{"id":14525,"date":"2012-09-19T19:24:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T19:24:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-19T19:24:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T19:24:22","slug":"caller_s_career_ended_in_obamaville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/19\/caller_s_career_ended_in_obamaville\/","title":{"rendered":"Caller\u2019s Career Ended in Obamaville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Dan, is it Overland Park, Kansas, or Overland, Kansas &#8212; where are you? <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Overland Park, Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Overland Park.  I used to live there in a shack.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Well, I know that, and, you know, back when you wrote your first book, <a view=\"line\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Way-Things-Ought-Be\/dp\/0671751506\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1348088155&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=the+way+things+ought+to+be\">The Way Things Ought to Be<\/a>, I found out that you were headed towards KCI, that was before you were contributing to the health and wealth of the private corporate jet world.  You landed on a &#8230; I don\u2019t know which airline, but I figured out you were coming.  I met you at the airport, you so graciously signed that book for me, and it sits at my bed ever since.  So thank you for your kindness, and I love the book, and you\u2019ve been a hero of mine for a long time.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushObamavilleUnemployment2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  You\u2019re more than welcome. Thank you very much for reminding me of that. Yeah.  I remember that trip.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Do you?  Yes, I don\u2019t think another soul in the airport knew you were headed there but me because I sat down and tried to figure out exactly how the heck you would get there.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  It worked.  It worked.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Very creative on your part, very industrious of you to be able to figure that out, because we block tail numbers, all kinds of things.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Yeah.  Yep.  Anyway, I called today, Rush, to give you a little bit of a taste of what it\u2019s like &#8212; you and I both are the exact same age, 61 years old &#8212; to be 61 years old, to be a self-contractor all your life, to provide for your life and have a nice middle class home and middle class life, a middle class wife, middle class children, and in about late 2009, watch your career fade to black.  No pun intended, but that\u2019s what happened.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  What career were you in?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  I was project manager, a really good project manager in the large-scale telecommunications market.  We sold enterprise systems to large corporations and installed them, and I was a project manager that &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  What happened?  The telecommunications market change that fast?  Or it went south?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  It was slowly going south, but all of a sudden, when everybody knew that the sticks were being set in front of them to block \u2019em, the question used to be, man, what\u2019s the latest technology? As we sat across the boardroom table, what\u2019s the latest stuff we can buy? What can we do with voice mail? What can we do with integrating voice mail with your e-mail? Tell me all about it. We\u2019re ready to go. Let\u2019s upgrade to the next version.  It became the IT guy would look at the corporate head and say, &#8220;Sir, we sure could upgrade this. We sure could upgrade that.&#8221; And he would look right back at \u2019em and say, &#8220;Do we have dial tone?&#8221;  Yes, sir.  &#8220;Are we answering calls?&#8221;  Yes, sir.  &#8220;We recording calls?&#8221;  Yes, sir.  &#8220;Okay.&#8221;  That\u2019s it.  Until something bad happens, that\u2019s where we are.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  So you stopped expanding?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Pardon?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah, you stopped expanding.  I don\u2019t know.  I\u2019m sorry to hear stories like this.  I really am.  Thanks much for the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Dan, is it Overland Park, Kansas, or Overland, Kansas &#8212; where are you? CALLER: Overland Park, Kansas. RUSH: Overland Park. I used to live there in a shack. 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