The freedom we spoke of earlier is the freedom, it's the ambition, it's the desire, the wherewithal, the passions that people have that gave us the great entrepreneurial advances, the great inventions, the greatest food production, the human lifestyle advances in this country, why shouldn't that be rewarded? Why is that now the focus of punishment? Why is that now the focus of blame? Why doesn't -- Mayor Bloomberg the other day, ladies and gentlemen, resisting his Governor's call for an increased tax on the rich in New York had some astounding numbers. Eight million people live in New York. 40,000 of those eight million pay roughly 60 to 70% of New York's operating budget. He was afraid that if he raised taxes on those people some of them might leave. Mayor, one already has, by the way. [Applause] Stop and think of this, though. Stop and think of this. 40,000 people out of eight million. He's right, if 10,000 of them leave, or 5,000, they've got a huge problem. Because New York has its own welfare state inside the one the federal government's created. They've got a dependency class that has grown up and been educated their entitlement is to be fed and taken care of by these evil mean people who have more than they do. If New York City, New York State or Washington, DC were a business, these 40,000 people would be taken on golf tournament trips to Los Angeles, and they would be wined and dined and they would be thanked and they would be encouraged to keep it up. They wouldn't be told they're the problem. They wouldn't be told, except there's -- I pride my accuracy rating. There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media. Sorry about that. [Applause]
Have you ever called to complain about whatever they do? They say, yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full. They hang up and say you're too stupid to know how they're doing what they're doing. You can't get it. You're not sophisticated enough. So that's another business where the customer is always wrong. But, seriously, the people who have achieved great things, most of it is not inherited. Most wealth in this country is the result of entrepreneurial, just plain old hard work. There's no reason to punish it. There's no reason to raise taxes on these people. Barack Obama, the Democrat Party, have one responsibility, and that's to respect the oath they gave to protect, defend and follow the US Constitution.
They don't have the right to take money that's not theirs and none of it is from the back pockets of producers and give it to groups like ACORN which are going to advance the Democrat Party. If anybody but government were doing this, it would be a crime. And many of us think it's bordering on that as it exists now.
President Obama is so busy trying to foment and create anger in a created atmosphere of crisis. He is so busy fueling the emotions of class envy that he's forgotten it's not his money that he's spending. [Applause] In fact, the money he's spending is not ours. He's spending wealth that has yet to be created. And that is not sustainable. It will not work. This has been tried around the world. And every time it's been tried it's a failed disaster.
The full transcript of Rush Limbaugh's keynote speech at CPAC for those who missed him on Fox this afternoon.
Update - The speech is now up on Youtube. Start here for the first segment. Then click on "More From: sallee5" for the rest.
He's spending wealth that has yet to be created.
Wonder if he complained about that when George W. Bush was spending the future's money. What was the debt that Obama inherited 1.5 trillon? Another great example of why all partisan hacks from both sides of the fence should be ignored.
And, oddly enough, CNN in covering the speech managed to give air-time to an email reading, simply, "Rush is Hitler".
Quadrupling the national debt good; doubling the national debt bad. Four feet good; two feet bad.
Wonder if he complained about that when George W. Bush was spending the future's money.
Always interesting how so many folks take their talking points about Rush from the MSM without ever having listened to him...
Limbaugh is exactly right. Obama is dividing the people - the better to control them.
He's attacking the basic infrastructure of America, the middle class - that set of people who are individualists, who are entrepreneurs, who make their own way in the world, who innovate, invent - and have made America great. Obama is destroying this vital class.
What's he setting up? He's setting up a two-class system, with one small Set of Guardian Rulers, the elite, in Washington. With himself as God-King Sovereign Ruler whose Word is Truth, whose Vision is Unassailable, Whom no-one can reject.
Obama rejects the middle class because they are individuals and free-thinkers, who can and will criticize him, debate him and his policies - and quite possibly reject him and those policies.
Obama is setting up a climate of entitlement to the work results of others..elevating the cult of victimhood - and that includes the millions of illegal aliens in the US whom the Democrats will try to get on the voter's lists.
He's setting up a class war.
And he's setting up a racial divide, with his constant emphasis on - 'you can't criticize me because if you do, you are: racist or biased or politically partisan'.
Now, watch how Obama tries to prevent Limbaugh and others from criticizing him. Watch what happens next week.
40,000 of those eight million pay roughly 60 to 70% of New York's operating budget.
Astounding. And here I thought the U.S. was a lesser socialist state than Canada.
Graduated taxation, the basis of government wealth redistribution, is organized theft.
He's the anti-Stimulosol XR.
Can we get him OTC in Canada?
YFS: Rush Limbaugh and all fiscal conservatives constantly complained about Bush increasing government spending on No Child Left Behind, Seniors PharmaCare, etc. That's why Bush only had 29% support at the end. By the way Democrats voted for every single Bush bill that increased spending so for them to complain about the deficit now is a little disingenuous.
Astounding.
Alarming
and the
reality of 'hope and change' as it's turning into 'Sucker and punch'.
Whilst the pill poppers are still pointing to Bush.
Pandemic mentality solidly entrenched.
mark peters - yeah, that is not good. And you can be sure, that those highly-taxed people supporting NY are nearly all are in the financial sector.
For Manhattan, the financial sector account for 15% of jobs, and roughly 40% of earnings. With numbers like those, and given the high reliance on the financial industry and taxation monies from uber-CEOs, it's no wonder that a bail out is welcomed by many in the states.
It's terrible that things have become so skewed and have lead to this - there's no way that such a disproportionately small group should pay so much. It's just too dangerous.
As I have worried about previously, states and counties can't print their own money to ease their way out of deficits like the Federal government can. So, they will either have to get money from Washington or foreign bond-holders, or tax the living daylights out of everyone.
It's going to get really ugly. I think we are only heading into the second inning.
Re socialism - Overall in the US, the figure now is one in ten people getting food stamps (I think). In some communities (FLA) it's one in four-five. Not good.
Grest speech!
Video's up on youtube if you want to check it out. Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Etf8R-MSaE
One can only imagine how the corrupt lefty Canadian MSM would rip any Canadian conservative delivering a comparable speech here.
Which begs the questions, is there currently alive such a prominent eloquent conservative Canadian and is there a Canadian media outlet even willing to televise such a speech?
What is particularly galling that our PM has to go to FOX in the US to get his message heard back in Canada.
ET,
I'm afraid you're correct about the class war. In my humble opinion, the class war will be one of many employed to keep the American people confused and divided. I'm sorry to say it but the african-american will be the useful idiot.
Obama will never receive blame, his appointments will be the scapegoats if anything goes wrong.
The question is when does the messiah complex start kicking in? When will he start remarking about his sacrifices for the American people?
A long four years... I just hope Harper sees this guy for who he is.....
Wow, you guys have amazing intestinal fortitude.
To sit and watch a lecture by a pig-faced obese draft-dodging drug addicted racist traitor - to actually look at those tiny piggish eyes and those gross flapping jowls for the length of a speech? Amazing.
And then to point to him and say "Yeah - that guy, the tub of lard who's regarded as a crass clown by the vast majority of the public - the draft-dodging drug addict - he speaks for me!"
Absolutely amazing. Good stuff, guys!
Lets hope they put the breaks on it in 2 years - congressional vote then i believe
It took me until I read the book Overachievers, but I finally realized something about America: government jobs, except for ones that require narcissistic or histrionic traits, tend to be filled by kids who've been bullied by their parents.
"...another business where the customer is always wrong." It's worth asking why.
Is he getting under your skin a little real?
"It's No Wonder They Fear Him"
It's too bad we do not have the equivalent event in Canada where real "Conservatives" could come and celebrate conservatism - not the political party conservatives who have to suck hole up to as many people as possible to get and stay elected. We have organizations like the Fraser Institute that celebrate free market capitalism but nothing like CPAC as far as I know. Who are Canada's Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter?
What's really needed is a Canadian organization to promote conservative values at all levels - in schools, media, entertainment, academia and especially politics regardless of which party is in power. A place where conservatives can hang out in their local communities without having to apologize for being un-PC. Is there anything remotely like this in Canada that I am not aware of?
Boeing left Washington State for Illinois because of repressive taxation. Halliburton left the US for Dubai due to political harassment and again, taxation. Corporations and people will leave if pushed too far.
We would be wise to hang a welcome sign out for them here in Canada.
Rush Limbaugh is a hero and an icon because he can and does articulate what conservatives think and feel. And not just the conservatives in the US but conservatives everywhere on this planet.
Stephen Harper did well during his interviews in the US recently and a CPAC for Canadians would be a wonderful idea.
We should tout that prospect as well as the exemplary fiscal responsibility of our financial sector. I am sure the Big 5 Canadian banks would welcome an upsurge when those who realize the stability of Canada move their assets North and their conservative ideas as well. That is a One , Two punch Canada could really use. We saw what corruption 13 years of Liberal rule brought us and we see exactly what Obama and the Demorcats have planned and what it will cost. We have outsourced our resources for years. We could benefit greatly from other sectors moving into Canada for safety. And don't forget while we are talking resources we still need oil in North America and we have most of the water.
He's an entertainer. Conservatism is his act. The presentation was good, but I really didn't watch much of it.
CNN sure jumped on the event. Rush didn't acknowledge them at all, and that seemed to annoy them. Some of their reaction was way out of line. The Hitler comparison was in poor taste.
I'm getting more concerned, by the day, over this bailout scheme. Once the US dollar is devalued, there will be serious repercussions. Let's not forget, the US won't hesitate to resort to a nice war to get the economy going. This one won't be a simple invasion of some third world wasteland.
Fritz @ 11:56
Try the National Citizens' Coalition.
Yuli,
Your giving adults a bad name.
Mark,
Don't link to tired leftard cliches of Rush...it's so 2004.
Dave....don't feed the trolls.Lefties/socialists/commies/facists hate Limbaugh cause he tells the truth.Notice how no leftie mentions that Lettermen is an alkie???(nothing against alkies)
Au contraire, Sounder
I'm thrilled the fat man is getting alot of attention with this little speech (BTW is that a black caftan, tablecloth, or a muumuu he's wearing? I mean, is that one of Brando's abandoned smock-things, or what?).
Obama's already pulverized you guys - now Rush can finish you off with this insanely hateful rant, as outrageously misleading as it is stupefyingly hostile. Oh, the recession of the 80's was worse than the present one, was it, Limbaugh?
And wait'll people feast their eyes on his gay-bashing lispy "fag" act. Did this guy jet in from the fifties or what? People are going to recoil in horror from this.
Yep, the Boy King buried you guys for a generation - at least. And if there were any stirrings of life left in the corpse? The pig-eyed mound of flesh extinguished them tonight. People can recognize a sputtering, impotently resentful hack attempting to shill on behalf of the wealthiest ten percent pretty good these days. They can also recognize a fat kid nobody would play with in the schoolyard trying to get his revenge.
@Joe Molnar (11:26 PM):
There's another difficulty. In order to be truly eloquent, a conservative must speak "with the ages and from the soil" (so to speak.) The Cold War internationalized conservatism somewhat, but that internationalization has made other Free World nations' conservatism a little Americanized. No surprise in that, because America was the leader of the Free World during the Cold War.
Canada's offical motto is "Peace, Order and Good Government." Any truly eloquent speech from a Canadian conservative would have to include it as one of the themes of said speech. The speech would also have to touch on principles that have been integral to Canadian conservatism since 1867, if not before.
American conservatives invoke Jefferson and Washington frequently. How many Canadian conservatives invoke Sir John A.?
ulianov at March 1, 2009 12:32 AM: says Republican enabled crooks created this crippling financial mess.
This video evidence tells us otherwise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
You know I can be tempted to forgive someone with a name like ulianov, who obviously has to be the product of a postmodern Slavic inbreeding experiment gone wrong, but unfortunately my tolerance is limited when it comes to my money being pissed away!
We are at a very critical point in history. If BO manages to get the Uber New Deal passed, we may be seeing the end of the American Empire. (I never thought I would type such words.)
A trillion dollars in pennys would apparently be equivalent in size to the planet Mars.
Mark Steyn a few weeks ago mused that the US may be now where the UK was 50 years ago; virtually bankrupt, unable to afford to defend its interests abroad (is that a part of BO's plan?) with malaise and chaos at home begat by a welfare state and massive immigration that caused a crashing work ethic and huge tax increases that drove the best and brightest to seek refuge in other countries (canada take note...). The enemies of the USA are licking their chops at the prospect.
Just a few weeks ago I, like many others, thought that BO was an empty shirt (a naive salesman was how ET put it I think) - someone who flew the liberal/socialist flag as a flag of political convenience.
Today I think he - like FDR - actually believes in what he is doing - he believes that socialism is better than capitalism.
And that is what makes him the greatest threat to the prosperity, safety and future of me, my family and my country in the democratic world.
I hope that America is able to repulse this threat from within...
Want to piss off a Conservative - Lie to him
Want to piss off a Liberal - Tell him the truth
By the way, Obama has tripled the debt he was left with, and all in one month. He's spent more than the entire Iraq war, all in a month, and he's just getting started. Good luck folks.
Fritz @ 11:56
The Reform Party/ Robert Stanfield/SDA
Real @ 1:45
Is that you kitty cruncher? There are logarithms available that identify chronic stupidity.
Look into it.
Syncro
When I watched the video's at Hotair I couldent shake the feeling what I was watching, is going to be Historic one day.
America is heading for a watershed moment.
Don't count out Rush as just an entertainer. He has more to lose than most if the US goes semi-Communist. I have no doubts about his Patriotism. For A lot of high government officals that can't be said to be true anymore. In fact the opposite. This who swindle of a stimulis package is a just grab for more power using the money of future generations to fuel thier coup. Its not about the money, its the power they crave. I can't say it enough the Democrates where the party of slaveowners. Not much has changed.
JMO
Rush certainly does appeal to the heart when he talks. And Obama's ambitions to remake the United States in the form that he feels to be the "right one" will damage the US irrevocably.
The problem is that the Republicans have no credibility as an alternative. They had their kick at the can and displayed not the slightest bit of responsibility with their domestic policies. So they opened the door to this mess, and expecting Americans to be willing to let them have another chance less than 2 months after Obama comes to power is not realistic. They have to sit and let the mess they created unfold.
Why? Not because of Obama. But because the democrats easily control both the House and the Senate. That's the real problem. Without that, none of his crazy socialist schemes would pass, or pass without serious modifications.
Republicans have to rebuild at a lower level than the presidency. They have to retake the House, the Senate, and governorships. That's much more doable than defeating Obama directly.
Republicans in the US are ununited, some of them are clearly unhinged, fighting internally, and they better get their act together in the next 2 years, because the first chance to slow down this impending socialist trainwreck is the next set of congressional elections.
Rush is doing a great job trying to rally republicans to a single flag and avoid this division. Too bad so many Republicans are acting like right wing moonbats and thus giving Obama the upper hand.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did not cause the financial crisis. This has been repeatedly debunked...but why should that stop the time honoured tradition of right whingers from blaming the victims
Posted by: ulianov at March 1, 2009 3:59 AM
Debunked by whom? You? DailyKos? The Huffington Post?
Just because your bank says you're eligible for a mortgage 3 or 4 times what your current one is, do you take it? Why not? And if you do, and can't make the payments on a larger home, and the bank forecloses, whose fault is that?
You are beyond debate because facts don't penetrate. It's just tired, irrelevant leftish boilerplate from you, and every time you contribute to a thread the debate gets a bit dumber.
As for "real", it is evident that Limbaugh hits the mark in spades, from your comments. Reduced to cheap insults, you don't debate his talking points because, as noted above, you can't debate the truth, and that is why you hate Limbaugh. Go ahead, leak more pus on the thread; it'd amuse Rush to read it, knowing he's called you out. Because ad hominem attacks are a standard arrow in the left's quiver, eh? Yours, certainly.
mhb23re
The videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qtvtBGWgBc
yes, as others have noted, the left doesn't debate issues. When confronted with an issue that questions their agenda, they don't debate but instead move instantly to ad hominem personal attacks. Both real and ulianov do this endlessly.
Neither of them provide facts, analysis, debate. Well, that's the left.
Rush Limbaugh is exactly right. Obama and the Democrats are intent on destroying the middle class - and they are using 'divide and conquer' tactics to prevent that middle class from fighting back. These tactics are to promote the cult of victimhood, who declare that they have 'rights of equal livelihood without even working for it'. This is class division.And the division of ethnicity and status - black/white; illegal/legal immigrant; hispanic/other.
Gord Tulk - I maintain that Obama himself does not 'theorize' or analyze 'what is the best infrastructure of a state'. He's never shown any interest in theoretical issues. He's a socialist only because his 'activating forces' are his narcissism.
This is a pathological not a mild narcissism. He thus has an obsessive need to control others. Socialism and government-redistribution -that's a political and economic system that controls people. It sets up an authoritarian central government and a passive dependent population.
Capitalism and democracy are political and economic systems that operate within freedom of the individual. Obviously someone like Obama who has a pathological need to control others, can't accept capitalism and democracy. He'll align himself with the socialists, with the Democrats.
So, I suggest that there are TWO Agents in power in the US government. There's the Democrat Backroom people - ardent socialists moving into communism. And there's Obama, a pathological narcissist whose agenda is to make people follow and adore him.
Put the two together, and you've got an inferno because Obama will focus on the repression of freedom, the divide-and-conquer tactics to divert dissent, the lightning speed of inserting new laws without time to think.....and he'll do all of these in a deeper and wider sense than any Democrat would do.
As for the Republicans, what they need to do is regroup..but it has to be a 'groundswell' of reaction to Obama and the Democrats. It can't be 'top-down' which is why they should, now, talk and dissent and be public, but have this phase function all over the US. Don't focus it yet on ONE single Republican leader. Have the reaction to Obama and the Democrats widespread and firmly rooted in the non-political public awareness.
Then..a Republican leader can emerge who will focus this groundswell. But first, allow the 'ground reaction to build and build'.
And watch out for Obama as he moves to repress the people on the ground, moves to repress their voice by limiting public speech. Moves to belititle and marginalize their speech by defining it as 'illegitimate' because he and the Democrats will label it as 'racist, bigoted, partisn' etc. Watch how they'll do it.
And then, as the average American continues to speak up - the phase of open fighting will move in: between the poor and the middle class; ethnic, racial. These are tactics of control.
Above all, a free press, free media and blogs...will counter these tactics.
Real,
Barney Frank really does have a lisp like that. Maybe you should take it up with him.
Typical leftist: complaining when Reality itself turns out to be Bigoted...
And don't diss the 50s all the time: in those days even the Democrats were still patriots, we didn't have AIDS and transsexuals and illegal aliens, people didn't wear sweatpants in public and even the juvenile delinquents had some style. Kids could read, nobody recycled and cars were cool. Bring it!
Rush emoted.
Heads exploded.
(As noted, by many here, there is ample proof in this thread. Clean up in asle two...)
Uli The man you say is worth nothing makes more in one year than you will in your life. What are you worth?
"the people who have achieved great things, most of it is not inherited. Most wealth in this country is the result of entrepreneurial, just plain old hard work."
So how did Obama do it?
I liked how he called out that it is not illogical to want Obama's socialization agenda to fail. What is so wrong with saying you want your team to win and the other to loose? Rush and many others think Obama is taking America down a dangerously wrong path. IMO it is wimpy to say "Oh Mr. Limbaugh, you can't say that".
I also liked when he talked about the factions within the Republican party - the conservatives and those "intellectuals" who want the Republican party to do big government smarter and better than the Dems. I think he is referring to the David Frums and David Brookes of the GOP who dissed Sarah Palin and more recently Bobby Jindal.
The GOP needs a leader who can articulate conservatism the way Rush does. Canada needs a Rush Limbaugh on the airwaves.
TD Bank has become the 5th largest N.Am. bank. How?
US bank failures.
more to come...........
john. obama did it as a f--king crooked political from chicago. lefties will never let the truth get in their way. they have to be smacked up the side of the head real hard before they grasp anything. rush is and has been telling the truth. not as he sees it but the truth. truth is truth not opinion.
My sister dated a guy that wasn't bad, but when they broke up she thought the old boyfriend was a bit of a creep. On the rebound she fell fast for a real smooth talker who promised her the world. She believed every word of it, because she wanted to believe she met the "perfect guy".
His identity was shaped by nothing real about him, but about her fantasy and her juxtaposing the old guy with the new one who would make her happy no matter what. Of course, it ended horribly.
Those break ups end up being the most painful, because they reveal someone who was willing to exploit the fragility with such ease, and because they also reveal one's own willingness to be "taken".
The smooth talkin Obama that has promised America the world while trashing the old guy,
will be the most despised US president ever.
Just watch.
Just watch.
I smell opportunity for Canada here. As Obama primes himself to fleece rich citizens and corporations, Canada is moving to lighten the tax burden on both individuals and businesses. We need to spread the word across the length and breadth of Amercia: "You can do business here". And, thanks to free trade, you will still have access to your home markets.
Yes, I was somewhat shocked to see Obama's cheerleaders (CNN) broadcasting the speech, let alone the whole thing, for over an hour.
I couldn't help but think, as I was watching it, that this is great entertainment, as eloquent as the Messiah, without teleprompters, of course....
But as he carried on, I also noticed this wasn't dragging, he stayed on tempo. It also struck me, that maybe his time has come to reach out for futher ambitions. He would be the perfect maverick candidate for the big prize. He has the perfect pulpit to preach from, so to speak. He's also not bound by your typical politician, and their associations and bills owing for getting to their position.
Given Obama's certain failure to come, due to prolific, unprecdented multi-trillion $ deficits, and the fact that the 'stimulus' package is in reality an activist budget, Rush will have opportunities on multiple levels to tear apart the failed agenda.
It would certainly be an entertaining race to watch the maverick Rush take a run at the White House.
Kathy S- I was born in the 50's. They weren't a bowl of cherries. We didn't have AIDS, but we certainly had the other problems you mentioned. Juvenile delinquents in the 50s were a big problem, because of the high numbers of war orphans. Those kids were not much fun to be around. Gangs were just as scary in the greaser era.
When it comes to literacy, don't look to the 50s for any kind of benchmark. The difference then was that journalists had a higher standard. We didn't see nearly as many errors in print. You have to remember, the English language has a lot more words, with all the new technical jargon. It's harder to have a good vocabulary when your hard drive is filled with all those technical terms.
Loved watching Rush with all his passion and the truth.
Hateful "socialists" making nasty remarks of someone's weight, etc. What a tolerant group.
Also like Glen Beck through the week.
Ann Coulter and Hannity other favorites.
Hope we get the equivalent in Canada real soon.
Lefties will forever hate Bush.
Wonder if the people of Iraq still hate him.
Plenty of that money had to be used to free people from a tyrant. Money will spent.
Heard Rush's speech on satellite radio.
What impressed me most is the segment before the New York reference where he articulated the difference between liberals and conservatives.
Conservatives he said, want every individual to be successful.
Liberals need groups of ‘victims' to exploit.
I'm sure it's in the videos somewhere, but it's pretty bang-on.
Charles Adler, will you be our Rush Limbaugh??
"The full transcript of Rush Limbaugh's keynote speech at CPAC for those who missed him on Fox this afternoon."
Sad AND funny.