Rush Limbaugh - Caller: Why Don't You Guys Sacrifice

RUSH: I'm not avoiding your question. I'll answer it here in just a second. I am not a proponent of shared sacrifice. I don't believe in sacrifice, period. I think that's an absolutely defensive, stupid, self-defeating way to go about life. This whole sacrifice business is a Democrat trick. It's nothing more than a political spin game: We must have joint sacrifice. That means we must accept, we must universally accept bad times, must just accept them, and then all share equally in them. Sorry, I don't participate in recessions. I am not gonna sacrifice to make somebody else feel good. I'm gonna keep doing what I do, and I hope to prosper at every moment of my life. I mean that's what this country's all about. Now, what do you think, what kind of sacrifice should I be doing?

CALLER: Well, I just want to know who's gonna pay for the oil subsidies, and who's gonna pay for these wonderful wars you love so much? I mean if we're going to have these things that you want, Rush, somebody has to pay for it, and I'm sick and tired of --

RUSH: Wrong.

CALLER: -- the people paying for it are the people making $50,000 a year. You're making $25 million a year.

RUSH: I don't look at life the way you do. There's a reason somebody makes $25 million and there's a reason somebody makes $25,000, and it's not the guy who makes $25 million's fault. There's a reason and it's not your job to come along and say that somebody is at fault, and it's none of your business to come along and say it isn't right and that somebody has got to make it fair by giving something up. You are destined to fail in your own life if that's your attitude about success. That somebody's success is owing to somebody's misery, therefore the misery must be honored. Wrongo, pal. Somebody in misery's gotta be shown how to get out of it, not have it shared equally. It's what I've never understood about people on the left. Okay, so you have misery out there, but not everybody's feeling misery. Unfair. Solution? Make everybody miserable. Ergo, give us liberalism, it works. But sorry, I don't participate in it.

What is this, wars that I love? I love a safe United States of America and people. I love a country willing to defend itself against those who would do us harm. And sadly, my friend, I'll tell you something when the next hour starts. Nobody fears this country anymore. Four Americans killed from a hijacked yacht by Somali pirates, and what are we doing about it? We're worrying about the inequities of sacrifice in America. Nobody fears this country anymore. We've got the 5th Fleet in Bahrain. Doesn't stop what's going on. Nobody fears this country, and why? Because our esteemed leader is running around apologizing for this country and asking people to forgive us for that period in our past when people feared us. So nobody's afraid of us. They're monkeying around with our currency. They're monkeying around with their currency. The price of oil is skyrocketing, homelessness is on the rise, people are being foreclosed on in this country left and right, and we have an administration that pledged to stop all this, and it's actually getting worse. Whether you know it or not, we're all sacrificing what otherwise could be a great life because of liberalism running this country right now. And of all things that you could call here to talk to me about and learn from, you're sidetracked on $25 million versus $25,000 and somehow it's unfair to spend money defending the country against people who want to kill you.

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[kropotkinbeard1]

This guy is one of the most ignorant asses that I've ever heard in my life.

[logicaquebrada85]

@cmcneill60 Christian nation? Then follow these... 1 Timothy 6:10 Proverbs 28:25 Luke 12:15 1 Timothy 6:9 (oxycotin anyone?) Isaiah 57:17 NIV Acts 20:35 Proverbs 28:6 Luke 6:24-25 Matthew 19:24. Conservatives love their money and hate to hear that sharing is required as a contract of their faith, but of course they love to throw out other judgmental verses when it is convenient. Rush is a fool and so are those who are guided by him blindly. His will to scare the world is ungodly.

[Apache4Justice]

How funny he completely dances around the question with nothing but Bluster.But then again,Rush is an Entertainer,NOTHING MORE, He has SAID SO

,yet people STILL BELIEVE the crap he spits out!!WHO REALLY is the idiot?Answer:those who believe anything Rush or the rest of his ilk spit out!

[conradpilapil]

@kingandybrown I'm glad you will be serving.. you will be joining a very small few in our country. I don't think he pines for war.. I listen to him regularly, thus giving me a larger data to pull my opinion of him from. This call was specifically concerning "shared sacrifice" If anyone wants to help by sharing sacrifice, fine, but it is another to state that we all "should." I served because I wanted to and maybe some will not have to because of that, but that was not my reason.

[kingandybrown]

@conradpilapil

I sincerely honor and appreciate your service. I just swore in to the US Army myself and I'm very excited to get to serve as a 68W combat medic. I wont hesitate to answer my nation if called upon but I hate people like Rush pine who for war when they never had the nuts to step up and serve themselves. I really am glad he appreciates his peace and security but these wars don't pay for themselves. People like him need to be prepared to step up and help share the burden IMO.

[conradpilapil]

@kingandybrown Call them what ever you want, I don't care.. at least you know they are in the Democrats. One of their last KKK members in the Senate Robert Byrd just passed in 2010.  Good riddance!!

[conradpilapil]

@kingandybrown Thanks.. we pay a high price for it.. so yes, we do enjoy our peace and security! I myself just got out of the Marine Corps.. a fine military group.. none finer in the world in my opinion, and in histories opinion also might I add...

Again.. thanks.

[kingandybrown]

@conradpilapil

Old southern democrats, commonly known as "dixiecrats", are hardly considered liberal dude. The Democrats were big with racist southerners after the civil war, a very long time ago... the remnant of that being big like.. 30.. 40 years ago? You could hardly call them liberal just because they're in the democratic party.

[kingandybrown]

I'm glad you enjoy the peace and security your military provides. Sorry ass war mongering POS. 

[conradpilapil]

@bobmuffins no.. you don't seem to get it.. America is the only hope of lifting people out of poverty. So, yeah, AMERICA FUCK YEAHHH! (great movie by the way) - you don't seem to get the thought process or follow it.. can't blame you.. (your ideas of how it should work suck) you can't answer any of the things I've brought up. You just complain.. typical and expected from people like you.

[bobmuffins]

@conradpilapil oh okay so now you're just going AMERICA FUCK YEAHHHHHH without actually thinking

[conradpilapil]

@bobmuffins Further, no nation under any other form of government that does not mirror capitalism has ever come close to the US. We have created the most wealth per capita, the highest standard of living, the greatest inventions ect. No nation has EVER taxed itself to prosperity! No Government that was draconian in size has EVER produced a nation of free peoples. Your ideas are nothing more than historical throw backs of socialism or worse - and we conservatives want none of it!