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June 11, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 11, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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And doing it as usual with half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Okay.
The Venezuelan government.
The Venezuelan government of, and look now, this is this is uh again the government-controlled media Reuters, the Venezuelan government of U.S. critic Hugo Chavez, not socialist dictator Hugo Chavez, but U.S. critic.
The Venezuelan government of Hugo Chavez yesterday ordered Coca-Cola, ordered Coca-Cola, to withdraw its Coke Zero beverage from Venezuela.
The decision follows a wave of nationalizations and increased scrutiny of businesses.
In South America's top oil exporter, that's Venezuela.
Health Minister Jesus Mantilla said the zero calorie Coke Zero should no longer be sold and stocks of the drink removed from the store shelves while the government investigated its ingredients.
The product should be withdrawn from circulation to preserve the health of Venezuelans, the minister said.
Coke and Coke Zero contain no harmful ingredients, says Coca-Cola, but that it'll stop production and they'll remove the product from shelves during the ongoing investigation.
Coca-Cola Zero is made under the highest quality standards around the world, meets the sanitary requirements demanded by the laws of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, said the company.
Despite Chavez's anti-capitalist policies and rhetoric against consumerism, oil exporting Venezuela remains one of Latin America's most Americanized cultures, U.S. fast food chains, shopping malls, and baseball all highly popular.
The government this year, Venezuela has seized a rice mill and pasta factory belonging to U.S. food giant Cargill and has threatened action against U.S. drug company Pfizer.
Chavez has also nationalized a group of oil service companies, including projects belonging to Williams Companies and Exteran.
This is what happens when you have a statist in control of your country.
This is what happens when you have empirical control over private business.
Anybody that makes a profit is a target.
This is explaining us what it's going on in Venezuela for.
because the same kind of stuff is starting to happen here is why I'm telling you about what's going on in Venezuela.
Do you know, ladies and gentlemen, that we're all going to die?
Get this.
New computer simulations reveal a slight chance that a disruption of planetary orbits could lead to a collision of Earth with Mercury, Mars, or Venus in the next few billion years.
I wonder if in the next few billion years they'll be able to predict the weather one week out.
Despite its diminutive size, Mercury poses the greatest risk to the solar system's order.
Results of the computer model show a roughly one percent change that the elongation of Mercury's orbit will increase to the point where the planet's path around the sun crosses that of Venus.
So they are warning us here that in the next few billion years, the Earth might collide with another planet, and then again it might not.
But it might.
Every day there's some new calamity or horror that is going to wipe out all of humanity.
And of course, all of these stories, whether they are intended to or not, all of these stories promote the concept that somebody's got to save us.
Somebody's got to do something to save us, and whose people look to to save us?
government.
I made a comment to Hannity in that interview last week.
I've said this on this program earlier.
uh a couple of times too, but I don't think I can say it too much.
You know, there's gonna come a day.
There's gonna come a day in this country not too distant.
People are going to say, why didn't somebody tell us?
Why didn't somebody warn us what was happening to our economy and our country?
Well, I am the guy telling you.
You are being warned.
You are being told.
I am the guy telling you.
You know of all of the other times in history where people said, gee, they took this away and I didn't say anything.
That away didn't say it finally came for me and there was nobody left to defend me.
I have been letting the world know exactly what's happening in this country and will happen.
There will not be an excuse down the road in this country for somebody to say, I didn't nobody told me.
Why didn't somebody tell us this?
I just didn't know.
Because you are being told.
And I'm sure a lot of you are also sounding that clarion call to your friends as well.
Governor Palin, let's go grab audio soundbite number 13.
We talked yesterday, just as the program was ending, we got the news Stephen Hayes at the New Republic on his blog, uh, had had uh at the weekly standard, I'm sorry, at his blog, mentioned that terrorist detainees in Afghanistan are being read their Miranda rights.
This signals a huge shift once again to fighting terrorism as a criminal enterprise.
It brings back the old days of the way the Clinton administration went about it.
But when you start Mirandizing non-citizens, especially foreign enemy combatants on the battlefield, when you start Mirandizing them, you are granting them constitutional rights when they are not citizens.
Now, if you can do that, if you can grant a constitutional right and then Mirandi is a foreign terrorist, enemy combatant, then I guess you can automatically grant citizenship to people who are not citizens, couldn't you?
Andy McCarthy has written much about this at National Review, National Review Online, and he actually goes back and says that one of the people that can be blamed for this is Senator McCain.
I don't have his story right in front of me, but Senator McCain supported something back when McCain was in his anti-torture bandwagon, uh and and was uh, you know, trying to curry favor with people on the left to get their votes by agreeing that the U.S. tortured people.
Um, one of the ways that McCain sought to prevent torture and make it illegal, which it always has been anyway, was to uh uh make it possible for what the Obama administration is doing.
And they did this on the quiet.
It took a member of Congress finding this out.
Sarah Palin warned of this in her acceptance speech at St. Paula Republican convention last September.
Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America, and he's worried that someone won't read them their rights.
That's exactly right.
Now, Obama on March 22nd this year, on 60 minutes, said this.
Now, uh, do these folks deserve Miranda rights?
Uh do they deserve to be treated like a shoplifter uh down the block?
Of course not.
Well, here you have it.
There's Barack Obama, March 22nd.
No, they don't deserve Miranda rights.
They're getting them.
They are being mirandized in Afghanistan today.
So once again, it's not what Obama says, it's how he says it that appeals to people.
Yesterday this all came up at the afternoon press briefing with the most brilliant and articulate press secretary we've ever had, according to several in the government-run media.
Major Garrett of Fox News said, Do you know if it's true or untrue the Miranda rights that are read to terrorists in Afghanistan?
I have no reason to disbelieve a member of Congress, but I don't know any of the circumstances uh that are involved around it.
Wouldn't it come as a surprise to the White House that that's what would be happening?
Uh it's not a surprise to me.
It's not a surprise.
Yet your boss said in March twenty second that they don't deserve Miranda rights.
Gibb says yes, it's not surprised to him that it's happening.
But that he didn't know it.
So they aren't denying it.
And of course, it takes us.
It requires us to go back and find Obama saying that they don't deserve Miranda rights on 60 minutes in March.
Because government-controlled media is not going to do it.
One other thing before going to the break.
Now this is I want to get this out of the way.
It's not related to anything specifically we've talked about today.
It's about General Powell.
We had quite a few Donnie Brooke phone calls yesterday about the uh Republican parties.
I made the case.
Remember the moderate Republican called, who actually is very conservative.
I gave him the test, and he's he's a conservative Republican down the line.
He just wants to call himself a moderate Republican for whatever is a nice guy.
But what got him to call was my comment that I made that the Republican Party is the one that's changed.
I haven't changed.
I am who I am.
For the last twenty years, I am who I am.
I have not wavered.
But the Republican Party's changing, and the reason the Republican Party lost is due to McCain is due to Powell and due to the moderates that are running it.
And this guy called and said, Well, look, and I'm a moderate, and I got a kind of don't like the way you're talking about us.
This led us, and I asked this guy during the test I gave, can you tell me one thing Colin Powell is for that you've heard him say he's for issue-wise.
Well, I guess he's pretty strong military uh because he wore the uniform, but he couldn't think of anything else.
Because Obama uh uh uh Powell hasn't taken many stands on very many issues.
On purpose.
I mean, that's how you maintain a 70% approval rating is you don't you don't tell anybody what you think about anything, you just act like you're above it all.
Well, we went back 1996, the Republican convention.
Where was this at San Diego?
I think it was.
The Republican convention in 96, I think was in San Diego.
And listen to this excerpt.
This well, it's a quote.
I'm gonna read it to you from uh Colin Powell's convention speech, which was a barn burner, and he got a lot of standing ovations.
I remember it.
He said, I became a Republican because I believe, like you, that the Federal Government has become too large and too intrusive in our lives.
We can no longer afford solutions to our problems that result in more entitlements, higher taxes to pay for them, more bureaucracy to run them, and fewer results to show for it.
That's Colin Powell in 1996.
Colin Powell in 2009 and 2008 said the American people are ready for bigger government.
The American people are ready for higher taxes.
He reversed himself 100% from his speech thirteen years ago to Republican convention.
Now, my point here is that it is General Powell who has changed.
General Powell articulated what used to be one of the planks in the Republican Party platform every election.
The Republican Party used to always stand for lower taxes, less government, less bureaucracy, better performance by that government that does operate, and now he's done a 180, and all of a sudden I'm the one not good for the Republican Party.
I'm the one that needs to be thrown out of the party.
I am the one, I who have not changed, and who still hold dear the very principles that Powell laid out at the Republican convention.
I'm the one that still remains loyal to them.
He's done a 180, and yet we have everybody telling us Colin Powell should be the one leading and running the Republican Party.
This is why I said yesterday that the Republican Party's fate and where it is today is because of people like McCain like Colin Powell and like the moderates, who have who have basically obliterated the Republican Party's traditional identity.
While they're all over the board and doing their 180s And changes of phase and position.
Who is it that has not changed one IOTA on principle?
It is I, your host, El Rushbow.
And now I, Il Rushbo, am blamed as the problem for the party, and I, El Rush Mo have to be somehow dispatched.
Um a balding white guy.
That's what the Republican Party, at least people running it, have become.
I gotta take a brief time out here, folks.
We'll do it.
Be back with much more right after this.
And we're back.
El Rushbow here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Getting to your phone calls here in immediately.
Just a second.
But get this.
This just cleared the politico wire.
FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative weekly standard magazine yesterday, after the shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
They told employees they had found the magazine's address.
The weekly standard, a conservative magazine, may have been one of the shooters' targets.
You know why?
Because the weekly standard is edited by neocons.
Jewish people who are big on U.S. foreign policy and defense of Israel.
Leftist type conspiracy theories.
This guy may have been targeting a conservative publication.
A senior staffer at the Weekly Standard confirmed the visit of the FBI, but declined to discuss it in detail.
FBI spokeswoman also declined to comment on the investigation.
Two other sources said two FBI agents arrived shortly after five o'clock yesterday afternoon at the 17th Street offices of the magazine.
They told staffers they had found the address of the magazine on a piece of paper associated with the shooter, James Von Brunn, and asked whether the standard had received any threats.
They are about a mile north of the Holocaust Museum, and there's no other indication that Von Brunn had targeted, but they uh he did have their address.
So quite interesting out there, isn't it?
Now these Miranda rights for terrorists.
When can we expect congressional hearings on this policy?
Nobody knew it was happening.
The president's press secretary didn't know it was happening.
When will there be congressional hearings?
And I have another question.
If we are going to mirandize enemy combatants on the field of battle, we are in a war in Afghanistan, folks.
We're not there in a police action.
We're there in a war.
If we're going to memorize terrorists, the enemy combatants, does that mean they don't have to say anything until they get a lawyer?
And if they can't afford a lawyer, are we going to appoint one for them?
I mean, isn't that part of the Miranda rights?
So we where where are the congressional hearings on this?
Let's go to the phones.
This is Mo in Columbus, Ohio.
You're up first today, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hello there, Mr. Rush.
Hi, sir.
Okay, two two statements, man.
One, man, on some real talk, I never met a Republican that wasn't racist, man.
I sit back and listen to you talking about how the left and the libs were racist and this and this.
Dude, you got it flipped around the other way, dude.
I've never in my life, and I remember Snugley commented to me personally.
I didn't know you personally.
I'm talking about that I know personally in my life.
And I know a lot of people, man.
Never met a Republican that wasn't racist or biased about almost everything.
Number two, you keep bringing up Obama's brother to live in the criminal.
Apparently him and Obama aren't close.
So you're telling me that you're cool with everybody in your family.
Everybody in your family is just outstanding taken care of.
Because I have people in my family that's homeless.
And I'm not trying to help him out.
Mo, hang on here just a second.
Now you you're making some very extreme statements here.
You've never met a Republican that wasn't racist.
Never met a Republican that wasn't racist in my whole life.
I'm from Ohio.
Never in my life.
Mo, Mo, frankly, I don't believe you.
Okay.
I think that's how you've been raised, and I think that the people you respect as leaders have been telling you this.
I think the illness is a very difficult time.
I'm sorry because that's such an extreme statement.
It's not believable.
There is it's not it's not possible that every Republican you've met is a racist.
I've never met a Republican in my life that wasn't racist.
I'm not saying I'm not saying I dislike them or anything.
That's the opinion that's what they are.
No, no, no.
when you have Mo, then you have a very distorted definition of racism.
Oh, you do, sir.
You really you you don't even realize the extreme nature of that statement.
You just think it's common, ordinary, everyday practice that every Republican is a racist.
Clarence Thomas.
Clarence Thomas erased.
I don't even want to get into names here with you.
Now, this business about Obama and his brother in the hut.
Did Mo, did you say you have a brother who's homeless?
I'm a brother, yeah, he lives in a shelter, but I'm not you know, he's not gonna live with me.
No, he can't live with me.
We're two different people and we can't get along.
No.
Okay.
So good point.
Good point.
Okay, here's here's the deal here, folks.
You see, Mo, your story about your homeless brother is a sad, sad thing, and it is an indication of what has gone wrong in this country.
You are proud to sit here and tell me that you have a brother living in a shelter and you don't do diddly squat for him.
Do you realize in an America of twenty-five or thirty years ago that would not be the case?
Families came together and helped people in their family who were in trouble.
They didn't just sit idly by and say it's somebody else's responsibility.
Barack Obama is a hypocrite because he has a brother living on less than twenty dollars a year in a hut of six by nine feet.
Barack Obama's a multimillionaire.
Barack Obama's whole political identity is based on how we all need to help each other.
He doesn't help his own family.
All you have to do is send him forty bucks, and the guy would have more money than he's ever had in his whole life.
So, Mo, you are what's wrong with America.
Your family, you an illustration of it.
Thanks for the call.
And we're back.
Rush Limboa.
Talent on loan from God.
Julie in Hudson, Wisconsin.
Great to have you here on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
Um I I'm sitting here drinking in my apartment with my cat, drinking coffee and talking to me.
It's an amazing thing.
And I thank you for even noticing.
But I I have to say I saw uh your speech on CPAC.
I didn't get to finish it because I was too busy, but it was like it it so affected my heart.
I didn't know that I knew these things.
I think that like okay, I'll explain this.
I didn't know that I could listen to someone who's famous for speaking for America and trying to save America and is intelligent of you are famous.
And then when I heard him speak, I could hear and understand every word, and I felt like I was at home.
I felt like I had found home.
And so for that to be, it has to be that it's an innate it is an innate feeling to know that you are a god and preserve freedom.
Well, uh no.
Uh I I'm I'm uh I I I'm not a god.
Um I didn't say that.
Well, but uh no uh I think you're confusing me with Obama.
Uh uh Evan Thomas at Newsweek said that Obama is sort of like God.
Uh I'm a mere mortal.
Uh I appreciate what you so it was a it was a CPAC speech that you saw.
Yes.
And I didn't even get to finish it, but you could see the kind of person you were.
It's very clear, so it's hard, but I had to see the speech and hear the words that form, not not your radio show, because somehow I don't know if it's a format or if it's my limitations, which is likely.
But I understood who you were.
It was I think there should be more speeches out there for regular people.
Well, it's you know, I I don't care how you came to it.
The fact is you came to it.
The fact that you saw the light.
The fact is it all it all makes sense.
You understand now.
You are home.
You have come home.
Now it's a that I'll tell you what, that that is a very nice compliment that you have given me, and I want to thank you.
Did you hear what she said?
She said when she listens to me, she feels like she's at home.
She's come home.
She must have been wandering aimlessly out there in a desert For who knows how many years.
Thanks very much, Julie.
I appreciate it.
Here's Linda in Duluth, Georgia.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
This is Linda, first time caller.
Thank you.
Um, I just got turned on to you about six years ago for my boyfriend.
And I gotta tell you, I wish I knew about you a long time ago.
Well, you do now, and that's what counts because it's the future that is uh is uh the challenge now.
That's right.
And um I talked to Snerdley, and he I just want to tell you something.
I listen to you every chance I get, and a day without you is a day without sunshine.
A day without me is a day without home.
That's right.
And that girl, that lady was right.
And um what I'm really upset about is you know, I'm sure you get this all the time, and and I I do listen to you, and you know, I think Obama's playing games with our country.
And the reason I say this is because I feel just like you.
I watch him.
I hate listening to him now because he just upsets me so much.
But he's playing games with our country, with our lives, and there's a lot of people out there who are afraid.
They don't know what to do.
And you know, I get in trouble all the time.
People say, Well, those are your opinions.
Yes, they're my opinions.
But if people don't start leaving, hey, well, look, when somebody Linda now, when somebody says that to you from now on, I I have run into people like, well, that's your opinion.
As though just because you have an opinion, it's not valid.
Well, it's just your opinion.
Uh that's that's designed to shut you up.
People who do not like the truth, Linda, consider the truth to be hate.
Uh the truth is hate speech to people who don't like it.
The truth, if it challenges the little cocoon that they've manufactured for themselves to live in, and that cocoon in their life is built on a bunch of falsehoods and lies and so forth.
When you penetrate that with the truth, they get mad.
You've upset them and they don't want you to do that, and so they're gonna try to shut you up or or or say that what you're saying is insignificant because it's your opinion, and who are you?
You know who are you to have an opinion?
It's just your opinion.
Don't let them shut you up like that.
Your opinion is as valid as anybody else's opinion is, especially if your opinion has the added weight of being right.
And if you have been listening to this program for six years, I can guarantee that your opinions are correct.
So you have nothing to feel defensive about.
As far as Obama playing a game, I know what you're trying to say, but this is no game.
This is a serious attempt at deconstructing this country as it was founded and putting it back together in a way that people will not recognize and will not be able to do anything about.
It's not a game.
It is dangerously serious, what President Obama has in mind here.
Pay caps all across industry, nationalizing as much of the private sector as he can get away with.
I mean, this this is just beyond the pale, what is being tried here.
And there are so many people afraid to stand up and you mention it too.
People afraid they don't know what to do, they're afraid to say anything about it, they're afraid.
We're we're we're approaching a period of time here.
Well, you know, people in the old Soviet Union, and we're nowhere near that yet, folks.
Don't misunderstand, but in the old Soviet Union, people had to retreat to their bathrooms to tell each other what they really thought about something for fear of being overheard by the state.
And being sent off to some re-education camp to get their minds right.
Now we're not there yet, but we've got a lot of people scared to death to oppose or speak out against Obama.
For a whole host of reasons.
They don't want to be called racist, or they just don't like controversy or what have you.
The problem with these people who have they don't know what to do is there's no elected Republican leadership right now that is giving them um an opportunity to uh support and and vent and have a release for some of the raids.
They have to keep it all pent up.
There's nothing you can do with it.
Uh eventually some leader in the Republican Party is gonna surface.
Uh it'll happen.
We had this story yesterday in USA Today.
Well, who's a Republican leader?
I mean, there's no Republican leader.
These bald white guys and thirteen percent approval for limbo.
Uh Somebody named for me the Democrat leader six months into George Bush's first term.
Who was the Democrat leader throughout the first term of Bush's president?
Who was it?
Can you name it?
There wasn't one, was there?
These people are running around like uh ants in an anthill trying to figure out what to do next.
Who was the Democrat leader after the 2004 Bush victory?
Who was there it wasn't one?
It's it's traditional parties that lose elections, go through this massive reorganization, reformation, they go through all of this uh backbiting, and eventually it ends as you get close to the next election and they come up with somebody.
And it was the same thing for the Democrats.
But the media today, the state-run media is intent on keeping the Republican Party a minority party and a minority movement forever by continually disrespecting it.
It's so obvious that it's what's happening.
It's nothing at unusual outside the realm of politics or within the rebel politics for a party six months after losing an election to have some leader.
And that's not going to happen until there is a candidate.
Presidential nominee.
And might be somebody service in 210, who knows?
But those are going to be congressional and senate races.
At any rate, thanks for the call, Linda.
I appreciate it.
A brief timeout.
We'll be back before you know it.
All right, stand by on these Obama sound bites I just got 27, 28, and uh 29.
Let's let's uh let's retie the knot here on the shooting at the at the uh Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. The a hater, like a nutcase who hates neocons, i.e.
Jews, this von Brunn guy, attacks the Holocaust Museum, and has in his possession the address of the Weekly Standard, a publication that is uh run by neocons, a term invented by liberals as a code word to describe Jews who run American foreign policy for the express defense of Israel.
So this hater of neocons, hater of conservative Jews, Von Brunn, attacks the Holocaust Museum.
There is another guy who hates neocons.
His name is Chris Matthews.
And he works at MSNBC, which is a network of endless hate.
They spit it out 24-7 on that network.
So another guy who hates the neocons, Chris Matthews, blames it all on me last night.
But of course, all of that's PAP.
All of that's nothing but a cheap political play that fits a stereotype that bears no resemblance to uh to reality.
Here's Obama.
Now, Obama's out in Green Bay today, and he's doing a uh doing a town hall meeting on socialized medicine, government health care.
And the reason he's out there doing this is because the polling on this is not looking good.
Uh, let me turn over here.
Let me see.
Yes.
Conservatives for patients' rights is a group that's stopping Obama.
And uh they've got a link on their website or post on their website today here that the cracks are forming around public opinion and government-run health care.
I tell the cracks are forming on all of Obama's policies.
Now, his approval number is still 62%.
The Fox News poll just came out today, and they sent it to me, and his nine, he's two percent, he was at 60% in the last reporting period a couple weeks ago.
His approval rating 62 percent.
But if you look at issues, it's all fallen apart on him.
Nobody approves of his issues on things.
It's the most amazing thing, and he knows it.
I I think there is panic going on in the White House.
This is not how supposed to.
We're still we're not even six months in.
This guy was supposed to be universally loved and adored.
There was not supposed to be one word of criticism that anybody would take seriously or listen to.
Those people, the critics would all be marginalized, they would have, and we were all gonna be yummy, hummy, coming together, all this unity, no more shootings at Holocaust museums, No more shootings in Arkansas.
None of this was supposed to happen.
And now we find out it's worse.
Things are worse in this country than when Obama took office.
And in fact, what did I do with it?
Here it is.
American households lost 1.33 trillion dollars of their wealth in the first three months of the year, as the recession took a bite out of stock portfolios and dragged down home prices.
The Federal Reserve reported today, household net worth fell to 50.38 trillion dollars in the January-March quarter.
Americans net worth shrinks by 1.33 trillion in the first quarter.
Gone.
Poof.
Since Obama was put into office.
And don't say that January wasn't his.
He was running the show behind the scenes as part of the transition.
He was urging Bush to bail out General Motors.
He was doing a whole bunch of stuff.
1.3 trillion.
Poof.
So he's out there in a green bay today, and he's trying to revive the polling on health care.
And he gets a very tepid response, very weak applause to his presentation here of a public insurance option.
One of the options in the exchange should be a public insurance option.
And the reason is not because we want a government takeover of health care.
I've already said it.
If you've got a private plan that works for you, that's great.
But we want some competition.
If the private insurance companies have to compete with a public option, it'll keep them honest.
And it'll keep help keep their prices down.
I my friends, I look at I I I really resent the position this man puts me in.
But that's a lie.
There will be no private insurance once they get a public option.
That's the dirty little secret.
There will be no competition.
That's the dirty little secret.
What public what once a public option is in place, the insurance companies not going to be able to compete.
The insurance companies are going to try to offload.
Once there is a public option, you're going to see the insurance companies get out of it and get on board the government plan for a whole host of reasons.
The dirty little secret here is that the idea of a public option is to end up with a single payer, and that's the federal government.
Now, the response to me did not sound tepid, but it was.
It may not sound tepid to you, but if you looked at it on television and saw it, you would agree that the the applause the applause here is not roaring.
I mean, it's not like he's used to getting.
Here's the next sound bite.
I'll be honest, even with these savings, reform will require some additional upfront resources.
And that's why I've proposed that we scale back how much the highest income Americans can deduct on their taxes back, take it back to the rate that existed under the Reagan years.
And we could use some of that money to help finance health care reform.
That's not very much applause.
We scale back how much highest income Americans can deduct on their taxes, take us back to the rate that existed under the Reagan years.
Well, now there were many rates that existed under the Reagan years.
This is also designed to fool you because everybody associates Reagan with tax cutting, properly so.
You know what the top marginal rate was when Ronald Reagan took office?
70%.
The top marginal rate when Ronald Reagan left office was 28%.
But it took eight years to lower those rates.
So what rate is he talking about here?
70%, 50%.
What rates he talked about?
He doesn't specify.
He just wants more taxes on the rich.
And somehow this is magically going to pay for health care, and all these people are going to get it for free.
That's the impression he's trying to leave.
Here's the next one.
There are some folks who say socialized medicine.
You hear that all the time.
Socialized medicine.
Well, socialized medicine would mean that the government would basically run all of health care.
They would hire the doctors, they would run the hospitals, they just run the whole thing.
Great Britain has a system of socialized medicine.
Nobody's talking about doing that.
All right.
So when you hear people saying socialized medicine, understand I don't know anybody in Washington who is proposing that.
Certainly not me.
Socialized medicine is different from a single payer plan.
Well, stop no, it's not.
Have you not heard what Senator Kennedy is working on?
Nobody in Washington is talking about what he's saying that is another.
I hate to look at I I don't like being in this position of having to call the president of the United States a liar, but I'm given no choice.
Now I got it, I've got to take a break, but I got a whole stack of stuff here on health care, and I'm gonna get into it the next hour because I have to now.
We'll be back.
Even if, even if there is a private option in health care, like you're still gonna have to pay for the government option.
You're gonna pay it in taxes, you're gonna pay it any number of ways.
I just find it amazing if you listen to President Obama out there in Green Bay, where he's being protested, by the way, but they're not gonna report that.
Protesters outside.
It's amazing how he gets so defensive when people speak the truth about his plans.
Here is socialized medicine.
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