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RUSH: To the phones we go, Kathy, Williamsville, New York. Glad you waited. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine. Thanks much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My husband was having a bowl of cereal this morning, and he commented to me that, you know, we had to start socking away more for our retirement. And I said, ‘No, we\u2019re not going to do that,\u2019 and he stopped eating, and he looked up and he said, ‘What do you mean?\u2019 I said, ‘If we do that, by the time we are ready to retire, they will take it because we will be people that have ‘enough,\u2019 and they will confiscate that retirement.\u2019 I said, ‘We\u2019re going to enjoy it today, because I am not hopeful.\u2019 And he said, ‘Well, then maybe it\u2019s time I cut back a little bit and earn less,\u2019 because, Rush, he has worked so many hours a day providing for his family that he\u2019s missed 95% of all the kids\u2019 basketball games, and soccer games, everything. I\u2019m there alone; he\u2019s working. I said, ‘You know, maybe it is time. Maybe it\u2019s time that you stop working so hard and spend more time with your family.\u2019 So that\u2019s what we\u2019ve decided to do because we\u2019re in New York State. Governor Paterson is coming after his income and now the feds are coming after his income. He is not going to work so hard, because it\u2019s a lot of sacrifice. Within an hour of that conversation, the Republican National Committee called me looking for a donation. <\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I said, ‘Don\u2019t ever call this house again!\u2019 <\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I said, ‘When we had power, you all acted like Democrats. The only time we act like Republicans is when we have no power! So don\u2019t ever call me again.\u2019 So we are going to earn less. I am not contributing any more because they say one thing and they do another, and I really feel it\u2019s too late for our country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: May I ask a personal question?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Go ahead.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Does your husband, your family income, exceed right now $250,000?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, it does. It\u2019s not going to. We\u2019re going to fix that. We are going to fix it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I hate to tell you. (sigh) Your day is already bad enough. You\u2019re in a state of shock. I mean, you live in the United States of America — and you had this conversation with your husband this morning?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, this morning.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Over cereal.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Over cereal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I know how you feel. You live in the United States of America, and you have decided that in order to be secure you gotta work less and earn less, so that you can hide from the revenuers, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, there\u2019s so… I mean, he works 12- and 14- and 15-hour days and it\u2019s because he wants to provide nice things for his family.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And if working all of those hours and missing all of that stuff —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — is not going to allow him — <\/p>\n

RUSH: I hear you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — to do that, there\u2019s no reason to do that.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: I understand it. I know exactly how you feel. I know what you\u2019re saying. You are engaging in Atlas Shrugged kind of activity. But let me just tell you that it is a misnomer if you think your taxes are not going to go up if he earns less than 250.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. I know. I know. And we\u2019re the people that pay for everything. We get no breaks. We don\u2019t get tuition assistance.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You ought to be thanked. <\/p>\n

CALLER: We don\u2019t get anything.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The people who are paying, they ought to be thanked. They ought to be wined and dined. Instead people like you are impugned. You are attacked; you are targeted. It makes me livid. I understand exactly how you feel. Let me just tell you a little story.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I told this on the air the other day. I met with my financial advisor and he\u2019s running through all the numbers. <\/p>\n

‘You got this over here; you got this over here.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I said, ‘No, no, no. You\u2019re looking at it the wrong way.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Why? What do you mean?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘I don\u2019t have any of it. I want you to understand that my attitude now is that if I ever do retire, that money isn\u2019t going to be there. I\u2019m counting on the fact that this administration is going to find a way to come get it, just like you think.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they will. They absolutely will, because the country will be in such a bad shape that it will be totally reasonable in everybody\u2019s mind, ‘Well, we need that money, and it\u2019s just sitting there and we\u2019ve gotta get out of the crisis.\u2019 That\u2019s the way New York State is talking right now. ‘We need to have the baseline be the tax rate right now, but it has to be ‘progressive.\u2019 Those who can give more should give more, just \u2019til we\u2019re out of the crisis.\u2019 I don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to… The last week has made me so upset because they keep pulling hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars figures out of the air and they\u2019re just spending, spending, spending. How are we going to get out of that? I don\u2019t get it. I just don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They don\u2019t intend to and they don\u2019t intend to actually pay for it. But I tell you: I really do feel for you. You are like millions of other Americans. On top of it all, after all of this over cereal at breakfast, the RNC calls you begging for money. That would drive me over the edge, too. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: On Morning Joe, Scarborough\u2019s show on MSNBC this morning, Steny Hoyer, lieutenant to Nancy Pelosi, is the guest. Joe Scarborough said, ‘Somebody said that the House, this $410 billion omnibus spending bill, has 9,000 earmarks. That\u2019s insane. What\u2019s wrong with these people? Are there really 9,000 earmarks in that bill?\u2019<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Tell me that\u2019s not true!<\/p>\n

HOYER: Well, not — I — I — I think that\u2019s two-and-a-half times what — about — about 4,000 earmarks, for all the members, and for 435 districts around the country.<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: That\u2019s kind of a lot, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

HOYER: It is a lot, but it\u2019s — it\u2019s — it\u2019s —<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: That\u2019s…<\/p>\n

HOYER: But it\u2019s been very substantially reduced, uh, cut in half over the last two years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but wait, President Obama said NO earmarks. So we got 4,000 earmarks. It\u2019s been significantly reduced. It was 9,000, but we\u2019ve really, really cut it back. We really cut it back.\u2019 Four thousand earmarks, and he\u2019s out there defending it. David ‘Rodham\u2019 Gergen on CNN last night asked the following question about Anderson Cooper: ‘The amount of money we\u2019re talking about is just staggering. If confidence is an important thing to have in the system, does this help build confidence, or does it make people just more worried?\u2019 They\u2019re talking about the earmarks.<\/p>\n

GERGEN: Eight thousand five hundred earmarks in this bill that Congress just passed? You know, that just leaves him wide open — if the president signs onto that — for hypocrisy. I don\u2019t believe Barack Obama believes in those 8,500 earmarks. The question is going to be, ‘Is he going to stand up to it in some way?\u2019 and I think that\u2019s going to be a test for him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Come on, David! He doesn\u2019t believe in it? This is… (sigh) Mr. Gergen, they\u2019re in there. It\u2019s the way Congress does business. Obama loves them being in there. It\u2019s additional spending! You think he…? (sigh)You people, you can listen to him say, ‘I don\u2019t want any earmarks,\u2019 while there\u2019s a 9,000-earmark bill that he knows is coming his way. He\u2019s not going to get the earmarks taken out of there. He loves them being in there, Mr. Gergen. It\u2019s more spending! And it\u2019s not even the way to look at it. How can you spend it when you don\u2019t even have the money? It\u2019s just more control. Anyway, here\u2019s what\u2019s-his-name, John Podesta. He\u2019s from some liberal think tank. He\u2019s a former chief of staff for Slick Willie, and he headed up Obama\u2019s transition. He was on Charlie Rose last night. Charlie said, ‘Tell me if you believe sort of the relationship of government to the economy. Is it going through a sea change that will not be temporary, that we\u2019re really looking at the evolution of a new model in America?\u2019<\/p>\n

PODESTA: I think we\u2019re going to see more activism to create a fair market and a fair playing field that is really now global in nature, to align their own regulatory schemes so that there can be global growth and fair growth across the globe so that middle classes can rise across the planet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. He admits it; I don\u2019t even have to speculate anymore. We\u2019re not talking about just a reordering of American society and culture and economics. No! It\u2019s the world. We are going to spread fairness across the world. ‘Fairness,\u2019 which he\u2019s defining here as a rising middle class. Marilyn in parts of the West Coast. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I\u2019ll get right to the point. You know, you were asked a question: ‘Who is going to medical school these days?\u2019 and I can tell you. Not very many Americans are going, and it\u2019s going to be a big problem for all of us. But my husband and I, we\u2019ve just discovered that we are now the new rich, just like Bernard Goldberg described doctors in his book Bias — which is ironic, because every time he refers to doctors he calls them ‘rich doctors,\u2019 (laughs). But I have to give you some perspective from a medical family. My husband is a heart surgeon. He is one of the top surgeons in our nation. He is in the top 10% ranking within our whole country, and he serves an underserved community. He trained for 19 years, has an Ivy League education, and during that time of training, he made at the most $35,000. He had a medical degree, and he was doing open-heart surgery on 32-ounce babies that you could hold in the palm of your hand. We took on a $200,000 debt for the privilege of working a minimum of 80 hours a week. This year he made $420,000.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s not fair!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, now, these are facts. I want to give you facts. We paid over $140,000 in taxes, and we don\u2019t have investments because… Well, our income is, of course, taxed at a higher rate because we invested all our money in education. We gave $35,000 to charity — you know, church, Salvation Army, our hospital foundation, the local schools and local theater.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We have a special-needs child who, thank God, we actually have the money to send him to the private school that helps him. We do have other children, but can\u2019t afford private schools for them. And, you know, for us, medicine has already been socialized, and when my husband — I was up at four o\u2019clock with him this morning. Usually I don\u2019t get up with him when he goes to work, but he was so distraught because he read the Obama plan. And I think what\u2019s happening is, you know, physicians don\u2019t have any more teeth left to get kicked in. Obama is not only talking about cutting Medicare payments but, you know, we will also be taxed even more. And you\u2019ve got to understand, I know everybody thinks, ‘Oh, a heart surgeon, they make a million dollars.\u2019 He\u2019s one of the top heart surgeons in our country, and he gets paid… His reimbursement from Medicare has been cut every year. This year, one of his highest reimbursements for one of his procedures — and please understand, this is not for his surgery. This is for 90 days of care. That means this reimbursement number covers all your preoperative visitors; the actual surgery, in which the heart surgeon holds 100% accountability; all post-op care, which is in the ICU, and depending on the patient and the level of care that is needed; up to 90 days of care and all post-op patients.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. I want to move this along. I get the picture.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Twenty-five hundred dollars. That\u2019s his reimbursement, Rush, $2,500, and we just had the discussion. We\u2019re cutting our charity giving. And we realize, once charities go under, if we are — We\u2019re not the only ones. Everyone else will. Once charities go under, everyone will be dependent, and that\u2019s the plan. The plan is for everyone to be dependent, and it\u2019s so frightening that people don\u2019t even see it. What\u2019s going to happen?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, here\u2019s what I think. I just want to share with you what my interpretation of this. Let\u2019s say we had an audience of liberals listening to your call just now. What they heard made \u2019em happy. Here you are making 400 grand and your husband is a heart doctor, and you are whining and you\u2019re complaining. They\u2019re happy that Obama\u2019s finally getting even with you. They\u2019re happy your taxes are going up. And they think that you\u2019re really mean and selfish for cutting back on your charity. That\u2019s where the liberal bloc of voters in this country is. There is no sympathy for people in your circumstance who make $400,000 a year among people who make 50 or 60 or 70, whatever it is. Even those that aspire to it.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s such a rabid get-even-with-\u2019em-ism out there in our society and culture today on the part of the left that if you\u2019re looking for sympathy and understanding so that others might understand what\u2019s headed their way if they succeed as you and your husband have, they don\u2019t look at it that way. They\u2019re just happy that you\u2019re miserable or happy that this is happening to you, even though it doesn\u2019t mean one more dime to them. The Democrat Party has built up such a resentment for success, a resentment for achievement among people who don\u2019t… You just heard Podesta. ‘We want to reorder. We want to make things fair. We want a new playing field where the middle class rises, where everything\u2019s fair.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Those people are the ones that are going to sit around and wait for this magic to happen, and they think the way it\u2019s going to happen is for money to be taken away from you — and when they hear you call here and describe how money is being taken away, they\u2019re happy and then they think you\u2019re selfish because you say you\u2019re gonna cut back your charity. That\u2019s what we\u2019re all up against here. It used to be that people in that circumstance would aspire to be you and would have sympathy for what\u2019s happening \u2019cause they wouldn\u2019t want it to happen to them when they got to where you are. But we\u2019ve had a number of years here where the Democrat Party has taken these poor people out there in the middle class and they\u2019ve gotten to enough of them, where all they do is have envy and jealousy and resentment. So they hear your story and they (rubbing hands together). These are the people, by the way, that think they have all the compassion, concern, and caring in our culture and they\u2019re happy to hear you\u2019re unhappy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s not sustainable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pardon me? <\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s not sustainable. I mean what would happen if physicians said, ‘Okay, we believe in equality, for equal effort. So we\u2019ll cut back to 40-hour work week.\u2019 What would happen?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, you\u2019re absolutely right. I\u2019m not arguing with you.I\u2019m telling you what we\u2019re up against.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When you say, ‘But it\u2019s not sustainable,\u2019 they\u2019re not going to know that \u2019til it happens.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is happening.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And let me ask you this. How many Democrat Party constituencies already live barely above the poverty line; have lived there all their lives; and are still, after 20 or 30 years, waiting for the Democrats to make things better; and their lives are not better; and they still vote Democrat? So some of them are never going to get the whole notion is not sustainable. So what\u2019s going to ultimately make \u2019em happy is when you and your husband live a life that is closer to their existence. There\u2019s no desire on the part of Obama or anybody in his party to lift those people up and lift up the whole economy, to lift up our culture, to lift up as many families as possible in the game of prosperity. <\/p>\n

They want to slice people at the top down to size, and so you\u2019ve called here and explained how it\u2019s happening to you, and it really is a sad thing. I don\u2019t know how many it is, but a lot of people hearing you, if they\u2019re Obama voters, are happy about it. But hang in. I understand you\u2019re not paying. Look, you don\u2019t have investments. Your investment was your education. I know it\u2019s tough to be in the midst of this, after working as hard as you have, to see right in front of your eyes the restructuring and the reordering of the culture that\u2019s coming. I appreciate the phone call, Marilyn. Thank you very much. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ted in Las Vegas, great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, sir. Longtime listener, first-time caller. My dad, my brother, are so envious right now. Listen, you said earlier something about the rich not being able to — or they can only deduct 28% of their charity giving. Isn\u2019t that an attack on conservatives since conservatives give like four times as much in charity as liberals?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s a good point. You could look at it as an attack on conservatives and Republicans because they do make far more charitable donations than liberal Democrats do. But actually, it\u2019s much more than that. Our previous caller had it right. You know, if 28 cents of every dollar is all you can deduct, some people will make donations because they care about the cause. Others will cut back. Hey, they\u2019re not going to have as much disposable income to donate, and donating is not that big a tax deduction, so a lot of charities are going to end up with a lot less, and the more charities that are having less, and therefore do less, the more the role the government will have to be in picking up the slack of the falling assistance from charities. So it\u2019s a hidden way of expanding the scope of government into everybody\u2019s lives again. That\u2019s what it\u2019s about.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I realize, ladies and gentlemen, the stories that you are hearing on this program today from real Americans are depressing. I hate to say this, but get used to it. This is what\u2019s ahead of us. It\u2019s happening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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