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RUSH: Here\u2019s Alan in, Holmdel, New Jersey. Great to have you on the phone, sir. I\u2019m glad you waited.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Yeah, I\u2019m calling because people need to get involved in the 2010 congressional elections right now because this is the time when elections will be won and lost, because, remember, a lot of these challenges are going to be going up against incumbents with multimillion-dollar war chests. So to wait until the fall may be too late. And I know this firsthand because I\u2019m running against one of the cap-and-trade Republicans here in New Jersey in six months in a primary.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I actually think that that process is underway. I think this whole tea party movement is exactly what this is about, and I know those people are fired up and they are recruiting, and I think they\u2019re going to find their recruitment efforts made easier —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — especially you know, wait \u2019til Obama does that State of the Union speech, wait \u2019til he starts patting himself on the back, wait \u2019til he starts lying through the teeth about how everybody\u2019s going to have increased care, increased coverage at a lower cost, praising himself, ripping the Bush administration. That State of the Union speech is going to be the equivalent of himself carving his own face on Mount Rushmore, and it\u2019s going to repulse people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, for someone like myself, who, you know, has a primary in six months against a cap and trader, you know, and the tea party movement has been involved in my race as well, we just need more ammunition to go up against these guys who are funded, you know, by special interests, unions, and those sort of things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Even Republicans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know and they\u2019re going to have slush fund assistance as well. But never before in the upcoming elections will ideas matter as much as they will in November of 2010, never before. I know all of you guys running for office need money. But I can give you countless examples where candidates who were so underfunded compared to their competition, their opponent, and still won. The mayor of Indianapolis won reelection with practically no money. It can be done. The power of ideas and the power of articulating them and communicating them, rallying the American people, being positive, upbeat, inspirational, motivational, speaking great things about the United States and our potential, and there\u2019s no reason for this country to change, there\u2019s no reason for us to ever believe that the best days in this country are behind us. It can be done. I know money is important, but money is going to be scarce. The economy is in the tank, ten percent unemployment and maybe higher. The power of ideas — trust me on this — the power of ideas next November will matter more than they have in a long time. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s why I wanted to mention this Wall Street Journal editorial today, their lead editorial. This is an illustration of the disparity in how tax increases are going to apply. Eugene Steuerle of the left-leaning Urban Institute, and they are a left-leaning bunch, think tank, Eugene Steuerle points out: ‘The truth is that no one really knows how much Obamacare will cost because its assumptions on paper are so unrealistic. To hide the cost increases created by other parts of the bill and transfer them onto the federal balance sheet, the Senate sets up government-run ‘exchanges.” Have you heard this word being bandied about? Who the hell knows what it is, a health exchange. Well, the purpose of the health exchange is ‘to hide the cost increases created by other parts of the bill and transfer them onto the federal balance sheet, the Senate sets up government-run ‘exchanges\u2019 that will subsidize insurance for those earning up to 400% of the poverty level, or $96,000 for a family of four in 2016. Supposedly they would only be offered to those whose employers don\u2019t provide insurance or work for small businesses.\u2019 And this is where the left-leaning Urban Institute comes on the scene. <\/p>\n

Eugene Steuerle says that ‘this system would treat two workers with the same total compensation — whatever the mix of cash wages and benefits — very differently. Under the Senate bill, someone who earned $42,000 would get $5,749 from the current tax exclusion for employer-sponsored coverage but $12,750 in the exchange. A worker making $60,000 would get $8,310 in the exchanges but only $3,758 in the current system.\u2019 I know these numbers run together and it\u2019s hard to keep track of it on radio, but this is the reason that Mr. Steuerle from the Urban Institute ‘concludes that the Senate bill is not just a new health system but also ‘a new welfare and tax system\u2019 that will warp the labor market. Given the incentives of these two-tier subsidies, employers with large numbers of lower-wage workers like Walmart may well convert them into ‘contractors\u2019 or do more outsourcing,\u2019 in order to have to pay less. Taxes, spending, whatever numbers are in any piece of federal legislation that get scored by the CBO, they always score them as a static, never counting for the dynamic, never accounting for how real people will react to these new laws. And that\u2019s why these guesses are just that, just wild guesses.<\/p>\n

Sue in Boca Raton, great to have us with us on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, longtime listener, first-time caller, and my son actually, who\u2019s 19, he\u2019s listening right now. But I have to tell you, I was born in Venezuela, so I know very well what\u2019s happening with Obama and this is becoming totally socialistic and for all those people in Nebraska that are calling, I was listening today, you\u2019re going to need to get out every single — you\u2019re going to knock on doors, you\u2019re going to have to go out and get these people out of there. But I don\u2019t know, what would you suggest we do? I mean I have called this guy here. Ben Nelson is a Benedict Arnold. They\u2019re liars, they\u2019re cheaters. We have lost all integrity, character, morality, and if people don\u2019t think that one vote matters, just look what\u2019s happening. It\u2019s so frustrating because I mean you sit there and you don\u2019t even know what to do. And so I\u2019m asking you to tell all of us, what are we supposed to do? I mean we\u2019ve called, I talk to everybody I can, and, you know, you tell me, you\u2019re the master, you tell us what —<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is very true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — we\u2019re supposed to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) What are we supposed to do? Except, people cannot be — we tend to be very forgetful people. You know, we forgot 9\/11, and I\u2019ve lived all over the world and we do live in the greatest country on the planet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, people are not going to forget this, because if it indeed is signed into law early on next year, then the tax increases commence immediately, and people will feel the impact of this right off the bat. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if they delay the tax increases to 2011 as a result. But don\u2019t worry, people are not going to forget this. Here\u2019s the first thing I would suggest that you do. I don\u2019t know that you are of this mind-set, but there are a lot of people today who think that there\u2019s no difference in the two parties and that the only solution to this is a third party, particularly for a presidential candidate. Now, if you haven\u2019t noticed, I\u2019m not speaking to you specifically yet, Sue, on this, and your question, but if you haven\u2019t noticed, folks, not one Republican in the Senate voted for this. There is a huge difference in the two parties. Do not think that the whole system has to be tossed aside because both parties are just as bad. Both parties have elements of worthlessness in them, but still structurally and philosophically there are huge differences. Really there\u2019s not a whole lot you can do. The next elections are where it all is. November 2010 is where it all is. I know you\u2019re worried people are going to forget about things by then. They\u2019re not.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we\u2019re not. I mean here we are, we\u2019re down here in South Florida, and I can tell you that there is not a person that I don\u2019t talk to, whether they were Republican or Democrat, everybody is so up in arms that I think they better pay attention. I mean I do e-mail, I do call, as a matter of fact I don\u2019t call Washington, I call their offices even though I\u2019m not in Nebraska or Nevada, I call them and I tell them, ‘I can\u2019t wait for the next election,\u2019 because I\u2019ll go from Florida to Nebraska to knock on doors just to do that, and the American people need to understand what our Founding Fathers did, you know, so that we do the same thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something. The Founding Fathers created this country. They rose up against a tyranny that is nothing compared to the tyranny in this health care bill. The Founding Fathers created in country over much less than what it is happening via health care and everything else in the Obama agenda. Now, I don\u2019t want to say this the wrong way, but I actually think you\u2019re wasting your time calling these people. I think you\u2019re wasting your time e-mailing them. (interruption) You disagree with that, Mr. Snerdley? You do? They\u2019re not paying any attention to it. If it makes you feel better go ahead and do it but don\u2019t expect any reaction to it. If it makes you feel better to pepper these people with e-mails and phone calls, by all means, do it, but don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to change the way they vote. Until you can pay them $500 million, like Harry Reid can, you\u2019re not going to change the way they vote. <\/p>\n

The only answer to this is to defeat every liberal on every ballot in every state in every election. That has to be the objective. The lesson here is that liberalism is a lie, it is a destructive force, and it is un-American, and it has to be defeated. And liberals run as Democrats so there has to be a mobilization against the Democrat Party. There are no moderate Democrats. We\u2019re seeing that here. And that\u2019s what has to happen. The American people, in our constitutional form of government, make changes at the ballot box. You gotta get your ego out of this in terms of having these people react to you and respond to you. Even if they do, it\u2019s going to be phony just to get you off their back. We\u2019ve gone way beyond that. We\u2019ve gone beyond that. What we have to do now is increase voter registration, increase voter turnout, and use the emotion that\u2019s building up here as a means of pulling that off.<\/p>\n

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