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Congratulations America, you have managed through greed, deceit, and injustice, to kill your own ideology and to prove socialism – your great enemy – a worthy necessity. I would like to propose Rush Limbaugh’s bust along with Karl Marx’s, be placed before the White House entrance. Karl Marx never had a better friend than Rush Limbaugh, as history will no doubt prove.

Conservatives would like us to believe that Wall Street fell because of a Bush doctrine fluke. They would like us to believe that higher taxes are not the answer. I would love to believe the same. I’m middle class and people like me are going to shoulder the burden. People like Rush will have to buy one less house somewhere or buy one less night in Bangkok. All the common folk conservatives who bought Limbaugh’s rhetoric, and thought they might one day saddle up to the bar with him, will have an eye-opener when they lose their homes as he searches the Asian brothels for another young girl. Welcome to capitalism 2009 style.

As ironic as it may seem, the right wing conservatives made government intrusion a necessity. This lesson is not new for those of us who have been paying attention; it occurred in our country once before and it was called the Great Depression. Banks, then and now, gave mortgages to folks who could not pay their debts; property values fell and banks claimed bankruptcy. However, during the Great Depression, there was a solution that doesn’t exist in our time in history – extend the mortgage loans (typically in those days, five years) to twenty years. The government held up the banks while people kept their homes and the government and the banks made money off of the extended mortgages through interest rates. In our current scenario, buyers bought homes they could not afford with thirty-year mortgages. - So much for the free market concept. Thanks Rush. 

Still, conservatives like Rush have to keep up their life style and they have to keep their businesses. We can only expect them to blame higher taxes as proof that they were right all along. It’s a win-win situation for Rush and his cronies. They create scenarios where government has to choose between the wealthy corporations cutting jobs or raising taxes for the middle class. The real question is when will the middle class wake up and realize that people like Rush and Bush have nothing in common with us? These aristocrats have nothing in common with those of us who shoulder the burden of their rhetoric. While we struggle to stay afloat, they have parties in their elegant fortresses. They make a joke of democracy and equality at our expense. Rush Limbaugh has more in common with Karl Marx than he does with any great American because he makes Karl Marx make sense.