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Aug. 17, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 17, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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Hiya, folks, and welcome back.
I am Rush Limbaugh, and I am so excited.
I love this.
I'm doing what I was born to do, and so are you.
I was born to host you.
We're born to listen.
It's Friday.
You know what that means?
Friday from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
One hour left, ladies and gentlemen, for you to assert control over this program.
When we go to the phones on Friday, you own the show.
You know, talk about whatever you want.
That's not the case Monday through Thursday.
Here's the telephone number, 800-282-2882 and the email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
Did you see the story the other day?
I had it in a stack and then get to it.
You see the story about the guy who threw his wife overboard, threw her off a balcony because he couldn't afford health insurance.
He threw her overboard and she died.
Tragic case of murder.
And the way that the media are exploiting this is typical, and it's a great illustration of the template or of the narrative that the drive-bys have in pushing the whole concept of national medical insurance schemes.
And the American thinker, Steve Warshowski, has a great treatment of this.
It was an Associated Press story, and it was yesterday told the tale of a desperate husband driven to murder his ailing wife because he couldn't afford to pay for her medical care.
The man's wife was 47 years old, suffering from uterine cancer and neurological problems.
She weighed 75 pounds and was partially blind.
According to the story, her husband kissed her goodbye, then threw her off the balcony, their apartment building where she died.
Now, nowhere in the story is the guy condemned for this.
The AP does not question whether less expensive alternatives were available for his wife's medical care, i.e. hospice.
Instead, the entire thrust of the story is that a lack of health insurance was the true culprit in this terrible situation.
The AP story noted the wife had no health insurance to pay for medical bills that ranged from $700 to $800 per week.
According to the story, she only had $725 in monthly income from oil royalties and social security disability.
She had $6,700 in personal assets and a parcel of property worth $20,000, which the husband planned to sell.
Using the figures in the story as a guide, these assets could have paid for approximately one more year of the wife's medical care.
So it's not at all clear that the husband's and the AP's explanation for why he murdered her makes sense.
Of course, murder is such an extreme act that something more surely was going on here, probably inside the husband's deranged brain.
Nevertheless, it's obvious that this story reflects a larger agenda.
The Associated Press using a human tragedy, the wife's murder, to argue, however subtly in favor of a national health care system.
And this story, Mr. Warshowski theorizes, this story will find its way into the speeches of all the Democrats and others that are advocating universal or single-payer health insurance.
After all, if such a system were in place, they'll claim this terrible tragedy wouldn't have occurred.
Right?
Well, who knows?
What we do know, though, is that health insurance is no panacea for high health care costs.
At the end of the day, at the end of the fiscal year, somebody has to pay for the medical care rendered to the insured and the uninsured alike.
He's exactly right about this.
There's this surviving myth out there.
If you have health insurance, it's over.
It's covered.
You have no worries.
And somehow the costs are not relevant, not true.
If the wife in the AP story had health insurance, presumably her premiums and co-pays would have been less than the actual cost of her medical care, which was the $700 to $800 mentioned in the story per week.
This is the only way her personal financial situation could have been improved by having had health insurance, as the AP suggests.
Yet, the actual cost of providing medical care does not go down as if by magic just because somebody has health care insurance.
Advanced critical care, end-of-life care is extremely costly to provide.
That's where most of it's spent, actually.
But the point of this that Mr. Warshowski makes here that's really good is that, and it was subtle, but we understand.
We understand why this man would throw his 75-year-old woman over the balcony and kill her.
So driven to despair by the inability to afford health care insurance because of the unfair, unfeeling attitude of leaders of this country, this rotten, horrible country that would drive this man to commit such a brutal, senseless, and heartless act.
Throwing his wife over the balcony and apparently getting sympathy for doing this because it's healthcare and our lack of single-payer health care that's the problem.
Great example of the narrative, the template, and how the drive-bys are in existence for one reason.
They exist for one reason, and that's to advance the agenda of the liberal wing of the Democrat Party in this country.
Pure and simple.
Let's see.
Where is this?
Let's see.
I guess this is Orlando.
Local law enforcement.
By the way, I know it's law enforcement.
I just love the way Jim Calstrom and other New Yorkers say it.
Law enforcement.
Local law enforcement is hoping that a free pair of sneakers will help them get dangerous guns off the street in the Kicks for Guns program.
On Friday, the Orlando Police Department, the Orange County Sheriff's Office, are holding their yearly program in which people can bring guns, bring them in, and exchange them for a new pair of tennis shoes or gift cards.
Police said they'll take all types of guns with no questions asked.
Last year, 116 firearms and 31 pellet guns were collected, including a semi-automatic machine gun, a grenade launcher, several sought-off shotguns, and three stolen guns.
People have these things giving them up for sneakers for tennis shoes.
The 2007 kicks for guns taking place at two locations, the Citrus Bowl on Church Street in Orlando and the Pine Castle Women's Club on Oak Ridge Road in South Orange Avenue.
They're running from the, well, it's over.
The morning session, 7 to 1.
The afternoon session starts at 4 o'clock, goes from 4 to 8 o'clock.
So what happens is that these people take their guns here to one of these two places, they probably get mugged leaving in the parking lot and have the tennis shoes stolen because the thugs know that they're coming out of there unarmed.
I'm speculating.
And no, if it happened, I don't think it would be funny.
Sorry, I can't.
Now, in Cincinnati, stick around for midnight basketball after the nighttime session.
From Cincinnati, Mayor Mark Mallory is refusing to fire a starter pistol to kick off an upcoming road race, saying he doesn't like the gun symbolism in a city that set a record for homicides last year.
The mayor, Mark Mallory, said he'll blow a whistle at Saturday's Rhythm Race 5K instead.
A pistol filled with blanks is traditionally used to start races and track meets.
He said, I think the symbolism is just bad.
It's just something I don't do.
So, symbolism over substance here once again.
Can somebody tell me the last time anybody got killed with a blank?
When was the last other than you know?
I mean, ooh, look at that pelican.
That's my favorite bird.
I got a pelican on TV here.
Last time somebody was killed with a blank.
Now, I know maybe sometimes I'm going to get their ear damaged or something like that.
A heart attack is all about that.
Look, and they know.
Nobody.
Is somebody gets scared by a starter pistol?
You know, half the time the crowd can't even hear the damn thing.
Anyway, probably, probably wouldn't use a shotgun to start a charity golf tournament either.
You know, I got a different idea.
Mayor Mallory, instead of using a whistle, I mean, there's nothing special about that.
Just get some doves and release the doves and have the race start.
Dub it the 5K race for peace or whatever.
Just release some doves and have the thing start.
They'll fly out of there, put them in a cage, and that'd be really, really sensitive.
I still, if somebody knows of a starter pistol with blanks wounding or killing somebody, please let me know.
Ba-boo-ba-doo-ba-doo-ba-doo-boo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
All right, to the phones we go.
This is this is Mary in Minneapolis.
Nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Hi.
I'm kind of nervous right now, but I just have to say I'm so excited to be talking to you.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
I understand that.
Thank you.
I'll get right to my point.
Let me tell you, don't be nervous.
You have no reason to be nervous.
Do you have a boyfriend or you have?
No, don't apologize.
I'm talking to the Rush Limbaugh right now on my cell phone.
Are you married?
Do you have a boyfriend or something like that?
I am married.
Okay.
Well, then imagine what this call is going to feel like.
After it's over, it's going to feel like your husband has been there rubbing your back with a mink glove.
And you're going to want to have the opportunity to have this experience over and over.
You're going to be fine.
Don't be nervous.
Just project out there.
Okay, thank you.
Well, I couldn't sleep last night, and I picked up your book, The Way Things Ought to Be.
It was the first book you wrote.
I know you know what it is.
I don't know if the audience all knows, but I just wanted to give a plug for it that it's completely inspiring, and I just really enjoy it.
I've only gotten through the fourth chapter, but you haven't gotten the good parts out.
Well, that's awfully nice of you to say.
I really appreciate that.
Book's like 15 years old now, but it's timeless.
It's timeless, isn't it?
Because it's a book of principles.
Well, what made you pick it up?
Well, actually, it was my husband.
He was getting sick of me kicking around in bed, and he just said, go get a book.
And he was recommending different books.
And he threw that one out there, and I said, all right.
So I grabbed both of them.
He's got both of the books, and he's read them.
And I love your show.
I've listened to your show on my own.
I'm 25 years old, and I've listened to it since I'm about 20.
And my parents always listened to it before, so I am a rush baby.
You're a rush baby.
Yes.
And now I did have the rush babe on board that my husband got me, and I love that too.
But somehow in Minnesota, it got either taken out of my car or I don't know what happened to it.
It disappeared.
Oh, we can't.
Those things, people steal them all the time because they'd love to have them for themselves.
Well, I can't imagine anybody in your audience doing that, though.
That's the thing.
I think it's liberals that can't stand to see it on my phone.
Well, you know, that could be too.
Well, I'll tell you what, when this call is over, you hang on, and Mr. Snerdley will get the information necessary to send you a replacement.
Oh, that's so nice.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
I can't have that.
You got your rush babe stolen.
You're obviously a rush babe.
You need to proclaim it.
You just need to lock the car.
I know.
I'm not very good at that.
I'm in a suburb of Minneapolis.
I need to get better at that.
Yeah.
Is that where you're born and grew up?
No, I was actually from Tucson originally, Arizona, and moved up here when I was about four.
So I've been here ever since.
Well, congratulations.
Well, look, you're very nice, and I appreciate the fact that your husband put the book in front of you and your nice comments about it.
Really, it's very sweet of you.
Thank you.
Just thank you for all you do.
And I'm getting all my friends to listen to you.
We adore you.
All my family, just we think you're great.
Well, I appreciate that.
I really do.
Thanks so much.
You're welcome.
So do you feel nervous now, Mary?
I feel better.
I'm still very excited, but my heart's beating very fast.
Have you ever had that feeling where you just knew you're supposed to do something and your heart just beats out of your chest because you know you're supposed to do it, but you're so nervous.
It used to, but I'm such a seasoned professional now that that kind of stuff doesn't happen to me.
But I know what you're feeling.
I used to, you know, in preparing to host this show, I once called radio talk shows, and I know what it's like being out there on hold.
Especially on this show, because you're on hold for a long time here.
Most people are.
So you call up and you have this thing you want to say and you're reacting to something that you've heard.
And as you're on hold, you're listening.
And you hear other things that you want to say.
And you're trying to remember what it was you wanted to say.
And you still don't know when you're coming up.
And then out of the blue, the call screener says, stand by your next.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
I've been there.
I know exactly.
That's why I try to calm all callers and just treat them as though we're friends rather than this is something special.
I know it is to you.
And it is to me, too.
You know, one thing, when I was reading your story, just it sounded like you were reading it to me because I know your voice now.
Yeah.
And that was very special, and it just made you even more human in that you went through the same things I'm going through right now.
I'm a small business owner and just working my way up.
And it was just so cool to read that intro of your life and your story.
And it's just a great story, Rush.
And I'm just excited that I read it and found that book.
So thank you.
Well, you're welcome.
What's your small business?
We actually own an online business, Health and Wellness.
My husband and I do.
Online business, health and wellness.
So you are in shape.
Yes.
Well, good.
Trying to be, trying to stay in shape.
We know people are after that.
Well, you know, as host, I sit here, I try to, when you're on the phone and you're talking to people that you don't know what they look like, do you try to envision what they look like?
Do you associate a face with their voice?
Yes.
Yeah, well, I do that too.
I can't help it.
Plus, I'm a guy, which is part of being a guy when you're talking to a girl on the phone.
And you sounded like you're in shape.
Your voice just has that characteristic.
Wow.
Yes, it does.
Absolutely does.
Well, I've been told, are you familiar with who Ashley Judd is?
Familiar with, oh, absolutely.
Yeah, that's who I've been told I look like.
So if that.
No, that's that's not the way it goes.
The way it goes is, I wonder if Ashley Judd knows how much like Mary in Minneapolis she looks.
Oh, that's just great.
That is wonderful.
That's how it works.
You bet.
All right, Mary, have a great, great weekend, and thanks again so much.
Hang on now.
We'll get your address and so forth to send you.
Replacement rush babe on board sign.
What was the first show I called?
It was a show in Pittsburgh in 1972, hosted by a combo preacher, politician, activist kind of guy.
It was a Sunday night show.
It was a political call.
I don't remember what it was, but it was a political call.
I don't remember what I said.
Yeah, but I put in my time.
You cannot be a host until you've been a caller.
You did not a good one.
You've got to know what the callers are going through out there on hold.
You've got to know.
You've got to have empathy with them.
I paid my dues.
I've been where Mary is.
Mary, thanks again, okay?
She hung up.
Oh, that's right.
She's on hold.
That's right.
She's giving Mr. Snerdley her address so that we can send her a replacement rush babe.
By the way, Snerdley, do not ask for her phone number.
Do not.
He has this habit.
Especially after the Ashley Judd thing.
Snerdley, hold off.
I'll tell you what, you know what else I'm going to do?
I've got.
Yes, I'm looking up there in the bookshelves.
I have some leather-bound copies of a second book, maybe the first one too.
I'm going to autograph one and send it out to her.
So I'm going to need the address here.
We'll have Cookie get it out this afternoon.
All right, I got to take a brief time out.
Still lots to do here in our remaining half hour of today's excursion into Openline Friday and Broadcast Excellence.
800-282-2882.
If you'd like to be the next Mary, a man, a living legend, and a way of life.
All right, now get this.
The Census Bureau wants immigration agents to suspend enforcement raids during the 2010 census so that the government can better count illegal immigrants.
Raids during the population count would make an already distrustful group even less likely to cooperate with government workers who are supposed to include them.
Deputy Director Preston J. Waite, the Census Bureau, said immigration enforcement officials did not conduct raids for several months before and after the 2000 census.
But today's political climate's even more volatile on the issue of illegal immigration.
Enforcement agents have a job to do.
Wait said they may not be able to give as much of a break in 2010.
Well, you talk about having your priorities out of whack.
Suspend the raids for a whole year so we can count, get an accurate count of the number of illegals.
Now, do you understand, folks?
We have been told throughout this entire debate, why deport them?
Well, you're crazy, Limbaugh.
We could never find them, round them up.
It's not possible, not feasible.
But every once in a while, a government steps in it.
Okay, so you suspend the raids.
Fine.
And then you go to these people and say, are you illegal?
If so, tell us.
We just want to know.
We just want to get a count.
Now, if I were an illegal and aware of the climate in this country, I would think of this as a trick.
I would think of this as a scheme to identify me so that then the raids could happen and pick me up and send me back to Guadalupe, wherever I'm from.
I just find it hilarious.
Now, a couple health care stories.
One of them I mentioned to you a moment ago.
This one, not, though, this is new.
Helena, Montana, 35-year-old Canadian woman, has given birth to rare identical quadruplets, according to officials at a Great Falls hospital.
Karen Jepp, Calgary, Alberta, delivered autumn, Brooke, Calissa, and Dahlia by Cesarean Section Sunday afternoon at Benefits Healthcare, said Amy Austin, a hospital's director of community and government relations.
The four girls are breathing without ventilators.
They were listed in good condition Thursday.
Yeah, these babies are doing grand, said Dr. Tom Key of Great Falls, the doctor who delivered the girls.
And he said, well, what's the big deal, Rush?
Quadruplets, that's not that unique.
Here's the point of the story.
The Jeps drove 325 miles to Great Falls for the berths because hospitals in Calgary couldn't handle them.
They were at capacity.
The difficulty is that Calgary continues to grow at such a rapid rate.
Populations increased a lot faster than the number of hospital beds.
Two of the girls were to be transferred to a Calgary hospital later Thursday.
The other two could be moved Friday if their conditions, meaning today, remain favorable.
So much for the great Canadian healthcare.
Miracle, what I want to know is why did the Jeps stop in Great Falls?
Why did I just head to Cuba?
I mean, they're from Canada.
They could get into Cuba without any problem.
Here's that story from Sydney, Australia.
Private hospitalized public bed space.
The state government is considering a proposal to lease excess space at the Prince of Wales Hospital to the private hospital next door.
After sidestepping the issue for weeks, Southeastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service confirmed it was looking at a plan by the Prince of Wales Private Hospital to have private beds in the public hospital.
Do you hear that or is that just something I'm hearing?
You didn't hear what I'm hearing.
Okay.
The public cardiothoracic unit had enough space for 12 beds, but only after they had four or five due to a lack of funding were available.
So here's the summary of the story.
The state government in Sydney has come up with an ingenious plan to solve its public health system by letting the private sector do it.
Shazam.
The government has excess space in the hospital.
They don't know what to do with excess space in a hospital?
Whoever heard of that?
They have the excess space because they don't have the funding to utilize the space.
So the government's cardiothoracic unit's got enough space for 12 beds, but a lack of government funding, i.e. taxes, meant that it could only afford to keep four of the beds filled.
So this meant that patients have had to wait for three months to get into this unit with six or seven empty beds.
Six or seven empty beds, and they had to wait to get in.
Funding, don't you know?
Government funding.
Well, it just wasn't there.
So the government's proposing combining the private and the public sector.
It thrills the doctors.
They think it's the greatest idea since penicillin.
Don't worry, though, the government spokesbabe in this story says there will be no change or reduction to the existing public cardiothoracic services at Prince of Wales Public should this proposal proceed.
Now, you hear that?
You hear that?
No change.
You will still have to wait for four months for urgent surgery unless that is you choose the private sector option.
You figure it out.
Greg in Port Ludo, Washington.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hey, Libertarian Dittos Rush.
Well, thank you.
Thanks very much.
Longtime listener, I live in Washington.
I spent most of my life in California, 31 years for an oil company, 18 years running a refinery.
We didn't produce gas, but we did produce lube oil and diesel.
I know you say it all the time, and everyone else says that we haven't built a new refinery in 30 years because of the permitting process, which is true.
But even if you could solve that problem, I'm sure you, your listeners, and my family members, no one wants a refinery in their community.
When I worked at the refinery, the only ones that wanted us there were the employees, and they didn't even want to live near the refinery.
So I guess my question is: if we found a crude supply a mile from your house, would you be agreeable to us building a refinery there?
Well, yeah, absolutely.
You would?
Sure.
I know it's not going to happen.
I live in an island.
But I understand the point.
You're basically saying there's no public will to do one, even if we had no restrictions in getting it done.
Even if prices doubled, I can tell you I used to talk to the neighbors, talk to the community, and people move in next to a refinery, and then three months later come in and say, what do you do?
And then they go, oh, can these fumes be harmful to my family?
And then they want you to leave.
And it is difficult.
Well, I have to tell you something.
You know, I do a lot of flying.
And I just last weekend, I flew to Los Angeles.
And I'm always amazed when I do this because I keep hearing about the overpopulation.
I flew over West Texas.
I saw nothing out there until we got to El Paso.
Well, I know, but there's, I flew over, you know, you've got the deserts in Arizona, New Mexico.
You've got, I saw it all.
There's so much space to do this stuff where nobody is near.
You'd have to build a town for the people that work there to live there.
But it doesn't work that way because that's true if you're making widgets.
But a crude oil refinery needs crude oil, and that's why they're near the water, or if they're landlocked, like in California, they're near a continuous supply of crude.
Because how else would you get the crude to the refinery?
It's called a pipeline.
But then you've got other environmental problems.
Okay, so what you're saying is it's impossible.
It is.
I really believe, I'm 64 years old, that we will not build any refineries, even if crude prices double, gasoline prices double.
I just think it's impossible at this point.
Now, wait a second.
You got to explain something to me, Greg.
Sure.
These refineries that we have now, they're old.
How do you refurbish one of these things?
You have to shut it down, right?
At some point, are the existing refineries going to just fail?
We're going to have to rebuild them maybe where they are?
Well, you know, as long as you're taking a refinery and fixing it and not expanding anything, the permitting process is pretty easy.
But if you make any changes to the process at all, even if it's to a benefit for the environment, and I found that out, it's almost impossible.
I understand that.
I understand.
That's why Texaco used to do all these commercials with Bambi running around little pools of oil to show that it was okay out there.
And I was shocked because I think you said it or someone else said it, 12% of the finished product coming into our country now is coming from refineries outside the U.S.
I was just going to say, I have said that, and...
And we're going to end up importing more gasoline.
So we're going to be doubly vulnerable.
We're already importing over half the oil.
And now we're going to be, if we continue to grow and become productive as a country, we're going to need gasoline.
And we're going to have to, even for your little hybrid folks, just look at any gasoline out there.
We're going to become a net importer of gasoline at some point.
That's right.
And I agree with that.
But anyway, sure a pleasure talking to you.
And from a libertarian in Washington state made up mostly of Democrats, I feel alone out here.
Well, I understand, but you're never alone as long as you have EIB.
That's right.
And I'm a 24-7 member.
I appreciate that.
That's great.
I really do.
I have to run here, but thanks so much for the call.
I appreciate the I hadn't thought of that, that one aspect of building a refinery.
I had not thought of that.
So you very rarely happens out there, Greg, when a caller introduces a new idea to me, but you've done it.
I just did a double takeover here during the commercial break.
I snuck a peek at the Drudge Report, and there's this headline in red: rush to pull out cash at Countrywide Bank.
And I don't have any money at Countrywide Bank.
If people are going to get the wrong idea, if people think I'm pulling money out of a bank, this is going to be a problem.
It's going to cause a run on the bank.
I don't have any money at Countrywide Bank.
And it's capitalized rush.
I know they mean in a hurry, but Chris in Nashville, you're next on the EIB Network Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's really an honor to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I told your call, Screener, that I've had my own private health insurance for 32 years.
And I've been following all of these stories in the news here about these proposals about how to get kids covered and all these things.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
With very few exceptions, and there are some people out there that are uninsurable, but health insurance is easily accessible if you're willing to pay for it.
And it's not.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
See, that's the rubber.
It's so expensive.
I know what you're saying.
I'm not arguing with you.
I'm saying that the image has been created in the public's mind that health care is a right and it shouldn't cost anything.
And when they go find out how expensive it is, the idea of prioritizing finances for that never occurs to them.
They'll go out and buy two cars, 14 televisions, or what have you.
The idea of buying health.
No, the government's supposed to do that, and a company is supposed to do that.
And it's just.
Well, go ahead.
I don't mean to interrupt.
I would have a question.
As a citizen out here, how would one appeal to the powers that be in Washington, D.C. to get some commonsensical ideas put on the table?
Because people keep talking about it's just expensive.
It's expensive.
You can't afford it.
And that's just not true.
It's simply not true, especially if they would get a bunch of the garbage out of the system.
Well, now, I don't know.
Look, I don't mean to be cynical here, but you just delivered the ultimate contradiction and an oxymoron.
You asked for common sense and politicians.
And I don't mean to be joking about this.
There are some really good common sense ideas that have been proposed.
One of the best is the medical savings account thing, the whole voucher system to take existing money that's spent.
It's the people's money anyway.
It's all taxpayer money and give it back to them and put it in an account and they shop for their own medical care with it.
They buy their insurance, go to the doctors, and whatever they don't spend, they get to keep and do with whatever they want.
That will provide incentive to shop, to get lower prices.
That'll create competition in the industry where there isn't any right now.
That idea doesn't have a prayer at this time because it's like anything else.
You look at the Democrat candidates out there, Chris.
They want everybody to be dependent on a single payer for their health care, and that's the government.
What folks don't understand, and I also have to tell you, I lived in Canada for a year.
They're telling the folks that you and Bill Gates and all of these people, they're going to tax the rich to pay for it.
You and Bill Gates don't have enough money to pay for it.
And what's going to happen is, as opposed to people opting to pay, say, $300 or $400 a month for their own coverage, they're going to wind up paying double that in taxes to get lousy coverage.
And that's the dirty little secret about it all, is people are going to pay a whole lot more money for worse health care.
Amen, bro.
We all know this.
But do you think that matters to Mrs. Clinton?
Do you think that matters to Barack O'McNab?
Do you think it matters to John Edwards?
Well, no, I don't think it matters to them, but I would hope in the greatest country in the world that some cooler heads might prevail in those matters.
Well, we're working on that.
I mean, that's one of the purposes of this program is to try to provide obstacles to the steady, blob-like flow of liberalism through our culture.
And it's something, you know, people are going to have to get interested in it.
One of the challenges for the events to happen as you would like them to happen is a big one.
You've got a significant portion of this population that's already been conditioned by 50 years of Democrat politics to think the government takes care of those big things.
And that's their expectation.
So you turn around and tell those people, hey, we, your neighbors, are tired of paying your health care for you and your kids.
It's about time you took up the responsibility of doing this yourself.
We're tired of it.
You know, I mean, I listen to these Medicare people.
Every year they complain and whine they need more money, and they get it.
So we'll infuse the program.
It's an entitlement with X number, more billion.
Never say a word of thanks to their fellow citizens for paying their health care for them.
It's an expectation.
The word is entitlement.
So you turn around and let's leave the elderly out of this.
You turn around and tell people that you're talking about the demographics that you're talking about.
Hey, by the way, it's about time you assume responsibility for this yourself.
Not just this, but everything else in your life.
It's time you assume the responsibility, buy your house, buy your car.
It's about time that's what the rest of us are doing.
You're going to have a lot of trouble.
This is something that's going to take a long, long time.
And this is why Mrs. Clinton and her fellow warriors are so eager to get this done as quickly as possible, because they know that progress is being making progress is occurring in opposing what they want to do.
But it's a challenge.
It's what we face each day here when we walk into the studio behind the golden EIB microphone.
And we are winning over time.
We are.
Okay, let's see here.
Junk food when pregnant may make kids overeat.
Okay, so obesity is mom's fault.
No, wait.
Few obese adults get treatment planned from doctors.
So it's a doctor's fault.
Study harsh lighting may damage embryo.
Oh, no.
Those fluorescents are going to hurt kids.
Oh, there's a bunch of damage that we're going to talk about on Monday, folks.
Have a great weekend.
We'll be back and start it all over again then.
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