RUSH: This is Daniel in San Bernardino, California. Daniel, welcome to the program.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. Thank you. I thank Jesus so much for giving you so much such great knowledge and foresight, and I personally pray for you and Kathryn and your health, as does my family. And I\u2019ve gotta say, “I love your show, I always agree with you, and I voted for Bush.” Thank you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ha-ha. Ha-ha-ha-ha. That sounds vaguely familiar.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Absolutely. So Mr. Limbaugh, the reason I\u2019m calling is I wanted to let you know that I\u2019m still working. I haven\u2019t stopped working through all of this. My job has obviously required social distancing and all that shenanigans, but I\u2019ve actually benefited from this coronavirus situation. I\u2019m actually so grateful. I\u2019m actually being paid two more dollars per hour on top of my base wage to come to work.<\/p>\n
So when overtime comes — that overtime opportunity comes — I definitely want to work because I\u2019m just banking on all that money. And the people at work — the people that I work with — the attitude they have about the situation, they honestly don\u2019t care if we reopen or not because they have a job. And it\u2019s kind of sad. They have steady income, and that stimulus check that we got for $1,200? It was just like an early fat Christmas bonus check. Now my coworkers don\u2019t like the situation. They don\u2019t prefer this (crosstalk).<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait! Whoa, whoa, whoa. What do they not like, the $1,200 check?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, no, no, they like that. There are a couple of workers who actually took a week off of work because they got that paycheck because they didn\u2019t need to work because they got it. But what they don\u2019t like, is they don\u2019t like all the social distancing, the wearing the face masks, everything virtually being sanitized (crosstalk).<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, what do you tell them? What do you tell them when they complain about that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I tell them, “What do you mean, you don\u2019t want the economy reopened? What do you mean, you don\u2019t care?” They say, “Well, I\u2019m doing just fine. I\u2019m still working.” So I tell them, “We need this to be open because there are 36 other million Americans out there who don\u2019t have the opportunity to still work, and the entirety of America is choking,” and they go, “Oh, well.” The demeanor and their atmosphere is just kind of toxic, you know, and I get the good news listening to your show, but (crosstalk).<\/p>\n
RUSH: Are these people you\u2019re talking about Millennials, for the most part?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, they are. Yes, they are, and a lot of them are still living with mom and dad. I have just moved out, so I\u2019m not. So I\u2019m out on my own. Even during this coronavirus, actually —<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let me tell you something. This is something that I\u2019ve always known, and I have had it confirmed for me in spades during the past three months. Most people don\u2019t care about other people. Most people are so self-focused, they are so self-possessed, self-obsessed… I could give you striking examples, but it\u2019s something I\u2019ve had to adjust to because it disappoints me every time I encounter it.<\/p>\n
I remember when this lockdown began and I am in various places seeing the shut-down cities, the ghost-town cities, and the… What it meant to me was behind every closed-down business or boarded-up storefront was a human being, a person, an American. They may be an employee behind that door; they may be the owner. They may have had taken out loans.<\/p>\n
They may have extended loans. That may be their dream behind that door. And it broke my heart. And I told everybody that from the first moment I experienced it. When I got back in radio, I was telling everybody. It\u2019s the reason why, I said, you can\u2019t go on. It\u2019s the reason it was not sustainable. People were being ruined. And while that was happening, there wasn\u2019t any concern from the coronavirus task force for weeks about this aspect of it.<\/p>\n
They didn\u2019t even talk about it. Now, I\u2019m not aiming fire at them for that. I\u2019m just illustrating, just observing that most people are always gonna think of themselves first. Their own satisfaction, their own pleasure, overcoming their own obstacles and so forth. Most people do not take the time to be concerned about others.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a smaller number than you would think. But I do. As I say, it was breaking my heart looking at this. It was breaking my heart, and all the while my instincts were telling me, “This isn\u2019t necessary. We\u2019ve never done this before! This has never happened. Why the hell are we doing this?” So I started examining the politics of it because politics is always gonna be — in this day and age — the explainer.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re always gonna be able to find the answer to this stuff in politics. The idea that you do care — the idea that you do have some interest and concern above and beyond yourself — means that you also have some interest and concern for the country above and beyond yourself, and that\u2019s a good thing. I hope you hold on to it, because it\u2019s key. You have to pick up the slack for when they don\u2019t. Anyway, I appreciate the call, Daniel. Thanks much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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