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RUSH: Here\u2019s Jeremy in Bloomville, Ohio. Nice to have you with us, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Kudos to you, Rush. You know, I voted… I was born and raised in a Democratic family, and so more or less I got suckered into voting for The Messiah, as you put it, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jeremy? Jeremy, how old are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thirty-three. I\u2019ll be 33 this weekend.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thirty-three this weekend. You got suckered into voting for Obama by your family?<\/p>\n

CALLER: My family and then all the propaganda that he was preaching. And to me he\u2019s done nothing. Nothing but help the higher-up people in the country. You know, what about the little people? And then —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait, wait, wait. Just a second, now. Did you say, ‘He\u2019s done nothing but help the higher-up people\u2019?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Like the big business. You know, they bring their companies for so long it\u2019s not our fault that they ran \u2019em into the ground.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you mean by bailing them out?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: And —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You need to look at this in a different way. I\u2019m glad you called, bud. (sigh) Yeah, you might look at it as trying to help the companies. Actually he\u2019s destroying them —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I agree.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and then taking them over? How can you say he\u2019s helping big business when he\u2019s going to cram new tax increases on them and limit how much people that work there can make? You ought to be happy. If you want big business to get creamed, you gotta love this guy, Jeremy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, they ran them for how many years by themselves and they got into trouble before. Let them get themselves out of trouble. And then there\u2019s a bill, if I\u2019m not mistaken. There\u2019s a bill in the Senate and everything that starts passing health care. People can\u2019t afford the health care now \u2019cause it\u2019s so high. How are they going to afford it when they start taxing it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah. I see your point on that. But most people\u2019s health care is provided through their employer right now. They do have some. In some businesses it\u2019s totally provided. In other businesses you have to make your own contribution to it, and some plans you have a copayment you have to make. But most businesses are helping employees get access to health care that the employee, for the most part, doesn\u2019t have to pay for. Not nearly as much as the employee uses. It\u2019s the Obama people that want to tax health care benefits, not big business — and when that happens, when they start taxing health care benefits, it just means your take-home pay is going to be smaller.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019ll still have access to health care. They\u2019re just going to tax it as income to you, which it is. It\u2019s imputed income.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Okay. And then the company I work for just raised our health insurance now. So now I pay $200 a month, you know. And it keeps going up. When\u2019s the end?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question about this, please. You pay $200 a month for your health care insurance. You think that\u2019s outrageous.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Why? You realize…? What would it cost you if you had to pay for the whole thing yourself? Which you are, by the way, you just don\u2019t know it. Can I explain that to you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m going to guess. You don\u2019t have to tell me I\u2019m right or wrong. Let\u2019s just pick an even figure. Let\u2019s say you earn $50,000 a year at your job. Your employer — with all the benefits that he\u2019s providing you; including health care and other things; and having to match Social Security (even though that doesn\u2019t happen), pay your Social Security — it probably costs this guy $65,000, maybe $70,000 to hire you at fifty. That means you\u2019re being paid $70,000 a year, Jeremy. You\u2019re only seeing fifty of it. In that sense, you\u2019re only seeing the gross. You\u2019re only seeing the net of 50 when it\u2019s costing him $70,000 to employ you. What do you think you\u2019d have to pay for health insurance if you had to buy it yourself?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I did some checking into that. I\u2019m glad you asked. Um…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Quickly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If I could I would drop the insurance because I did find where…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. All right! Good! What a gold mine this call is. Jeremy… You gotta ask him to hold on. I\u2019m going to have to time to continue after this segment. This is a gold-mine call. Jeremy, don\u2019t change. Don\u2019t talk to anybody between now and when we talk again. Don\u2019t change. Stay right where you are.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s return to Jeremy here in Bloomville, Ohio. He was the last caller in the previous hour. Jeremy thanks for holding on. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to set up again for people where you started off. Jeremy is upset. He voted for Obama. His family convinced him to. He\u2019s 33 years old and lives in Ohio. He\u2019s upset because he sees — and Jeremy is a gold mine of a phone call, folks, so stick with me on this. He looks out and he sees what Obama\u2019s doing, and he sees Obama propping up big business. He sees Obama helping them out. He sees Obama throwing them all kinds of money. And he\u2019s upset. He voted for Obama and he doen\u2019t see Obama doing anything for ‘the little guy.\u2019 He doesn\u2019t see Obama doing one thing. And what we left it with Jeremy was health care benefits. He just found out that his health care benefits might be taxed as income. He\u2019s very upset about that. His health care costs with his company he has to pay $200 a month for it and he thinks that\u2019s too much. So where we last left you, Jeremy, you said you had gone out and… I asked with you, ‘What do you think it would cost you if you didn\u2019t get it through your company?\u2019 and you said you had priced it, and that\u2019s when we had to end the conversation. So what did it cost you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It would cost me right around… Well, before they cut the insurance — they actually cut it is what they done — we had a lower plan and a higher plan. The lower plan cost me a hundred bucks a month. Now they cut that one out so now I\u2019m up to 200 bucks a month. So I did do some pricing. It\u2019s a little lower. What I pay now say that lower than what I found out there. Granted I can\u2019t search the whole… Well, I can now because we have the Internet. I can search the whole country if I want to. But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s right, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, you don\u2019t think what is right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think the way they\u2019re going to tax health care. Because right now it\u2019s hard enough to live with. You know, it\u2019s hard enough to make ends meet with what people are getting. You know, you can\u2019t just… Well, they can, but you can\u2019t tax everything to try and make it work, to try and make everything better. <\/p>\n

RUSH: They do.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Jeremy, they are already are taxing everything what they\u2019re talking about is increasing it. You might think you\u2019re not paying taxes on your health care benefits but you already are in the sense that you\u2019re being paid… Your total compensation package is what you think you\u2019re being paid in salary, plus all the other benefits, plus Social Security your employer is paying that you never see. So the figure I used (I picked a round number): if you\u2019re earning $50,000 these days it\u2019s probably costing your employer $65,000 to hire you. So you\u2019re actually earning that. If that\u2019s what it costs him to hire you, that\u2019s what you\u2019re earning, but you\u2019re only seeing $50,000 of it in salary. So, your employer is doing you a huge favor here. Why do you think health care ought to be free? Why do you think you shouldn\u2019t have to pay for it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no. I\u2019m not… I didn\u2019t mean to give you that impression. I don\u2019t think it should be free but like you said they\u2019re already taxing it, so why tax it even more?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they\u2019re not directly taxing it. The impact, the effect on you here is a tax increase because the more businesses have to pay to hire labor, to hire employees, the fewer employees they can hire; the higher the price they have to charge for whatever product or service they offer. You believe that Obama is not doing anything to help the little guy and he\u2019s propping up the big guy left and right, and this is not what you thought he was going to do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And truthfully, Obama is destroying the private sector. I know it looks to you… This is what\u2019s fascinating about your call to me. You see him bailing out Wall Street, and you think, ‘If those banks coulda failed, let \u2019em fail. I mean in the old days, if they ran out of business, they\u2019d go out of business. If the car companies would have gone out of business, they shoulda gone out of business.\u2019 Now, theoretically, I agree with you. This whole bailout business got started last fall. It was a trick. It was a ruse. We were all told that the whole United States financial system would collapse in 24 to 36 hours if we didn\u2019t do the TARP bailout for example. But Obama has taken the opportunity of these events to now run these industries and to dictate to them, which he\u2019s doing right now in a speech from the East Room about credit. <\/p>\n

So you look at it as he\u2019s helping big business. Go talk to some automobile dealers at Chrysler and General Motors who have just been summarily told they\u2019re out of business, their dealerships have been closed. Go talk to people on Wall Street who Obama has urged his ACORN people to go protest on their homes because they got bonuses that were entitled to them contractually. You know, these people are going to have their compensation capped. What Obama\u2019s actually doing is wresting control. He\u2019s depleting… Let me put it to you this way. You got two sectors. You have the private sector — where you work and your company and the stores you operate or go to, the gasoline stations, all these things that you have — and the government sector, which is called public sector. The private sector is where we\u2019ve always had economic growth. What Obama is doing is depleting resources in the private sector by taking them over. He is restricting opportunity for people like you because he\u2019s taking over more of these businesses and running them into the ground at the same time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But I\u2019m still fascinated that you think he\u2019s propping up the big guys? What did you expect by this time? We\u2019re six months in, basically. What did you expect changes in your life to be because Obama was elected president?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I didn\u2019t (garbled) I didn\u2019t really expect there to be too many changes but maybe a few more than what there were —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Like what? <\/p>\n

CALLER: — than what there have been.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Like what? <\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know off the top of my head. You know, to me everybody has done more bickering about him getting into office, and in my eyes, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s hardly done anything. You know, to me he\u2019s wasting American tax dollars. You know, GM and Chrysler said, ‘Oh, we\u2019re going to go into bankruptcy if we don\u2019t get help.\u2019 Well, they get help and we give them all the billions of dollars and what happened? They still went into bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right! Gold star. You are exactly right. So what does this tell you? What\u2019s the lesson learned?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Vote the way I want to vote.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah. Of course. He got coerced by his family. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No but the lesson here is: Okay, we have General Motors and Chrysler in trouble. The government says, ‘We\u2019re gonna bail them out! We\u2019re going to send them billions and billions and billions of dollars.\u2019 It didn\u2019t work, did it, Jeremy? As you just pointed out, it didn\u2019t work. The lesson is government — presidents, congressmen, senators — cannot save a business. They cannot. In some cases they can. Reagan successfully bailed out Harley-Davidson.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But it generally doesn\u2019t happen. And so all that money is down the drain and what they shoulda done in the first place, file Chapter 11, has been done. Except in this case the bankruptcy filings were dictated and handled by President Obama so that he now owns the companies. He and the unions own these companies now, Jeremy, and the dealers. The private sector guys, the young entrepreneurs that went into business — in some cases family dealerships for 90 years and they were successful the last year — just had their business taken away from them by Obama. He is killing everybody. He\u2019s harming everybody. I mean politically and economically. He\u2019s not just not helping guys like you. He is destroying opportunity for everybody in the private sector, including guys like you — and when they start taxing your health care benefits, you\u2019re going to have less take home pay. And they\u2019re figuring that you want health care so much, that it\u2019s so important to you, that you will go along with this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. I believe it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How often do you get sick? Have you had a catastrophic illness in your life?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I very rarely get sick.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When did you use your health insurance?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Very rarely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very rarely. You\u2019re 33 years old, you very rarely use it. <\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s not to say I won\u2019t ever use it, but…<\/p>\n

RUSH: So what if you could just just buy a policy, a health insurance policy that would handle expenses in case you had a catastrophic emergency or accident, but you don\u2019t need health care insurance for prescriptions, health care insurance for a standard checkup. Let me give you this analogy. I read this the other day. It\u2019s a good point. Health care insurance for prescriptions, health care insurance for doctors, health care insurance for just a standard checkup, health care insurance for a sore throat, is like requiring automobile insurance for an oil change or automobile insurance to rotate your tires. Nobody would even think of asking for insurance for that. Auto insurance is for accidents. When you have high costs — whether you\u2019re at fault or not — that you can\u2019t pay on your own, that\u2019s what the have insurance for. That\u2019s what it ought to be in health care. And if it were, it would be a lot cheaper if you had the opportunity, but that opportunity doesn\u2019t exist because the government has been involved in health care for so long, that they now run it via the Medicare program. They\u2019re in charge of costs. They\u2019re in charge of price. They\u2019ve got everybody scared to death that one little sickness is going to wipe \u2019em out for life and it\u2019s not true. So they\u2019ve manufactured a crisis that doesn\u2019t exist. You very rarely use it yet look how worried you are about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. You know, I want it to be there when I need it, but, you know — and like you said, he\u2019s going to be… You tax it and then it\u2019s gonna cost my employer more money to cover us, and then that\u2019s less jobs that can be created because he\u2019s not going to be able to hire any more people when he needs them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right. And there\u2019s a vicious cycle here, Jeremy. When that happened then we have more unemployment and we have the need for more unemployment compensation. We have the need for more food stamps. And the government becomes in charge of more and more people\u2019s daily existence, which is a crying shame. But Obama loves this, Jeremy. Obama and Rahm Emanuel and Axelrod, these people running this show in the White House love this kind of chaos. The more unemployment, the more anger, the more angst, the more fear, the greater opportunity they have to go before the cameras every day and say, ‘We got a new crisis! Only government can fix it,\u2019 and people will willingly give up control of their lives, because people will trade their liberty for security. Now, you are a capable man. I don\u2019t know what you earn. I don\u2019t know where you work. <\/p>\n

All I know is this because it\u2019s true for everybody, 99-out-of-a-hundred people. You are capable of being far more than you are right now. We all are. We all have more in us than we know. We\u2019re all better at something than we know. But everybody gets so tied up here in all these crises that are created every day. We all hear our economy is going to hell, and more and more people are unemployed, and more and more people are this, and the oceans are going to rise, and the earth is going to end, and we gotta do cap and trade we gotta start driving little cars — and people are in a constant panic, and instead of focusing on positives they\u2019re running around in fear. Fear of what\u2019s going to happen next. And Obama is using that, Jeremy, to get you and people like you to give up more of your liberty in exchange for him ostensibly fixing what it is that\u2019s causing your fear.<\/p>\n

In the process, your fear grows exponentially because nothing gets solved, because you\u2019re turning it over to people who aren\u2019t solving it as you\u2019ve already observed, five months in. Nothing\u2019s getting solved, Jeremy. Nothing\u2019s getting fixed! It\u2019s all getting worse, and the guy at the top responsible for it\u2019s none other than President Obama. So he has this ability to make people think he\u2019s on top of things, he\u2019s fixing it, everything is going right. Now we\u2019re at 9.4% unemployment after this massive stimulus bill that was supposed to help people like you, and it isn\u2019t working. I like the fact that you\u2019re upset with Obama and it\u2019s not what you thought you were going to get. But don\u2019t think that he\u2019s propping up big business people at your expense. Your attitude about that ought to be two things: He is harming everybody. <\/p>\n

He is employing or wants to employ policies that will cause economic hardship and damage to everybody. The second thing is, the more you focus on what you\u2019re gonna get from somebody else, the more miserable you\u2019re going to be. Even in these economic times, you have the ability to earn more than you\u2019re making now. You have the ability to be independent and not worry about these health insurance costs for your company. It\u2019s there! There\u2019s a number out there with your name on it. Whatever you think is big money, it\u2019s there. This is the United States of America. You can go get it right now. What we all fear is that Barack Obama\u2019s destroying that. He\u2019s destroying people\u2019s incentive. He\u2019s destroying people\u2019s desire and motivation. He\u2019s creating more and more people who expect him to do something for them — and in five months, everybody realizes everything he\u2019s tried to do for you, as you\u2019ve noticed, isn\u2019t happening! So wake up. Look inward. Tell yourself you\u2019re better than you thought you were and get busy. This is the United States of America. You still have, for a while, plenty of liberty and freedom to pursue happiness as you define it. You don\u2019t have to be dominated by fear. You don\u2019t have to be dominated by negativity. It\u2019s there for you. But Obama is not the route by which you will get it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jeremy, I know you\u2019re still out there and all the rest of you. The way to look at this, Barack Obama is not helping the big guy; Barack Obama is not helping the little guy. Barack Obama is expanding government at everybody\u2019s expense. Nobody is benefiting here, except his buddies, the labor unions. Not even the gay community, which are big donors to him, are happy. But his labor union buddies, you\u2019ll find them somewhere in the foundation of everything he wants to do: save the auto companies, health care, you\u2019ve got a huge union component in this. Cap and trade, again, unions and trial lawyers. This credit business, unions are everywhere in everything this guy wants to do. That\u2019s the only group of people that benefit, and in that case, it\u2019s only the union leaders. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not helping the big guy; he\u2019s not helping the little guy. He is growing government and that\u2019s hurting the big guy and little guy because he is depleting the capital in the private whereby every little guy, big guy become even bigger. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bob in Houston, nice to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Thank you for waiting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you very much, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure to get to talk to you. Your previous session just capsulated everything I wanted to say to you and I know that you don\u2019t like to take too much enamored words from people. But you are truly a national treasure, and what you did with that guy was amazing. You opened it up, you just clarified everything. It\u2019s amazing. I always thought of myself as kind of a smart-thinking type of person, and I went through banking in New York City and came back down here to Texas and worked here as a consultant, and I always thought I was the best. Then I got fired, and I saw your billboard and it said, ‘Rush is Right,\u2019 and I started listening to you in 2005. And it\u2019s a pleasure just to be able to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow, thank you. You\u2019ve only been with us for four years, then, essentially? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, basically I got out of work and, you know, it was right before my 65th birthday, so I didn\u2019t get my pension, but I already had investments, so I\u2019m okay, but I felt angry or whatever, but you brought me out of all this and got me going, and even though I\u2019m still not employed, I\u2019ve written a book, and I\u2019ve gotten into all these things, and I\u2019m really a different person now than I was before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s fabulous. Great to hear that. And thank you for your comments on my conversation with Jeremy. That\u2019s why his call was a gold mine. Regardless what he thinks Obama\u2019s doing, helping or hurting somebody. He\u2019s not helping anybody. The big guy, the little guy are all getting hurt here. It\u2019s the government that\u2019s being helped, government\u2019s growing. But people still can make their mark in life. They don\u2019t have to depend on government for everything we get. That\u2019s a crying shame of people that do that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Everything\u2019s a crisis. Everything has to be done yesterday. And I just don\u2019t understand why it has to be done yesterday. We need to critically think about these things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019ll tell you, look, this stuff would not succeed here as well as it does were it not for — I know this is a common complaint, and this is not even a discussion of bias. In this question the crisis mentality that exists in this country daily would not exist were it not for the media. I just cited the story on carrots. Every day it\u2019s something. Every day there\u2019s something that\u2019s going to kill us, even something as extreme as a couple billion years from now — we had a story last week Earth might collide with Mercury. We got global warming, the planet\u2019s being destroyed, we have polar bears being killed, little kids are scared — you can blame Algore for that. But if the media were not lap dog, and the media benefits from crisis, the media benefits from ongoing angst just as much as Obama does because it keeps people tuned in. Therefore, any source from the media that gives them facts or any kind of report that says things are going to hell in a handbasket, it\u2019s getting worse, this might kill you, that did kill somebody, it just keeps people worked up into a constant frenzy, and it\u2019s bigger than they can deal with and they get so caught up in it.<\/p>\n

How many people do you know that actually think the car they drive might kill a polar bear? There are a lot of them and they\u2019re bombarded with this every day and of course you take an individual who thinks that, that the car they drive is going to irredeemably, irreversibly damage the environment, we\u2019re all going to die, an individual in that situation, there\u2019s nothing he can do but buy the right kind of car. But even that he knows is not going to do it. So here comes a slick snake oil salesman like Obama who says he can fix everything. And for 50 years people have been told to believe that government is the automatic fixer of everything and they invest in that. Despite everyday evidence of government failure after failure after failure after failure, there\u2019s not enough critical thinking education going on in schools today at all levels, there is indoctrination. The founding documents are not taught. People are not being inspired to rise above themselves. People are being told they\u2019re not that good, they\u2019re not that smart, that everything out there is going to cheat them anyway. They\u2019re either going to be discriminated by a racist, bigoted society, or big business is going to treat them unfairly, or some storm is going to come along and wipe out their house. It\u2019s something or multiple things each and every day. <\/p>\n

You have to ask yourself why are some people able to expose themselves to that and resist it and ignore it and go on and live their lives, pursue happiness using the liberty that we were all created with, while other people exposed to that stuff…? And it\u2019s those people who are exploited by politicians who claim to have their best interests at heart. These people being exploited are in the process of having their lives destroyed, and if not destroyed, their life potential is being cut in half. The people they could be they will never be because nobody\u2019s ever told them they could be, and instead they are bombarded each and every day with evidence about why they\u2019ll never be any better than they are. And when people are depressed about their lot in life, everybody who thinks that way finds it much easier to blame somebody else for it than themselves. So all it takes is a Barack Obama to come along and say, ‘This bank did that to you; that dealership did that to you; this auto company did that to you; Big Oil did that to you,\u2019 and then you say, ‘Fine, there\u2019s no way I can succeed. It\u2019s not fair anymore. Big business is against me and government is for me.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The government never does anything for you. I\u2019ll tell you how bad it\u2019s gotten. We laugh about this, but do you people realize how absolutely breathtakingly depressing it is when an American citizen goes to a McDonald\u2019s, orders Chicken McNuggets and told that they\u2019re out and calls 911 thinking they\u2019re calling the government? Do you realize how pitiful that is? Do you realize how pathetic it is? Do you realize what that represents? It does not necessarily represent stupidity or ignorance on the part of the poor citizen. It represents what that citizen\u2019s been exposed to, how that citizen\u2019s been raised, what that citizen has been taught. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing, and the people doing that, the people that are in the process of destroying human potential every day in this country, I\u2019m sad to say, the Democrat Party, the American left, and the liberals, and President Obama and his administration. While everybody thinks that President Obama is about salvation and redemption and about change and hope, you gotta start asking yourself today, folks, how is that change and hope working for you? <\/p>\n

Jeremy finally figured out the hope and change, there isn\u2019t any hope and there isn\u2019t any change, except in his mind the change is worse. He feels he got hornswoggled into voting for Obama by his family, and he\u2019s right. As an American citizen, and as someone who has had more success than I ever dreamed of and live a life my parents would not comprehend, my parents would not believe it, my experiences in context are such that it\u2019s a crying shame for me to look at all the wasted human potential in this country. It\u2019s understandable that we would have wasted human potential in totalitarian regimes like Zimbabwe or Cuba or the old Soviet Union or in China. But not here. Not here. Human potential and people rising above themselves; people pursuing excellence without a whole lot of obstacles in their way and shackles attached to them, it\u2019s what built this country, and anybody with a brain knows it, even the people who are trying to build this country in a different way. <\/p>\n

The truth is the Obamaites are not trying to build the country. They\u2019re trying to take it over. And to do that, they\u2019re trying to build and grow government, not because they think it\u2019s gonna improve your life. They\u2019re not interested in that. They\u2019re interested in controlling your life, for the sake of it. You can start talking about why all you want, but one big reason why is they\u2019ve got contempt for you. After 50 years of telling you you\u2019re worthless, you are. You don\u2019t get as much done as you could. They look out at you and they see cities where you live falling apart, they see this or that. They don\u2019t blame themselves for the policies that led to that; they blame you and they say, ‘See, these people need us.\u2019 And they see an opportunity to go to these people and say, ‘We can fix the problem.\u2019 Well, let me ask you something. Go talk to any of the 93%, 92% of the black population that votes for Obama and ask \u2019em what the Democrat Party has done for them. Substantively, it\u2019s zero. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re still complaining about the same things they\u2019ve been complaining about since before the Civil Rights Act, they\u2019re complaining about discrimination, complaining about racism. They have evolved businesses like Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton for leaders to make millions of dollars trading off imagined racism and keeping people at war with each other over race and now gender and now over sexual orientation. Yet they vote Democrat every ticket. Why? Because they have been told that all the obstacles in their way are because of Republicans, because the Republicans are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, conservatives. Yet it\u2019s the people they\u2019re voting for, on the promise these people are going to fix what\u2019s wrong, never get it fixed, yet you go talk to them, why — they keep waiting for the big fix, they keep waiting for everything to change, they keep waiting for these promises to be fulfilled. That\u2019s how the Democrat Party has destroyed spirit. The American left, the Democrat Party, liberalism in general, has destroyed way too much can-do spirit in this country. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re not the great country we used to be. We\u2019re still the greatest, but we\u2019re not the greatest we used to be because too many of our citizens have checked out. They\u2019re sitting around waiting, for whatever reason they feel entitled to this or that, free health care, free this, free that, \u2019cause they\u2019ve been told they can\u2019t get it on their own, the deck is stacked against them. Yet they look out and they drive around their neighborhoods and their towns and they see other people not in their economic circumstances, they see people doing quite well, and rather than look at that and say, ‘Hey I could do it, too,\u2019 they say, ‘How did that guy get that? That\u2019s not fair,\u2019 and so they\u2019re susceptible to policies that come along to punish the guy that\u2019s got more than they do. So that\u2019s how liberalism promises happiness, making everybody miserable. It breaks my heart. It just breaks my heart. The opportunity human beings born as Americans have as opposed to being born anywhere else in this world, when I hear people talk about how rotten they have it, how destitute they are, how unfair and unfortunate, I just want to smack \u2019em to the moon and say, ‘Go with me to Afghanistan. Go with them to Zimbabwe. Go with me to practically anywhere in Africa. Go with me to the Middle East. Go with me to Cuba.\u2019 <\/p>\n

But, see, nobody in their lives talks to them this way. Everybody excuses failure, everybody excuses half-assed behavior. Not everybody but enough people do to make people comfortable with it. This just leads to more and more resentment. The more this kind of resentment and angst and chaos, you got guys like Obama, and whoever, Clinton was the same way, Hillary, they\u2019re running the same way, use it, take advantage of it to amass even greater power for themselves. Not for the improvement of anything or anybody. That\u2019s what they say they want to do but it never happens, it\u2019s never worked, authoritarian control, central planning, never worked, improving the lives of citizens, only the leaders. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Redding, California, this is Karinna, or Karina, how are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi! Giga dittos in from Redding and Shasta County, California, where unemployment is at 16.8% and rising. Including myself. Anyway, I\u2019m a Republican school teacher, and I love your show because of all the brilliant teachable moments that you have. And your conversation with Jeremy today was so incredible, I wish everybody in the country could have heard it. But you missed what I think was a really valuable point that you didn\u2019t get.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s always the case. Here I\u2019m being set up for a great compliment and then you lower the boom, ‘But you missed something.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m sorry. It\u2019s a small point but it\u2019s a really valid one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something. If I were Barack Obama, I would say to you (Obama impression), ‘I didn\u2019t miss anything! I don\u2019t miss anything ever. You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.\u2019<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: And then I would hang up on you. Okay, what did I miss?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay what you missed is when Jeremy was saying that he was frustrated with the cost of insurance, and he called around and he could use the Internet to search the country for a better program, the point you missed was: Under Barack Obama\u2019s plan (or, rather, I should say Emperor Obama\u2019s plan) he wouldn\u2019t have that option.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Eventually. That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. He would have one plan. It would be a government plan. He\u2019d be stuck with it and whatever they tell him about what he\u2019s approved for or disapproved for… He couldn\u2019t go anywhere else. He couldn\u2019t go to Canada because they\u2019ve got the same program. He\u2019d have to be stuck with whatever they have. You can\u2019t call around if you have the government-care plan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, yes, yes. Technically, I\u2019m going to argue with you on this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I didn\u2019t miss it because I\u2019ve been saying that for the previous four or five days. I might have missed the opportunity to point it out to him in that precise moment.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly and for somebody for a Democrat who voted for Emperor Obama who is just now starting to get that, that\u2019s a point in a needs to be reinforced because I think he\u2019s still kind of starting to see where all this is coming from —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and he may not have thought about that before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he got it now because I\u2019m sure he\u2019s glued to the radio after the pep talk I gave.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, Karina, thanks very much. (cough button) Everybody thinks they can do it better. If I weren\u2019t so strong and confident in character I\u2019d walk outta here today just depressed, thinking I had a great call and somebody said, ‘You shoulda done this. You shoulda done that.\u2019 (sigh) I\u2019m just kidding, Karinna. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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