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RUSH: Let\u2019s grab a phone call very quickly as we navigate toward the conclusion of this hour. This is Rob in Chicago. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, thank you so mur — much, Rush. Uh, please excuse me. I\u2019m a little nervous here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand that. Most people are, talking to me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) Okay. Sir, the reason I\u2019m calling is the Democrats constantly redefine what the definition of “rich” is. Okay? Currently their idea of rich would be a teacher and a fireman, or a construction worker and a nurse. How in the blue blazes are…?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Actually I ran some numbers on this, and they really are very consistent at this. I went back to 1984, and 1984 at the Democrat National Convention in San Francisco, Walter Mondull promised to raise taxes on “the rich,” and back then it was defined as anybody earning $60,000 a year.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, well, $60,000 won\u2019t buy you much anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But $60,000 today is roughly $124,000. I mean if you add that with two people and a house you get 250 grand so it really hasn\u2019t changed. If the household income is $250,000, that\u2019s the new definition of rich, it\u2019s pretty much consistent. I mean there\u2019s some variables here that don\u2019t make it exact, but it\u2019s pretty consistent. Their idea of what\u2019s rich. But your overall point is exactly right. The time you start adding household income of various professions, we\u2019re not talking about rich at all. What we\u2019re talking about —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Middle class!<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re talking middle class, exactly — and we\u2019re talking about the federal government, the Obamas, the Democrat Party doing everything they can to eliminate upward mobility within the middle class. The income tax is the greatest preventer of the accumulation of wealth in our society.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, if you\u2019d allow me, I\u2019d like to make two points. One is that the greatest enemy of the Communist Party, per se, is the middle class — and, two, is that the biggest lie in the Democrat lexicon is “middle-class tax cut.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: True.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: But your point is…?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That is my point. Those are my points.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But what are you saying? The Democrats are trying to wipe out the middle class?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They are doing everything they can to limit upward mobility of people in the middle class, while speaking as their champions. While claiming to be the champion of the middle class, the middle class, the workingman, the Democrat Party\u2019s doing everything they can to stagnate the middle class. Because, you\u2019re right: Middle-class upward mobility, great, great threat to the Democrat Party. That means people will move out of a state of dependence.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s middle class jobs that are the jobs that are being destroyed. Middle class education being dumbed down to the point that people in the middle class are not being educated to be upwardly mobile. This is not a coincidence, and it can\u2019t be denied.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know that first caller, I don\u2019t want any of you to get distracted by his reference to the communists. A lot of people, even to this day, even with noted communists as czars in Obama\u2019s administration — (interruption) what would you call Van Jones? I mean you\u2019re sitting there laughing, he\u2019s no longer a czar but he was. He\u2019s a communist. There are a bunch of communist-leaning sympathizer types. They\u2019re Obama czars. Well, here\u2019s a good way to picture this. Have you seen any video interviews with people, say, at Occupy Oakland or Occupy Wall Street or these young foolish, ignorant, idealistic people? That\u2019s who his czars are. People like that are who the czars are. Precisely. I mean these people would no more get confirmed for a post in government than the Roadrunner would. So he makes \u2019em czars, they\u2019re not accountable. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I don\u2019t want you to get distracted by the guy. Still, even now, when you mention the word “communist” and you associate it with an American politician, you lose people. They just tune it out. They don\u2019t want to ponder it, they don\u2019t want to consider it, and normally the person leveling the charge, “There\u2019s a communist over there,” is considered the kook and whatever they say is, therefore, relegated to being irrelevant. Now, the point that he wanted to make, was that far from being the great advocate and supporter for the middle class, Obama and the Democrat Party are just the opposite, and that is true. <\/p>\n

We in America had the largest middle class in the world, and the middle class is the key to greatness in this country. That\u2019s where it all came from. Contrary to what some people think, the rich are not born that way. Well, a few them are, the Kennedys and others, but the vast majority of the rich are made. Hard work, you name it. We had the largest middle class in the world, and it\u2019s under assault from practically every direction. Look at the destruction of home values. The family home was the largest asset most people in the middle class have, and it\u2019s being destroyed, after being talked up for generation after generation after generation. The American dream equals owning your own house. The mortgage came along, a 30-year loan to be able to afford a house, you got to deduct the interest on your mortgage to make it even more affordable, but clearly home ownership is synonymous with the American dream, middle class, upward mobility. What\u2019s under assault now? Home values. <\/line><\/p>\n

We have got yet another magical program from Obama to fix it, after repeated Obama programs to fix the foreclosure program, the housing problem in general. All it\u2019s done is worsen middle income jobs, middle class jobs are the jobs that are being destroyed. Education. Education within the reach of the middle class has been dumbed down or practically destroyed. Upward mobility of the middle class is what accounted for the growth of this country. Upward mobility of the middle class is what gave birth to the whole concept of American exceptionalism. Didn\u2019t give birth to it, but it epitomized it. Middle-class upward mobility is what set this country apart from every other country in the world. And now where is middle-class upward mobility? It has been targeted. <\/p>\n

There is so much debt via spending per man, woman, and child in this country that getting out from under it will forever retard upward mobility in the middle class, and that suits the left and the Democrat Party just fine because then, rather than the middle class becoming self-reliant they remain dependent. Food stamps, assistance here, assistance there, day care, free diapers,<\/a> Rosa DeLauro. It\u2019s a devastating thing, it\u2019s a crying shame. Now, I wouldn\u2019t expect any liberals or Democrats to get behind any of the Republicans\u2019 new tax ideas. I\u2019d be nervous if they did. The last thing that the Democrat Party wants is upward mobility within the middle class. What the Democrat Party wants is continued dependence. Look at the cost of living overall for people in the middle class. You\u2019ve got rising energy costs, higher taxes are a direct assault on the middle class. <\/p>\n

The rich don\u2019t have worry about the price of gasoline. The rich don\u2019t have to worry about the cost of their taxes. The rich don\u2019t have worry about going out and buying a stupid electric car. The rich can make these vanity choices and say, “Look at me, I care, I\u2019m driving an electric car, I\u2019m driving a Prius, or I got a ribbon on my shirt here.” But the middle class has always been the best kept secret of this country in terms of its meaning. The middle class is where the people who made this country work live. It\u2019s where they are. And it\u2019s the middle class that\u2019s under assault by all that Obama has done. <\/p>\n

“Mr. Limbaugh, this is just absurd. The middle class is made up of first responders and firefighters and teachers and policemen. Of course the president is doing everything he can to support them.” Yeah, that\u2019s not the kind of middle class I\u2019m talking about. We\u2019re talking about public sector employees paid for by the middle class. That\u2019s another expense the middle class is having to incur. They\u2019re having to pay higher taxes to employ all these public sector people. And Mr. New Castrati, one more time. If you think Obama loves teachers \u2019cause he loves teachers, you\u2019re a fool. If you think Obama loves cops \u2019cause he loves cops, you\u2019re an idiot. If you think Obama loves firemen because he doesn\u2019t like fires, you\u2019re an idiot. He likes those people because they\u2019re members of unions, \u2019cause they pay dues, which means the money is gonna come back to the Democrat Party. That\u2019s why he likes private sector jobs. What he really thinks of those people is they\u2019re bitter clingers. When things aren\u2019t going well they cling to their guns and their religion. They\u2019re a bunch of hayseed hicks. <\/p>\n

The truth of the matter is the Democrat Party has an ongoing, arrogant contempt for the middle class, because they\u2019re beneath them. You don\u2019t see the middle class invited to the White House or any state dinners. It\u2019s just a crying shame what is happening to the great American middle class. I look at these Republican proposals, and I know exactly what they\u2019re intended to do. Take money back out of Washington and redeposit it into the private sector. The only way there\u2019s gonna be upward mobility for people is if there is money circulating, capital that\u2019s being invested, spent, what have you, equaling growth where the middle class lives and works. It cannot be an accident that everything Obama does takes a piece out of the middle class. <\/p>\n

You look at Cloward-Piven, you look at Alinsky, Jeremiah Wright, all the mentors of Barack Obama, what was their objective? Their objective was to starve the middle class, to so frustrate them, create so much chaos that they have no choice other than to engage in civil disobedience and violence against a sitting government. In this case they\u2019re imagining it being against the Republican Party, not themselves. And basically just have everything collapse on itself, and then you start all over, and you rewrite the Constitution, you set yourselves up as the dictators. And you do this with the full-fledged support of the middle class because while you\u2019ve tricked \u2019em into thinking you are doing everything you can for \u2019em, you\u2019re destroying them. You\u2019re giving them no other option other than tearing down what exists and starting all over, under the guise of it all being fixed. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s no different, folks, than what happened in Hurricane Katrina. The government sends money down there, the people are supposed to use it to make sure the levees will hold during a flood, and instead of using the money for that purpose they use it for their own purposes. I don\u2019t know, going to the movies, buying booze, buying a bigger house. Doesn\u2019t get to where it\u2019s supposed to go. Then all of a sudden the levees fail and the very people responsible for it do what? Blame the fact there wasn\u2019t enough money spent, blame the fact that government was too small, blame the fact government didn\u2019t have enough power. The very people that caused it act as spectators, like they had nothing to do with it. Same thing happening here. The very people whose policies by design are taking out the middle class are now acting like spectators and bystanders and pointing fingers of blame at people when in fact it is they who are responsible for it. <\/p>\n

So Occupy Wall Street Now? Good. More of it! More chaos, more upheaval, more anger, more frustration. Because what\u2019s the Occupy Wall Street crowd doing? They\u2019re asking for more government, aren\u2019t they? They\u2019re not asking for more money returned to the private sector. They\u2019re not asking for more prosperity. They\u2019re asking for more government as the answer to their wants and needs. They\u2019re not looking to themselves. They\u2019re not looking at the country as people did in the past: A golden land of opportunity. Just the opposite. So the more middle class unrest, the more middle class poverty, the more middle class joblessness (the theory goes), the more those people will clamor for government to do something.<\/line><\/p>\n

Then Obama can say, “Well, you know what? You\u2019re right. I hear you, and the Congress isn\u2019t doing anything, so I\u2019m just gonna do it on my own. The Congress won\u2019t pass my jobs bill, so I\u2019m just gonna do it myself, and I\u2019m go in do a bus tour, and I\u2019m go to go to Las Vegas where I told everybody else not to go, and I\u2019m just gonna do it,” except Obama can\u2019t. No president can make your life whole. Only you can do that. Now, a president can redistribute wealth and take it from other people. It\u2019s not gonna help you. You think…? Steve Jobs just died. He left a fortune of about, what did I read, two billion, two to five billion — and now these people are running around, “Well, we gotta have a death tax.” Okay, fine, let\u2019s have a death tax. Let\u2019s have a death tax 55%.<\/p>\n

So the government comes gets 55% of Jobs\u2019 estate. You people gonna get any of that? How\u2019s that work? Will you end up with some of Jobs\u2019 $2 billion? ‘Cause you know you\u2019re not gonna end up with any of Jobs\u2019 money. So what\u2019s the point of it? Well, the point is punishment. You\u2019ve been conditioned — not you, you in this audience. The people I\u2019m talking about have been conditioned to feel happy when they think somebody else is hurting, but after it all is over you\u2019re still miserable, and you\u2019re still in need of free diapers from Rosa DeLauro. Nothing\u2019s changed, except your opportunities continue to shrink, and you continue to clamor for government to do more. I give you black America. For 50 years they have been clamoring government to do more, and every four years the government promises they\u2019re gonna take care of it.<\/p>\n

After 50 years of it, they\u2019re still complaining and clamoring for fixes. The fixes never happen. It\u2019s now the entirety of the middle class that faces that same circumstance. Oh, it\u2019s even better. Jobs\u2019 fortune now <\/a>is $8.3 billion. Okay, so 55% of $8.3 billion. His wife gets all of it, but she\u2019d have to pay it. Let\u2019s just say for the sake of argument here that the Jobs estate, four billion of it is taken by the government. And there are people, Warren Buffett and other people, “Yeah, that\u2019s fair, that\u2019s fair! Take money away from that family. That family, they don\u2019t need it any more. Jobs is dead. It doesn\u2019t matter, he earned it, doesn\u2019t matter. We need to we distribute that money to the people.” Yeah, how\u2019s that gonna work? That $4 billion, who\u2019s gonna get it when you start redistributing that money? Who\u2019s actually gonna get it? I want names. Give me the names and addresses of people in Cupertino, California, who are gonna get some of that four billion. I want to know how this works, cause we all know it doesn\u2019t work that way. The people in Cupertino are not gonna see a penny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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