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RUSH: We\u2019ll start in Columbia, South Carolina, with Rick. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

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

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

CALLER: I just wanted tell you, I\u2019m one of those people that\u2019s within weeks of being foreclosed on, and I want to tell you something.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hang on just a second, though, hang on just a second. You have a subprime mortgage?<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: You do?<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Okay, so you have a subprime mortgage. Were you given a loan that you really weren\u2019t qualified for?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. No. It was one of those adjustable rate mortgages, and I knew what I was signing when I signed it. But what I want to tell you is, I\u2019m out there every day trying to scrape up enough money to get enough money to catch up this mortgage and pay the house. I\u2019m not sitting around whining, blaming everybody else, and if Barack Obama himself was standing at my doorstep with a check to pay off my mortgage, I\u2019d tell him to go pack sand. I don\u2019t want what these guys are shoveling, and I\u2019m tired of listening to the liberal media tainting people like me like we\u2019re all standing in a soup line waiting for Obama bin Biden to swoop down and save us, \u2019cause we\u2019re not all that way. All you can do is go out there, if it\u2019s a house — and, you know, I\u2019m a single dad. I could qualify for all kinds of stuff that the government wants to give away, and I don\u2019t want any of it. I\u2019m just tired of being tainted by these elitists as somebody standing in a soup line waiting for them to come down and save us, because that\u2019s not the way it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is pretty gutsy. This is pretty courageous. You have government assistance that would alleviate your situation; you don\u2019t want it, and you\u2019re offended at how you are being portrayed by the Obama people as near homeless and incompetent and just a waif waiting to be bailed out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you hear it all the time. You know, all they do is they talk about how stupid we are. We were taken advantage of, or there was some kind of predatory lending going on out there, and that\u2019s just wrong. Maybe not in every case, but I think in most cases. You know, all you can do is go out and give it your best shot, pick up the pieces, and if the worst happens, you pick up what you got and you move on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, now, Nancy —<\/p>\n

CALLER: All I want them to do is get outta my way and stop trying to save me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nancy Pelosi says — or Obama says, some Democrat said — they want a three-month moratorium on foreclosures. I don\u2019t know for what reason, but they do. Does that not intrigue you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it doesn\u2019t, and I\u2019ll tell you why. Because where does that solve the problem? They put a three-month moratorium, ‘Okay, you can\u2019t foreclose on my house for 90 days,\u2019 big flying whoop. Maybe during that time I can scrape up enough money to catch the mortgage up, but it doesn\u2019t solve the problem. Government isn\u2019t in the business to solve this problem. The way that they can solve it is to get out and let us do our thing. Get out of the mortgage business, stop trying to… Them trying to save people like me to begin with is what got us into this mess, and I didn\u2019t necessarily need it at the time. I\u2019m sure you can hear my frustration. I\u2019m just tired of being painted as some kind of a pauper who has to depend on the government to do this. I\u2019ll sink or swim on my own.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you\u2019re foreclosed on, where do you go?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve got a brother who\u2019s told me that me and my son can move in with him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you without a job right now? You have no income at all?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve been looking for months.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you like to do?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Well, my background is in real estate and sales for the most part, but I don\u2019t have to go into what\u2019s happened in the real estate industry, so… But it just frustrates me to hear this, and when I heard you on the radio talking about it — and every place I listen to I hear about, you know, the poor people that are getting foreclosed on and, you know, and with our hands out. It\u2019s just not a true picture, not of your basic, everyday people. You know, I am Joe Six-Pack, and I don\u2019t want what these guys are shoveling.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s amazing. We are proud of you. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs) Well…<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, seriously. Somebody in your situation, most people in your situation, I would… Well, it would be nice if a lot of them did, but I don\u2019t think most of them do have your attitude about this. Because you\u2019re in dire financial states here. I mean, if you\u2019re unemployed, have been for a while and your field of expertise is financial and real estate sales. By the way, that\u2019s going to be back when we come back at some point. It always does, and there are going to be… Have you seen home sales figures in California up 65%?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And half of the home sales that are occurring on resold foreclosures.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s typical of real estate. If these bozos would just leave it alone, it will come back on its own. Business doesn\u2019t need the ‘help\u2019 of these people; and if they really had everybody\u2019s best interests at heart, that\u2019s what they would do is get out. Just leave us alone. But they\u2019re just lining their own pockets and using people like me to further their own political agenda —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right. <\/p>\n

CALLER: — and line their own pockets and get themselves elected. They don\u2019t care, and that\u2019s the height of hypocrisy, because they\u2019re trying to steal this election on the fact that they do care. And if they did really care, they would leave us alone and just get out of the way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I cannot argue with that. Look, Rick, all the best to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, sir, and I appreciate that you let me speak.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks for the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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