Bezos and Musk: White Flight to Mars for the 1%
RUSH: I had a story here in the Stack that I have intended to get to the past couple of days, and I finally ran out here and grabbed it. It doesn't have any relationship to anything. I figured why not just go ahead and do it. It's from Newsweek. And let me just read the opening couple of paragraphs. It's the best way to tell you why this grabbed my attention. "The world sucks right now. Terrorism. Climate change. Political acrimony. Nonstop Justin Bieber songs. It’s nice to know Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have a plan. They will help the richest people in the world go to Mars and start over, leaving the other 99 percent to suffer on a dying, warring planet. The only solace for those of us left here will be that the Biebs should be prosperous enough to go with them.
"This is the unspoken flip side of Musk’s SpaceX and Bezos’s Blue Origin. The space travel companies say they are creating a way for the human species to endure by populating other planets. But the bottom line is that only the wealthy will have the means to move to Mars. Musk’s target ticket price is $500,000 a person in 2015 dollars, and that’s just to get there. Imagine the new outfits you’ll have to buy to go with that space helmet." Imagine what housing is gonna cost you.
"So you can picture a scenario that’s something like the 1970s white flight from inner cities, when the wealthier classes moved to freshly built suburbs, leaving the declining neighborhoods to the lower classes. In fact, the fleeing upper classes sped up the decrepitude of that era’s older cities by relocating their money and clout with them."
http://www.newsweek.com/2015/12/25/mars-colonies-rich-people-404681.html
See, hidden in this story -- you may think this is about going to Mars, and it is -- but in this story is an all-out assault on white racists who fled the inner cities and went out to suburbia and cultivated it and developed it and created very iconic, idyllic neighborhoods and leaving everybody behind to suffer in smog and pollution and filth and homelessness. And of course it has the obligatory racial component, too, by describing it as white flight. And if you keep going on this, you find out that one of Obama's plans from the get-go of his administration has been to -- Stanley Kurtz has written about this; we've mentioned it to you -- the federal government is going to assume zoning duties and other regulatory responsibility for suburbia. And one of the things they're doing is already changing the makeup of neighborhoods.
Well-to-do neighborhoods in suburbia, if Obama gets his way -- and it won't be long before we know -- will have to allow for the building of, quote, unquote, affordable housing right next door to where they live. And people from the inner cities -- forget the racial component, we're just talking about the poor -- are gonna bused out to suburbia and moved into their new housing right in the neighborhood where you live or somebody else lives, right next door. It's Obama's way of getting even with people who fled the cities and started and built up the suburbs.
The story is built around idolatry and respect for Elon Musk and Bezos, who want to go to Mars for the same reason. They are castigated and ripped for doing it in such a way that only the 1% can ever go. But there's another aspect of this story that, aside from the attack on suburbia, which is clear -- and, by the way, I'm not making any of this up. I mean, this is something in the process of happening. And for all I know, there are things in this budget... There probably are, if we would dig deep. I mean, it's 2,000 pages.
I'll bet you there are things in this budget that further along, facilitate Obama's plans to repopulate the suburbs with people who can't live there on their own. That's the point. If you can't afford to live on your own, that's where you're gonna go. The Regime is gonna make sure you have a place to live there. They're gonna force local zoning to rezone so that affluent neighborhoods have to have these housing projects built, basically, right next to their properties. And I'll just bet you it's in the budget.
But the other thing about this is, I believe whoever wrote this actually means this. "The world sucks right now! Terrorism, climate change, political acrimony, nonstop Justin Bieber songs." Are they really serious that these two guys are gonna be able to colonize Mars? See, I think... You know, I read my tech blogs. This is a big subject in the tech blogs, and these people all believe it's right around the corner. Elon Musk, who can't manage more than two hours of charge on one of his electric cars, is somehow gonna repopulate Mars, for $500,000 a person?
We don't even know if there's any water up there.
You know, sometimes the dreams and the fantasies that people conjure as reality, it's scary. These people also vote. Colonize Mars? I mean, maybe in some... But the whole idea. Stephen Hawking, too. These people are doing it on the basis that this is a dying planet because of climate change. They really believe it! These uber-intelligent entrepreneurs, they really believe that the planet's dying, and they really believe it's because of climate change, and they really believe we have got a very short amount of time left.
And you can put Stephen Hawking at the front of the list of people that think that. And Hawking is considered, what, the smartest man alive? And where are they gonna relocate us? To a dead planet, because they think this one is on its way? Wouldn't they want to try to find a place where aliens already live? I mean, 'cause all the aliens that they imagine are 10 times as smart as we are. They've gotten rid of all nuclear weapons. They're able to travel at two times the speed of light, without using up any energy. Why don't we try to find where that place is and go there? Who the hell wants to go to Mars, for crying out loud?
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RUSH: No, no, no. I mean, these guys think by 2040 that there will be colonial towns on Mars. It's 25 years from now. Twenty-five years from now! Do you know how much it costs to send a single astronaut into orbit on the space shuttle? $200 million. Even if you factor in that government waste is part of this and inefficiency, there's no way Musk or anybody else is gonna... Who's gonna build the colony that the people live in once they get there? This is... I don't know, folks. I'm missing something.
Twenty-five years ago, Bill Clinton wasn't even running for president yet. It goes by like lickety-split. Twenty-five years, Mars colonies? Crock.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/07/13/flooding_the_zone_obama_s_plan_to_integrate_neighborhoods_by_class
RUSH: I had a story here in the Stack that I have intended to get to the past couple of days, and I finally ran out here and grabbed it. It doesn't have any relationship to anything. I figured why not just go ahead and do it. It's from Newsweek. And let me just read the opening couple of paragraphs. It's the best way to tell you why this grabbed my attention. "The world sucks right now. Terrorism. Climate change. Political acrimony. Nonstop Justin Bieber songs. It’s nice to know Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have a plan. They will help the richest people in the world go to Mars and start over, leaving the other 99 percent to suffer on a dying, warring planet. The only solace for those of us left here will be that the Biebs should be prosperous enough to go with them.
"This is the unspoken flip side of Musk’s SpaceX and Bezos’s Blue Origin. The space travel companies say they are creating a way for the human species to endure by populating other planets. But the bottom line is that only the wealthy will have the means to move to Mars. Musk’s target ticket price is $500,000 a person in 2015 dollars, and that’s just to get there. Imagine the new outfits you’ll have to buy to go with that space helmet." Imagine what housing is gonna cost you.
"So you can picture a scenario that’s something like the 1970s white flight from inner cities, when the wealthier classes moved to freshly built suburbs, leaving the declining neighborhoods to the lower classes. In fact, the fleeing upper classes sped up the decrepitude of that era’s older cities by relocating their money and clout with them."
http://www.newsweek.com/2015/12/25/mars-colonies-rich-people-404681.html
See, hidden in this story -- you may think this is about going to Mars, and it is -- but in this story is an all-out assault on white racists who fled the inner cities and went out to suburbia and cultivated it and developed it and created very iconic, idyllic neighborhoods and leaving everybody behind to suffer in smog and pollution and filth and homelessness. And of course it has the obligatory racial component, too, by describing it as white flight. And if you keep going on this, you find out that one of Obama's plans from the get-go of his administration has been to -- Stanley Kurtz has written about this; we've mentioned it to you -- the federal government is going to assume zoning duties and other regulatory responsibility for suburbia. And one of the things they're doing is already changing the makeup of neighborhoods.
Well-to-do neighborhoods in suburbia, if Obama gets his way -- and it won't be long before we know -- will have to allow for the building of, quote, unquote, affordable housing right next door to where they live. And people from the inner cities -- forget the racial component, we're just talking about the poor -- are gonna bused out to suburbia and moved into their new housing right in the neighborhood where you live or somebody else lives, right next door. It's Obama's way of getting even with people who fled the cities and started and built up the suburbs.
The story is built around idolatry and respect for Elon Musk and Bezos, who want to go to Mars for the same reason. They are castigated and ripped for doing it in such a way that only the 1% can ever go. But there's another aspect of this story that, aside from the attack on suburbia, which is clear -- and, by the way, I'm not making any of this up. I mean, this is something in the process of happening. And for all I know, there are things in this budget... There probably are, if we would dig deep. I mean, it's 2,000 pages.
I'll bet you there are things in this budget that further along, facilitate Obama's plans to repopulate the suburbs with people who can't live there on their own. That's the point. If you can't afford to live on your own, that's where you're gonna go. The Regime is gonna make sure you have a place to live there. They're gonna force local zoning to rezone so that affluent neighborhoods have to have these housing projects built, basically, right next to their properties. And I'll just bet you it's in the budget.
But the other thing about this is, I believe whoever wrote this actually means this. "The world sucks right now! Terrorism, climate change, political acrimony, nonstop Justin Bieber songs." Are they really serious that these two guys are gonna be able to colonize Mars? See, I think... You know, I read my tech blogs. This is a big subject in the tech blogs, and these people all believe it's right around the corner. Elon Musk, who can't manage more than two hours of charge on one of his electric cars, is somehow gonna repopulate Mars, for $500,000 a person?
We don't even know if there's any water up there.
You know, sometimes the dreams and the fantasies that people conjure as reality, it's scary. These people also vote. Colonize Mars? I mean, maybe in some... But the whole idea. Stephen Hawking, too. These people are doing it on the basis that this is a dying planet because of climate change. They really believe it! These uber-intelligent entrepreneurs, they really believe that the planet's dying, and they really believe it's because of climate change, and they really believe we have got a very short amount of time left.
And you can put Stephen Hawking at the front of the list of people that think that. And Hawking is considered, what, the smartest man alive? And where are they gonna relocate us? To a dead planet, because they think this one is on its way? Wouldn't they want to try to find a place where aliens already live? I mean, 'cause all the aliens that they imagine are 10 times as smart as we are. They've gotten rid of all nuclear weapons. They're able to travel at two times the speed of light, without using up any energy. Why don't we try to find where that place is and go there? Who the hell wants to go to Mars, for crying out loud?
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: No, no, no. I mean, these guys think by 2040 that there will be colonial towns on Mars. It's 25 years from now. Twenty-five years from now! Do you know how much it costs to send a single astronaut into orbit on the space shuttle? $200 million. Even if you factor in that government waste is part of this and inefficiency, there's no way Musk or anybody else is gonna... Who's gonna build the colony that the people live in once they get there? This is... I don't know, folks. I'm missing something.
Twenty-five years ago, Bill Clinton wasn't even running for president yet. It goes by like lickety-split. Twenty-five years, Mars colonies? Crock.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/07/13/flooding_the_zone_obama_s_plan_to_integrate_neighborhoods_by_class