{"id":27330,"date":"2007-10-30T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:45:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:45:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:45:18","slug":"brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Monologue on Class Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

RUSH: Dave in Billings, Montana. I\u2019m glad you called, sir, and welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Hello, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to speak with you. First-time caller, longtime listener.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. It\u2019s nice to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I appreciate it. Rush, I guess what I\u2019d like to know is your opinion. Increasingly, I\u2019m concerned about Congress is apparently too busy to be taking care of their own business. They\u2019re so busy trying to be president, commander-in-chief, how to take over Bush\u2019s job, that they\u2019re not getting their own job done, and as recently as not getting any of their budgets resolved, and now going to a shortened work week. It seems to me they\u2019re not doing the job we hired them to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I addressed this a little bit earlier, and I will expand on it. I think what you have here, essentially, is a bunch of Sixties protesters, anti-war types who have assumed leadership positions in the House of Representatives, and they\u2019ve become the Sit-In Congress. They have become the Protest Congress. Now, at work here is the usual politics. In their estimation, you\u2019ve got a lame duck president. You\u2019ve got a presidential campaign that is underway and starts in earnest in a mere few months. The last thing that they want to give this president and his party is any legislative achievement. They are willing to stand in the way of his achievement, his accomplishment, on anything — from Iraq, to anything domestic — in order to prevent the Republican Party from being able to trumpet success as it launches its own presidential campaign in the coming few months. In addition to that, they won the elections in November of 2006, but they don\u2019t have nearly large enough majorities to get anything done, and they are beholden to a kook-fringe base that is demanding fealty on certain radical issues. <\/p>\n

Otherwise, this radical base will promote primary candidates to oppose the Democrat incumbents, and that\u2019s why Harry Reid\u2019s frightened, although he\u2019s not up \u2019til 2010. But people in the House of Representatives are up every two years. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re trying to be Bush. I think they\u2019re trying to get a lot of things done and don\u2019t have the support and don\u2019t have the votes. They don\u2019t have the support of the American people to do what they want, while they think they do have the support of the American people to get what they want done — and, in the process, while they think they\u2019re making the Republicans look bad, and they think they\u2019re making Bush look bad, it is they who look absurd. Here\u2019s a story today from the Sacramento Bee: ‘Voters\u2019 Views of Pelosi, Congress Have Dimmed.\u2019 Get how this story begins: ‘House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s own party is turning on her, apparently because of a perception among California Democrats that she has not done enough to shake up the status quo in Washington, D.C., according to a Field Poll released Friday. Congress overall is doing even worse with California voters, with an approval rating sagging to 30 percent or below for only the seventh time in the past 15 years, the poll of 1,201 registered voters found. <\/p>\n

‘Both Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat who became speaker this year, and Congress as a whole have fallen short of voter expectations since taking over both houses, poll director Mark DiCamillo said. ‘I think the reason for her decline and the low ratings Congress is getting is that voters here are not seeing any change.” It\u2019s not just that. This is where these people don\u2019t get it. The voters are, indeed, not seeing change, but they are also seeing a bunch of spoiled brat little kids masquerading as Democrats. They are seeing and hearing nothing but lies, rage, and hatred directed toward a man that is not unlikable. President Bush may not be popular policy-wise, but nobody in the mainstream of this country hates his guts. They do, and their supporters do. I tell you, folks, they have no idea how it is they\u2019re coming across to people. They have lived for the longest time with this superiority attitude born of the fact that they were in the majority for 40 years, and during that time they had a monopoly on power. They had a monopoly on media power. They had a monopoly on a number of things. That monopoly is gone. They were so excited when they won the House back, and they were so excited when they got control of the Senate back! Now they find they can\u2019t do anything with it. They have two of the most ineffective leaders the Democrat Party has ever had run the House and Senate in my lifetime, and it\u2019s starting to show up here, and all these visions of greatness and achievement and embarrassing Bush, impeaching Bush, investigating Bush, and causing all kinds of tumult and chaos have not born out. They are miserable failures, and it\u2019s apparent. Their failures are quite visible. They are profound, and they are simply ineffective. It\u2019s noticeable to one and all, and they are aware of it, too. It\u2019s not that they\u2019re trying to act like the executive branch. Let\u2019s look at this S-CHIP business for example. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Nancy Pelosi is still singing the same tune on Iraq and the S-CHIP line. This is from late yesterday on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

PELOSI: The annual cost of assuring ten million children in America is 40 days spent in Iraq. Forty days in Iraq, ten million children insured in America in one year. So we certainly can afford to do this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not about affording it, Ms. Pelosi, and you know this — and, of course, ten days or 40 days in Iraq? How about all the redundant social programs that have way too much money being spent on them with way too much waste and fraud? Why don\u2019t you go get the money from there? We\u2019re talking about US national security you want to endanger! We\u2019re on the threshold of victory, and she wants to snatch it. She wants to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory — and this old line? She used this line two or three weeks ago. This is not inspiring her side. It\u2019s not inspiring the American people, this kind of shock, ultra-left-wing liberalism. The S-CHIP program, by the way, if you look at all the polls on it, the message got out. The Drive-By Media monopoly is over. Once the American people found out that the S-CHIP program she\u2019s talking about is not just poor children. It\u2019s ‘children\u2019 up to the age of 25. It\u2019s families with three or four times the poverty level of income! That\u2019s not what the American people want a health program ‘for poor kids\u2019 to be about. This is nothing more than — what\u2019s the old phrase? — the camel getting its nose under the tent? If somebody said today that if they got the S-CHIP program and they got Medicare and Medicaid on the other end, then they\u2019ve got the middle class surrounded, and all that\u2019s left to get national socialized medicine is to find your way into the middle class. <\/p>\n

Well, this was a stealth way of doing it. Now, the real question is this: Do the Democrats really want this program to pass? Do they really want the override to pass? See, I don\u2019t think — and the dirty little secret is, folks, the Democrats don\u2019t care about ‘the children.\u2019 ‘The children\u2019 are merely the vehicle in which they drive in order to get this thing down the road to accomplish what they want to accomplish. What they want to accomplish is to embarrass the president and to be able to cast Republicans as against the children, particularly against the poor children because that\u2019s their clich&eacute;, and it\u2019s the clich&eacute; that\u2019s been in their playbook for 40 years. Republicans hate the poor. Republicans hate minorities. Republicans hate this. Republicans only love the rich. Those things don\u2019t fly anymore. The class-envy business is something that hadn\u2019t really been that successful for them for quite a while. Yet it\u2019s the only thing they know how to play, the only card they know how to play. Once the American people found out about it, the thing was up. But what they really want, they don\u2019t want this to pass. They\u2019re not trying to get this done for the kids. They\u2019re trying to get this done for themselves. They want this as an election issue for all of next year. Here\u2019s Ted Kennedy, wailing and moaning on the Senate floor just this morning.<\/p>\n

KENNEDY: The White House has called upon the supporters of SCHIP to compromise, and compromise, and compromise, and we have. But this much is clear. We will not compromise the future of a generation of American children, just because they come from the working poor. In May of this year, amid statements from the president that SCHIP should put kids first, his administration said yes to 39,000 adults in Wisconsin! But now they want to say no! The White House is now shocked — shocked! — to discover that adults are covered under SCHIP.<\/p>\n

RUSH: White House is shocked — shocked — to discover that… But it\u2019s a poor children\u2019s program! So they\u2019re still wailing and moaning about it, and they know that the president\u2019s not going to go along with the compromise because the compromise is not really a compromise. What I laughed about with this, when the Democrats came up with the idea, ‘Well, we\u2019ll come up with a compromise and give Republicans in the House a chance to save face, because it\u2019s Republicans who embarrass themselves by not supporting this thing because they hate the kids.\u2019 The president and the Republicans are not falling for it and so the Democrats are all doing this. Ted Kennedy\u2019s speech here is just a preview of what you\u2019re going to hear, in modified form, in campaign ads all of next year. This is exactly what the Democrats want out of it. They don\u2019t care about kids. I want to say something about class envy here, too. You know, the Democrats have had this class-envy card that they\u2019ve played all the time — the rich — and they still do. Tax cuts for the rich. Go after Big Oil. Go after Big Pharmaceutical. Go after Big Retail, Big Fast Food, whoever.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re always trying to tell the little guy out there that they, the Democrats, are going to get even with these evil rich people who are stealing everything and they\u2019re going to make \u2019em pay. They\u2019re going to really inflict a lot of pain on them. But I want to share with you some thoughts here, my friends, on why class envy is not only a waste of time, but it\u2019s actually counterproductive. Let me ask you a question. What is the incentive that drives entrepreneurs and inventors to find new, and innovative, and cheaper ways of providing goods and services and making a product? What is the driving force? Profit! Exactly right. The hope of making a profit. That does not mean somebody\u2019s heartless. It doesn\u2019t mean somebody\u2019s cold and cruel. It means somebody wants to go into business for something, a reason that they love, provide a service, a product or whatever, and they want it to be worth their while financially. The idea that people want to improve their financial circumstances is somehow sin, is absurd. Yet that\u2019s what the Democrats want you to believe. If everybody in a society — and this has been tried, and it\u2019s failed miserably — if everyone received the same amount of money, income, no matter how productive or inventive they were, there would be no incentive to do the things necessary to grow the economy or to stand out above anybody else. <\/p>\n

If you are going to make whatever everybody else makes, why should you work harder, if there\u2019s not going to be some reward? It\u2019s depressing. It does not advance prosperity in any way, shape, manner, or form. Therefore, I would submit to you that it is good for society when there are large differences in income between the upper and middle classes. It is healthy that these differences, these gaps exist, because it means that there is still incentive out there for others to continue to try to find the ways of providing more and even better goods or services, at even lower cost than exist today. Remember, the rich person only became rich through the willing participation of millions of people who, on a daily basis, give up their money in return for something of greater value to them than their money — exempt the Kennedys who inherited it all. But when you part ways with your money for a product, goods, or services, you\u2019re finding something that is at least as valuable to you as your money or perhaps even more so — and, for this reason, the great wealth of a few people is just a tiny reflection of the much greater benefits that the whole economy has experienced. <\/p>\n

So the middle class, as well as the poor, need to be thankful that there is this gap because it\u2019s something to shoot for. It\u2019s an incentive. It\u2019s something to shoot for, to be part of. This, by the way, this does not just apply to millionaires and billionaires. It applies to somebody that makes only $30,000 a year, because, if you make 30, I guarantee you you\u2019re ‘rich\u2019 in the eyes of somebody else. If you make 75, you\u2019re rich in the eyes of somebody else. If you make 125, you\u2019re rich in the eyes of somebody else, because there\u2019s always somebody that\u2019s going to have more than you\u2019ve got. There\u2019s always somebody going to have less than you\u2019ve got. The people who have more than you have inspire you to get where they are, and the people below you are trying to get where you are, even though you think there are people who have more than you do. It goes throughout the chain this way, and it provides the incentive for entrepreneurs and inventors to come up with better services, products, at lower cost, and all of this is rooted in competition, and if that isn\u2019t taught or if competition is taught as something evil and bad, then the people who are taught that are being done a great disservice. <\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Dave in Billings, Montana. I\u2019m glad you called, sir, and welcome to the EIB Network. CALLER: Yes. Hello, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to speak with you. First-time caller, longtime listener. RUSH: Thank you, sir. It\u2019s nice to have you here. CALLER: I appreciate it. Rush, I guess what I\u2019d like to know is your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nBrilliant Monologue on Class Envy - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Brilliant Monologue on Class Envy - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Dave in Billings, Montana. I\u2019m glad you called, sir, and welcome to the EIB Network. CALLER: Yes. Hello, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to speak with you. First-time caller, longtime listener. RUSH: Thank you, sir. It\u2019s nice to have you here. CALLER: I appreciate it. Rush, I guess what I\u2019d like to know is your […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brilliant_Class_Envy_Monologue_-10_30_07.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"12 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brilliant_Class_Envy_Monologue_-10_30_07.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brilliant_Class_Envy_Monologue_-10_30_07.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/\",\"name\":\"Brilliant Monologue on Class Envy - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-19T04:45:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-05-19T04:45:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Brilliant Monologue on Class Envy\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Brilliant Monologue on Class Envy - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"Brilliant Monologue on Class Envy - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: Dave in Billings, Montana. I\u2019m glad you called, sir, and welcome to the EIB Network. CALLER: Yes. Hello, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to speak with you. First-time caller, longtime listener. RUSH: Thank you, sir. It\u2019s nice to have you here. CALLER: I appreciate it. Rush, I guess what I\u2019d like to know is your […]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brilliant_Class_Envy_Monologue_-10_30_07.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"12 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brilliant_Class_Envy_Monologue_-10_30_07.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brilliant_Class_Envy_Monologue_-10_30_07.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/","name":"Brilliant Monologue on Class Envy - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2011-05-19T04:45:18+00:00","dateModified":"2011-05-19T04:45:18+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/30\/brilliant_monologue_on_class_envy\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Brilliant Monologue on Class Envy"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}