RUSH: Here is Adam. He\u2019s 15 years old. He is in Champlin, Minnesota. Great to have you. I\u2019m glad you waited, Adam. Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you. It\u2019s an honor to be talking to you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Is this the best program in the world, Adam?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I don\u2019t know. I haven\u2019t listened to every program in the world.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s a Donald Trump-type question. You\u2019re supposed to say “yes” because I\u2019m acting childlike here asking for praise.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, yes. Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Good. Good answer.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: So recently the United Nations did this investigation into poverty in the United States, and they concluded that the American dream has become the American illusion. My question is, is the American dream an illusion or is it still a reality?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me ask you a question. It\u2019s not a diversion. I need to know. You\u2019re 15. Do you have a definition of the American dream yourself?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. I think it means social mobility, that you have the potential ability to change your economic status for the better or the worse.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. The American dream is alive and well and in better shape than it\u2019s been in eight years, and if I were you when it comes to the United Nations — and I\u2019m not exaggerating here — when the UN releases a report on the United States, your first reaction should be not to trust it and to look into it more deeply and find out what\u2019s behind it. Because, in this case, nothing could be further from the truth. The evidence is in the numbers of people trying to get here from all over the world. The evidence is every day in the number of people who are succeeding and improving their economic circumstances, their social circumstances.<\/p>\n
This country still is the best place to realize your dreams. There is no place anywhere on this earth better for being able to live your dream, or to have an opportunity to do so. It is in no way over. Now, I\u2019m gonna be honest with you here, Adam, and I run the risk of you thinking that I\u2019m just a partisan hack, but I\u2019m telling you, if the Democrat Party were still running this country and were in charge of the U.S. economy, I would tell you that the American dream\u2019s still there, but it\u2019s tougher because you now have more obstacles to overcome in the form of the United States government.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: People have been overcoming obstacles in this country from the beginning. Ordinary people have accomplished extraordinary things, and it happens every day. And you can too. It depends on your degree of ambition, how much you want it, how hard you\u2019re willing to work at it, and how much luck might come your way, luck being defined as when preparation meets opportunity.<\/p>\n
Adam, you\u2019re gonna have no trouble finding people all over your life who tell you something can\u2019t be done or that you can\u2019t do something. But as long as you\u2019re an American, as long as you live here, you will be able to seek opportunity, you\u2019ll have opportunity to be and do whatever you want. That opportunity has not been destroyed. It has not been eliminated. There are people who have tried to whittle away at it, but nobody is gonna succeed totally as long as we have our constitutional liberties and freedoms.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I believe that. Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Do, because it\u2019s the truth. You know, you could always find people who failed at something. Don\u2019t listen to \u2019em. You can always find people that haven\u2019t succeeded. They\u2019re legion. And you can always find people that tell you how to fail \u2019cause everybody knows how.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And they\u2019re the kind of people who will blame America for not having any chance of success.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, in large part, because that\u2019s what they\u2019ve been told. The Democrat Party makes victims out of people, and of course once you accept that you\u2019re a victim, it\u2019s not your fault. It\u2019s gotta be somebody else\u2019s. It\u2019s a great way of exonerating yourself. Hey, look, I\u2019m gonna ask, I\u2019ve got 10 seconds. Yes or no, do you want an iPhone X? I got some extra. I want to give them away today. Do you have a desire for one?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Sure. That would be very nice of you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. Who is your carrier?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I don\u2019t have a carrier. I only have a TracFone. But we have T-Mobile, our family does.<\/p>\n
RUSH: A TracFone. Okay. I\u2019m gonna send you a phone that has a Verizon SIM card in it, but take it out. It will work on any carrier in the world. Just don\u2019t take it to an Apple store \u2019cause they\u2019ll tell you, “It\u2019s got a Verizon SIM card, it won\u2019t work.” It will. Just take it to wherever and it\u2019ll work. I\u2019ll have a note enclosed with your phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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