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<\/a>\nI wrote my own stimulus plan to compete with Obama\u2019s shortly after he took office, it\u2019s published in the Wall Street Journal, here\u2019s what I would do. You\u2019re going to spend a trillion dollars on the stimulus? Well, give me 48% of it, which is the vote Republicans got. And let me do my magic with my 48% of the one trillion and I\u2019ll cut taxes. Real tax rate reductions, marginal tax rate reductions. I would zero out capital gains taxes. I\u2019d just cancel them for a year or two and maybe forever. I would reduce the corporate tax rate and get it down from 35 to ten. It\u2019s the consumer that pays corporate taxes anyway. I would do everything I could to increase the standard of living and mobilize, motivate, inspire people to go to work because there\u2019s going to be a payoff for it. I\u2019d get the government out of their way every which way I could, and I wouldn\u2019t care. I got the credit for it if anybody said it was my idea because they\u2019re not my ideas, they belong to Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, Washington, a bunch of people far smarter than any of us are.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You know, my friends, it\u2019s very simple — and I have used this phrase consistently over the course of my 20 plus years behind the Golden EIB Microphone — what I believe has made the country great. I\u2019ve addressed this. When I do my rare, overwhelmingly popular public appearances, I challenge the audience to think about something: ‘Do you ever wonder how it is, and why it became so, that a population at any one time of less than 300 million people created the highest standard of living? Progress, economic, political, education, by any standard you want to measure, the United States of America has been the greatest collection, population of human beings in the history of the world.\u2019 There have been civilizations, countries, and populations long before us that were the trademark of their day, their standard-bearers of their day.<\/p>\n
They can\u2019t compare to us, and they\u2019ve been around thousands of years. Now, what was it? What is it? What is it that makes three hundred million people special? Our DNA is no different than the ChiCom DNA. I\u2019m talking about in terms of humanity. Our DNA is no different than any other human being anywhere on earth or has ever been on earth. What is it about this 200, 300 million people that have created by far — there\u2019s no comparison — the greatest country and collection of human beings on the face of the earth for good? We feed the world, we relive the world, we repair the world. We defend the world. We have liberated hundreds of millions of people who have lived in bondage and slavery. What is it about us? We\u2019re not born special in terms of our DNA. What is it? I asked people to think about this \u2019cause I don\u2019t think they do.<\/p>\n
This is part and parcel of what I call American exceptionalism. What is American exceptionalism? It\u2019s not that we\u2019re better people. It\u2019s not that we\u2019re smarter. It\u2019s not that we have the advantage because of our geography, because we clearly don\u2019t. So what is it that sets us apart? There\u2019s one answer, and it\u2019s found in the Declaration of Independence: ‘We are all endowed by our Creator.\u2019 So we acknowledge God as a country. When we were founded, we acknowledged God: We were all created. We are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. Undeniable. They\u2019re just there. And they come from the Creator. Among them, but not just, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. That\u2019s pretty simple to me. Those three things, the acknowledgment of our creation by God — a loving God — that our spirit has this natural yearning to be free and to be happy and that there\u2019s nothing wrong with either of those.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s nothing wrong with being created, nothing wrong with being happy or trying to be, and there\u2019s certainly nothing wrong with living. It was that codification that made one crucial thing possible: And that is for ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things. Not the smartest, not the brightest, not the well born, not the richest. Ordinary. This is a nation that became the greatest nation in human history — in however many hundreds of thousands, billions, whatever years you want to say we\u2019ve been plodding the earth — because of ordinary people accomplishing extraordinary things, made possible by the fact that our country was founded acknowledging that our freedom comes from God. Not from a government and not from some other man or some other woman. It does not come from a demagogue. It does not come from somebody promising to take care of us. It inspired people to produce, to take care of themselves and anybody else that needed it in their community via their church or whatever neighborhood organization they happened to belong to. That\u2019s what\u2019s been lost. Too many people think that without government doing the right things, we can\u2019t succeed — and the government, when run by people like are running it now, get in the way and make it impossible for ordinary people to do anything extraordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: I probably shouldn\u2019t say this. Every time I say, ‘I shouldn\u2019t say this,\u2019 the staff on the other side of the glass says, ‘You better say it now.\u2019 We have a lot of mission statements coming out. We have the Mount Vernon Statement, all good people. They are reprising a statement on conservatism that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n