Limbaugh Explains US Economy- the obvious response.

[Mr Rabble]

After reading the Rush Limbaugh is "threatening" to move from New York because of high taxes. In this article he explains his opposition to supporting those who couldn't make it on their own- he feels that he is forced to subsidise their lives.

How is it possible that this man, in this industry, is able to do what he does without massive government subsidy at literally every level?
It isn't possible. Rush Limbaugh's very existence is both a direct, and well known taxpayer funded enterprise. I think this is relatively easy to show and the examples generalise well.

As an example: Rush Limbaugh is employed by a company that presents his show to the public over Internet and radio.

We can start at the very beginning with the large corporation which employ's Mr. Limbaugh. We can further include other companies involved in the supply chain of his show as well. I think what you will find uniformly is that every single company that is involved has relied of massive federal spending in order to survive.

With few exceptions, every piece of technology that Mr. Limbaugh's show depends on was initially developed through massive state spending, and then later turned over to private companies.
The Internet is the most obvious example. It wouldn't exist had it not been for massive government spending over many years. Want to make fun of Al Gore for inventing the Internet now? He sure as hell spent OUR money on it for many years to create it. Without the Internet, which was created at taxpayer expense, Mr Limbaugh's employer will rely solely on radio to deliver his product to the consumer.

Now since those very airwaves are officially owned by We The People, and rented to corporations (often given not rented) it is impossible to not recognise that the radio infrastructure was entirely developed on the taxpayers expense.
Do we all recognise a pattern here?

Every consumer of Mr Limbaugh's show is delivered to some device- a computer in the case of the Internet. Well, how were computers developed and who paid the bills to do it? Oddly enough, were it not for massive government spending at places like Bell Labs the modern personal computer would likely be nothing like what it is, and certainly would be decades behind in capabilities.

How about the marketing that Mr Limbaugh's employer uses to promote his show? Wow, must be another anomaly- marketing expense is a tax deduction. So my tax dollars are helping to enable Mr Limbaugh's employer to propagandise me. Literally.

I could clearly go further down this road, but why bother? We can clearly see what is there. And as bad as all this seems, the worst part is this:

Nobody is bothering to point this out. No-bo-dy. I am not quite sure what this means, but I have a guess. That is what their version of an economy is: "pay for all my costs for me to make your society more harsh and brutal".

So Rush Limbaugh is upset that he has to pay taxes. The very same taxes that paid to build the society in which he lives, the country that he lives in, the industry that he works in, and the tools to do his work. All of it paid for by US.

[Elwood P Dowd]

1. And while I was drafted, Rush was a coward and given a pass

because he had a boil on his asshole. Yet, the coward is revered as a patriotic, flag-waving American by the brainwashed repuke masses.

[dflprincess]

2. I wonder how many of his dittoheads rely on any of the

tax supported programs he and they detest so much. Of course, I'm sure they all think "It's different when I get help because I deserve YOU do not."

[corruptmewithpower]

3. Gosh, why do we even allow a private sector. It's nothing but a drain on

public resources.

:rofl: