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RUSH: ‘Minorities Worry More About the Housing Slump.\u2019 Really? Can we count on the Drive-By Media to constantly tell us on any economic story where the news is bad, that women and minorities are hardest hit? As usual, ‘African-Americans and Hispanics are far more worried than whites about declining U.S. house prices, and are three times more likely to say it is getting tougher to obtain a home loan, a Reuters\/Zogby poll released on Wednesday shows… The nationwide telephone survey of 1,020 likely voters was conducted August 9-11, when concerns about tightening credit terms sparked a global stock market slide. Some 60 percent of African-Americans said they were very concerned about declining home prices, compared with just 19 percent of whites. A third of Hispanics said they were very concerned. Zogby said the findings reflect growing economic uncertainty and a feeling of declining hope among minorities, even as consumer confidence surveys show Americans overall feeling generally upbeat. Zogby said, ‘It\u2019s a bifurcated country.” <\/p>\n

Now, the purpose of this story is class envy. We\u2019re not equal, folks. We don\u2019t have equality of outcomes. This is an injustice. It\u2019s always women and minorities and the poor who are hardest hit by downturns in the economy. Maybe, my friends, the answer would be to stop whining about it and look to why this is the difference, or why there is a difference. Instead of denigrating whites because they\u2019re successful and optimistic, why don\u2019t people go out and try to emulate \u2019em? The thing about this that\u2019s always amazed me with liberalism and the Drive-By Media is when you have economic disparities (and you\u2019re always going to have them), liberals seek to fix them by lowering those at the top. Punish them, tax them, make it tougher on them, rather than elevate people at the bottom, which is more Conservatism 101. We want to try to elevate those at the bottom, motivate them, inspire them, and give them confidence. <\/p>\n

Most people have no clue how good they can be. They have no idea what\u2019s inside them because they haven\u2019t had anybody around them that had high expectations of them, and if they\u2019ve been around liberals and Democrats all their lives they\u2019re going to be told that they have no prayer; that America is unjust and it\u2019s unfair, and you don\u2019t have a chance; the deck is stacked against you; the establishment\u2019s going to keep stepping on you. Of course they grow to believe this and they end up feeling victimized and disadvantaged and then Democrats come along and say, ‘Don\u2019t worry about it, we\u2019ll punish those people at the top. We\u2019ll raise their taxes.\u2019 The poor and the minorities go, ‘Yeah, yeah, soak \u2019em.\u2019 Their lives don\u2019t improve as a result, and we can demonstrate that the lives of the wards of the state, wherever the state is, do not improve. There\u2019s an implied hint here in this story that racism is keeping people worried and scared, and to the extent that it\u2019s true, it\u2019s a thought that\u2019s put into their heads by Democrats and the Drive-Bys. <\/p>\n

Now, a companion story. You just knew this one had to follow. Both of these are Reuters stories, by the way. ‘Democratic White House Hopefuls Seize on Housing Woes.\u2019 (Laughing) So here we have the obligatory story, women and minorities hardest hit, have no chance, there\u2019s racism in America, and here comes the next story: ‘Democratic White House Hopefuls Seize on Housing Woes — Democratic presidential hopefuls have seized on the deepening U.S. mortgage crisis and gyrating financial markets as signs they would be better stewards of the economy.\u2019 But the interesting thing, I don\u2019t know how this made it into the story, but I want you to listen to the last paragraph, which is a shocker coming from Reuters. <\/p>\n

”I think if the election were to happen today, the Democrats would have trouble getting traction,\u2019 said Kenneth Rogoff, an economics professor at Harvard University who has advised Republican Sen. John McCain\u2019s presidential campaign. ‘It\u2019s very hard to say what you want to change without coming off as if you don\u2019t believe in the miracle of the American economy,\u2019 he said.\u2019 So he says, ‘Okay, you Democrats, you want to change things, what you are going to change?\u2019 A lot of people who look at consumer confidence surveys are feeling pretty optimistic. I\u2019m surprised that made it into the story. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, along with the stories we had from Reuters on the housing slump being hard on minorities and women, and so is the obligatory narrative of the Drive-By Media, remember that quote from Reuters they put in from this Harvard economist who has worked on McCain\u2019s campaign? He said that\u2019s a tough thing — if the Democrats run for the presidency on change in the economy, it\u2019s going to be pretty risky because what is it about the miracle of the US economy you want to change? He\u2019s exactly right. We know what they want to change. They want to raise taxes. They want to slow economic activity down. Well, they may not want to do that but that\u2019s what will happen. They want control over people\u2019s lives. Along those lines, ‘A surprising 94 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with their lives – although far fewer in New York and other Eastern states think they\u2019re better off than they were five years ago, according to a new survey. The Harris Poll of more than 1,000 people reported the overall ‘satisfaction\u2019 level, defined as people who said they were either very or somewhat satisfied with their lot, was up 4 percentage points, from 90 percent two years ago. But only 42 percent of people in the Eastern U.S. said things had improved since 2002. By contrast, 60 percent of Southerners and 62 percent of Westerners said their lives had improved.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So consumer confidence is also high, and it\u2019s going to be tricky for the Democrats to run around and say they want to change all of this, because the Democrats… (sigh) I shouldn\u2019t say this. I\u2019m reminded of the 1960 campaign, Kennedy. Things were really good. We\u2019d had the burgeoning Fifties, we were coming out of the recovery of World War II, and we were just in all kinds of boom cycles, and JFK — I guess I\u2019m safe in saying this because no Democrat\u2019s going to take advice from me. JFK said, ‘Yeah, things are going good, but we can do even better.\u2019 Now, today\u2019s Democrats are not capable of that kind of optimism. Today\u2019s liberals are not capable of that type of upbeat and cheerful, rosy outlook. Everything is doom and gloom. Everything is a crisis. We\u2019re one paycheck away from homelessness. It\u2019s soup line America. They\u2019re sitting there with this notion of inevitability about their chances in \u201908, and the big issue that is going to launch them to the White House is already falling apart on them, and that\u2019s the nature of the Iraq war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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