Rush is right to complain about this one, and it isn't 'envy' talking. Chinese fuel subsidies continue to keep demand artificially high in China, and the costs are being born by consumers in countries without subsidies - the US, for instance.

Are you intentionally trying to deceive your readers or are you really being duped that much yourself? It can only be one or the other since Rush isn't saying what you make up. Disliking Rush Limbaugh is one thing and something that wouldn't make you unique, but do really not understand what Rush was saying (with the context which you left out of course)?

then Rush is only half-right. He's still arguing for a similar subsidy.

I read the transcript in the link (not worth the trouble) and I don't think Rush made any points at all, he just babbled incoherently about the Chinese government. Why on Earth does he have a show?

I guess first off, I feel relieved that US highways aren't choked with smog so thick you cannot see. It's a little hard for me to get outraged by the fact that we have less pollution than China, but to each his own.

Other than that, I feel a little disappointed to see China recapitulating the process of mindless, pointless, materialism. I suppose it's only human that when you have newfound prosperity you want to enjoy it. But it is pretty infantile to define success as the ability to drive a Hummer and blast loud music. I am expecting a lot more out of the renaissance of one of the world's great civilizations.

Finally, I don't even quite get the lawnmower comment. A lawnmower is something with a handle that you push, right?

He has always been a Red, just like Lyndon Larouche (the Red).

Deep cover moles for the Reds - all of them.

Why do you think we gave China most favored nation trading status and transfered our industry and jobs over there?

It's the Reds, dumbass!

What about Walmart?

Reds - all of them.

Those early morning meetings are only missing Chairman Mao's little red book.

The dopers and oilmen (the Bush Syndicate) are the only thing keeping white and blue in our flag.

The Trilateralists and the WTOers will sell their grandparents for the price of a cup of Seattle's Finest and guess who Obama is fronting for?

No, they aren't Reds, but they will sell the Reds the rope by which they shall hang us all. Some Commie said that a long time ago.

Worse than the Red Chinese Menace and the Oympics, Budweiser has been bought by a Belgian company - payback for that Austin Power's movie.

There are things worse than the REDS!

Rush also likely is jealous of the fact that the Chinease leaders can imprison and torture anyone in the country they wish, without charges or trial, and that their leaders are unaccountable for those actions....

Wait a minute!

We do have that here too!

Sorry!

Rush is right to complain about this one, and it isn't 'envy' talking. Chinese fuel subsidies continue to keep demand artificially high in China, and the costs are being born by consumers in countries without subsidies - the US, for instance.

Rush is complaining about the wrong people. The reason the Chinese can afford to do this is because of all the so-called American companies that have sent manufacturing work to China. This is a double whammy because it not only makes things more expensive for Americans, it also leaves Americans with less money to pay for them.

I'd also like to remind Rush that his precious Republicans have been kissing the companies' asses and giving them tax breaks to reward them for draining American's economic lifeblood.

So, our consumer culture has come full-circle. We drove our SUV's to WalMart where we bought cheap shit made in China because we would rather do that than pay an American 8 dollars an hour to make cheap shit. The Chinese gladly took our dollars in exchange for cheap shit and now they're driving around in SUV's that they purchased with the money that we gave them in exchange for cheap shit and their fuel is being subsidized by the money that we gave them in exchange for cheap shit. Now, goodly Americans like Mr. Limbaugh and everyone else who thinks they have a birthright to material status symbols such as Hummers is whining that they can't afford that SUV anymore.

Somehow, I have no sympathy.

BTW I can't forget those ads showing the pathetic chumps that Hummer sees as their customers...remember those?

The guy in the checkout line embarrassed because the MAN in front of him bought a rack of ribs and he was eating tofu or something wimpy, so he goes out and buys a Hummer and...big smile! He has redeemed his masculinity.

Or mommy1 is snubbed at the playground when she informs mommy2 that Billy butt in front of Bobby to get on the slide. So she gets a Hummer and looks so happy! You'd think from her self-satisfied smile that she just ran Billy's mom down in the playground parking lot.

Playing by their own rules that is.

The USSR communists eventually decided if you can't beat 'em, join 'em and embraced capitalism AFTER their empire collapsed. These Chinese communists seem to have learned a little more quickly, by embracing capitalism with a vengeance BEFORE their empire collapsed.

Then GM would not be angling to sell the Hummer division. Obviously there is no horde of Asians clamoring to buy them all. There is on the other hand, a constant market for luxury items in corrupt countries.

I don't even quite get the lawnmower comment. A lawnmower is something with a handle that you push, right?

In the universe Limbaugh inhabits, lawnmowers are all internal combustion engine powered glorified go carts. Part of his outrage at theoretically being forced to use an equivalent as an automobile is that in his world, those glorified go carts are most often driven by usually darker-skinned servant-class people.