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RUSH: Okay, I\u2019ll just give you an example of de Blasio and this Uber business. I\u2019m telling you this is just a forerunner, just a little tease because you\u2019ve got city governments all over this country trying to shut Uber down and they\u2019re all liberal government. I want to quote de Blasio. This is the new mayor New York City, and this guy has unwittingly just — in his own words — explained why liberalism is at odds with the US Constitution. Ready? “The people…” This is what he said:<\/p>\n

“The people of our cities do not like the notion of those who are particularly wealthy and powerful dictating the terms to a government elected by the people. As a multibillion-dollar company, Uber thinks it can dictate to government.” He\u2019s got it 180 degrees out of phase. Uber is American citizens! Uber is a couple of entrepreneurs who thought they had a new way of beating what happened to be taxi cartels in major cities, and they came up with a way to provide people a better way of getting around in automobiles at much less money. <\/p>\n

So the mayor of New York comes along and says, ‘The people of our cities don\u2019t like the notion of those who are particularly wealthy and powerful dictating the terms to a government elected by the people.” The United States Constitution does not limit Uber. The United States Constitution limits Bill de Blasio. The US Constitution is written specifically to limit the power of government over people, and this guy is making it patently obvious why liberals are at odds with the US Constitution. <\/line><\/p>\n

This is what\u2019s the teachable moment for young Millennials and low-information voters who happen to love Uber. They think Uber is a “progressive” company because they use smartphones and high-tech to do their business. They just naturally assume that Uber is a bunch of leftists — and personally, they may be. I have no idea. But they\u2019re being targeted to be put out of business by liberal city governments. And once this is explained to them, you can see the light go off.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had a bunch of people who teach college kids tell me this. They explain this Uber situation to them, and they love Uber. A lot of people love Uber. In fact, that\u2019s where de Blasio was wrong because the problem is what people don\u2019t like when they found out it\u2019s happening is politicians taking things away from them that they like and are voting for with their pocketbooks, and forcing them to spend is more money than necessary to satisfy some cabal that exists between government and, in this case, a taxi cartel in New York City. <\/p>\n

Anyway, that\u2019s just it is forerunner of it. But I think it\u2019s just classic. If young people can be made to understand that it is government that is supposed to be limited, government reach, it\u2019s what the US Constitution\u2019s all about, and that\u2019s not taught. You know what\u2019s taught about the US Constitution today? You know what\u2019s taught about it? It\u2019s taught that it doesn\u2019t go far enough. It\u2019s taught that the Constitution needs to be changed, amended, reanalyzed, because it doesn\u2019t grant government enough power. <\/line><\/p>\n

This Uber example is a way of illustrating the folly and the fallacy of that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:Here\u2019s Steven in Dallas. He\u2019s an Uber driver. Steven, great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Wow. It\u2019s an honor, Rush. Longtime listener, first-time caller, retired military. I drive for Uber here in Dallas. You know, we talk about these towns that have really kind of closed down Uber, and I think it\u2019s gotta be, you know, money under the table. Because anybody that\u2019s used Uber not only swears by it, but do not absolutely want to go back to the cab companies. I think the cab companies here in Dallas in particular, if they were terrible, they\u2019d be an improvement. The service that I provide as an Uber driver is unmatched by any cabdriver here in Dallas. So we have municipalities here in Texas that have closed Uber done. San Antonio is one of those instances. But the cities that have embraced Uber are creating a service.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know people love it and swear by it. It\u2019s just that I\u2019m too famous to be able to use Uber. I can\u2019t. You know, it\u2019s one of the many problems of fame is you can\u2019t do all kinds of things that other people can. I just can\u2019t do it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, back to this Uber story \u2019cause all I did on that was give you the de Blasio quote, and this story is rich. The Wall Street Journal<\/a>: “Progressive New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Socialist Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo found common cause on a shared threat while attending a recent climate-change conference at the Vatican.” Stop and think of this: Here these two socialist wackos are at a climate change conference at the Vatican and they get all fired up about Uber. <\/p>\n

“‘The people of our cities don\u2019t like the notion of those who are particularly wealthy and powerful dictating the terms to a government elected by the people,\u2019 Mr. de Blasio declared. ‘As a multibillion-dollar company, Uber thinks it can dictate to government.'” Mr. de Blasio, you\u2019ve got it all wrong. The people in New York and elsewhere see your association with the taxi cartel as exactly what you are claiming: “particularly wealthy and powerful dictating the terms to a government.”<\/p>\n

But the big point for me here is, “What what de Blasio is actually saying…”<\/p>\n

Here it is. That\u2019s right. Talking Points Memo<\/a>. “DOJ: No, We Were Not Asked to Launch a Criminal Probe into Hillary Clinton\u2019s E-mails.” This is what it is. This is exactly what I saw. The date of this thing is Friday. It\u2019s late Friday when this thing hit. They were not asked to launch a criminal probe into Clinton\u2019s e-mails. The story was that these two inspectors general did and demanded and wanted, and that story ran all weekend. Okay. So now you know that I did see it. <\/p>\n

But the point about this de Blasio thing is, this is rich, because here he obviously believes that government is the center of everybody\u2019s life and that citizens don\u2019t like anybody dictating to government what government has. No! (summarized) “If there\u2019s gonna be any dictating, the government\u2019s gonna be doing it. Not the people. The people don\u2019t get to tell government what to do.” That\u2019s how screwed up this guy is. But that\u2019s what modern day liberalism is. This is what they all believe. <\/p>\n

Constitution shmonstitution, balderdash. There is dictating! The government gets to dictate. People elect the government to tell other people what they can and can\u2019t do. It\u2019s not the other way around. It\u2019s not governed by and for the American people or what have you. But as the Journal writes (it\u2019s an L. Gordon Crovitz piece), “But before Mr. de Blasio could return from Rome, he learned that people really don\u2019t like when politicians try to take away their favorite app for getting around the government\u2019s taxi cartel.<\/p>\n

“The mayor was forced to drop his plan to limit Uber to a 1% annual increase in cars, far below the current rate. It\u2019s hard to see why Mr. de Blasio thought that would be good politics. Two million New Yorkers have downloaded the Uber app onto their mobile devices — a quarter of the city\u2019s population and more than twice the number of citizens who voted for Mr. de Blasio.” So more people have the Uber app than voted for this clown. “But it\u2019s easy to understand why he views Uber as an ideological threat.<\/p>\n

“A tipping point is in sight where big-government politicians can no longer deprive consumers of new choice made possible by technology — whether for car rides, car sharing or home rentals. Mr. de Blasio\u2019s experience should encourage other politicians to sign up for innovation.” This is so, so on point. Technology does hold the key to overrunning these libs. What\u2019s fascinating about this, folks…<\/p>\n

If you look at, say, Millennials as a group that you would want to teach and open their eyes about the perils of big government, the problems of big government — and how big government impairs them and limits their freedom — this is it. This is the story. This is the case. Uber. Because they love Uber. Now, most of them probably think Uber is a nice, progressive liberal company because it\u2019s young and hip just like they are. And they don\u2019t understand government going after it. <\/line><\/p>\n

All they know is that Uber is there when they want it. Uber gets \u2019em where they wanted to go, they get to use their phone to get it all done. It\u2019s just whenever they want to do it, they don\u2019t have to stand around and wait for a cab that\u2019s dirty being driven by somebody they can\u2019t understand and may stink in there. They don\u2019t have to put up with any of that, and they can be in touch with the driver. He can say, “I\u2019m five minutes away. Meet me wherever. You be at the corner.” It\u2019s simple, it really, really works. <\/p>\n

And here come big-government mayors trying to shut it down. With that story in the right teacher\u2019s hands, a whole bunch of people can be shown what they have not been taught elsewhere in school: What big government liberalism does to individual liberty and freedom. Think about this: “Uber has become a wedge issue. The Conservative mayor of London, Boris Johnson, took the opposite approach from Mr. de Blasio.<\/p>\n

“‘You are dealing with a huge economic force which is consumer choice, and the taxi trade needs to recognize that,\u2019 he said recently. He told a gathering of taxi drivers in London: ‘I\u2019m afraid it is a tragic fact that there are now more than a million people in this city who have the Uber app.\u2019 When cabbies objected that Uber drivers were undercutting their prices, Mr. Johnson replied: ‘Yes, they are. It\u2019s called the free market,'” and that\u2019s and that\u2019s what competition does. <\/p>\n

Competition lowers prices for the consumer while giving them more choice, and liberal big city mayors want to deny that choice and keep prices high because they are in bed with the existing taxi cartel. “Presidential candidates are divided as well. Hillary Clinton implicitly criticized Uber in her campaign speech on economic policy, saying the ‘so-called “gig economy”‘ is ‘raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like.'” <\/p>\n

Now, the “gig economy” is another way of talking about independent contractors. Your job is a series of gigs rather than being an employee, and the government wants you to be an employee. You know why they want you to be an employee? Because then they get to withhold your taxes from you. They get to withhold your Social Security, and they get to demand that you have health care. When you\u2019re an employee, they have total control over most of your money. When you\u2019re an independent contractor, they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here you go. Here you go. Marco Rubio has a chapter in his presidential campaign book called “American Dreams,” and the chapter in his campaign book is called, “An America Safe for Uber.” He describes, explaining to a college class that he taught, how Miami had banned Uber cars. “As my progressive young students listened to me explain why government was preventing them from using their cell phones to get home from the bars on Saturday night, I could see their minds change. Before I knew it, I was talking to a bunch of 20- and 21-year-old anti-government activists.” <\/p>\n

So, it\u2019s a big deal. Government endorsed cartels, like New York City has with the cab industry. You know what the price of a medallion is to have a cab? They limit the number of cabs in the city, obviously. And they limit… That\u2019s part of the protection scheme. They limit the number of medallions, and there\u2019s not one medallion per cab. A medallion owner could have a fleet of 20 cabs. It just depends on who\u2019s able to make what deal. But there is a finite, total number of cabs that gets increased every year based on a formula so forth, but they\u2019re in bed with the city government. It\u2019s protectionism, and they try to keep competitors out, protect the prices of the cabs, the fares. <\/p>\n

And Gordon Crovitz with the Wall Street Journal says these “government-enforced cartels are the ones that fall faster and harder to disruptive innovation than most businesses. When change comes, it\u2019s more dramatic than in industries that already have competition.” But if you have a business that is protected by government — city government, state government, town council, federal government, whatever — then you don\u2019t face competition. And if you do face competition, it\u2019s really hard on the competitors. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s made nearly impossible. So you do not learn the rigors, and when change comes along that they can\u2019t control, and this kind of technologically driven innovative change in the hands of millions of people, a government like de Blasio, he can try, but he can\u2019t stop anything. He\u2019s gonna be overpowered by the numbers. And those people, those cartels fall faster and harder because the change is dramatic and they\u2019re not prepared to deal with it. “The fate of taxis is a warning to other regulated industries that new technologies always give customers more choice and better price. <\/p>\n

“Citizens can always make choice to vote for candidates who embrace innovation” and those who don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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