While I listen to Rush all the time, sometimes he sounds like the jerks in Washington. Although I understand what he's talking about it seem that he has lost contact with the joe six pack group. When you are in a position like he is with a great job, plenty of money, etc. it's hard for the average person to agree with people in like positions and hear them tell those who are not equal how then should give up things while all the while they suround themselves with things others can only dream about.
Whatever....
"it's hard for the average person to agree with people in like positions and hear them tell those who are not equal how then should give up things while all the while they suround themselves with things others can only dream about."
CHIEFQC, socialism is a mental disease and it is obvious that you are severly afflicted and do not know it.
So if you are dreaming about something that someone else has then get off of your bottom and go get it....put in the time, put in the education, come up with the good idea, work your tail off to build your business, follow your dream. But don't go all class envy on me b/c I actually did those things.
Exactly.
I like Rush, but I can only take him in small doses for the reasons you metioned.
I listen to a lot of talk radio and have for about ten years now. I started listening on AM1500KSTP in St Paul, which has a pretty good lineup of local personalities. Then, I forget why, but they lost Rush's show. He moved to a new FM talk station, KTLK. They advertise themselves as catering to "affluent" talk radio fans. They actually use the word "affluent" when airing the text of their mission statement. (I'm not affluent, I don't want to be affluent, and even if I were affluent, I would resent being labeled as such.)
I decided to subscribe to XM satellite radio and see what they offered. There is a large variety of conservative talk radio available (no Rush though, and some others like Michael Savage are not there either) but the vast majority of hosts have the same problem as Rush.
They try to come off as regular guys and gals and then in the next breath they talk about the last time they had dinner with Senator So-and-So, or how they sat next to Mr Fortune500-CEO and his family yesterday in church, or how they're jetting off overseas for the third time this year.
Aren't there any middle class people hosting radio shows? I want to hear from a true peer once in a while. Even the hosts on AM1500 were always dropping names, saying how they know this billionaire, or how that big-money CEO is married to their half-sister. Then they go on to list the problems with their large home and pool on Lake Minnetonka (a high demographic area west of the Twin Cities.)
I'm not a class warfare/envy type of guy, and I love these conservative radio hosts most of the time because our politics are very compatible. It's just that sometimes it comes across glaringly how different their lifestyles really are from mine and those of all of the people that I care about and associate with.
I agree with Rush on this one. The caller was an idiot (well, maybe just uninformed) if he thinks that getting "free" healthcare will solve any problems at all.
It's called stepping over dollars to pick up pennies; it will cost far more (in dollars and otherwise) to have "free" healthcare than to just pay for it directly.