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RUSH: Folks, we have got to drive these people out of office. We have to start now. The Republicans in Congress need to start throwing every possible tactic in front of everything the Democrats are trying to do. This is getting absurd. Listen to this. Henry Waxman and Edward Markey are putting the finishing touches on a 648-page global warming and energy bill that will certainly finish off this country. They\u2019re circulating the bill today. The text of the bill ought to be up soon at a website called globalwarming.org. The bill contains everything you\u2019d expect from an Algore wish list. I don\u2019t know how this will not raise energy prices to crippling levels; finish off the auto industry as we know it, 648-page global warming and energy bill. I have a quick question. What would happen to these people — and I think it\u2019s already been done — but let\u2019s just pretend, let\u2019s pretend that there was incontrovertible evidence that global warming is not happening. Let\u2019s say there was incontrovertible evidence that the whole thing is wrong and that the scientists who have been touting it for decades, years now, let\u2019s just pretend they came out and said, ‘You know what, we\u2019re wrong about this. In fact, there is no global warming, there\u2019s global cooling,\u2019 I wonder how Washington politicians would react. <\/p>\n

My guess is they would say, ‘We can\u2019t trust this, this is too important,\u2019 and they would move ahead with all of this freedom-limiting legislation anyway because that\u2019s what this is about. Pollution controls, they\u2019re so greatly enhanced now to the point that these mini-engines that are on these fuel-efficient cars, these little three-cylinder cars, they\u2019re so overwhelmed they could barely move phone booths, they can barely move themselves. You put two people in them and you\u2019re basically ticking along. I think one of the things that\u2019s at the root of this, think of the combustible engine and what it has meant to the development of this country. People able to go anywhere in the woods, in the tundra, wherever they had to go to develop things, to build things, the American automobile is one of the greatest illustrations of human freedom. You get in it and you go where you want to go, and that\u2019s what\u2019s irritating to people. The fact that you can\u2019t go any further than 300 miles without stopping for 45 minutes or an hour to charge your electric car is a boon. The less you travel, the more that you are inspired, motivated to take mass transportation, public transportation, the more that you are conditioned to live in places where you won\u2019t have to drive, that is what these people are after. <\/p>\n

As I said, we have a gigantic new audience to this program, the tune-in factor is just through the roof. For those of you who are new to the program, I want you to please understand that the criticism of the Obama administration here and the disagreement with practically every element of his agenda is based on one thing. We do not want to lose the liberty and freedom that we were born with in this country and that has made this the greatest country on earth, that has given us the greatest, most prosperous lifestyle any of population of human beings in the history of the planet. It has been liberty; it\u2019s been freedom; it has been the ambition and desire to use that freedom in the concept of self-interest. I want to spend more time on this in a future program. But this notion of sacrifice that the president talked about yesterday is just over the top. Liberals always talk about sacrifice, Obama, every time he opens his mouth, mentions the need for people to sacrifice. We all must suffer. We all have to jointly suffer in order for all of us to somehow be the same, and self-interest, selfishness is condemned. And self-interest is not selfishness. Self-interest is what built this country. <\/p>\n

Somebody starting a business did it in his self-interest. He didn\u2019t start a business so that there would be jobs and health care in the community. He started a business because he loved the business that he was in. He loved the business that he wanted to build. He had a product or a service that he thought would improve the lives of people. He wanted to sell it to them; he wanted to make it available to them. Everybody wins when everybody\u2019s acting in self-interest. Selfishness is a different thing. Self-interest is excellence; self-interest is what\u2019s desired; self-interest is what makes people want raises; self-interest is what makes people want their families to be secure; self-interest is what makes parents want their kids to be properly educated; self-interest is what propels the United States military to victory. Not sacrifice. Not the concept of sacrifice. Sacrifice is giving something to somebody you don\u2019t know to make yourself feel altruistic. You\u2019re not sacrificing. It doesn\u2019t make you great. But giving something to your family because you provided it for them, that is good. But if you run around just giving people who do nothing for you, who are just worthless, don\u2019t have anything to do with you, you\u2019re cheating them out of their own self-interest. <\/p>\n

When you vote for politicians who take from your back pocket to give to others, you think it\u2019s compassionate, you think it\u2019s caring? It\u2019s not. It\u2019s depriving the recipient of his own quest for self-interest. The brilliant writer and novelist, Ayn Rand, has written about this. Let me give you a couple quotes from Ayn Rand on this. ‘It only stands to reason that where there\u2019s sacrifice, there\u2019s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there\u2019s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.\u2019 That is President Obama. ‘Where there is sacrifice, there\u2019s somebody collecting the sacrificial offerings.\u2019 What does it mean? President Obama says, ‘We all need to sacrifice,\u2019 for this reason or that reason. What it means is we all need to pay more; we need to have less affluent lives; we need to dial down our prosperity, and we need to give the money to him, not a charity. He\u2019s going to eliminate, for all intents and purposes, the tax deductibility, it\u2019s going to be 28 cents for every dollar, charitable donations. He wants to be the distributor of the charitable donations. He wants to be the distributor of the goods because he wants the glory. <\/p>\n

‘So it only stands to reason that where there\u2019s sacrifice, there\u2019s somebody collecting the sacrificial offerings.\u2019 Who is it that\u2019s talking about sacrifice? President Obama. Who\u2019s going to collect your sacrificial offerings? President Obama and his government. And ‘where there\u2019s service, there\u2019s somebody being served.\u2019 There\u2019s no sacrifice in service. The president who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters. He intends to be the master. You\u2019re the slave. You must sacrifice. <\/p>\n

We have a lot of people who love to talk about minorities, do we not? The minority is put upon, needs special consideration, special rights, the minority is put upon by the majority. The minorities are not granted equal treatment, and minorities need special considerations, it\u2019s not fair that they\u2019re a minority. What is the smallest minority on earth? This is not a trick question. What is the smallest minority on earth? Mr. Snerdley, I will start with you. Nope. The smallest minority on earth is not wealthy people. Dawn, do you want to take a stab at what is the smallest minority on earth? You\u2019ll never get it, but when I tell you what it is, you will think it\u2019s brilliant. Strawberry blondes are not the smallest minority on earth. Brian, you want to take a stab at it? Don\u2019t tell me owners of Spanish speaking radio stations. What is the smallest minority? You\u2019re never going to get it. The white male is not the smallest minority on earth. People would never get this \u2019cause we\u2019re not conditioned to think this way. <\/p>\n

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. We are all different. We are all individuals. We are being told to sacrifice our individuality. We\u2019re being told we must assemble in other groups of victims. Well, not all of us because some of us are the victimizers. The smallest minority on earth is the individual and thus those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. This administration claims to be a minority administration, first black president, historical nature. This administration is out to destroy the whole concept of individual rights under the guise of sacrifice, pay equalization, equalization of outcomes in other areas. But the smallest minority on earth is you, as an individual. You have individual rights, as granted by God, who created you, and our founding documents enshrine them: Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. Those rights don\u2019t come from other men or governments or women. They come from our creator, God. Higher power, whatever, however you want to look at it. <\/p>\n

The smallest minority on earth is the individual, and I dare say that in this country today there\u2019s no one looking out for the individual, other than me. Nobody is looking out for the individual. In fact, in this country, just as it happened in Soviet Russia, just as it happens in North Korea, as it is happening in Venezuela, and as it happened in Cuba, the individual must be stamped out, the individual must be stomped upon, the individual as a concept must be done away with, and, as such, there go individual rights. You don\u2019t have individual rights nearly to the degree that you once did, not when you have been forced by either guilt or stigma to buy a car that you don\u2019t really want. When you\u2019re buying a car because you think it will get you less criticism, when you buy a car because you think people will think you\u2019re wonderful, but not because you want that car, you have sacrificed your individual rights. You have said, ‘My worth as an individual, my worth as who I am doesn\u2019t count anymore. I am going to define my worth by what somebody thinks of me. I\u2019m going to define my worth by how little criticism I will get. I\u2019m going to define my worth by how much I can make people think I care,\u2019 based on the tug of popular sentiment each and every day. <\/p>\n

When any of you decide to do away with pursuing what you want in your best self-interest, you are sacrificing who you are. You are giving up control of your essence, and you are saying, I would rather be a member of a group that is approved by people so that I don\u2019t get criticized or so that I\u2019m thought of as enlightened or so that I\u2019m thought of as advanced. In the process, you are helping to destroy the very foundational building blocks of the greatest country on earth, the country in which you happen to be born and the country in which you happen to live. So giving up your individual identity, giving up who you are, sacrificing your passions and your desires and your own self-interests for the so-called common good, who gets to define the common good? I would define the common good as everybody acting as an individual, born as he or she is, pursuing self-interest. That\u2019s the common good. That built cities; that built a great country; that built railroads and engines. It built airplanes. It built everything. People denying who they are did not. <\/p>\n

When you deny your individuality, when you give it away for acceptance into a subgroup of people, you are harming the country; you are letting the country down; you are not pulling your weight. You are seeking approval, self-love and acceptance from all of the wrong sources. You\u2019re giving up the greatest gift you ever had, and that\u2019s who you are. And we have an administration that wants you to willingly and excitedly, eagerly give up who you are for a common good they define, a common good that requires you to deny who you are, your individuality, what makes you different from everybody else, whether you\u2019re not as good or whether you\u2019re much better at certain things. You will become a number. You will become a robot who can be programmed and inspired and motivated to behave in approved ways, and you will be taught to think you are virtuous when doing so, when all you\u2019ve done is sold yourself and your country out. You give up your individuality, you sacrifice who you are, you allow that to be taken away for some mythical status as a member of a group, you are giving up your passion to become a moderate, or worse. People without passion never built anything. People without passion never got one thing done. People without passion are drags on achievement and accomplishment. That\u2019s what this administration wants you to become. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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