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Nov. 27, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 27, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And mentioned last night I was doing show prep last night, uh, usual routine, and I ran across this I don't actually know what it's called, the uh latest papal offering statement from Pope Francis.
Now, up until this, I'm not Catholic.
Up until this, I I have to tell you, I was I was admiring the man.
I thought he was going a little overboard on the common man touch.
And I thought there might have been a little bit of PR involved there.
But nevertheless, I was willing to cut him some slack.
I mean, if he wants to portray himself as still from the streets of where he came from and and is not in anything special, not aristocratic, if he wants to eschew the uh physical trappings of the Vatican, okay, cool, fine.
But this that I came across last night, I mean, it totally befuddled me.
If it weren't for capitalism, I don't know where the Catholic Church would be.
Now as I mentioned before, I'm not Catholic.
Um I admire it profoundly, and I've been tempted a number of times to delve deeper into it.
But the Pope here has now gone beyond Catholicism here, and this is pure political.
And I want to share with you some of this stuff.
Pope Francis attacked unfettered capitalism as a new tyranny.
He beseeched global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality.
In a document on Tuesday, setting out a platform for his papacy and calling for a renewal of the Catholic Church.
In it, Pope Francis went further than previous comments criticizing the global economic system, attacking the idolatry of money.
I gotta be very careful.
I have been numerous times to the Vatican.
It wouldn't exist without tons of money.
But regardless what this is, somebody has either written this for him or gotten to him.
This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the Pope.
There's no such unfettered capitalism that doesn't exist anywhere.
Unfettered capitalism is a liberal socialist phrase to describe the United States.
Unfettered, unregulated.
What are the folks?
In the in the in recent weeks, I have uh endeavored to get you to understand or try to make you understand how it is that people like modern age democrats look at small business and business at large.
They do not, in the terms of small business, understand how fragile it is.
Their view of business is that people who own them or run them cheat their customers, abuse their employees, hoard all the money, and they have tons of it.
And they take it and keep it for themselves.
They deny their employers or their employees a livable wage, they deny them health care, they deny them benefits.
They produce products that kill and maim and sicken.
Or they produce products that destroy the planet, destroy The environment or what have you.
I mean, it's it's a litany.
And this is their view.
And it is why they claim that they must take it over and control it, because it's inherently unfair that a select few capitalists rip everybody off, rip off their employees, rip off their customers, and that's how you have unequal incomes in this vast gap between wealth and poverty.
And it's all because of capitalism.
And so they claim that as socialists or reformers or progressives, that they are fair and compassionate.
And they will they will they will make that gap between the wealth, uh wealthy and the poor narrower, and they will make life more equitable, and they will engage in uh equality of outcomes and so forth, and wherever they've tried, they've failed.
Wherever socialists have gained power, they have done nothing but spread poverty.
They cannot and do not produce wealth, they do not understand it, all they can do is destroy it.
They do not, they are not compassionate, they coerce.
And to hear the Pope regurgitating this stuff, I was I was profoundly disappointed.
The idolatry of money, urging politicians to attack the structural causes of inequality and strive to provide work, health care, and education to all citizens.
What has been happening in this country the past five years?
Exactly what this man claims to want.
We have a president who has attacked the structural causes of inequality, and what's he done?
He's raised taxes on the producers and the achievers for the express purpose of redistributing it.
All he's done is create massive debt.
He has destroyed jobs.
There are 91 and a half million Americans not working in America today.
91 and a half million not working.
All the while the president, 19 or 20 times says that he's doing nothing but focusing on creating jobs.
But he can't.
No government can create jobs, not in the private sector.
All they can do is hamper job creation.
Now, if government wants to deregulate and get out of the way, then job creation will take place.
What is capitalism?
The value of anything is established in the private sector.
That's where the value of money is established.
That's where the value of work is established, the value of whatever it is you want to buy or trade, the private sector, capitalism is where that value is established, not by government proclaiming it.
The Pope also called on rich people to share their wealth.
We were just talking about the charitable donations and contributions that exist in this country, and they are profound.
The United States is near the top of the list in the world of charitable countries.
But even with all the charity, and it is tremendous, it cannot compete with capitalism in elevating people out of poverty.
There is nothing the world has ever devised that has elevated more people out of poverty than capitalism.
I mean, look at the United States.
How can you deny?
How can anybody objectively analyzing and looking deny the United States became a superpower?
In less than 250 years, the United States became a military, economic superpower devoted to the concepts of freedom here and everywhere else around the world.
We were the defenders of freedom, our own and others.
In less than 250 years, a nation of, for the most part, fewer than 300 million people, produced an economy that created the highest standard of living the world has ever known, fed the world, produced so much food, more than we ever needed ourselves.
We were able to feed the world.
And after doing all of that, we were able to provide disaster relief for anywhere else in the world that it occurred where it was accepted.
There's been nothing like the United States ever in world history.
Nothing, and certainly not for this length of time.
Nothing even compares.
And it goes back to what I've always talked about in regards to American exceptionalism.
What made this possible was our founding documents enshrining the notion that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, meaning nobody can take them away.
And that is the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Those rights come from our creator, God.
They are part of our natural existence.
We are born that way.
We are not granted these rights by a government or by a king or by a president.
The only thing that can happen to those rights is when people try to take them away or usurp them, which is what has been happening in this country since the day it was founded, because there are always people who oppose free societies.
A free society can't be controlled.
A free society can't be dominated.
A free society is very, very hard to pilfer and steal from a free society.
The United States and an honest, objective look at its history is all the proof you need to see the absolute benefits of capitalism.
That's what we were.
That's how we were founded.
There's nowhere in the world where any approaching the standard of living that we've had.
Now, it's true that leftists identified as democrats in this country disagree.
They think that standard of living is unjust and immoral.
Because not everybody has experienced it.
But our country is such that the opportunity is there for everybody.
No two people are the same.
No two sets of opportunities are the same.
Some people do have advantages over others, like the Kennedy's, for example, and other wealthy families, but they had to become wealthy in the first place.
Somewhere in every family's history is somebody who earned it.
So granted, you can be born into a specific family and have your wheels greased more than others, but it doesn't.
It doesn't impugn the system.
It doesn't impugn capitalism, because there isn't anything that approaches it.
There is nothing that gets even close to it.
Socialism does not eliminate poverty.
It does not lift people out of poverty.
Socialism does not create free people and societies, and it does not preside over massive charitable giving and compassion.
Socialism, Marxism constrain people, limits people, prevents people from realizing their potential as human beings.
The United States of America and its genuine exceptionalism has allowed people to reach the pinnacle of their ability combined with their ambition and desire.
Pretty much the one spot in the world, a couple others that a couple other societies that are free that have had similar characteristics and opportunities, but not formally enshrined, as have ours been.
This is a country where your dream can come true.
You can make your dream come true.
It's not going to be easy, it doesn't happen overnight, but it can come true.
Most of the people in the world, their dreams are nothing but that.
They start as dreams and they end as dreams.
And that's why people around the world have sought to come here.
So reading what the Pope has written about this is really befuddling because he's totally wrong.
I mean dramatically.
Embarrassingly, puzzlingly wrong.
Here's another excerpt.
Francis, Pope Francis said that trickle down policy.
Who already hear about trickle down policies?
Pope Francis said that trickle down policies have not been proven to work.
Oh, but they have.
It's exactly what Obama is trying to create, in fact, although he wouldn't dare call it that.
When you hear Obama talking about job creation and people going to work and roads and bridges being...
what the hell is it but trickle down?
The left has defined trickle down as the rich are compassionate and give people things.
And when that doesn't happen, they say that trickle down doesn't work.
The left has bastardized terms and definitions to the point that trickle down's become a dirty word.
Trickle down is human nature.
Trickle down is exactly what happens when you engage in economic activity.
You spend money, it trickles down to everybody you spend it with.
And then it trickles down to everybody they end up interacting with economically.
Trickle down is precisely what happens.
But the left has defined trickle down as the rich are supposed to give the money that they don't need away to people.
They're supposed to give products away, or they're supposed to give their employees massive rages that are not based in productivity, or they're supposed to give them health care.
And when the rich don't do that, that is an indictment of the rich, and that is an indictment of capitalism, and they say, see, it doesn't work because the rich don't share.
The rich hoard and they abuse and they impugn and they take advantage of and they steal.
And it's gotten to the point now that many people have been told that the rich got rich by stealing the money from the poor.
And I've never understood the mathematics of that.
If trickle-down economics doesn't work, why is Obama's Federal Reserve pumping 85 billion dollars with a B into the stock market every month?
What's supposed to happen to it if it doesn't trickle somewhere?
Trickle down is the magic.
And yet here's Pope Francis.
Trickle down policies have not been proven to work.
And they reflect a naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power.
There you go.
Exactly what I was saying.
Naive trust in the goodness of those wielding in other words, naive trust in the rich to be generous with their money, but they never are.
You see, these people have five or six billion dollars and they don't give it to anybody.
And that means capitalism doesn't work.
Nobody needs six billion dollars.
Who the hell do they think they are?
We need to go take that money.
That's more than they need.
Nobody has the right to determine what anybody needs.
And the minute you let somebody do that for you, you are surrendering total control of your life.
It's not Obama's business what anybody needs.
It's not a matter of need.
In the United States, we deal with need and desire, need and want, and everybody benefits.
If they're willing to work.
There's much more to this, too.
You know, there's a good it's a good way to sum up the way the left sees businessmen.
And I will share it with you when we get back.
I watch a television show from the BBC called Ripper Street.
And it's a crime drama way back in the Jack the Ripper days of London.
And in the most recent episode, the evil banker character, he's a not every episode, this this episode did with an evil banker who had sold phony investments in tin and copper in the Argentine.
And a lot of people lost everything.
And this particular guy also had a bias against gays and was dispatching one of his minions out to kill them.
So a dual-edged anti conservative theme.
Big bankers equal cheating everybody, and plus they tag gays.
So the sheriff, or the chief constable finally corners the bad guy, the banker.
And he's preaching his morality to him, telling the banker how he's screwed up and how he's ruined lives.
The banker says to the chief constable, you and your laws.
You think, you think that there is right and wrong.
There is no right and wrong.
There is only profit and loss.
Gold is what runs the world, sir, not your doors and not right and wrong.
Profit and loss.
You concern yourself with your nose when there are only ledges.
I mean, just you couldn't have a more textbook attack on capital.
And that's how the left sees all of this.
Get to your phone calls when we come back.
Okay, uh now we're gonna get to your phone calls here in a jiffy, folks, very quickly, but just a couple of more things here on the latest anti-capitalist proclamation from the Pope.
I would be remiss if I did not point out Pope John Paul II, who had as his primary enemy communism.
Pope John Paul II largely credited with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher for the defeat of Soviet sponsored capitalism in Europe, the liberation of Poland.
And juxtaposed against the actions of Pope John Paul II, this Pope and the things that he released yesterday or recently are really striking.
There has been a longstanding, I don't know, quite tension between the Catholic Church and communism.
It's been around for quite a while.
That's what makes this to me really remarkable.
This is a this is an unfettered, you mean unfettered, this is an unfettered anti-capitalist dictate from Pope Francis.
And listen to this.
This is an actual quote from what he wrote.
The culture of prosperity deadens us.
We are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase.
In the meantime, all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle.
They failed to move us.
This that that's I mean that's pretty profound.
That that's going way matters that are ethical.
This this is a almost a statement about who should control financial markets.
And he says that the global economy needs government control.
And I'm telling you, I'm not Catholic, but I know enough to know that this would have been unthinkable for a Pope to believe or say just a few years ago.
But this passage, the culture of prosperity deadens us.
We are thrilled if the market offers us something new to buy.
In the meantime, all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle.
I am I'm I'm I have to tell you folks I am totally bewildered by this.
The Catholic Church, the American Catholic Church, has an annual budget of a hundred and seventy billion dollars.
And I think that's more than General Electric Earns every year.
And the Catholic Church of America is the largest landholder in Manhattan.
I mean, they're they have a lot of money.
They raise a lot of money.
They wouldn't be able to reach out the way they without a lot of money.
Anyway, that's it.
I've gone as far as my instincts tell me to go.
Made the point.
And now, my friends here on the day before Thanksgiving, we head back to the phones at Delmar, California.
Hi, Frank.
Really glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Well, a happy Thanksgiving and God bless Shelly.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate both putting me on.
We uh my bride of 47 years a couple weeks ago went out and bought your book, Rush Revere.
And uh we decided uh tomorrow, in lieu of talking about Obamacare, uh, we're going to uh relive Thanksgiving and what this country was founded on.
And so we're taking your book over to our son Scott's house and uh our uh other son Todd is going to join us, and we're gonna read excerpts from your book to our three grandchildren.
Are you really?
Are you that is they're going to enjoy it because uh when my wife bought this for our granddaughter age nine, uh she bought it knowing that she will understand the book and will actually enjoy reading it.
The illustrations are fabulous.
And uh, as I started perusing the book a little bit, uh I'd forgotten about uh the uh the uh now you can't remember what you forgot.
Well, of course I'm very good.
No, but but for the pilgrims actually started off from uh the Netherlands uh as they started to transition over here.
But your first line under notes from the author, we live in the greatest country on earth, the United States of America.
You know, we need to hear more of that.
That's exactly true, and we want to instill.
You know, I I am so happy to hear you say that because even today I'm I'm I'm 60, what am I?
62.
I still I I I I mean I understand it, but the the idea that somebody saying we live in the greatest country on earth is controversial.
Just continues to blow me away.
But it is, and that's why I'm glad you noticed that, Frank.
That's why that's the those are the first words.
This book is written for kids.
This book is written for 10 to 13, although I don't like to say that because it's actually we're we're we're targeting this for everybody and for families to share it with each other.
Uh we make the assumption that the people who buy the book understand and know the story, they were properly taught it, or are learning it in the book themselves, and can help to answer questions that their children or grandkids have as they read the book.
And then they can go further for information at our website, 2fbyt.com or the Rush Revere page, the Adventures of Rush Revere, and interact even more.
And we're constantly building that part of the website up.
But we do, we live in the greatest country on earth.
And it's not a braggadocious statement, is it?
It's it's a statement of fact, but it's a statement of deep appreciation.
There is a there's a lot of gratitude and thankfulness in that statement.
And I have a fervent desire that everybody think that way, or at least as many people as possible.
And so I I think this is great.
You are going, you see what he's talking about.
The the Obama people are organizing for action.
They've actually I've got the ten things that they want their people to try to dominate Thanksgiving dinner with.
I've got them here.
I'll I'll run through them quickly in a minute.
And this guy, old Frank in Delmar, California, is gonna read sections of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims at his Thanksgiving dinner.
I love you, Frank.
Frank, I tell you, hang on, because I want I want to send you an audio version of the book, because that's really good too.
And the reason it's good is because I did it.
It's four and a half hours, it's uh it's on CD, and it's uh we're gonna be playing A portion of it, in fact, as part of this program tomorrow.
Just to give you an idea of what the audio version of the book is.
So I take a quick time out here.
We'll be back and continue with more of your phone calls when we get back.
So don't go away, folks.
Now, by the way, in fairness to the Pope, and in fairness to the Catholic Church, I will admit that communism years ago was much easier to see and identify than it is today.
And the obvious evil that was communism was easy to see.
Soviet sponsored communism, the gulags, the first world military, the third world economy, the blustery behavior of Soviet communist party bosses, the constant Soviet expansionism in the Cuba and Sandinista Land and Nicaragua and everywhere.
Communism today is much more disguised.
Communism today, in large part, is the Democrat Party.
Communism today is in large part the feminist movement, for example.
Communism today is found in the in most of the AFL CIO type unions.
And as such, it seems just a political point of view.
It's just an alternative political point of view.
It's just the Democrats.
And it's a much tougher thing to identify and target.
Because it could be your neighbor.
It could be, it's not some foreign country easily identified as the evil empire.
Communism is a much different face today.
And identifying it is, I think, much more difficult today.
And takes much more guts to identify it today than in the past.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, the regime has just announced, this is breaking news.
The regime has just announced that it will not launch online enrollment in Obamacare for small business until November 2014 in another delay for Obamacare.
Now, this is not in the law.
This again is the president acting outside the boundaries of the law.
The president just cannot willy-nilly do this unless nobody tries to stop him.
So he just said, you know what?
We're not going to run the risk of a hundred million cancellations in small business before the election.
So we're going to delay the enrollment, online enrollment, website, mandatory enrollment for small business until after the elections next year.
And of course, the drive-by media is tweeting this all over the place now.
Ron Fournier, National Journal, another delay, another setback, another sign of mismanagement of Obamacare.
Yeah, Ron, that's mismanagement Obama.
There's nothing, there's nothing mismanagement about this at all.
This is a studious, purposeful strategic effort to keep people from understanding what they're going to be hit with until after the election.
It's not mismanagement.
The small business site was supposed to be ready this Sunday.
This Sunday, the small business site up and running, now delayed until November 2014, after the elections.
And back to the phones here just a second.
I want to go back to this quote from the Pope again from his...
There's a name for the document.
I just thought I can't think of it.
I don't have it in front of me.
The culture of prosperity deadens us.
We are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase.
In the meantime, all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity Seem a mere spectacle.
They fail to move us.
I'm not even sure what the connection there is.
But the we are thrilled in the if the market offers us something new to buy.
I guess there's something wrong with that.
We're not supposed to be thrilled if there's something new to buy.
Well, that's how I interpret it.
Now, let me give you a fascinating stat I just learned today.
The iPhone 5S, which is the top-of-the-line iPhone that was announced way back in September, has been in shortage ever since.
They have been unable to meet the demand for whatever reason.
They have just recently caught up.
And would you like to know how they did it?
They have put one million people on different assembly lines, six hundred employees per assembly line at the factory in China, at one factory where they are making 500,000 iPhones a day, and they still haven't caught up to demand.
That's a lot of people who are thrilled with something new to buy.
And there's a lot of people trying to make a lot of money on these places.
I mean, they're not paid what they're paid in America, but they're paid much higher than anybody else in China at these factories.
There's a lot of there's a lot of income being earned, there's a lot of product being made, there are a lot of taxes being paid, there's all kinds of economic activity taking place.
It is stunning.
100 production lines, 600 people per line, a total of more than 300,000 workers dedicated solely to building one product, the iPhone 5s, in one factory, and this company has many different factories.
500,000 phones a day, and they still haven't caught up.
Now there's a new phone from Motorola, the Moto X. It has sold 500,000 in one quarter.
And the iPhone 5S is selling 500,000 a day.
And that's even short of demand.
And that's a lot of people thrilled at something new to buy.
Nick, Naples, Florida, your next EIB network.
Hello, great to have you here.
God bless you, Rush.
This is such an honor to be able to speak with you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Yeah, I can finally cross this one off my bucket list.
So uh I just had a quick question for you.
Um I'm I'm curious.
I mean, I remember back when Obamacare was being passed, you had talked about um them wanting a single payer system even then, and even if it meant losing a few elections or or or the chaos that ensued, uh, that was for them almost a necessary evil.
So do you think that uh Democrats, when they're out looking at these uh poll numbers, do you think they're genuinely scared or is this all unfolding the way Oh, yeah, I do.
I really do.
I I think they're scared, and here's why.
Speaking bluntly, as I am uh sometimes known to do.
The Democrat Party exists in camouflage.
They cannot ever be honest in in national terms.
I mean, they can be honest with their voters in enclaves like New York or San Francisco, but nationally, they can't dare be honest about their agenda, or they'll lose.
They only represent 20% of the thinking in this country.
They they have this massive PR firm called the media that totally misrepresents who they are, what they are, and what their agenda is.
And and they live and die by polling numbers, Nick, because the polls are the indication of how well they are succeeding at camouflaging who they are.
The higher Obama is in the polls, approval, likability, all that, uh, the higher any Democrat is, what that means to them is the more people fooled.
The more people buying it.
As their poll numbers plummet, they fear that people are seeing the truth.
And they know they will lose if that keeps up.
And that's why you see Democrats Making noise about abandoning Obama.
I mean, they knew what they were doing when they voted for Obamacare.
They knew exactly what was going to happen.
But now they're asking for you to believe they didn't know this.
They had no intention of this happening, and they're running away from Obama.
It's all to cover the camouflage.
So, yeah, the polling numbers mean uh significant things.
They don't took as personal rejection or approval.
It's how well they're succeeding at fooling people.
Yeah, folks, make no mistake.
I mean, the Democrats they do want single payer, government-run, socialized medicine.
They do want that.
But they want to stay in office at the same time.
And all these cancellations equal a lot of angry voters.
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