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RUSH: Meredith in Kennesaw, Georgia. Meredith, 24 years old. Great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, Rush. You are awesome. I\u2019ve been listening to you since I was five years old, and I was brought up right, let me just tell you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How about that, a Rush Baby right here before our very ears.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Oh, yeah. I mean, I\u2019m one of those few conservative college students, let me tell you, and I\u2019m just scared to death. I\u2019m a senior in college and about to graduate, I got a biology degree coming and I\u2019ve been working so hard I feel like once I get out, I\u2019m going to get a job and I\u2019m going to be punished for everything I\u2019ve done. No one\u2019s going to want to be successful anymore and the standards are going to be lower because no one\u2019s going to want to succeed because they\u2019re just going to lose money in the long run. <\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not just that. That\u2019s only half the story.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not just that they\u2019re not going to want to succeed because they don\u2019t want to pay the money. There are going to be others who won\u2019t even try to succeed because they\u2019re going to get some money.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. The whole standard has been lowered, and there\u2019s no point in being successful anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It hasn\u2019t yet. It hasn\u2019t yet because the election\u2019s not over.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank God. Hopefully McCain will pull it out. I just don\u2019t know. I\u2019m just scared to death. And I voted three weeks ago, and I mean I got told I was a communist in the line for early voting because I told them that they needed to be informed of who they are voting for. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me explain what we have here because we can\u2019t lose you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are at a prime age here to be hassled and harassed into acquiescing to these people that are giving you trouble.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, it\u2019s awful, professors, too, left and right. I\u2019ve been trying to convince \u2019em.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, but you\u2019re over the hump on this stuff. Let\u2019s hang in there. Let me tell you, here\u2019s what\u2019s happening, and this is why we need you. People your age are going to determine the future of the country if Obama does win this election, because —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — we don\u2019t know how big yet, we\u2019ll find out today, but there\u2019s a significantly large portion of people who live in this country who don\u2019t like it the way it\u2019s currently constituted. They have been made to feel like they have no chance, no hope, because people like you are discriminating against them with your drive and with your ambition. There\u2019s other things, too, but there\u2019s a whole voting bloc here — we don\u2019t know how large it is — that actually wants this country to become a welfare state. And your fear is understandable, based on what you\u2019ve heard Obama say, based on what you\u2019ve seen them try to do to Joe the Plumber — <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — who doesn\u2019t even have a lot of money.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But he has a dream, and they set out to try to destroy that. Now, we know that according to Biden and Obama, if you earn more than $120, $150,000 a year now, that\u2019s when your American dream stops.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. We\u2019re all going to be equal and we\u2019re all going to be socialist, and it scares me to death, because socialism hasn\u2019t worked anywhere yet. You know? And that\u2019s what he\u2019s saying in so many words. I mean capitalism is what we need. Capitalism has worked, and we need to continue it. And he scares me to death. There\u2019s too many red flags. I actually talked to Sean Hannity in March, and I\u2019ve been trying to get through to you for months and I\u2019m just so excited I finally got to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you hear the audio sound bite today that I played of Jim Moran, the congressman from Virginia?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I did. I did hear that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is where the Democrats want to take us, but they want to take us there for the express purposes of their own power. But I want to implore you to never abandon the idea of being the best you can be, regardless who\u2019s running the country, regardless what their policies are, because it is people like you, especially young people like you pursuing excellence that will give this country a chance to survive as the country we\u2019ve always known. So if you ever get down in the dumps, I want you to call back here, six years from now, two years, call back here, and I will tell you when it\u2019s time to drop out and collect your goodies and move behind the gate or go to the Cayman Islands or whatever. We haven\u2019t reached that point yet. These battles have been waged as long as I\u2019ve been alive and even longer. We\u2019ve never gotten to a point where we actually had a candidate who promised what Obama\u2019s been promising and so many people seemingly accept it. We don\u2019t really know what the truth of those numbers are, but one thing I do know is the only thing that\u2019s going to keep this country great — and I assume you want to have a family of your own someday?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want to bequeath the country that you found. The only way that\u2019s going to happen is if, no matter what the obstacles, you keep trying to be the best you can be. It could well be that they\u2019re going to have a tax rate that will deny you the opportunity to amass wealth, per se, but even if that happens, that shouldn\u2019t stop you from being the best person that you can be, with the best integrity and character and trying to succeed and accomplish the most you can, because that\u2019s the kind of behavior that we\u2019re going to need, en masse, to overcome and beat back this welfare state socialism that appears to be on the march here. Can\u2019t give up to it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean I won\u2019t give up. I\u2019m going to keep trying and try to convince people and, you know, I\u2019m going to work as hard as I can. But, you know, it just scares me to death because I work so hard and I feel like —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. Let me tell you something. Fear sometimes can be an excellent motivator.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I\u2019m definitely scared. Oh, the fear is in me tonight with the election. I\u2019m going to be sitting there watching the news the whole day, scared to death. I just don\u2019t know what is going to happen and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t watch it! I told you earlier, I warned you, do not watch the news, regardless what happens tonight, listen to me tomorrow. Enough said. I\u2019m glad you called, Meredith. Keep on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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