Mind-Boggling: Gates Bashes Capitalism

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | November 2, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

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RUSH: Did you see what Bill Gates did? Did you see what Bill Gates said? This is one of the craziest, nonsensical things I have ever in my life heard. I understand why he said it. But it is just over-the-top unbelievable. Bill Gates says that capitalism cannot save us from climate change. Bill Gates says that socialism is the only thing that can save us from climate change.

"The world's richest man, Bill Gates, has said that the private sector is too selfish and inefficient to produce effective energy alternatives to fossil fuels. While announcing his plan to spend $2 billion of his own wealth on green energy during an interview with The Atlantic, the Microsoft founder called on fellow billionaires to help make the US fossil-free by 2050 with similar philanthropy."

Bill Gates said: "There's no fortune to be made. Even if you have a new energy source that costs the same as today's and emits no CO2, it will be uncertain compared with what’s tried-and-true and already operating at unbelievable scale and has gotten through all the regulatory problems. Without a substantial carbon tax, there's no incentive for innovators or plant buyers to switch.

I don't care what it is, these super wealthy people have a fear, or did at one time, of losing it. Not losing it. Not losing it, but having it taken away, having it taken from them. And it is that belief of mine, that theory, which I have come up with to explain why people like Gates and Buffett and a number of these other super billionaires talk like Marxist liberals all the time. It is to keep people away from their money. It is to send the message, "Hey, we don't threaten you, leave me alone. I'm spending all my money on philanthropy. I'm giving money to AIDS. I'm giving money to Africa. I'm giving money to global warming. I'm giving money to the arts. I'm giving money to support gay marriage and transgenders. Leave me alone."

It's about assuaging the fear that somebody's gonna come for their money. It's about adopting a public persona that makes their wealth okay. And the peasants with the pitchforks will leave them alone and not come for their money 'cause they're good people and they care about people. Like Gates is building mosquito nets for malaria. You want to wipe out malaria? Bring back DDT and punt Rachel Carson. But no, no, there needs to be an ongoing problem so I can have ongoing philanthropy, so that I can have ongoing demonstrations of my good works.

How in the world do you reconcile, what could he be thinking of here. Since World War II US-government R&D has defined the state of the art. In almost every area the private sector is in general inept? There's only one thing that I can think that he might be talking about and that's nuclear weapons technology. That was R&D, that was government sponsored. It was still private sector people who did it, but it was under the auspices of government. What else is he talking about? Don't tell me GI Bill and this kind of thing. Don't give me legislation. What other R&D? Did they invent the cell phone? NASA? Space program? Moon? Okay. All right. But who did it, really? If you ask me, Grumman, Northrop, McDonnell Douglas did it all. It was the government that sponsored it and gave them the money, but where did the work actually take place? Where was all the entrepreneurism? It wasn't G14 people that put the nuclear bomb together or got us to the moon or built the space shuttle.

Bill Gates says capitalism can't save us from climate change. Well, we have a bunch of socialist and communist governments and they're the most polluted places on earth. They are the filthiest, they have more CO2 emissions. These places, according to Gates, ought to be leading the way. But it's preposterous. The whole thing is preposterous anyway because we have a nonevent that we're now going to debate what's better to fix it, socialism or capitalism. So you see, the real game here is to once again diminish and attack capitalism and get everybody, or as many people as you can, aligned against that and use up here this nonexistent hoax of climate change. Since there isn't any, how can capitalism ever claim to fix it, when it doesn't exist in the first place, you see? So it's kind of a setup to begin with. But aside from all that, the things that Bill Gates is quoted as saying in this piece still boggle my mind.

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RUSH: I know I gave you the answer, but it's still, here's a guy, perhaps capitalism's biggest winner, Bill Gates running around flipping it off, flipping it the bird, by talking about how it is in general inept.

At any rate, my friends, I will shelve my disgust.

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RUSH: I know I gave you the answer, but it's still, here's a guy, perhaps capitalism's biggest winner, Bill Gates running around flipping it off, flipping it the bird, by talking about how it is in general inept.

At any rate, my friends, I will shelve my disgust.

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RUSH: Here's something for these -- by the way, I've got a lot of e-mails. "How can Gates be so dumb? How can a guy be so dumb, here he is, capitalism's biggest winner." I don't think he's dumb at all. Can't be dumb. There's something else going on that explains this. He's not stupid. Capitalism versus socialism is not hard to understand. And it's very easy for someone like Gates to realize what happened to him could not happen under socialism. It'd all be taken from him.

There's something else going on here, and I'm pretty sure that I've got a good handle on it. It's all about keeping the various powers that could take his money away from him away from him. It's about building a moat around him and his money and creating love and respect and admiration for him so that he gets a stamp of approval. It's okay if he has a lot of money 'cause he does good things with it, leave him alone. Buffett, same thing I think. I mean, it's obviously more complicated than that, but I mean that's the simple explanation here.

But let's play a little bit here on this whole idea of his that the private sector's inept in dealing with climate change. Now, even if there is global warming, and I know there isn't, but I want to play the hypothetical game. Even if there is global warming, and if you fervently believe that, and given what I just shared with you about the filthiest places on this planet and every damned one of them is either run by a dictatorship or communism or socialism -- we have two cities in China, one city in India, one in Peru, two in Russia, one in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Zambia. We're not dealing with capitalist countries here, which are the filthiest, the most polluted places on earth. So the idea that socialism and big government is where all the research and development is and big government's where all the good ideas are? It's caca, okay?

So even if there is global warming, and again I assure you there isn't, wouldn't the best solution be to bring back as much manufacturing as possible to the US? After all, we are the most advanced at cleaning up our messes. And that, by the way, is another of the many gold stars that attach to capitalism. Capitalism, capitalist countries are better at cleaning up their messes than any other type or form of government out there, for a whole bunch of obvious reasons. We are the most advanced at protecting the environment. And some of you might think, "Yeah, yeah, that wouldn't be the case, Rush, if it wasn't for government and all these regulations 'cause you know these companies, Rush, you know they kill everything. They'd kill every customer they got. They'd poison every river and they'd do everything they could to destroy."

Right. That's exactly what capitalist companies want to do is kill their customers. I can think of no better business plan. I'd like to go to Harvard Business School and go for my doctrine on the thesis that American business corporations are striving to kill their customers. I bet you I'd get an A from Harvard. I mean, how nonsensical is this? How many people, "Hey, Rush, look these drug companies, Rush, these drug companies, you see how much their prices have gone up? They're just they're just gouging people." You know why they're prices have gone up in drugs?

Obamacare! Can somebody say Obamacare? Even the CBO, back in 2010 the original scoring warned everybody if you do this pharmaceutical prices are going to skyrocket, and they have, and they are. And yet every liberal Democrat running around out there complaining, whining, moaning about the drug companies gouging people, they're just following the regulations and the law as written under Obamacare. Yes, I've got backup for this. Look, you have to trust some of this stuff. I've got it right here if you want, but it's gonna delay getting to other things. I'm not making this up. No point in making this stuff up.

If this could be easily refuted, why would I make it up? Obamacare is why health care has gone up. Obamacare's why health insurance has gone up. The new enrollment period is starting now, and it's an absolute disaster. Coming up later here in the Stack. Government doesn't solve anything. Government makes messes and then sets itself up as the fixer, and in the process makes the mess even bigger.

Anyway, back to my original point. If there's global warming, wouldn't it make sense to bring back as much manufacturing to the US as possible? We're the most advanced at protecting the environment. It's capitalism that allows us to have such high pollution standards, meaning, capitalism is what permits -- actually, capitalism requires that these messes be cleaned up in order to stay in business and prosper and grow.

There's no refuting this, either. You can go to any communist paradise you want, measure the pollution against that here in the United States, it's not even close, per capita or however you want to imagine it. I have always maintained the problem in the world is the unequal distribution of capitalism. I just think it's nonsensical to watch all this stuff, and it just gives you an idea of some of the powerful forces that we are all up against, when someone like Gates comes around and starts bashing capitalism, I mean, that's made to order for every college student out there to just soak up, believe, and then start reciting.

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[I want the USA back]

Gates, give away all your money to Americans whose jobs have gone overseas, or been replaced by non-Americans, and then shut the hell up.

[dfwgator]

I am not diametrically opposed to a “Manhattan Project” initiative to get us completely energy independent. It is a matter of National Security. I’m tired of kissing the Arabs’ butts just to ensure energy supplies.

[Loud Mime]

Then give away all your software.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Someone please tell hypocrite Gates that he’s rich BECAUSE OF Capitalism.

[VideoDoctor]

As my mother told me OVER and OVER again as a child..

"Just because someone has a LOT of MONEY doesn't mean they know anything."

God Bless you Mom.. "YOU WERE RIGHT"

[LeoWindhorse]

it’s easy to be critical of wealth when you have all that you need ( and then some!)

Live hand-to-mouth and then preach

[Jonty30]

Socialism is designed by the very rich and elite to tax the middling rich and the middleclass enough, to give to the poor, to keep the middle class and middling rich out of their neighbourhoods.

[JewishRighter]

Now that Gates has declared himself and enemy of the very capitalism that made him uber wealthy, he has to be regarded as a dangerous enemy of all conservatives and other freedom loving Americans. Dangerous mainly because of his enormous wealth.

[21twelve]

...“Manhattan Project” initiative to get us completely energy independent...

Um - the Manhattan Project was on its way to bringing us energy independence. At lease when it came to electricity (which would include battery powered commuter cars, buses, etc.)

That Bill Gates guy is sure stupid for being such a genius.

[beethovenfan]

Typical “I’ve got mine, screw you” attitude.

[laconic]

Wasn’t Paul Allen Bill Gates’ partner in Microsoft. AS I recall, Allen owns the Seattle Seahawks and demanded that that citizens of Seattle fund his new one billion dollar stadium or he was going to take the team to another city?? And that Allen spent millions of his own money on the ad campaign to ensure that the public funding passed the plebescite by a miniscule margin? Why doesn’t Mr. Allen share some of the enormous value of the Seahawks with the Seattle taxpayers? I guess its socialism when someone else is footing the bill, you don’t want to spend a dime of yours and you reap the benefits of a luxurious stadium.

[smartyaz]

[Don Corleone]

Gates to Americans, “F.U I’ve got mine!!”

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

He’s rich because of Capitalism and stealing other peoples programs and ideas.

[Neoliberalnot]

Maybe Gates should be mindful that the biggest demand for electricity during the last 2 decades has come from electronic gadgets, like computers.

[stephenjohnbanker]

One of the UN leaders said this too.

So does CPUSA

[smartyaz]

[Still Thinking]

I think that either very large amounts of money rots your brain, OR, having got theirs they want to hobble anyone else who might duplicate their achievement.