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RUSH: Amy in New York City is in the same vain on the line? All right, okay, Amy in New York City. Let\u2019s go to her because she wants to talk about the bonus as well. Amy, I\u2019m glad you called. You\u2019re up next on the Rush Limbaugh program, and I have to say that Amy is one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, wow, I feel very honored. Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a pleasure to speak with you, and I apologize I missed the first part of the discussion with Mark, and I was so happy to get the last copy of his book in Union Square yesterday, which is exciting, but, yes, I did call about the bonuses, and I wanted to further Eva\u2019s point, and I feel her pain. I used to work on Wall Street, before becoming a stay-at-home mom. My husband still works on Wall Street and has for the past 22 years, and I just wanted to share some insight with you, if I may, and your listeners. Number one is that the current buzz right now on Wall Street is that the quality people that are there, like Eva\u2019s husband and my husband, are now thinking about leaving these US firms, maybe not Eva\u2019s in particular, but my husband knows a lot of people that he manages that want to leave because these foreign companies are coming in and they\u2019re marketing themselves to US employees by saying, ‘We didn\u2019t get any TARP money, so your bonuses won\u2019t be affected, come over with us.\u2019 That\u2019s one of the big things, and they\u2019re approaching all of these really top-quality candidates to do that. <\/p>\n

And the second thing that I wanted to mention is, with regard to the bonuses, is that what I don\u2019t understand, and obviously the media is very biased, as we all know, but nobody is talking about what the cost of living is in the Tri-State area, meaning New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, versus other areas of the country, and I\u2019m sure Eva is feeling the same way living in New Jersey. I mean, you know, Wall Street, it\u2019s not everybody\u2019s fault that Wall Street and the insurance world happens to be in New York City. It\u2019s not as easy to live in other areas of the country working for those kind of firms. You know, for example, and I\u2019m sure Eva feels the same way, but we\u2019ve made the decision to live up here because if we didn\u2019t, my husband would never see my kids for dinner, and we wouldn\u2019t be able to educate our kids, you know, here in New York City. So we feel penalized because we might not be able to afford private education if these bonuses end up being taxed or have to give back to the government in some way, and it\u2019s very disheartening, quite honestly. I know a lot of people in the city that voted for Obama, obviously in New York. We were, of course, not one of them. My husband is from Dublin, Ireland, originally and he\u2019s not currently a US citizen, but he has a green card. You know, but the point is —<\/p>\n

RUSH: If he works at AIG, not for long.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, my husband doesn\u2019t work for AIG, he works for Morgan Stanley, but the point is that a lot of these folks that are working at these firms are saying to themselves, ‘Well, gosh, as much as I want to stay and I want to be loyal, why am I going to do that when I gotta give my money back?\u2019 For example, I was looking up the cost of living in New York, okay, versus some other areas of the country just to kind of get my head wrapped around it, because nobody is really talking about that. So I went onto this site, it\u2019s called salary.com, and I looked up what it would cost to earn $500,000 in like Chicago, Illinois, where our friend is from, right? In order to obtain a current standard of living in New York City, you would have to make approximately 44% more to live in New York City. So in other words, you would have to make over $725,000 to make it in New York versus Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait a minute. I have to stop you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to try to help.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Can you hold on through a commercial break?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. This is Amy in New York City, and we\u2019ll be back in just a second.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We are back, and we\u2019re with Amy in New York City whose husband is an employee on Wall Street (not at AIG) and is being recruited, like a lot of other people are, for foreign-owned entities because it just doesn\u2019t make sense to work for American entities because the Obama administration is out to destroy them. Amy, I have to tell you something here. You, as you described your financial circumstances to me and thus over 20 million Americans tuning in, you are one of the 40,000 families in New York City who are making the city work. Mayor Bloomberg said the other day — in opposing a new tax on the wealthy in New York, a state tax that the governor wanted to impose — that he was afraid these new taxes would cause people to leave the city. You have a city of eight million people, but 40,000 of them pay over half of the income taxes that generate the revenue for the city to function with its welfare state. As a result, Amy — now, please listen to me — you are not allowed to complain about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. (chuckles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m just being honest with you. Your circumstances, I totally understand them. I lived there. But you did not generate much sympathy for your circumstance when you said you had $500,000 in Chicago, you need $750,000 in New York. We live in the city; we have to send our kids to private schools. People out there hear you say that, ‘Why? What do you mean, ‘have to\u2019?\u2019 They\u2019ve not lived in the city and they don\u2019t know what P.S. 44 looks like.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Or P.S. 195 or whatever. They don\u2019t know that you would work as hard as you have to not to send your kids to a public school in the city before the dropout rate is over 50%. Let me try to explain what she was saying. Hang on here, Amy. <\/p>\n

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

RUSH: We went that website during the break, the Salary.com website. The Salary.com website tells you wherever you\u2019re living now, what you\u2019re making, and how much you would need additional if you lived in New York City or how much less you would need to stay even if you lived in a smaller city. So right now as an example if you make $250,000 a year gross in Milwaukee, to have the same lifestyle in New York City, you would have to earn $450,000. Now, you cited the example of $500,000 Chicago, and you need over $700,000 in New York City to replicate a lifestyle of $500,000 in Chicago. <\/p>\n

I need to point out to people that $500,000 a year is not enough for your average Chicago black family to get by on. The Obamas couldn\u2019t do it. When the Obamas lived in Chicago, when Barack got elected to the state Senate, I mean that\u2019s chump change money he gets paid. That\u2019s why he needed help from Tony Rezko to buy his house. <\/p>\n

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

RUSH: It is why he needed to get hold of a hospital to create a job that paid over $330,000 a year for his wife, Michelle — and since she\u2019s left that job, they\u2019ve not replaced it. It was a job created with money that was guaranteed to the Obama family in the form of a salary for Michelle Obama, simply \u2019cause her husband was in the Illinois State Senate. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s why they had to write the two books and earn them $2.5 million, \u2019cause not even your average black family can get by on half a million a year in Chicago. So I understand where you\u2019re coming from, but you are not going to evoke sympathy from people who will never earn $500,000 a year, much less $750,000 a year. It\u2019s because you earn that much, your family does, that they are susceptible to being whipped into a mob frenzy by the president of the United States when you get bonus money — and Wall Street right now is the whipping boy. Wall Street is the seat of capitalism; it\u2019s under assault by the Obama administration. The people up there, they took the bailout money, and once you take money from people like Barney Frank, the Democrats in Congress, and now Obama, all bets are off. You have to understand that you no longer have your freedom. I know your husband\u2019s not at AIG, but I\u2019ll bet your husband works at a company that took a bailout of some kind, or is a subsidiary of a company that did.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I totally understand the challenges that you face. You want to live the best life you can. You look at living in the city of New York as a sacrifice. That\u2019s where your husband\u2019s job is. You don\u2019t want to live a three-hour commute away so your husband can only come home on weekends. You want your husband to be able to come home at night after his 14-hour days and see the kids.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That, to you, is a sacrifice; and what it\u2019s costing you and so forth. But, see, in these class-envy times, your story only serves to throw more gas on the class-envy fire. <\/p>\n

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

RUSH: People want families like yours to suffer. They want you to understand how hard life is for them. And that\u2019s why they support Obama, because they think that Obama\u2019s gonna get your mind right. Obama is gonna take away from you all these things, and you\u2019re going to have to find out what it\u2019s like to send your kid to a rotten school, and you\u2019re gonna have to find out what it\u2019s like to have your husband never be home, and you\u2019re gonna find out what it\u2019s like for the rest of them. That\u2019s what Obama is gonna do. He\u2019s gonna equalize things; he\u2019s gonna level the playing field. You should be hurting! You should be in pain! So you know what it\u2019s like for every other American. <\/p>\n

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

RUSH: That\u2019s the prevailing attitude today. Whereas you think you and your family doing great things for the country, great things for the company, the best thing you can for your kids, you are now said to be totally out of touch. You just can\u2019t complain about your financial circumstance at your income level.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But ultimately what\u2019s going to happen is that, you know, because Wall Street is shrinking and the insurance sector is shrinking, people will go to foreign entities to make money.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah! Yeah. Yup. That\u2019s exactly right! That\u2019s exactly what Obama wants. He\u2019s trying to destroy all of this, and he\u2019s got people voting for him and supporting him on that basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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