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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on January 04, 2014, 02:42:49 PM
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gerogie2 (36 posts)
Confession of a former Rush Limbaugh fan (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024277065)
I'm 52 yrs old. 25 years ago I was fully employed and living the American dream. I listened to Rush everyday and thought Rush was right. I hated unions and poor people because they were leeches off my tax dollars. I voted GOP in every election.
A couple of years ago after a long life of working and living fit I had a massive heart attack caused by a genetic defect.
My non-union job fired me for not showing up for work while I was in the hospital. I lost my health insurance thirty days later while I recuperated in a skilled nursing home. The bills ran close to $100,000 dollars. I finally recovered six months later, but no one would hire me for a job after submitting over a hundred resumes and getting only two interviews that ended as soon as the interviewer say that I was older.
My house went into foreclosure and the wife split for a more stable man. I finally was able to get a job with about 35 hours a week with no benefits and barely above minimum wage. After 3 months on the job I had another heart attack that left me severely disabled. I ended up on Social Security Disability and food stamps. I finally filed for bankruptcy admitting that the 'I did it all by myself' is just not true.
I don't listen to Rush or other right wing talk show host any longer. After all Rush is a member of the 1% and his solution for people like me is to end all assistance and let us die in the gutter.
A large majority of Rush's listeners are just like me. One paycheck or health crisis away from living in the gutter. Today I'm glad that democrats have provided a safety net for people like me. If the republicans were in charge all people like me would be dead due to lack of care and no place to live.
God Bless America and it's safety net.
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Amber needs to find out where this guy is.
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Wow!
Most bouncies have at least one sentence or fragment in it that might be true ("I went to the market...").
In this one every single sentence and fragment is a lie. If he had listed to Rush ONCE he would have been able to craft at least a reasonable one.
No people applauding, no conversions, not even close to possible, no bongs.
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Wow!
No people applauding, no conversions, not even close to possible, no bongs.
Maybe so, but it's still vastly better than anything rsmithnumbers ever posted.
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Mole trying to establishment "me against the world" cred.
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Bad moling.
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Maybe so, but it's still vastly better than anything rsmithnumbers ever posted.
When the bar is subterranean, anyone can jump it... ;)
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It's a mole, seriously "I hated poor people"?
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I'm 52 yrs old. 25 years ago I was fully employed and living the American dream. I listened to Rush everyday and thought Rush was right.
Wow, completely amazing. He was listening to Rush almost from the moment he started his nationwide broadcast... In 1988, Limbaugh began broadcasting his show nationally from radio station WABC in New York City.
{from wiki} (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh)
I hated unions and poor people because they were leeches off my tax dollars.
Well, unions I can see, but no conservative hates poor people. Conservatives give more to charities than liberals specifically because we know they are far more efficient than taxes. :whatever: We just don't have much use for those that can work, but are too lazy or addicted to do so.
I voted GOP in every election.
A couple of years ago after a long life of working and living fit I had a massive heart attack caused by a genetic defect.
My non-union job fired me for not showing up for work while I was in the hospital. I lost my health insurance thirty days later while I recuperated in a skilled nursing home. The bills ran close to $100,000 dollars. I finally recovered six months later, but no one would hire me for a job after submitting over a hundred resumes and getting only two interviews that ended as soon as the interviewer say that I was older.
My house went into foreclosure and the wife split for a more stable man. I finally was able to get a job with about 35 hours a week with no benefits and barely above minimum wage. After 3 months on the job I had another heart attack that left me severely disabled. I ended up on Social Security Disability and food stamps. I finally filed for bankruptcy admitting that the 'I did it all by myself' is just not true.
I don't know, 2 heart attacks before 52? I would have to wonder just how much of that was what he did "all by myself." Thank God for the US healthcare system. A few years more, thanks to the Dims, and he might not survive another attack.
I don't listen to Rush or other right wing talk show host any longer. After all Rush is a member of the 1% and his solution for people like me is to end all assistance and let us die in the gutter.
:yawn: Well, that certainly makes it clear that he did NOT listen to Rush every day...or any day. ::) Imagine that, a leftist lying in a conversion story. How original. :rotf:
A large majority of Rush's listeners are just like me. One paycheck or health crisis away from living in the gutter.
Not really. A majority of Rush's listeners have planned, spent money on real property instead of "stuff," saved money, and have ways to survive even after a crisis. Oh, and we tend to work at keeping our spouses. :-)
Today I'm glad that democrats have provided a safety net for people like me. If the republicans were in charge all people like me would be dead due to lack of care and no place to live.
God Bless America and it's safety net.
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(http://i1164.photobucket.com/albums/q572/aeropix/HobbyMole.jpg)
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Wow!
Most bouncies have at least one sentence or fragment in it that might be true ("I went to the market...").
Well, I think he has a half sentence with some truth ("I had a massive heart attack caused by a genetic defect"), because voting democrat IS a genetic defect.
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Well, I think he has a half sentence with some truth ("I had a massive heart attack caused by a genetic defect"), because voting democrat IS a genetic defect.
OK :cheersmate:
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Yeah, this little nugget of poop is trying way too hard. 1%ers, safety net, hating the poor, lost his job, lost his wife.....
What happened to the dog, mole?
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk99/Br6dR/draft_lens2210058module11920481photo_1223354266gloom-despair-and-agony-on-me-hee-haw.jpg)
Try playing a country song backwards.
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Damn, he's got me pegged. I had an off day, tho. I only kicked three homeless in the face instead of the five required in the VRWC Handbook.
Zombie Reagan will not be pleased. I just hope I don't get the pineapple treatment from Lord Rove for my failure.
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Damn, he's got me pegged. I had an off day, tho. I only kicked three homeless in the face instead of the five required in the VRWC Handbook.
Zombie Reagan will not be pleased. I just hope I don't get the pineapple treatment from Lord Rove for my failure.
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Well, ....just don't let it happen again.