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June 15, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 15, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, I tell you this day couldn't get here fast enough, folks.
I've been chomping it to bed all weekend.
What with all the stuff that happened over the weekend and President Obama's speech in mere moments to the American Medical Association in Chicago.
We got a lot of stuff to do today, and I'm glad you're here.
This is the only place you really need to be, as you know.
Rush Limbaugh, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Our telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, is 800 282-2882, the email address, L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
All right, we're going to talk about this uh this Iranian situation.
Did I call this or did I call this?
I mean I totally called this, and I'm stunned.
We've got audio sound bites from the drive-by media comparing Iran to Florida 2000.
I mean, it's just stunning.
Everybody who knows anything about Iran and is willing to be honest, admits that the mullahs pick the presidential candidates, and then they pick which one is going to win, pure and simple, and that was always going to be Ahmadini's odd pure and simple.
Now that we had Obama on Friday talking about, well, we've created this great robust debate over there.
My Cairo's speech, man, it's really great.
And now the people rioting in the streets, the Libs want you to believe in Obama caused that.
That's not true.
The people live in Iran.
We've been hearing about this for for years, the unrest in the general Iranian population.
And in the run-up to uh Iran going nuke, uh, people have said, particularly Michael Ladin, who was uh a just probably the uh one of the most profound Iranian scholars writing about this has been asking for us, the United States is a policy to help overthrow the regime by buttressing the anti-regime population in Iran, not militarily.
Uh obviously uh Obama's gonna try to take credit for this, but this uh unrest has been has been simmering uh in Iran for quite a while.
Not that it matters, though.
I mean, you just you you line them up and you shoot them and uh do whatever you want.
I mean, we're dealing here with a totalitarian regime.
So we'll get into that.
Uh Obama's brother who lives in a hut uh is gonna write a book entitled Homel uh Homeland.
Uh I I guess I guess he's still in the hut, but he got an advance from who?
He got an advantage was it Simon and Schuster.
He got an advance and somebody to write it, but he's he's turned to community organizing now in uh in in Kenya.
Gallup poll.
Remember last week the drive-bys went all nuts with the USA-to-day gallop poll that showed only 13% of the Republican uh Republicans thought I spoke for them, and then Cheney was at 10, and and they tried to paint this picture of the Republicans in the wilderness.
Well, the Gallup people are out with another poll today, and it's uh it's very, very cool.
Conservatives are the single largest ideological group in America.
Forty percent of Americans call themselves conservative.
Uh, let's see, the number of moderates is thirty-five percent liberals or twenty-one.
And twenty-two percent of Democrats call themselves conservative.
This is why the left is afraid of Sarah Palin, folks.
This is why they're trying to destroy her.
And nobody else on the Republican side that excites the Republican base like she does.
I'm not, I don't mean to insult anybody out there, some great people on our side.
Uh, but this ought to have specific uh impact here on our conservative media, which is wandering off the reservation continually, saying we got to get rid of Reagan.
If I redick Cheney, I would think about suing Leon Panetta for defamation.
Uh Panetta says it's almost as if former Vice President Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States.
That's uh patently absurd.
So um those and other things are coming up on the program today, but let's get to health here here before Obama's speech starts.
Scheduled to start five minutes, and I want to have you some I want you to have some information before this uh speech begins.
Back in 1993, when uh the Clintons attempted uh Hillary care, the U.S. economy was coming, well, seven one-seventh of the U.S. economy was health care.
It's now one-fifth.
And they're trying to take it over, and they're trying to uh to nationalize it.
Even Stan Greenberg, the pollster Who works with Clinton and Paul Bagala is out today saying, you know, this thing, it could fail and it could fail easily, because there's no way you can you can sign up more people and cut costs.
There's just no way it can be done.
Cutting costs is absurd.
The Democrats are talking about six hundred billion dollars in new tax increases.
But George Will, yesterday, on this week with George Stephanopoulos, had some profound insights and statistics.
During the roundtable discussion.
He said in the president's words, it'll keep them honest.
The public option will keep them honest to try to preserve the government as a lagoon of honesty, you can argue refuted by anybody who reads any budget of any administration.
So the the Obama administration says the public option will keep the private sector uh uh honest.
Well, it's the public sector that's dishonest.
It's the public sector that's corrupted.
Number two, George Will uh says this.
Obama says it'll play by the same rules as the private insurers, and therefore will not drive the private insurers out of business.
Now, if you play by the same rules, what's the point?
If you're gonna have a public option that plays with the same rules as the private sector, then what's the point of having a public option?
In in real terms, there is no reason for it.
If you're uh if what you're saying is it's not going to be any better, and we all know it can't be, then why do it?
Third, it's necessary to give what Secretary Sabilia said a choice to the consumers.
Well, there are 1,300 entities offering health care plans in this country right now.
Another one, i.e., the government is not going to change that.
Thirteen hundred entities offering health care plans in the country today, and uh Sibelius says and Obama say that they need to add the public option uh to give uh consumers a choice.
They've got choices at the wazoo.
If you take this a step further, many of these 1,300 entities that are already providing health insurance will likely cease to exist if the government gets involved.
So the end result is that there will be far fewer options for people.
The idea is to wipe out the private sector with the public option.
That's its intent.
George Will, again, finally, there's the argument that the American people are not smart enough to handle something as complicated as health care and have a competitive market.
Well, the American people have done pretty well in computers doing this.
But you see, this gets to the common thing I continually attempt to remind everybody of.
And that is the government looks at the liberals, uh, Democrats look at everybody with contempt.
None of us are smart enough to survive without them paving the road, guiding the way, and steering us.
George Will was not done, though.
He talking to Donna Brazil, he said, You talk about the 46 to 47 million uninsured in America, 14 million of them are already eligible for other government programs but have not signed up.
10 million are in households with household incomes of 75 grand a year.
They could afford it if they wanted it.
Furthermore, an enormous number in that 47 million are not American citizens.
60% of the uninsured in San Francisco, for example, are not citizens.
So this 47 million uninsured number that the left and the media is always throwing around is disingenuous.
It's largely irrelevant.
It is not that they portray this number, and it's grown from 42 to 43 million during the Clinton days.
Now it's magically up to 47 million and is just as accurate as their homeless number was.
Um inaccurate.
Uh that's so the the of the 47 million uh they try to paint this picture that this system is so unfair and so mean that it's leaving 47 million Americans out, and it is not doing so.
Now, Obama just strode to the podium.
We're not gonna gyp this, we're not gonna cover this, we'll get soundbites from it later on.
I got a note from a friend of mine today.
Well, what you know, the AMA will probably cave Rush.
I mean, they're there's they're they're sounding really tough against him now.
But everybody thinks they're gonna cave because everybody else caves before Obama.
Here's the one heavy hand he has on him.
He already determines what they make.
When they treat Medicare patients, they already are in charge of reimbursement.
It takes them whatever time they want to reimburse the doctor, and they charge whatever they're or they reimburse whatever they want to reimburse.
And uh Obama has said further he is going to squeeze the doctors and the insurance companies, which means he's gonna reduce their fees even uh even more.
But there's uh there's a large bit of fear of this guy in every plan he comes up with, whether be it this health care reform plan or the TARP plan is stimulus money uh or whatever, there's just genuine fear, and these people cave.
Everybody's afraid of government.
That's not a good sign for the United States of America.
I run into more people who are more afraid of their government today than at any time in my life.
And so I don't know whether the AMA is going to cave or not.
He's probably going to offer a bunch of platitudinous things here that'll never really be in the final deal just to get them.
We know the guy says things that aren't true.
We know he makes it up.
We know he lies.
We know he presents the either-or option.
By the way, he'll he'll try to legitimize their concerns while saying his concerns are legitimate.
Two, we have to work together in getting along, and then he'll forget what their concerns are and just impose them.
Of course, we can't impose our values anywhere else, but Obama can impose his values anywhere uh he uh he wants to go.
Uh other items in the uh in the in the health care stack, Joe Lieberman has now come out in opposition to the public plan in Obamacare.
Said this weekend he opposes the public option for consumers.
I don't favor public option, he told Bloomberg News in an interview, and I don't favor a public option because they think I think there's plenty of competition in the private insurance market, as is, and there is.
There are 1,300 different ways you can go to get health insurance.
Uh Lieberman says we have a unique opportunity, a real opportunity to do this year what we've been trying to do for years, which is to reform health care.
And I think the one thing that'll stop that is pressure on the so-called public option.
So there's a Democrat not in favor of it.
By the way, all these czars that he has appointed, which uh give him dictatorial control over every department where there is a czar.
Robert Byrd, Democrat senator, has sent Obama a letter essentially saying, you know, what you're doing here is unconstitutional because the czars do not have to go to confirmation hearings.
The Tsars do not get approved or interviewed.
Nobody knows what they do.
They're paid by Obama, they're ordered to do what they do by Obama.
Cabinet secretaries have been rendered uh, you know, secondary or tertiary role.
The czars lead the way, the czars do not go through the legislative process, they do not go through the the uh the confirmation process, and it's just um uh i i it it's it's statist behavior, it's authoritarian behavior.
It is Obama basically saying, screw the way we've set this country up as a representative republic.
I'm gonna rule this country, I'm not gonna govern it.
I'm gonna rule it.
Also, friend of mine, related to health care.
This has been an eye-opening experience for me.
See, I have a cat, and I don't have to do anything with the cat except take her to the vet for normal checkups and teeth cleanings and stuff like that.
Friend of mine just got a little puppy.
Now, a friend of mine travels a lot and is busy and has been traveling around finding various places to park the puppy.
And she found like a there's a place up in Jupiter called Fur Seasons, the Fur Seasons Dog Resort.
You get a room for your dog with a television in it.
There are these places all over the country, and I started thinking about this in relation to American health care.
The private sector is providing dog owners every option they want for their dogs to be cared for in a great way.
Or you can, if you just want to park the dog in a cage in some kennel, you can do that too.
If you want to go high end, you can do that.
But it's all private sector.
Nine, it's much cheaper than human care, don't misunderstand.
But you know how people are with their animals.
Animals are, by definition, pets, essentially helpless.
Uh, they become domesticated, they become dependent on human beings.
They attach themselves.
Some might say they fall in love with their humans.
It's a debatable thing, but they still do get attached.
And so they're they're they're they're they're they're cared for.
Just why go through this this all this list of options that a dog owner has for its health, for its well-being, and they're all in the private sector, and there's no federal dog health care plan out there, and it's working just fine.
And it's based on the dog owner's ability to pay.
There's no insurance involved.
Some of them don't even take credit cards, but it works.
Are you comparing dogs to human beings?
No, I'm comparing the private sector to public sector.
If the if the government was into dog care, if you had to take your dog to government run fur seasons or whatever it is, I guarantee you wouldn't want to leave your dog there, because there'd be no guarantee it would be alive when you got back.
Anyway, I gotta take a little break.
We'll do that and come back right after this, continue with all the rest of today's program in moments.
Here's something else I don't believe that Obama talked about on Friday afternoon.
Um he outlined measures to trim spending on federal health programs for the elderly and the poor by an additional 313 billion over the next decade.
This is in his weekly radio address.
He he proposed limiting the growth of Medicare fee for service payments and called for reducing payments of drug companies that serve Medicare recipients.
Now, I don't doubt that he means that, but I if if he's gonna get there's no way Medicare is going to be cut when you're gonna go a national plan based on Medicare, just expanding Medicare.
There will not be any cuts.
There will not be any reduced spending in government health care.
I don't care what he says, the numbers don't word out, work out.
You cannot take, for example, 47 million people who are quote unquote uninsured, and automatically with a federal public option insure them, add 47 million to the rolls and all of a sudden say you got any budget savings or cuts whatsoever.
Not possible.
The math doesn't work out.
Washington Post with another story today about how Obama is open to taxing as income, employer-provided health care benefits.
The Democrats say for their public option single-payer health care.
There's no reason to do this.
There's no reason.
The economy is falling apart.
They're gonna bulldoze 40% of Flint, Michigan.
The era of Obama has settled in.
40% of Flint, Michigan is boarded up homes.
They are now using gravel to make roads in Michigan rather than concrete and asphalt.
They don't have any money.
40%, they're gonna have to bulldoze 40% of Flint, Michigan to reduce the size because it no longer works the way it is.
Unthinkable in the United States of America.
Unthinkable.
The era of Obama.
It's just I I'm seeing things happen in this country that I thought I would never ever see.
These are the kind of things that happen in uh totalitarian regimes.
You know, back to that poll, the uh the Gallup poll, conservatives, the single largest ideological group uh in the country, liberals are 21%, independents are 35%.
What if if if I were running the Republican Party?
You know what it would tell me?
And if I were in the conservative media, and if I really wanted to win the next series of elections, as Randall Hoven here, the American thinker says, if you want to win, here's how you do it.
You get 40% of the vote by being genuinely conservative without apology.
If 40%, and that's where you get your quote unquote Reagan Democrats, just be peddled to the metal conservative and don't apologize for it, then go after one-third of the moderates, you get another 12% of the vote for 52% majority, and all you have to do is push responsibility, competence, and integrity.
And if you did that, you might get half of these independents or moderates.
You might get up to 58%, which is what Reagan got in 1984.
Forty percent of the people of this country identify themselves as conservative, 21% identify themselves as liberal.
This is why I closed the program on Friday telling you I still have faith.
I still have um uh faith in the in the people of this country.
And if you look at the campaign of 2008, the 40% of the American people who were conservative had nobody to vote for.
And if the Republican Party keeps up, they're not gonna offer anybody to vote for.
And that's why the left is so scared to death of Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin excites this 40% of Americans that are conservatives.
Of course, the blue blood country club Rockefeller Republicans and the media and the uh and the Democrats make fun of her and say that she's a dunce and she doesn't have any experience, she's uninformed and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But all you have to do, if you want to know for the left will tell you everything you want to know if you listen to them.
The far left, the left, the Democrat Party will tell You everything you want to know?
And I just need to ask you one question.
Of all the potential Republican presidential candidates that people could name for 2012, which one sends the Democrat Party, the media, the comedian community, and everybody else into an absolute insane tizzy.
It is Sarah Palin.
Why?
Because they're scared.
And why are they scared?
They're afraid of her.
They're afraid of that 20,000 people she can draw anywhere, any time when she shows up to make an appearance.
They're afraid of her because she can win.
They're afraid of her because she could beat Barack Obama.
That's why they trash her.
That's why they're trying to destroy her.
It's not because she embarrasses them.
It's because she frightens them.
Listen to the left.
Listen to the media if you want to find out what they think, because they'll tell you every time.
By the way, folks, Vice President Cheney has responded to Leon Panetta.
The director of the CIA, Panetta says that it's almost as though Cheney wants another attack.
Here's the official Cheney response.
I hope my old friend Leon was misquoted.
The important thing is whether the Obama administration will continue the policies that have kept us safe for the last eight years.
Mr. Vice President, I don't think there's much chance of that.
Take a look at the drudge report, folks.
Go to the front page, just the front page, and you'll find a picture of one of the four Chinese Uyghurs transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Bermuda swimming in the ocean.
And there are stories accompanying these pictures saying that the Uyghurs now have totally changed their mind about the United States.
Now, Bermuda is British, and the UK was not informed that the that these four Uyghurs, these are Chinese Al-Qaidas, essentially, were not informed that they were going to be transferred to Bermuda.
They just sent them there.
And now they're swimming in the ocean.
I've seen two pictures of one of them out there doing a hell move it is, but still lying on his back with his arm, just having a great time, and the other two are out there splashing around.
The only thing missing is a pina coladas.
Except I know Uyghurs don't consume.
Well, it could be virgin colladas.
They don't consume uh alcohol.
Now, back to this back to this poll for just a second, the Gallup poll, 40% of the Americans identify themselves as conservatives.
Our buddies at Power Line today, right after 8 o'clock, posted a uh a blog, a post on their blog called Conservatives in the Wilderness.
The lead essay in the current issue of the Claremont Review of Books is William Vigelli's The Wilderness Years Begin.
Does American conservatism need to reinvent itself for a new age?
Vigelli addresses the diagnoses of the decline, the decline of American conservatism, various prescriptions for its recovery.
In the second and last paragraph, it's a long essay.
But here's here's the second and last paragraph rendering the case for the conservative opposition to the progressive liberal project.
And this, folks, is a great way to express and uh define liberalism for people.
Listen to this.
The danger liberalism poses to the American experiment comes from its disposition to deplete rather than replenish the capital required for self-government.
If I might if I might add something to this, the danger liberalism poses to the American experiment comes from its disposition to deplete rather than replenish the capital necessary for economic growth.
And that's precisely what's happening now.
People's retirements are gone.
I've got a story about that in the stack today.
Economic expectations are plundered because more and more of the private sector is being taken over or depleted by Barack Obama and transferred to him and his czars to run in an unconstitutional manner from the White House, including the census and other things.
The danger liberalism poses to the American experiment, forget the danger liberalism proposes to America.
I think America as an experiment has succeeded.
America's now in the process, our private sector being Destroyed by President Obama.
The danger liberalism poses is its disposition to deplete rather than replenish the money required for economic growth.
Entitlement programs overextend not only financial but political capital.
They proffer new rights.
They goad people to demand and expand those rights aggressively, which is exactly what the left has done.
New rights, new entitlements, health care, read it that way, and other things.
People demand those things, expand on their demands.
They disdain truth in advertising about the nature or scope of these new debts and obligations.
The experiment in self-government requires the cultivation against the grain of a democrat age of the virtues of self-reliance, patience, sacrifice, and restraint.
The people who have this moral and social capital understand and accept that there are going to be a long many long roads when you put more into your institutions than you get out.
That's a quote from David Brooks.
Instead, liberalism promotes snarling but unrugged individualism, combining an absolute right to the lifestyle of one's choice regardless of the social cost.
And isn't that where we are with the American left?
People think they have an inherent right to live however they want with the government paying for it.
They have an equally fundamental right to be supported at state expense.
Because that's what they think America is because the Democrat Party and the American left have been working on them for years in this way.
Finally, the capital bestowed by vigilance against all enemies, foreign and domestic, is squandered.
Read the defense budget.
When liberals insist on approaching street gangs, illegal immigrants and terrorist regimes in the hopeful belief that trust edifies and absolute trust edifies absolutely.
That's just the second to last paragraph of uh of William Bogley's uh The Wilderness Years Begin.
Conservatives conservatives are not in the wilderness.
The Republican Party is in the wilderness.
Conservatives are fine and dandy.
Conservatives know exactly what they are.
Well, some Washington conservatives don't.
Some media conservatives have gotten all confused or off the reservation saying some of the most ridiculous things, but as far as the people outside the beltway, the American conservative population.
Wham bam.
You don't need to reinvent it, because it's timeless.
Conservatism's foundation is freedom.
Freedom will never go out of style.
And you get people saying still to this day, we gotta forget Reagan and we gotta do it.
Nobody's holding on to Reagan as a cult.
What people are holding on to is there was an application of conservatism, and look at what it got.
58% of the vote.
It wasn't just the positions on taxes and communism and defense.
It was the philosophy that produced those positions.
And that philosophy exists the same then as it does today, and is just as applicable to issues today as it was then, even though the issues may be different.
There doesn't need to be any realignment, redefinition, or anything of the sort.
So this ought to hearten people.
The Republicans are going to like this.
Some of the conservative intelligentsia media aren't going to like it, and they're going to say people like me are misrepresenting the poll and misreading it, but I'm not.
Now I want to expand on this business I spoke.
We're back to health care here for just a second.
I mentioned a friend of mine, a girlfriend.
She got a new puppy.
It's an old English sheepdog.
Got the dog last week.
It's the cutest little thing.
It's about eight.
What are you still what are you sn what are you laughing at, sturdy?
What do you what are you laughing at?
What's so funny?
Girlfriend got a dog.
What's so funny?
No, I'm not babysitting a dog.
That's what that's what the dog's been over to the house, so you ought to see dog and pumpkin.
We thought going to be some fur flying here, but there wasn't.
They're just genuine, genuine curiosity.
Pumpkin hissed a couple times.
It's a puppy bounding around.
You know, punkin looks at the dog like, shut up, you little kid.
Stop bothering me.
You know, cats are very indifferent.
Uh, but no, no, there have been territorial battles or uh anything.
I mean, dog's even eating some of pumpkin's food and pumpkin doesn't care.
No, I'm not babysitting a dog.
I wouldn't mind if I baby.
It's a cute little thing.
It's an old English sheepdog named Abby.
Anyway, been looking for things to do with the dog when uh it needs to be babysitting.
And we've found all kinds of options where this dog can live in dog luxury.
And it is just amazing.
I mean, some of these places come pick up the dog.
There's a there's a uh if you're just gonna be gone all day and there's nobody to take the dog out, you take the dog to dog daycare.
Uh no, I'm not.
Snerdley is trying to suggest here that I have enslaved myself.
Uh no, I I've been out walking the dog.
I've been out with the dog, but not by my I do not know.
I I don't have the pooper scooper.
Would you let me stick to the point once again?
Here I am in the middle of another brilliant point, and the staff wants to go all sexist on me here, thinking I'm turning into a slave.
This is the cutest little puppy.
And it's uh it just it's it's let me tell you what I did.
When I learned all of the options there are for this puppy, when it has to be left or treated or done something to go to the vet or whatever.
I went online last night, and I started doing some research in this, and I found a place.
This is this is page one.
I'm gonna give you the details of a brochure from the Park East Animal Hospital in New York.
Park East Animal Hospital.
Now I'm doing this because Obama's up there talking about how he's gonna save health care and all that by destroying it.
In dog care, in animal care, you can have any option you want.
It's all there, you pay for it at whatever level of service you want for your dog.
There's no government option, there's no government involvement, and it's all affordable.
And listen to just page one of the brochure here from the Park East Animal Hospital.
Appointments seven days a week, and evenings Monday through Friday.
Nursing care, sixty-five days a year with technicians continuously on duty.
This is for your dog or your cat.
Around the clock 24-hour emergency service for your dog or cat.
Calls responded to immediately by staff, not an answering service or machine.
It's a thought it strikes me.
Have you ever called some company and a machine answered?
Your call is important to us.
Well, if it was important, then how come a machine's answering?
Well, the Park East Animal Hospital.
Calls are responded to immediately by human beings.
House calls and supportive home nursing assistance are offered.
Affordable preventative medicine and client education on topical issues for your dog or cat.
Top grade board-certified medical and surgical specialists available for consultations.
Special discounts and free first examination for rescued strays and newly adopted pets from shelters.
This is health care for pets.
Yes.
Health care for pets from a private practitioner, not a government program, and they're all over the country.
Outfits like that.
Well, you know, people get as attached to their animals and their pets, uh, especially dogs.
I mean, a cat you can leave alone, it'll take care of itself, just you know, leave the food out and uh litter box and go to town.
Cats are into it, but a dog, I mean, they they become the essence of innocence.
You become attached to you, they can't.
Well, the owner thinks the dog can't survive.
These people are smart at these cat and dog hospitals.
They understand the relationship between the owner and the pet, and they're there to serve that owner's desire.
And they do it, and they'll charge, and you know people will pay for it.
They'll pay for it just as much as they'll pay for their kids because that's how important the pets are to them.
So you have health care for pets from a private practitioner, not a government program.
Whenever you hear, whenever you hear a liberal promise government help, that'll give you universal care, better care at lower cost.
Whenever you hear that, just sit back, and you know what your response ought to be?
Bark like your dog does.
Because your dog has it without the government being involved.
And this is not a this this is not a conclusion that that is out of bounds or a Stretch.
It's health care.
And it's it's care that's just as important to pet owners as their own health care is.
Probably more so because most people think they can handle most illnesses that they have themselves.
A dog, cat gets sick, then what do you do?
You have to take it to the vet.
And you can find whatever level of service that you want.
They even offer special evening appointments on Monday.
And that's just page one of the brochure from the Park East Animal Hospital.
So stop and think about that.
The next time you get involved in the any kind of debate about human health care and how the government's going to make it better and so forth, and ask yourself if the same kind of care at whatever price you want to pay, whatever level of service you want, is available for your dog.
Why is it not available to you?
Back in a second.
By the way, the health care industry now one-fifth of the U.S. economy.
There's a dollar amount that you can put to that.
$2.5 trillion.
That's how much is at stake.
That's how much.
$2.5 trillion.
That's how much wealth the federal government wants to take out of the private sector how much it wants to deplete from the private economy and add to the government economy.
$2.5 trillion.
That's what Obama is actually wanting is control of two and a half trillion dollars.
And that, my friends, is the way.
You have to look at it.
All right, we're going to start on the phones in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.
Tom, hello, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
Nice to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Um, Lizard, what the point I wanted to make is uh insurance has to go back to being insurance.
Uh, you know, uh, the definition of insurance is people share it, put their money in a pool for unexpected risks.
Well, a heart attack is an unexpected risk, but drugs and doctor visits are not.
You're just prepaying for that.
It'd be like having grocery insurance where you paid a thousand dollars a month and you, you know, every time you needed food, you called up your insurance company.
That's exactly right.
You are right on the money, a 100%.
Right.
Appreciate it.
I that's what I wanted to say.
See, everybody wants validation from the host.
Do you realize I just made Tom's day by telling him how brilliant his point is?
Yeah, he's gonna live off that for at least a year.
Everybody wants validation.
Everybody wants an attaboy now and then, and what better attaboy can you get than from me, especially on this topic?
He's right on the money.
A whole this is what the Safeway CEO's uh op Edney in the journal was about last week, when he said we have modeled ourselves at Safeway here after uh auto insurance, varying levels of premiums based on how well you drive or how poorly you drive or what a you know big risk your kids are uh or or what have you.
But the argument is the same.
Suppose you had to go get hotel room insurance or food insurance.
Suppose the same concept in health care attached itself to everything else that you consider vital.
You know, we can't live without food.
You gotta have that's a necessity.
Health care has become that in people's minds.
So imagine the same kind of food care provided by the government.
In fact, we've got it.
Food stamps.
This is the only country where poverty leads to obesity.
Stop and think of that.
Now, why is that?
Because with the food stamps, you go in there and buy the Twinkies, the milk duds, six-pack of bud, bag of potato chips, head home to one of your two-colored TVs as you live in poverty to watch the NFL on satellite TV.
And that's if you turn off your cell phone so that you don't get interrupted.
That's poverty in the American United States that compared to elsewhere around the world.
By the way, uh I have a story here in the stack, too.
I shouldn't laugh.
I shouldn't, I shouldn't convey that I draw pleasure from this.
But all of you people, some of you who accepted extensions in unemployment compensation, have become ineligible for food stamps because your total compensation has lifted you above the ceiling where you qualify for food stamps.
I love it.
The reason I love it is because when you depend on Washington, all you're gonna get is basic survival.
By the way, one observation before we go to the break here.
Go to Drudge and look at the Uyghur prisoner from Club Gitmo swimming in the Atlantic Ocean.
And then remember what John McCain looked like when he got out of the Hanoi Hilton.
Broken legs, broken arms, beat up.
This guy, out of Club Gitmo, one two days, is swimming in the Atlantic Ocean.
Okay, okay, okay.
I just sent a couple pictures of the new puppy up to Coco at rushlimbaugh.com.
I told him to go ahead and post them.
It's funny, it's just an old English sheepdog, 12 weeks old, and we're walking her around, and people stop and think we've got a baby panda.
Because there's no tail, she walks like a bear, and uh and the coloring.
So uh we'll get them up at Rush Limbaugh.com uh as soon as Coco gets in gear.
Back here in just a second.
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