Obama\u2019s Osawatomie speech<\/a>. And when Jeb Bush talks about the statists, I never thought I\u2019d see the day. I never thought I would see the day — and Jeb Bush is with the Republican establishment. I never thought I\u2019d see the day when the Republican establishment uses that word. I never thought I would see the day. And here it is, and he uses it over and over again and he gets it pretty much right. Of course Obama is promising, all the statists, they all promise no risk, risk-free success, risk-free contentment, risk-free happiness. Everybody is the same, everybody is equal, except the people at the top and we\u2019re gonna cream \u2019em, we\u2019re gonna nail \u2019em and we\u2019re gonna cut \u2019em down to size, and in the process of cutting everybody at the top down to size, look at what you\u2019re gonna end up with. But everybody\u2019s gonna be the same. There\u2019s not going to be any pain. There isn\u2019t gonna be any suffering. Everybody\u2019s gonna have health care, everybody\u2019s gonna have a job, everybody\u2019s gonna have this, everybody\u2019s gonna have that. <\/p>\nOf course it never works. Nobody has anything when that\u2019s the promise. I give you North Korea. I give you the Soviet Union, I give you Cuba, the ChiComs. Wherever this no-risk security of the straight line is tried, you end up with misery. That\u2019s what\u2019s equal. Everybody is miserably equal. The title of Jeb Bush\u2019s piece, “Capitalism and the Right To Rise.” This is how Jeb opens the piece. “Congressman Paul Ryan recently coined a smart phrase to describe the core concept of economic freedom: ‘The right to rise.\u2019 Think about it. We talk about the right to free speech, the right to bear arms, the right to assembly. The right to rise doesn\u2019t seem like something we should have to protect.<\/p>\n
“But we do. We have to make it easier for people to do the things that allow them to rise. We have to let them compete. We need to let people fight for business. We need to let people take risks. We need to let people fail. We need to let people suffer the consequences of bad decisions.” See, this is what the statists think nobody wants. There shouldn\u2019t be any failure. There shouldn\u2019t be any risk, and there should be no consequences of bad decisions. The only people who should suffer consequences are the rich, and we\u2019ll define that as $150,000 a year or more. The only people who should suffer any consequences are the successful because they\u2019re cheaters, it\u2019s unfair, and they succeed at the expense of others. That\u2019s what the statists say, people such as Obama. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s very seductive to come along and imply, you don\u2019t use the language, but you come along and imply that there will be no consequences for bad decisions. There will just be compassion. There will not be risks. That\u2019s too dangerous. That\u2019s too unsettling. Risks lead to unhappiness. We\u2019re not gonna have people taking risks. We\u2019re not gonna permit it. Everybody\u2019s gonna do fine and we\u2019ll have just a straight line of equality, and, writes Jeb Bush, “And we need to let people enjoy the fruits of good decisions, even good luck. <\/line>![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushReestablishConserve.jpg\"\/)
That is what economic freedom looks like. Freedom to succeed as well as to fail, freedom to do something or nothing.” Well, he\u2019s singing my song. <\/line><\/p>\n
Leave people alone. Let them do what they want with what they\u2019ve got. Let them pursue excellence to the best of their ability according to their desires and their ability. That\u2019s what we conservatives believe, because we conservatives believe that no two people or things are equal; it\u2019s not possible. We\u2019re all unique. We cannot all be made the same, despite the best intentions. That\u2019s all Jeb Bush is saying here. But there\u2019s gonna be blow back here cause he said we need to let people fail, you\u2019re gonna have the libs and the media, “Jeb Bush is okay with people failing. Jeb Bush is okay with people in poverty. Jeb Bush is fine with people suffering.” That\u2019s what they\u2019re going to say that means. And, of course, that\u2019s not what Jeb Bush or anybody else who professes all this actually means. <\/p>\n
“People understand this. Freedom of speech, for example, means that we put up with a lot of verbal and visual garbage in order to make sure that individuals have the right to say what needs to be said, even when it is inconvenient or unpopular.” No, no, the left\u2019s taken care of that, too. Political correctness. Self-censorship. “We forgive the sacrifices of free speech because we value its blessings. But when it comes to economic freedom, we are less forgiving of the cycles of growth and loss, of trial and error, and of failure and success that are part of the realities of the marketplace and life itself.<\/p>\n
“Increasingly, we have let our elected officials abridge our own economic freedoms through the annual passage of thousands of laws and their associated regulations. We see human tragedy and we demand a regulation to prevent it. We see a criminal fraud and we demand more laws. We see an industry dying and we demand it be saved. Each time, we demand ‘Do something . . . anything.\u2019 … Woe to the elected leader who fails to deliver a multipoint plan for economic success, driven by specific government action.”<\/p>\n
Gotta take a break. There\u2019s more after this.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I have to tell you, Jeb Bush sounds like me. Jeb Bush in his own words is taking half the message that I take out when I go to do a Rush to Excellence appearance. And I know what you people want. Look, I\u2019m fully aware you want a candidate who sounds like what you hear on this show. I mean you\u2019ve been here 23 years, you\u2019re not going anywhere and I\u2019m not. This has sustained and grown for 25 years, what\u2019s so hard about this? What\u2019s so hard about it? And the tough lesson to learn is, you think, why don\u2019t these Republicans in Washington get it? Why don\u2019t they look at what happens on this program, this audience, the strength, the support — we\u2019re not on the same team, folks. That\u2019s the hard lesson to learn here. There is no conservative movement in Washington. I hate to break it to you. That\u2019s one of the things this election is about. <\/p>\n
But let me get back to Jeb\u2019s piece here. “As Florida\u2019s governor for eight years, I was asked to ‘do something\u2019 almost every day. Many times I resisted through vetoes but many times I succumbed. And I wasn\u2019t alone. Mayors, county chairs, governors and presidents never think their laws will harm the free market.” I\u2019m gonna dissent here and I\u2019m gonna except Obama from that. I think he\u2019s aware what he\u2019s doing, and I think he is aware of it to the point that his are on purpose. But we\u2019ve been there and said that. Let me continue here. <\/p>\n
“But cumulatively, they do, and we have now imperiled the right to rise. … In Washington, DC, rules are going in the opposite direction. They are exploding in reach and complexity. They are created under a cloud of uncertainty, and years after their passage nobody really knows how they will work. We either can go down the road we are on, a road where the individual is allowed to succeed only so much before being punished with ruinous taxation, where commerce ignores government action at its own peril, and where the state decides how a massive share of the economy\u2019s resources should be spent. Or we can return to the road we once knew and which has served us well: a road where individuals acting freely and with little restraint –” that\u2019s another way of saying in their own self-interest, which is my mantra “– are able to pursue fortune and prosperity as they see fit.”<\/p>\n
Folks, I swear I could have written this. I swear I did write this. The words have been changed to protect the innocent. But this is from Jeb Bush. Now, what are they gonna do, because clearly something\u2019s being set up here. Steve Moore doesn\u2019t go on Fox and throw out the possibility of Jeb Bush throwing his hat in the ring and point out that nobody\u2019s getting over 30% in our primary, but a lot of people are thinking the same thing somewhere.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, Calvin Coolidge, an ex-president, said something that\u2019s pretty intriguing to me. Four-fifths of all of our troubles would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still. Just shut up, don\u2019t do anything, just let things work out, and four-fifths of them will. But Jeb Bush is right. Presidents, governors, “Do something! Do something, and do something now!” It\u2019s a mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Let me give you three pull-quotes from the piece. “We have to make it easier for people to do the things that allow them to rise. We have to let them compete. We need to let people fight for business. We need to let people take risks. We need to let people fail. We need to let people suffer the consequences of bad decisions and we need to let people enjoy the fruits of good decisions, even good luck. Mayors, county chairs, governors, presidents never think their laws will harm the free market but cumulatively they do and we have now imperiled the right to rise. We must choose between the straight line promised by the statists and the jagged line of economic freedom. The straight line of gradual and controlled growth is what the statists promise but can never deliver. The jagged line offers no guarantees but has a powerful record at delivering the most prosperity and the most opportunity to the most people. We cannot possibly know in advance what freedom promises for 312 million individuals. But unless we\u2019re willing to explore the jagged line of freedom, we will be stuck with the straight line, and the straight line it turns out is a flat line.” He\u2019s right on the money here. <\/p>\n