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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?
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.
We'll 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 EIB net.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 overboard and she died.
Tragic case of murder.
And the way that the media are exploiting this is typical.
And it's it's a great illustration of the template or of the narrative that the drive-bys have in uh pushing the whole concept of national medical insurance schemes.
And the American thinker, uh Steve Worshowski, uh has a great uh treatment of this.
Uh 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 of 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 200 or 725 dollars in monthly income from oil royalties and social security disability.
She had $6,700 in personal assets and a parcel of property worth 20 grand, 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. Warshawski 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.
This he's exactly right about this.
This there's this surviving myth out there.
If you have health insurance, it's over, it's cover, 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 copies would have been less than the actual cost of her medical care, which was the seven to eight hundred dollars mentioned in the story per week.
Uh, 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 it, or most of it's most of it's spent, actually.
But the point of this that Mr. Warshowski makes here that's really good, is that uh 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 health care and our lack of single-payer health care that's the problem.
Uh great example of the narrative, the template, and how the drive-by's 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?
Uh 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 and South Orange Avenue.
They're running from the...
well, it's over.
The morning session uh seven to one, the afternoon session starts at four o'clock, goes from four to eight o'clock.
So what happens is that these people and they take their guns here to these uh 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.
I uh sorry, I can't.
Now, in uh in in Cincinnati, yeah, 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 uh 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 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 when was the last other than you know, I meant, ooh, look at that pelican.
That's in my favorite bird.
I got a pelican on TV here.
Last time somebody was killed with a with a blank.
Now I know maybe sometime gonna get their ear damaged or something like that.
Uh a heart attack.
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.
Uh anyway, uh probably wouldn't use a shotgun to start a charity golf tournament either.
Um, I got a different idea.
Uh Mayor Mallory.
Instead of using a whistle.
I mean, that's there's nothing special about that.
Um just get some doves and release the doves and have the race start.
You know, 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 it'll be that'd be really, really sensitive.
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.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right, to the phone swingle.
This is uh this is Mary in uh in Minneapolis.
Nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Hi.
I'm 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 and I understand that.
Thank you.
Um I'll get right to my point.
I guess.
Let me tell you don't don't be nervous.
You don't you you have no reason to be nervous.
Uh do you have a boyfriend or you've been.
No, no, no, no, no, don't apologize.
I'm talking to the Rush Limbaugh right now on my cell phone.
Uh are you married?
Do you have a boyfriend, something like that?
I am married.
Okay.
Well then imagine what this call's gonna feel like.
After it's over, it's gonna feel like your husband has been there rubbing your back with a mink glove.
And you and you are gonna you're gonna want to have the uh opportunity to uh uh have this experience over and over and over.
You you're you're gonna be fine.
Don't be nervous.
Just project out there.
Okay, thank you.
Um, 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 enjoyed it.
I've only gotten through the fourth chapter, but you haven't gotten the good parts yet.
Yeah.
Well, that's awfully nice of you to say.
I I really appreciate that book's like uh fifteen years old now.
But it's timeless.
It's timeless, isn't it?
Because it's Book of Princess.
Well, that that's uh what 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 that he was recommending different books, and I 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 I've listened to your show on my own.
I'm 25 years old and I've listened to it since I about about twenty.
And my parents always listened to it before, so I'm I am a rush baby.
Right.
Yes.
And now I 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.
Well, 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 ground.
Well, well that you know that could be too.
It's it's well, I 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.
And that's that's uh can't have that.
Uh you got your rush babe on 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 suburban Minneapolis.
I I need to get better at that.
Yeah.
Is that where you're uh born and grew up?
Um 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, and I'm you you've you you're very nice, and I I appreciate the fact that uh your husband put the book in front of you and your and your nice comments about it.
Really, it's very sweet of you.
Thank you.
Just thank you for all you do.
And um I'm getting all my friends to listen to you.
We just we adore you.
All my family.
Just we think you're great.
Well, I appreciate that.
I really do.
Thank thanks so much.
You're welcome.
So you feel nervous?
Do you feel nervous now, Mary?
I feel better.
I'm still very excited.
So 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.
You 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, I'm I I in in preparing to host this show.
I once called radio talk shows, and I know what it's like being out there on hold.
You uh, 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 uh 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.
But uh 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 that was very special, and it just made you even more human, and 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's it was just so cool to read that intro of your life and your story, and it's just a great story, Russ.
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 like an online business, uh health and wellness.
My my husband and I do.
Uh online business on 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.
So, you know, as host I sit here, I try to we you 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 the Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, that that's who I've been told I look like.
So if that helps you don't know.
No, 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's you bet.
All right, Mary, have a great uh great weekend, and thanks again so much.
Hang on now.
We'll we'll we'll get your address and so forth uh to send you.
Replacement replacement rush babe on board sign.
What was the first show I called?
Uh it was a show in Pittsburgh in uh in 1972, hosted by a combo preacher, uh uh politician activist type guy.
It was a Sunday night show.
That 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've I I did I I put in my time.
You cannot be a host until you've been a caller.
You do 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 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 on uh by the way, Snurdly, do not ask for her phone number.
What do not?
He has this habit.
Yes, especially after the after the Ashley Judd thing.
Uh Sterley, hold off.
I'll tell you what, you know what else I want to do?
I've got Yes, I'm looking up there in the bookshelves.
I have some leather-bound copies of uh second book, maybe the first one too.
I'm gonna I'm gonna autograph one and send it out to her.
So I'm gonna need the address here.
We'll have Cookie get it out this afternoon.
All right, you've got to take a brief time out.
Uh still lots to do here in our remaining half hour of today's excursion uh into uh open line 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, Wade 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?
Why you're crazy, Limbaugh?
We could never find them, round them up.
It's not possible, not feasible.
But every once in a while, government steps in it.
Okay, so you suspend the raids.
Fine.
And then you go to these people and say, 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.
Uh I just I find it hair uh uh hilarious.
Now, 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 Caesarean sections Sunday afternoon.
It benefits health care, said Amy Austin, a hospital's director of community and government relations.
The four girls are breathing without ventilators that 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 uh that unique.
Here's the point of the story.
The Jepps 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 number of hospital beds.
Two of the girls were to be transferred to a Calgary hospital later Thursday.
The other two could be moved to Friday if their conditions, the meaning today remain favorable.
So much for the Great Canadian health care.
What I miracle, what I want to know is why'd the Jepps 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 uh Sydney, Australia.
Private hospital as 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 uh uh Illawara 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.
Uh the public cardiothoracic unit had enough space for twelve beds, but only after um uh they had four or five due to a lack of funding were available.
So here here's 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 of that?
They have the excess space because they don't have the funding to utilize the space.
So the government's cardiothoracic units got enough space for twelve beds, but a lack of government funding, i.e., taxes, uh, 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, they 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.
Uh 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.
You will still have to wait for four months for urgent surgery, unless that is you choose the private sector option.
Uh you figure it out.
Greg in Port Ludo, Washington, uh, nice to have you on the program.
Hey, libertarian diddles, Rush.
Well, thank you.
Thanks very much.
Longtime listener.
I live in Washington.
I spent most of my life in California.
Thirty-one years for an oil company, eighteen years running a refinery.
We didn't produce gas, but we did produce luboil and diesel.
And I know you say it all the time, and everyone else says it.
We haven't built a new refinery in thirty 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.
Uh 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, uh yeah.
Absolutely.
You would.
Sure.
I know it's not going to happen.
I live on an island.
But but I I understand the point.
You're basically saying there's no 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 uh 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 so I flew over West Texas.
I saw nothing out there until we got to El Paso.
I well, I know, but there's there's there's uh there I flew over, you know, you you got the deserts in Arizona, New Mexico, you've got I saw it all.
I said 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 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 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 uh prices double, gasoline prices double.
I just think it's impossible at this point.
Now wait a second.
You gotta you gotta you gotta 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 gonna just fail, we're gonna have to rebuild them ex maybe 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.
I was shocked.
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 Europe.
Right.
We're gonna that I was just gonna say I have said that, and and and we're gonna end up importing more gasoline.
So we're gonna be doubly vulnerable.
We're already importing over half the oil, and now we're gonna be here if if if we continue to grow and become productive as a country and need gasoline, and we're gonna have to even if even for your little hybrid folks, just look at the gas lean out there.
Uh we're we're gonna become a net importer of gasoline at some point.
That's right.
And I agree with that.
But anyway, sure pleasure talking to you and uh for from a libertarian in Washington State made up mostly of uh uh Democrats, uh I feel alone out here.
Well, I understand, but you're never alone as long as you have EIB.
That's right.
I'm a 24-7 member.
I appreciate that.
I that's great.
I really do.
I I have to run here, but thanks so much for the call.
I appreciate the um uh I hadn't thought of that, that one aspect of building a refinery.
I had not thought of that.
So you uh 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, and people are gonna get the wrong if if people think I'm pulling money out of a bank, this is gonna be a problem.
It's gonna cause a run on the bank.
I don't have any money at country wide bank.
And it's capitalized rush.
I know they mean in a hurry, but uh Chris in Nashville, uh, 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.
Uh I 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 in the news here about these proposals about how to get kids covered and all these things.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
With with very few exceptions, and there are some people out there that are uninsurable, but health insurance is easily accessible.
Uh i 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 mean, I know what you're saying, I'm not arguing with you.
I'm saying that the the 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, they they the the idea of prioritizing finances for that never occurs to them.
They'll go out, buy two cars, fourteen 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 it's it's well, go ahead.
I don't mean to interrupt.
I I would have a question.
Is as a citizen out here, how how would one appeal to the powers that be in Washington, D.C. to get some some common sensical ideas put on the table.
Because they 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 think look, I don't mean to be a 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 is the medical savings account thing.
The whole the 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.
It's a but what people don't what folks don't understand, and I also have to tell you, I lived in Canada for a year.
Uh that they're telling the folks that uh you and Bill Gates and all of these people they're gonna tax the rich to pay for it.
Uh you and Bill Gates don't have enough money to pay for it.
And what's gonna happen is as opposed to people opting to pay, say, three or four hundred bucks a month for their own coverage, they're gonna wind up paying double that in taxes to get lousy coverage.
And and that's the dirty little secret about it all, is people are gonna 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'Mak?
Do you think it matters to John Edwards?
Well, no, I don't think it matters to them, but I I would hope in in the 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 that's one of the purposes of this program is to is to try to to you know provide obstacles to the steady blob like flow of liberalism through our culture.
Uh and it's it's something you know, people are gonna have to get interested in it.
One of the challenge for for 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, it'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 s 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 defuse 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.
Uh the word is entitlement.
So you turn around and let's leave the elderly out of this.
You just you turn around and tell people that you're talking about the demographics that you're talking about.
Hey, by the way, you know, it's about time you assume responsibility for this yourself.
Not just this, but everything else in your life to the time you assume the responsibility by your house, buy your car.
It's about time, you know, that's what the rest of us are doing.
You're gonna have a lot of trouble.
This is this is something that's gonna take a long, long time, and this is this is why Mrs. Clinton and her fellow warriors are so eager to get this done as quickly as possible, because they know that it's it's uh that that progress is being making and make and may it progress is occurring in opposing what they want to do.
Uh but oh, that's 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 gonna hurt kids.
Oh, there's a bunch of damage that we're gonna talk about on Monday, folks.
Have a great weekend.
We'll be back and start it all over again.
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