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RUSH: Paul Ryan yesterday went over to the Heritage Foundation<\/a> to deliver a speech about conservatism, Obama, and class warfare. We have three sound bites. It was a terrific speech, and I think Congressman Ryan is one of the leading intellectual lights in elected Republican circles for defining modern-era conservatism.<\/p>\n

RYAN: The president has opted for divisive rhetoric and the broken politics of the past. He\u2019s going from town to town impugning the motives of Republicans, setting up straw men and scapegoats and engaging in intellectually lazy argument as he tries to build support for punitive tax hikes on job creators.<\/p>\n

<\/embed>RUSH: He continued.<\/p>\n

RYAN: Instead of appealing to the hope and optimism that were the hallmarks to his first campaign, he has launched his second campaign by preying on the emotions of fear, envy, and resentment. This has the potential to be just as damaging as his misguided policies. Sowing social unrest and class resentment makes America weaker, not stronger.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

RYAN: Pitting one group against another only distracts us from the true sources of inequity in this country. Corporate welfare that enriches the powerful and empty promises that betray the powerless.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s right. The whole speech was superb. There was a Q&A afterward. The moderator was the president at Heritage, Ed Feulner. He said, “What do you make of Elizabeth Warren\u2019s comments that successful people are successful only because of the things government provides and that confiscatory taxation is justified because it\u2019s not really their success?”<\/p>\n

RYAN: This is what I call “the fatal conceit of progressivism.” It\u2019s upside down. It\u2019s the presumption that money and wealth made and created in America is the government\u2019s unless they benevolently expend it back to people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

RYAN: No one is saying we don\u2019t need good schools and roads and infrastructure as a basis for a free society and a free enterprise system. But the notion that the nucleus of our society is the government and not the individual — the family, the entrepreneur — is, to me, just completely inherently backwards.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, he also made a great point that the regime and the American left, the Democrat Party, have attempted to demonize private sector entrepreneurs and conservatives by accusing them of being pro-business; and Ryan said there\u2019s a big difference in being pro-business and pro-markets. Pro-business and pro-free markets. If the focus is on free markets and allowing them to do what they do, that is the benefit. That\u2019s where private sector growth takes place; that is where the rising tide lifts all boats, and support for free markets does not mean blanket, blind support for business. Every institution has its bad actors and bad guys, and the left — I was just talking about it in the first hour. Look at their enemies list and look at who they demonize, and it\u2019s everybody in business who happens to do well in a free market, because it challenges the authority and the size — the scope, the reach — of government. Now, just to refresh your memory about what the question was about Elizabeth Warren. She\u2019s running for the Senate in Massachusetts against Scott Brown. Back in September, <\/a>she was doing what she called her “walking tour,” and this is what she had to say about you and class warfare and if you have made it, what that really means.<\/p>\n

WARREN: I hear all this, “You know, well, this is class warfare. This is whatever.” No! There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody! You built a factory out there? Good for you! But I want to be clear: You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You, uh, were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn\u2019t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.<\/line>RUSH: So here is Elizabeth Warren trying to equate the noncontributory existence of the freeloaders to the successful. That if it weren\u2019t for the freeloaders, the successful wouldn\u2019t have been successful, that the successful didn\u2019t do it on their own, the bridges and the roads to get to your factory that the rest of us paid for, as though the business owner had no role in paying for it, didn\u2019t pay any taxes or any of that. Popular thinking on the left, and this is the question Feulner asked Ryan, “What\u2019s your reaction to it?” and he said the fatal conceit of progressivism, it\u2019s upside down. It\u2019s the presumption that money and wealth made and created in America is the government\u2019s unless they benevolently expend it back to people. It\u2019s exactly right. This has been a point that I\u2019ve been making since the early nineties. The left, the Democrat Party, all money is theirs, all money is government\u2019s. You end up with what you have based on their decision, their benevolence toward you. If you\u2019re wealthy it\u2019s only because government has permitted it. It\u2019s only because government made it possible. You had nothing to do with it.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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