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United Socialist States of America?
A monologue on what's at stake in this election.
United Socialist States of America?
September 17, 2008
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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
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'm 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's that now, by the way?
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't 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't 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've 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 'em 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.
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't oil now, and you know why they had to usher this
through? 'Cause they knew it was a losing issue for them. We had 'em right
between the eyes. We had 'em 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's the same, the Gang of Ten, gang of
16, now gang of 20 in the Senate -- oh, yeah, we're going to allow drilling,
we're going to drill, drill, drill, but it's 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't any oil, which they won't do.
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 & 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't have
solutions, my friends. All they have is blame. All they have is complaints.
Most of their complaints, as Barack's economic plan is, is a complaint about
capitalism. Why do they hate capitalism? Because they don't control it,
capitalism is where you have more
freedom and liberty, and they don't have any control. That's why they don't
like it. They just have blame for Republicans and Big Business. They have
been targeted for slaughter. They don't tell us what they're going to replace
all these things with, but by connecting the dots it's a no-brainer.
By the way, how is the state of Illinois being run by Obama, Daley, Durbin, et
cetera? Let's 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's a combat zone in
Chicago. Of course, they're all blaming each other. They can't blame any
Republicans in Chicago because there aren't 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?
I mentioned Michigan, look at Michigan. Liberals wreak havoc with everything
they touch. They wrecked the mortgage industry. They're 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's crunch
time in the big city.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: One more way of saying what I just said, ladies and gentlemen, and then
we will get to the phones. I know it's 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've had many investment banks go south. We had a whole
savings and loan industry go south. We're here in more prosperity -- Obama so
full of it. America's better today than it was yesterday; it's 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't even afford a rental car in LA in
1996. You got kicked out of the Democrat convention 'cause you couldn't 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.
All these companies we're talking about here are international companies.
We're not only bailing out American investors and customers, but investors and
customers worldwide. The issue here I don't 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't 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're 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't you
dare fly an American
flag. And certain times of the year, don't you dare turn your lights on in
your backyard because some turtles might head in the wrong direction, even when
the turtles aren't there for three months, you can't turn your lights on in
certain places in this country. We are so over-relegated, it's absurd!
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'll never do that. We never hear about the corrupt Big
University, Big Education. They're ripping people off left and right, not only
how they're not educating them, but what they're 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's their buddies running the schools. Part
of the old boys network and they're 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't follow bad
capital and more risk doesn't
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't any, then what's to stop you?
If you know on the back end that somebody's 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's economic advisor.
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's 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're
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'll tell you, the
auto companies, they're asking, they're knocking on the door, the airline
industry, they're 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.
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's 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.
END TRANSCRIPT
Read the Background Material...
• Wall Street Journal: Loosen Deposit Insurance Rules To Prevent a Bank Run
• Wall Street Journal: The Deeper the Downturn, the Quicker the Recovery
• Politico: Fed Bails Out AIG with $85B Loan
• AP: Obama buys 2-Minute Commercial On Economy
• National Review: Obama's Hypocrisy On Foreign Spending - Andy McCarthy
• HotAir: Obama: Hey, Remember When I Came Up With
The Plan For That Stimulus Bill? Democrats: Um, No
• Newsbusters: CNN's Crowley: Obama Team Wanted 'Horrific' Wall Street Headlines
• Investor's Business Daily: The Real Culprits In This Meltdown
• HotAir: Whose Policies Led To The Credit Crisis?
• American Thinker: Jamie Gorelick's Two Trillion Dollar Disasters
--- On Thu, 9/18/08, kangaroo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: kangaroo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Thailand protest Cambodia over troop intrusion
To: "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org"
<[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 12:54 PM
On Sep 17, 10:57 pm, rattanakiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Virak;
> I know many cambodian former refugee would like to disagree that Thailand
treated Cambodians better than Cambodia now...unless you think marching down
Phnom Dangkek, or living in concentration camps is Club Med, or eating at Hooter
with Monsieur Henri
If you really look back at the Cambodian history and the current
situation in the Cambodian society, one can come to a conclusion that
Cambodians are still fighting each other for power so they can corrupt
and to practice the culture of impunity over no one but their own
people in their own nation.
Cambodian people have been doing this for a very long time from one
generation to another.
Cambodians also have been searching ways to tacle their problems by
clinging to the same rhetorics.
The Cambodian culture cannot be changed. KhmerRouge tried to do it.
Yet, they could not succeed. Instead, they almost destroyed it to
ground zero.
Now, they are back to the same rhetorics. They corrupt and practice
the culture of impunity.What else is new?
In comparison, Thailand has been living in peace under their monarchy
lead. They brought their society to a higher standard. They continue
to make it better. Hence, there is no comparison between Cambodia and
Thailand.
So Cambodia would be better when they join Thailand as one nation.
> The game of cat and mouse of the Thai border guards with Khmer is larger
than you and I could understand. The Thai military whose tie to the Thai
political establishment, the monarchy, is trying to bait Cambodia into mini
crisis to discredit the PPP party government of former PM Thaksin. I give Hun
Sen credit for taking at most care to deal it firmly and not unwittingly become
a tool for the anti government factions and the military. The Thai has no
legal ground to claim those temples and lands in world court. That is why they
try to bait cambodia into a fight. Above all, it has nothing with the Paris
Agreement, it has a lot to do with Siam French Treaties that the Thai want to
resin and the potential offshore oil and gas deposit.
It's not a game. Thailand really wants that territory to be their
land. Thailand wants Angkor to be theirs as well.
Stupidity from the Cambodian side will not discourage those nation to
pursue that dream. Actually, they are encouraging through their own
act of self destruction. Thailand will take that part of the country.
It's not a game.
> The reason Hun Sen does not want to have the UN get involved yet is
because the UN security council, lining up with Thai friendly veto power
countries like the US, UK. Hun Sen also does not want the useless ASEAN
to lose face if he goes over the ASEAN head directly to the UN.
Who is Hun Sen and his government?
Aren't they Cambodians?
If they are, why are they so stupid according to your view?
> It is sad that oppositions do not have foreign policy experts, surrounding
themselves only with ignorant nationalist yes-man. Just listen the US, Condi
Rice, and yesterday, Negapornte also said the US wants Cambodia and Thai to have
bilateral talk to resolve the problems. ASEAN is powerless to solve
Thai-Cambodian issues because it was not set up to do that--solve conflicts..
Only UN will do but Cambodia has to try bilateral talk with Thailand first as
the US [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Running Cambodia the way Hun Sen and his CPP
team are doing now, Cambodian people are better off somewhere else including
Thailand. If the borders are open and Thailand allows Cambodians to migrate in,
you will see the influx of Cambodians leaving Cambodia to reside in Thailand.
The living standard is far better in Thailand than in many places of Cambodia.
Many Cambodians are leaving Cambodia to find better job in Thailand, Korea,
Taiwan and other countries just to be their slave. Millions Khmer in Thailand
are being treated better by Thai government. Meanwhile, Cambodian government is
treating its own citizens like animal.
>
The American government and the American people have no vital interest
in that region at this time.
So their comment is nothing but the promote peaceful solution.
Don't expect America to help anyone there anytime soon.
>
>
> Thailand, however, will not take over the entire Cambodia at this time.
They will continue to harass Cambodia to chip off its territory, the way Vietnam
has done to Cambodia. Cambodia will have a hard time explaining to the UN about
its continuous violations of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement. If Cambodia and
Vietnam do not respect the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement, why should Thailand
respect any agreements at all? This explains why Hun Sen hesitates to get the UN
involved. Plus, what kind of businesses have Hun Sen and Thaksin done in
Cambodia?
>
It is impossible for Thailand to take over Cambodia at this time. No
one has ever suggest that.
However, the people of Cambodia can. They can become a part of great
nation called the kingdom of Thailand.
>
>
> Cambodia needs a better government, but will Vietnam allow? Will
Cambodians continue to be gutless forever?
>
Cambodia needs a better culture, not new different same government.
Cambodian government officals are nothing but thugs who try to extort
their own people in many ways they can.
It's the way they live in Cambodia.
It's their own culture.
They corrupt and to practice the culture of impunity.
They do it from all Cambodian history.
They use power to practice this culture.
That's their prestige.
They even kill their own people for power.
They even destroy their own nation for power.
That's their goal.
>
>
> Virak
>
> ========
>
>
>
> In a message dated 9/16/2008 6:27:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight
Time,[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
>
> What the current leaders and their cronies would do is to allow Thai
> to take over Cambodia.
> It will end the suffering created by their own people in their own
> society.
> On Sep 16, 11:35 am, Prak Em<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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