Limbaugh predicts Obama will say "capitalism hasn't worked" to force people to "accept a transformation" toward socialism, fascism
January 14, 2010 3:15 pm ET
From the January 14 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Liberals are Commies or Socialists
Conservatives are Fascists
The mind-reading powers of the wingnut on display, again.
Sure, he will, Limpy . . . I mean, why ELSE would he propose and sign a $787 BILLION aid package for that capitalist system??
I don't know about capitalism (a way too vague and undefined concept to seriously use in any Public Policy discussion), but as far as allowing the banks and financial services companies of America (popularly referred to as "Wall Street"), as far as allowing them to play recklessly and irresponsibly and even negligently with an extraordinary amount of the American people's private capital that they ("Wall Street") hold in trust, to gamble and risk (and even embezzle) that money on all sorts of schemes for which the penalty of loss is not felt by them ("Wall Street") but by those whose money it truly is, and ultimately felt also by the American taxpayer who has backfilled in and covered all those losses (more than a trillion dollar's worth), this unregulated use and abuse of all that private capital of the American people's, lost by "Wall Street"...
Sure, it hasn't worked out very well, has it.
Sure, we could use a "transformation" of sorts I guess, not toward any idiotic -isms (and don't these idiots just love their -isms), but toward more regulation and more oversight of how that extraordinary amount of our private capital is used (or perhaps abused) by "Wall Street".
I guess something hasn't worked, but to call it capitalism is not to really say anything at all, except to bring yet another idiotic -ism into the discussion, where we already have too many as it is.
By the way, would anyone agree that the extraordinary sums of money that "Wall Street" holds and uses (and abuses), it doesn't actually belong to them ("Wall Street"), and in fact belongs to people who don't truly work for any bank or financial service company, and therefore don't get any slice out of that great pie or get any bonuses either, for recklessly mismanaging and losing that money... are we agreed upon at least that much?
Also, are we talking about a "Public Trust" here, when we talk about the vast sums of the American people's private capital that "Wall Street" is trusted with?
And can we regulate and oversee this Public Trust?
I hope so... I hope all of this good money that we've thrown after bad, all this taxpayer money used to bail out "Wall Street", I hope it sure does come with some regulatory strings attached.
Otherwise we're just recklessly poring money ourselves, into the coffers of banks and financial services companies whose owners and officers lie awake at night, dreaming of new schemes to lose that money out the back door, and find some way of getting it into their offshore accounts...
Yeah it hasn't worked, we need regulations and oversight of "Wall Street", that much is clear.
OK, back to what you were doing, back to calling it socialism or fascism or whatever other idiotic -ism is in vogue among the idiot class.
When people like limbaugh use the word "capitalism" as in the above example, they're hoping whoever hears them will instead hear the word "American".
And so for limbaugh to put words in the President's mouth, and claim the President has said or is saying "capitalism hasn't worked", it's the same as playing to the dunces and idiots in the crowd, and hoping their dim minds and soft brains will hear "America hasn't worked".
But if you interrupt those dimwits in the middle of their limbaugh love, and ask them point blank "Do the financial services companies and banks that do business on Wall Street, do they need to be regulated and overseen, as much to protect our taxpayer money that bailed them out, as to protect the private capital of ours that we cautiously entrust to them?"
And I think even limbaugh lovers would respond with a resounding "Heck yeah we need to protect and regulate and oversee our money in the hands of those thieves!"
But if you quoted back to them limbaugh's idiotic description of it, and asked "So you admit that capitalism hasn't worked?"
You'd probably get a dim and confused look on their faces and in their eyes, kind of like when a dog tilts his head sideways and even furrows his brow, confused at what it is his master is saying to him...
Because if people think the word capitalism means the same thing as America, then they're no smarter than a dog is in these matters, and they probably love rush limbaugh and love listening to him, and they probably never tilt their heads sideways and furrow their brows in confusion at his (their master's) words, because he speaks their language, damn straight he does!
The funny thing this fool does not know we are in a preadatory type of capitalism. A small fascist state. Corporatism!
The bailouts, the billions in bonuses for failure, or the millions of people laid off so failing giants could artificially inflate their bottom lines?
Randy