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RUSH: I want to go back to something that came up during the campaign. I spoke about it regarding George Miller and his congressional committee and some Harvard economist, I do not remember her name. I warned you that big changes are coming with 401(k)s and IRAs, that that\u2019s a big pile of money the government wants its hands on. They\u2019re going to eliminate — well, what this woman\u2019s plan was, was to restore your 401(k) to August of 2008 levels before the crash and then they take it and they put it in your Social Security lockbox — hardy-har-har — and then they sell bonds to give you a guaranteed 3% return every year, and they eliminate the tax deduction for any annual contribution you make. This was heartily denied. ‘These were just hearings, Mr. Limbaugh. Again, you\u2019re demonstrating that you\u2019re willing to talk about things that you know nothing about. We were just conducting hearings and no serious plan to do this.\u2019 Money magazine has a story about how, folks, they\u2019re coming. It\u2019s being looked at. The fact that it was mentioned last fall during the campaign and now the economy\u2019s gotten worse and when I say the economy\u2019s gotten worse, the government is losing money, and when the government loses money they come get it somewhere wherever there are huge piles and stashes of money. They will go do it, they\u2019ll go get it and if they think that it\u2019s costing them too much money to give you a tax deduction on your contributions every year, mark my words: it\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n

Everything else is going to hell in a hand basket, why not your 401(k)? It\u2019s already been cut in half or more by the market plunge. If you\u2019re looking around and you\u2019re thinking, ‘They won\u2019t do that to me. I\u2019m just an average citizen.\u2019 What do you think this is all about? The end user is an average citizen. I got the funniest e-mail over the weekend. It was a philanthropy group. ‘Rush, do you know of any activist organizations that are actually lobbying for patients in the area of health care?\u2019 And I said, ‘Well, isn\u2019t that what the Democrat Party is doing?\u2019 I thought the Democrat Party was all for national health care so the patients didn\u2019t get screwed. I thought the Democrat Party was the guardian of the average little guy. And of course this person wrote back, ‘Okay, touche, good point.\u2019 I wrote back and I said, ‘Look, in authoritarian regimes, the end user always ends up getting the shaft, and the end user is John Q. Public.\u2019 If you think the Democrat Party is looking out for you, if you think Obama\u2019s looking out for you, you have been sold and you have bought the biggest bill of goods to come down the pike. This is all about looking after themselves. This is all about entrenching and empowering themselves. You ever stop to think, national health care, who\u2019s it really going to benefit? Think it\u2019s going to benefit you? Talk to the residents of Great Britain, talk to the residents of Canada, find out about nationalized health care, who it really benefits. But it isn\u2019t you. It isn\u2019t the end user. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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