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RUSH: John in Pinehurst, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Man, Rush, I never thought I\u2019d be picking a fight with a guy that I\u2019ve listened to since I left the Army active duty in 1989, but sometimes, boy, you confuse me like you\u2019ve never confused me before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me see if I can straighten it out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019ve never… I\u2019ve listened to you for that long. I remember once I talked to you. How many callers do you get from Pinehurst, North Carolina? I mentioned that you and Bush were on the green that day on Pinehurst and I didn\u2019t even notice you were there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, I remember that day well. I played well that day. So did he.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There you go, and I invited you for lasagna. The wife makes a lasagna. She\u2019s Italian but you never showed up. What the heck? More for me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I had to skate outta there, I had to get back after golf.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There you go. Look, the auto industry was not… I own an automotive recruiting company. For 13 years I\u2019ve worked this industry. The government does not destroy the auto company like you said a few minutes ago. The auto industry was destroyed by exactly what Dick Lutz [sic–Bob Lutz] said. He\u2019s the product czar at General Motors. He\u2019s the guy that\u2019s really in charge of styling for all the vehicles, and I believe he\u2019s a former president or head of Chrysler Corporation. But Lutz said in the eighties Ford, GM, and Chrysler made junk — and I mean, they made junk.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not denying that. Look, I\u2019ve talked about this, especially General Motors. They had Chevrolet. They had Cadillac, and every model in these brands looked alike, just different pricing, a little different trim. They were making cars that nobody wanted, but they\u2019re coming back.<\/p>\n

CALLER: One more thing. Go back to 30 years ago when CAFE standards were initiated. If General Motors, in fact, if — Where I think — I\u2019m not calling you a hypocrite, but darn it, you really are missing it from a Republican, and I don\u2019t want to be called a seminar caller by you because for 20 years I lived by the Republican Party, and today you could hold a gun to my head and I\u2019m not voting for a Republican. I\u2019ve never in my life voted for a Democrat, and I don\u2019t want to begin, but the Republican Party betrayed people like me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But the Republican Party doesn\u2019t understand people like me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I also know Bob Lutz, who you\u2019re talking about at General Motors. I met him last May. I met with him. I\u2019ve known him a long time and I talked about these problems, and, believe me, he has a different story than you do about this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: One more thing, can I mention…?<\/p>\n

RUSH: But a lot of people aren\u2019t going to vote Republican this time around, and I understand why, but that\u2019s not why you called.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s kind of what — here\u2019s the last thing. When a man of your wealth — yes, your wealth — no matter what happens, you can afford it. What about guys like me out there? I\u2019ve had years where I\u2019ve made big six figure and years that I haven\u2019t, and, all in all, me and my wife are fairly financially stable, but do you know how expensive life is, or how much it costs to pay for health care, and why…? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, I damn well do because I do pay for it myself!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, exactly. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something. <\/p>\n

CALLER: But when I talk about your wealth —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no. Let me tell you something about this wealth business. I\u2019ve been broke twice in my life. When I was 31 years old, I was making $17,000 a year. I have been fired I forgot how many times. Seven times! So I\u2019ve been there. This constant refrain that I\u2019m ‘out of touch,\u2019 is just bogus. That\u2019s another thing that really bugs me: this movement within the Republican Party to claim that the middle class is in great suffering and pain. I understand if you own a house, and your value of your equity in your house is plummeting, that you\u2019re worried, and I understand that totally. What you need to hear is the truth of why it happened, so that you can make plans in the future. These are cycles, and everybody in every country and every society goes through them, and ours are not nearly as bad as people around the rest of the world are. I know health care is expensive. That\u2019s why I\u2019m focused not on making it more expensive, but on making it cheaper, and how do you do that? You do it with conservatism! I\u2019m by no means out of touch on this. If the health care industry were priced like every other industry is on the patient\u2019s ability to pay, then we\u2019d fix the problem, and that\u2019s the direction we have to head in. <\/p>\n

But if we\u2019re going to keep this notion that everybody\u2019s entitled to have whatever they want medically paid for by their neighbors, then we are finished. We are finished as a country; we are finished as a society. You can talk about my wealth, but let me tell you something, sir. I don\u2019t depend on anybody else for anything, and it was one of my objectives when I grew up. I didn\u2019t want to be obligated. I didn\u2019t want to be dependent. I didn\u2019t want to owe anybody. I don\u2019t buy into insurance plans because it\u2019s a hassle! Now, I know a lot of people don\u2019t have that freedom. I used to not have that freedom, either. But I do now because I worked for it — and if I can do it, a lot more people can do it than think they can, and that\u2019s conservatism again. People are much better than they know. They have much more potential than they know. But when you\u2019ve got a Democrat Party and a movement telling them they suck, telling them they can\u2019t get anywhere because the deck is stacked against them and the people stacking the deck are Republicans and so forth, then you are diminishing the country; you\u2019re diminishing the future, and you\u2019re destroying people\u2019s lives. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what today\u2019s liberalism and Democrat Party is doing. You want to fix health care? You make it like buying a hotel room. We have all kinds of choices. You can go to a Motel 6 and you can go to a Ritz Carlton. Depends how much you want to pay. Why is health care any different? Health care\u2019s different because the government\u2019s been involved in it for so long. They\u2019re trying to make people dependent on government and people in government for power, and wait \u2019til they start doing that with other businesses, too — with energy, and everything else. We\u2019re faced with real, real challenges here, and the debate over health care is not how ‘we Republicans\u2019 can best make sure everybody gets insured, because that\u2019s just accepting the Democrat proposal and their position. Our target ought to be: How do we make this reasonable? How do we reduce costs? And there are countless proposals out there. It\u2019s the same thing with public schools. Most people despise \u2019em. Most people, particularly in urban neighborhoods, would love to get their kids out of these rotten schools — and every time they have a chance to send \u2019em to a private school, they jump at it. <\/p>\n

Who stands in the way? The Democrat Party, the teachers unions, who are interested in maintaining substandard schools with substandard education so they will have jobs. I\u2019m not the problem, sir. I\u2019m not the one standing in anybody\u2019s way. I\u2019m trying to tell people how to get out of the rut. I\u2019m trying to show them that they can. I\u2019m trying to demonstrate that it\u2019s possible, and it\u2019s possible if you understand certain conservative principles that are indeed rooted in freedom, self-reliance, and achievement. Not whining, not moaning, and not complaining. Because you can whine, moan, and complain all you want, and then what are you going to do after that? Wait for somebody to come in and tell you that they\u2019re sorry and offer you some solution to it? The solution to the health care mess is just out there, the same as the solution to public schools: vouchers. People are spending property tax money through the nose to prop up a worthless education system! <\/p>\n

Let \u2019em take the money that\u2019s being taken from them; give them control over how to spend it on their own kids\u2019 education, and you watch how it changes. Ditto health care. The solutions to the problems that ail this country are found in capitalism and the free market, the true agent of change. Not from Washington with people despising policies rooted in nothing fundamental, policies that are simply designed to make people think Washington cares and Washington is ‘doing something.\u2019 Well, how many years have you heard politicians run for office whining and moaning and telling you they hear you, on the mess that is health care? The Clintons in the nineties. ‘We got 37 million uninsured. We\u2019re going to fix this.\u2019 Today it\u2019s 47 million uninsured, they tell us. A lot of that, people are choosing to be uninsured because they\u2019re young, and they want to spend their money on other things. But that\u2019s not good enough for Democrats! They\u2019re going to be mandating coverage for everybody, if they get their way. Has the problem been solved? Or is it getting worse? <\/p>\n

The health care problem in this country is getting worse, while people are voting for people who are making it worse because they hear these people saying, ‘I\u2019m going to fix it.\u2019 Well, the people in charge of fixing it have no interest in it getting fixed, because, if it gets fixed, you don\u2019t need them. You can rely on yourself. This health care debate is one of the most infuriating things I witness every day, because I get so sick and tired of people buying hook, line, and sinker a lie. ‘I\u2019m going to get everybody covered. I\u2019m going to make sure everybody gets health insurance in this country. We\u2019re going to make sure it\u2019s not just the rich.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t happen, does it? When you have government telling private industry how to operate, this is exactly what you get, and it\u2019s going to happen in energy. It\u2019s already happening in a number of other industries, too. It\u2019s happening in the auto industry. You bring the auto industry up. I\u2019ll tell you what Mr. Lutz told me: He can\u2019t make the cars he wants to make, because of these CAFE standards! (sigh) It\u2019s frustrating as hell. <\/p>\n

I said, ‘Well, why don\u2019t you fight? Why don\u2019t you guys, all you auto companies get together and fight this hoax?\u2019 <\/p>\n

He said, ‘Because we gotta give the customers what they want.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘What do you mean?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, the customers believe this stuff.\u2019<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. The American people have bought hook, line, and sinker this hoax of manmade global warming. Carbon dioxide, which we exhale, is a pollutant! How stupid can anybody be to believe this? The Good Lord created us. Are we pollutants? We are destroying the earth? That\u2019s what the Democrats and liberals and environmentalist wackos want you to believe. The very fact of our existence pollutes the planet so we are sinning and we have to be made to pay! What\u2019s that? Higher taxes. More liberals in power telling us how we must atone. Well, screw that, and screw them! You want to revive the auto industry? Let people that ought to make cars people want build them. <\/p>\n

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