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RUSH: It has been confirmed — I missed this when talking to Natalie — Dawn gave me the transcript. Natalie from Charlottesville, Virginia, said, (paraphrasing) ‘I have to say that you have fallen into the liberals\u2019 hands on this. You were sounding like a limousine conservative. I mean, you\u2019re just giving them more fodder to run with saying, ‘Oh, those Republicans are so heartless and uncaring.” She may as well have called me harsh. I spoke with her after this and it\u2019s all settled now, but that\u2019s really an insult, limousine conservative. Just so you people know, there is not a limousine out there that meets my standards. I wouldn\u2019t be caught dead in one, and to be called a limousine conservative, I\u2019m glad I did not hear that. It might have changed the entire tenor of the whole call.<\/p>\n

By the way, a slight correction here on the thing we\u2019ve been discussing about Tammy May from Pennsylvania, the letter that she wrote. It doesn\u2019t change anything, but just a slight detail. She did not write the letter to Senator Casey. She wrote the letter to her local newspaper, a small-town newspaper, and Senator Casey\u2019s office saw it, brought it to his attention, and he took that to the Senate hearing today in front of the chairman of the Federal Reserve. So it doesn\u2019t change anything other than she didn\u2019t write Casey. She wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper, and in the letter to the editor of the newspaper, she said we have to reprioritize: House comes first, day care, gasoline, and food.<\/p>\n

Those are the new priorities. Now, I get the call from Natalie in Charlottesville, Virginia, who accused me of being a little harsh. Didn\u2019t use that word, but not really compassionate and understanding the situation. Look, it\u2019s time for a little tough love. Some of you might think what I\u2019m going to say next is lacking in compassion, but I assure you that it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

We have a foundation for what I\u2019m going to say here. We\u2019ve got a big problem in this country, and it\u2019s a problem that\u2019s been big for a while, and it\u2019s growing. And the problem is that way too many of our fellow citizens expect — and some of them even demand — that our government, which is nothing more than all the rest of us, take care of them in one way, shape, manner, or form, be it health care or be it a home mortgage when they can\u2019t afford it or what have you. And the government is only too eager to comply because they love having people dependent on them, particularly liberal Democrat members of the government.<\/p>\n

Now, we as conservatives believe in the concept of individual responsibility, and when we say that, we get tarred and feathered as being heartless and cold and cruel. ‘What do you mean individual responsibility? Easy for you to say.\u2019 But leftists are collectivists, and they think we all ought to be banded together and all have equal things, outcomes, houses, this sort of thing. And until that situation exists, in their minds America is an unfair place.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, adults have to make decisions about the families that they\u2019re going to start, how many kids they\u2019re going to have, the way in which they\u2019re going to live, whether they can afford to have a home, whether they have to rent instead at first, how many cars to buy, or use public transit, how many televisions they\u2019re going to have in the house, how many computers, cable, all these things, what kind of education they hope to achieve, what kind of job they want to pursue, whether they want to start their own business, on and on. These are decisions that all of us should make for ourselves. And most of us do, but at some point when the decision goes wrong, way too many of us look for relief from Washington and say that the system screwed me and I need to have it made right. Well, maybe the system did screw you, but welcome to the club. Everybody gets screwed now and then. Contrary to what some people think, it\u2019s not a charmed life for everybody. In fact, for very few.<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s take a hypothetical situation. Let\u2019s take a single mother of two living in Pennsylvania who goes out and, because some community organizer has lobbied Congress to make home mortgages available to people that can\u2019t afford them, our fictional character in Pennsylvania, single mother of two, goes out and gets a house that she really can\u2019t afford. But because it\u2019s the American dream and the members of Congress have mandated that this happen, the woman is secured for a loan, and all of a sudden the rate goes up, and then it\u2019s a problem because she can\u2019t pay for it. She can\u2019t afford the monthly without maybe doing without food or driving less and maybe she\u2019s gotta pay for day care because she has to go to work, she\u2019s got day care, she\u2019s got a job. So she looks to the government because the government roped her into buying the house, told her it was cool and hunky-dory, she thinks. But the rest of us were not involved in her decision.<\/p>\n

This to me is the key. I don\u2019t know this woman in Pennsylvania, and I don\u2019t know what she did. I don\u2019t know the circumstances, and yet the woman — and this is going to sound harsh, but, folks, it\u2019s a problem, we\u2019re going to have to get a handle on this. It\u2019s all around us, what this is leading to, the credit crunch, the mortgage crunch, entities that supposedly have assets backing their worth that don\u2019t have those assets, we got Chuck-U Schumer out there starting runs on banks, stock markets going up and down, the gasoline price, the oil price, a lot of people are very much on the edge here. And many of them are just like the rest of us are, they\u2019re prisoners to these cycles.<\/p>\n

But in the case of our fictional character in Pennsylvania, I had nothing to do, nor did you, with the decisions that she made. And unless you and I are involved in the decisions that everybody else makes, which is not possible, then we can\u2019t know whether the decisions they\u2019ve made are wise or unwise. Now, multiply that by millions of families. In this country, we spend $3.1 trillion a year. This is not a safety net. This is a hammock, $3.1 trillion. Most of us cannot put our arms around that. Most of us have no concept of how much that is, but it\u2019s enough that we\u2019re not talking about government creating a safety net. We\u2019re talking about a massive government that is involved in all things and wants to be involved in even more, $3.1 trillion is not chump change. It has become a hammock. The consequence is regulations and taxes are in fact harming more and more families, making them poorer and making it more difficult for them to succeed. This much we know for sure, this is what happens when government gets in your way.<\/p>\n

\"\"The list of examples is endless, from the family that goes out and buys a plot of ground and finds out later on that there\u2019s some sacred grouse on it and they can\u2019t do anything with it. Who says? The government, some regulation, the kangaroo rat in Bakersfield, California, farmer had to get rid of his farm. Wetlands, the whole assault on private property rights, is just one example. California is readying a statewide ban on trans fat, statewide. It\u2019s in the San Francisco Chronicle today, a statewide ban on trans fat. Now, my friends, I don\u2019t know about you, but I think that is a waste of time. It is a waste of bureaucratic involvement and money, it is none of their business, this notion that we are too stupid to protect ourselves and ensure our own good health and therefore somebody has to. And they might make a claim to saying they have to protect our health because after all, they\u2019re paying for our health care, and they want it to be as little as possible they have to pay, so we\u2019re going to have to live under their guidelines since they\u2019re paying our health care.<\/p>\n

The minute you surrender responsibility for yourself to somebody else, then they own you. And in this case, if it\u2019s the government telling you that they\u2019re going to pay for your health care then they\u2019re next going to tell you what you can and can\u2019t eat, what you can and can\u2019t smoke, where you can and can\u2019t eat it. They\u2019re going to make your life a living hell of regulation. This is already happening. It\u2019s happening incrementally.<\/p>\n

We sit around, ‘Oh, they\u2019re so benevolent. They\u2019re so good-hearted. They\u2019re just trying to save our lives. They\u2019re trying to keep us healthy.\u2019 They\u2019re not doing that at all. They\u2019re simply exercising control. So the decisions that people make oftentimes are the result of obstacles placed in their way by a government that they think loves them and cares for them, and so their taxes have to go up and the regulations increase, and they are poorer and they have more difficulty, people have more difficulty getting ahead financially because of all these obstacles. At the same time, the government sits around and laments how stupid people are, thinks, ‘They don\u2019t know what to eat right; they don\u2019t know how to drive right; they don\u2019t know how to do this or that, we need to take care of them.\u2019 They have no faith in you. You have faith in them, you think they\u2019re benevolent, you think they\u2019re out to help you. They look down on you. And when I say government, I\u2019m talking leftist, activist government.<\/p>\n

The problem is that the Republican Party signed onto this the last couple years, too, and kind of lost their identity in this whole notion of limited government. The bottom line is that the federal government imposes on every family in this country hundreds of thousands of dollars in obligations from its entitlement programs, insurance programs, and nobody ever talks about this because some people, not all, but some people think this is all done to help us. But every time this way of managing a society, managing a society\u2019s affairs has been tried, it has failed miserably, and people end up revolting against it, in many cases trying to leave the country which has held them prisoner, in which case many of them got shot trying to go over a wall or under a fence. Now, we\u2019re not there yet, and don\u2019t anybody misunderstand me here.<\/p>\n

\"\"But for all these people that are out there in a genuine state of fear over what they see in the news every day, writing letters to little newspapers saying we need to reprioritize, we, not the letter writer, we need to reprioritize, that ‘we,\u2019 that\u2019s a giant red flag. That means this letter writer wants a central authority to implement what she thinks is good. Now, imagine if she hates smokers or imagine if she hates jet airplanes or imagine if she hates going to the beach. She writes, ‘Too many people are going to the beach, destroying the beach, the beach should be for animals and birds and so forth, and the crabs or whatever. We need to get on this, protect the beach.\u2019 Some politicians are going to pick it up. The thing I\u2019m trying to say here is, individual responsibility is something that we all at some point in our lives exercise, and that somewhere down the line too many of us abandon it and sacrifice it when our decisions maybe didn\u2019t turn out the way we wanted them to and there\u2019s a little pain or suffering, so we turn to someplace for help and assistance, and that can become habit-forming or addictive. We\u2019ve gotten to the point now where there are many people who have simply surrendered their own individual liberty and sovereignty \u2019cause it\u2019s easier.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the rest of us pay for it, and when we try to help fix the problem, ‘Take care of yourself. Be responsible. You\u2019ll be happier. You\u2019ll accomplish more. You\u2019re better than you think you can be. You\u2019re far more qualified and capable than even you know, but you\u2019re never going to experience that if you give up and let people pigeonhole you into some area where you\u2019re only good for this or that.\u2019 We say things like that and they say, ‘Well, it\u2019s easy for you to say, but it\u2019s really harsh. It\u2019s really harsh.\u2019<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s see. This is Graham in Lemoore, California. Hi, Graham, nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Good afternoon. US Navy carrier, aviator-fuel-dumping mega dittos from a lifelong Rush Baby, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks very much. By the way, confirm something for me, if you will.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: You\u2019ve gotta dump the fuel before landing on the carrier. You do it at an altitude; it evaporates before it actually hits the ocean, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir, that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Flipper actually doesn\u2019t get hurt?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, sir. It\u2019s not like the (garbled) for a landing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Damn it. Okay. That\u2019s what I thought.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sorry to disappoint you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks for clearing that up for me.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Yes, sir. It\u2019s an honor to talk to you, sir, and I just wanted to make a connection between Tammy May-water (sic) and your points about personal responsibility with the people who have been calling about the election, calling your program about the election in the recent weeks. It seems to me like a lot of Republicans are eager for you to tell us how to vote or how to elect McCain or asking you to flip some kind of magic switch to get Mitt Romney in the White House. And it seems to me that Phil Gramm was essentially right about whiners, and that includes a lot of Republicans. They\u2019re looking to you for an answer when in reality the answer lies in taking responsibility for our vote and in getting informed and in figuring out what issues are important to us to elect people into office that are going to do something about that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is for the most part true. But the people that you\u2019re referring to who are calling me, I think you\u2019re slightly misunderstanding. They are essentially telling me I am lazy and that I could be doing much, much more; and if I were doing much, much more, it would create even more leadership and more people would be rallied to the cause and so forth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I never thought I\u2019d say this, but I disagree. Your job is not to command us. Your job is to inform us on the issues and to tell us about what\u2019s going on in the world so that we can impact our community on a local level. Our job is to go out and make the change happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is —<\/p>\n

CALLER: You are one man with one vote.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are exactly right. You\u2019re right on the money. There\u2019s only been one exception to that, Graham.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Operation Chaos, when I did assume the role of commander, and I did issue orders. But even then, those orders were still elective on the part of the troops. So I guess, yeah. You\u2019re right through and through. You get it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Curtis in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Hi, Curtis.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, sir. Recently, I heard a Democratic spokesperson talking about the wonders of wind and solar and stuff, and somebody said, ‘Well, what about people who can\u2019t afford the price of gas?\u2019 She said, ‘Well, they should get a house closer to work, and if that\u2019s too expensive, they can always get a new hybrid.\u2019 I thought this was so absurd. Somebody should turn it into an ad, sort of like a royal coach in the palace at Versailles and Marie Antoinette, telling someone, ‘Well, if the peasants have no bread, they should eat cake,\u2019 then show a senator with a private jet and a multimillion-dollar estate and this Democratic spokesperson say, ‘Well, if you can\u2019t afford gas, you should buy a new hybrid car.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, about that Marie Antoinette quote, I\u2019ve always liked cake better than bread. I have never understood that quote, ‘Let \u2019em eat cake.\u2019 I\u2019d rather eat cake than bread, any day.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But anyway this Democrat spokesman has no clue how expensive a hybrid is.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Well, exactly. If you can\u2019t afford gas, how are you going to afford to buy a house closer to work or to buy a new car? That\u2019s absurd.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They should have just cut to the chase and say, ‘Look, move in and get mass transit.\u2019 But the point is, yes, these are people that are trying to control people\u2019s lives — and notice every circumstance, individual circumstance that somebody confronts, a liberal\u2019s idea is always: ‘Get smaller. Downsize. Become less prosperous.\u2019 It\u2019s never, ‘Shoot for the moon!\u2019 Liberals never tell you, ‘Gut it up! If you want to buy a new car, go out and work hard for it, find a job you want. If the gasoline is getting too expensive, find a way to afford it,\u2019 because doing that, see, that\u2019s harsh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I just think that it\u2019s interesting that, you know, the talking point is they question if drilling will yield fast enough results or if it will yield a big enough effect on price, and I think what people should say is, ‘You should question why they don\u2019t want to do everything they can to lower the price.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. They don\u2019t want to lower the price. They want misery. If I\u2019m understanding you correctly, the people we\u2019re talking about here want misery in people\u2019s lives going into the election, they want people mad and unhappy. It\u2019s like Dianne Feinstein just asked this question on Fox: ‘What\u2019s the number-one thing that you would do to bring down the price of oil?\u2019 Find a substitute for it. That\u2019s just absurd. (Cosell impression) ‘It\u2019s just irresponsibly absurd; makes no sense whatsoever,\u2019 and yet these people are considered the wizards of smart. So many things, if you get too caught up in them, you\u2019ll go insane. You gotta be able to laugh at this stuff — at least sometimes.<\/p>\n

Mike in Brooklyn, nice to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I wanted to ask you, ‘How can you slough off the fact that the Big Oil people are not using the 68 million acres already allotted to them?\u2019 Are they deliberately, you know, trying to twist our arm to make us say ‘uncle\u2019 so they can drill other places?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think you\u2019re buying into a little bit of leftist propaganda. If they don\u2019t find any oil or explore on those leases they own, they lose the money that they paid for the lease. If they\u2019re not doing things there, it must mean that they haven\u2019t found any.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, this is amazing to me. This really is amazing to me. Here we have a circumstance: We\u2019ve got rising oil prices, which are leading to rising gasoline prices, and instead of an honest, intellectual curiosity from people about how to fix it, somehow we\u2019ve gotta blame Big Oil! All of a sudden now… I\u2019ve seen this floating around on liberal blogs; it\u2019s outer all over the place, ‘Well, Big Oil\u2019s got 68 million acres they\u2019re not even using that now. Why do they need any more and drill off shore?\u2019 as though there\u2019s some giant conspiracy that Big Oil doesn\u2019t really want to drill; it just wants to have all this area tied up. If they buy a lease, they have X-amount of time to start working on that property, that territory and area, and if they don\u2019t, they lose it, and they lose the money. The president explained this today. You need to, sir, Mike, get on the bandwagon.<\/p>\n

The villain now is the speculators. Your side has left Big Oil off the highway now. Big Oil is no longer guilty. The speculators are guilty. Gee. Why do I shrug off? Why do I shrug off? Sometimes it is a genuine challenge here. Common sense is perceived to be so damn rare as to be intelligence.<\/p>\n

Common sense is not intelligence. If you have a modicum of common sense, the odds are people are going to think you\u2019re a genius, because there\u2019s so little common sense running around. Supply and demand! We are producing as much as we are using; we need to produce more. Who cares who profits? Somebody\u2019s going to. I would much rather have Big Oil profit than big government profit. Just give me the damn oil; that\u2019s all I care about! The market will take care of the price. You\u2019re worried about conspiracies? ‘They\u2019re not using the leases that they have now, 68 million acres!\u2019 Get a life, for crying out loud. You see a red light, is Big Oil putting a red light up, or are all green lights to make you burn more gasoline so you gotta buy more for what?<\/p>\n

How do you people think? What must it be like to get up and see the devil behind every automobile, behind every person? What must it be like to live the life you liberals lead: always suspecting everybody, always suspecting everybody of doing something to screw you, when you are the ones doing the screwing to everybody else? Good grief! I gotta take a break here. I\u2019m close to profanity again here, and I can\u2019t go there.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Joel in St. Louis. Hi, Joel, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: The statement that Marie Antoinette made regarding cake, the cake that she was referring to is the black stuff that was left over when bread would burn, fall to the bottom of the oven. They\u2019d scrape the oven and it was the black soot, so she was presenting —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, I\u2019ve wondered about this because I\u2019d much rather have cake than bread, and I never understood that. There is, by the way, some serious historical disagreement that she even ever said it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She probably didn\u2019t say it. Somebody did, but it wasn\u2019t her. They think somebody wrote about it 20 years before she was born, some Spanish queen visiting or something. But she may have never even said it, but thank you for the explanation. Who knew? Who knew that cake meant burnt waste back in the days of Marie Antoinette? Who knew? But now it makes sense to me. It didn\u2019t before.<\/p>\n

Gary in Newberry, Florida, you\u2019re on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much, Rush. Give \u2019em heck. That guy before last was just so funny.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, I kind of blew up at the guy, but it was as much attitude as anything else. No, I\u2019m sorry, it wasn\u2019t attitude. I\u2019m getting to the point, this is just one of these days, where I have little patience for ignorance —<\/p>\n

CALLER: You shoulda told him the truth, that we\u2019re not going to pump oil \u2019til it gets to $200 a barrel.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean, stop drilling for it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019re not going to drill for it \u2019til it gets to $200 a barrel.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who, Big Oil is not?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, really, that would have made his day. (laughing) I wish I\u2019d have thought of that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, what I was going to talk to you about was the letter that Bob Casey read. I can\u2019t see anywhere in the Constitution that he has a right to ask the federal government to help this lady whatsoever.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: No, it\u2019s not that, but you can come up with legislation, they\u2019ve done it, that —<\/p>\n

CALLER: They have, but you know. Why didn\u2019t he just simply go around his office with a cup and shake his office people down —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not even about this. It\u2019s not even about Tammy May. It\u2019s about trying to create a national crisis on C-SPAN in the minds of as many Americans as possible. Casey wants people to think that everybody is as forlorn as Tammy May is, which will then prompt more and more government action to deal with all the Tammy Mays out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s just terrible. It\u2019s gotten terrible.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a hideous, insidious plot.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And, you know, I didn\u2019t help her have her children, and, you know, why doesn\u2019t she ask her husband to help out?<\/p>\n

RUSH: She\u2019s a single mother.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Single mother. Which, by the way, that is a made-to-order circumstance, the feminists love it, liberals love it because when you don\u2019t have a husband and you have kids, and you\u2019re a woman, you need something, because you gotta work, you need a second income, and guess who\u2019s right there? Bob Casey. Not personally, but the government. It\u2019s no different than what all these great and well-intentioned and big-hearted government programs did to the black family. Ripped \u2019em apart because the husband, the father wasn\u2019t necessary. So now single mothers, for whatever reason — I mean, they\u2019re being hotly pursued now by the Democrat Party for votes. And they, of course, are victims, too. They\u2019re victims of an unfair gender, maledom. They\u2019re victims of an unfair society. Men just wanted \u2019em for the sex, gave \u2019em a couple kids and then split the scene when the responsibilities got too much. It\u2019s just a horrible existence for women in America. We all know this. So there the government is right to pick up the slack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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