Comments on: Rush Limbaugh Insults Police and Firefighters By Claiming They Don’t Create Wealth

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:26:16 +0000

This kind of idiocy, which is predictable coming from the likes of the oafish Rush Limbaugh, is what makes me wonder why so many police officers and firefighters insist on voting for Republicans. The GOP talks a good talk about being for law and order, while they are for cutting the very taxes that help to subsidize police and firefighting agencies. Limbaugh’s comments amount to the highest level of insult, because anyone who has a job and purchases goods and services contributes to the wealth of the country. The fact that they also pay taxes makes that even more of a truth. The GOP agenda of trying to create a country in which there are relatively few super-rich folks with everyone else being underpaid, overworked peons is so painfully obvious that only someone in the position of the Koch brothers or hopelessly deluded into voting against their best economic interests would vote for the likes of Willard Romney.

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:58:26 +0000

The goal of a police department should be the enforcement of laws created by the people's representatives. Legislative people create laws. Executive branch people enforce those laws. If everybody does their job properly, people are protected from fraud and violence. Generation of wealth in the absence of security is difficult indeed.

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By: A Walkaway

A Walkaway — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:38:11 +0000

If his first concern is human life, then he's rather unusual, at least compared to the cops I've encountered. Their first concern is submissive behavior towards authority, and protection of the status quo.
I applaud him if he cares for the lives of the poor equally with the lives of the rich. That would be REALLY out of the ordinary.

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By: Tammy

Tammy — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:48:39 +0000

What is this talk about protecting wealth? My son-in-law is a police officer and his first concern is human life. Why would some A## ever ask our sons and daughters to risk their lives for wealth?

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By: Reynardine

Reynardine — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:26:59 +0000

Rush Limbaugh has a precedent. The union-hating Westbrook Pegler publicly slandered Quentin Reynolds in a way unprecedented for that era and a little raw even for this, claiming Reynolds and a lady friend had driven to the Pegler house nude and, upon their arrival, taken a shower together. When Reynolds’ attorney cross-examined him, he placed Pegler in the position of either saying his wife let nude couples into her house and allowed them to shower there, or admitting he had made it up. The libel judgement against him was the largest that had yet been handed down.

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