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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here\u2019s Dave in Bourbonnais, Illinois.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello. Did I pronounce that right, by the way? Is it Bourbonnais or Bourbonnais?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Bourbonnais.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Great to have you here, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Such an honor to speak with you. I\u2019ve been listening for over 30 years, and you\u2019re the best friend I\u2019ve never met. (laughing)<\/p>\n
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RUSH: (laughing) Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I heard that, and I ditto the caller that says you\u2019re that. My wife has a salon in Bourbonnais, and I have a small electric business, and I know that I\u2019m essential. People make me feel essential. My wife, she knows she\u2019s essential. My mom, 76, she knows she\u2019s essential. We\u2019re fighting to say that we\u2019re worth something!<\/p>\n
‘Cause Cuomo said that, if you\u2019re essential, you can work. Well, I\u2019m essential. Let my wife open the doors, she\u2019ll let you know how essential she is — and the people around here feel the same way. She says they\u2019re professionals at what they do at keeping things clean. They\u2019re creative. They can open the doors and make you feel safe. Many may not want to come in, but most will. Man, I\u2019m desperate for people to stand up and become essential.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. You know, this has been kind of a bugaboo for a lot of people ever since this all began. Who gets to decide what\u2019s essential? That\u2019s what basically Andy McCarthy\u2019s tweet said. The government\u2019s job is to secure your liberty and freedom to act out the way you wish. It is not their job to tell you whether you\u2019re essential or not — and you don\u2019t have to prove it to them.<\/p>\n
Look, it\u2019s a control mechanism, which is something that a lot of these people are having way too much fun exercising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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