it's that time time time lock and load the michael verry show is on the air greetings and welcome. Great to have you here. It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.

Hi, this is Amy from Ohio, and I want to give a shout out to my adoptive dad, Rush Limbaugh. He taught me more about my civic duty than anyone ever could, and for that, I'm grateful.

Conservatives are not opposed to regulation, but regulation has to be based on the fact that the individual is best left alone to take care of himself in the pursuit of daily aspects of life, education, job, or whatever.

We don't make the assumption. We look at some people because of their race, sex, creed.

We don't say, that person can't do it. That person needs us. That person needs a government program.

That person needs somebody helping them because that's not really what those people are after.

They're after power and control over those people's lives, making them as dependent as possible.

The reason why this matters to me is I want a great country. Country is made up a great people, pursuing excellence, doing the best they can.

It is the people who makes the country work, not government programs.

Hey, Michael, this is Rusty from San Antonio. Out here, I'm a trucker with my German Shepherd River.

Man, I really loved that guy and missed him, miss him still.

And I'm glad that you get it.

And I'm glad that you honor him.

I wish we to build a statue or some kind of monument to him.

E-X-C-E-P-T, except the exception to the rule is what American exceptionalism is.

And because of this liberty and freedom that our country exists because the founders recognize it comes from God.

It's part of the natural yearning of the human spirit.

It is not granted by a government.

It's not granted by Putin.

It's not granted by Obama or any other human being.

We are created with the natural yearning to be free.

And it is other men and leaders throughout human history who have suppressed that and imprisoned people for seeking it.

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