RUSH: We have Faith from ‘parts unknown\u2019 in Michigan. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, I\u2019m a new listener, and, dare I say, I\u2019m a devout listener.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How long have you been listening to the program, Faith?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Probably about a year, I would say.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, welcome here. How did you discover this program?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Eating lunch at White Castle.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, we own White Castle. Well, good, good. I\u2019m glad that you hung in there once you heard the program. You probably have heard a lot of very critical things of this program before finding yourself in that White Castle that day.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You know what, Rush, I was a Democrat in the past and now I\u2019m a staunch Republican, and I listen to you just devotedly, and I\u2019ll tell you, I agree with just about everything you say, except one thing.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: You know, the part about the union. You had a very eloquent lady call one day, talking about her husband, a lower level manager and engineer. Well, my husband is a production worker for General Motors, and I\u2019ll tell you, my husband is very committed, and he\u2019s a hard worker, which a lot of the production workers are. And both of us have worked for — he hasn\u2019t, I have, where you have unions, and you don\u2019t have unions. And I\u2019ll tell you, at the lower level, the trenches, like where we are, we need people to protect us, and like my husband will tell you how disrespectful some of those like lower level managers can be. And, I don\u2019t know, you probably have something to say about that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, look, I appreciate your being a devoted listener. I\u2019m glad you called because I need to avail myself of every opportunity I can to make the following point.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That is, I am not opposed to union people. I support the workers. I don\u2019t support unions, and I don\u2019t support the union leaders, but I support anybody who\u2019s working, and I am all for anybody, everybody earning as much as they can. I want independence and liberty and prosperity for everybody, and this is the place in the world to come do it, at least it is now, and has been for the longest time. We all have bosses who are not fun to work for, to one degree or another. This is common. I myself have had some that were doofuses, and you have to put up with it. And sometimes you don\u2019t put up with it and you get fired. There\u2019s all kinds of personality types. You\u2019ve got arrogant abrasive, you\u2019ve got management that doesn\u2019t care, that doesn\u2019t notice what you\u2019re doing, then you\u2019ve got insecure management. Everybody thinks management is totally secure, that nothing ever rattles \u2019em, that they never, ever get in trouble, and it\u2019s not true. They got people looking at them, too. There are all personality types all over the place. I don\u2019t know what you heard me say about unions. I think the call that you heard, I remember, that woman called, and her husband was nonunion.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Her husband was nonunion, and she was talking about how he had to go in Easter Sunday one time.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You know, Rush, there\u2019s plenty of times my husband, being a production worker, the attitude amongst the engineers, like if the line breaks down, and my husband is very mechanical, and quite a number of those guys that work the lines, Rush, they know exactly what\u2019s happening with the machinery, and my husband comes home so frustrated because the attitude among a lot of the engineers is, ‘Well, if you guys were intelligent, you\u2019d be engineers, so shut up and back off.\u2019<\/p>\n
RUSH: Look. I don\u2019t want to be insensitive here, I really don\u2019t, but we\u2019ve all faced that in our careers. Do you know how many literal insane idiots I had to work for in my career?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Do you know how many people who have tried to tell me how to do what I do, who have never done what I do? I\u2019ve had to go into coaching sessions. In fact, I got fired in a place once that had no cause. They just wanted to get rid of me. I got stabbed in the back by some coworker, anther guy at this radio station and I was naive and didn\u2019t understand how the game was being played.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I was also doing some controversial things on the radio, but I was not doing anything that I could be fired for with cause. I was not a member of a union, they didn\u2019t need cause, but they didn\u2019t want to pay a whole lot of money to get rid of me, so they tried to make me quit, and one of the things I had to do every afternoon was to go in for a one-hour review of my three-hour on-air presentation, and I had to listen as the program director, who had never done what I\u2019ve done, told me I was using the word ‘therefore\u2019 too many times \u2019cause it confused the audience, it cluttered the mind. And the next time I used the word ‘therefore,\u2019 I was going to be in big trouble. It\u2019s like telling somebody don\u2019t think ‘pink.\u2019<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You\u2019re thinking pink. I went through there and I knew what was going on, so I smiled and I said, ‘You\u2019re right. I agree with you. The word ‘therefore\u2019 does clutter the mind. I\u2019m going to do better. I\u2019m going to try not to use it,\u2019 and it got ridiculous. This went on for two weeks, but I knew what they were doing, and I was not going to quit, and I was not going to let \u2019em force me out of there, and they ended up firing me and paying a severance package and so forth. But we\u2019ve all gone through this. Union is not the answer to it. You\u2019re going to have people above you wherever you work, some of them are going to just be mean, incompetent, insecure people. Others are going to be great. And, you know, we have choices in this country. You can either accept a situation, try to make the most of it and say, ‘Okay, I have to stay here, my family\u2019s here, I can\u2019t pack up and move, who knows where I can find a job,\u2019 or you can say, ‘I\u2019m not going to put up with this. I\u2019m not going to be disrespected like this,\u2019 and if I\u2019m better than the people I work for, I\u2019m going to go get a job where I can use all my talents. It\u2019s an attitudinal thing.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re going to sit around and accept the attitude that you\u2019re always going to be an employee and you\u2019re always going to have a boss and you\u2019re always going to have to eat the excrement sandwich, or do you someday want to be a boss, do you someday want to be independent and free of that? We live in a country where people can make that choice each and every day. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve always said that most of the limitations that people have are self-imposed. Most of the limitations we have are not because somebody won\u2019t let us do something. It\u2019s \u2019cause we don\u2019t want to do what it takes to do something else, or we can\u2019t move, or whatever, but most of the limitations that people place on themselves are self-imposed, or have are self-imposed, and so union is not the solution to any of this. Union is not the correction. But please don\u2019t misunderstand. I have absolute, total support for each and every employee in this country, whether unionized or not. Because, see, I want a successful country, defined in a lot of ways.<\/p>\n
I want a moral country and I want a prosperous country and I want a country with all kinds of future for everybody who has yet to be conceived and born. This requires the people who are alive today also want the same things and have the ability, by virtue of how they live their lives and govern themselves, to create the same set of circumstances we were all fortune enough to be born into. This is why cultural moral decay is a great, great, great concern. It\u2019s not because there are some of us who disapprove personally, it\u2019s because of the overall effect, over time, long after I\u2019m dead, what\u2019s going to happen to this country, with this moral rot, with this silly notion that kids are so fragile that you can\u2019t tell them the truth about the economy, or that you have to drag them in and show them a propaganda movie by Algore and then bring their parents in and threaten the parents, ‘If you don\u2019t come watch it, your kids\u2019 grade will suffer.\u2019<\/p>\n
Now we\u2019ve got some of the silliest economic notions that the people of this country voted for, and we sit around and we hope and pray that they overreach. And I\u2019m convinced they will. I\u2019m convinced the Obama people are going to vastly overreach and if he puts this $850 billion stimulus package or billion dollar, trillion dollar, whatever it is, year and a half from now, folks, you\u2019re going to see approval numbers for Barack Obama that are going to stun you and him and everybody else, and here come the midterms. But what\u2019s going to happen in 2010 is gonna depend totally on whether or not the Republican Party\u2019s grown a set and has the audacity to actually present an alternative rather than watered down sameness. So understand here, Faith, I love you, and I understand the garbage that your husband goes through, I\u2019ve gone through it, and so has everybody else. It\u2019s part and parcel of going to work every day in this country. We\u2019ve all had reprobates and idiots that we\u2019ve worked for. We\u2019ve all also had great people that we end up working with. If you\u2019re lucky you end up with great people you\u2019re working with and working for. But those people aren\u2019t going to find you. You have to be out there working and finding them. So please don\u2019t misunderstand. We support the workers.<\/p>\n
I have respect, love, and admiration for everybody in this country who gets up and goes to work every day. I don\u2019t care where and what they\u2019re doing. It\u2019s the people that don\u2019t work — who can, but don\u2019t — who have entitlement expectations, you know, that\u2019s a whole different thing. I have no sympathy for sob stories. We\u2019ve all had them. We could all cry, every day, about something. We could all go through the day (crying) not fair! Welcome to life. The more you\u2019re able to get in control of your own life and your own future, the happier you\u2019re going to be. If you structure life, your life so that you\u2019re always waiting for the next explosion to hit, if you\u2019re always waiting for the next creep to pop up, it\u2019s going to happen. You can be a person of action or you can sit around and wait and hope. And, remember, hope, outside the biblical term — don\u2019t get confused here — hope is simply an excuse for doing nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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