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March 3, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 3, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, yes, yes, I know.
I'm the little coughing spasm here.
You could see that in there.
You'd have to tell me that it was time to start.
I knew that.
Still a host.
Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limboy and uh broadcast excellence here as we kick off a brand new week.
Phone number if you want to join us is 800-282-2882, the uh email address uh lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh again a reminder of the Ditto Cam, we are not using the Ditto Cam today because I'm I've got this this respiratory flu, crud, whatever it is, and I sense the joint soreness now sweeping over me.
Uh Snerdley has had it.
Uh computer guy, uh Scott Schaeffer's had it.
They still might have caught it from him.
Uh who knows.
Anyway, uh not a pleasant sight here today, and that's why we've got the ditto cam off.
Hopefully we'll we'll have it back on tomorrow.
Now I've I've got to do something here to open this hour of uh today's excursion into broadcast excellence, and as I need to apologize to both Senator Obama and to uh Senator McCain.
We had a caller, the last caller of the hour.
Who name was Tammy, is that right?
What what we were talking about uh McCain and uh or Hillary and Obama in that race with her, right?
Obama Obama's qualifications, and she told me what her 12-year-old's is that right, 12-year-old's reaction to Obama was that uh he little 12-year-old thought Obama looked like Curious George, and I chuckled.
And we went to a break.
I'd never heard of Curious George.
Uh only now have staffers sent me little pictures of Curious George.
Never heard of Curious Folks, when I was a kid, the last cartoon ever watched No, I didn't watch Mighty Mouse.
I never watched Mighty.
This is the whole point.
I I I watched what are the cartoons I watched.
I watched Yogi Bear, Jellystone Park.
I watched the Flintstones, The Wacky Racers, which was hilarious.
Well, I don't know about this Curious George character.
I had no idea Curious George was a monkey.
So n the Jetsons, I didn't like the Jetsons.
I didn't like the Jetsons.
I didn't like this is the whole point.
I didn't read comic books.
I did not did not watch cartoons.
Well, I did like El Cabong, you know, Quick Draw McGraw, that sort of but I did not I did not watch cart Nope, did not never read Batman, never read Superman, never read Flash, I didn't read comic books.
There was one time it was a com my mother was gonna have to be gone, so she made me heat up uh Swanson's fried chicken TV dinner.
And I wanted to read something while I was in there with some cartoon.
I can't even say what the comic book was.
But uh oh, I also watched Clutch Cargo.
But I didn't I have no idea who this mighty or this this Curious George guy was.
Now I do.
So I wish to apologize to both Senator Obama and Senator McCain.
It was not it was not my intent to bring dishonor and and uh uh guttural uh utterances uh into this campaign.
It happened.
I laughed about it.
It was a 12-year-old kid's reaction to Obama.
It was told by his mother.
I was laughing because I was being polite, but I'd never heard of Curious George.
I still don't know what the deal is.
I mean, I see the picture's not Curious George, but I have no clue what Curious George does.
I don't I don't I just I don't know.
And Dawn stunned me.
Well, yeah, Curious George was around when you were growing up.
Well first I have heard, in fact, I can tell I have never seen a cartoon starring a monkey.
And so, unless there was one on the Jetson or on the Flintstones, but I think those were dinosaurs and alligators.
So at any rate, uh, we have fired the caller Tammy.
Um we're not gonna put up with this on this program, ladies.
We're not we're not we're we're not gonna tolerate this kind of stuff on this program, and I do officially apologize to both Senator Obama and to Senator McCain.
Well, why aren't you apologizing to Hit uh Hillary?
Well, she's probably happy it happened.
Uh I guess I better apologize for saying that.
But you see, you see, ladies and gentlemen, what what this I'm doing this as an illustration for you of how uptight intense everybody's gonna be with any kind of criticism of Barack Obama on the Republican side.
I think we may set a record in this upcoming campaign.
If Obama is the nominee, we may set a record for the number of apologies to him and his campaign by various Republicans and so forth.
So that's that I regret that it happened.
I can't use the McCain excuse that I wasn't here because I was here.
Well, I know I'm here, but I'm not really here.
And it was the end, it was coming up on a hard break, and it's just being polite to the caller.
Do I know who Snoopy?
You know something?
She just asked me, I know who I have never once watched a Snoopy television show.
I have never read, I have never read a Snoopy book.
I have seen Snoopy on the blimp, covering golf tournaments, and but I have not no, I'm telling you, I was into the cerebral pursuits.
I'm telling you, when I was a kid, all I wanted to do was be older.
I didn't want to be identified as doing anything that kids did.
So no.
Well, fine, adults watch Snoopy.
I didn't.
I did watch Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer at Christmas time.
Thought that was cool.
Um I really got into Christmas stuff.
I still do, as you all know, but I did not.
I mean, I know the Snoopy story.
You got the line, you got the Linus character, you got what's her name?
They're always denying Charlie Brown a ball?
Lucy.
Lucy's always, you know, Charlie Brown's the nerd.
He's the brunt of all the jokes.
I don't know what Snoopy does in those in that.
I don't Snoopy sits on top of the doghouse.
I don't know what he does.
I just know the character Snoopy.
I have never read.
Where did he even was Snoopy in the newspapers?
Okay, were there comic books with Snoopy?
The Charlie Brown strip, it's Snoop.
Okay.
I never read the comic pages in a newspaper.
I did not read the comic pages in the newspaper.
I didn't do the crossword puzzle.
I didn't read classified ads.
I went to the editorial page, I went to the sports page, and that that's that was my extent of using.
And sometimes, you know, the news section is over, but I did not read the comics.
And that's why I never heard of this loco weed, Crazy George or Curious George, whatever his name is.
Curious George.
I have never watched an episode of The Simpsons.
I have seen The Simpsons when it's been on other people's TVs, I have keep walking.
I'm not big, I'm not big into animation.
I'm in the I keep telling you, I'm into what's real, the right now.
I don't animated stuff leaves me cold.
I did watch I got roped into this.
Somebody I did watch Finding Nemo.
Did watch Finding Nemo.
The funniest part of that movement was in the sharks.
They're having a 12-step meeting to get over their addiction of eating little fish like Captain Captain Nemo or little Nemo.
When I first heard about finding Nemo, I thought it was a Captain Nemo of the Nautilus.
You know, some little goldfish swimming around.
But there was a funny line in that movie.
Uh uh, what is it?
Uh oh, they call seagulls sea rats.
That's exactly.
That's exactly what they are.
You ever wondered why there aren't more as many eagles as there are seagulls?
Wouldn't the world be a greater place if there were more pelicans than there were seagulls?
I understand why.
Um but we can all dream, we can all have hope for the future that the pelican population might someday under overwhelm the seagull population.
Anyway, I've got to take a brief time out.
There's big controversy over what happened yesterday on the outlook pages of the Washington Post, a uh column that was written by a woman, and the headline of the, and this is why I thought today was Hillary is Really bringing out the worst in everybody, particularly women on her side.
The woman's name is Charlotte Allen.
We scream, we swoon.
How dumb can we get?
And she's talking about women swooning and fainting in Obama audiences and so forth.
And how this looks bad for feminism and so forth.
And it was it really caused quite a uh act outrageous reaction.
And in fact, they changed a headline.
From the original headline was We Scream, we soon, how dumb uh we swoon, how dumb can we get them?
They changed headline on the website to uh we scream, we swoon.
Now why do we look so dumb?
And now the editor of the Washington Post Outlook says, It was a parody.
It was tongue in cheek.
Oh, really?
Well, we'll examine it when we uh when we get back.
Sit tight, folks.
Don't go away.
Oh, wonderful.
All right, we're back.
Rush Limbaugh here, the uh cutting edge of societal evolution.
It says Tanisha in uh Chicago.
Hi, Tanisha, nice to have you on the program.
Hi.
You know what, Rush?
I just wanted to say um, first of all, I think you are lying.
There is no way you have never heard of Curious George, no way possible.
And it's people like you that's making this whole election something that it's really not supposed to be.
And you're digging deep, just like Hillary in her camp, digging deep, and so you're gonna get real down and dirty.
And that's what this is all about right now.
And it's really a shame.
It's sad, and it really shows that you have no class.
Uh I have no class.
Well, sorry you think that, Tanisha.
By the way, Tanisha, one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
But I have um I honest goodness, I'd never heard of Curious George until I'm still getting people's sending me emails.
It wasn't a cartoon, it was children's books.
Everyone that you name, Rush, you had seen before.
Everyone that you named.
What do you mean everyone?
Every person, and you say Superman, Batman, Dead.
No, I have I have where we go with this.
You never went to the library, uh, Rush.
You never had family members.
Books.
No family members that would have possibly had a Curious George book.
Uh Tanisha, all I can tell you is I never heard of Curious George until today.
I never saw Curious George until today.
I didn't know Curious George was a monkey until my North Carolina mistress sends me an email after that segment.
Okay, well, I really don't believe that.
And I just think that that's really a shame.
Well, and the the real shame here is that you have such a shame is that you laugh.
That's not being polite, but being yourself.
I was being polite to a caller.
The shame is You are being polite.
What was polite about that?
You are being prejudiced and biased, and that's the shame because you are unwilling to accept the truth.
Back to you.
What's the truth?
How often do you listen to this program out there, Tanisha?
Every day.
Really?
Well, what else am I lying about?
All the time.
Yeah, I figured.
Right.
So I lie about everything, huh?
Okay, have a good day, Russ.
Thanks, Tanisha.
Really cool.
Really, really cool.
Really cool.
I had to ask these guys.
Did I laugh after she because when I got the note from the North Carolina mistresses?
Oh Lord.
Did I laugh?
They said, Yeah, Brian started laughing.
Yes, you did.
You let.
All right.
Well, Mike and Louisville, you're next in the EIB network, sir.
Hello, great to have you here.
Greetings, Rush, mega diddos.
I'm a little baffled by the media's take on McCain and his need to get conservatives on board or whatever it was they put it.
It's obvious that McCain doesn't care about conservatives or our issues.
He's gonna be as liberal as he wants to be, because he knows we're not gonna vote for a Democrat.
Can you maybe clarify how they're reading this?
Because I mean that that to me is obvious that he just doesn't care about conservatives.
He's not a good thing.
Okay, all right.
Well, let me see if if if you think that McCain doesn't care about conservatives, then why do you think the drive-bys care that McCain should care about conservatives?
Um I I'm at a loss.
I I d I don't understand.
I mean, uh to me, you know, the conservatives have no candidates here.
And I don't know if they're trying to keep using the city.
Well, we've got a candidate.
We got a candidate, we just don't have a thoroughbred, that's all.
But we I mean, we're not conservatives aren't gonna vote for Hillary or Obama.
Right.
And that's what McCain's planning on, and so he's just gonna be as liberal as he wants to be.
He doesn't care about conservatives.
Yeah, no, it's funny.
No, that's frustrating because that's not the way to win the election.
Uh it just isn't.
Anyway, look, I appreciate out there um uh Mike.
This is uh Sandy in Dayton, Ohio.
Great to have you here on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
I listen to you every chance I get when I'm in the car.
And I just wanted to make a comment about uh Tanisha calling in and saying how you were lying that you'd never heard of Curious George.
I am also close to your age.
I had never heard of Curious George either.
And I just can't understand what the big issue is.
You know, there are a lot of books, a lot of cartoons or whatever that people never heard of.
That's not the point.
Exactly.
It's not the point.
The point the point is that there are Obama supporters out there waiting, monitoring for any thing that they can start accusing people of that's racist.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Or bigoted or or what have you.
That's a why this is why the Republican National Committee is working on his memorandum to everybody.
Don't criticize Obama.
Don't they need to stand up and I I can't say what they need to grow.
But sorry.
They just need to it's not racist.
It just he's a candidate for president.
You ever heard of Howard Cosell?
Oh, yes.
Well, you know, Howard Cosell was raked over the coals for describing a Washington Redskins running back.
I think it was maybe it was a Baltimore Colt Rick.
I don't even remember watching the Redskins running back as monkey and and uh he survived because he's a big lib, where Jimmy the Greek was sent packing.
Right.
But um the Obama people are gonna be out there and and and this is uh this is one of the examples that uh I could I could use uh i I know Kosell called his grandchildren little monkeys, but but that didn't fly at first.
That didn't fly at first.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So there's a there's a there's a big sensitivity to this.
This is why I say the race business is only going to get bigger with Obama's allegory.
It's not gonna go away.
People are not gonna conclude, all right, we've shed our racist past.
It's gonna get worse.
I appreciate the call, Sandy so uh so much.
Phil in Reston, Virginia.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Yada diddos.
Thank you, sir.
Um I'm among those who take exception to the concept that Republicans should vote in the primaries for either of the Democratic Party presidential candidates.
Okay.
I think in a way it's almost insulting their principles, being uh because they're being told to abandon them and vote for candidates in the party that they don't support, just so they can prop up a Republican and a Republican party that many of them really are not happy with.
So instead of just um simply objecting, I wanted to suggest to you and the Texans and Ohioans that perhaps a more significant voting strategy, and that would be to write in the best conservative candidate they can think of.
And it wouldn't even need to be someone who's in the running, but just someone who they believe in as a conservative.
Um there's one name I would suggest, and uh actually he's a Democrat, but he's more conservative, and that would be Zell Miller.
My reason for suggesting him would be because number one, he spoke at the Republican convention during uh George Bush's nomination, and really basically separated from his party.
He is regarded as a conservative.
And um, they drummed him out of the party.
He didn't they threw him out.
They don't have mavericks of the Democrat Party.
So, right.
So my the point in doing this would be to basically send a message to the Republican Party and especially to the liberal faction and saying by saying um we could we're s uh so uh behind our principles, so supportive of our principles that we're willing to go to someone else from another party rather than you know it's it's an intriguing thought.
I just I think at this at this stage of the game, I I don't I don't think the Republican hierarchy and the McCain campaign really care that much about conservative principles.
But it's a good idea.
And we are back.
I'm firmly ensconced here behind the golden EIB microphone, Rush Limboy at 800 282-2882.
All right, Phil in Reston Virginia, interesting idea.
He said this strategery of mine is causing Republicans to vote against their own principles by going in there and voting for Hillary in order to sustain a Democrat race.
That what they shouldn't do instead is write in a Democrat like Zell Miller or some conservative on the Republican side to send a message to the Republicans, McCain campaign, the RNC that uh dissatisfied.
I think they know that, and I don't think they care.
But let me his it's an interesting idea.
I mean, I I'm sensitive to the fact that some of you may have be violating your principles to do this, if indeed you are, or if you are uh thinking about it.
However, uh let me explain the strategy to you, ladies and gentlemen, and preface it by saying that either one of these two, Obama or Hillary, are unacceptable.
They need to be beaten.
I don't have confidence our side's gonna do what it takes to beat them.
Is this I just I'm not confident.
I would love to be wrong, and I hope that I see signs, but I don't I I don't I I see the Democrats as warriors.
And I see them in this uh the way people are in in it for blood sports.
I mean, they they want to wipe us out.
I'm talking politically now, and there's nothing wrong with that, by the way, but I think that should be the objective.
If you have things you really believe, I don't care how wrong they are, and you don't want people standing in your way, then fine.
Get rid of your enemy.
That's what they are trying to do.
And they have succeeded.
They have look at the people they've gone after Robert Board, Clarence Thomas, Alberto Gonzalez, uh any any number of judicial nominees, where the list is so long, you don't need me to remind you of what it is.
And in warfare, and I said I I think this is war.
This is political war.
This is not Civics 101.
It's not it's not good government 101 that you learn when you're a freshman in high school or college.
This is for keeps.
It's about the future of the country.
We have two completely different views of how this country ought to be.
On our side, we believe in the traditions and institutions that made the country great, and we want to keep it great and have it become even greater.
The other side, you got people who don't like the way the country is.
They don't like entrepreneurial capitalism.
They don't like liberty.
They don't like people having a lot of say so in freedom.
If that sounds outrageous to you, I'll again just call your attention to all the lunacy on the left about changing out light bulbs and doing all these other crazy things the way you can and can't use your property in order to protect a snail darter or a kangaroo rat or what have you.
Uh we don't look at that.
We have faith in people.
We have hope.
We have we have a uh trust that the American people, if if left alone, certainly are competent and have the ambition and the desire necessary to achieve their dreams.
And we want to encourage people and have dreams.
The Democrats want to kill dreams.
The Democrats are the drive-by media, the liberals, everything they say is is is fatalistic.
It's filled with doom and gloom.
They're trying to destroy anybody.
I mean it's a joke for Obama to be running around talking about hope.
He's offering none.
Listen to the way they talk about the country.
Now, the the point is they have to be defeated.
I want our side to win, even though we've got a candidate that wouldn't be my first choice, but I do want our side to win.
I'm not sure our side's gonna play to win.
I don't know how many warriors we have on our side.
So if our political enemy, in this case a Democrat Party, is in the midst of all of this chaos and turmoil, and if Mrs. Clinton and Senator Obama are in the process of ripping each other to shreds, we need to help that along.
Now, I'm gonna sound like a broken record here, but Mrs. Clinton, should she get the nomination, already half the country hates her.
She's got the highest disapproval numbers, the highest negatives of anybody that's ever run for office.
Obama doesn't have that.
Somebody's going to have to bloody Obama up.
Our side's not going to do it.
Mrs. Clinton's in the process of trying, uh, as are the uh people in the Clinton campaign, and the Obama people are throwing the mud back.
And I just think that this ought to continue because ultimately is it is about our principles.
Uh It is about our view of the greatness of the country, triumphing.
Or as close to it as we can get, and certainly Obama and Hillary are not anywhere near close to what we think the greatness of the country is.
Just listen to the things that they say they're gonna do.
And I just as soon take them at their word.
Why risk that they're just teasing?
So that is the reason behind my strategy of suggesting that we do what's necessary to keep the turmoil and chaos in the Democrat Party on.
Uh plus it will be fun.
If they get down to a brokered convention, and it looks like that's possible.
It looks like it's more possible than not.
If they get down to a brokered convention, why by the way, McCain's out of money.
He doesn't have much money he can if if if until September comes around, if the FEC rules, as a lot of people think that they uh that they will.
So I'm I'm not urging people to check principles at the door when you go into these primaries in Ohio or Texas.
Actually, quite the contrary.
Uh this is about doing what it takes to keep the opposition in a mess, disorganized, ununified, if you will, uh, and warring with each other rather than our guy.
Because that's gonna start soon enough.
Uh here's Gerald in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Hi, Gerald, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Russ, it's great to finally talk to you.
Thank you.
I've been listening for about two or three years now.
Appreciate that.
And I just felt that I had to call in because I'm uh black male from Little Rock, Arkansas, 25 years old, and certified black enough to criticize Tanisha.
Uh anybody who listens to your show long enough and hard enough is gonna realize that you spit too much truth out of your mouth in order for us to pull it in and use it and do our own research from what you say for anybody who's an actual listener to this show to say, oh, well, he lies all day long, and uh he knew what he was doing, and he was laughing about the fact that she said he looked like a m that that's ridiculous.
And I know where she's coming from because I argue with people like her every single day.
They feel like the wraith card can still be played, and to me it's frankly ridiculous because I'm a single father, don't have a college degree, but I've got a great job, been in the military for eight years, and it is on me how well or how horrible my family does.
Not President Bush, not President Obama or Clinton or McCain.
It is on me and my family, and that's what conservatives is all about.
Amen.
You are exactly right.
Well, uh as far as Tanisha's concern, I I think I think you nailed it.
There are people just waiting for this kind of thing to happen.
It's an excuse for them not advancing, and it's an excuse everybody needs somebody else to blame for their shortcomings or their failures or what have you.
Uh and and if uh if if women can blame uh sexism for it, certain minorities can say it's bigotry or racism.
Uh you have the Democrat Party come along and they want to promote all that or make as many people victims uh of uh all these isms as they as they possibly can.
But, you know, as far as I'm concerned, I think Tanisha should be the one on the hot seat.
I mean, somebody's gonna call up and say you lie about everything.
You know.
That's this is I don't believe you never read Superman.
I don't believe you excuse me, Red Batman, all those things.
Um there are probably a lot of people who haven't.
I mean we make these universal assumptions that see, even my own staff is thinking that I'm wrong about this.
Uh in terms of who hasn't and who hasn't seen these what are you saying?
Boys boys read Yeah.
Yeah.
I never read a Spider Man either, by the way, until I saw one of these movies.
I Still haven't read a Spider Man.
I did not go to comic book stores.
My parents did not read me stories that when I went that I can remember, my parents did not do this.
I was not deprived.
I was not how By the way, out there, Gerald, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Thank you for eight years in the military.
God bless you.
So now I'm deprived.
Deprived because I didn't read the worthless, specious little thing.
All right, take it.
Okay, I take it back.
Life lessons, yeah, they're lifeless.
Okay, fine and Andy.
Uh I'm I'm sure that's true.
I'm sure that's true.
Life lessons in The Simpsons, Life Lessons in the King of the Hill, Life Lessons and all these.
Yeah, I'm sure that's true.
Mighty Mouse, life lessons.
Oh!
I'll tell one of my favorite cartoons.
Boris Bentonoff and Natasha Bullwinkle.
Now, there was a sophisticated, genuinely funny cartoon.
You what people I hated being a kid.
I hated it.
I wanted to be older.
I still want to be older.
And I've because I've always believed that the older I got, the better life would be getting.
And it has been true with the passing of every year.
Then I gotta take a brief time out here, folks.
Sit tight, we'll be back and continue on the EIB network after this.
Now what's so funny in there?
There's a story here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, it's uh it's actually been on website a little earlier than now, but just been reminded of it's by Mike Glover, the Associated Press.
Clinton suggests that she she will stay in the race.
This is true, this will be maybe the only, but if not the only, one of the few, really few women who's ever done what I asked them to do.
Uh back to the phones.
Mark in Reading, California.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hello?
Yeah, hi, Mark.
Hey, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I'll get right to the point.
Let me give a quick shout out to my fellow ditto heads, uh, Tim and Susie out there on their route.
Uh I want to back you up on this Tanisha thing.
I know for a fact, even though she knows that you're lying, I know that you're not.
Because you don't have any kids, right?
I do not have any kids.
No, I do not have any kids.
You're not gonna have a kid.
I don't have any kids' books in my house.
I've never had a kid's book in my house.
And then and you're not gonna know who Curious George is.
I have kids, and I barely know who he is.
So uh I just wanted to back you up on that, and and plus I think Tanisha needs to get off of her whining.
You know, I am an I am an ethnic person also, but before that, I'm an American.
I'm an American with an ethnic background.
And and and you gotta quit whining about your ethnicity.
Be proud of it, be who you are, but don't let anybody put you down because of it.
Not only that, well, there's other things I'd like to say, but this is not gonna end.
I mean, this is only this is only gonna get worse.
There's a there's a whole race industry in this country, a cottage, and there's to keep this kind of stuff alive and growing.
It's a bit of business.
And there are people that are earning a pretty good living, uh you know, running around promoting a concept of uh never-ending and worsening, in fact, American races.
So I I hate that, Rush, because you know that's what keeps people down.
I don't care what I'm saying.
I dislike it too, but there's a way here, you know, that the all of this stuff gets wrapped up in political correctness, and people end up afraid to say things that are that with with about which there's nothing wrong uh whatsoever.
Uh it I don't know.
I've I'm sitting here, I'm suffering the radio, I'm delirious with the fever here, and I'm I'm having trouble putting a cogent thought here together, but I'm repeating what I've said earlier because I remember that.
This is this this is this is political war, and and and too many on our side are not willing to engage it and fight it.
Well, I'll tell you what, I'm I'm ready to engage it and fight it.
I'm doing my part.
Well, I appreciate that.
Don't let any don't don't don't let anybody talk you out of it either.
Uh Apple Valley, California.
Hi, David.
I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you here on the EIB network.
Hey, hi, Rush.
Hi.
Uh my question is this.
Um I'm really uh I I think I've always decided to vote for Barack and because of this.
I don't see a problem with a with socialism.
Socialism, the way I understand it.
And I think the way I understand socialism it might be wrong, but can there be a could there possibly be a way to have a compassionate socialism type system in America?
By definition.
It's an illusion, but it cannot achieve it.
It cannot achieve equality like it promises unless everybody's equally miserable.
That's a problem.
That if you outpace somebody else, out earn somebody else, then you have to be punished for that.
And that of course is not compassionate.
There's nothing about socialism.
It appears to be.
I mean, it's 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's never solved a problem.
Round the world.
But it will make people who who believe in socialism feel better about themselves because it'll it'll make them think their lives have meaning and that they care.
Uh and that they're oriented toward having all these uh inequities and ills and societal problems fixed.
Now, so then is national health care uh social socialism, in your opinion.
Uh oh, absolutely.
It's a disaster, too.
Look at anywhere they've got it.
Great Britain it's it's literally falling apart.
Canada, the same thing.
It doesn't work.
You end up with the wealthy go able to go buy their own health care somewhere else, doctors opt out of the system, uh, and make contracts with individuals who can afford their own health care and it it it doesn't work.
Services are not provided to people, they're waiting lines uh for you know sometimes essential surgeries in Great Britain.
But the biggest problem with socialism, David, if I don't have a whole lot of time, but the biggest problem of socialism is it robs individuals of their own identity, their own ambition, uh their own desires and their own passions, and it robs them of their dreams because it doesn't allow any of that.
Well, because I'm just wondering, you know, I I know that a lot there's a lot of things we do for some people.
Like you have to go to school until you're, I guess, what, sixteen, seven, eighteen, or truancy and that kind of thing.
So that's is that socialism in your mind too?
Uh no, uh uh th the you know the public education system in the country is w what's bad about it is that the government running it has has given it all kinds of problems.
If it were privatized, and you still mandate that kids get an education, nothing wrong with it, but we're privatized if people actually were doing it to make a profit and they were measured against other schools by virtue of the performance of the students, ra rather than oriented toward protecting the teachers, whether they're any good or not, then you'd have a whole different education structure in this country, but you can still mandate that kids go.
You can pass whatever law you want.
Socialism, uh again, I'm gonna have forty-five seconds here, but but socialism uh is is basically the government involved in as much as possible or everything, and they are the final arbiter.
They are the decision maker.
They tell you what you can and can't do, when you can and can't do it, what you can and can't say, uh, and what happens to you if you violate any of these rules.
But it but beyond all that, it just it 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.
Uh it eschews the ownership of private property, limiting people's use of their own property for number thing.
It's a bad, bad deal out there, David.
It's very bad.
Well, that's it for today, folks.
Uh Super Duper Tuesday two is tomorrow.
I want to do everything I can to be in here.
But uh it all depends on how it goes with the ravages of this virus or whatever it is, infection.
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