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RUSH: Here\u2019s Janice in Naples, Florida, as we go back to the phones and Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, hi, Rush. Sucker punch dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Thanks very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Pearl Harbor —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold it. What is sucker punch dittos? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, sucker punch is just instead of saying hello, Merry Christmas, I feel sucker punched —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — by the election. I\u2019m calling from the lady from two calls ago when you were talking about her reaction the next day, the next week.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, it\u2019s like a sucker bunch, babe, and, you know, this is how this country was, what, 71 years ago, although you wouldn\u2019t know it on the news today because nobody wants to talk about Pearl Harbor and where our country was then, but let\u2019s go to the present, okay? And, I\u2019ll tell you, everything you just said about women and looking at the — oh, you\u2019re so right, you\u2019re so right, and this is my Merry Christmas present to myself, just talking with you, because you — I don\u2019t know where — we just pray for your daily effort on this —<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, thank you very much, because I need it. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You must be so worn out, because we\u2019re worn out, but by golly, and for me, I got two boys, military, one just came back — (laughing) — when you stand with your kid at Arlington and he\u2019s buried one of his men, okay, you get it. You get when we\u2019re fighting before and what the people for us have done, and we cannot quit. I am scared. I am realistic. I am in the real world and I think we were sucker punched with the stimulus. We came so close to closing down Obamacare, but I think —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, that\u2019s not what you\u2019re sucker punched about. Let me help out, \u2019cause I know. Correct me if I\u2019m wrong, but I don\u2019t think I am. What really has you flabbergasted is the scary thought that we\u2019ve lost the country. That, of the people who vote, a majority believe this crap, and you\u2019re wondering, how in the world do we change that? How do we reach these people? That\u2019s what you\u2019re frustrated about.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We will never do it with public schools. I\u2019ve come out of the public schools as a teacher for the last 25, 30 years, and your remarks on that have been right on, and I have said that. It\u2019s a wonder we still even have a chance. When those seniors vote in an election, they do all voting, I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s 90 to 95% who vote those demos. How can we fight that? That\u2019s been going on for 20, 25, 30 years, they come out programmed —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, a lot of people have been thinking that events, just by themselves, as an example, living through such a horrible economy with so few job prospects, many people think that would do it, and the real sobering, shocking reality is that it doesn\u2019t. We have two things: We have a Santa Claus president who is providing what work used to provide, and a media which is blaming people that have nothing to do with this for the problem. And you are scratching your head like everybody, how do we penetrate this? How do we stop this because you\u2019re like everyone, you don\u2019t want to cede the country. No matter what happened this election, you don\u2019t want to give it up. You call here and talk about Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was 1941. <\/p>\n

Pearl Harbor probably isn\u2019t taught much, and if it is, my fear is that it is really downplayed as an event, and it may even be a vehicle for teaching how horrible this country is with nuclear weapons. In the public school system, Pearl Harbor is probably a gateway for some anti-war teacher to say it was Pearl Harbor, the United States overreacting and killing innocent people with two nuclear bombs and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And the true nature of Pearl Harbor, what it meant, and what it revived, Pearl Harbor was the catalyst for bringing this economy back out of FDR\u2019s stagnation due to the New Deal. Pearl Harbor awakened a great country and allowed this country to show what it\u2019s made of, again, in liberating millions of people, millions of oppressed people from tyranny. <\/p>\n

And now you see people in this country unwittingly, you hope, voting for a modified tyranny, voting for an ever-expanding Washington, DC, with ever-expanding power over the individual. You see developing a totally different relationship between citizen and government. And you\u2019re scared to death. You think that a pretty good shot was spent fighting this. A fairly decent effort. Not the best, but a fairly decent effort was made in repelling it and beating it back, educating people it\u2019s the wrong way to go, and it didn\u2019t work. And so you\u2019re at your wits\u2019 end. <\/p>\n

Everything you believe in, you think people are laughing at. Everything you believe in, you think people don\u2019t think is important anymore. Everything you believe in, you get the impression that people mock. And so your tendency is to say, the heck with it, why should I care anymore? But, as much as you\u2019d like to, quote, unquote, tune out, you can\u2019t, because you do care too much, and it does matter too much, and you\u2019re not quitters. I mean, if you\u2019re talking Pearl Harbor to me, you\u2019re not a quitter. I know that you\u2019re always gonna be counted.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is from Daniel Halper at the Weekly Standard, but it\u2019s actually according to the Senate Budget Committee, welfare spending — let me relate this to Pearl Harbor, if I may. Seventy-one years ago, December 7th, 1941, or, as FDR said, “December 7, 1941, a day which will live in infamy.” In 1941, 71 years ago, we went to war to defend our country from tyranny. We were attacked from outside. Now we are watching it being given away. <\/p>\n

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All throughout the Great Depression into World War II, we fought to liberate people from tyranny, from oppression. The country that stood for freedom and rugged individualism and, you know, it\u2019s a term that gets thrown around. I actually think this probably tests negatively, entrepreneurial. If I had to guess the Democrats focus group that word and it tests negatively like “the rich” tests negatively, so I probably ought to stop using it. But look at what we\u2019ve become here. <\/p>\n

“According to the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee, welfare spending per day per household in poverty is $168, which is higher than the $137 median income per day. When broken down per hour, welfare spending per hour per household in poverty is $30.60, which is higher than the $25.03 median income per hour.” We\u2019re spending $168 every day for every household in poverty. And, by the way, we\u2019re not eradicating it. We are spending more in poverty than the median income in this country. In other words, we are giving more money away than the median family is earning. <\/p>\n

What\u2019s gonna happen? That\u2019s a tipping point. People are gonna say, “Why work? I can get more not working.” And welfare benefits are not taxed, in addition. Now, this is said to be compassionate. This is said to be caring for the downtrodden. It\u2019s not compassionate. This is consigning people to lives far less than what they could be on their own. But it\u2019s insensitive to say that, mean and all that. That\u2019s an amazing figure to me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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