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Sept. 4, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 4, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Ladies and gentlemen, do we really want to live in a country where men cannot pick up men?
Is that what we want in this country?
We need to ask ourselves serious questions.
That inform us the implications of this Craig incident.
Greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan, they're going to be here all week.
Well, it's tough on my little cat.
I I was gone for um how many days?
It must have been eight or nine days.
And I flew.
We left what we left Hawaii.
We flew over to Honolulu on Saturday afternoon after golf this past Saturday.
Went over to the University of Hawaii football game against Northern Colorado.
June Jones, the uh the head coach over there is just doing a fabulous uh rebuilding job of that program.
He's got a potential Heisman trophy quarterback over there.
And this kid threw six touchdown passes, 416 yards in the first half.
We were watching a game from the sideline.
If you've never seen a professional or college football game in the sideline, you have no clue what a football game is really like.
I mean, how brutal the sport is.
Anyway, we left at halftime and went back to the airport, flew from Honolulu to Kansas City, drop off some people seven and a half hours, and then another two and a half on to uh Palm Beach.
Excuse me.
Sniffles here, but I had just hit the cough button that time so that I didn't sniffle in front of you.
Anyway, I got home and uh what time I guess I walked about one o'clock Sunday afternoon, and here punk was sitting in there waiting for me and would not leave my side, no matter where I would not was jumping up on my lap, jumping on the back of my chair in the library, headbutting me in bed, trying to wake me up at three in the morning and so forth, and I'm saying, oh, this is so bad because I'm just gonna be leaving the next day.
I left yesterday afternoon about four o'clock to uh fly up to New York.
Um we're gonna be here all week um and and leaving here on Friday.
Be back to Southern Command a week from today.
Uh Mr. Snerdley is even up here from the Southern Command screening calls today because HR, the trusted chief of staff's got this neat trick.
He goes away on these three-day Monday weekends and comes back on Tuesday.
Uh or Wednesday, no.
He uses Tuesday, which is today, right, to get back from the Monday three-day weekend.
So uh snurdly screening calls.
Uh, you're gonna screen calls tomorrow too, or is HR?
You're gonna screen them tomorrow?
Okay.
All right.
Cool.
Um Larry Craig.
Oh, let me I know we got some people on the phones that think I'm wrong about this, and I'm gonna talk to you, so so be patient.
Uh, we'll get to you here uh in just a second.
Larry Craig was forced out, folks, because the Republicans are scared.
Uh the Republicans have been told they can't win the next election.
They have been told that they have no chance that they're gonna lose even more seats.
The Republicans accept the labels that liberals apply to them, and they refuse to stand and fight.
Now, the most logical way for the Republicans to have responded to Patrick Leahy and other Senate Democrats on Larry Craig was to say this.
You know, Senator Leahy, when you leaked to NBC News and were forced to resign from the Intel Committee, we didn't call for your resignation from the Senate.
When Barney Frank knew of a male prostitution ring being run from his townhouse, he didn't resign.
When Harry Reed was involved in sleazy land deals, several of them in Nevada, he didn't resign from the Senate.
So who are you to lecture anybody about any of this?
You people have committed far more grievous acts of indecency than Larry Craig committed here by tapping his foot in a bathroom.
And this is the kind of thing, folks.
I understand that we I'm gonna have to blow my nose here.
You just gotta play happy feet for a second, will you?
Just to play anything.
It's just gonna be five seconds.
It doesn't matter.
I just don't want five seconds of dead air.
Just play anything.
Okay.
Okay, all right.
Fighting the ravages here of the common cold virus, a chest cold, ladies and gentlemen.
It's all coming out now.
That's why the blowing of the nose, the congestion and stuff.
I know some of you out there are very upset with me because you think I'm tolerant or being tolerant of the activity of Larry Craig, and that we can't have these kind of people in our party.
We certainly can't have elected officials this way.
Uh And I understand you're angry uh with me about this.
But I'm telling you something, this this this double standard that exists and the cowardice and the fear that the Republicans exhibit uh is not comforting.
Not with an election a little over a year away.
You know, a presidential campaign that's going to be brutal and it can't be filled with defensiveness.
People are going to have to stand up and fight for what they believe.
There are ways of dealing with what these Democrats have said.
You've got Barney Frank, you've got Gary Studge, you've got Harry Reid, you've got Diane Feinstein in an area that wasn't even uh uh looked into about steering money from her committee in the Senate or businesses that her husband benefits from.
Uh not to mention Leahy, who leaked when he was on the intelligence committee and was forced to resign.
I mean, if if if uh anyone ever convicted of any crime should revive r resign from the Senate, then why is Ted Kennedy still there?
Uh according to Wikipedia.
I went to Wikipedia, and that's everybody's favorite authority, right?
Wikipedia.
Kennedy entered a plea of guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury.
He received a sentence of two months in jail, which was suspended.
The sentence was notable in that the statute for the crime provided only for mandatory jail time and not the discretion of a suspended sentence.
An Edgartown grand jury later reopened the investigation, but did not return an indictment.
Well, Craig pled guilty to a misdemeanor as well.
But Kennedy pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing an injury.
Now, I suppose if he had done so in a men's room, the liberals would have demanded his resignation, right?
And by the same token, what was Larry Craig's mistake?
Larry Craig's mistake was not tapping his foot in the Oval Office.
If he'd been tapping his foot in the Oval Office, he'd still be in the Senate.
And he had to go to a men's room in the Minneapolis Airport.
Now, the Ted Kennedy thing occurred on Martha's Vineyard, which makes it totally different, right?
So when Republicans just sit there when the likes of Leahy and others make these statements and hold themselves out as the as the uh epitome of morality and virtue and get all defensive.
It's oh Senator Yes, we don't want to defend Senator Leahy, we don't want to offend Senator Reed, we don't want to offend our values voters and so forth and so on.
This is not to condone Larry Craig's behavior, whatever it was or was not, folks.
It is the it is it's time to realize here that these people who are demanding all of these resignations and saying that they're gonna go after David Vitter should have been long gone from the U.S. Senate for things far worse than what either Vitter or Craig are alleged to have done.
And yet they get to sit there and act as the moral judge.
Sorry, doesn't fly with me.
I don't care whether Larry Craig's a reprobate or not.
Doesn't matter in this case.
It's the people who are telling me and my party how we must comport ourselves when they couldn't walk in our shadows.
You can sit there and you can you can play holier than now on this morality stuff.
But if you're looking for perfection in elected officials, if you're looking for people who are never gonna fall off the wagon, never gonna walk uh uh uh something other than a straight line, and you're gonna be looking forever.
Quick timeout.
Don't go away, we'll be right back.
Yeah, I almost got cited there.
Turned on my microphone here myself, which is a violation of union thug rules in New York.
Can't turn on the microphone here.
I do have control of the cough switch, but I have to command the engineer, the broadcast engineer to do it.
Florida, they don't have these stringent rules of right to work state, New York, the union, of course.
I got Mo Thacker out there monitoring everything, the union thug that he's head of the United Screeners of America plus.
Just say, yeah, just say you're not gonna cite me far because I I've just it was habit.
I automatically turn the mic back off and waited for the engineer to uh turn it back on.
I question, folks, do we have any problem with Fred Thompson or any of our candidates announcing their intentions on Jay Leno?
Do we have a problem with this?
You don't, Mr. Sturdley?
I think I do.
I think I do.
Yeah, I really do.
I think I have a problem with it.
I'll explain it in due course as the uh program unfolds.
Poverty rates have declined significantly.
This so this ought to disqualify a Breck girl.
His whole campaign's a wiping out poverty.
Listen to this lead from the AP, which is unusual.
Five years into a national economic recovery, the share of Americans living in poverty finally dropped.
Now they had mentioned it tried to put the word finally in there.
The nation's poverty rate was 12.3% in 2006, which was down from 12.6% a year before, according to the Census Bureau, median household income increase slightly to 48,200 per year.
Medium, that means as many above it as there are below it.
It's not the average.
Now, Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation took this data, did some analysis, and he's been analyzing poverty and the poor in America for the longest time.
I can remember back in I first became aware of his work in the 90s at the Heritage Foundation, 1990 or 91, and I quoted some of his work.
And I got jumped by a bunch of liberal media watchdog groups for making up facts and because this dispels the whole one of the whole notions of modern liberalism is uh that that everybody's just paycheck away from being homeless and so forth, and the poor in this country really are poor, and they need more taxes and more government support and more help and so forth.
Uh let me go through the latest research from Robert Rector here at the Heritage Foundation.
Uh because I don't know what you think of the poor, but we all need to readjust what we think when we hear the word poor.
Uh the old notions don't fit what the reality currently is.
Now here a few things that people who are classified as poor in this country have.
And this is from Robert Rector, the Heritage Foundation.
Forty-six percent of all poor households actually own their own homes.
The average home owned by persons classified as poor with the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one and a half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
Now the house may need to be painted, the porch may be cracked, the barbecue pit may not work, but they own their own home.
Forty-six percent of the people in this country we call poor actually own their own homes.
80.
80 percent of poor households have air conditioning.
By contrast, in 1970, only 36% of the whole U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
Only six percent of poor households are overcrowded.
Two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
The typical poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe.
These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.
Are you hearing me on this, folks?
This is hard to believe, I know.
Are you hearing me on this?
Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car.
31% own two or more cars.
In addition to 46% of all poor households actually owning their own homes.
97% of poor households have a color television.
Over half own two or more color TVs.
78% of poor households have a VCR or a DVD player.
62% of all poor households have cable or satellite TV reception.
89% of households that we qualify or classify as poor in this country own microwave ovens.
More than half of them have a stereo.
Well, we don't know how many of them are stolen.
I'm just kidding.
Well, when you start talking about microwaves and stereos, uh we assume they're being purchased.
Uh uh.
89% of households that we qualify as poor, classify as poor, own microwaves, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.
Uh In other words, poverty in this country needs major revamping.
Uh as it currently stands, what the Democrats and the Brett Girl talk about is a fraud.
It is a lie.
Get this.
This is also from uh Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation.
Poor children actually consume more meat than do higher income children, and they have average protein intakes 100% above recommended levels.
They're not starving either.
Most poor children today are fat.
In fact, super nourished, and they grow up to be on average one inch taller and ten pounds heavier than the GIs who stormed beaches at Normandy in World War II.
A third of poor households have both cell and landline telephones.
A third also have telephone answering machines.
At the other extreme, approximately one-tenth of families in poverty have no phone at all.
Seminarly, while the majority of poor households do not experience significant material problems, roughly a third do experience at least one problem, such as overcrowding, temporary hunger, uh, or difficulty getting medical care.
Of course, we all have difficulty getting medical care because we don't have socialized medicine yet, so it's not working.
Much official poverty that does exist in the U.S. can be reduced, particularly among children.
There are two main reasons American children are poor.
One is their parents don't work much, and their fathers are absent from home.
That's that's that's why there are poor children.
Major programs such as food stamps, public housing, and Medicaid continue to reward idleness and penalize marriage.
If welfare could be turned around to encourage work and marriage, the nation's remaining poverty could be reduced, according to Robert Rector.
Uh 25% of legal immigrants, 50 to 60 percent of illegals are high school dropouts.
By contrast, only 9% of non-immigrant Americans lack a hascruel degree.
Only 9%.
Non-immigrant Americans.
As long as the present study uh flow, a steady flow of poverty prone persons from foreign countries continues.
Efforts to reduce the total number of poor in the U.S. will be far more difficult.
A sound anti-poverty strategy must not only seek to increase work and marriage among native-born Americans, it must also end illegal immigration and dramatically increase the skill level of future legal immigrants.
This is again Robert Rector, Senior Research Fellow in Domestic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation.
Now, these are different stats than he had compiled back in the early 90s when I first became aware of his work.
I will never forget reading those stats and getting creamed by these liberal watchdog groups for literally making up facts.
And they weren't mine, of course.
They just couldn't handle the truth about it.
Same thing.
When I said there was more forested area of the United States today than there was at the days of the founding, well, they they ripped that to shreds too, but it's still true.
And there's two reasons why.
You know one of the main reasons why there is more forest today than there was back in the days of the founding?
Well, no, it's because they didn't know how to put out forest fires back then.
We do.
We can stop forest fires.
There was there was hardly any management of the forest whatsoever.
They were burning like crazy.
And it poison the fish, whatever we do, but we can save the timber.
I had a conversation with somebody over the weekend.
Uh, you know, just nicest person, but when he's totally missed guy, takes their own bags to the grocery store, refuses to dry any car of eight cylinders or more and so forth.
He says, I really think, I really think that we should avoid cutting down trees and and devastating species.
And so what is a tree?
A tree is a crop.
You replant, well, I think we should plant trees every time we do cut them down.
I said, we do that.
It's called the lumber industry.
What do they need to stay in business?
Trees.
And they plant them out the wazoo.
Uh so these things are uncontestable, inarguable, and yet they violate so many tenets of liberalism that the people like me and Rector who make these statements uh come under severe and dangerous attack.
All right.
Dangerous Iraq chemicals found stored at the United Nations in New York.
I'd say, folks, I'm so confused.
I feel like that poor 18 year old Miss South Carolina who gave that answer uh last week.
You know, it's a shame people are laughing at her.
She had look at this woman was being exactly what she'd been educated to be.
That was a perfect yet.
Her answer was a perfect answer of a woman that's grown up in a Democrat-run public schools in this country.
It was made total sense as far as they're concerned.
Your guiding light.
The uh transcriber screens darken here, FYI.
Uh before we go back to the phones, uh, I want to I want to come there, it's back.
I want to comment further here on um the the Miss Teen South Carolina answer.
Now we didn't we don't have the audio here.
I don't want to embarrass the what are you looking at me this way for, Mr. Snerdley?
Do you not know what the answer she gave is?
You don't know what I'm talking about.
You have no idea about this.
Okay.
Um she was asked a question in a pageant.
Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the United States on a world map.
Why do you think this is?
Here was her answer.
I personally believe the U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some uh people out there in our nation don't have maps.
And uh I believe that our education, like such as South Africa and uh the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should.
Our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our now.
This is sad.
This is sad, and people played this audio it's got to sell her 10 million hits on YouTube, Mr. Snerdley.
You've got the audio?
I know okay, I'll play it.
I'll play, but I I'm not doing this to make fun of her.
A lot of other people did this.
I'm not trying to, I'm not I'm not trying to make fun of her.
There's a there's a reason for this.
There is an explanation for this answer.
Here is the 18-year-old Miss Teen South Carolina question again recently.
Is the question on this or just the answer?
Yeah, here's the question.
Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans don't locate or can't locate the United States in a world map.
Why do you think that is?
Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map.
Why do you think this is I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because uh some people out there in our nation don't have maps,
and uh I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and uh the Iraq, everywhere like such as and I believe that they should uh our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future.
All right.
Thank you very much.
All right.
Uh now the next day she went on today's show to try to explain this.
Uh and I think made it a little even even worse.
Uh now here's the thing.
You you you wonder since 18 years old.
How do you get this kind of an answer?
Uh I'm now folks.
I'm not I didn't do this to laugh at this girl, make fun of her.
That's that's been done last week while I was gone.
I think that this is a perfect answer for a kid totally educated in government-run schools run by a bunch of liberals.
Uh this is the stuff that's been taught to her.
Why does she come up when when talking about a question about maps?
Why does she come up with South Africa?
Why does she come up with the Iraq?
I guarantee you that those things came to her mind because something's being taught to her about those countries.
And so what happened when she hears the question involving the word map.
The map forget the United States.
The question is about how come only a fifth of Americans can recognize their own country on a map.
She hears the word map and she launches in, makes associations, what she'd been taught.
In geography with maps, and that's a rock in South Africa.
What do you and look at her answer?
Well, I think we need we need to uh increase our education of places like South Africa and the Iraq.
Uh our education over here should help the Iraq and the Asian countries.
Obviously, this woman's being taught that we're being mean to the Iraqis and the South Africans.
That's the connection that she made.
This is a perfect answer for what she has been taught to blame her for this, and to start laughing at her, I think misses the point.
She this answer is the product of what she's been taught.
Plus, I mean it's a quintessential beauty pageant answer.
Uh, but it's, you know, you can say this is funny, but it's not.
It's sad.
This this answer is a direct result of the public education system in this coming.
Well oh oh, right.
What that that's right.
We had a call once.
There was some it's it's um uh a new type it's sociology of soci sociology geography or something.
That it they're teaching a course called geography, but it doesn't teach geography.
It teaches oh, I I'm having a metal block.
See if it's how you feel about various places in the world, how you feel about that's exactly right.
Coco, do an archive search uh on a on a limbo letter webpage.
I am certain we've this this came up uh after the website started.
It's been in the last two or three years.
Um this newfangled geography course that was being taught.
This kid called and told us about it.
And it was you were you were to tell the teacher, everybody is how you felt when they showed you a certain spot on the map.
And it was supposed to get you, and I'm telling you, this girl uh is this is she is a product of the touchy feely education that that that goes on in public schools today.
Uh same thing.
We sit there and laugh at her, it's not the point.
And she went on today's show the next day, and and uh, you know, sh same same kind of gibberish came out, and Matt Lauer and and Ann Curry, I think it was giving her high five for at least standing up for what she believed.
I mean, it was she was she was she was they were encouraging her.
They didn't have the guts to sit there and say, what did you just say?
The question was, how come only I forgot what the hell a question is now?
Screw it.
What's the question?
A fifth of Americans can't recognize their own country in a map.
That's striking enough on its own.
Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map.
That's just that question's just as bad as the answer.
I mean, the the content of the question is a great question to ask.
What would you think the answer to the question is?
How come a fifth of Americans can't spot their own country on a map?
What do you think that is?
They've never been taught where it is exactly.
The only thing they see is the map on the weather page on TV.
But you you would think that having grown up seeing the map of the U.S. on a weather page, that when they put it on a map of the world, they'd be able to spot the shape anyway, and say, Oh, I've seen that on TV.
That must be America.
This it's scary stuff out there, folks.
David in Atlanta, thank you for waiting.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello.
1986 ditto is Rush.
Well, thank you, sir.
Great to have you here.
Sacramento days on KFPK.
Wish I was still there.
Hey, I wanted to comment on the uh the whole Larry Craig thing, and and uh, you know, I agree with you partially that it's been overwrought and that uh, you know, really it's kind of been blown out of proportion.
You know, there was a misdemeanor that uh that he pled guilty to, nothing else was was necessarily proven and so on.
And uh, but I don't necessarily agree that the Republicans overreacted and threw him under the bus.
Uh, you know, really think he got thrown out of the bus more than anything else.
But uh Mitt Romney ran over him after throwing him out of the bus.
I mean they're gonna be.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
Mitt Romney did pretty much uh completely dismiss him.
Yeah.
Uh at the same time, though, I have to I have to think that, you know, we we are the party of of the higher standard.
Uh and yes, everybody falls, you know, everybody sins, and uh, you know, as a Christian, I believe in that very very strongly and firmly.
Uh but we have to maintain that moral standard not following the double standards necessarily that uh the Democrats have done as well.
I understand that, but what a what what good would Craig do?
Well, in this case, not necessarily much, but at the same time, you know, if if somebody gets themselves caught, you know, when they put their hand in the cookie jar or whatever they're doing, uh, it's it's probably up to them to kind of say, you know what?
Yeah, but see, there was no hand in the cookie jar here.
There was a toe-tapping in a in a in a in a in a in a men's room stall in a bathroom with an undercover cop on the other side of the stall.
Yeah, it seems seems pretty clear though, Rush, that you know what he was doing, he knew what he was doing, that it wasn't a mistake.
And uh, and we don't know that.
We can't prove that.
Uh it it's really of a you know, word of one against the other.
At the same time, though, uh yeah, you go back to the Mark Foley thing and and you know how Republican uh the Senate leadership handled the Mark Foley thing, and they swept it under the rug as long as they could.
Uh Danny Hastert, uh, you know, he he refused to uh to do anything about it and look into it, and uh and look what happened there.
And then it's you know, I don't know if you can say that lost just the election, but it was certainly a huge.
Well, you see, now this isn't I'm I'm glad you brought up Foley, because I'll tell you, I think I think the Democrats' war room screwed this up, and I think some heads are gonna roll.
This Larry Craig thing should have happened a year from now.
They've wasted it.
What's it doing happening now?
This is something, this is something that that uh, you know, the Foley thing, they held that in the bank for a year and a half, and they used it earlier than they wanted to because the polls were showing Republicans were gonna hold on to the House.
So they had to go to the map and they had to use the Foley thing.
They they they had that in a bands.
Um the Republicans had uh maybe not done the right thing with what they had known way back when and so forth.
But you know, look, we're we're g if if if we adhere to this notion that that we have the the moral high ground, uh then we had better expect, and if we're gonna sit there and let uh people like Patrick Lahay and Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd and Harry Reed,
if we're gonna let them be the moral arbiters of the U.S. Senate and who's fit to hold office in Washington, D.C., then we may as well fold up shop.
And on the basis that we can't field a team that will be morally untouchable.
I know this is a this is a tough one, folks, but I d the future of the country's at stake here.
I think uh liberals to this is the liberals doing everything they can to gain control.
Look at what they're already talking about doing if they win.
They're gonna control as much of your life as possible.
Oh, I I've I'm starting to sound like a bloken uh broken record on this.
Uh let me take a brief time out.
We'll come back much more straight ahead here on the EIB network.
Stay with me.
All right.
Here's what it was.
What was a date of this?
March 7th of 2006, on this very program.
Um human geography and mental mapping.
Remember that?
Human geography and mental mapping.
And we found this because we got a we gotta somebody called and talked to us about this.
We'd never heard of this.
And we went to the National Geographic.com website where the course is uh and the lesson plan are are spelled out.
Now we're talking here about this because of the answer uh Miss Teen South Carolina gave to the question only a fifth of Americans can spot their own country on a map.
Why do you think that is?
Here's the preview of main ideas of mental mapping and human geography.
We all form impressions and images of our physical surroundings, even of places we've never been.
These impressions are what geographers call our mental maps.
Geographers are interested in the concept of mental maps and how they are developed.
Understanding the way people view different regions can help experts understand and predict how the land may be used and among other uses what patterns of migration may be expected.
This lesson uses mental maps to explore student perceptions of different regions of the United States.
United States and world history are filled with examples of regional suspicions, misconceptions, and antagonisms.
World conflict and cooperation...
topics commonly studied in world geography are influenced by the perceptions that people of different nations.
I remember this now.
What happened was the people would go into this course and they'd be told a sport of point at a spot on a map and then explain how they felt about it.
And this was used to determine who was racist and sexist and bigoted and homophobic and all these things.
There was no teaching here at all.
Here's how we get in touch with our feelings.
And we at the we the teachers, we want to know how you feel when we point to Mississippi.
And when we point to Missouri, how do you feel?
And and so when you I don't know if this Miss Teen, South Carolina took this course.
But I guarantee you, whatever she learned in there about geography and maps and so forth triggered thoughts in her poor little mind of South Africa and the Iraq.
And you can imagine what they are teaching her about South Africa and the Iraq.
Well, that's what she called it.
She called it the Iraq.
Jason and Bremerton, Washington, welcome to the uh EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush Diddles, and welcome back.
Thank you.
Uh my comment was related to the uh John Edwards mandating doctor visits.
And you covered it pretty much with uh, you know, mentioning the importance of the government factor in it.
But what isn't being brought up is that this is something you'd expect from a repressive or non-freedom-based government, and not the U.S. And if it's implemented, uh, wouldn't that be considered an invasion of privacy?
You know, you know, if so, why aren't the leftist kooks who rail against the Patriot Act or government surveillance or any database tracking, you know, yelling from the top of the mountains uh about this?
You know, where's the HCLU?
Um, what Edward wants directly hits what these groups oppose.
And you know, after all, isn't the government gonna need to keep a database of you know who made their yearly trip to Dr. Feel Good?
Well, you know, big difference though, like in the spying program and so forth, that's to protect the country.
Uh and the people here talk about the ACLU and these people are not protecting the country oriented.
You know, they're these are people that resent this country.
They get big problems with this country in a lot of ways.
Um the the point about uh you're making about Edwards is exactly right.
Where this is something an oppressive regime would conduct.
This is something that people would do in order to rest come up with whatever reason they want, but the reason here is total control.
And uh nobody is reacting to the loss of freedom here.
What for example, uh, what or who is gonna make sure you go to the doctor?
Or what's gonna happen what's gonna happen to you if you don't?
Yeah, they're gonna have doctor police out there, and they're gonna have to build new prisons for all those of us who don't go to the doctor when we're told to.
Well, they're gonna have to do something.
They're gonna have to find us, penalize us, something, maybe give us a colonoscopy if uh if we don't go get one on our own, or maybe give us two without you know any medication to make it uh tolerable.
Who knows?
The government does that without trips to the doctor.
Excellent.
Don't make me laugh because it causes coughing spasms.
Excellent point.
Uh Tina in Chicago, uh I'll give uh we'll see if we can squeeze you in before the break.
Uh just say what you want to say.
If we don't get it in, we'll uh hold you over later.
Uh Diddles Rush, I promise to try to make you look good.
Um, I am so sick and tired of hearing people say you cannot afford health care insurance.
I mean, you can get a major medical plan for probably less than a hundred bucks a month for your family.
And my husband came to this country, they begged him to get on welfare.
They wanted him to get on welfare.
They wanted to keep him down, and today, if we had done that twenty years later, we would not be taking in a six-figure income.
And he tries to tell every single minority or immigrant, and he's legal, uh, but he tries to tell every single legal immigrant that you need to learn English, you need to get educated and pay for what you get.
I love the passion, but I gotta go.
The constraints of time.
I'm sorry.
You did great.
You did great.
By the way, Miss T in South Carolina also called us U.S. Americans.
U.S. Americans.
Uh like what was she been taught?
The the PC African Americans and Hispanic Americans, and then there are U.S. Americans.
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