{"id":31155,"date":"2008-12-15T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:00:18","slug":"billy_did_not_love_the_80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/12\/15\/billy_did_not_love_the_80s\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Did Not Love the 80s"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Billy in Fort Worth, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Welcome to the program<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, hello, Mr. Limbaugh. How you doing?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Fine.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay. (laughing) First of all, I wanted to say that&#8230; I called in to talk about this race, but I want to say: &#8216;Hey, you\u2019re true to what you do,\u2019 and you know what that is?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Uh, what is that?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey: Try to destroy the Democratic Party. Hey! But hey, this is America, okay? (unintelligible) I called to talk&#8230; You said, you know, the Republicans and Reagan administration so great in the past, but hey, I lived through that area &#8212; that era, and, hey, the decline of middle-class families often gets to Reagan. Under Mr. Carter, under Mr. Carter, I made enough money to stop paying Social Security in November.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You were the one, huh?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125110.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignright\"\/>CALLER: Well, I was union. I was in the union. You know what Mr. Reagan believes that unions ask for outrageous wages, and the way he upped his unemployment rate, well, he added the military to employment. Am I right or wrong?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, you\u2019re wrong, but I understand why you have the perception.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: How can you&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, you\u2019re wrong, but I understand why you have the perception that you have. We had four years of absolute economic destruction under Jimmy Carter. They weren\u2019t fixed overnight. The Reagan tax cuts didn\u2019t happen \u2019til 1982, and that\u2019s what started everything going. We were in a mess. Reagan inherited a huge mess. It took a long time to get the engine rolling, but it is still purring today. The eighties got rid of all of that misery in the late seventies during the Carter four-year term. They were so successful, Billy &#8212; I\u2019m just shooting you straight here, my man. They were so successful that the Democrats have been writing and revising history over the Reagan years ever since, because they cannot allow history to get it right, because it means there\u2019s no need for Democrat policies. 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