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RUSH: To Clearwater, Florida, Christine, and great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. Congratulations on your new marriage.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Lots of love to you and Mrs. and good luck on your program. I hope you\u2019ll be strong enough to stay on the golden microphone for years to come.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t sweat it. It\u2019s the case. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I am recently in Florida, but originally from Illinois. I\u2019ve been listening to your program for years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I didn\u2019t know people in Illinois had an accent like you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What part of Illinois are you from?<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: (laughing.)<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I tell you something. The way the country is going, I was telling (unintelligible), but I was born and raised in Poland, been here in the United States, nobody gave me any food stamps or a credit card or an apartment or a free cell phone. We had to work for everything, and we came legally. It took years, not like today, and we didn\u2019t have any rights to demand anything. Now that we build up our little nest egg, start a business 45 years already, now Mr. Limbaugh, our business is zero. Obama had the guts to tell us, don\u2019t complain to Washington, tell your boss, because he fired you. We had 35 people — family, kids, future. Nothing. Zero. We had to let \u2019em go. Where do we get the help? Not out of Washington, because little by little, inch by inch, step by step, they taken away our liberty, exactly your words, I cannot even pronounce I\u2019m so nervous because this is my first time, I make the call and I finally got through.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you don\u2019t sound nervous. You don\u2019t sound nervous. You talk about taking away our liberty step by step. If they take the court, if the left takes the court where do we go to protect our — this was 5-4 today, they voted on the Second Amendment 5-4! Imagine if it was the First Amendment that had passed 5-4. If they take the court, where do we go to protect our liberties? Because they will own everything. They\u2019ll have the presidency, they\u2019ll have Congress, they\u2019ll have the courts. Let me ask you, Christina, when you lived in Poland did they give you food stamps and cell phones?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Are you coming from Mars or what?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I\u2019m just asking.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019ll tell you what it was. We had a food stamps because there was a food rationing. Okay. Now I\u2019ll tell you true story. Years go by, and I go back to Poland to visit.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: And here in Chicago council, I had to get the visa, and I had to pay per year. And those days, I don\u2019t know now, but those days they were like $7.50 a day, for nothing, for air. So when I got there, I need to buy food for my parents and stuff. I could not because everything was cents, okay? This was 1980. So I went to the official office and present my American passport, and I know I pay $7.50, maybe I get something, right? He said, ‘Ha, you can go to the PKO,\u2019 which is the international store, ‘You can get the ham, you can get the cognac and, you know, the chocolates and –‘ I said, ‘Sir, my father just passed away. My stomach is upset. I need the barley. I cannot buy barley.\u2019 I didn\u2019t know the barely was on food stamps. You know, they give you stamps and it\u2019s allowance, so much bodily per month or family or whatever. Do you believe this?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I do, because you\u2019re telling me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, now they\u2019ve taken the census. This was a joke. And I tell you why. I\u2019m registered in Florida. I\u2019m your neighbor, okay?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But the paper came to Illinois. On my address, I have a condo in Illinois, in Chicago.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And the house in Clearwater also received a census application, okay?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, I was confused. Should I fill it out both? Then I think no, that\u2019s not right, it\u2019s more politician on my account. So I call up the 800-number in Chicago to find out which application I should be filling it out and sign my name. Do you know what the man said on the other end of the line?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tell me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If you going to be here — this is exactly what he said — if you going to be here, on April 1st, you gotta fill this out. And I said, ‘Well, April 1st, yeah, I\u2019ll be invited to dinner. Should I?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: So just \u2019cause you\u2019re going to be in Chicago one day you had to sign it in Chicago?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. So I didn\u2019t quit —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know why, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know why. I know why because that\u2019s exactly what they did in Poland. They divide the people in a smaller groups, instead of 25 counties, they make it 45 counties, and each county has to have a government building, and each government building is getting taller and bigger and more politicians.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s interesting you say that, I had somebody tell me yesterday, I did not know this, you know the old classic, the original General Motors building, the old tall art deco — do you know that it\u2019s all been taken over by government workers now? General Motors is no longer in it, they\u2019ve got a new building, but government workers are in that building while they\u2019re tearing down houses in Detroit. Federal, state, I don\u2019t know what workers they are, but they\u2019re in the old General Motors building, long before they took over General Motors. Just is the case. You know, we get calls like this a lot from people who have come from the former Eastern bloc who lived through all of that and are a little frightened that they see signs here of what they lived through. <\/p>\n

Does this woman have it pegged or not? More government buildings, taller and bigger, more politicians. She\u2019s exactly right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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