Rush Limbaugh argues that capitalism and the Americans who keep the economy moving should not be treated as the enemy.
Speaking at CPAC in 2009, Limbaugh discusses the recession, taxes, government spending, and the economic policies of the newly inaugurated Obama administration. He contrasts those policies with his views on capitalism, individual freedom, work, and economic opportunity, arguing that greater government control would not produce prosperity.
CPAC hosts incredible guests and speakers including Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire, the late Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, Steve Bannon of War Room, Donald Trump Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Dan Bongino, and many more leading voices in conservative media and politics.
It was Joe Biden while walking through the train station, he knows so well because he's
such a real guy, that he made a comment that you can't go into a 7-Eleven without seeing
some Indian guy behind the counter.
They're all over the place.
Now, let a conservative say something like that, and he's brought up before a John Conyers
committee with Pat Leahy wanting at you next.
Okay, many of you think I lose my places in these speeches when I interrupt for this stuff,
but I'm not.
By the way, what time is it?
Okay, we have plenty of time.
We have to be out of here by 6, otherwise there's a-
Alright, okay.
Depends on how you behave.
I'll decide as we go along.
What liberalism Democrat, for those of you in the country, I really want you to believe
this because it's the truth.
I'm not saying this because I believe it.
This is a core.
I want the best country we can have.
We want the most prosperous people.
We want to be growing.
We want to lead the world.
We want everybody to want to come here legally.
We want this country to be so damn great, and we just cringe to watch it, basically
capitalism be assaulted in our culture, be reoriented to where the people that make
it work are the enemy.
That's not the United States of America.
The people that make this country work, the people that pay in their mortgages, the people
getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're
not the enemy.
They're the people that hire you.
They're the people that are going to give you a job, that the people are going to give
you a raise, the people that need you to do work for them.
President Obama, and take your pick of any Democrat, love to say, we've tried it your
way, meaning Reaganism.
We've tried it your way.
We tried it your way in the 80s, it didn't work.
We tried it your way eight years, just eight years, last eight years, it didn't work.
Excuse me.
Have you ever noticed, those of you watching around the world in my first international
address today, that Fox is on some international satellites.
They're watching this in the UK right now going, you ever wonder when Obama talks about
past economies, he somehow always leaves out the recession of the 80s was worse than this
one.
Why does he leave it out?
Because, you know why he leaves it out?
America.
Leaves it out because we got out of that recession with tax cut.
And for those of you watching at home, I'm not nervous, it's just really hot in here.
These people are wired.
Now, we get out of the 1980s recession with tax cut.
Do you know that President Obama, in six weeks of his administration, has proposed
more spending than from the founding of the country to his inauguration?
This is not prosperity.
It is not going to engender prosperity, it's not going to create prosperity, and it is
also not going to advance or promote freedom.
It's going to be just the opposite.
There are going to be more controls over what you can and can't do, how you can and can't
do it, what you can and can't drive, what you can and can't say, where you can and
can't say it.