motherjones:

Aired Thursday morning: “All the parasites of government are now coming out of the woodwork — and that’s exactly what they are, parasites.”

Average Wisconsin public schoolteacher’s salary: $47,602.

Rush Limbaugh’s minimum annual salary: $38,000,000, plus a $100,000,000 bonus.

Parasites, indeed.

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And the Dittoheads, sitting in their trucks listening to Rush, with their 1,000 yard glassy-eyed stares, nod slowly.

For Rush’s ever-loyal audience, the meaning of patriotism shifts again — the “Us” and the “Them” — because unionized workers, like firefighters, cops and teachers are now “parasites.”