I think Rush Limbaugh just defined the very core of the Republican party.

[EnviroBat]

Never before have I heard it stated more succinctly. Only moments ago, I caught yet another nauseating snippet of that blow-fest he calls a "radio program". You know, the one in which he spends three hours a day extolling his virtues of imaginary greatness? The program in which he has to keep reminding the mouth breathing sheep of the country that he is right about everything? He asked this question; "Can anyone name a single government program that earns a profit"? At that moment, he was able to define the Republican party for me in black and white. Profit is the single motivator of ANY Republican. My question is this; Why should government programs make a profit if they are funded BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, in order to increase the quality of life for the people? Why are Republicans so consumed with wealth and profit at any cost? So consumed with greed? So driven by the philosophy of, "Screw you, I got mine..."!

Thanks Rush, you asshole. It's so clear to me how you've become the new mouthpiece of a dying party of corrupt, greed-addled old scumbags. I hope we continue to bury you in your own stinking landfill. The picture has never been more clear to me...

[Bucky]

1. Social Security turns a profit

Also student loans, food stamps, meat inspection, bridge maintenance, and (in France) government run health care.

Next.

[EnviroBat]

2. Please call his show and remind him of that. I couldn't get through...

[damonm]

3. NASA!

Every dollar spent, historically, has turned into $5-7 from spinoff technologies.

[ControlledDemolition]

26. NASA... Never-A-Straight-Answer! Riddle me this... Van-Allen-Radiation-Belt! n/t

(Edit: Typo.)

[damonm]

37. What about it?

Or do you just want to be contrary?
BSAE with 13 years of experience in spacecraft operations awaits the question...

[SpiralHawk]

4. Republicon Homelanders are locked in the abyss of materialism

They preen and whine about 'spirituality' but they are materialists to the core

Ahriman, no doubt, rejoices at their bleatings

[undeterred]

5. Also known as "I got mine, fuck you".

[lpbk2713]

9. And ...

"I want my piece of the pie and yours too."

[BarbaRosa]

15. "I got mine, now I'm after yours"

Which is really mine, except it's in your hands for now.

[calimary]

38. IGMFU! All the way! Those are the REAL initials of the GOP.

[Magleetis]

6. Lets not forget the other Republican virtues

Anger and hate.

[undeterred]

20. Anger, hate, greed, warmongering, murder, discrimination.

Just a cursory list.

[rurallib]

7. John Kenneth Galbraith summed it up:

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

[omega minimo]

30. Now, there's a sigline

:toast:

[OneGrassRoot]

36. Excellent. Thank you! :) n/t

[Vinca]

8. I thought we just made some interest on a repayment of one of the bailout loans.

But your point is well taken. All they really care about is the almighty dollar.

[lib2DaBone]

10. Govt would turn a profit... if they could keep their corrupt thieving

... fingers out of the till.

How to tell if a Republican is lying... his mouth is moving...

[Old and In the Way]

11. By definition, Government programs are profitless.

There may be surpluses or deficits, but there are no real profits that are redistribured to shareholders. What Republicans do is use government to make private sector profits (see Halliburton/Blackwater, etc) while screwing the taxpayers. They specialize in that.

Sounds like Rushbo is making a case for government single payer healthcare. Why should the average American pay 20% more for a product that isn't optional for survival, in order to ensure profits for Republican-donating corporations?

[Johonny]

16. I agree

[EnviroBat]

21. I think your on to something...

[108]

22. why can't the government stop outsourcing to

companies like Haliburton...why not have all military technology be in-house? Wouldn't that save a lot of money?

[Old and In the Way]

25. Of course, but how would Republican business people make profits?

Seriously, not only would we save money, but there are national security reasons not to privatize military support contracts. Iraq wasn't a good example, but could you imagine trying to fight WW2 with a for-profit logistical supply chain? We'd probably still be fighting the war.

[Soylent Brice]

12. you have nailed the very essence of what it is to be a republican.

[unpossibles]

13. the government has made a profit on many things

including some bailouts. I am pretty sure they profited from the Amtrack bailout, although I could be wrong.

[gratuitous]

14. So, how do you turn a profit on disaster recovery?

Or a horrible traffic accident? Or a wildfire? And who's going to attend to these things if not governmental agencies funded by our pooled resources? Is Rush volunteering to pull mangled bodies out of interstate car wrecks? Or go smoke jumping when California or Florida start burning again this summer? How many refugees is he personally willing to house this hurricane season?

[EC]

17. I'm sure he knows that government agencies are

"non-profit".


On Edit: Although private businesses have made high profits off of several programs like NASA (whoever makes Tang).

[GreenTea]

18. Republicans are ONLY about money, greed, selfishness & profit-that's NOT what health care should be

about...it's should be a safety net for people who get sick and the insurance companies and republicans think it should be about profits & privatization....to charge outrageous fees, throw people off policies if the hospital bill is too large and not accepting people if they are sick, that's the republican plan health care, corporate profit....

We are fucked again if we get no public option, right back where we stated at the mercy of the insurance companies...out not for your well being but for profit and corporations always cut corners for more profits.

[begin_within]

19. The republicans have recognized that selfishness is a powerful, irrevocable human trait,

and have constructed an entire political philosophy and party built on human selfishness. They use that to appeal to people and attract them to their party. It is the central core that underlies all of their party platforms.

[hfojvt]

23. the post office has, although not lately

then there are various municipal water departments. Many of them turn a profit. In my own city, for example.

But EF Schumacher explained this back in 1973. It's not so much the Republican party that is obsessed with profits. It is western society.

"If an activity has been branded as uneconomic, its right to existence is not merely questioned, but energetically denied. Anything that is found to be an impediment to economic growth is a shameful thing, and if people cling to it, they are thought of as either saboteurs or fools. Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be 'uneconomic' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper...something is uneconomic when it fails to earn an adequate profit in terms of money." "Small is Beautiful" pp 41-42

[montanto]

24. All goes back to our Puritan forefathers.

Wealth = God's approval. More wealth = mo' betta. Sharing is weak. Sharing with the weak is ludicrous. Socialism is man's attempt to make a better system (equality) than that which God provided (hierarchy). That's the system: Fuck with it at the risk of your eternal soul.

[riverdale]

27. The IRS

What's my prize?

Free chocolate ?

https://secure.realchocolate.com/

[calimary]

28. That goes along beautifully with the observation rudy giuliani made once.

If memory serves, he grappled with the rhetorical question - what is it that makes Americans unique and special? What sets us apart from all other nations and citizenry across the globe?

His response - "the thing that makes Americans so special is that we wanna sell you something!"

I think he was speaking before some trade group, not long after his "brilliant" campaign for the GOP nomination.

[MindPilot]

33. I don't think that's right --everywhere someone wants to sell you something

the difference is Americans think they can buy everything.

[LostInAnomie]

29. The DEA

[grantcart]

31. CDC - by eliminating communicable disease it has significantly reduced the cost

of health care in the US, oh and it is socialized.

[omega minimo]

32. Bearing witness to how the spider injects the venom into the public mind. ON your tax dollar!!!

Broadcast to our troops overseas, gawd love em and bless em.

Limbaugh represents Big Business and Big Brother and NO ONE else.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

34. Rush believes everyone should sacrifice life for him and his sponsors.

He is MORE special than the rest of humanityl

He "deserves" the economic stability he has earned by being an obnoxious, inciteful asshole. THAT ROLE IS HIS AMERICAN "make as much money as possible no matter what the cost" DREAM!!!

He knows he is a monster,...but can do nothing, without pain and sacrifice, to stop it,

So, I allow Limbaugh to follow the path he chooses, Poor thing.

[krispos42]

35. Hoover Dam

Probably the Tennessee Valley Authority as well.

The US Mint makes a profit, as does the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. And the IRS makes a nice profit as well, especially when they audit rich people like Limbaugh.



Of course, the point of a government agency is NOT to make a profit. Either they are performing a govermental service, which is a cost to the budget, or they're suppose to break about even.



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