{"id":213843,"date":"2016-06-24T16:47:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T20:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/06\/24\/britain_was_warned_by_lady_thatcher\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T20:17:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T01:17:04","slug":"britain_was_warned_by_lady_thatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/24\/britain_was_warned_by_lady_thatcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain Was Warned by Lady Thatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to 1990, October 30th, 1990. It\u2019s in London, in Parliament, Margaret Thatcher, during a debate on rejecting a move toward a more closely united Europe. Do you know what it was costing the UK every year to be a member of the European Union? It was something to the tune of $18 million a year. Had to pay \u2019em $18 million a year for privilege of membership in the European Union. (interruption) No, no. I\u2019m aware. I\u2019ve even got some stuff I printed out here, show prep websites who think this has nothing to do with immigration. I\u2019m telling you it has everything to do with it. There are other factors as well. Just an accumulation of things.<\/p>\n

I think the British people have been very patient. I think the American people have been very patient. And during this period of patience, of course, there has been an evolution. More and more people have simply decided they like the idea of a gigantic centralized government managing and controlling everything. But there you get into cronyism again. You know, competing is hard, folks. Winning and losing, the prospect of losing, it\u2019s hard. Competition has become a dirty word to the American left and the worldwide left. And the reason is, “It\u2019s hard and it\u2019s not fair. Not everybody can do it and there\u2019s gonna be losers.”<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not exaggerating at all. So centralized governments that determine outcomes and attempt to distribute assets, the wealth of a nation, attempt to distribute all that fairly and equitably, it never works because it is in utter defiance of human nature. Human nature is what led to the United States of America, this yearning desire to be free, unfettered, the competitive spirit. It\u2019s the quickest route to wealth, to success, to excellence, the pursuit of excellence.<\/line><\/p>\n

You turn everything over, you cede everything over to a central authority, command-and-control, which is there to limit the pain of losing. And a lot of people decide that\u2019s a better investment than naked competition. With naked competition, I might lose. I might get the short end. I might be in pain. I might suffer, economically and other ways. So people sign up.<\/p>\n