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June 12, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 12, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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And greetings once again to you, ladies and gentlemen.
Great to have you with us here on Rush Limbaugh, the fastest week in media and the fastest three hours.
It's great to have you here.
I am America's real anchor man and truth detector and doctor of democracy on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
One big busy broadcast hour remaining, ladies and gentlemen.
And again, a reminder, the rules on Friday.
When you get through and you get on the air on the phone, you control the show.
Show is all yours.
A huge career risk taken by me with utter confidence, by the way.
Monday through Thursday, it's about what I care about.
On Friday, I'll fake it if I have to.
I've done a lot of faking today.
But I don't care about much today anyway, so I can fake it pretty well, can't I?
Telephone number 800 282-2882.
And the email address L Rushbow at EIB net dot com.
This is from LifeNews.com.
What are you what are you laughing at?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I admit that I of course I it's part of the routine.
If I don't care about what people are talking about, I'll fake it.
Fake like I like I like like I do care.
Uh how long have I been engaging in the risk of broadcasting on things I don't care about?
Well, twenty years of open line Fridays, I guess you could say I've been engaging in faking it for twenty if I have to.
I mean, I not every open line Friday I've fake it.
And even I mean, just sometimes a couple times on open line Friday I have to fake it.
But sometimes it's deeply satisfying to fake it.
And you know, I I uh I defy anybody to know when I'm faking it.
I mean, if I didn't admit that I was faking it, you wouldn't even know.
See, even I have the courage to tell you when I'm faking it.
Oh, really?
You want me to do that?
You know that that that would I have just been told by one of my know at all staff that you should announce after such a call that you have just faked it, so that we will know.
Now, wouldn't that be sort of letterman-esque?
Wouldn't that wouldn't that be uh unkind?
And uh uh wouldn't it be putting down the the caller who we have invited to be on the I guess it's it's look it when when faking is involved, it's just better not to know.
And it's better not to even inquire.
It's better not to ask.
You don't want the answer.
Who wants to hear that it was faked?
In anything.
Be it a moonwalk, be it whatever.
Well, the uh no, the caller, I don't think a caller would ever, ever ask if it was as good for me as it was for them, because all callers are immensely satisfied.
You realize what a thrill it is to get through on this program and the I mean the opportunity to talk to 20 million people, I don't care.
Some callers may hang up thinking they uh wish that it said something a little differently or better, because I understand how callers are.
I mean, they're sitting out there on hold.
I've been there.
You're sitting out there on hold, and uh producer snerdily comes on, okay.
You're next, and you tighten up.
You've been on hold for 20 minutes or 30 minutes or maybe two hours on this show.
You've been on hold, and you just okay, and then you get that notice to your next, and then you you freeze up.
Oh my gosh, what was I gonna say?
What was I gonna say?
Uh I understand this.
This is why I'm the politest host uh on air today.
Now, may I continue the program?
Any more advice?
Any more advice from the note on step?
Mm-hmm.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
If you want to call me that, I'll accept it, a gentle faker.
Okay, from LifeNews.com.
As more evidence comes in that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will likely support abortion and uphold Roe vs.
Wade if she's confirmed a new comment she made during a meeting with one senator provides another talking point for pro-life advocates opposed to her nomination.
Sotomayor has been meeting with each member of the Senate privately in preparation for her Confirmation hearing expected to take place in July.
Senator Jim Dement, a pro-life Republican from South Carolina, says that he had a good meeting with the appeals court judge, but he came away with a telling comment.
When I asked her if an unborn child has any rights whatsoever, I was surprised she said she'd never thought about it.
Now that's this is not just a question about abortion, but about respect due to human life at all stages, and I hope this is cleared up in her hearings.
Given uh given her comment, Dement questions whether Sotomayor has an unwavering commitment to the Constitution and equal justice for all Americans.
She had never thought about the rights of unborn children.
And where will she go now when she needs to educate herself on this?
Probably to David Letterman.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, it's very rare these days when a public figure Republican defends me and doesn't throw me overboard.
But it happened last night.
It happened last night on the Greta Van Susterin show on Fox.
She was talking about this Letterman Palin business, and she had as a guest the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, Jane Swift.
And Greta's question was this.
I've defended Secretary of State Clinton.
I have defended Governor Palin from personal insults.
They're fair game for policy, but where are all of the feminists?
Is it because this is the child of a Republican?
Who knows what it has to do with party politics, although I think Rush Limbaugh should get credit uh for standing up for uh a common standard of decency, and I doubt there are many uh liberals who will recognize that, but the truth is it's wrong.
It was a bad joke.
David Letterman maybe should go back to his stupid uh pet tricks.
The other thing people are missing is this isn't like a unscripted moment.
This is a joke that's written beforehand and that he chose to deliver, and I think that carries with it a special responsibility versus perhaps just saying something that you later regret.
Yeah, I made that point a moment ago.
This joke's written in the afternoon, it's on the cue cards or whatever Letterman uses.
They had to run it back and forth.
Uh something else I might that I know there's some women on that staff over there.
Did no woman on the Letterman staff look at this and say, wait a minute, that's a little overboard or out of it.
Of course not.
They're all liberal women.
It's all it's all fine and dead.
The c the decency thing is, you know, people we we can get we can get lost and caught up in meaningless arguments, such as, well, Palin put the kids out there.
They were under cover of magazines.
And one of them practiced abstinence and then got pregnant.
And Obama's would put their kids out there.
All of that to me is irrelevant.
The whole thing was indecent.
The whole the whole see, good comedy has to have an element of truth in it.
That's what makes comedy biting and funny is that there's another truth.
There was no element of truth.
This was just a full-fledged slam.
It was a disrespectful, cynical slam.
And there had been nothing that brought it on.
Palin wasn't doing politics at the ball game.
Her daughter wasn't doing politics at the ball game.
They're sitting there with Giuliani, who had invited them to go.
It was just it it was not decent.
We just it it was you know, not not something that very many people would say in public, period.
But the double standard clearly exists, and it always will.
There's nothing that's going to change it.
This is just one of the realities of life that uh those of us who are engaged in politics have to live with and to uh and to understand.
All right, let me grab a call before the break.
Chicago, this is Sharon.
Nice to have you.
Welcome to the uh EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, thank you, Rush.
I decided this morning I was apt, I was going to take a stand about what David Letterman said, and I emailed C up CBS and I told them I will never have his show on in my house again.
Never.
It just seems this obsession they have with Sarah Palin, it is so far over the top.
It's almost irrational.
They just won't leave her alone.
You know, irrational is right.
Irrational is exactly right.
They're ho they're scared to death of this woman.
Well, that's exactly what I say.
I emailed her too, and I told her what I did, and I Told her they're so afraid of your strength that they're not going to stop until she's destroyed.
And it and to make sure they uh it's not bad enough they'll stick the knife in her back, but they twist it by attacking her children.
What point, if any, is there a backlash, and there is some sympathy that uh is extended to Palin and her family.
Well, I hope people recognize it for what it is.
It's not about being a Democrat or a Republican.
Sarah Palin, the election is won.
Obama won, and I just don't understand why they don't leave her alone.
Because they're afraid of her.
You understand.
They're afraid of her.
You understand.
I mean, they're scared to death of her.
They are.
Uh and and uh anybody else that surfaced.
Look, this woman was drawing twenty thousand people.
Uh or more at campaign rally.
She was the sole source of excitement and passion during the Republican campaign.
But they're going to reduce her to a joke, and that's what they're trying to do with all of this.
Well, with what he was so far that was so mean spirited to do that to her daughter.
Let me ask you this.
Do you think she made a mistake in responding to it?
No.
I don't no, I don't think so.
I'm sure she gave it a lot of thought.
I I'm sure she gave it a lot of thought.
And I think uh the the point she made is that um you know, he's a pervert to even talk about stuff like that about a 14-year-old girl.
And I think it's the truth.
I think people need to hear her stand up for herself, so she's not one to be I wonder I wonder if Letterman's gonna start telling jokes about people who have children out of wedlock.
Oh, I doubt it.
I saw him a few times when somebody would ask him, Well, when are you going to marry your baby's mom?
And he would just bristle.
You could just see he didn't like being quite a bit.
Yeah, his his private life is totally off limits.
It's totally off limit.
Exactly.
But I I think what he did to those girls, I mean, it's hard enough to be a teenager these days, but to be having you yourself being held up to ridicule on national television when you didn't ask for it.
That girl came there for a charitable event with her mom.
And um it's not even a question of asking.
Who would ask for something?
Who who would ask to be treated like that?
It's not a question of asking for it's not a question of Sarah Palin put the kids out there, it's a question of common decency.
Exactly.
So what if she put the kids out?
What politicians' family has hidden the kids?
But I see don't hide the kids.
They use them and then they hide them, and then they use them and then they hide them.
But I think the liberals are just obsessed with destroying Sarah Palin.
Well, there's no question about it.
Exactly.
Sharon, thanks.
Very gutsy of you to call with this opinion from the hometown of the one.
Chicago.
Okay.
Thank you, Sharon.
Thank you.
Have a great weekend.
I was not faking that call.
We'll be back.
Hi, the way.
We discussed the latest in health care in the first hour of the program today.
And there's a couple stories that I left out.
And one of them is from the politico today.
It's about centrist Democrats, about a uh coalition of more than one hundred moderate House Democrats hoping to unify as they attempt to limit the size and scope of a government-sponsored health insurance option, a key sticking point as health reform enters a delicate phase of negotiations.
All told, members of the new Democrats and the Blue Dogs combined for 102 votes, more than one-third of the entire Democrat caucus.
So if they hold together, they could have a serious impact.
In a letter to uh Speaker Pelosi this week, new Democrat leaders asked her to make sure the public option pays for itself through premiums and co-payments, and doesn't receive any money through tax revenue.
Now there's not that there is no chance.
It's too big to fail.
Um the second story involves Mary Landrew from uh from Louisiana.
She signed a letter in November affirming support for a public insurance option, but her spokesman said yesterday she didn't necessarily look at it uh word for word when she signed it.
Uh when Landrew told reporters yesterday she opposed the public option, Saunders said that she was referring only to the most liberal possible structure, a government program modeled after Medicare.
Healthcare for America Now described the letter as drafted by Landrew for her aides.
But uh Saunders said that was not the case.
It is incorrect that she ever sent the letter or that it originated Democrats are fighting about this.
The bottom, they're dem they're they're fighting over it.
It's uh it is being reported in certain places, not very many, and the same thing is happening on the on the uh waxman markey cap and trade climate bill.
Uh this is from the Hill.com Jared Allen.
More and more Democrats are ready to vote against Pelosi's climate change bill, according to a congressional committee chairman who opposes his leader, the House Agriculture Committee Chairman Colin Peterson, Democrat Minnesota, said Wednesday he's at an impasse with the lead sponsor of this bill that's strongly backed by Pelosi.
He said, We're stuck.
He said regarding a clash he's had with uh Henry Waxman over a number of issues in the bill, and there's a lot of issues haven't even come up yet.
Now, these two chairmen are butting heads at the staff level, despite a deadline set by Pelosi for all committee action to be finished by June the 19th.
Peterson said, I'm just estimating a number of votes that'll be against this.
I suspect the list has grown as more members have gotten a chance to look at it.
I mean, my list has grown.
And moderate Democrats are not excited about um the well, Peterson's issues with the provisions in the bill, including how the movement toward renewable energy sources will affect rural areas and the biofuel industry.
His staff has been working with Waxman to reach an agreement on those and a number of other unidentified issues, but even with the deadline approaching, Peterson gave a pessimistic assessment of quickly reaching a deal with Waxman.
They're trying to just ram all this stuff through as quickly as possible.
And it's the fringe far left that's dominating the uh uh discussion here and all the advancement of these bills, and some of these Democrats from particular districts, the blue dogs, somewhat conservative Democrats, rural Democrats, wait a second, this is gonna wipe us out.
Uh and at some point Pelosi's gonna have to lower the boom here on these people.
Can't she lower the boom on a hundred?
That's gonna be difficult for her to do.
Here's Emmett in Houston.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
Thank you.
I want to go back.
I want to go back to the Safeway op-ed piece in the journal this morning.
And then I want to emphasize something about I thought it was very important.
The Safeway plan is a self-funded plan, meaning it's that they're self-insured, and they can decide to design the plan where they want to within the confines of state and federal regulations.
And to me, it's a segue into discussing the mandates and things you talked about the other day about the insurance industry.
I like to view the insurance companies as bookies.
They're not gambling on our health.
They want and have been the source of medical inflation for the last quarter century because the more money goes in for the premiums, yes, the more they pay out in claims.
But in the meantime, they hang on to the money, the same way the bookie takes his 10% cut or juice.
And I I hold the insurance companies mostly responsible for the medical inflation we've experienced the last quarter century.
Well, everybody has their enemy in the health care industry.
You you don't like the insurance companies.
I don't like the government.
I don't like Medicare, Medicaid, I don't like the autocratic way they run it, the way they're shortchanging doctors.
But you make a good point about Safeway.
It's electable.
It's not forced on it.
The whole point of the Safeway CEO's op-ed was to say we're fashioning our health care insurance that's offered to our employees after automobile insurance.
And in automobile insurance, you have a you have a pretty varied fee structure or premium structure because if you drive well, and if your kids don't bang up the car very much, you can get a lower premium than people get points on their license and run and stop lights and having uh accidents.
So the point is the auto insurance agency has low fees, made mid-range and high premiums.
Safeway guy was pointing out we offer a bunch of different fee structures here based on the employee decision on behavior.
But Safeway doesn't force employees to quit smoking.
They urge it and strong and suggested.
They don't force them to not eat trans fat.
All this is coming with a government plan.
You're going to be forced.
They're going to be able to regulate every aspect of liberty.
Because folks, they're remember the story earlier from today.
The Democrats are saying they're not even going to pay attention to the CBO scoring of this, how much it's going to cost because it's going to be so high nobody would agree to pay for it.
So they're going to ask Obama's Office of Management budget to their own scoring and come up with a fake price that makes it look like we can support it.
What Regardless, it's not going to be cheaper.
There will be lines.
There will be services not offered, particularly as you age.
As you age, the Federal Government, via its insurance companies, will assess whether or not it makes sense to treat you if you're going to croak in the next couple of three years anyway.
And you can be left out.
The only way they can do it, and that's going to be a part of it.
But the government plan is going to force everybody.
They're going to be able to get into every aspect of your life and regulate it under the guise of saving money.
And in and and covering everybody.
Anyway, and their health care costs have not gone up in four years.
We will be right back.
I did not fake that anymore.
All right.
A hundred, 102 moderate Democrats in the House to oppose health care.
them.
Are there 100 moderate Democrats in the House?
I guess there might be 25 or 30, but are there 100 moderate?
There aren't any moderate Democrats.
This is the big joke.
There are no such things.
There is no such thing as a moderate Democrat these days.
And public option or not, the government will dictate, and that is the problem.
However, ladies and gentlemen, I need to correct myself on one thing.
I have said that with the public option, the government's going to dictate and regulate virtually every aspect of your life.
There will be exceptions.
Favored sexual practices by the American left will not be regulated.
In fact, they'll be encouraged.
Whatever, you know, the the bones about it.
Mistakes.
Make no mistake about this.
That will be the case.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I want you to listen to this next soundbite coming up on National Public Radio.
And we have the audio coming up.
The host is Steve Inski.
And he interviewed the Carnegie endowments, Kareem Sajapur about the election in Iran.
And somebody is still going to have to explain to me how Obama throwing Israel under the bus relates to the voting in Iran.
And the voting in Iran is irrelevant anyway because the president's a puppet.
But I just want you to listen to Kareem Sajapur of the Carnegie Endowment as he answers the question who is still in Ahmadini Jad's corner.
He ostensibly has the support of the Supreme Leader, uh a lot of the lower income classes uh in the provinces, kind of Iran's uh uh Republican states, if you will, and uh certainly elements of uh the revolutionary guards and the Basej militia.
Um so I think his supporters are kind of akin to evangelicals in the United States in the sense that they're not considered uh sizable portion of the population, but they're considered very committed.
They they go and vote every time.
All right.
So um National Public Radio has just have to laugh.
The supporters of Mahmood Ahmedizad are akin to Republican evangelicals.
And his support comes from a lot of lower income classes in the provinces, kind of Iran's Republican states.
Somebody sent me this, that it was coming.
I was I was speechless.
They just can't possibly, they can't.
And then I heard it and I said, yes, it it actually happened on NPR.
So go back, grab audio soundbite number 25.
We got we gotta play this again.
This is Obama this morning in the Rose Garden, just outside the oval orifice.
We are excited uh to see uh what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran.
And obviously, after the speech uh that I made in Cairo, we tried to send a clear message that we think there is the possibility of change.
Uh and you know uh uh ultimately the election is for the Iranians to decide.
Uh but uh just as has been true in Lebanon, what's uh can be true in Iran as well is that you're seeing people looking at new possibilities and uh uh whoever uh ends up winning uh the election in Iran.
Uh the fact that there's been a robust debate hopefully will help my uh advance our ability to engage them in new ways.
This just infuriates me.
This is so childish and immature.
Uh in the in the first place, th this trying to find some way to insinuate himself into a good outcome in Iran.
That doesn't the outcome is irrelevant.
There's no good or bad outcome.
The only thing that would change Iran is if the mullahs were dispatched and the mullahs are there.
And you heard even this clown on NBR saying that the mullahs still support Ahmadini's not.
Well, if they do, I can tell you right now who's gonna win.
Okay, so we've got Obama insinuating himself with this, I did it, I made it happen.
I'm really good.
I'm uh one speech, and boy, we got democracy going there.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahu.
And then Kareem Sajapur from the Carnegie endowment, talking about who Ahmadini Zad's supporters are.
He ostensibly has the support of the Supreme Leader, uh a lot of the lower income classes, uh in the provinces, kind of Iran's uh uh uh uh Republican states, if you will, and uh certainly elements of the the revolutionary guards and the Basij militia.
Um so I think his supporters are kind of akin to evangelicals in the United States in the sense that they're not considered uh sizable portion of the population, but they're considered very committed.
They they go and votes every time.
Not very large, but they go and vote all the time.
Oh kidoke.
And he that was a question was also asked do the um clerics and the conservatives still support the president.
Do the clerics and the conservatives still support the president.
Don't forget Reuters put out today that they called Ahmadinejad the conservative candidate.
Now, don't forget, this guy has been embraced by Columbia University, which is not a conservative citadel.
He has been embraced by the United Nations.
They love Doc Madinizad because he gave Bush fit.
Back to the phones.
Ben in Milwaukee, you're next.
It's open line Friday.
We're happy to have you with us.
Hello.
Yes, sir, Rush, and thank you for everything that you do.
Rush, I I have a question and I need your your perspective on this as the great teacher that you are, but I can't help but sit back and think that you know our current president is is really he's so caught up in building his library that he can't see that he's self-destructing.
I mean, the people that he has surrounded himself with, and we know that the fuel that that they live by is hatred.
And to put somebody like Hillary or or you know, somebody, you know, that has openly or or Joey I can cure per paralysis Biden or or whoever it may be in his key positions and the things that they're saying and they're doing, and just yesterday even.
I mean, it goes to show the powerful force that you are when the only thing that he could talk about predominantly in Green Bay was how they and them don't believe they and them, which is Rush and the rest who are bringing out the truth and calling it for what it is and who we is for an individual that is driven by pure hate and not common sense, which is what we see.
But your question still is when's he going to implode, right?
Self if is he gonna self-destruct?
I I I see it coming, and he d you know, and and Well now wait a second.
Why?
What do you see com to define self-destruct?
He could self-destruct.
I he's look it.
He may not have self-destructed, but he's already embarked on the destruction of our economy, and so far who cares about it.
So you no, I'm I'm I'm not arguing.
I'm trying to draw you out.
I'm not faking it.
I want you to tell me what what will be the manifestation of his self destruction.
For him to self-destruct, he can self-destruct all day and still have a sixty percent approval rating.
Right.
But you know what it is, it's it's it's It's hope.
It's a vestige of hope on behalf of those of us who still care.
And unfortunately, these individuals that call your program the majority of the time who are paid by groups like Acorn to pretend whatever it may be, but you know what?
We are people who care, who respect, who want the good for America, who want to go out and achieve, who want to work hard, who want to pick up our brothers and sisters, who want to do the right thing, we want to move forward, we want to make this country the greatest we can possibly do.
How do you do that when you're legalizing the killing of babies, you're freeing terrorists, you're raising taxes, you're filling your pockets, you're involved in, you know, burrito style politics through and through.
It's self-destruction.
You know, and and and it it's happening.
And you know, yes, do we need more of a front?
Yes.
You are a front right now, and the front that we need because that's what's driving him crazy.
And it was evident yesterday in Green Bay.
Well, I you know, that's a good point.
Now, the unlike Obama, I would not take credit for forcing his press conference yesterday.
If I had the same kind of personality as Obama, I would have opened this program today and said, folks, that that that town meeting, that was all because of me.
I'm glad to see that this show is affecting the behavior of the President of the United States.
I don't look at things that way.
That's for you to say.
Uh and I will agree that you're probably right, but I will I'm I'm content to let others conclude it and and to say it.
What I I have not changed from this.
I have not changed from my constant over these last 20 years, expressed belief in the common sense and the decency of the American people.
And I think that there are more people waking up and more people starting to say this is not what we voted for.
I think a lot of people thought they were electing a moderate centrist down the road that was going to bring people together, that he was uh a kind of guy that exemplified by uh his his speech patterns and so forth.
But I think there are a lot of people now that are starting to say, wait a minute, this is not what we voted for.
You can look at it in the polls on the on the GM and Chrysler bailout.
Uh you can look at it uh on on his health care plan.
I mean, i i issue by issue, he does not have majority support, yet he does have a high approval number.
Now those two things are going to intersect at some point, and something's got to give.
But and and I also have faith, believe me, in the power of the opposition media today.
I believe that if this were 20 years ago, there'd be no stopping this.
Or 25, there'd be no stopping it.
There'd be no alternative media.
But there's a huge alternative media.
The existence of the new media today, I think is a driving force in what has turned the state-run media upside down and has made it a laughing stock.
Because I realize now, they realize now that they're in some sort of a competition.
It's the they're dropping the pretense of objectivity for the most part, and they've chosen sides now for just a host of reasons.
But it's an it's going to be an ongoing battle, and stopping liberalism is something that will never ever cease.
And we're always going to have to battle it.
By definition, an organization or a person who is not conservative will be or will become a liberal.
Liberalism is easy.
Liberalism is very seductive.
Conservatism is more of a you know, thought process, it's an act.
Even though people live their lives that way, it's still to understand the uh the essence of how you live, it still requires a little bit of an intellectual pursuit, intellectual application.
Liberalism doesn't require any thinking at all.
It just requires feelings.
And uh so it's a constant battle that's gonna have to be waged.
Uh the evidence, the best evidence if you want to really express frustration.
How are we here after two landslide elections of Ronald Reagan?
How are we here after the Republican take over the House in 1994?
How in the world we ask ourselves, can the voters forget?
And the answer is our side stopped teaching.
Our side got wobbly.
Our side wanted to make nice with the other Guys.
Our side thinks that the future is getting the gay marriage vote and the Hispanic vote.
Our side thinks that showing ourselves to be more like moderate Democrats and so forth, whatever they are, in Washington, that's the future.
So it's an on it's an ongoing battle.
But have faith because I I think there are more Americans than you would believe, and they're that think exactly as you just said.
And I think they outnumber the people who fervently support what Obama is doing.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
I can't leave here today without mentioning this story.
It's from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Throwing orange peels, coffee grounds, and grease stained pizza boxes in the trash will be against the law in San Francisco and could even lead to a fine.
The Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 on Tuesday to approve Gavin Newsom's proposal for the most comprehensive mandatory composting and recycling law in the country.
It's an aggressive push to cut greenhouse gas emissions and have the city sending nothing to landfills or incinerators by 2020.
The legislation calls for every residence and business in the city to have three separate color-coded bins for waste blue for recycling, green for compost, and black for trash.
Failing to properly sort your refuse could result in a fine after several warnings.
The mayor and other officials say that fines only to be levied in the most egregious cases.
Fines for almost all residential customers and many small businesses are initially capped at $100.
Businesses that don't have proper bins face escalating fines up to $500.
Now, this is fruity.
It's nutty.
The state is practically bankrupt.
And this is the kind of thing they're concerned with out there.
Grease stained pizza box.
What if your pizza box is not grease stained?
Okay, Ilsa in Raleigh, North Carolina.
You're up next.
Nice to have you with us on an EIB network.
Yes.
Uh think of a take my call.
You bet.
Uh I'm originally from Vienna, Austria.
And I've lived all over the country.
And uh the best uh this plan for Obama will never work.
So uh socialized medicine.
I worked in uh Vienna has the most sophisticated.
You get a chance, go on the internet.
Vienna has the most sophisticated plan, which goes back to 1920.
Okay.
Now, uh the way that works, uh, you have a voucher.
Everybody has an ID card in Austria.
You get a voucher, you can go to any specialist you want, any doctor you want.
Now I worked in London in the early 50s.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
My time is dwindling, and I got a question.
Who pays for it after you give them the voucher?
It comes out of your like Social Security comes of your paycheck.
Now, you don't have to take that plan if you don't want to.
Okay.
Look it up on the internet.
It's the most sophisticated plan in Europe.
I worked in London in the 50s for with socialized medicine.
It was an utter disaster.
I worked for two dentists in London.
They were Austrian, but they had uh very wealthy clients.
He never took anybody that was on the social security.
You know what?
I'll tell you.
Ilsa.
This is fabulous.
Just get in, get it, and get out.
Get right to the facts.
This is brilliant.
And the thing I would love to propose this.
Oh, yeah, we're gonna have a voucher system.
You just go in there and you get treated, and we'll deduct it from your social security.
Amen.
Love that.
We uh we had a caller up there and have a chance to get to, uh, upset that I haven't talked about uh rising gasoline prices.
I did talk about rising gasoline prices yesterday, but I folks, I don't think that uh you need to worry about rising gasoline prices.
Obama's now running the automobile companies, and remember, he said there are things you can do to lower your use of gasoline, such as a tire gauge.
So uh now that I get you know, let the government give away a tire gauge with every new Obama mobile sold, and uh that way you don't have to worry about the rising price in gasoline.
Have a wonderful weekend, and we'll see you back here on Monday.
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