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RUSH: Folks, just like with the communists in the Soviet Union or the ChiComs, the ultimate goal of the Democrat Party is to discourage anyone from getting anything unless it comes from The Party — The Party equaling the government. It is precisely why Barack Obama wants to eliminate all tax deductions for charitable donations. He wants the government to take that over or The Party — and, lo and behold, just as if they knew what was going to be interesting to me today, there is a piece in the Wall Street Journal published by Andy Stern, who used to head up the Service Employees International Union, has always been one of Obama\u2019s big fan boys. The piece is entitled, “China\u2019s Superior Economic Model.” <\/p>\n
“So we stick with this belief largely oblivious to emerging evidence that while free markets beat planned economies, there may be room for a modification that is even better.\u2019 The past few weeks have proven Mr. Grove\u2019s point, as our relations with China, and that country\u2019s impact on America\u2019s future, came to the forefront of American politics.” He goes on to talk about the work that he\u2019s done with the ChiComs. He says, “The conservative-preferred, free-market fundamentalist, shareholder-only model — so successful in the 20th century — is being thrown onto the trash heap of history in the 21st century.” The free market is being thrown on the trash heap. <\/p>\n
“In an era when countries need to become economic teams, Team USA\u2019s results — a jobless decade, 30 years of flat median wages, a trade deficit, a shrinking middle class and phenomenal gains in wealth but only for the top 1% — are pathetic.” That\u2019s his review and assessment. Mr. Stern ignores the 4.7% unemployment rate for much of the Bush years. After coming out of the recession and the 9\/11 attacks, we had an economic boom, and unemployment… In fact, I remember when unemployment rose to about 5%, the media started talking about, “Uh-oh, we are in a recession!” At 5%, there was panic, and the Bush policies were said to be inflationary. “Oh, no!” It was a disaster. <\/p>\n
For thee years the media tried to convince everybody we were in a recession or heading to one — and now look! The “new normal” is 9%, 18% real unemployment. This guy, Daniel Hannan, who is the member of parliament from Britain who\u2019s on American TV quite frequently, has written a piece called “A Memo to the Occupy Wall Street Crowd.” He points out to them that everything that\u2019s happened in this country since 2008 is not capitalism: Bailouts; government buying car companies; investing in phony, fraudulent green energy things. This is not capitalism that\u2019s happened in this country in the last three years! We haven\u2019t had any capitalism. And the truth of the matter is, that\u2019s why we\u2019re in the situation that we\u2019re in. We have already abandoned it with this regime.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I\u2019m kidding you not, folks. These people will tell us who they are and what they are on occasion, like the New York Times piece on Monday and the Obama campaign having no interest in white, working class families. Here\u2019s Andy Stern in the Wall Street Journal telling us the free market system is an abject failure; it\u2019s had its run; we need to be like China. I don\u2019t know if Andy Stern is just ignorant or venal or if he\u2019s just a flat-out communist. Probably all three. You know, John Edwards ran around and talked about the two Americas. China is at least two countries. You have the rich city rats and the poor country mice. I remember for my birthday in 2009, I was a guest at the White House. I had lunch with the president, George Bush. <\/p>\n
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This is what the president of the United States told me, that the ChiComs would not survive if every peasant tried to get into a city or a job \u2019cause they just weren\u2019t there. So now, as it turns out, you have to have a green card to move from the country to the city, and they are almost impossible to get. The Chinese peasants are almost as poor as they ever have been. The rich in China, for the most part — the really rich that would be rich in the sense that you and I think of rich — are trying to leave, because they are targets. No wonder Andy Stern loves this system! But the rich in China, for the most part, live lives that the worst of our poor would reject — and I am not exaggerating. China is not a dreamland. China is a command-and-control economy. <\/p>\n
Now, Andy Stern has a BA in Education and Urban Planning, 1971; and one of the fields of study that he looked into is one that China is probably going to ban in their colleges: urban planning. They don\u2019t want anybody to know how to do it. One example of Andy Stern\u2019s successes — in fact, it\u2019s what made him famous and got him into the leadership of the SEIU. The SEIU started out in New York City at the turn of the century (the last century) representing doormen and superintendents, janitors and so forth in New York City buildings. In the 1980s and early nineties he started a program called Justice for Janitors. He radicalized those kinds of workers in New York City and Los Angeles who went on strike and stormed meetings and used all kinds of Alinsky-like radicals and tactics.<\/p>\n
Now there are almost no supers in New York City buildings, they\u2019re gone. They used to get an apartment and nice salary. Now the buildings just hire illegals to do work in many cases. But you go back to China? China has probably the highest income disparity in the entire world. Poverty in China is defined as somebody earning less than a dollar $1.25 a day. You know how poverty in this country is defined: $29,500 for a family of four. Now, the philosophy in this piece, “China\u2019s Superior Economic Model,” is one that we know Obama shares. Obama references China all the time. During the Olympics, Obama would constantly talk about, “You see all that urban renewal they did? You see all that infrastructure they were able to do?” <\/p>\n
He has said on more than one occasion, “Gosh, if I was president of China, I could just wave my right hand and get anything done, but I have to go through a Congress here.” He\u2019s only half joking. You remember the story of Lincoln Steffens? Lincoln Steffens said in 1919… He had just returned to America from a tour of Russia during the revolution. He said, “I have seen the future, and it works.” Lincoln Steffens was a journalist. Lincoln Steffens was a liberal journalist. He was independently wealthy. He was educated. He was a journalist in the early 1900s and he loved communism and he comes back to America from seeing the Russian Revolution and says, “I have seen the future, and it works.” <\/p>\n
The irony, of course, is (beyond the fact that it didn\u2019t work was) that Lincoln Steffens repeated the quote often during his campaign throughout the United States for food aid to Russia! This guy goes to Russia, a journalist — an independently wealthy, educated journalist goes to Russia during the revolution, comes home and says, “I have seen the future and it works! By the way, we need food aid for Russia. Americans must band together and donate food for Russians.” Wait a minute, I thought the system worked. I thought you\u2019d seen the future, and it works? So he had come to the presumably nonworking “past,” the United States. He goes to Russia; he comes back to the United States (which is the “past,” not “future”), and of course that\u2019s not working. <\/p>\n
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It\u2019s Walter something or other. I can\u2019t remember his name off, but this guy went back and he saw the Soviet… Duranty was his name, and he went and he saw the Soviet Union. He saw it, and he lied about it. He got a Pulitzer Prize for lying about what was going on there! I can\u2019t believe how history repeats. It was just 1989 and \u201990, the Berlin Wall comes down. It was not that long ago that we thought we had defeated state communism, Soviet state communism, and now look where we are. I don\u2019t mean to sound hysterical here, but this has been an incredible week, folks, for what the regime is willing to admit to here. Andy Stern is Obama. I think Andy Stern, for the longest time, held the record for most Oval Office visits — and he still might. Occupy Wall Street. <\/p>\n
No doubt in my mind, Occupy Wall Street, one of the reasons it\u2019s falling apart is because of the Republican nomination campaign. Obama was in New York yesterday, had a fundraiser. By the way, I\u2019m a little jealous. A hundred Occupy people showed at Obama\u2019s fundraiser; they think he\u2019s sold out now because Obama\u2019s raising money with the 1%. They feel betrayed. I only got 15 of these ragamuffins on Tuesday night at Town Hall. Obama gets a hundred of them! (interruption) Well, that\u2019s true. It was raining at mine, and these people are afraid of water. They love urine, but they\u2019re afraid of water. At any rate, theory out there wearing Guy Fawkes masks. Really, they feel betrayed Obama\u2019s raising money from the 1%. <\/p>\n
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