{"id":10333,"date":"2014-01-24T19:42:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T19:42:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-24T19:42:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T19:42:47","slug":"the_private_sector_makes_what_the_government_takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/01\/24\/the_private_sector_makes_what_the_government_takes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Private Sector Makes What the Government Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I got an e-mail during the break, and our first call somewhat related to this. But I got an e-mail. “Rush, are you against the government building roads? How else do you think it\u2019s going to happen?”<\/p>\n

There are certain things to me that are self-evident that are common sense that maybe are not to others. So let me spell it out. I\u2019m not against the government building roads. That is a legitimate government function. But I am very much against the government claiming that their building the road is the reason somebody on the road is successful. I\u2019m deeply resentful — I don\u2019t care where you find it in life — of people trying to claim credit for the achievements of others.<\/p>\n

That really rubs me raw.<\/p>\n

But as far as legitimate government functions — building schools, building roads and bridges — those are perfectly acceptable and fine government functions. But see, I don\u2019t hear Chuck Schumer talking ever about individualism<\/a>, freedom, liberty, free enterprise, the Constitution. When Chuck Schumer starts on his Big Government-defense rant, it\u2019s at the expense of everything else. Government must be primary and it must be large, at the expense of individualism, liberty, free enterprise, and especially the Constitution.<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, redistributing wealth, that is not a legitimate government function. Nationalizing industries and taking them over, that\u2019s for people like Hugo Chavez, but not us. Destroying industries, targeting industries for destruction, picking and choosing winners and losers in the private sector like Obama has been doing since his first day, that isn\u2019t legitimate. Stealing? Stealing over 50% of a person\u2019s income?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not a legitimate government function. You add the top federal marginal rate to the top state marginal rate, and then you throw in property taxes — and then you add FICA, Social Security and Medicare taxes — and there are a lot of Americans who are having the government confiscate over half of what they earn. That\u2019s not a legitimate government function, and if that\u2019s what government must do in order to be big and good, then you can leave me out.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not necessary, and I would call your attention to Scott Walker in Wisconsin<\/a>, again, who, in a matter of two years, took a huge budget deficit and turned it into a nearly $1 billion surplus and instituted a tax cut. That is the proper use of government. Do you think that it\u2019s a legitimate function of government to run up a national debt of $17 trillion? And then let\u2019s add in the unfunded and underfunded obligations such as pensions and Soc. Security, any number of other things, and we\u2019re talking about $90 trillion that we\u2019ve spent that we haven\u2019t produced.<\/p>\n

Is that a legitimate government function?<\/p>\n

So you want to stack all that up against building roads and bridges, and that\u2019s how you want to defend Big Government is they build roads and build bridges? I\u2019ll concede that. Fine. Build all the roads you want. Build all the bridges you want. Legitimate. But none of the other stuff is. You libs, let me ask you a question. Do you use toilet paper or do you use leaves? Government doesn\u2019t make toilet paper.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The private sector makes the toilet paper. Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark. Government doesn\u2019t run \u2019em. Do you use toilet paper, Chuck-U? Mr. President, do you use toilet paper? The government doesn\u2019t make it. Senator Schumer, do you like to eat? I happen to know he does. I\u2019ve been to dinner with Chuck-U. Chuck-U can pack it in, by the way. He\u2019s one of these guys that doesn\u2019t gain weight. He just can pack it in — and, you know what?<\/p>\n

The private sector produces the food.<\/p>\n

The government doesn\u2019t feed anybody, not until they take the food that\u2019s already been produced and give it away. You leftists, do you like your clothes? The private sector makes clothes. Government doesn\u2019t make your clothes. Government makes roads and bridges? Big whoop. How about the car you drive? Outside of General Motors, the government doesn\u2019t make the car you drive. How about the plane you ride in?<\/p>\n

Ah, if you riding an Airbus, fine. You get what you pay for. It\u2019s made by the British and the French, a triumvirate of governments over there. But if you ride in an American-made plane, the government\u2019s not building it. Right? How about the gasoline? Oh, no, the government doesn\u2019t do that because you people hate it! Even the electricity that\u2019s powering your precious EVs with comes from coal.<\/p>\n

Government hates coal.<\/p>\n

Government hates gasoline.<\/p>\n

Government hates oil.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t make any of it, doesn\u2019t produce any of it, doesn\u2019t distribute any of it, doesn\u2019t sell any of it. It doesn\u2019t make it possible for you to have it, period. The private sector does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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