Ben Carson and Victor Davis Hanson on the Urbanization of America
RUSH: I'm watching Ben Carson. He's in Berkeley, Missouri, at a campaign stop. But he's talking about how he believes the government doesn't need to be involved in solving all of our social problems. In fact, the country flourished in our early days without the government being involved in this at all. He said (summarized), "How did we do it? We solved our problems ourselves. People helped each other through churches. None of the welfare state. We didn't create a bunch of dependency."
He gave an example, and he talked about how this used to not be an urban country at all. People lived tens, maybe hundreds of miles apart, communities were hundreds of miles apart. And he gave an example. (laughing) He said, "Suppose a farmer one day fell out of his tree and broke his leg and couldn't do the harvest. Well, his friends and families gathered together and they went out and did the harvest for the guy." And it's true.
You know, I talked with Victor Davis Hanson yesterday after the program. He brought up one of the ways the left has so co-opted the youth of this country is because everything is so urbanized, that... It's essentially his take on Obama's attack on suburbia. You get people using mass transit, giving up mobility and living tightly together.
Close together where things go to hell in a hand basket real fast. Automatically, the government can come in and clean up mess. It's how you mass educate people toward liberalism because of the school centers in these places. It was really, really insightful comments from of Victor Davis Hanson
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/11/politics/ben-carson-ferguson-police-respect-authority/index.html
RUSH: I'm watching Ben Carson. He's in Berkeley, Missouri, at a campaign stop. But he's talking about how he believes the government doesn't need to be involved in solving all of our social problems. In fact, the country flourished in our early days without the government being involved in this at all. He said (summarized), "How did we do it? We solved our problems ourselves. People helped each other through churches. None of the welfare state. We didn't create a bunch of dependency."
He gave an example, and he talked about how this used to not be an urban country at all. People lived tens, maybe hundreds of miles apart, communities were hundreds of miles apart. And he gave an example. (laughing) He said, "Suppose a farmer one day fell out of his tree and broke his leg and couldn't do the harvest. Well, his friends and families gathered together and they went out and did the harvest for the guy." And it's true.
You know, I talked with Victor Davis Hanson yesterday after the program. He brought up one of the ways the left has so co-opted the youth of this country is because everything is so urbanized, that... It's essentially his take on Obama's attack on suburbia. You get people using mass transit, giving up mobility and living tightly together.
Close together where things go to hell in a hand basket real fast. Automatically, the government can come in and clean up mess. It's how you mass educate people toward liberalism because of the school centers in these places. It was really, really insightful comments from of Victor Davis Hanson
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/11/politics/ben-carson-ferguson-police-respect-authority/index.html