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RUSH: Glens Falls, New York, with Sean. Hello, sir. Wonderful to have you with us. Hello.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: I keep hearing on TV and you, ‘We just can\u2019t afford it, and the sacrifice is gonna have to be shared.\u2019 And I\u2019ve got a decent memory. I remember just a couple months ago when we couldn\u2019t have increased taxes on the most wealthy, the people that have made more money over the last decade, over the last 40 years, really —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — than anyone else in America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, wages have, you know, kinda remained flat. What I want to know is when Andrea Mitchell, Mrs. Alan Greenspan, and when Rush Limbaugh say we need to share the sacrifice, what kind of sacrifices are you guys making? I mean, really?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean by you guys?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, like I said, you, Andrea Mitchell, all the rest of the rich folk in the media that love to get up on TV and radio and talk about how the sacrifice must be —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not avoiding your question. I\u2019ll answer it here in just a second. I am not a proponent of shared sacrifice. I don\u2019t believe in sacrifice, period. I think that\u2019s an absolutely defensive, stupid, self-defeating way to go about life. This whole sacrifice business is a Democrat trick. It\u2019s nothing more than a political spin game: We must have joint sacrifice. That means we must accept, we must universally accept bad times, must just accept them, and then all share equally in them. Sorry, I don\u2019t participate in recessions. I am not gonna sacrifice to make somebody else feel good. I\u2019m gonna keep doing what I do, and I hope to prosper at every moment of my life. I mean that\u2019s what this country\u2019s all about. Now, what do you think, what kind of sacrifice should I be doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I just want to know who\u2019s gonna pay for the oil subsidies, and who\u2019s gonna pay for these wonderful wars you love so much? I mean if we\u2019re going to have these things that you want, Rush, somebody has to pay for it, and I\u2019m sick and tired of —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wrong.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — the people paying for it are the people making $50,000 a year. You\u2019re making $25 million a year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t look at life the way you do. There\u2019s a reason somebody makes $25 million and there\u2019s a reason somebody makes $25,000, and it\u2019s not the guy who makes $25 million\u2019s fault. There\u2019s a reason and it\u2019s not your job to come along and say that somebody is at fault, and it\u2019s none of your business to come along and say it isn\u2019t right and that somebody has got to make it fair by giving something up. You are destined to fail in your own life if that\u2019s your attitude about success. That somebody\u2019s success is owing to somebody\u2019s misery, therefore the misery must be honored. Wrongo, pal. Somebody in misery\u2019s gotta be shown how to get out of it, not have it shared equally. It\u2019s what I\u2019ve never understood about people on the left. Okay, so you have misery out there, but not everybody\u2019s feeling misery. Unfair. Solution? Make everybody miserable. Ergo, give us liberalism, it works. But sorry, I don\u2019t participate in it. <\/p>\n

What is this, wars that I love? I love a safe United States of America and people. I love a country willing to defend itself against those who would do us harm. And sadly, my friend, I\u2019ll tell you something when the next hour starts. Nobody fears this country anymore. Four Americans killed from a hijacked yacht by Somali pirates, and what are we doing about it? We\u2019re worrying about the inequities of sacrifice in America. Nobody fears this country anymore. We\u2019ve got the 5th Fleet in Bahrain. Doesn\u2019t stop what\u2019s going on. Nobody fears this country, and why? Because our esteemed leader is running around apologizing for this country and asking people to forgive us for that period in our past when people feared us. So nobody\u2019s afraid of us. They\u2019re monkeying around with our currency. They\u2019re monkeying around with their currency. The price of oil is skyrocketing, homelessness is on the rise, people are being foreclosed on in this country left and right, and we have an administration that pledged to stop all this, and it\u2019s actually getting worse. Whether you know it or not, we\u2019re all sacrificing what otherwise could be a great life because of liberalism running this country right now. And of all things that you could call here to talk to me about and learn from, you\u2019re sidetracked on $25 million versus $25,000 and somehow it\u2019s unfair to spend money defending the country against people who want to kill you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I checked the e-mail during the break after this last caller and all this joint sacrifice business, and people are suggesting, ‘Rush, you do sacrifice. Why didn\u2019t you tell that guy how much you pay in taxes?\u2019 That would not be classy, folks. That\u2019s not the way to deal with this. I mean to tell him that I pay more in taxes in one year that he\u2019s gonna earn in his worthless life is not the classy way to do this, because that\u2019s not what this clown actually means by sacrifice. You gotta understand this. Joint sacrifice to liberals means more government. Even now with massive spending, high unemployment, foreclosures, to this liberal that called here and all the rest of them, the problem is not enough government; it\u2019s not enough bureaucrats; not enough government benefits; not enough government. That\u2019s what the left means. The question is, when is it time for Washington to sacrifice? When is it time for unions to sacrifice? When is it time for government to sacrifice? When is it time for bureaucrats to sacrifice? When do they ever sacrifice? When does the government sacrifice? The government never sacrifices. Zilch, zero, nada. <\/p>\n

You want to start talking about sacrifice, sacrifice to me means reducing the size of government. Sacrifice means the takers don\u2019t get as much. Sacrifice means the takers stop demanding as much. This is not about rich versus poor. This is about government versus the people, bureaucrats versus the taxpayers, plain and simple. You Democrats and those of you in the country that call yourselves leftists, let me tell you something. The worst thing you ever did was pass Obamacare. The worst thing you ever did. You overreached by a factor of a gazillion. You went too far with that. Look at what you\u2019ve caused. With the simple passage of Obamacare and the undemocratic, fraudulent way you went about it, buying votes, buying off whole states, talking about doing it via budget reconciliation, doing it on Christmas Eve, trick nighttime procedures and so forth, quite simply what has result is the American people say they don\u2019t want you. They don\u2019t want what you have to offer. <\/p>\n

The American people simply do not want liberalism. The American people do not want liberals. Look at what happened. You think what\u2019s happening in Wisconsin is coincidence? It\u2019s not. You overreach, and you take over one-sixth of this economy with a bogus, fraudulent, budget breaking, Constitution-violating piece of legislation, and look at the shellacking you got. You lost the House of Representatives. You\u2019re going to lose the Senate and the White House in 2012. You have lost governorships. You lost 700 seats in state legislatures and it\u2019s all coming home to roost. And what\u2019s your solution? Run away. Run away from the job in Wisconsin. Run away from the job now in Indiana. Run away from the job soon in Ohio. The American people do not want you. The American people do not want what you believe. The American people do not want liberalism. You made it plain what liberalism is. It is fraudulent; it is phony; it is lawbreaking; it is cheating; it is insincerity; it\u2019s disingenuousness. It\u2019s on full display with the passage of this health care bill. <\/p>\n

Everything about liberalism that people instinctively distrust and don\u2019t like is now plain as day to see. They don\u2019t need their instincts to know. They got real life. And now they can see something also plain as day. All these years Democrats have made it plain that the little guy, that\u2019s who they cared about, the little guy, the downtrodden, the victims of life, and they were made victims by virtue of who? Republicans, conservatives, the rich, the powerful. Yeah, well, who is it the Democrats are siding with now? Who is it, when at a moment of survival for the Democrat Party, where do they go? Not to you, not the voters, not to the population, not to the American people. They stay in bed with the special interest group known as public sector unions. Public sector union guy says to elected Democrat, ‘You\u2019re never gonna work in this state again unless,\u2019 and the ‘unless\u2019 wins, the guy leaves the job, cowardly, walks off, gets on a short little bus and heads to a neighboring state, holed up in a hotel, cowardly afraid to face the little guys for whom supposedly his political existence is aimed at. <\/p>\n

So the frauds that you all are, is now plain as day for everybody to see. The American people don\u2019t want you. They don\u2019t want liberalism running the institutions and traditions that define this country\u2019s greatness. They don\u2019t want you and they saw plain as day what you were all about with the health care bill. And now they see what you\u2019re all about with what really matters to you, what your priorities really are, when you walk off the job and try to claim it\u2019s with honor, you claim you\u2019re doing this for the children, you claim you\u2019re doing this for the people. You\u2019ve spent years impugning, slandering, and libeling Republicans, claiming they wanted to cut money for school lunch programs, kick people out of their houses, take their retirement benefits away from them. You lied and lied and lied. You impugned; you libeled; you slandered. You had the referee in this game on your side, the media. So this notion that you were the ones truly compassionate, you were the ones with the big hearts, you\u2019re the ones that really cared about the children, where are the children today in Wisconsin? <\/p>\n

Where have the children been with you people in charge? We just read that two-thirds of Wisconsin eighth graders can\u2019t freaking read at an acceptable level? And yet look at what these teachers are being paid and look at their pensions and look at their health care benefits. Take that to the private sector, not only are they fired, they may be in jail for what they\u2019ve done to the children. So you gotta come to grips with something. This country has spoken all the way down to the level of dogcatcher. If the dogcatcher job was Republican versus Democrat, the Democrat dogcatcher lost. It was a steep and deep political shellacking, and so now we see the results of it. Elections have consequences. The people that ran for office against Democrats in November and who were elected have now rolled up their sleeves and are beginning to work. They\u2019re doing the work of the people who elected them. They are not engaged in sabotaging the people. <\/p>\n

The Democrats elected in this country, the vast majority of them, have expressly engaged in sabotage against the American people by siding with other Americans whose job it is to squeeze every last dime out of them in what is not anything other than a transfer of wealth. Public sector unions create zilch. They produce zilch. They add zero to the gross national product. It\u2019s simply wealth transfer. It\u2019s simply the redistribution of wealth. And what now has happened is that those from whom the wealth is taken have figured out that the beneficiaries of the transfer now earn twice what they who are earning the money in the first place earn. Once that was learned, once that was figured out, what did you expect to happen? Did you really think that there was so much love and adulation, respect for government workers that no matter how large the shaft job was, that the people producing the money to pay these people would just continue to bow down and say, ‘Oh, please continue to serve us. We love encountering you at the DMV. We can\u2019t wait to see you when we have to go get our health care. We just love seeing you people when we show up at the airport. We love getting patted down while Ahmed sails through and the granny blue hair Bloody Mary gang has to be stripped down to bare nothing looking for a nonexisting weapon while we\u2019re paying all of this.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The tipping point has been reached here. More than 700 seats in state legislatures went from Democrat to Republican. Hello, Wisconsin. Hello, Indiana. Hello, Ohio. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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