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RUSH: Colleen in Youngstown, Ohio, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I\u2019m so excited to talk to you. My dad loves you, so I hope he\u2019s listening, he\u2019s going to be jealous. Anyways, I was just calling and, you know, not to beat a dead horse, \u2019cause all the callers seem to have the same problem, but my issue was in 2005 I purchased a home in Dayton, Ohio, and my husband got a job offer — it was bigger and better, so, you know, I don\u2019t know why you would do that in America, want more for ourselves, so we moved, and we bought a condo in Tucson, Arizona, and we still have the other house. Well, we have to take $25,000 to the loan closing for that house. And then we have this other one which my husband in the meantime had been laid off, and so he moved here to Youngstown, Ohio, because he got another job, and now we have that house just sitting out there. I\u2019m making payments, I\u2019m renting it out, and then this weekend when we had our taxes done, we could not claim any of the rental loss because they said we make too much money.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep. You are a person of means, just like Jeanine from Florida. You\u2019re a person of means. How does it feel, Colleen, how does it feel to be rich?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) I wish I knew. I can\u2019t keep any of the money that I make.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, because you\u2019re being treated as though you are rich. People above — I forget what it is. It\u2019s either half million or a million, maybe it\u2019s as low as $250. They also cannot deduct any of their losses. They get 50% of their charity. Whatever you give to charity, you can only deduct 50% of it. There is no mortgage interest deduction for you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, not anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Except the first million. Well, you might say, they don\u2019t deserve it. See, that\u2019s where we get to this problem. If you\u2019re going to sit there and say — I\u2019m not talking to you, Colleen — but Snerdley gave me this little frown, see how easy it is to get trapped? I just said that some people do have a $10 million mortgage. Some people have a $5 million mortgage, but only the first million can you deduct. Okay? Now, now, now, when people say, well, why should they get a deduction, they\u2019ve got all that money. That\u2019s how this all starts. When people want achievers punished, that\u2019s how demagogues like Obama rise to power, ready to ride that horse, the punishment of the achievers right down Main Street. So you\u2019ve got all this property that you had losses on that you can\u2019t deduct because — <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — you make too much money. How much do you make?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, not that much. This year we earned a little bit more because, you know, my husband was in a job where we happened to earn a little extra income, but once you get to, it\u2019s like $150,000, you cannot claim any sort of loss like that, and it\u2019s like, are these idiots in Washington, do they ever think if they help people like us by letting us maybe deduct that, that we would in turn help the economy, which then might produce more jobs they\u2019re talking about?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, the view today is just the opposite. I know it sounds hard to believe, but you\u2019re being punished. You are an achiever and you\u2019re being punished. There is means testing being employed on you, Colleen, and the people in Washington assume that you have enough. You have more than you need, you don\u2019t need any breaks. There are other people who need the money that you would get more than you need it, and those people actually are more likely to vote Democrat. This is redistribution. It is hideous. I get e-mails from people, I\u2019m getting flooded with e-mail, and I\u2019m telling you, I have never seen anything like it, and I wonder just how soon the peasants are going to pick up the pitchforks. I\u2019m not kidding here. I have never seen this level of anger and outrage. Now, you sound reasonable, but I know this whole thing has you puzzled. This is not the America you knew.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. No, actually, I feel like I need economic therapy. I watch the news every day, and it\u2019s just spiraling downward, and I feel like in four years I\u2019m sort of happy because he won\u2019t be reelected for president because there is too many people like me who I certainly didn\u2019t vote for but never would, but I know a lot of people that did vote for him because the change is coming. Well, it\u2019s here. (laughing) And people are not going to be happy that they voted the way that they did. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I can only say I hope you\u2019re right. I don\u2019t get that sense yet. I\u2019m not going to sit here and rely on anecdotal data, and it\u2019s still only 30 days in. Not even 30 days in. That\u2019s the scary part in one way, we\u2019re only 30 days in here and look at what\u2019s happened, and of course there\u2019s no analysis from the Drive-By Media. There\u2019s no investigation of this, there\u2019s no curiosity about it. Their template is, Obama wins, Obama wins, Obama wins. It doesn\u2019t matter what he wins with and what it is that he\u2019s winning. Just Obama wins, Obama wins, Obama wins. I\u2019ve seen a couple of obscure blog posts from liberals who are worried that all of this elitism from Congress, the tax cheats being put in the government, whereas you and I go to jail, they get to run the government, all of these things that we\u2019ve chronicled since the transition and the inauguration, some liberals are terribly concerned that the silent majority, that there\u2019s just an effervescence out there that is going to roll over the Democrats in 2010 if they don\u2019t get it together and understand the rage. The liberal columnists I\u2019ve read, you have not heard of them, they\u2019re just terribly upset, and they\u2019re not from kook blogs. I don\u2019t want to give the blog credit. It doesn\u2019t matter. Just trust me on this. It\u2019s why I\u2019m your host, you trust me. <\/p>\n

They are very much concerned that the rage and anger is not understood, is not felt by the people in Washington who are doing all this. They don\u2019t think that it looks good for the CEOs to be called up there and ripped across the room one way and the other. They don\u2019t understand that not every American hates CEOs, that not every American hates business, that not every American wants these people in jail and frog-marched out of the building, that this is not what the role of government is. They don\u2019t understand that the liberal elites in Washington and Obama do not understand that most Americans do not run around with hatred in their hearts about the institutions of America, and yet they are acting out of hatred and deep resentment and loading up legislation with their own personal pet projects, a bunch of bridges to nowhere and so forth, and calling it stimulus. They\u2019re underestimating the intelligence of the average American. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s just a trickle right now. It\u2019s just a couple of people that are starting to worry. They\u2019re not big names. But they do seem to have a sense of the effervescing anger and unsettledness that exists in, quote, unquote, average America, the people who make the country work. They\u2019re right about that. There is a tremendous amount of anger and rage over what\u2019s happening, and a lot of people just understand it instinctively. This is not what they voted for. This is not what they heard on the campaign trail, this is not how they envisioned hope and change. They didn\u2019t hate George W. Bush. Obama\u2019s voters did. But the people in the center didn\u2019t hate Bush. He was unpopular for a lot of reasons, but they didn\u2019t hate him. So we\u2019ll see. They\u2019re at least sensing it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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