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RUSH: Now, there\u2019s a story in the Chicago Trib, I have seen pictures, thousands and thousands of people marching, union thugs in Illinois demanding tax increases. Here it is. I\u2019ve got the Chicago Tribune story right here. Grab audio sound bite number 31. We have a sound bite with this. ‘Thousands of protesters bused down by labor unions and social service advocates rallied at the Capitol today…\u2019 this was yesterday ‘…in an attempt to pressure state lawmakers into raising the income tax to avoid more budget cuts.\u2019 The unions want everybody else and their taxes to go up so that they don\u2019t lose their pensions and they don\u2019t have to get any kind of cuts whatsoever. ‘A spokesman for Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White estimated the rally crowd at 15,000, with more than 12,000 marching around the building. That would appear to make it the largest Capitol protest since the Equal Rights Amendment crowds a quarter-century ago. Bus after bus pulled up on streets surrounding the Capitol complex and dumped sign-waving protesters clad in purple, green, red and blue shirts that represented a show of strength from a variety of public employee unions and dozens of groups that formed what they named the ‘Responsible Budget Coalition.” And here is what they were shouting.<\/p>\n

PROTESTER: Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Springfield, Illinois, at the Capitol, thousands of protesters bused down by labor unions demanding higher taxes. Okay. Raise theirs. Raise their taxes. Cut ours. They want their taxes to go up, raise \u2019em! Now, this is an interesting development here. And it\u2019s interesting because the unions now see the underfunded pension plans, the states being bankrupt, and they see what Chris Christie is doing in New Jersey, and they see that California is paying attention to New Jersey, and they see the teachers unions get socked out there, all kinds of givebacks, teachers having to forgo promised raises and increases in pension benefits and so forth. So here are the freeloaders. ‘Rush, how can you say they\u2019re freeloaders? They\u2019re union people. They have jobs.\u2019 They\u2019re freeloaders. These are public employee union people. They know what they live off of. They live off taxes. These are not private sector union people. These are people that live off of your tax payments. And they want more. They want you to have to pay more taxes so that they continue in their freeloader gigs. <\/p>\n

Now, we\u2019ve talked about the last couple days, freeloaders, what\u2019s the percentage of people in this country that have really just checked out, they\u2019ve just cashed it in, they\u2019re sitting out there, they\u2019re happy to get whatever they get from the government, $300, $500 bucks a week, and people worry, have we reached the tipping point here, have we got to the point where 50% of the American people are freeloaders now? I don\u2019t believe we\u2019re anywhere near there, otherwise these people wouldn\u2019t be doing what they\u2019re doing, and Obama would be honest about what he was doing. He has to continue to lie about what his agenda is, trying to get people to support it. So look who it is that\u2019s now actually rallying for tax increases: public employee union people. They are the freeloaders. They are a net loss. They don\u2019t produce anything. They live solely off the output of the private sector, pure and simple, which they hate, by the way. I\u2019m talking about their leaders and some of these rent-a-mob types that show up. <\/p>\n

Now, who is it that runs Illinois? Who is it that runs Chicago? If I\u2019m not mistaken, it\u2019s the Democrats. Well, why don\u2019t the Democrats who run Illinois want to raise taxes this year? Why do these unions have to pressure Democrats to do something that is automatic as breathing to them? Raising taxes. What\u2019s going on here? Raising taxes, why do you have to protest for that with Democrats in Illinois? And yet we got ACORN type agitators out there demanding a tax increase from people who do that automatically. They do it before they brush their teeth when they get up. I mean, it\u2019s a reflex action. This is incredible, unheard of, a bunch of leftist, socialist, neo-communist union people asking their brothers in government to raise taxes when they do it already anyway.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s a way I want to create a visual for you. As host, I excel at painting pictures, and creating circumstances where you create your own image. We don\u2019t provide the pictures here; you do, actually, via the talent of the host. So here you have 12 to 15,000 union thugs demanding tax increases at the state capital of Illinois, which is akin to a tick demanding that we feed the dog more. That\u2019s how you (laughing) That is the way to look at it — or a leech, demanding that we feed the dog more. Yeah, it\u2019s a leech. You can see a leech. A tick, sometimes a flea, but whatever. You know, we\u2019re the dog, the union people are the leeches, and they\u2019re demanding that we be fed more. You know what else they were chanting out there? <\/p>\n

‘What do we want?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘More money!\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘What do we want?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘We want more money!\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘When do we want it?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Now!\u2019<\/p>\n

‘When do we want it?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘NOW!\u2019<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what one of their chants was — and you can see a tick when it swells up, and they do swell up on a well-fed dog. They\u2019re just giant ticks — a bunch of them, a bunch of leeches — at the state Capitol in Illinois yesterday. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s another audio sound bite from the teacher union protest yesterday at the state capital in Springfield, Illinois. Here\u2019s a portion of some teacher talking about the state budget.<\/line><\/line>PROTESTER: Where\u2019s the mo-neeey? Where is the mo-neeeeey? Save our childrens! (sic) Give us the bucks. Where\u2019s the cash? We need it fast!<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Were you able to hear that? Were you able to make it out? ‘Where\u2019s the mo-neeey? Where is the mo-neeeeey? Save our childrens! Give us the bucks. Where\u2019s the cash? We need it fast.\u2019 Now that you know that\u2019s what\u2019s being said, I\u2019m going to play this again. This is an unidentified teacher at this rally for tax increases in Springfield, Illinois, yesterday. She\u2019s obviously another one of these people that wants some money from Obama\u2019s stash. <\/p>\n

PROTESTER: Where\u2019s the mo-neeey? Where is the mo-neeeeey? Save our childrens! (sic) Give us the bucks. Where\u2019s the cash? We need it fast!<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Where\u2019s the cash? Where\u2019s the money? We need it fast!\u2019 We\u2019ve lost this group. We have lost them. This group is gone and everybody like \u2019em. They\u2019re gone. Anytime… Here\u2019s how to identify \u2019em, folks. I\u2019m sure you have a federal or county courthouse nearby. All you need to do is drive by it, and I guarantee you, everybody going in and out of there other than the lawyers (well, including the lawyers) is going in there for their livelihood. Where do these people go when they want money? They go to the state Capitol. Do they go to work? No. They go to the state Capitol. They demand from government more money. We\u2019ve lost those people. We\u2019re never going to convert those people. Those people are going to have to learn by virtue of tough experience. I marvel at this. <\/p>\n

You can see who we\u2019ve lost; you can identify \u2019em. Any courthouse, anyplace where checks are handed out, anyplace where complaints about the check not being big enough; you just check and see who\u2019s milling around there everyday, who\u2019s going in and out and you\u2019ll see who we\u2019ve lost because to them, going to some government building is where you go to get, in effect, your salary. Joe Biden. (interruption) What do you…? (interruption) What — what\u2019s your facial…? (interruption) Why are you surprised by this? (interruption) Where is the money? Are you surprised that this is unionized teachers asking this, as opposed to who asking it? Why does this surprise you? Do you think that these people do not know where their lifeblood is? Their lifeblood is taxes. <\/p>\n

They live off everybody\u2019s taxes! These are the people who live off of everybody\u2019s taxes. They know full well what\u2019s at stake here if these Democrats have to starting cutting budgets. It\u2019s less for them. They know full well. You and I, Snerdley, the last place we would go is there. If something happened to this show, the last place I\u2019d go is some courthouse or some state Capitol and start marching around, ‘Where\u2019s my money? Where\u2019s my money? I need it fast!\u2019 I would not even think of it. It would never occur to me. It would never cross my mind. These people, it\u2019s their daily existence. Even though they work, they\u2019re teachers, these are the freeloaders. It\u2019s not the people that are unemployed so much or exclusively, and they are a net drain on the economy. ‘Cause the salaries that they are paid via our taxes, they produce nothing. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not even in the private sector. They\u2019re just vacuum cleaners. They just suck assets and value out of the private sector. It\u2019s no different… Remember when there was $15 billion, vouchers for a share of $15 billion from the stimulus plan in Detroit? Remember the scam artists selling all kinds of phony applications? Get one of these and you get to apply for your share of the $15 billion, and our radio reporter up there at WJR talked to these people and asked: ‘Where\u2019s the money coming from?\u2019 ‘I don\u2019t know. From Obama\u2019s stash. From Obama.\u2019 No different. Those people were outta work. The teachers aren\u2019t. But they both go to the same place for their paycheck. That is where your taxes end up being collected and distributed. Except under this regime, this is going to expand. Now, Snerdley asked me a question: How can you not have a modicum of self-respect? <\/p>\n

They think they do! These people, in their minds, are the ones whose lives have been spent getting the shaft, from the system and from The Man. And so now this is their turn to get even. They\u2019re heading down to these places, like Springfield, to get their share finally. They are being immorally correct as far as they\u2019re concerned. This is full of integrity. This is the way it\u2019s done, because they\u2019re victims. The political party that they belong to, the ideology that they subscribe to, has made all of them victims. I don\u2019t care what their race is, their gender is, their sexual oppression, their ethnicity or religion. They have all been made to think they are victims of Wall Street or anybody else who\u2019s successful or has a house when they don\u2019t. <\/line> <\/line> The Democrat Party and liberalism has said, ‘Instead of you people going out and working for your share of an ever-expanding pie, we\u2019re going to make sure that those who have more than you do are giving it up to you,\u2019 and we\u2019ve been doing this for 50 years. Well, 60. So generations have been born into this entitlement way of thinking. ‘We deserve this. We built the country and our ancestors built it. We built the railroads. We built all these buildings. It\u2019s about time we got our share. It\u2019s us.\u2019 So I don\u2019t think they have a problem with their integrity at all. I think they think this is what they are entitled to. To them, going to a courthouse or federal or state building to collect benefits is the same as you and me trying to find a job. You and I look at it as though we have to provide for ourselves. <\/line> <\/line> These people have been told that they don\u2019t have a chance to provide for themselves because the deck is stacked against them, and even if they do happen to get a job it\u2019s going to get not fair, they\u2019re going to get fired and mistreated by ugly, unfortunate, mean-spirited bosses. So the government and the Democrat Party is there to make sure that the little guy, after getting stepped on by the system, at least gets his share. (interruption) Wait, Snerdley. (interruption) Now, you\u2019re right, Snerdley. He said, ‘What little guy? These people made a lot of money and got great benefits.\u2019 I\u2019m talking attitude, Snerdley. You got to understand how these people have been raised, you have to understand how they hear their political leaders. They are victims! It doesn\u2019t matter if they have $30,000 worth of benefits a year. If somebody has $31,000, they\u2019re mad. It\u2019s not fair. <\/line> <\/line> If they earn 60 grand a year on their job and somebody in the neighborhood earns 70, it\u2019s not fair. How do you think ‘tax hikes for the rich\u2019 plays with these people? Oh, they love it. Get even with those people. Doesn\u2019t improve their lives any, but, boy, it makes \u2019em feel better because they think somebody else is getting hurt, somebody else is in pain. I mean this is a grievance. Liberalism, leftism is a grievance existence. You live your life angry and upset, thinking you have been given the shaft from the moment you were conceived. Some people think they were given the shaft because they were born. It\u2019s all an attitudinal thing. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve lost these people. Can you imagine me wading into that crowd and trying to talk with four or five of them and saying: ‘Where\u2019s your sense of self-respect? <\/line> <\/line> ‘What do you mean coming down here and petitioning these lawmakers to raise my taxes? Why don\u2019t you go and get a job that is self-satisfying, that\u2019s sufficient, and that provides and give yourself a career?\u2019 Do you think they would hear a word I said? Oh, they would take that as a giant insult. They won\u2019t be receptive. We\u2019ve lost these people. By design. This is the point of the creation of a welfare state even among the working. It\u2019s all about an attitude; it\u2019s all about a mentality. It\u2019s all about rage and grievance and anger, rooted in a systemic unfairness. So when Obama runs around and says, ‘Our country has made mistakes,\u2019 this bunch applauds. ‘Damn right they have! Screwing us, that\u2019s how they made mistakes.\u2019 Thank you for this, Snerdley, because now I don\u2019t have to play the Joe Biden sound bites. I don\u2019t want to play \u2019em and now I don\u2019t have to.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: What is that last sound bite that we played? That teacher. No, we don\u2019t need to play it again, we don\u2019t play it again. I put it at the bottom of the stack. I don\u2019t remember what number it was. When I use it, I toss it. And when I want to get back to it, I don\u2019t know where it is. But anyway, here are these teachers: ‘Where\u2019s our money? Give us our money! We want our cash! We want it now!\u2019 The scary thing is these people are teaching students in Illinois. These are teachers. ‘Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes!\u2019 This is our Greece demonstration. This is the beginning of it, what\u2019s happening in Greece. Snerdley still can\u2019t get over it. He cannot believe that there are people who think this way. Why? I can\u2019t, either. <\/p>\n

Let me give you another example. Los Angeles Time, James Oliphant: ‘Why religion could affect Obama\u2019s court nomination.\u2019 Now, in this story, ‘Mark Scarberry, a law professor at Pepperdine University, said that having Protestant representation was key in a country where about half of Americans identify themselves in that manner.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, I do not think this way. I do not have an identity mentality. When I\u2019m thinking of a judge on a court, I don\u2019t first say, ‘Well, what am I? I\u2019m white, that I\u2019m Protestant, I\u2019m a Methodist! So I demand one of those.\u2019 I don\u2019t think that way. Do you, Snerdley? Well, Obama does. That\u2019s why we had to get Sonia Sotomayor because she kills a couple birds with one stone in the identity politics, plus hardcore leftist. But I don\u2019t think this way. You and I don\u2019t, and this audience, we don\u2019t. ‘Where\u2019s our cash? We want it fast. Where\u2019s our money?\u2019 And they\u2019re teaching your kids. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Ray in Livermore, California. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s great to have you. Thank you for the work you\u2019re doing. You often say on your show that it takes six weeks to convert someone. Boy, I hate to correct you. I\u2019ve got a family member who was forced to listen to your show for three days, and it corrected years and years of brainwashing and lies from the marching band media. He\u2019s a great Rush listener now, he spreads the word. He was forced to use a friend\u2019s car when his broke down and the radio station was set on KSFO and the knob was broken off so it couldn\u2019t be changed. It took three days to convert him, Rush, and I thank you. In fact, can I give you the telephone number for my mom so you could talk to her for a couple hours? Maybe get her on board, too?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me tell you something. It only took this guy three days?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Three days, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Three days. Why was he afraid to listen prior to the time he had no choice?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, because he believed everything that he was being told, you know, he was just —<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: The reason I ask is because we had a great blog post yesterday from some woman identifying herself as Bookworm. She said the reason liberals don\u2019t listen to me is because they are scared to death I will change their minds. They think I have mystical Svengali-like powers, and they\u2019re scared to death that I will upset their worldview. So they don\u2019t want to take the chance of listening.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that is very true, and that\u2019s why I wanted you to talk to my mom, if you could just get a few minutes with her even, she\u2019s from the same generation you\u2019re from, and, you know, God bless her, she took her time to teach me how to think and not what to think, and now she can\u2019t understand why I disagree with most of what she believes in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And one other quick thing, Rush, going back to the first hour. Whenever the left or a statist accuses a Republican of doing something, a malfeasance, it\u2019s typically because the left has been doing that, they are currently doing it, or they plan on doing it in the near future. And it\u2019s some sort of preemptive attack, I believe.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, it\u2019s called projection. You can always gauge what the left is doing by just listening to what they accuse us of doing. By the way, I saw this picture of the teachers protest in Chicago. And from the photos I\u2019ve seen, it didn\u2019t seem like there was a lot of racial diversity in this group. I don\u2019t know if the media will point that out, but folks, this is how you create a permanent underclass. And you think, ‘Rush, you\u2019re talking about public school teachers.\u2019 Yeah, we\u2019re talking about public school teachers, Illinois, permanent underclass. It\u2019s infuriating to Snerdley. It is to me, too, but it makes me more sad than anything else. Look at the worldview of these people. It\u2019s so narrow. In order to stay alive they\u2019ve gotta go protest at the State Capitol building. I mean, that\u2019s pathetic.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Hey, Snerdley? Snerdley, I\u2019ve been giving these teachers in Illinois too much credit. They didn\u2019t know where they were going. They just got on the buses and the union took \u2019em. They didn\u2019t know they were going to the statehouse. They just were told what to do when they got there. I\u2019m sorry. I gave them more credit than they deserve for self-reliance. They already got the money. It\u2019s from Obama\u2019s stash. They\u2019re just trying to make sure that some of it doesn\u2019t get cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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