We Can See Our Future in Europe

Rush has mentioned this several times in the past, and has mentioned it again - socialism and multiculturism have been tried in the past, are being tried now in Europe, and they always fail.

So why are we trying to become more like Europe?

I listen to the digital radio station BBC7, which airs repeats of radio drama, comedy and sci fi from England - the Goon Show, To The Manor Born, Paul Temple, Journey Into Space, and so on.

I think it was a couple of weeks ago that I mentioned the comedy Ladies of Letters Say No, which I believe was written in about 2008 or so, and a woman is in a hospital in the UK where she has to clean out her own ward, and its infested with rats...but with all this she still wants to keep the capitalists out of the hospital business.

Today, I was listening to a show called The Brief History of Time....wasting, in which a woman and her friends want to take a day trip to Romney Marsh, and they want to do it by train. But some trains aren't running, fares are expensive, etc. etc. and this is because the trains had apparently been privatized incompetently or something. And this was in 2001 or so.

And as I was listening to it I was just mourning for my beloved England. It's been 20 years since I was able to visit there, quite frequently, for about five years. And it was a great place back then (1990s). Now, twenty years later, you've got soccer hooligans, you've got thugs who terrorize council estates (housing areas), you've got people living in council houses who, if a member of their family moves out, is moved into a house without all that extra room, yet if some deadbeat has 10 children, they are moved into mansions where everything - rent, heat, electricity, etc., are paid by the taxpayers. It's just sickening.

Some of that is already happening here, and more of it is on the way, and we cannot let it happen here!

Here's what Rush had to say about it:

RUSH: One of the big stories on cable news this morning is the UK student protest over the tuition hike. "Tens of thousands of students marched noisily through London on Wednesday against plans to triple university tuition fees, and some tried to occupy the headquarters of the governing Conservative party --" that, I think, is the real objective here "-- in the largest street protest yet against the government's sweeping austerity measures. Organizers said 50,000 students, lecturers and supporters --" i.e., rent-a-mobs, "-- were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying--" is that what you pay for,to study? No wonder I didn't get my money's worth in school. That's what you pay for is to study? "Organizers said 50,000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9,000 pounds ($14,000) a year -- three times the current rate." That's less than five grand a year at major universities in the UK, as opposed to 20 grand a year here, or 25 at similar, comparable institutions.

"Violence flared as a handful of people smashed windows in a high-rise that houses Conservative headquarters, as others lit a bonfire of placards outside the building. Office workers were evacuated as several dozen protesters managed to get into the lobby, chanting 'Tories Out.'" That's what this is all about. To think that the students are protesting the university is just crazy. What they're protesting is having to go to work someday. What they're protesting is having to earn their way. Folks, I can't begin to tell you, you know, I go in cycles. Some days I think it's all lost and it's hopeless, and other days I think we got a chance to reverse it. I see stuff like this, 50 thousand people basically protesting so they can run around and be given freebies the rest of their lives. That's what this is all about. All these budget cuts, austerity cuts, nobody wants to pay their own way, nobody, and it's something that is increasing in this country and the reason nobody wants to pay their own way in Europe is because they haven't had to. They've had all these socialist democracies and they're going bankrupt. Ireland is the latest, worse than Greece. We're next.

We had this story the other day that the nations of the world borrow $10.2 trillion, that's how much is owed. Most budgets barely pay the service, the cost of the debt. Nothing's real. Nothing has been real. It's all been built on phoniness. Sometimes it literally boggles my mind. In California, what's the number of unemployment benefits? Forty million a day to pay unemployment compensation benefits, for people not to work. More and more people expect to be supported by the government. And people who don't expect that, people who do want to make their own way, people who do want to assume these responsibilities are the ones being said to be hard-hearted, cold-hearted, have no compassion or what have you. It makes me mad. I see a bunch of long hard maggot infested dope smoking students, a bunch of ingrates who have had everything given to them all their life, protesting for everything to be given to them the rest of their lives. "But Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Limbaugh, you're mischaracterizing this. They are protesting the rising costs of tuition. It's going to be three times what it normally is." I understand that. But things cost money. The reason they're going up three times is because they haven't been charging what it actually costs in real terms up 'til now. It's only when everybody's running out of money that they start getting a response.