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Nov. 20, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 20, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this show make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's because the views expressed by the host on this program are rooted in a relentless pursuit of the truth.
That's why you must be well-adjusted and able to face the truth on this program without going nuts.
When you hear it, 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
Ann Kornblut, John Cohen, Washington Post.
For Democrats, Iowa still up for grabs.
This is their take on the poll, the ABC poll that shows Hillary at 30 and Obama at 26 and the Brecht girl down there at 22%.
The poll quote paragraph here, she appears more vulnerable on questions of character.
31% found Obama to be the most honest and trustworthy, about double the percentage who said the same of Clinton.
As I said, I wouldn't be surprised if the Clinton campaign calls whoever polls for ABC and says, that's a personal attack.
To put a poll question in there about who's honest and who has integrity, that's a personal attack.
And then warn the ABC pollster against doing this kind of thing in future polls.
While about three-quarters credited both Obama and Edwards with speaking their mind on issues, only 50% said that Clinton is willing enough to say what she really thinks.
45% said she's not sufficiently candid.
Folks, this is not good for her.
This is the kind of stuff that she'd hoped to avoid.
She's in a tough race now.
This is a fight.
We'ren't expecting this.
And these numbers are pretty high.
Basically, she's not authentic.
She's not opening up.
She's not being honest.
And the New York, in fact, audio soundbite number five because it kind of buttresses this.
Just listen to Tim Russert talking to Matt Lauer about that today on the Today Show.
Matt, what is interesting, the trend lines are definitely towards Obama.
But when you push people and say, are you most likely to attend the caucus, the lead is even closer.
It's about two points.
But what's in here, Matt, is what they tell us about the candidates.
We ask them who has the most experience.
And overwhelmingly, people say Hillary Clinton.
Look at those numbers by a margin of three to one.
And yet, who do you trust?
Look at this, Matt.
By a margin of two to one, they say Barack Obama.
Yeah, see, so who do you trust?
That's that whole question that's a personal attack.
It's Russert making the point who the author of the original personal attack.
Mrs. Clinton, what about driver's licenses for illegals?
I'm going to get your testicles, Tim, and put them in a lockbox.
You know, you're not allowed.
You're not supposed to ask these kinds of questions.
This is a fascinating piece, too.
Nicholas Wapshot at the New York Sun.
What do these three Americans have in common?
John Deutsch, the CIA director between May of 95 and December of 96, faced criminal charges for storing state secrets on his home computer.
David Herdlinger, a former Arkansas prosecutor and judge, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 1986, having accepted bribes to waive charges against those accused of drunk driving.
Alfredo Luna Farregalado failed to mention to a customs official he was smuggling into America more than the $10,000 permitted.
If your answer is they're all free as a bird, having been given a last-minute pardon by President Clinton, you're right.
Though that's not the answer the examiners are looking for.
The correct answer is that all three who were indeed pardoned at the last minute by Bill Clinton have made recent financial contributions to the presidential campaign coffers of Senator Clinton.
The news that Mrs. Clinton has accepted money from three criminals who were pardoned by her husband is highly contentious.
Or more accurately, two criminals and Mr. Deutsch, who was on the point of being charged when he was let off the hook.
Sure to prove hugely embarrassing to Mrs. Clinton's campaign.
As Mr. Clinton argued in a spirited defense of his actions in the New York Times a month after he left office, presidents are free to pardon whom they wish.
There's only one prohibition, however.
There can be no quid pro quo.
And there certainly was not in this or any other pardons and commutations that I granted, he wrote.
And with the Clintons, that might have been true at the time.
But now these three who have been pardoned have been donating, they have been seen donating to the Clinton campaign.
In Florida, Rudy Giuliani campaigning at the NASCAR next, well, he was shown in a picture there in Florida, is the most popular presidential candidate in Florida.
50% of voters willing to consider voting for him.
This is a Mason-Dixon poll in a potential matchup with Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Giuliani wins 50-43.
Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney also beat Hillary in Florida, although their wins are within the margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.
Hillary Clinton, the only candidate in Florida polling, Democrat or Republican, with higher unfavorable than favorable ratings.
And this is everywhere.
This is what we talk about with this polarization factor.
Her negative, Carl Rove raised that on this very program.
The high negatives that she has are not the stuff that presidential candidates win on.
I mean, that's way too divisive.
So all these polls today from Iowa and Florida, bad news for Hillary.
My guess is that they have known about these polls for a while.
You know, the Clintons are a couple steps ahead because their internal polling has no doubt showed them these events or these results.
And so probably days before the CNN debate, the Clinton camp knew how bad the bleeding was, and thus we saw Wolf Blitzer threatened.
We saw Obama threatened with that little leak to Robert Novak.
Now, the Clintons are several moves ahead because they have better information than the drive-by media does.
But I would bet that the level of panic inside Hillary's war room last week must have set the campaign on DEF CON one, maybe to DEF CON 2.
The orchestration with CNN, and there can be no doubt, folks, there can be no doubt that there was orchestration with CNN.
It's rather remarkable.
And the down and dirty gutter politics that's shoveled up to Novak shows there's considerable fear inside what everyone believes to be the unflappable Clinton campaign.
See, I'm telling you, they're in a fight.
This was not intended.
This was not anticipated.
It isn't unflappable.
This is interesting.
Her Nixonian and her Clintonian dirty politics for the first time may be rebounding right back at her, right into her face.
This is the first campaign that she's run where the rules have changed, i.e. the era of limbaugh.
She doesn't get a monopolistic blank slate.
I mean, she can have CNN in a tank for her, and she can have some of the other drive-bys in the tank for her, but that's not enough to get it done.
In other words, the sunshine, ladies and gentlemen, shining on the Clinton campaign has never been as bright as it is now.
And Hillary may not have calculated the sanitizing effect of the era of limbaugh.
Actually, I think she has.
And is in full anti-era of limbaugh mode.
Remember her talking about all the mud slinging and the debate against her?
Scripted.
That was a plan.
Just like the gender card, the only mud out there comes from her campaign.
That's what I mean.
The mud's being slung by her, and it's now coming back and hitting her.
A little bit of a distraction because she knows all the mud she had in her purse and accused her opponents of what she was about to unload.
That's the level of deceit at play here.
Fix was in at CNN.
She knew Obama would be threatened soon after.
And just to tie it all up in a pretty bow, she accuses fellow Democrats of throwing mud at her now.
When she and her campaign are the ones, they're most likely behind it.
All right, brief time out here.
We'll come back and we'll get to your phone calls, other things in the stack of stuff.
The New York Times today, front page above the fold, Baghdad starts to exhale as security improves.
My friends, I can't tell you how much that story and headline, front page, New York Times, infuriates Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
Well, there's some moderately major Supreme Court news here, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome back to the EIB Network and El Rushbo.
Supreme Court said today that it will decide whether the District of Columbia can ban handguns, a case that could produce the most in-depth examination of the Second Amendment in nearly 70 years.
The justice's decision to hear the case could make the divisive debate over guns an issue in the 2008 presidential and congressional elections.
The government of Washington, D.C. is asking the court to uphold its 31-year ban on handgun ownership in the face of a federal appeals court ruling that struck down the ban as incompatible with the Second Amendment.
Tuesday's announcement was widely expected, especially after both the district and the man who challenged the handgun ban asked for the high court review.
Oh, boy, this is the kind of thing.
It could go either way.
and if it goes the wrong way, we're in deep doo-doo.
I'll tell you, Justice Kennedy will be the target here.
There will be puff pieces in the Washington Post-style section encouraging him to do the right thing here.
Excuse me.
Okay, well, we'll keep a sharp eye on this.
The only way this would have impact is if we get a decision next June on the case, which I guess would be entirely possible.
To the phones, we go to Harry in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
I'm glad that you called, sir.
Thank you.
Rush, Turkey, and football is about as American as you can get.
And this year, as you mentioned earlier this week in your program, the game on Thanksgiving will only be broadcast by the NFL network.
I have been briefed on this matter, Rush, and the problem is the NFL network only wants to be carried as a basic package by the cable conglomerate.
So if you have cable, you're not going to be able to watch this game.
You're only going to be able to watch it if you have satellites.
Right, and I have satellites, so I don't really care.
I don't, Rush.
But the only exception is if you're in the visiting team's hometown, it's broadcast for free.
And it's also broadcast for free over the air.
The home team city as long as it's not.
No, no, no.
That's not going to happen.
Well, no, it is the case, Rush.
The NFL has told me this.
I've been briefed on the matter.
Wait, the NFL told you there's going to be over-the-air broadcasts in the visiting team city of the NFL Network Games?
Yes.
And the home city as long as the game sells out 72 hours in advance.
I will have to, I'll take your word for it.
I will have to double-check that.
I thought the NFL was playing hardball, was not even going to do that.
Well, they don't want to alienate their fans.
I mean, I'm surprised the NFL has told it out.
Come on, they're already alienating the fans.
But except I've done some research on this since I last talked about it.
And you know who most people are blaming for this?
The cable companies.
They're not blaming the NFL.
They're blaming the cable companies.
Well, I'll be interested to see how their views will change after Thanksgiving when people turn on the TV to find out there's no NFL.
Look at the Thanksgiving game is the Thanksgiving night game is the Indianapolis Colts at the Atlanta Falcons.
That's not the game that's going to get anybody worked up.
The next game that's going to get everybody worked up is on the 22nd, 29th.
And that's a Green Bay Packers at the Dallas Cowboys.
That's going to be the game that's going to have everybody.
They're in 35 million homes.
The NFL network is.
110 million homes are wired for cable.
It's Comcast and Time Warner which are providing the obstacle here, not willing to accept the financial deal that the NFL is demanding.
The cable companies are saying, look it, aside from these eight games that you have for us at the end of the season, all you're doing is reruns the rest of the year.
Well, you got the draft and you've got the some of the other things, but you don't have to, there's no, it's all reruns.
We already provide ESPN, ESPN news.
I mean, our viewers can get all the football they want.
Will Rush, the NFL is saying that Comcast, they have their own sports network TV, and I mean, it's subpar.
And they feel like they should be on the same package that Comcast Sports Network is on, which is basic cable.
Yeah, but, well, I know they want basic, but the problem is that the NFL wants, I think, between, it's a figure that varies, but they want something like 60 to 70 cents per subscriber paid for by the cable company for carrying the network.
Do you know what?
Do you know what ESPN gets per subscriber?
I have no idea.
Take a guess.
NFL Network wants 60 to 70 cents.
I would say, I would guess 15 cents.
$3.19.
NFL, the cable companies pay ESPN over $3 per subscriber.
Wow.
There's a lot going on here that, you know, cable television is an intricate business, and the way revenues are generated for providers and the cable company is a formula, and it differs for every network.
Rush, one last point, though.
Out of the top 25 highest ratings of all time on cable television, 24 have been NFL games.
Yeah.
So they should have more leverage.
They're providing them ratings.
Cable companies don't care about ratings.
They care about subscribers, and they've got the subscribers.
Cable companies are not the cable companies, it's the networks on the cable companies that carry about the ratings or care about the ratings.
Cable companies don't care about that.
They're strictly in it for money.
This is getting to the point where I'll tell you how much friction there is in here.
The federal government is thinking of imposing binding arbitration and having a mediator, an arbitrator, look at the dispute and make a ruling and having it be binding between the NFL and Comcast and Time Warner Cable.
Those are the two big holdouts because fans are writing their congressmen.
Congressman can't do anything about it.
They're writing their state representatives.
State representatives can't do anything about it.
And the state representatives and the Congress feel a little helpless because they would love to be able to show their fans they could do something about this to resolve the dilemma.
Anyway, it's the 29th with the Packers at the Cowboys that's going to cause this to come to ahead.
If it doesn't happen by then, then the last game of the season on Saturday night, the New England Patriots at the New York Giants, and that the Patriots are going for an undefeated season.
Giants will be fighting for the playoffs, probably a wildcard berth, unless the Cowboys collapse.
That's going to be interesting to watch this.
Look, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it, Harry.
This is Ken in Bound Brook, New Jersey.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Good afternoon.
In any event, I'm responding to the story you spoke about earlier about this economics or financial analyst who claims that the people that are going to be hurt most by the credit downturn are poor and minorities.
Well, the fact of the matter is that poor people don't get new car loans typically because they can't afford it.
Yeah, but this is okay.
I wanted to have that stipulation out there.
The story was really about the fact that the subprime mortgage crisis and the credit crunch in home mortgages is ready to bleed and spill over now to the purchase of automobiles.
And of course, the press, the drive-bys, in their obligatory fashion, put it this would be hardest on the poor and minorities.
They left women out of this one because I guess didn't quite fit.
I guess they're part of the minorities.
But anyway, the fact of the matter is that credit crunch in mortgages has nothing to do with retail.
Ford Motor Company, credit, GM credit, you know, they all have their own lending units.
These guys can sell their own product and have historically done so in the past by financing their own sales.
So anybody with, if they need to, anybody with a heartbeat will get a car loan.
As far as the credit crunch or the mortgage meltdown, so-called, the fact of the matter is it's simply a credit meltdown, not a mortgage meltdown.
The credit markets aren't lending to certain credit levels.
It's, you know, what people forget is that markets work.
And you can look at this, the so-called credit crunch, the subprime problem.
There's a major correction going on here because of some things that were done that weren't kosher.
The markets work if you just let them work themselves out.
It's the pain that's caused in something like this problem.
Hey, question, is my voice sound tired today?
Is my voice on tired today?
And North Carolina mistress is playing monkeying with my mind.
So I sound so worn out, so my voice sounds so tired.
What are we doing?
Oh, that's irrelevant.
That happens all the time.
Does my voice sound tired?
You've got to be honest.
Don't sit in there.
All right.
I didn't think so.
In fact, I was just remarking, I'm amazed I have the energy and the connectivity that I am displaying today based on the lateness of the night.
Last night, the Dubai government agency that bought into Deutsche Bank this year said yesterday it was considering investing in U.S. financial services firms affected by the mortgage market crisis.
The thing is, Dubai could wipe out the debt.
They could wipe out the crisis.
DIFC Investments, one of the agencies Dubai has used to buy foreign assets, is identifying good opportunities for acquisitions, quote unquote, in the United States, the governor of the Dubai International Financial Center said on Monday, asked whether the targets could include U.S. banks like Citigroup and Merrill Lynch.
Omar bin Suleiman told Reuters, without mentioning names, we have a track record of taking stakes in banks.
With the right partners for management, the price has to be right and the strategy has to be aligned.
Asked whether it made sense to invest in banks which have taken a hit from the mortgage crisis, he said, yeah, but we're looking at all sectors, not just the financial sectors.
They're also by, what's that chip firm?
Right?
They're buying into AMD, which makes computer chips.
So now they're going to be buying into the mortgage crisis, perhaps.
Now they're buying into AMD manufactures chips.
We can't have the Dubai ports deal.
We can't have Dubai Ports World managing some terminals in our ports.
But hey, here's your laptop made by Dubai.
Wonder what kind of spy technology they put in there that you don't know about.
You know, seriously, what's happening in Dubai is fascinating.
And you remember I was telling you last week that the deal that the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi in Dubai, have made with Airbus, $30 billion worth of new jets with Airbus, some A350s, some A380s.
Boeing got just a smidgen of the offer.
And one of the interesting things about that to me, just the first interesting thing was that the airline business is a cyclical business, and you measure your success in elements of 10 years, increments of 10 years.
And because of that, you have to have pretty good strategic marketing in fuel prices, what they're going to be, fuel supplies and this sort of thing.
If you're in the airline business and you're buying up new aircraft, don't you think that you have to be pretty sure that there's not going to be any problem coming up with Jet A, which is the fuel, which, by the way, for those of you in Riolinda, comes from oil.
And we keep hearing about all the oil crunch and the oil shortage and this and that where the TRICOMs are drinking it all up and in India, they're going to get in the game too.
All of this doom and gloom talk about energy, but the people that are in the jet business keep cranking them out.
And people in the flying of the jets business keep buying them up.
And they don't run on solar.
And they don't run on windmills on top of the fuselage.
And they don't run on little batteries like in a back of your hybrid.
Second thing about Dubai, and this is a point that I tried to make during the whole controversy over the Dubai ports deal.
And that is the United Arab Emirates is exploding business-wise.
It is literally exploding.
Tiger Woods' first golf development project will be in Dubai, Ditto Ernie Ells.
In addition to all of that, they are building homes, hotels, rental units, properties.
They're building islands out in the Gulf on which they are building homes and hotels.
It's an amazing thing to see.
And just rising out of the dust of the desert.
This is an ugly desert.
flew over it.
This Dubai just pops right out of it.
This is brown.
This is not gorgeous sand like you see in Lawrence of Arabia.
This just looks like dirt.
And it's a city and all this stuff's rising out of it.
And they're building it out in the Gulf.
The last thing, the last thing they want is this little nut job in Iran getting nukes.
You know, they're making huge investments.
They're becoming the financial capital of that part of the world for certain, maybe on the way to unseating Hong Kong and maybe on the way to become a major, major financial capital.
They're looking to be a vacation destination, the premier vacation destination for people that live on that part of the planet.
They're nine hours ahead of us.
So right now it's coming up on what, 11 o'clock there at night, 20 minutes to 11.
We can't have Dubai Ports World running the ports.
Halliburton's gone over there, relocated their headquarters, the oil services business.
I just think it's fascinating to watch because it's what we used to be.
It's what we used to be in terms of growth, in terms of we're going to be it.
You go back and look what this country did in the Great Depression.
Can I just give you a list of some things we built during the Great Depression?
Now, I know that we needed make work projects because we needed people to give people jobs, but we still had the capital to do it and we had the will to do it.
We built both the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, built the Hoover Dam.
The Empire State Building went up a year early.
All of this in the 30s, in the Great Depression.
And I've long been fascinated with the Golden Gate Bridge.
I finally got to take a trip when I lived in Sacramento to the top of the South Tower.
Because I've always been amazed.
You go to Fort Point, which is beneath the South Tower, and you stand there and there's no bridge and say, I'm going to build a bridge here.
What would I do first?
I would have no clue.
I'm not an engineer.
And they didn't have the high-tech cranes and equipment to build bridges like we do today, and yet they did.
In the meantime, the World Trade Center has been a hole in the ground for six years.
And it's not that we can't build things anymore.
Of course we can.
It's that we get all caught up in political correctness and the environmentalists and liberalism basically putting a roadblock to anything new and progressive that's technologically advanced.
When you see Dubai, and I know they've got all kinds of oil money and this sort of thing, but we're not a poor country.
We could have a lot more oil money than we have if we simply would drill for well, but people died during the building Empire State Building.
Yeah, people died building the Golden Gate Bridge, too.
People died building buildings.
Oh, that's what you think liberals won't let things get built today because people buy because of oppressive management that will force the workers into unsafe conditions for low wages and no health care.
Right, that's exactly.
So we don't build things.
Or else we have an argument over who's going to be honored when we build the World Trade Center.
And it turns out that the original proposal was to honor nobody.
It was to rip the country for all of the indiscretions and oppressions that we have visited over minority populations.
Let's go to Drums, Pennsylvania.
Janet, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Your energy is unstoppable.
Thank God.
Thank you.
I'm hoping you can put my mind at ease, actually.
I am just scared to death that we have convinced the powers that be that Hillary does not deserve the nomination.
And I'm afraid they're going to pull a fast one and bring in Algore.
And then what do we do?
I don't think Al Gore has the slightest interest.
Yeah, well, I think that's part of the game plan.
I think he's lurking in the background, and of course he doesn't have any interest.
If you need him, he'll come in and he'll save the day.
Let me tell you something.
I got a story yesterday.
I didn't get to it.
It's in yesterday's stack.
By the way, does my voice sound tired to you?
No, it does not.
Your energy is unstoppable.
I appreciate that.
Thank you for noticing.
We've got Al Gore with a story on his business future, his plans involving the global warming movement.
And the story makes it abundantly clear that, like everything, almost in all cases, if you want to get the answer to why something's happening, follow the money.
Al Gore stands to get, I mean, filthy wealthy, setting up some of these companies to deal with global warming and carbon dioxide.
And it's all a scam, but it's all oriented toward making money for people who invest in these schemes and so forth.
And I don't know.
I think Gore's sitting pretty pretty in his mind.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Bill Clinton hasn't.
But that's what I mean.
He's got to come in and save the day and be president of the United States.
Look at anything's possible.
But I think that I just don't see it.
Could be dead wrong.
But look at.
I'm just scared because, I mean, even she's even bad in the polls now.
And what are they?
I mean, how could anyone nominate her?
You know what I mean?
Like, even the Democrats.
Not so fast.
Not so fast.
This is Clinton, Inc. we're talking about.
Okay.
Look at there's a look at.
Let me just.
I just printed this out right as the break was in me.
Obama headline is Obama.
I tried drugs as a teen.
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday told Haskruel students in Manchester, New Hampshire, that when he was their age, he was hardly a model student experimenting with illegal drugs and drinking adult beverages.
Stopped by a study hall at Manchester Central, Haskrule, answered students' question about the war in Iraq and his education plan.
When an adult asked about his time as a student, he spoke bluntly.
He said, I'll confess to you, I was kind of a goof off in high school.
My mom reminds me of that.
And he talked about his drug use and alcohol use.
Now, we have, you know, Novak.
Novak has this story over the weekend that the Clinton campaign has this scandalous note that they're on Obama, but that they're not going to release it.
Well, by letting Novak have it, somebody just released it, although nobody knows what.
Now, a few short days later, Obama admits using illegal drugs and sipping adult beverages while a hasskruel goof off.
Now, people like me who read the stitches on a fastball put two and two together and wonder if this is not a preemptive in case this scandalous item happens to leak or be leaked or what have you.
But it's still way early.
But about Al Gore, look, Al Gore had a desire when he left the White House in 2000.
That was to become president.
It didn't happen.
He probably still thinks it was stolen from him by the Supreme Court.
But he also blamed the Clintons for being a drag on his campaign with all the scandals and a blue dress and that sort of stuff.
So what's he done since?
Well, he suffered the defeat in 2000.
But then he's gone out, he's made a movie.
He technically doesn't have an Oscar.
The producers got the Oscar, but he's got an Oscar.
Bill Clinton, all he's got is a room at Ron Burke's house in Beverly Hills.
He's got a Nobel Peace Prize.
Clinton does not have a Nobel Peace Prize.
He's got, he's, in his mind, he has risen above the Clintons.
And I just think, I don't think he wants to put all his money he has in a blind trust and run for president.
You know what the biggest indication of this is?
Hmm?
Would it be?
The fact that...
Now, don't laugh.
I'm not...
I'm not trying to be funny about this.
He hasn't gone on a diet to lose weight.
You're right.
You're right.
He looks terrible.
He doesn't look presidential.
Well, it's a sad thing, but the television age and weight's what it is in terms of people having respect for you.
Yeah, you're right.
I hope you're right.
Yeah, I usually am.
You can bank on it.
Late arriving show prep.
This is from the Los Angeles Times.
Forget the driver's license and the credit cards.
The most important piece of plastic in Cheng Wang's wallet is his new medical identification card featuring a picture of a heart and the city's signature skyline.
Cheng Wang, who has diabetes and other ailments, says the healthy San Francisco program saved his life.
When he immigrated here in May to San Francisco to be closer to his elderly mother, the 64-year-old Taiwan native brought enough pills to last seven months.
When those ran out, he didn't know what to do.
He had no medical insurance.
Scared him.
Then he learned about a groundbreaking San Francisco city health plan that provides a network of care to residents, regardless of their ability to pay, immigration status, or existing medical conditions.
Ching Wang, a proud man with oversized glasses, said it's important to him that the program is not purely a handout.
It's a bona fide medical plan offering free care free of charge to those who can't pay and on a sliding scale to those who can't afford to contribute to their care.
When he finds work, he says he'll pay up.
It's precious, said Ching Wang, the retired painter, holding out his card.
It gives me peace of mind.
The city's initiative is a first-of-its-kind local solution to what's become a pressing issue nationwide, how to provide the poor and middle class with affordable health care.
Americans spend more than 20% of it.
Still, more than 60 million people remain uninsured or underinsured.
Oh, now.
So we've gone from 47 uninsured to 60 million uninsured and underinsured.
So this is universal health care, folks.
San Francisco's found the way to do it.
Another way that the Democrats are going to give everyone an American ID so that they can vote.
That's what this is about.
He's got his medical identification card featuring a picture of a heart and his city signature skyline.
It's, well, because, free.
Mr. Snurley says, how is free not a handout?
Because.
Because when you can pay, you are expected to donate to your health care.
But when you can't pay, it's free.
So if health care is all you care about, you really don't need to get a job.
It's a handout.
The whole thing's a handout.
I know the whole thing.
Well, that's a fine point, Mr. Snerdley, because, you know, Cheng Wang, obviously, of this story here is portraying him as an honorable, upstanding, well, not citizen, but guy.
If he intends to pay, it's not a handout.
See, you're missing the point of intentions.
You want to look at people and you want to see reprobates.
You want to see people with...
The citizens of San Francisco are paying for this guy's health care.
He's not, but the citizens of San Francisco are, and it gives him peace of mind.
So this is how this, you know, when I saw this, you know, we, every, one of the things that we've been able to secure here at the EIB network is there's the Snerdley family, every call screener, every call screener since this program's inception in 1988 has been a Snerdley.
And we had one named Ching Wang.
We did.
We had Melva, we had Mario, and we had Cheng Wang, Cheng Wang's thirdly.
And he would be about 64 years old now.
By the way, Obama admitted to sampling cocaine in his memoir.
Also, Cheng Wang, San Francisco.
We feel confident, solid guy.
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