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RUSH: Here\u2019s Jacquelyn in Rochester, New York. Jacquelyn, thank you for calling. Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I\u2019m so honored to speak to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m an English teacher in a suburb of Rochester, and you said something a couple weeks ago that really struck my heart, and it was when you were talking about the smallest minority in our society being the individual<\/a>. I just wanted to thank you for that, because I\u2019ve been using that in my class as the overlying principle for a lot of the discussions that I\u2019ve been having and I\u2019m just thrilled that you gave me such great fodder.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How old are your students?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a high school teacher.<\/p>\n

RUSH: High school. What\u2019s your students\u2019 reaction when you go through the whole concept of the smallest minority in the world is the individual, and, if you claim to be for minority rights but you care nothing for the individual then you cannot claim you\u2019re for minority rights? What\u2019s the reaction your students have?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s very interesting to listen to them, because, you know, we\u2019re reading it in the context of a couple books that we\u2019re using in class, and they\u2019re saying it in a different light that, you know, so much is being squandered by looking at people as groups instead of what they can contribute individually. So it\u2019s just been an amazing conversation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you probably can\u2019t get into this in school because of the separation of things, but I think this is a good illustration of the battle we face. Are you familiar with Newsweek magazine\u2019s latest cover, I forget the exact headline, the exact wording, but basically, ‘No longer a Christian nation, United States no longer a Christian nation.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve seen it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Or the United States is not a Christian nation. Now, you\u2019ve got people who want to conform and not cause any ripples, ‘Oh, yeah, yeah, we\u2019re not a Christian nation, Judeo-Christian ethic, we are a lot of different religions here. We\u2019re bound by our common values.\u2019 You can\u2019t read a speech by George Washington, you can\u2019t read his inaugural address, you cannot read them without hearing him reference God, the Almighty, and how this nation owes its existence to God and our thanks to God for the vision in founding this nation with people treated as he made them, the yearning spirit to be free and so forth. There has been a constant attack since to disabuse people of the notion that this nation has a religious founding and from that religion springs morality and our basic understanding of where freedom comes from. It\u2019s got religious roots and people are threatened by religious roots because they\u2019re threatened by religious people. <\/p>\n

This all dovetails because the effort is massive to get people, particularly in schools, to conform and to think as a group, to behave as a group, and to look at other people as members of groups. People are easier to manage that way. People are easier to control, they\u2019re easier to program, easier to educate, they\u2019re easier to prepare what you want them to be prepared for if they consider themselves not individuals but rather members of some group, even being an American is a member of a group, but being an American is to be uniquely individual as ordained by God and chronicled in our founding documents. And it is this individuality, this recognition that no two people are the same, that no two people have the same talents, ambitions, or desires, and the notion that self-interest, not selfishness, self-interest propels the individual to do extraordinary things, which, when a whole population of people behave this way, you get a great country.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I agree with you, I totally agree.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I hope your students, I hope bright lightbulbs are going off in their brains when they hear this. I can\u2019t thank you enough for tackling this and trying to teach it to them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Before you switch to another caller, I do have a beef with you, though. Can I bring up my beef?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You have a beef with me?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: By all means. It\u2019s beef week, so fire away.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You were talking about the electrical meters that were going to be installed that were going to monitor electrical use?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, the thermostats, yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, my husband heard that and is not too happy. We were looking at getting either a big screen TV or a Select Comfort bed. And he is trying to put me off of spending that and putting money into the economy because he thinks Obama is going to be looking at our electrical meters and complaining about how much energy we\u2019re spending, and he\u2019s using that — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something. I\u2019m glad you brought this up, because I simply listened to what Obama said. He talked in a White House meeting with one of these groups that he then sent off into work groups. He said we\u2019re working on new thermostats that will report your electronic usage and will let you know when you are over your limit. What? Now, a lot of people are saying that talking about this is conspiracy kooks that believe in this. Obama said it. And the first time he said it was not the first time he\u2019s talked about it. He mentioned it in some of his writings and so forth. To discredit something in this country, all you have to do is, ‘Ah, that\u2019s a conspiracy theory,\u2019 \u2019cause conspiracy theories are only believed by kooks, and nobody wants to be a kook, so you don\u2019t want to be considered a kook just like you don\u2019t want to be falsely accused of being a racist, so you shut up about it. But Obama said it and Google\u2019s working on it. In some states they\u2019ve already got them. <\/p>\n

Now, they\u2019re being promoted as a great help to you in using your electric usage so that you can save money. But the individual would say it\u2019s none of their damn business how much electricity I use, as long as I pay for it. It\u2019s none of their danm business how much water I use, as long as I pay for it. If the utility\u2019s providing it and I use it and I pay for it, it\u2019s nobody\u2019s damn business how much. If I want to keep my house at 65 degrees when it\u2019s 95 outside, I\u2019m an American. If I\u2019m willing to pay to do that, fine. But we have the guilt trip. ‘Well, you\u2019re using more than your share. You are causing people in Africa to sweat. You\u2019re causing malaria, and you\u2019re causing people in America not to get their fair share of electricity. It\u2019s just not fair, we\u2019re wasting it, we\u2019re destroying the planet,\u2019 all these pressures are brought to bear on you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s stopping me from spending money. It literally is stopping me from spending money. Are you going to start judging my carbon footprint? Should I not have a big screen TV and a Select Comfort bed<\/a>?<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is the thing. I\u2019m glad you said this. You are behaving exactly as they want you to. You are living your life in fear. You just said it. Your husband wants a new TV or something, you\u2019re afraid to go get it because you think somewhere down the road this administration is going to be monitoring how much you\u2019re using and you\u2019re going to get a knock on the door from some government official chiding you or you\u2019re going to get a note, a letter and a warning and so forth and so on. The only way this stuff can be beat back is if people behave as individuals and say, ‘Oh, really? I\u2019m not going to let you guilt me from not getting a TV.\u2019 We have an economy that needs recovery. We have an economy that needs people going back to work. What we don\u2019t need — and this is, believe me, not by accident — we don\u2019t need people like you afraid to engage in commerce because you\u2019re afraid of what the government\u2019s going to do. ‘Cause the next thing you know you\u2019re going to be afraid to call here and tell me about it because you\u2019re afraid some government agent\u2019s going to overhear you. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re not going to stop this stuff by caving to it. You gotta stand up for your rights as an American, as endowed by our founding documents, and as an individual. If your husband, if you want a Select Comfort — believe me, there\u2019s no energy provided by a utility company that will be used in your Select Comfort bed. All the energy utilized in the Select Comfort bed will be provided by you and your husband. There\u2019s no reason for you not to go out and get a Select Comfort bed. A television is a different thing, but screw \u2019em! It\u2019s just like ‘Earth Night\u2019 or whatever they did, told everybody to turn the lights out. Turn \u2019em all on. Resist the tug of popular sentiment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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