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RUSH: I want to expand on what essentially was a throwaway
line right before the end of the hour because a lot of
people are confused. I said liberals have their principles,
and they stand for their principles above all else, and when
they do, it is people who get hurt. It is not people that
liberals stand for. And some of the e-mails that I have
received, "Rush, liberals don't have principles." Oh, yes,
they do. They have guiding principles. Doesn't mean
they're right, but they have them, and they stick with them.
If somebody in their movement sort of strays, like McCain,
they kick 'em out. They don't call 'em mavericks and they
don't say, "Oooh, this is another way to look at this, this
is great, look at the diversity in our party." It's a great
illustration, diversity, a great principle. What happens?
There isn't any when it comes down to actual impact on
people. They don't allow diversity in the Democrat Party.
They don't allow diversity of speech. They don't allow
diversity of appearance, yet they stand for it.
But in standing for diversity, somebody's going to get hurt,
because when they enforce their principle of diversity,
somebody has to be guilty, somebody isn't diverse enough,
some organization isn't diverse enough, so the principle of
diversity, which means nothing other than the way something
looks -- and we're all told we're not supposed to judge
anybody on that basis -- the way something looks, liberals
have to fix it and change it, people get hurt. Now, all of
liberalism occurs under the umbrella of "we care." And
that's why it's so seductive to people, particularly
ignorant people or people who want to think people care
about people. We all care about people. For crying out
loud, who doesn't? The number of people who don't care is a
rank minority, and most of them are in jail or on their way
there. We all care about people. We're the most charitable
country on the face of the earth not only for our own people
but people around the world. So all this comes under the
umbrella of "we care." Republicans and conservatives, said
to be harsh, can't possibly care, because their principles
are never examined substantively. The liberals have a cool
game going -- let me give you an example.
Liberals have as a principle quality education for all with
more and more money every year. May I ask you, what is the
state of our public education system? What's the dropout
rate, particularly among minorities and Hispanics? How many
people graduate not being able to read their diplomas?
Quality education for all? But you have to stay in a
failing public school system if you want vouchers. If you
want to get your kids to private school, and you can't
afford to and somebody comes along and offers you the
chance, guess who's going to stand in your way? Mr. and
Mrs. Clinton and Mr. and Mrs. Gore can put their kids at
Sidwell Friends in Wa****ngton; you can't. You have to keep
your kids in a failing DC public school system so that the
principle of quality education for everybody can be
followed. They talk about quality education for everybody,
because liberals care. Look at the status of public
education. Look at the effect on the people who are subject
to this principle. And so liberals, when confronted with
this, say, "You can't examine our results; you have to
examine our good intentions. We care. We have our
principles."
They also have as a principle, insurance and health care for
everybody. However, do we have it? Mandates keep some
insurance carriers out of a state because liberals say that
those companies have to cover things that you may not wish
to pay for. Lower gas prices. Quality lower gas prices.
That's a principle. Except, your gas prices are going
through the roof to pay more for an environmental hoax and
hoax-based regulations and bankrupt alternative fuels like
ethanol. So while liberals say they are for lower gas
prices and the principle of everybody being able to afford
to get to work and so forth, what's the truth? The truth is
that those very same people have taken a hoax, and what does
this hoax involve? This hoax involves putting everything in
front of people. Who was it that had the political slogan,
"Putting People First"? Clinton, that's right. Putting
people first is the last thing liberalism does.
Take a look at God's creation. God's creation is the planet
and the environment. Liberals have deified the environment
to the detriment of human beings. They subordinate the
interests of human beings intentionally. We have to save a
tree before increasing your comfort in your neighborhood.
We have to make sure that some environmental cause is
preserved or animal cause is preserved even before saving
your life, sometimes even your business. If you are a
farmer or if you work on a farm, sometimes your business
will be put out of business because liberals will say that
whatever indigenous animals or plants thrive on your farm
cannot be harmed, can't be touched, can't be moved. And so
while they talk about all of their principles and the
quality of life, they put everything before quality of life.
Their principles, when maintained, end up hurting people.
The big one is equality. Liberals think that only they are
for equality. And they have come up with numerous programs
to create equality, and they've come up with numerous groups
to help them advance it, such as the NAGs, the Equal Rights
Amendment, affirmative action, none of these things promote
equality at all. They promote punishment.
The liberals' attempt for equality is essentially
punishment. And it's punishment of people who have had no
role whatsoever in creating the harm that liberals claim
needs to be fixed. So what happens with their principle of
equality? Well, people end up being taxed from those who
achieve, they redistribute it to those who are less
successful, except that the money and the prosperity they
promise never get there. And those they wish to help are
continually miserable. The war on poverty, the Great
Society, the civil rights movement. None of these have
shown any progress whatsoever, despite all the money,
despite all the principles, because when liberals hold to
their principles, people get hurt. They also say they stand
for no discrimination, except it is liberals themselves who
discriminate against anybody who says anything they don't
want to hear. They do more than discriminate; they try to
silence them. They try to shut them up. They use force,
and they use intimidation tactics. These are the people who
operate under the umbrella of they care.
Their principles, advancing this utopian, perfect planet,
end up harming the very people they intend to help: the
black family. We talk about this all the time on this
program. All of the welfare programs that liberals started
from LBJ forward were designed to improve economic
cir***stances and help the people who are said to be unequal
to achieve equality. And what happened? The black family
was torn apart because the federal government's welfare
checks assumed the role of the father, who no longer had to
stay home and be responsible. And so the black family's in
a mess. Good intentions, liberals care, but their principle
of equality leads to people being genuinely harmed.
Education system again, and there are countless other
examples of this. So the point of all this is, when
liberals say that they have principles and they're holding
to their principles and they want to espouse and expand
their principles, understand one thing: The principle
counts more than the results and the harm to people.
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RUSH: I have a couple more examples here. Barack Obama. He
wants to raise the capital gains tax rate, and he does this
under the pretext of spreading misery! (paraphrased) "It's
not fair that some of these cor****ate chieftains only pay
15% on their capital gains and a lot of Americans are paying
more. Their secretaries are paying more. It's not fair! It's
not fair! So we're going to raise rates on capital gains."
He acknowledges it will reduce revenue, but says, "It is
more fair." It is going to harm the very people that he
wants to help, and those are the people who are employed by
these rich people! Every damn time they raise taxes, the
people they think are supposed to be made to feel better
because somebody's being gotten even with... like the rich,
we're going to spread the misery.
The rich are going to suffer like you are? No, because the
rich are going to keep their jobs. You're going to get laid
off. Thank you, Barack Obama. Principle over people!
Nuclear power? Nuclear power. If we had nuclear power... We
have no nuclear because of one stupid, stinking movie, The
China Syndrome. If we had nuclear power, we would not be as
concerned about "our dependence on foreign oil." We
wouldn't be as concerned about the pollution of coal. But
we can't have nuclear power, because it threatens the
environment. We can't have nuclear power because they say
it might hurt people -- when not producing it and developing
it hurts people! I also think they oppose nuclear because
they don't like the word nuclear. It's a projection of US
power. (sigh)
It's real simple to understand. It's hard to believe it if
you have been enmeshed in ignorance and have bought for your
entire life the notion that liberals are the ones who
care -- and even if you see the results of their plans and
their policies are harmful to people, you still give them a
break because, "At least they're trying. At least they want
help. At least they try." No. If anybody honestly *****sed
the results of liberalism in the last 50 years, it would be
politically dead. There would be relics, two professors in
every college just so we could remember who these people
were. Most of the wax figures at Madame Tussauds' would be
liberals. That would be the extent of their worthwhile
life, if the results were honestly examined. But they
aren't.
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