Speaker 1: Hello America, Mark Levin and this is Life Liberty and
Speaker 1: Levin Saturday.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being here. I want to.
Speaker 1: Really delve deeply into this issue of communism and Slamism
Speaker 1: and affordability and capitalism and Americanism, because it's very annoying,
Speaker 1: it's very frustrating, and it's spreading like a very bad virus.
Speaker 1: That is communism, communism of all things. You know, it's
Speaker 1: interesting most people talk about communism and they don't know
Speaker 1: the first thing about it, the Communist manifest To look.
Speaker 2: At this, it's not much of a book. It was
Speaker 2: written to great revolution all over the world.
Speaker 1: Marx and Engels wrote it, and if you read it
Speaker 1: from beginning to end.
Speaker 2: You know what it is.
Speaker 1: It's basically a man who's very angry, angry with his
Speaker 1: own circumstance, lashing out. It's a very destructive ideology. Everything
Speaker 1: else needs to be destroyed. The field needs to be
Speaker 1: cleared so we can try this ideology. Here's the problem
Speaker 1: with the ideology.
Speaker 2: You're ready. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: Marx died in eighteen eighty three. The Second American Industrial
Speaker 1: Revolution started really eighteen seventy or the mid eighteen seventies.
Speaker 1: This is a book that's really written or an essay
Speaker 1: that's really written to deal with feudalism.
Speaker 2: Now he talks about capitalism.
Speaker 1: In fact, he coined the word capitalism, but capitalism is
Speaker 1: nothing like he describes it in his book. And to
Speaker 1: prove the point, the great proletariat that's going to rise
Speaker 1: up and overthrow everything is the great middle class.
Speaker 2: They're the ones that use the uniform and go to
Speaker 2: war to.
Speaker 1: Defend what America, including our economic system, in our way
Speaker 1: of life. So that ideology Marx and Engels had it
Speaker 1: all wrong. And so this effort to impose communism or
Speaker 1: through the back door economic socialism on the greatest economic
Speaker 1: power mankind has ever created, that creates more wealth for
Speaker 1: more people than any other economic system ever.
Speaker 2: Is an absurdity.
Speaker 1: And that's why you need a police state because people
Speaker 1: resist it. That's why you need to put people in
Speaker 1: concentration camps and in tournament hips because people don't want it.
Speaker 1: That's why you have to eliminate people. This isn't a
Speaker 1: book the Communist manifest or anything else that Marx and
Speaker 1: Engels wrote about prosperity, about creating wealth, about entrepreneurship, about
Speaker 1: individual free will. It's a book about class structure. It's
Speaker 1: a book about oppressor and oppressed. It's a book about
Speaker 1: putting people into groups who may.
Speaker 2: Not be in those groups.
Speaker 1: Capitalism is a self creating free market.
Speaker 2: Nobody invented it.
Speaker 1: There's no book of the first capitalists who figured out
Speaker 1: how to create wealth through Capitalism is commerce. It is
Speaker 1: something that human beings, human beings mankind created really spontaneously.
Speaker 1: It's trade. It's trade, it's production. And so along comes
Speaker 1: of Bernie Sanders type. And you'll know, most of these
Speaker 1: people aren't very bright. Fact they're quite stupid, and most
Speaker 1: of them haven't achieved very much, and some of them
Speaker 1: are flunkies from college, and some of them are non
Speaker 1: productive politicians.
Speaker 2: But man, they are leading the charge for communism. And
Speaker 2: why is that? Because they have this false.
Speaker 1: Ideology, this ideology that doesn't make any sense when you're
Speaker 1: talking about the most prosperous country with the most prosperous
Speaker 1: people in the history of human beings.
Speaker 2: It makes no sense. So they are slogan ears.
Speaker 1: And what they try to do is exploit imperfection because
Speaker 1: man's imperfect economic systems are imperfect, countries are imperfect, but
Speaker 1: we're the most perfect of any economic system. We're the
Speaker 1: most perfect of any country, and we're number one.
Speaker 2: So why would we Why would we regress?
Speaker 1: Why would we resort to centralize authoritarian power dressed up
Speaker 1: as some kind of a democratic revolution. I want to
Speaker 1: get into this more, particularly on the internet. Something very
Speaker 1: weird happened last week and I was watching this The price.
Speaker 2: Of a burrito. Now, I'm not really into burritos.
Speaker 1: Every now and then I'll go to Taco Bell and
Speaker 1: I'll have one or two pretty cheap.
Speaker 2: If you ask me, that is the price. Now, all
Speaker 2: that said, this debate was about affordability. No, he doesn't
Speaker 2: have to.
Speaker 1: Pay twenty dollars for a burrito. You can make it
Speaker 1: for a lot less. But I'm thinking, what the hell
Speaker 1: has happened to our society? Where is our can do it? Mentality?
Speaker 1: Where is our you know, we can do whatever we
Speaker 1: put our mind to do. And we need to work hard,
Speaker 1: we need to think, we need to we need to
Speaker 1: be Americans.
Speaker 2: We're losing it.
Speaker 1: We're losing it because of our pathetic educational system, which
Speaker 1: is more of a brainwashing system. The unions are radical
Speaker 1: left wing because of our pathetic Marxist Islamist faculty in
Speaker 1: our colleges and universities.
Speaker 2: Tell me something.
Speaker 1: Is there a school district in America that has one
Speaker 1: course called The Wonders of Capitalism that actually teaches capitalism?
Speaker 2: I'm not aware of one.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's one out of fifteen thousand, but you better
Speaker 1: believe they're pushing communism, and they're pushing all these other isms,
Speaker 1: but not capitalism.
Speaker 2: Not capitalism.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Greatest Generation versus today's
Speaker 1: young people.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I got to thinking about this over this taco debate
Speaker 1: on the internet. That's how pathetic things have become. The
Speaker 1: Greatest Generation endured the severe economic scarcity of the Great
Speaker 1: Depression during their youth, followed by massive global combat and
Speaker 1: home front mobilization.
Speaker 2: During World War Two.
Speaker 1: Over sixteen million Americans served in the military, facing intense
Speaker 1: physical days and share hundreds of thousands of casualties, strict
Speaker 1: civilian rationing of food, gas, and clothing. We sit here
Speaker 1: with a war in Iran against an enemy that has
Speaker 1: killed thousands of Americans, name thousands of Americans. I remember
Speaker 1: a time when America would say, let's go, let's destroy
Speaker 1: that country, destroy that government.
Speaker 2: You don't get to.
Speaker 1: Kill thousands of our fellow citizens, military or civilians. You
Speaker 1: don't get to try to assassinate our president. You don't
Speaker 1: get to threaten us with potential nuclear weapons either.
Speaker 2: Now it's a debate, should we take them out? Shouldn't we?
Speaker 1: Are you a neo Khan or warmonger?
Speaker 2: Is this a war of choice? We don't even have
Speaker 2: a draft. But did draft even work with young people? Today?
Speaker 2: I wonder could we even fight World War two? Today?
Speaker 1: We're whining about a dollar a gasoline? Well, it went
Speaker 1: up sixty cents? Are we going to do, Mildred?
Speaker 2: What are we going to do?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Frank, it went up at I don't
Speaker 1: know affordability.
Speaker 2: Over sixteen million citizens.
Speaker 1: Served through both the draft and voluntary enlistment, leaving their homes, jobs,
Speaker 1: families for years at a time. One hell hole they
Speaker 1: went into after another, including members of my family. Troops
Speaker 1: face brutal conditions across global fronts, resulting in more than
Speaker 1: six hundred and seventy thousand American casualties and hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of deaths. Families lived with constant anxiety, receiving telegrams
Speaker 1: reporting wounded, missing, or killed loved ones. The vast majority
Speaker 1: of US are utterly unaffected personally our families by what's
Speaker 1: going on in around with our troops.
Speaker 2: It's going on way too long, way too long.
Speaker 1: You know the price of gasoline and the price of
Speaker 1: a taco Now it's just crazy. You know this has
Speaker 1: gone on long enough? Are we going to the movies tonight?
Speaker 1: I don't know, should we see a play? I don't
Speaker 1: know is football on TV? Yet? I don't know that
Speaker 1: this has gone on wait too long? You understand the
Speaker 1: government limited access to everyday goods like meat, sugar, coffee, shoes, gazoline,
Speaker 1: and tires. Using ration books and points systems, Citizens routinely
Speaker 1: collected scrap metal, rubber, illuminum paper to read direct raw
Speaker 1: materials into the military manufacturing and supply. I can't even
Speaker 1: imagine our young people doing this today. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: most people doing this today.
Speaker 2: Can you? That's why it's the greatest generation? What is
Speaker 2: our generation?
Speaker 1: Millions of civilians, including women, entering the workforce and heavy
Speaker 1: manufacturing and defense plants, work long, grueling shifts under high
Speaker 1: pressure conditions. Having grown up during the nineteen thirties financial collapse,
Speaker 1: Americans learned extreme frugality, self reliance, and deferred personal dreams
Speaker 1: to survive deep poverty.
Speaker 2: Before being into global war, affordability wasn't even an issue.
Speaker 1: Victory was the issue. Unity against an enemy was the issue.
Speaker 1: I don't think they were debating the price of a
Speaker 1: burrito or.
Speaker 2: Taco today as opposed to back then.
Speaker 1: Point four percent or one point three million Americans serve
Speaker 1: on active duty, making up roughly point four percent of
Speaker 1: the country. Including the National Guard and reserve components, the
Speaker 1: shares roughly point eight percent to point nine percent of
Speaker 1: the total population. It's under one percent of nearly three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million people.
Speaker 2: Twelve percent of.
Speaker 1: The United States population served in the military. During World
Speaker 1: War Two, over sixteen million Americans joined the armed forces
Speaker 1: out of a total national population of about one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty million people, roughly one out of every eight
Speaker 1: Americans war uniform. We don't have that today, and people
Speaker 1: are still whining and complaining.
Speaker 2: It's getting embarrassing.
Speaker 1: To be perfectly honest with you, Americans are much better
Speaker 1: off today than during World War Two due to massive
Speaker 1: gains in civil rights, a vastly higher standard of living today,
Speaker 1: an abundance of goods, advanced modern healthcare, and higher average
Speaker 1: education levels. JET cargo and modern global shipping mean fresh berries, mangoes,
Speaker 1: and asparagus stocked grocery store shelves year round. Nutrition is
Speaker 1: safer and more abundant. Modern vaccines, powerful antibiotics, advanced treatments
Speaker 1: for heart disease and cancer greatly reduced infant mortality rates.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, medical cures for many diseases that were
Speaker 1: fatal in the nineteen forties. Major medical breakthroughs achieved since
Speaker 1: then include widespread eradication or cures for a long list
Speaker 1: of diseases and illnesses.
Speaker 2: Let's pat ourselves on the back.
Speaker 1: Capitalism, Americanism, freedom works, communism, economic socialism, police states don't work.
Speaker 1: Real median family income in the US has roughly tripled
Speaker 1: since nineteen forty seven, climbing to about thirty four thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to over one hundred and five thousand dollars in
Speaker 1: today's money. Families own more goods, larger homes, more modern
Speaker 1: technology like computers and smartphones.
Speaker 2: That obviously didn't even exist.
Speaker 1: Economic growth and technological advances and productivity gains have significantly
Speaker 1: raised a baseline standard of living across the board. Across
Speaker 1: the board. Where As I've said before, working people live
Speaker 1: better in the United States than kings and queens lived
Speaker 1: in Europe in the eighteen eighties, eighteen nineties, nineteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: nineteen twenties.
Speaker 2: Think about it.
Speaker 1: Think about it the next time you walk into a
Speaker 1: large supermarket and you look around and go, wow, well.
Speaker 2: How did that all get there?
Speaker 1: As much talk today about the price of gas the
Speaker 1: working classes suffering from unaffordability despite the huge income increases
Speaker 1: and availability of products and goods to all Americans, the
Speaker 1: truth is the inflation adjusted prices listen, for a gallon
Speaker 1: of gasoline in nineteen forty seven, immediately after World War
Speaker 1: Two I did my homework, was roughly three dollars to
Speaker 1: three dollars and fifty cents, depending on the part of
Speaker 1: the country. By comparison, today's regular unleaded gasoline averages three
Speaker 1: dollars and twenty nine cents to three dollars and fifty
Speaker 1: cents per gallon, meaning the real cost at the pump
Speaker 1: is similar to what it was in nineteen forty seven,
Speaker 1: except it took a greater percentage of the American income
Speaker 1: back then. Their pay for gasoline and food and housing
Speaker 1: and clothing and basic staples back then is compared to
Speaker 1: today the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that
Speaker 1: Americans disposable income going to food close household furnishings was
Speaker 1: significantly higher back then than it is today. In nineteen
Speaker 1: forty seven, we spent nearly a quarter of everything we earned,
Speaker 1: twenty three percent of our income on store bought food.
Speaker 1: This has fallen in twenty twenty two, the latest number
Speaker 1: to just seven point one percent, twenty three percent to
Speaker 1: seven point one percent. The share of income going to
Speaker 1: buy clothes fell from ten point three percent nineteen forty
Speaker 1: seven to two point six percent today. The shaf for
Speaker 1: buying household furnishing drop from five point five percent to
Speaker 1: two point five percent today. As you can see, the
Speaker 1: working class is significantly better off today than during the
Speaker 1: great the Greatest Generation years the mid nineteen forties or so.
Speaker 1: We enjoy a vastly higher living standard, safer working conditions,
Speaker 1: access to modern technology. You never imagine access to a
Speaker 1: pl thora of medcence and medical technology that prolonged and
Speaker 1: increased the quality of life, and an abundance of food
Speaker 1: of all varieties, and so forth.
Speaker 2: Capitalism did all this.
Speaker 1: Capital You did all this, not some government bureaucrat, not
Speaker 1: some ideologue like Bernie Sanders or Mondamie or the rest
Speaker 1: of them. American markets provide vast access to verse goods, services,
Speaker 1: property ownership opportunities driven by competitive, free market enterprise.
Speaker 2: What about Medicare for All? I want to pull this
Speaker 2: one out out of all the propaganda. Medicare for All.
Speaker 1: That sounds sweet, a great SoundBite, but what does it mean?
Speaker 1: Means that all money that you paid insurance into Medicare
Speaker 1: for medical insurance is meaningless because everyone, including people who
Speaker 1: never paid one penny into Medicare as well as a
Speaker 1: legal allience, would all be using Medicare.
Speaker 2: So what would happen to your healthcare? You know?
Speaker 1: According to the latest twenty twenty six Medica Care Trustees report,
Speaker 1: the Medicare fund that pays for inpatient hospital stays and
Speaker 1: hospice care will deplete all of its reserves by the
Speaker 1: second quarter of twenty thirty three very soon. This is
Speaker 1: three months earlier than previously expected. In other words, it
Speaker 1: is currently going broke without adding or expanding coverage. Over
Speaker 1: half of all current Medicare beneficiaries choose Medicare Advantage Parts
Speaker 1: C Part C that's plans offered by private insurers.
Speaker 2: Medicare for All would eliminate it.
Speaker 1: It would ban all commercial insurance companies from selling duplicate coverage,
Speaker 1: completely eliminating these popular private options. Most single payer proposals
Speaker 1: fund the system by reducing provider payment rates down to
Speaker 1: standard government Medicare levels.
Speaker 2: What does that mean? They're going to slash what they.
Speaker 1: Pay to hospitals, to doctors, all medical providers.
Speaker 2: So what's going to happen. Some will go broke and bankrupt,
Speaker 2: some will choose to do something else.
Speaker 1: You will have shortages of doctors, you will have less hospitals.
Speaker 1: You will have longer lines, which means more deaths. That's
Speaker 1: what you will have. I've got more. I don't have
Speaker 1: time to get to all of it. I looked at
Speaker 1: the British system, I looked at the Canadian system. These
Speaker 1: are quote unquote democracies. These are quote unquote modern industrial societies,
Speaker 1: and they have government runs, centralized healthcare of the kind
Speaker 1: that the Democrat Socialists of America commis and the Democrat
Speaker 1: Party more and more Commis and the others want to
Speaker 1: impose in our country. The fact of the matter is,
Speaker 1: you have long lines, you're not getting medical care and time.
Speaker 1: They have high death rates. You can't even get a
Speaker 1: dentist in Britain.
Speaker 2: Chee.
Speaker 1: Did you notice you can't even get a dentist in Britain.
Speaker 1: Most of them are unionized, they go on strike. It
Speaker 1: is a disaster and utter disaster.
Speaker 2: But it's free. Free. Yeah, free, I want it. It's free.
Speaker 2: It should be for everybody.
Speaker 1: We don't want the oligarchs and the billionaires taking everything
Speaker 1: duey of course not.
Speaker 2: Bottom line communism sucks. I'll be right back. Be sure
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