Newt<\/a> and his message that he has, about self-sufficiency and, you know, get the kids to work.<\/p>\nRUSH: Well, I know. The question is, is it too late?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, I don\u2019t think so. I go around my small town. I go into the post office. I go into the library. We\u2019re buzzing. We do want change. It\u2019s almost like, I call it the whisper campaign. No one wants to speak aloud about it, but we want conservatism. This is what we work for. I was standing in line yesterday at the grocery store. I was looking at the people\u2019s carts filled with soda and junk and they whip out an EBT card. My husband works hard every day to buy our milk and eggs and chicken. Why am I buying somebody else\u2019s soda?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. I know.<\/p>\n
CALLER: But you know what? We\u2019re bigger than them. You always say that. We are bigger than them. We\u2019re usually pretty gracious and keep our opinions to ourselves. But it\u2019s reaching the point where it doesn\u2019t benefit them. That\u2019s why I called today about the benefits that I\u2019ve seen with my daughter being picked to work in the school. She gets a fabulous opportunity. She takes one period to work in the administration office because she\u2019s a good student. Well, the benefits are she got chosen for a prestigious program that she goes, speaks to all the community leaders in our county, but she actually got picked.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m thinking what parent doesn\u2019t want their child —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, your daughter got picked, but how many hundreds of others didn\u2019t, and see, that\u2019s what\u2019s wrong with America.<\/p>\n
CALLER: But that\u2019s what I\u2019m saying —<\/p>\n
RUSH: (imitating lib) “Your daughter got special treatment because you said she was chosen for a prestigious program, special treatment and so forth. How come everybody else\u2019s daughter couldn\u2019t get picked for this?”<\/p>\n
CALLER: But you know what the gateway was? She got in front of administrators and they saw her work ethic. So what Newt had said about working, like if you cleaned bathrooms. I used to have to wash dishes when I was 14, but, you know what, I saw the value of that, and I worked my way up, because I did not want to wash dishes for the rest of my life; and now my daughter, it was almost like a gateway. I was talking to my friend. I said, “You know, it\u2019s a privilege as a parent that our children — forget taking some nonsense course — actually get to work.” Our school is 3,000 students. She gets to see the intimate workings of the school.<\/p>\n
RUSH: “Yes, and 2,999 students don\u2019t.” That\u2019s the way the liberals play it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You know it\u2019s sad that they twist around that: the minority student or the poor students. This is a privilege. It\u2019s a neat thing that your kid gets to work.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You know what liberals listening to this program are saying right now? Do you know what they\u2019re screaming at the radios? “How come you didn\u2019t want to wash dishes for the rest of your life? Other people have to do it. How come you don\u2019t have to anymore? How come washing dishes all of a sudden became beneath you?” That\u2019s what we\u2019re dealing with. We\u2019re dealing with insanity. We\u2019re dealing with a total cultural divide disconnect. You are calling to praise your daughter, and I totally understand it, and the people on the left listening to this, all they hear is how your daughter benefited from an unfair advantage. She\u2019s smarter or knew people or whatever, and you had connections, and that\u2019s what\u2019s wrong with America because these other 2,999 didn\u2019t.<\/line><\/p>\n
They focus on the losers, and they don\u2019t think the winners are legitimate, and, therefore, the whole process is illegitimate. Work should be an honor. My first job… Well. (chuckles) I was forced — I was forced — to mow the grass. That was my brother\u2019s and my punishment. Not with a power mower. No, and we had to use edge trimmers. I hated it. I hate it to this day! I despised it. It was punishment. We had to do it. We had to wash the dishes before we were 14. I can tell you that. But my first paying job away from home was shining shoes in a barbershop, at age 13. (interruption) Well, it was racist because there were people at the time who thought that I shouldn\u2019t have the job because I came from an affluent family and I was depriving a poor kid of the opportunity.<\/p>\n
Even back then, I kid you not, there was that sentiment. It wasn\u2019t said aloud, but there was an undercurrent. There was an undercurrent. Anyway, the barbers in the barbershop were all great. I got the job, but then I sat around in there, waiting for customers to come to the shoeshine stand, and a couple days passed and two people showed up. The barber says, “How are you gonna get \u2019em back here for a shoe shine?” I said, “Well, if they want one, they\u2019ll come. If they don\u2019t…” “No, no, no. Nobody wants one. When they\u2019re sitting there in the chair getting a haircut, you need to just give their shoes a brief buff, and if they say don\u2019t do it because they don\u2019t want to pay for it, you tell them, ‘No, there\u2019s no charge. It\u2019s just a service that I offer,\u2019 and you watch how many of them will ask you to come do it for real and pay you.”<\/p>\n
And that happened.<\/p>\n
So it was a great learning thing. I just love making shoes shine. I don\u2019t know. It was a fetish. Getting paid for it was… I\u2019m 13! It cost 50\u00c2\u00a2. I earned $50 in three months. I was living at home. It was not something I needed to live on. But my parents were blown away. They couldn\u2019t understand it, why I would want to do it. They didn\u2019t hold me back, but there was this undercurrent that I was depriving somebody more needy of the job. But that\u2019s always the way. (sigh) I don\u2019t care. There are always going to be detractors; anybody doing anything they do. I just loved it. I learned how to spit shine like the military people have to do. I learned how to do all that. So we\u2019ve all got these stories to tell. We\u2019ve all got stories to tell of the first jobs that we had, first work that we had. You learn so much being around adults who are earning a living for themselves and their family. It was a great educational thing for me all the way around, just in the basics of how to get customers. You can\u2019t just sit there and let \u2019em come to you.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: People want to know if I could snap the buff rag like professional shoe shiners. Damn right I could snap that rag! I could make that buff rag sing. But, you know, there\u2019s something else I learned about that, and this has stayed with me all my life. I learned… This is gonna sound so strange, but the barber supply place has stuff that you can\u2019t buy in any other store, like the clippers they use or like the shoeshine stuff. No retail outlet has this stuff, and there\u2019s all kind of businesses like that. Restaurant supply stores. You can\u2019t buy the stuff there retail. There were so many gadgets and fun things that you could get in the barber supply store that you couldn\u2019t find at the average, run-of-the-mill grocery store.<\/p>\n
So I learned, “If I have something exclusive, I have access to stuff here nobody else can get. I can shine shoes better than you can do it \u2019cause the stuff I can get is stuff you can\u2019t get.” And I would tell the customers: “You can\u2019t get the stuff I\u2019m using here. Only I can get it. That was a great sales technique as well,” and that has remained true to this day. That\u2019s always the case about practically everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>CALLER: Yeah. You know what, I just want to say, I\u2019ve been getting called all morning from people, my friends, which, I\u2019m just a stay-at-home mom for 17 years. My husband works hard to have me at home to raise our Rush Baby<\/a>, but, my friends are so excited about Newt<\/a> and his message that he has, about self-sufficiency and, you know, get the kids to work.<\/p>\n