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RUSH: Fort Payne, Alabama. This is Bill. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve been listening to you since you broadcast from New Orleans during the Mardi Gras in the late eighties.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that was a fun, fun time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just wanted to say how great America is, because only in America could I do what I did for ten years, which was play music in Florida, and I was at the poverty line or below, according to the national statistics, but only in America could I make $500 a week doing what I want to do, only working 18 hours a week and go out and party after I got through every night.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you\u2019re a deejay at a club?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I play sax and sing with a band.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, okay. You\u2019re a musician.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re a musician working in those smoky, boozy clubs late at every night, 18 hours a week, 500 bucks a week. You were in the poverty line, and you\u2019re calling to say you had a great time, you enjoyed your life? <\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s exactly right. I also have two children that spent six weeks with me every summer, love to come to the beach and I manage to pay my child support and subscribe to The Limbaugh Letter and it\u2019s just a matter of living below your means, living in a small place, and watching what you spend.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The man has his priorities straight, folks. Are you still at that level or was that some years ago?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That was a few years ago. I play for my own entertainment now. I have a little studio in my basement and I\u2019m in the restaurant business now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. You mean you\u2019re no longer in poverty?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019m married to a woman who makes more money than I do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Doesn\u2019t matter. You move out of the poverty. You moved out of the bottom fifth quintile!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I\u2019m up to $80,000 a year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s not supposed to happen. Wait, that\u2019s not supposed to happen, if you listen to Democrats, John Edwards, poverty is permanent. You\u2019re born into it. In fact, you shouldn\u2019t be born into it. You should be aborted if you\u2019re conceived to poverty level parents. ‘Nobody should have to grow up and live in horrible circumstances,\u2019 the pro-abort crowd says, and Edwards and this gang would love for everybody to think that poverty\u2019s permanent. Once you\u2019re born to it, you\u2019re in it. People move in and out of differentiates income quintiles constantly throughout their lives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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