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RUSH: Moscow Mills, Missouri, and this is Rich. Nice to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, great to talk to you. Love the show. I want to address the statement that you sometimes make about ‘do not doubt me.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you had a caller today that wanted to maybe to make a long story short, nationalize Big Oil to pay for Social Security.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The new oil that we\u2019re going to drill for, yeah.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, I\u2019m sure there\u2019s listeners… I was thinking of my daughter who teaches. You know, she\u2019s out of school right now; and, you know, she\u2019s indoctrinated; and I\u2019m thinking of all the young people out there that listen to you, and they probably doubt you. You know, it takes six weeks, you say, to get up to speed; and so when you say that the Democrats do not want to solve the oil problem, they probably think, ‘You know, who is this guy saying such a ridiculous thing?\u2019 But these people thrive when there\u2019s problems because human nature — unfortunately it seems to me, unless you have some conservative values, human nature says — look to government. Now, this man who called you, that\u2019s exactly what he did. I don\u2019t think he was a liberal, but his answer to the problem is to have government take it over.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, just the opposite. He was a conservative.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s even worse.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s why I accused him of being a selfish citizen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m 64. I\u2019ve got more than Social Security coming in. But, you know, if people don\u2019t realize that government is not the answer, it\u2019s the problem by now… I was a Marine in \u201966 in Vietnam. I saw the Democrats and what they did to that. In the seventies, I saw Governor Reagan, and I almost fell off my couch. I stopped watching news in 1970, national news. I saw Governor Reagan on the Tonight Show, I about fell off the couch because he said, ‘We shoulda went to Vietnam but we should have gone to win.\u2019 Now, that was after everybody in this country assumed it was a mistake, and here was a politician from California saying something that no one would say. Believe me, I almost fell off the couch. But that\u2019s the kind of man Reagan was. If he\u2019d have gone, he\u2019d have won it. Then in \u201989, you came along, and I\u2019ve been in advanced conservative studies ever since, but it\u2019s amazing how people will fall for the Democrats. My father, God love him, he was a Democrat \u2019til he was 91 and passed away, but I couldn\u2019t say Reagan in front of him because he read the Post-Dispatch all his life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, I know. Our family read the Globe-Democrat.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah, until they went out of business.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Until they went out of business, that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, so now we\u2019ve got just one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. You know, we talked about this. This is an item that puzzles a lot of people: Why, with all the demonstrable failures of government trying to do this or that — all these vast, expensive programs, all the little bureaucracies in cities and counties and states and so forth — why do people continue to turn to government, and a lot of it is psychological. You gotta remember the New Deal formed the basis for a lot of union and Democrat households to pass on the benevolence notion of government to their kids and grandkids and so forth and people just grew up thinking it, and there\u2019s another aspect to it, too. And I haven\u2019t given this a lot of thought, but most people\u2019s laments generally have to do with money and economics.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And there\u2019s one place that\u2019s got an endless supply of money and is always giving it away, and that\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re always giving it away to somebody.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they\u2019re always giving a lot of it away. They\u2019re spending, what, 800 bucks on toilet seats for military aircraft. They are spending all kinds of money, and when somebody from the government comes along and says, ‘We can make sure that you don\u2019t get screwed by an insurance company, by a doctor, by a car dealer,\u2019 whatever, people who think that they\u2019re powerless, think the government\u2019s everything but powerless. ‘Okay, fine. Give it a shot.\u2019 This is purely psychological because the facts on the ground clearly indicate that if you start depending on government for much of what you want or need in life, you\u2019re going to be perpetually poor and disappointed.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, maybe it goes to that point that a lot of people think that unfortunately could be true, and that is, it has to be so bad before it gets better.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think that\u2019s another psychological ploy the Democrats use. If you go back to the Clinton campaign in 1992, ‘worst economy in the last 50 years,\u2019 which was a lie.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I was thinking more of our oil situation. You know, maybe now we\u2019ll start drilling, now that it\u2019s four dollars. You know, they got people, when they go to fill up their cars, I can\u2019t imagine what they\u2019re thinking. I mean, I\u2019m retired so I\u2019m not driving.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know what they\u2019re thinking. They\u2019re mad as hell.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: This is such a golden opportunity for the Republicans. This ought to be the Republicans\u2019 year. The Democrat Party is the one standing in the way of anything being done about the price of gasoline coming down. Now, there\u2019s a tipping point for everything. We\u2019ve learned what it is, when it comes to gasoline: The tipping point is four dollars a gallon, that\u2019s when people say, ‘I\u2019m not going to adapt. I\u2019ve had it.\u2019 All of a sudden, they start getting mad and want action taken. The Democrats, they\u2019re making noises here that they\u2019re going to open up the drilling and so forth, but they\u2019re just saying that to be able to occupy the position. If a piece of legislation ever gets to Congress, House or the Senate, you watch. The Democrats will either insert something in the bill or find —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No doubt.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — something in the bill —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No doubt.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — so that they can still have, ‘Hey, I\u2019m for drilling but we can\u2019t do it, \u2019cause we gotta do it a smarter way,\u2019 or whatever.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. You know, I think of that gas tank again and, you know, we had snipers in Vietnam and I think of the average citizen in this country. They\u2019re after our freedom basically, I mean, if you want to really generalize it in a big way, and they\u2019ve got \u2019em pinned down. They\u2019ve got \u2019em pinned down at the gas station. You know, they\u2019re shooting at them. They\u2019re taking away their freedom when they take away their ability to travel, to buy things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is more hideous than that, because all of that — this gasoline price — is directly related to the manmade global warming hoax, which is the big vehicle for taking away liberty and freedom.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Unbelievable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That one actually seeks to punish people. If you walk around town in Moscow Mills, Missouri, and go to the right places, you\u2019ll find enough liberals (you may have to travel to St. Louis to do it) who say, ‘Good! It\u2019s about time gas got this high. We are destroying the planet!\u2019 You\u2019ve got a bunch of just totally sycophant slave nerds, liberals who believe that all this is good, that America deserves to pay this kind of punishing price; which is another problem that we\u2019ve got, and that mind-set finds itself now as prominent in the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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