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RUSH: Glenn somewhere in Texas. I\u2019ve got these sound bites. I gotta get to these sound bites, too, \u2019cause I promised you, but I have a mixture of things I want to try to get in before we finish. So Glenn somewhere in Texas, it\u2019s great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. It\u2019s great to talk to you. As I was telling your call-taker, I don\u2019t know where I\u2019m at right now. I was a longtime Democrat. I\u2019m a union firefighter. My wife\u2019s a teacher. We have a child with a disability, and it all started back during the sequester. You know, I\u2019ve been saving for over a year to take my family on a vacation, and during the sequester they started telling us how they couldn\u2019t cut back. This was gonna kill the government.<\/line><\/p>\n

I just sat back, and I said, “You know, man, I\u2019m struggling to get by. I\u2019m paying back taxes. The government\u2019s taking more and more money from me, and they can\u2019t cut back? It\u2019s just not making any sense.” So I\u2019ve started listening to you here recently, and one of the things that keep hearing are references to “the low-information voter,” and I just think there\u2019s another category out there, people like myself, a misinformed voter. I never thought of myself as low informed because, you know, I we got informationals from our union and, you know, various organizations.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s just all one-sided, and then I was buying into it.<\/p>\n

As I told your call-taker, I don\u2019t know where I\u2019m at anymore. I\u2019ve always thought of myself as a southern Democrat, different than a Northeastern Democrat, different from a West Coast Democrat. But I\u2019m losing faith in that system because I\u2019m just realizing that the government\u2019s telling us they can\u2019t cut back, but everyone else is forced to. Here I am struggling, and I\u2019m a union firefighter, my wife\u2019s a teacher, and it just didn\u2019t make sense. So I think when you reference the low-information, there are also the many low-informed voters out there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no question you\u2019re right about that. There is the misinformed voter, and there is also the low-information voter. Glenn, what\u2019s happening is, it sounds like reality is starting to catch up with you, because you are exactly right. Here\u2019s a federal government that has $17 trillion in debt. It\u2019s spent, minimum, $17 trillion it doesn\u2019t have. It collects $2.5 trillion from you and me and everybody else every year, and let them be faced with doing with a dollar less and they cannot deal with it.<\/p>\n

Yet when they turn around and raise fees or taxes on you, you\u2019re supposed to deal with it. You\u2019re supposed to manage. You\u2019re supposed to do it for the good of your government and so forth. Now, you say you\u2019ve been a lifelong Democrat, a southern Democrat. What you\u2019re coming up against is a hard, cold reality that you\u2019re really not one, the way you\u2019re thinking. You\u2019re not one. You\u2019re not a southern, northern, eastern, western, whatever, Democrat. You\u2019re not an above-ground, below-ground Democrat at all with the thinking that you\u2019re engaging in now because you are exactly right.<\/p>\n

They spent $17 trillion that they don\u2019t have. Under this man, Obama\u2019s administration alone, $6 trillion has been spent that we don\u2019t have — and they want more! They want more, and they claim that you are gonna have to pay it. You\u2019re gonna have to pay more for health care. You\u2019re gonna have to pay more in taxes. You\u2019re gonna have to pay more for gasoline and oil because you\u2019re polluting the world, Glenn. You and your family, people like you, you\u2019re destroying the environment. That\u2019s who those people are.<\/p>\n

I think you\u2019re educating yourself now — of course, with the assistance of this program, as you mentioned.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, well, my wife\u2019s not as quick to come across the aisle, you know. She\u2019s still kind of burrowed in, but I keep at least trying.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s because she thinks the Democrats care more about people than anybody else. That\u2019s a ruse that they succeeded with. She thinks that the Republicans don\u2019t care about people and the Democrats do and she thinks she cares about people. That\u2019s one of the ruses that they\u2019ve pulled is convince everybody that they own compassion. They don\u2019t have compassion for anybody. They use people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They destroy people\u2019s families. They destroy people\u2019s lives. I have a story — I didn\u2019t have a chance to get to it — about the obesity in this country. There\u2019s a story today that most of the childhood obesity is minority, African-American, and this story links it to food stamps, which makes total sense. We have nearly 40, 49 million Americans on food stamps, and they can buy whatever they want with it.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party has made everybody they can think that they\u2019re victims, which makes them entitled, which makes them feel like they\u2019re owed something, because they\u2019ve been victimized, in most part, by this evil country, and its evil past or whatever. Even the food stamp program — designed in compassion, designed to assist the starving, designed to assist our fellow citizens in need — is now contributing (I believe it, by the way) to a rampant epidemic of obesity in the minority community.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no question about it. Liberalism divides, damages, destroys. There isn\u2019t any real compassion in it. All there is is a phony message of compassion, and I\u2019m sure that\u2019s why your wife is finding it more difficult to cross the aisle. She\u2019s falling for the emotional play. It\u2019s a Washington Times story: “Obama\u2019s Obesity Epidemic — More Food Stamps Mean Fatter Kids.” I just to show you I wasn\u2019t making it up.<\/p>\n

All right. Glenn, I appreciate the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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