{"id":15035,"date":"2012-07-26T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:04:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-26T17:04:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:04:51","slug":"impassioned_response_to_public_employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/26\/impassioned_response_to_public_employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Impassioned Response to Public Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Matt in Freeland, Pennsylvania, as we get to the phones in the first hour. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hello Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Very well, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_65145\" class=\"img_\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaWaronAmerica.jpg\"\/><BR\/>CALLER: I just wanted to say that, you know, I think the president might have somewhat of a point because of my experience. I worked for the state of Pennsylvania taking care of intellectual disabled individuals for 26 years. One of the guys that I took care of, his mom and dad ran a family restaurant. A very successful restaurant. And, you know, they told me many times that if it wasn\u2019t for the state and for people like me that helped take care of their son, they wouldn\u2019t be able to work 14-16 hours a day in a restaurant business. And, you know, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s right to minimize public employees and the vital services that we provide. You know, I&#8230; You know, I was told by these people &#8212;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Nobody\u2019s minimizing what you do. What we\u2019re not gonna do is give you credit for what you didn\u2019t do. Now, you can sit out there and say all you want that you helped these two restaurant owners focus on their business by taking care of whatever. You got paid for it. That wasn\u2019t sweat labor. You got paid for it. You chose to do what you did. Nobody made you do it, unless your parents thought you weren\u2019t going anywhere and made you do something and you had to take it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" width=\"585\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/114954\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But for all intents and purposes, you chose to do what you did; the restaurant people chose to do what they did. Everybody goes into this knowing full well what\u2019s involved. You didn\u2019t run the restaurant. You didn\u2019t invest in the restaurant! You didn\u2019t have anything to do with running the restaurant. You might have gone there and eaten, but that was it. You do not get credit for that. You get credit for what you did, your own choice. But nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. I checked the e-mail. And a couple of people said, &#8220;Rush, I understand what you\u2019re trying to say to the poor guy from Pennsylvania, but why did you have to sound so mean?&#8221; Folks, I coulda sounded a lot meaner. I\u2019m just kidding. I didn\u2019t intend to sound mean. I was being passionate. I guess I will elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Would you back up the transcription there to the call we had from Pennsylvania? Because I got e-mails, as I mentioned, of people who thought that I was mean. Can you back it up or not? There we go. They thought I was mean to the guy, and I want to read to you exactly what he said. He said, &#8220;I think the president might have somewhat of a point because of my experience. I worked for the state of Pennsylvania taking care of intellectually disabled individuals for 26 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And one of the guys that I took care of, his mom and dad ran a family restaurant &#8212; a very successful restaurant. You know, they told me many times that if it wasn\u2019t for the state and for many people like me that helped take care of their son, they wouldn\u2019t be able to work 14-16 hours a day in their restaurant. And, you know, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s right to minimize public employees and the vital services that we provide. You know, I was told by these people&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So people thought I was being mean when I reacted. This is the problem: I was passionate. I didn\u2019t have a whole lot of time. I had to say a lot quickly before we went into a hard break. But the call really kind of makes the point. Now, this guy, all I did was spell out exactly what happened. This guy worked for the state. He babysat intellectually disabled people. He was paid for it, I presume. Why else was he there? I think what happened was that the restaurant owners were simply appreciative.<\/p>\n<p><a view=\"full\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15099\"><img id=\"eZObject_65143\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaQuoteAmericanBusiness3.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They were thanking him. They were just expressing gratitude, which is fine and dandy. But that\u2019s as far as it goes. Who paid his salary? His salary is paid for by taxes, including the taxes of the people that owned the restaurant, unless for some reason the restaurant owners were excused from paying taxes. So they helped pay his salary with their taxes from the restaurant. But the point is, nobody made him do what he was doing. He chose to go into that business. He did not run the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t invest in the restaurant. He didn\u2019t take a risk in the restaurant. He didn\u2019t have anything to do with the restaurant! What Obama is coming along and telling people like him is (impression), &#8220;See those restaurants owners over there? They couldn\u2019t have done it without you, and what did you get out of it? Well, you sat around with their intellectually disabled kid while they were out there making millions! While they\u2019re out there using the roads and bridges and everything!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And, by the way, these business owners probably don\u2019t offer health care.&#8221; (I don\u2019t want to get sidetracked with that.) The point is that Obama is out there trying to make these guys think that they are responsible for a successful restaurant! Now, nobody can deny we\u2019re all in this together. And nobody &#8212; at least I\u2019m not &#8212; is trying to say anything different than that. But you also don\u2019t start assigning credit where it\u2019s not deserved. This guy, the guy who babysat the intellectually disabled kid?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure there are other people in society, in business who enabled him to do what he did. Taxpayers, everybody going to work paid his salary via taxes. He worked for the state! Where does this stuff stop? If you want to start crediting people for things they didn\u2019t do, where does it stop? You have to realize what the objective here is. Obama is not trying to make people feel appreciated. Obama is not trying to say that you deserve more what you have. He wants you to conclude that, but what Obama is pushing for is the notion that there is no individual anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no self-made success. There\u2019s no mention of individual success.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, nobody is anything other than a number, and that government makes it all possible.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, this is tyranny!<\/p>\n<p>The dehumanization of a society is tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>What Obama is talking about is the dehumanization of our culture, particularly in the business world.  That\u2019s why this matters.  That\u2019s why this is important.  We can dissect this policy-wise, we can dissect this ideologically, but I\u2019d just as soon look at it in real-world terms.  This is about denying that people have anything unique about themselves.  We\u2019re all in it together.  Nobody\u2019s any different, any better, any worse than anybody else.  Government\u2019s the great equalizer. Government\u2019s the great benevolent. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I didn\u2019t mean to sound mean to this guy.  When I am attempting to be pervasive&#8230; you know what people thought was mean?  When I said, &#8220;Well, you didn\u2019t have one thing to do with that restaurant.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don\u2019t have to say it that way, Mr. Limbaugh.  You don\u2019t have to sound so &#8211;&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Well, the truth is the truth.  The people that ran the restaurant ran the restaurant.  They invested in the restaurant. They had everything in the world to do with it.  The idea that they didn\u2019t?  Why are we only focusing on businesspeople and trying to discredit what they do?  Let\u2019s turn this around.  What if I were to say, &#8220;All of you people that work in nursing homes, you are meaningless, you are worthless. What makes you feel so special?&#8221;  That\u2019s what Obama\u2019s doing here to people in the business community.  That\u2019s what he wants you to think about people who have been successful in business. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_65142\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-24_7Self585.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I just want you to realize, it\u2019s not me, nor is it any conservative I know that seeks to denigrate any work at all.  We promote it; we want to reward it; we want to encourage it; we consider it valorous, in fact.  It is the Democrats, it\u2019s Obama who is attempting to impugn the work of many people.  To discredit it, to deny it, and to get people resentful of it.  It\u2019s not us.  It\u2019s not us discriminating.  In fact, that might be a good word for what\u2019s happening.  There is discrimination being practiced by Obama at the highest levels of government against people who succeed.  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  One more thing about this, folks, and it is very, very important, and it\u2019s getting lost in all this.  There is a belief.  The left, Obama, are responsible for injecting a premise into this argument that the rich, the business owner, is not paying for the roads and bridges.  According to Obama and the way he\u2019s out speaking to people, you have a successful business owner here who has got his factory.  Everybody else built the roads leading to his factory and everybody else is babysitting his intellectually disabled kid, and he didn\u2019t pay for any of this.  And that is absurd.  If it weren\u2019t for, for example, in the call from Pennsylvania, if it weren\u2019t for that restaurant and other businesses like it, we couldn\u2019t afford to pay people to babysit the intellectually disabled.  If it weren\u2019t for that restaurant, that guy caring for the intellectually disabled kid wouldn\u2019t have a job. <\/p>\n<p>If it weren\u2019t for that restaurant, and if it weren\u2019t for other businesses, there would not be a road.  If it weren\u2019t for the businesses and wealth-producing, income-producing institutions in this country, there would not be a bridge.  And yet the premise is that all these successful people, man, they\u2019re just raping us.  Not only are we building their roads and bridges, they\u2019re not paying for that. They\u2019re stealing our labor.  They\u2019re stealing our brains. They\u2019re stealing everything and they\u2019re not paying us for anything.  And all of this, as I say, all of this is by design.  This is to eliminate the entire concept of the individual or the self-made man.  You wouldn\u2019t have roads and bridges without that restaurant owner and other businesses, and you wouldn\u2019t have a state facility to babysit the intellectually disabled without the restaurant owner, \u2019cause the government wouldn\u2019t have any money without those businesses.  It\u2019s just that simple.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  How many welfare recipients have built roads?  How many trial lawyers have built roads?  How many judges have built roads?  How many radio talk show hosts have built roads?  You know what\u2019s getting lost in all the talk about building roads is who actually builds them.  Folks, we\u2019re gonna have to stay focused, because this is getting perverted now.  And I will admit to you, I am surprised &#8212; actually, I\u2019m not.  I was gonna say I\u2019m surprised it\u2019s lasted this long, but I\u2019m not.  And it deserves to last this long and it deserves to last as long as it takes to get rid of these people.  Because this is hideous. <\/p>\n<p>This is tyranny.  This is the subjugation of the individual, the subordination of the individual to the state, this effort to wipe out this whole concept of self-made man.  Remember when that was such a thing to aspire to?  And don\u2019t doubt me.  It still is.  It still is.  Obama is nowhere near representing a majority of people in this country.  Nowhere near it.  I know it\u2019s frightening to think that he does, it\u2019s scary.  Things are falling apart, and people don\u2019t want the country to fall apart.  It\u2019s not what the people of this country want.  It\u2019s not what they elected.  They didn\u2019t elect somebody to preside over the country decaying in front of their eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Matt in Freeland, Pennsylvania, as we get to the phones in the first hour. Hello, sir. CALLER: Hello Rush. How are you? RUSH: Very well, sir. Thank you. 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