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June 15, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 15, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
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All right, Obama's uh approaching 55 minutes on this speech.
I don't know who can sit through 55 minutes of a speech and be inspired by it at a at a convention.
I mean, this is not as though you got a comedian out there doing a stand-up routine.
This is dry, dull political garbage.
Cookie just sent me the uh first batch of audio sound bites from Obama's speech.
I frankly, I don't want to listen to it.
You know, I was I was just telling Snerdley, I I I uh I'd be very, very careful about this, because I'm trying to be persuasive here with the people that don't agree with me.
Uh and I, by the way, if any of you are doubting that there are liberals in this audience, see my email from last week when we started telling the Obama jokes.
Oh, we know you're there, you lefties.
This guy just grates on me.
He just he's a know-it-all, and he doesn't know anything.
He's arrogant with no reason to be.
He's got all the answers when he's never run anything other than his mouth.
And it's just it just great, plus the personality type, as I mentioned to you on Friday.
It just grates up.
In fact, Mike, let me find the what the Bill Mars soundbite here because this is interesting.
It's uh C. Yes, audio soundbite 15.
Uh, Bill Maher, who's deranged on the left is something, you know, something happened in these people the last eight years, and they're still enraged and angry, even though they're side one.
Uh, Bill Maher's upset that Obama is uh not liberal enough, but that's not the point of this soundbite.
This is not getting the job done.
And this is not what I voted for.
And this is why I don't want my president.
This is why I don't want my president to be a TV star.
Because TV stars are too worried about being popular and too concerned with getting renewed.
I never thought I'd say this.
But actually, what he needs in his personality is a little George Bush.
He needs to stop worrying about being loved and bring out that smug, insufferable swagger that says, suck on it, America.
Now, there was applause at every applause line until he gets to Bush, then here came the instinctive habitual booing.
But he's he's got a point.
This guy's on television all day, and it's rubbing every day, and it's it's starting to rub people raw.
And the more you're on television and the longer you're on television, the less people are going to pay attention to you.
You gotta keep yourself unique.
Not predictable.
And I I guarr- folks, I guarantee you, he's now approaching almost one hour in this speech to the doctors at the AMA.
That tells me he thinks he's got a tough sales uh sales job.
He's going, he's answering all these uh so-called objections that his uh critics have uh have mentioned there.
Uh it just he's very defensive again.
I I think it's panic central inside the uh inside the White House.
But um he's uh little George Bush.
And by the way, speaking of speaking of George Bush, Thomas Friedman in the New York Times in a column over the weekend came out and praised Bush for Middle East peace.
And no, he didn't.
He did.
He came out and praised Bush for uh Iraq, even though it was a war of choice.
It turned out well, it's great.
It's uh uh democracy in the Middle East, uh now you got Bill Mars saying that Obama needs to be a little bit more like Bush.
Uh little swagger, don't care what people think of you.
Uh, here's what I'm gonna do, America.
If you don't like it, suck on it, which is you know, typical HBO language, but uh there you have it.
Try this.
This is from the New York Times on June 13th on Saturday.
This is a poll quote.
The story is on the Iranian elections.
Both sides claim victory in presidential election in Iran.
But listen to this quote.
Because it seems, uh ladies and gentlemen, that Iranian journalists are not any different than American journalists.
As voting began on Friday morning, journalists gathered to watch the Ayatollah Khamenei cast his vote in a mosque near his home In southern Tehran, just after 8 a.m., a set of brown curtains opened, and the Supreme Leader emerged, a gaunt 69-year-old with glasses and a long white beard with a black turban on his head and a black clerical gown draped around him.
The journalists gasped and then chanted a religious blessing.
I read that and I said, My gosh, these Iranian drive bys are no different.
I mean, Iranian state-run media is no different than American state-run media.
The journalists, when they saw the Supreme Leader, gasped and then chanted a religious blessing.
Now you wonder the journalists who react this way to the Ayatollah come in.
You wonder what they're reporting in the unrest now and how they're looking.
By the way, it's the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB Network.
Great to have you with us.
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If you want to see or hear how predictable and how irrelevant state run media is, we have a montage here from Saturday and Sunday, a bunch of different media people and scholars discussing the Iranian election, comparing it.
This is, I mean, a lot of people here comparing it to Florida 2000.
What can we expect as far as accuracy?
Because we have our own problems.
Florida in 2000.
Like Florida 2000, what's happening now is similar to what took place in Florida in 2000.
Mahmoud Ahmed Ejad and his main opponent have declared victory.
Florida 2000, anyone?
I think the White House shouldn't say anything.
And the reason being is because of what happened in 2000 when Bush stole the election.
Who are we to judge Iran?
That's Warren Ballantyne, the uh last voice that you heard.
And uh I don't this I never heard of him, but uh but he was he's out there.
So the White House shouldn't say anything.
The reason being is because of what happened in 2000 when Bush stole the election.
Who are we to judge Iran?
So predictable and so embarrassing.
These people do not understand that there isn't freedom in Iran.
You know, there were 495 presidential candidates to start this whole process, all picked by the mullahs.
They're all picked by the mullah.
All the candidates are picked.
There's no primary it's a joke.
Achmed the the the vote count was irrelevant.
I don't know whether they had to stack it, where they lied about it.
They wanted Ahmadini's odd.
And believe me, the reason to stay with Ahmadini's odd is precisely to spit in the face of Obama and his Cairo speech, folks.
Let's be honest about it.
While Obama's out there trying to take credit for all this new robust democracy, the mullahs said, you wonder if Obama had any impact on the election on Friday when he went out there and basically assumed the position that the challenger was gonna win.
If he would have shut up, I wonder what would have happened.
But since he goes out there and starts taking credit, you know, these mullahs, they are autocrats.
They're dictators.
They're gonna listen to some upstart young know it-all, start proclaiming uh relevance and and uh uh uh importance in the outcome of their election.
Here is uh last night's CNN's newsroom, the anchor Don Lemon spoke with senior international producer Samson Desta in Iran about the election, and uh the anchor said, Look, do you get the sense this is gonna escalate that the protests are going to continue, or are you seeing a sense of calm now?
Are they backing down or is this backing off at all?
A number of students came up to me today and said that they want to appeal to President Obama.
They said, is he going to accept this result?
Because if he does, then we are doomed.
So we heard a lot about appeals to Obama and the international community today from university students.
A lot of people are asking Obama to speak, and he's not speaking now.
He's not said a word about it.
Would you please speak up?
There are people waiting for he did then now, when the result is in and is not what he wanted, he's not going to speak out because he's probably taking this as a rejection and they're figuring out how to how to position this.
In terms of the question, a timing is it quieting down?
Now they're firing shots over there.
The latest is that uh let's see.
Well, I saw it a minute ago that The shots are being fired into the crowds now.
Just like Florida, just like Florida 2000, just like Florida, and probably some of the people armed are journalists.
I'm kidding.
Just like Florida 2000, they're firing on people who are rioting in the streets.
Now, where was the rioting in the streets in Florida 2000, by the way?
Uh let's see.
Richard Engel this morning on MSNBC.
Question, it's a paper ballot election.
Now there have been accusations of fraud.
Uh, can you explain this to us, oh wizard?
They were about 35 to 40 million votes cast.
Originally, state television said 35 million, and then Ahmadinejad said about 40 million votes cast in a country of 70 million.
That's a lot of ballots.
These are paper ballots.
You put your thumbprint on or fingerprint on, fold them up and stuff into a box.
And there was so many people turning out to vote.
They were leaving the voting stations at nine, 10 o'clock at night.
And then just a few hours later, state TV announced that Ahmadinejad had won.
And there were no computers, there were no records, it was just folded pieces of paper in a box.
And that's a lot.
That's very quick to count.
Are these people really this idiotic?
Are they really this naive?
It didn't matter.
Ahmedini's Dad was gonna win.
The whole election is no different than when Saddam Hussein got 98% of the vote the last time he stood for election.
There were it.
I it just they're naive.
They're stupid.
They are not informed.
Sarah Palin knows more of the ways of the world than the media covering her.
Let's go back to last Friday morning in Washington, the White House when the Iranians leaked the news that something big was happening.
Oh, the vote turnout, why look, it's higher than ever.
Why?
The challenger's doing well, but here's a sucked Obama right to the microphone, and he said this.
We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iraq.
And obviously, after the speech that I made in Cairo, we tried to send a clear message that we think there is the possibility of change.
And you know, ultimately the election is for the Iranians to decide.
Uh but just as has been true in Lebanon, what's can be true in Iran as well is that you're seeing people looking at new possibilities.
And whoever uh ends up winning uh the election in Iran.
The fact that there's been a robust debate hopefully will help uh advance our ability to engage them in new ways.
That his remarks on Friday look even more foolish today than they did on Friday.
And I, El Rushbo, knew how foolish they were on Friday the moment I heard them.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair, Rush Limbaugh at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
All right, Obama.
Um I had I've had some people watching the speech.
I obviously couldn't.
Um I didn't really want to, as I said earlier, it irritates me, but I had somebody watching it.
Apparently, the one one of the primary arguments he made, of course there were many.
Well, one of the primary arguments that uh Obama made to the AMA during this hour-long speech was this.
Without reform, the system will be even more expensive than it already is.
Now, this is the way the left sells every government program they want to expand.
It's in durable states and it needs to be reformed.
Uh, and it's gonna if we don't do anything, if we leave it alone, it's gonna be more expensive if we get there.
And of course, the truth is, folks, we are out of money.
The government cannot pay for what the government is running now.
The government cannot pay for what the government's running now in anything.
We are two trillion dollars in debt this year alone.
Two trillion.
So we can't even pay for what they're running now, and he wants to expand it.
He wants to put 47 million more people on the rolls, and somehow this is gonna make it cheaper.
It reminds me of the Social Security debate.
Democrats said that any reform would mean less for what some Americans are receiving now.
Well, the dirty little secret is that social security cannot pay what is promised already.
Social Security is bankrupt, too.
People are going to get less anyway, as soon as Social Security started to go under 10 years or so.
This is another typical false Obama argument.
Also read today that uh Obama was thinking of actually uh tort.
There's a I have a newspaper story somewhere, I think it's the Washington Post, but I'm not sure which tort reform might be a part of of uh health care reform.
He's open to tort reform.
He's open to all this stuff that he's not open to.
He's open to tort reform.
Because that would lower medical malpractice in shorts, which would lower health care costs.
He said he's open to it.
Well, let's go to the speech.
First of two sound bites here.
Here is a number 25.
This is this is typical Obama too.
Tells the doctors he's going to listen to them.
My signature on a bill is not enough.
I need your help, doctors.
We listen to you, we trust you.
That's why I will listen to you and work with you to pursue reform that works for you.
I recognize that it will be hard to make some of these changes if doctors feel like they're constantly looking over their shoulders for fear of lawsuits.
I recognize that.
Don't get too excited yet.
Now, then did you hear that?
Now he when he when he laid the ground out here.
Uh, it'd be hard to make some uh some of these changes if doctors feel they're constantly looking over their shoulders for fear of lawsuits.
They started applauding.
They start applauding.
And he says, wait a minute, don't get too excited yet.
That's off script.
That was not on the prompter.
Don't get too excited yet because this is what followed.
Just hold on your horses here, guys.
I I I want to be honest with you.
I'm not advocating uh caps on malpractice awards, which I believe uh I I personally believe can be unfair to people who've uh been wrongfully harmed.
I want to work with the AMA so we can scale back the excessive defensive medicine that reinforces our current system and shift to a system where we are providing better care rather than simply more treatment.
Uh that's up to the doctors, Dad, uh not you.
So here he starts out.
I mean, this is this this is mean.
This is dishonest.
He tells these guys he understands that malpractice awards are giving them all kinds of problems.
They applaud already, don't get too excited.
So after he says he's gonna listen to them, he needs their help, and he teases them with some limit on torch, then the very next sentence is screw what I just said.
I just want that sound bite for my buds in the state-run media to play tonight.
Because I they I know they will not play what I say right now about any of this.
We're gonna put the notion out there that we're gonna this is this is like Lucy in the football with Charlie Brown.
The poor guy after 50 years still hadn't got the football.
She still holds it out there.
And Charlie Brown thinks he's gonna get it, never gets it.
Now, this probably is the smartest group of people he's ever spoken to.
Just in terms of uh education, IQ, and so forth.
And they're already unhappy with what's running up, especially if they treat Medicare patients.
They're already unhappy with the system, and he just wants to uh he just wants to expand it.
Unless it's something really earth-shattering, I frankly, I don't want to play any more of this because I I'm in a good mood.
I can't, I just can't handle this know-it-all.
Smug.
Arrogant condescension from this guy.
The lying to people.
I can't stand it.
I told you Friday I got fired by one of those kind of guys.
Because I confronted them head on, and this gave me the biggest line of BS about something that I had been going on.
Plus, at this time I'm being berated for playing music out of rotation.
And this guy's gonna go on and just I I didn't blow up.
I said, look, I know this is not true.
I know you're lying to everybody here, but you didn't do that.
You don't know this person.
You have not been at that state.
You don't have any your track record.
Well, I shouldn't have done it because I threatened a guy's false identity and his uh his alternative reality, so I got fired 20 minutes later on a phone by the owner of the uh radio statement.
Obama is that guy.
I hope I never get invited to White House.
I really do.
Not for a meeting here.
It would be tough.
It would be tough.
I mean, I'd be civil, don't misunderstand.
But it would uh be tough.
Dick Durbin cashed out on inside information regarding TARP and some of the economic uh uh turmoil last fall.
Inside information from Treasury Department officials.
Chicago Sun Times has the details.
I will share them with you over the weekend.
I'll share these details that happened over the weekend with you when we come back.
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Here are the details from uh from Dick Durbin.
Ed Morrissey posted this at uh at Hot Air on the 13th of June.
U.S. stock markets, as they plummeted last September, the Senate's number two Democrat Dick Durbin sold more than 115,000 worth of stocks and mutual fund shares and used much of that money to invest with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
Uh Durbin's 2008 financial disclosure statement shows he sold mutual fund shares worth 42,600 bucks on September 19th.
The day after Treasury Secretary Paulson and the Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke urged congressional leaders in a closed meeting to craft legislation to help financially trouble banks.
One day, after being briefed on how bad it was, Durban sells stocks at one place and sends them to another place.
The same day, the same day as the briefing, Durbin bought 43,562 worth of Berkshire Hathaway's Class B stock.
Altogether, Durban sold investments worth 116,000 in September.
By October 2nd, he had invested $98,046 in Berkshire Hathaway.
The Standard and Poor's 500 index plunged 4.7% last September 15th, after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and after Bank of America's government-engineered takeover of Merrill Lynch.
By the end of October, the index had fallen 22.6%.
Durbin got out before any of it happened.
After meeting with Paulson and Bernanke.
Durbin's spokesman says, there was no inside nature here to trading uh information in his meeting.
Durbin were just trading along with the market as the storm clowns gathered, says Ed Morrissey.
Don't buy it, folks.
Martha Stewart went for went to jail for something far less than this.
All told, you know, this this past weekend I have to tell you a grand slam weekend for your host, El Rushbow.
What the country learned over the past two days.
The stimulus plan is a disaster.
And by the way, let's grab the soundbite of this.
Bubba dubda dub.
Uh, yes, cut number nine.
Meet the press yesterday.
Joe Biden was asked by David Gregory, Dr. Roomer from the White House, the assertion that uh you can keep unemployment at 8%, go down after that.
In fact, it's now 9.4%.
Was it oversold?
At the time, no one realized how bad the economy was.
The projections, in fact, turned out to be worse.
Everyone guessed wrong at the time the estimate was made about what the state of the economy was at the moment this was passed.
They did not guess wrong.
I did not guess wrong, and the Republicans in Congress did not guess wrong.
Stimulus plan is a disaster.
Biden has now admitted it.
Another thing that happened over the weekend, that the country learned it.
Bush was right about the war in Iraq.
Thank you, Thomas Friedman, New York Times.
The next thing that we learned over the weekend was that Iran is a lying, murdering regime that you don't negotiate with.
Thank you, Iranian elections.
And number four, we learned that global warming is a lie.
Global cooling is in full swing because the sun is in charge.
Have you seen the stories in Chicago?
It was in the 50s last week.
They're only now getting an approach normal June temperatures on the 15th.
There's snow in North Dakota.
There is a cooling trend happening.
It's chilly in New York during the day as well.
Now these are articles, these four things are articles on every one of these points.
I made from day one.
We were told Obama was ready to lead on day one.
Remember?
Well, he was wrong about the economy.
Biden admitted it yesterday.
He was wrong about foreign policy in Iraq.
Thomas Friedman admitted it over the weekend.
He was wrong about Iran and wrong about global warming, and therefore he's wrong about cap and trade.
All this, all this in one weekend, a grand slam weekend for your host.
And Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama.
The guy who struck out every time he went to the plate.
Obama is 0 for 4.
I hit a grand slam when I hit the plate.
Obama is a failure.
The results are in.
Obama.
So I ask this with all humility.
Who should the Republicans be listening to?
Me, who hit a grand slam.
Or Powell, who fanned, struck out.
Now we know why Barack Obama didn't want Republicans listening to me.
Now we know why the left is scared to death of Palin.
Now why they're afraid of me.
We get it right.
Mike Pence, CNN's State of the Union yesterday morning.
We need to take a half step back from this administration's uh Olive branch and apology approach to uh enemies and uh countries that have been hostile to the United States of America and our allies, particularly with regard to Iran.
I'm hoping before the end of the day today, the President of the United States will speak a word of support for Mr. Musavi and for the dissidents and the reformers within Iran.
I think now's a great moment for this administration and the United States to reach out, express support, look for ways that we can encourage that demonstration uh within Iran, and I'm hoping the president will do that.
He hadn't said a word.
He's been out lying to the doctors at the AMA or misleading them.
Can we go back the much maligned George W. Bush in his second inaugural address?
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know the United States will not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors.
When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.
Democratic reformers facing repression, prison or exile can know.
America sees you for who you are.
The future leaders of your free country.
The leaders of governments with long habits of control need to know.
To serve your people, you must learn to trust them.
Start on this journey of progress and justice, and America will walk at your side.
He didn't say I one time.
People since Sunday have been urging Obama to say something about this.
George Bush did in his the idiot.
The Doomkoff.
That was George Bush's second inaugural to date, by the way, it was January 20th, 2005 in Washington, D.C. There has been a quasi administration reaction from Joe Biden on Meet the Press yesterday.
Question, you don't want to recognize Madini Zad as the president at this stage.
Well, uh I'm I'm not looking that's that's what they're announcing.
We have to accept that for the time being, and but there's an awful lot of question about uh how this election was run.
And we'll see.
I mean, we're just waiting to see.
We don't have enough, we don't have enough facts to know to make a firm judgment.
Can not bring himself to say he stands with the people of Iran who want freedom.
They can't.
This is just this is just a dangerous bunch of people that are running this whole show domestically, internationally.
Let's go to the phones quickly to uh Rigby, Idaho.
Jen, Nice to have you with us, EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Um, I was just calling about the health care.
Um I um was listening and realizing that I might not have a choice in what I do.
Um I I got pregnant about well a year ago ago, and uh I didn't have insurance, so my husband and I sat down, went over the numbers, and we would only save about five hundred dollars if we decided to pay for insurance.
Um we were very lucky, very blessed, and I you know, I was healthy, the baby was healthy, but we have that choice, and I would like to keep that choice.
I'd like to keep my my liberties in that and uh you know I don't support uh a state run or federally funded.
Look, I don't want to be I don't want to be overly dramatic here, Jen.
I really don't hear, but your liberty is at risk with Obama in the White House.
All of ours liberty is at risk.
She makes a brilliant point, though.
There are a lot of people that have run the numbers, they don't want health insurance.
They can they can they'd only save five hundred bucks with it.
It's not worth the hassle.
They were lucky they had the money to pay for it themselves, and they did, and she's afraid of losing that option.
She will if Obama gets what he wants here.
I keep trying to avoid any more Obama sound bites.
Maybe I just ought to flood with sound bites to make the libs tired of him, like Bill Maher's already got tired of it.
I don't I don't want to tire you out.
But this is an outrage.
This is an outrage what he what you're gonna hear him say here, he knows is not true.
Let me also uh address a illegitimate concern that's being put forward by those who are claiming that a public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single payer system.
I'll be honest.
There are countries where a single payer system works pretty well.
Name one.
But I believe, and I've taken some flack from members of my own party for this belief, Lieberman, that it's important for our reform efforts to build on our traditions here in the United States.
Our mistakes.
So when you hear the naysayers claim that I'm trying to bring about government-run health care.
Know this.
They're not telling the truth.
They are.
This is this is a more blatant lie than any Bill Clinton told, except that he never had sex with that woman Lewinsky lie.
It is precisely government-run health care, and why is he heading out to the AMA to get him on board?
Because it's government-run health care.
It's government-run everything with this guy.
It's government-run General Motors, government-run Chrysler, government-run banks, government-run mortgage industry, and whatever else he can get his hands on.
You just wonder here how the doctors reacted to this.
Here's Rich in Sierra Vista, Arizona, as we go back to the phones.
Rich, thank you for waving.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
What a question for you.
You hear this over and over again.
Yeah, especially with the medical sanctions up here right now.
What do they say?
It's like it's gonna cost 1.2 trillion dollars over ten years.
Is that what the fact is?
Or somewhere around there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what yes, but but that's not the number to look at.
Well, yeah.
Okay, they say over ten years.
And I know that it's gonna cost a lot more than that.
I I totally agree with you, but they say over ten years.
It's like, what is what's supposed to happen in ten years?
Is this this thing just gonna not pay for itself anymore?
But the George will know that.
George Will made the point uh yesterday and this week.
Every year's budget is a lie.
Every single budget is a lie.
Every single year's budget, there's more spent than what is slated to be spent.
They have to go back and get supplementals and do the they're lying through their teeth every year, and now they're making the truth uh in in terms of projections ten years out.
It's BS.
Your instincts are right.
Don't doubt them.
The real number here is not how much they're gonna spend because it's already outrageous, and we don't have it.
Robbie two trillion in debt this year.
And the the more he takes on, the more he is depleting the private sector economy, the more he's taking money out of it.
He is trying to nationalize government run the U.S. health care system.
It is now one fifth of the U.S. economy.
That number is two and a half trillion dollars.
That's what Obama wants control over.
He wants to take two and a half trillion dollars out of the private sector and put it in charge of his administration, or put his administration in charge of it.
Man, look, follow the money, you always get the answer to most every question.
They control two and a half trillion dollars this way, whatever they control over the automobile business, this this is not good, folks.
Any way you look at it, uh Doug in Scottsdale, Arizona, where I was told today by a friend there's no traffic in Scottsdale.
Hi, how are you?
Good.
I've grown up listening to you my whole life, and I'm a senior in college.
I'm getting ready to graduate, and I've learned more listening to one of your shows than I have in all my years in school.
Well, that's awfully nice.
I don't doubt that that's true either.
It's very true.
Um I'm calling because my father my father's an orthopedic surgeon, and I work at his office, and you know, government and Medicare.
They're already controlling doctors, and they dictate what they get paid, and now it's even starting to affect the private sector insurance.
Um, not too long ago, my father did a surgery, and I sent out the bill to a private insurance company, and they came back and they said we will reimburse you for 15% of what you built.
And they said, We're doing that because that's what Medicare would do.
Right.
So the private sector is now saying, well, you know, government, Medicare, they're they're they're dictating, they're telling the doctors what they can do.
Exactly, exactly right.
That's the leverage Obama has over them at the AMA.
Medicare already reimburses them, and you know how many people use Medicare.
It's already in as much trouble as Social Security is.
But the uh the telling point is the Obama's out there talking, well, we need a new option.
We need we need more options.
There are 1,300 health care options available for people in this country, according to George Will.
What's adding one more gonna mean?
In fact, adding the government option will result in a serious decline of the 1,300 private sector options, which is the objective.
The era of Obama rolls on.
Again, we get the best journalism from the UK.
This is from a UK telegraph.
Dozens of U.S. cities may have entire neighborhoods bulldozed as part of a drastic shrink to survive proposal being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.
The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest U.S. cities, Flint, Michigan, which involves raising entire districts and returning the land to nature.
Local politicians in Flint believe the city must contract by as much as forty percent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area.
Having outlined this strategy to President Obama during the election campaign, Dan Kildy, the treasurer of Genesee County, includes Flint, has now been approached by the U.S. government and a group of charities who want him to apply what he has learnt to the rest of the country.
So Mr. Kildee said he's going to concentrate on 50 cities and essentially how to bulldoze them to make them smaller and uh uh uh what more uh survivable, servable, serviceable, or what have you, and turn whatever's bulldozed back to nature.
The era of Obama.
Shrink to survive, bulldoze fifty cities, portions of fifty cities.
Do you ever think you would hear anything like this in the United States of America?
And this is Michigan.
This is Flint.
Birthplace, I believe Flint is at General Motors.
Regardless, who's been running Michigan for all these years, Democrats?
Who's been running Flint probably all these years?
General Motors made some of their own mistakes, but who's making general who's bulldozing GM?
Barack Obama.
Never, never.
This is the kind of stuff you see in horror films that happens in other countries.
But not here.
Bulldozing entire sections of cities.
The Obama administration considering bulldozing large sections of 50 U.S. cities and money magazine with this headline: the downsizing of the U.S. consumer.
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