{"id":37616,"date":"2011-02-21T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:00:15","slug":"a_seminar_caller_on_wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/02\/21\/a_seminar_caller_on_wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"A Seminar Caller on Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Mark in Albany. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey thanks, Rush. Just a side point, the whole social media story you just brought up with HBGary<\/a>, their primary client that they were pitching was Chamber of Commerce, the far right Chamber of Commerce, so I just thought that a little bit of honesty on this show might —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, they might be working with the Chamber of Commerce in other ways as a consulting firm. This job was for the regime. This job was for the administration, fake people. In fact, my brother wrote a book citing the guy Cass Sunstein, well known communist professor of law who has even advocated the infiltration of websites for propaganda purposes to aid administrations. I\u2019m not making it up. HBGary might do other things, too, but this was for the regime.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, I\u2019ll look that up. But I want to bring up — <\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t have to look it up. I just told you. I am the source authority.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re a great entertainer, Rush, you make me laugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, and that, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, listen, I wanted to bring up Wisconsin a little bit because I think I finally found a tax raise that you love.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (singing) Oh, Wisconsin, oh, Wisconsin, da da da — you know, I went to Southeast Missouri State U for a semester, and that was the marching band\u2019s theme song, and I never understood it. What were you saying about Wisconsin?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think I found a tax raise you can love, because essentially that\u2019s what\u2019s happening. This governor is staying, ‘I\u2019m gonna raise taxes on these workers, on these people alone.\u2019 The government\u2019s gonna take more money out of their pocket, unilaterally, using, you know, at the long end of a gun or they lose their jobs. And they\u2019re gonna pay more. And what I wanted to know is all those years underneath Bush when the wars were exploding our deficit, you were hugely anti-tax. So I\u2019m wondering, in your world, it\u2019s okay to raise taxes or take more money from the working person, their average salary is about $55,000 a year, of course the compensation number is larger than that and that\u2019s the number you always talk about, but their average salary, their take-home pay, not even their take-home pay, their pretax pay is about $55,000 a year. You\u2019re fine with taking money from those people to balance the budget —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — but you\u2019re not fine with taking money from millionaires to balance the budget. What\u2019s the problem?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Take a breath. In the first place, there were no tax increases for the war in Iraq. Bush did not raise anybody\u2019s taxes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. <\/p>\n

CALLER: And you didn\u2019t want him to. Instead you wanted to blow up the deficit and have these wars that we couldn\u2019t afford, according to you. I mean if they\u2019re not paid for, we can\u2019t afford \u2019em, right? But that\u2019s fine to do when it\u2019s your pet project, but you are fine taking money away from people making $55,000 —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hold on a second. This is where I lose you people. I really do. We were attacked on 9\/11. There are people who have sworn allegiance to people that want to wipe us out, including you, that want to kill us. They are among us now. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I would have paid higher taxes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They killed 3,000 of our citizens, nearly 3,000 in one day, the largest such attack on this country ever. And you want to look at this as a tax and a budget issue and you want to compare this to something going on in Wisconsin, which has a requirement by law that their budget be balanced. They can identify what it is that they need to do to start getting that budget in balance, and it doesn\u2019t involve anything other than making people pay a little bit for what taxpayers are giving them in total now. There\u2019s literally no comparison or common ground to whatever you want to talk about with taxes and the wars, Afghanistan or Iraq. This is a state issue being meddled in by the president of the United States whose business it is not by virtue of the Constitution. <\/p>\n

We have people in Wisconsin who are making twice your average private sector salary, 55 grand, being paid by those people making 55 grand. Their retirement\u2019s being paid for in toto, their health care is being paid for, they face being laid off because the state doesn\u2019t have the money, can\u2019t pay them, or paying a little bit more toward their own benefits. Imagine that! You go on vacation and you pay for it. You go buy a quart of milk and you pay for it. I know it\u2019s a strange concept to a lot of freeloading leftists, but that\u2019s what\u2019s on the table here. And you are damn right. I\u2019m the biggest supporter of individual responsibility you\u2019re ever gonna find. If I want it, I pay for it. I don\u2019t accept freebies. I don\u2019t want the obligation. And I think everybody ought to pay for what they want, what they need. Needs and wants are two different things, but why should somebody else pay for what you want? What gives you the right or any of these teachers?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The caller wants to equate what\u2019s going on in Wisconsin with raising somebody\u2019s taxes. We\u2019re not raising anybody\u2019s taxes, but so what if we were? Isn\u2019t that what the left wants to do? They\u2019re raising taxes everywhere in Illinois, like that\u2019s gonna help. He should be happy if he looks at this as a tax increase. Support it. Be consistent. Idiots, I tell you.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The last caller was a seminar caller. You know, practically every leftist caller we get here is a seminar caller. They go somewhere and they\u2019re given talking points or some supposed line of logic to use that has supposedly been tested out there and guaranteed to trip up El Rushbo. It\u2019s not possible. It\u2019s like trying to sink a battleship with BBs, but these people persist. Trying to equate what\u2019s happening in Wisconsin with a tax increase? I mean, even if it were, what\u2019s wrong with it? These people all support tax increases! Anyway this guy, our first caller, Mark from Albany, reminded me of an old joke. A guy asks his friend about his recent sex-change operation. ‘Didn\u2019t it hurt? Didn\u2019t it really hurt?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Yeah, a little bit but what hurt the most was when they stuck the straw up my nose and sucked out a third of my brain.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Well, if you\u2019re gonna have a sex-change operation they gotta change your brain, too. You know, this is the thing. These people are just… (sigh) They\u2019re predictable, and it\u2019s almost, ladies and gentlemen… What I mean is, it\u2019s like I\u2019m talking to people who have had some of their brain sucked out. It\u2019s vacant. Somebody tells \u2019em, ‘Here\u2019s how you do it! This is what\u2019s gonna trip \u2019em up,\u2019 and then they call every talk show they can find thinking they\u2019ve got the excellent trip-up technique. I wonder if people like that, this guy who supposedly wants to compare what\u2019s happening to teachers in Wisconsin with war in Afghanistan and Iraq — I wonder if people like that — are aware of some of the salaries that these union people (not just the rank-and-file, but thug leaders) are pulling down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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