2019s gotta be further than 50 miles offshore. Most of the oil is closer than that, so Big Oil has been told go ahead and invest and drill where there isn\u2019t any oil, which they won\u2019t do. <\/p>\n

We are on the verge of becoming a socialist country. This election puts the private sector directly at odds with the public sector. And we are about to find out which will control the vast majority of jobs and wealth creation in this country. Committed liberals, socialists are in charge of both houses of Congress, the media is pushing them over the finish line in November, trying to. They are salivating at the chance to keep this ball rolling — Jay &amp; the Techniques, 1967. Barack Obama is not just the most liberal senator in the country. Barack Obama is a committed socialist, trained by Marxists like Saul Alinsky who bows at the feet of Jeremiah Wright. Democrats don\u2019t have solutions, my friends. All they have is blame. All they have is complaints. Most of their complaints, as Barack\u2019s economic plan is, is a complaint about capitalism. Why do they hate capitalism? Because they don\u2019t control it, capitalism is where you have more freedom and liberty, and they don\u2019t have any control. That\u2019s why they don\u2019t like it. They just have blame for Republicans and Big Business. They have been targeted for slaughter. They don\u2019t tell us what they\u2019re going to replace all these things with, but by connecting the dots it\u2019s a no-brainer. <\/p>\n

By the way, how is the state of Illinois being run by Obama, Daley, Durbin, et cetera? Let\u2019s look at some things here. Change Chicago style, body count. In the last six months, 292 people have been murdered in Chicago, 221 have died in Iraq. Senators Obama and Durbin, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Governor Rod Blagojevich, House Leader Mike Madigan, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, the daughter of Mike Madigan, Mayor Richard Daley, son of Mayor Richard Daley, our leadership in Illinois, all Democrats. Look at the murder rate. It\u2019s a combat zone in Chicago. Of course, they\u2019re all blaming each other. They can\u2019t blame any Republicans in Chicago because there aren\u2019t any. The state pension fund, Illinois, $44 billion in debt, worst in the country. Cook County, Chicago, sales tax, 10.25%, highest in the country. Look it up if you want. Chicago school system, one of the worst in the country, the students there just protested! This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois. He is going to fix Washington politics? <\/p>\n

I mentioned Michigan, look at Michigan. Liberals wreak havoc with everything they touch. They wrecked the mortgage industry. They\u2019re wrecking the oil industry. They have wrecked retirement and elderly health care systems. They are hell-bent on wrecking the rest of the health care industry. And for good measure, they actively try to humiliate our military and see to it that they lose. We are playing for keeps, folks. This is not just another election. Events have brought us to where the government has become so invested in the affairs of the private sector that the next president will determine if the private sector or the public sector is going to be calling the shots. Barack Obama is one of the people who could be making those decisions. It\u2019s crunch time in the big city. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: One more way of saying what I just said, ladies and gentlemen, and then we will get to the phones. I know it\u2019s going against the grain to say this, but these entities, Lehman Brothers, AIG, what have you, they need to fail no matter how big they may be, no matter the frantic and overblown predictions of economic demise. We\u2019ve had many investment banks go south. We had a whole savings and loan industry go south. We\u2019re here in more prosperity — Obama so full of it. America\u2019s better today than it was yesterday; it\u2019s going to be better tomorrow than it was today. When he says America is not what it was, tell me when it was better, sir. Even for you. You, sir, got rich during the Bush years. The Clintons got rich during the Bush years. And you whine and moan about the Bush years! You couldn\u2019t even afford a rental car in LA in 1996. You got kicked out of the Democrat convention \u2019cause you couldn\u2019t get a credential. It took George Bush getting elected in year 2000 for you to actually arrive and have some money, that and meeting Tony Rezko. But it happened during the Bush years. <\/p>\n

All these companies we\u2019re talking about here are international companies. We\u2019re not only bailing out American investors and customers, but investors and customers worldwide. The issue here I don\u2019t think is regulation. The issue is the wrong kind of regulation, the wrong kind of regulating. To say that any industry in this country is free of regulation is utterly ignorant. You cannot build an extension on your home without receiving an endless number of permits from local government. Hell, half the time you can\u2019t build a house where you want to build it because you gotta walk a tightrope and a minefield of environmentalist wacko regulations, stupid tax laws from your local community. In some places — ahem — you even have to get permission for the color of your house you\u2019re going to paint. Ahem. Some places you have to submit plans for the interior decorations that you are going to have. In some places don\u2019t you dare fly an American flag. And certain times of the year, don\u2019t you dare turn your lights on in your backyard because some turtles might head in the wrong direction, even when the turtles aren\u2019t there for three months, you can\u2019t turn your lights on in certain places in this country. We are so over-relegated, it\u2019s absurd! <\/p>\n

And now they want even more regulation, not just more regulation, they want to run the outfits they have been regulating. Unfortunately, liberals are demanding more and more low-interest loans for college, more great sounding populist interference with market forces, all while talking about we gotta get tuitions down, but they\u2019ll never do that. We never hear about the corrupt Big University, Big Education. They\u2019re ripping people off left and right, not only how they\u2019re not educating them, but what they\u2019re charging them not to be educated. The liberals whine and moan about the high cost of tuition but never do a damn thing about it because it\u2019s their buddies running the schools. Part of the old boys network and they\u2019re going to continue to make sure those old boys get paid well, the instructors, the professors, university presidents and so forth. Companies have to fail so that more capital doesn\u2019t follow bad capital and more risk doesn\u2019t follow already bad decisions. One of the reasons all this happened was that there was no risk, or there was thought to be no risk, government is going to bail everybody out here, thought these people, and so there was no responsibility. The whole concept of risk was lessened considerably. When you go into a risky situation thinking there isn\u2019t any, then what\u2019s to stop you? If you know on the back end that somebody\u2019s going to bail you out, then why even run the place responsibly? Why not just bleed it dry? Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae, hundred million bucks, now Obama\u2019s economic advisor. <\/p>\n

Government has got to recede from the market. Government must stop the imposition of political decisions in lieu of sound market decisions. A lot of people have gotten very rich from all this. See, that\u2019s the dirty little secret. Franklin Raines, a hundred million dollars in like seven years, running Fannie Mae into the ground, former Clinton administration official, now an Obama economic advisor. This is not American capitalism, what we\u2019re watching. As we sit here today, more and more areas of the economy are essentially being nationalized. The government is taking over the responsibility for more and more of these businesses. And I\u2019ll tell you, the auto companies, they\u2019re asking, they\u2019re knocking on the door, the airline industry, they\u2019re going to be next. The sad thing is executives of these places might welcome all of this. Get rid of the responsibility they have, they think. This is the same government, keep this in mind, my good friends, this is the same government that has imposed trillions and trillions of dollars in debt on our society through irresponsible and unsound entitlement programs, has no intention of stopping, and as I say, while they ran your mortgage industry into the ground, while they sat by and watched because of their own actions the value of your house plummet, they attack Big Oil as corrupt, they attack Wal-Mart, they attack Big Insurance, they attack Big Fast Food, they attack Big Trans-Fat, they attack Big Pharma. <\/p>\n

Their enemies list is the private sector of this country where you work. Their enemy, all of their enemies, are your employers. You have it, you can see, side by side, A-B comparison, government runs mortgages, what happens? Government gets in charge and runs health care, what happens? Government gets in charge, fixes poverty, Great Society, what happens? Affirmative action, feminism, you talk about creating a meaner America? It\u2019s liberal policies that pit groups of Americans against one another, on purpose. There needs to be a cleansing of this process at some point, folks. Either we take control of events and address them now or events will take control with disastrous consequences, if not for us, surely the next generation or two. And all those people making these decisions today, the members of Congress and all that will be long gone, but your kids and grandkids will not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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