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Jeffrey Immelt and GE hastened crony socialism's acceptability. Walmart supports ObamaCare because they know their smaller competitors can't. Government is Walmart's partner.
6/17/14, "The Tea Party is Washington's Only Enemy," Rush Limbaugh transcript
"RUSH: So Snerdley comes in today and says,"So, when is there gonna be a special prosecutor named for the missing e-mails?"
I said, "Never. There's not gonna be a special prosecutor. Who's
gonna call for a special prosecutor, and then who's gonna name one?
Ain't gonna happen." And I went on to explain the facts of life to
him....Some people, I think a lot of
people, are so immersed in the traditional Democrat versus Republican
mind-set and think that it still exists, and it doesn't.
There isn't a Democrat versus Republican mind-set in Washington
anymore, ladies and gentlemen.
There is an election, a presidential election, there's a pretense of it, but in truth, the only real enemy of
Washington today is the Tea Party. The Republican and Democrat
establishments, the Chamber of Commerce, the whole way Washington is
working, the only enemies are people who want to reintroduce free
markets, get rid of crony capitalism, blow up the relationships that
exist between Washington and individual businesses or business at large,
Wall Street firms.
You people in the Tea Party that believe in liberty, freedom, free
markets, you represent the problem. To John Boehner, to the Republican
establishment, to the Republican consultants, Obama is not the problem. Anybody opposed to the way Washington does business today is the
problem, and that would be you and me....
Six more people's computers crashed or something that resulted in their
e-mails being gone, too, and it's all related to the Tea Party. Look,
there's a really good piece today that explains this. It's at RedState.com.
I'll give you just a little example. I have been trying to verbalize
this and warn people about crony capitalism, although actually it's more
like crony socialism, but crony capitalism is the term.
Ever since Jeffrey Immelt,
the CEO of General Electric took something like -- oh, I don't know
what it was -- 800 million or billion, whatever it is, dollars from
Obama for research and development into green energy, I'd say, "Wait a
minute. GE doesn't need any Washington money. What the hell is this?" Ever since that day -- and then Immelt ends up on the jobs task force....
It began a cozy, comfortable
relationship. And when General Electric is in bed with the government,
GE's competitors are not. Have you ever wondered why -- and a lot of
people have, and they've sent me e-mails. They've scratched their heads.
"Why in the world does Walmart support Obamacare?"
I mean, the traditional view would be that Big Business would want
nothing to do with government getting their hands and feet inside
businesses and telling them how to operate, particularly on something
like that health care, that businesses would want to walk away from it....The traditional belief
has always been that business is the essence of the free market....
That's upside down now. Why does Walmart support
Obamacare? Because they can afford it. Their competitors can't. So an
alliance with Obama allows Walmart to watch idly while their
competition goes out of business, or is really harmed 'cause they don't
have the association with Obama, and they can't afford the new
requirements.
So Walmart doesn't have to do any better at customer service, it
doesn't have to lower prices, it doesn't have to do any better as a
business in order to succeed and prosper. All it has to do is become
friends with Obama....And without having to improve the way
they do business at all, their competitors are hurt. That's how the
game is played now. And who opposes this? You and me!
We oppose this kind of crony capitalism. What does that make us? That
makes us, and the Tea Party the big enemy of Washington. Not just the
Democrats, but of Washington. The Chamber of Commerce guys run around;
what do they want? Illegal immigration, amnesty. They want it for cheap
labor. The Republicans and Democrats are all aligned. Some Silicon
Valley groups are all aligned....
But we
thus become the enemy of Washington. You can look at it as ruling
class/country class.
You can look at it as elites versus plebes, as the establishment
versus whatever. However you want to term it, the only real enemy of
Washington today is the Tea Party, the Republican Party base. That's
why all these forces are aligned against us. 'Cause if we ever got our
way, all these arrangements would end. (interruption) It's not true of
every corporation. Obviously every business is not tied to Obama, but
those who are happen to be doing well. Look at the financial services.
This is another point that was made in the (RedState) piece, and it's right on the
money. Look at it. Wall Street's going through the roof. But is there
any associated, massive economic growth with it? No. Are there any
massive new kinds of really great products out there that you can't wait
to get your hands on? No. What's happening is that people are moving
money around and making profit on the movement of money, but that's
all.
Wealth for the sake of it with no dream attached to it. No great
accomplishment, no great service, no great product. But the people
involved are getting very, very rich and they're doing it because of an
association with the government which allows it -- i.e., the Fed funding
it with QE1, QE2, QE3. Well, who would want to upset that? Who's on
Wall Street? Major Big Businesses. Always assumed to be what? Free-market Republicans.
Guess what?
No longer.
It's just easier. It's just so much easier to suck up and kiss butt
with the administration. Get in tight, get protection, get preferential
treatment -- while your competitors don't have it -- and it's a simple
way of gaining market share without having to improve your business,
without having to make a better product or provide a better service. That's what's happening.
So when Snerdley comes in and says, "When is there gonna be a special
prosecutor?" (laughing) Special prosecutor for what? Missing e-mails?
Who's gonna appoint the special prosecutor? He said, "Well, the
Republicans." Go back and look at the Republicans. Take a look at
conservative Republican Freshman Class of 1995. You know who was in
it? Newt, of course, and Newt today is not the Newt of '95, right?
John Boehner was part of that mix. He's definitely not the John
Boehner of 1995 anymore, is he?...But you could look at all those guys. Lindsey Graham,
Republican freshman of 1995. Look at him now. They all have become
part of the DC crony-capitalist establishment or crony-socialist
establishment or what have you, and they all have their vested
interests.
But whoever opposes this is going to be considered the enemy, and
that's the Tea Party. General Electric, just to remind you, was given
at least $3 billion from the Regime for green energy research. That's $3
billion that their competitors didn't get -- and GE didn't need it! But
they didn't have to spend their own money, and they had this great
relationship, the government sanctioning GE's work on this.
Then we remember the Solyndras and all the other arrangements Obama
had with other green energy people. Some of them were not established,
but the people involved ended up getting rich before they got out while
everybody else involved went bankrupt. That, ladies and gentlemen, is
how Washington works in microcosm today. It's not like you were taught
in Economics 101.
"Build a better product, make a better service, go out and compete,
have people that really work hard for you and follow your dreams and,
voila!" That's not the way it works.... -- and there's always been
evidence of it.
I mean, it's nothing really new. It's just how widespread it is now
and how the players are so different. I mean, you go out to the
low-information world, and it's still believed that Republicans are
these uncaring, rich fat cats screwing their customers who couldn't care
less about anything getting rich and they are rich 'cause they took
money from the poor. People still believe that...
The Republicans, in many cases, have become as pro-Big
Government as the Democrats are....
But anyway, I just had to tell you that little story
because Snerdley believes that it's 1995, and when something like this
outrageous IRS thing happens, there's gonna be a special prosecutor.
No, there won't be, because Washington is not gonna harm itself. It's
just not going to do that.
The parties will protect themselves.
They've got too great a thing going.
This is too good a thing."...
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