{"id":310312,"date":"2019-05-29T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=310312"},"modified":"2019-05-30T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T20:07:15","slug":"puzder-on-the-selfishness-of-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/29\/puzder-on-the-selfishness-of-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzder on the Selfishness of Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: A fascinating piece by Andy Puzder. Andy Puzder, chief executive officer of CKE Restaurants for more than 16 years following a career as a lawyer, nominated by President Trump to serve as U.S. labor secretary. In 2011 he coauthored Job Creation: How It Really Works and Why Government Doesn\u2019t Understand It<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His latest book is The Capitalist Comeback: The Trump Boom and the Left\u2019s Plot to Stop It<\/a>. The book came out April 24th, 2018. And there is a piece here by Mr. Puzder. (coughing) Excuse me. I got tight congestion. Last Thursday night, man, I had one of the fastest moving colds in the history of my having colds. And I just started jamming on Mucinex. It broke it up fast, but it\u2019s still being broken up. I\u2019ve still got this congestion. I\u2019ve had two colds here inside of three months. I haven\u2019t had that happen in years.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this piece, it ran on Fox News<\/a>: “Our booming economy can still overcome progressive misinformation, propaganda and myth.\u201d And there are some pull quotes in this that are really good, and I just want to share them with you.<\/p>\n

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By the way, it\u2019s a great accompaniment to a piece I have in The Stack<\/a> on the Cuban economy. The Cuban economy is falling apart. It\u2019s never been great shakes. But, you know, Cuba is one of the state sponsors of socialism in Venezuela. Cuba is attempting to help Venezuela survive, and, in the process, the Cuban government is causing great damage to their own economy, to the great detriment of the Cuban people. So this piece would be a great accompaniment to that. Here\u2019s a couple of pull quotes.<\/p>\n

For those of you that get into arguments with people about capitalism versus socialism, this may be helpful. \u201cIn a capitalist economy, the only way you can improve your life is by satisfying the needs of others. That is by providing the products or services that other people want at a price they can afford.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be a successful capitalist, you have to shift your focus outward, to the needs and wants of others \u2013 your consumers. The only way to succeed is by knowing what your customers want and offering it to them at an affordable price.\u201d<\/p>\n

I think this is brilliant because it stands the popular definition of capitalism — selfishness — on its head. You have these birdbrains like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her cohorts, who all think capitalism is this bastion of selfishness and greed and nobody shares anything. They say it\u2019s trickle-down, but it doesn\u2019t trickle. Nobody gives anything away in capitalism. It\u2019s mean-spirited and extreme.<\/p>\n

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And it\u2019s just the exact opposite. Capitalism requires reach-out. Capitalism cannot succeed in any other way. The only way you improve yourself in capitalism is by satisfying the needs of others! Not giving them things, obviously, but providing services and products they want so much that they will pay for them. And then you have to be able to do that at a price that people can afford.<\/p>\n

\u201cCapitalism empowers consumers as businesses compete\u201d for them. Capitalism makes consumers wealthier, it makes consumers stronger, because it features competition. In capitalism, all kinds of people are competing for the dollars, i.e., the support of customers. This results in variations in quality, it results in variations in price, it results in providing the best service or product at a price that people will pay.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s kind of like empowering people for their votes, their support. \u201cIn a form of economic democracy, consumers vote with every dollar they spend, determining which businesses succeed and which fail. Henry Ford built cars for commoners, not the nobility. Steve Jobs created iPhones for all of us, not government elites. This is because the success of each business is determined by how well that business meets the needs of the masses \u2013 consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s not selfishness and greed. It\u2019s the exact opposite. Now, what is socialism? Get to that just a minute.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Andy Puzder, and his definition of socialism.\u00a0 His definition of capitalism here is just right on the money.\u00a0 In capitalism, you have to look outward. You have to compete. You have to provide people with products, services, what they want that they will pay for at an affordable price.\u00a0 It\u2019s not selfishness.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t greed.\u00a0 It\u2019s the exact opposite.\u00a0 Socialism… In a socialist economy, rather than focusing on the needs of others, you improve your life by focusing on your own needs.<\/p>\n

Socialism is what\u2019s selfishness.\u00a0 Socialism is greed.\u00a0 Socialism is unsharing.\u00a0 You succeed in socialism by getting more for yourself than others get from the limited supply of goods or services or benefits that government makes available.\u00a0 In capitalism, the market is making things available, and they\u2019re trying to get you to buy them.\u00a0 They\u2019re trying to get you to purchase the service or the product by making it affordable, by making it the best.\u00a0 Yeah, there\u2019s some people trying to scam you.<\/p>\n

Yeah, there\u2019s some people trying to trick you.\u00a0 But you\u2019ve got options.\u00a0 People are reaching out.\u00a0 People are trying to provide good things to you.\u00a0 You have the choice.\u00a0 In socialism, you are on your own — and there\u2019s a limited, finite supply of stuff that the government makes available, and everybody\u2019s trying to get their hands on as much of other people\u2019s money as they can, other people\u2019s stuff.\u00a0 Socialism is pure selfishness.<\/p>\n

Socialism, it\u2019s not fairness.\u00a0 It\u2019s not equality.\u00a0 It\u2019s not sameness.\u00a0 It\u2019s the exact opposite of that. People in socialist countries standing in the inevitable bread line or in line for gas or government-rationed health care? They\u2019re not thinking about the needs of others.\u00a0 They\u2019re trying to figure out how to get as much as they can for themselves from a limited supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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