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June 17, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 17, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I did it first.
I did it on the air first, and nobody gave me any kind of special credit whatsoever.
Happened back in 1995.
I did it first.
Everybody that watched my television show saw it.
And in fact, back then everybody gave me grief for wasting precious broadcast time killing a fly.
But Obama killed a fly on CNBC today, and uh and the state-run media would have us believe that he just killed Osama bin Laden.
Greetings, my friends.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program, and this is the EIB Network.
Great to have you with us.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at ebaebnet.com.
We'll get to all of that.
Lots of stuff today first, but uh uh ladies and gentlemen from today's Flint Journal.
Flint, Michigan journal the newspaper there in a story by Ron Funger.
It's F-O-N-G-E, or maybe pronounces it Fonger.
I don't know, I'm not as you always you know I never try to mispronounce a name purposely here.
Umservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh telling his listeners he has his own urban renewal plan for Flint.
Let's just bulldoze it.
Limbaugh discussing the potential for shrinking Flint to better concentrate city services.
Said Tuesday'd rather wipe out parts of the city than force taxpayer to continue maintaining it.
Well, that's not my idea.
That's the idea Daniel Kildy.
It's what's the bulldoze part of the city.
Limbaugh said he would rather wipe out parts of the city than force taxpayers to continue.
It's not my idea.
Now look, you got a local guy in Flint that suggested bulldozing it.
Who's getting the blame for this in a local Flint media, none other than I, L. Rushbow.
And then he quote me as saying, all right, folks, I thought about it.
I've given this considerable thought.
I've given this more thought in the last 10 minutes than most people think about anything in their life.
And I'm ready to change my mind on bulldozing Flint.
I say go for it.
Let's just bulldoze it.
Limboss said cities like Flint were down at tubes long ago.
We've tried propping them up with urban renewal.
It didn't work, they quote me as saying.
We were hoodwinked into being called names if we just let these cities go.
So we kept pumping money in there.
We kept pumping welfare food stamps, all these things because we loved them and we cared for them, but the proof that the government can't revive anything is Flint, Michigan.
They quote me, that's accurate, but I never said bulldoze the whole damn place.
Genesee County treasurer Daniel Kildy said today that Limbaugh relied on bad information in making his comments about the idea of shrinking the city.
I just relied on the state-run media.
In this case, the Los Angeles Times, Kildee said I shouldn't be surprised, but I'm disappointed with the cavalier treatment he's giving it to me.
That shows he doesn't take any issues seriously.
Mr. Kildee, you have been hired or asked by the Obama administration to bulldoze 50 other cities, and all of a sudden in a local Flint media.
I am the villain.
I'm the bad guy with a report that says I want to bulldoze a whole city.
I never said any such thing.
By the way, um Mr. Kildee's work with the Obama administration has uh has led us uh to receive yet another exclusive.
Uh well, what do we call these things?
Update, I guess, from the uh from the Obama White House.
Fact, shrink to survive can have another test market for this.
Newark.
You can bulldoze 40% of Newark and Well, that's according to an email I got from a resident there.
You watch, I'll be all over the Newark Star Ledger tomorrow.
Limbaugh bulldoze new.
And I didn't even come up with the idea.
I'm just repeating what I've read in the state-run media.
All right, it's even made the UK telegraph, ladies and gentlemen.
Barack Obama SWAT's flaw during CNBC interview.
U.S. President Obama swatted and killed a fly during an interview with CNBC, and then they go on to describe wow, after killing the fly, John Harwood.
That was pretty impressive, wasn't it?
Or Obama said that was pretty impressive.
What I got the sucker.
As Obama started to respond to a question from the interviewer, he became distracted by a fly buzzing around his head.
He started a laugh.
We have we have audio on this.
This is how it happened last night on CNBC.
Chief Washington correspondent John Harwood interviewing President Obama, and they had this exchange about a fly distracting them.
Get out of here.
That's the most persistent fly I've ever seen.
Nice.
Now, where were we?
That was pretty impressive, wasn't it?
I got it.
I got the sucker.
What do you think, Gibbs?
That is very good.
It's on right there, right there.
You want to film that?
There it is.
The President of the United States just referred to an innocent animal as a sucker.
After murdering a fly on national TV, called it a sucker.
And then asked the most brilliant press secretary ever, Gibbs, what do you think of that, Gibbs?
We need it on tape.
Well, this has caused the state-run media to uh break out in a frenzy of praise for the great Obama slayer of flies.
They have compared him to Michael Jordan, Dirty Harry, and Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid.
Here's a montage.
Listen.
A persistent fly learned a tough lesson yesterday.
Don't mess with the president of the United States.
Mr. Miyagi did it with chopsticks.
He almost pulled like a karate kid, like really focused, and then slot.
I took a lot of basketball with Michael Jordan.
This guy knows what he's doing.
A fly and he nails it.
Unbelievable.
Mr. Miyagi just snapped it right up.
Look at that intense luck.
It was a dirty hairy make my day moment.
And uh at the end of the interview, he picked up a napkin off the table and said, I clean up after my self, and he picked up the fly off the carpet.
What a guy!
A dirty hairy moment wiping out a fly, a sucker.
They're treating this like Obama wiped out Osama bin Laden.
But as I said, I did this first.
I did it on television too, my TV show back in 1995.
Let's see, we have a couple sound bites from that TV show.
There's a fly flying around in here, Dick.
Oh man, it's a huge mama.
You see it?
It is.
Looks pregnant.
Anyway.
Later in the show, I then murder the sucker, but not with my hands, like Obama.
I used my shoe.
And killing a fly with a shoe is a much bigger insult in the fly world than killing an insect or a fly with your hand.
There it is.
Hey, that's close up.
All right, I hope you animal rights people are watching.
APPLAUSE It worked.
laughter applause applause applause Now, what you couldn't see there was I stomped on the sucker.
I stomped on the fly, and that's when I said it worked.
I lifted my shoe to show the dead fly on the sole of the shoe, and then I asked other flies, you want some more.
And I lifted my shoe again.
And aside from those of you who saw the show at the time, did any of you hear about this?
Any of you hear any comparisons to me to Michael Jordan or Dirty Harry or Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid?
Did anybody sing my praises?
What a great fly swatter I am.
No.
All I got was complaints from the viewing audience for taking up precious broadcast time on an insect.
Have the mullahs finished counting the votes in Iran?
Have we heard or is the recount still going on?
I know it really doesn't matter.
Regardless, I'll tell you this, however much time the mullahs spend counting the votes.
It'll be more time than the liberals spent reading the porculus bill in the house.
As we uh told you yesterday, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, by the way, I have forgotten Cookie reminded me that the fly killing episode at Rush Limbo the TV show was featured on Dick Clark's blooper show.
Uh, and and it uh it also won a Rushi award.
We knew we would never qualify for the Emmys, so we gave ourselves awards.
Uh highlights of uh show every season.
Anyway, if we told you yesterday, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, much, much news in the gay community regarding the Obama administration.
They're very upset out there about the Defense of Marriage Act being defended by Obama and the way he's doing it in now.
The um Politico is reporting the following headline.
Gay figures pull out of Biden fundraiser.
We here are trying to figure out what body part on Biden, the fundraiser is that gay figures have pulled out of.
Here's our update theme, Klaus Nomi sings.
We can say Obama would hurt a fly, right?
Let it rip there, Klaus.
The late great Klaus Nomi here, folks.
Our gay community update theme here.
This is the bridge where we do the first party update.
Gay figures pull out a Biden fundraiser.
By the way, Klaus Nomi looks exactly like you would think he would look based on this song.
Two prominent gay figures, David Mixner and a blogger Andy Tole have pulled out of a DNC fundraiser.
And there's a great quote in here from Mixner.
I am so tired of being told by Democrat operatives to suck it up because so many other profound issues are at stake.
That quote is actually in the Politico story.
Tired of being told by Democrats to suck it up.
Because of other issues at stake.
I told them that yesterday.
Okay.
Suck it up, man up, they don't like it.
Let it rip Klaus.
Ah, Klaus Nomi.
Our official gay community update theme.
You don't know me.
President Obama getting slapped silly on this.
Los Angeles Times editorial, Obama's gay rights gap.
President.
Okay, they're pulling out of Biden's fundraiser.
They're tired of Democrat operatives telling them to suck it up, and now there is a gap.
The president has done precious little to advance gay rights despite campaign promises.
And here's how the LA Times editorial ends up.
The gap between Obama and gay rights activists appears to be growing.
True, the current federal lawsuits against the marriage act in Prop 8.
Fail to recognize that it's uh that a hasty march can be damaging to gay rights.
A hasty march.
The current composition of the U.S. Supreme Court makes it highly unlikely such lawsuits will succeed.
Adverse decisions could set the same-sex marriage movement back by years.
From an ideological viewpoint, gays and lesbians are entitled to their rights now.
But well-planned timing gives them the best chance of securing those rights soon.
Obama, though, has shown a dishearteningly pragmatic willingness to allow the issue of gay rights to languish.
The many Americans who support these rights expect better of him.
Tired uh being told to man it up and suck it up.
Uh and I told, you know, we did an update on this the other day, and I said to you guys, how does it feel now to know that you are not a priority?
He's a lib, just like you are.
If you'll just bide your time, you'll get around to it.
New York Times today, United States to extend its job benefits to gay partners.
This is Obama tired of being slapped silly on this, so he has responded in a way.
Going to sign a presidential memorandum today to extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, but he's going to stop short of pledging full health care insurance coverage.
The Defense of Marriage Act, he supported figures into this, of course.
Mr. Obama will be weighing in for the first time on one of the most delicate social and political issues of the day, whether the government must provide benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.
While he will announce the list of benefits, there are not expected to include broad health insurance coverage, which could require legislation.
Why, why, why would that require legislation?
Nothing else he's done is required legislation.
No added dictomies.
No redacted ignomies.
No, I mean not covered anyway by health insurance.
That's right.
That's a good point, Snertley.
I'd forgot about that.
Now in California, or San Francisco, the health insurance coverage there does cover adictomies or red data dictomies.
But or redacted dictomies, but the uh uh not not the federal case.
The initial reaction from uh gay rights advocates was mixed.
They're not happy uh about this in any way, shape, manner, or form, ladies and gentlemen.
All right, moving on.
Now, we we've we talked about Gerald Walpin yesterday.
He's the fired inspector general.
And he's speaking out now.
Uh till last week, you know, he was the inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service, which handles AmeriCorps and other things.
And this all revolves around a controversy involving Kevin Johnson, the mayor of Sacramento, and his charitable operation out there called the New Hope Academy.
They're out of money, the New Hope Academy's in dire straits financially.
And they they they got an $800,000 uh grant, and some of the money was used according to the inspector general.
These people are above politics.
Some of the money was used illegally.
The state U.S. attorney out there failed to file charges, uh, didn't want to get involved in it.
Walpin recommended that he do so.
Walpin recommended that they not get any more federal money because that's the rule.
You misuse it once, you don't get any more.
No charges, but the New Hope Academy is refunding something like $400,000, almost half of what was given.
The Obama administration fired the guy, and they've put out a story.
Uh uh, ladies and gentlemen, in the Washington Post has it today.
Now, this this story up to now is being being carried by uh uh Byron York at the examiner.com.
And Fox News has been involved in this.
So when it's time for the Obama people to respond to all this, they go to one of their state-run mouthpieces, the Washington Post.
The inspector general fired last week by Obama appeared confused, disoriented, and unable to answer questions at a late May board meeting of the Corporation for National Community Service.
That means he got fired for acting like Joe Biden at a meeting.
It says here confused and unable to answer questions, and that's a dead ringer for the vice president.
So they can the guy, and Gerald Walpen is now speaking out, saying that this explanation is baseless.
Insufficient.
I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to attack me and get rid of me, said Gerald Walpin.
And he is right on the money.
And I'll guarantee you, leading this charge from the White House is none other than the enforcer from the old Chicago machine, and that would be Rom Emanuel.
Things are continuing to fall apart on the Obama White House, as we will detail as the program continues.
Rush Limboa with talent on loan from God, the fastest week in media.
We're already at Wednesday.
If you have an iPhone, we're about 25 minutes away from the release of the new software update version 3.0.
The uh best information anybody can put together is at around one o'clock Eastern time via iTunes.
The uh software will be available.
I have used it, ladies and gentlemen, and it's cool.
It's a landscape uh uh uh keyboard in uh all of the issues uh all the uh applications that you would use, like email, texting, uh course the web browser always has been, a couple of others as well.
And the cut copy and paste works like a champ.
It's awesome.
It's uh applications load and uh close much faster in this version, so it's really really cool.
By the way, we found in our archives the uh clip from Dick Clark's bloopers show, where I got mentioned, we got on our TV show got mentioned uh killing the fly.
This is November 30th, 1995.
You know, we made the Dick Clark blooper show the other night with a clip from this very show.
Yes, it's true, ladies and gentlemen, and I'd like you to see it if you missed it the first time.
Here's Rush Limbaugh, his latest opponent.
There's a fly flying around in here, Dick.
Oh man, it's a huge mama.
You see it?
It is.
Looks pregnant.
Where is that fly?
Look at that thing.
See, you thought I was making this up.
That was great camera work by uh by one of the cameramen to find that fly when it landed somewhere and he found it, got a close-up of it.
And uh saw I I was wrong.
Uh people did notice it.
Uh I didn't give wouldn't give any special credit for it, like capturing bin Laden or any such thing, and the drive-bys at the time uh did not go nut so over it like they are.
Still, I mean, all over the new news media today is evidence of Obama slaying a fly.
I guess he would hurt a fly.
Now, look.
These stories keep getting recycled, and everybody misses the point.
This is a Reuters story from London.
The anti-cancer properties of carrots are enhanced 25% if they are cooked whole rather than chopped up beforehand, according to a study.
And they taste better too, according to scientists at Newcastle University, because more of their sugar is retained.
Chopping up your carrots increases.
Stick with me on this, folks.
It's not a recipe show.
Chopping up your carrots increases the surface area, so more of the nutrients leach out into the water while they're cooked, said the lead researcher, uh, a woman, which makes sense, a female researcher in a kitchen, uh, Dr. Kirsten Brandt.
Now, we hear all the time about this vegetable, you know, I heard the other day, eating broccoli burns fat.
There's certain foods you can eat that uh that actually uh burn fat or increase your metabolism, broccoli is one water is another, some other foods.
We always hear about these foods that you eat will forestall cancer.
Let me ask you a question.
Everybody who has eaten carrots in this world is dead or will be.
Is that not true?
Everybody who has eaten carrots, how many people do you think in an automobile accident yesterday had carrots within 30 days of the accident?
How many people who had a heart attack yesterday probably had carrots within 30 days prior to the heart attack?
And it's the same with broccoli.
Everybody who's eaten broccoli has either died or is going to die.
And yet here we get whole cooked carrots better for fighting cancer.
I do this just to illustrate how absurd all of this is.
Here we go now with our health care stack.
And I I mentioned yesterday, you know, every time I do this, when I mention, folks, I think we can shut this down.
I think they're in trouble.
I think that the things are falling apart in the White House.
They're working on so many things uh at one time, and they're just they're I think they're in panic mode in the White House.
Every time I say that, I get a cautionary note from a couple of friends.
Don't say that.
Don't say that.
Don't tell people you because if you do that, people are just gonna stand aside and thinking it's over and it's been beaten back.
And we need that people constantly fight this.
And I agree with that.
I'm I'm not being falsely optimistic.
I'm being purely optimistic here.
I mean, I can't look at what's happening here and not tell you what I see.
And I see panic in the White House, and I see things falling apart.
Now I know judged against what they're getting and how they're doing it and how they're going about it.
You know, it's scary.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just saying that this is not an invincible operation up there in the White House.
And there are too many things here.
We're being told that the American people, for example, want health care, that they all think it's a crisis.
So we got to get it done now.
The latest Ransom poll shows that there are 42% of the American people who do not want any changes.
They don't want a public option in health care, if it means they lose their own coverage that they have now.
Well, 42% is uh people opposing what Obama wants to do is not everybody supporting it.
And so the the effort must continue to be undertaken to educate and inform people what this is really all about.
And as more people learn how much this is going to cost yesterday, we had the CBO price over 10 years at one trillion dollars that we haven't spent.
We've already spent two trillion this year that we don't have.
If you add up all the budgets that have been projected for 10 years, submitted by Obama, we're At 10 or 11 trillion dollars spent that we don't have.
Now you got to add another trillion to it.
But we find out today that a proper scoring of the CBO report actually is 1.6 trillion over 10 years.
And as was true yesterday, it remains true today, that 1.6 trillion only ends up insuring one-third of this so-called 47 million that are uninsured.
As such, as the numbers continue to expand, as the price tag gets larger, we see stories like this from the Hill.com.
Congressional Democrats and the White House are scrambling to regain their footing after a series of setbacks has stalled political momentum to reform the nation's health care system.
Despite having a popular president in the White House and comfortable majorities in Congress, the Democrat rollout on health care reform has encountered significant bumps in the road.
A cost estimate hanging a one trillion dollar price tag.
Now we know it's 1.6 trillion, by the way, on an incomplete bill, salvos from powerful interest groups, and great uncertainty among key Democrats on what will actually be in the legislation that moves through Congress have emboldened Republican critics.
The Senate Health Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, the acronym there is help, postponed the markup of its health care reform bill by one day to today.
On the eve of that markup, the powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce publicly ripped the bill.
And uh it's yeah, the Kennedy bill is 1.3 trillion.
Uh 1.6 trillion is the Finance Committee cost.
Uh and whatever they tell us is the cost now is much less than what's going to end up being.
Because that's all you can, that's a standard rule of thumb, that you can always bank on.
Nothing government proposes ever costs less than what they say, it always ends up costing more.
Uh other key Democrat constituencies are seeing things they don't like creeping up in the health care reform debate, which could hamper their ability to offer full-throated support.
Labor unions have devoted millions of dollars to organizing and promoting reform, but they oppose taxing health benefits.
Obama rankled the trial lawyers during his speech at the AMA when he expressed openness to some form of medical malpractice reform.
That then he took it away.
We played the sound bites.
After he said he was open to it, he then closed the door.
What is it these people don't hear that we all hear?
Remember when he said, I think we need to reform the health care and the medical practices and lawsuits and the doctors started applauding, and Obama said, wait a minute, hang on, guys, hang on, hang on.
Here comes a reality.
And in reality, forget what I just said.
The statement I just made expired immediately.
That's one story here that uh we're dealing with.
In USA today, discord grows over public health plan.
The mood was upbeat in early March when scores of powerful lawmakers and lobbyists joined Obama in the East Room to talk about fixing health care.
Chuck Grassley, Senator Republican Iowa rose to tell Obama a lot of Republicans had a problem with his plan to let the government compete with private insurers.
So there's a lot of us that feel that government's an unfair competitor, we have to keep what we have now strong and make it stronger.
Three months later, disagreements turned to discord over a key element in Obama's plan, his insistence on a public plan to compete with private insurers.
And it's a Trojan horse.
Once that public plan is there, and this is what Grassley and everybody knows.
Once the public plan, the public option is there, you will we've talked all of all about how so many businesses want to offload their health care costs.
You know, it's it's it's a it's a large myth that American big business equals Republican Party.
It's always been a myth.
Big business votes with whoever's in power.
It's a protection racket.
Think of the government as Don Corleone, who and whoever is in power is Don Corleone.
And when you have the government going after big oil and big aviation and big retail, and so these people have to defend themselves, and the way they do it is pay protection money.
In addition to that, businesses exist to earn a profit, and the biggest drag on a lot of businesses today after the labor cost, well, part of the labor cost is Health care costs.
And if somebody comes along and off let them offload it, okay, so Obama passes this bill.
Let's speak hypothetically, theoretically.
Passes the bill, signs it into law.
There's a public option.
I guarantee them to you the UAW is going to opt into it.
All the unions are going to opt into it.
The as many businesses can are going to say, far sorry, employees, but um uh we're we're only gonna offer the public option here and they're gonna offload it.
And that's how it's gonna happen.
And the current number of health care options of people have around 1,300 is going to dry up.
And that's exactly how it's gonna happen.
And this is what people are starting to figure out, and as they figure out, Discord is growing.
In addition to that, a Bloomberg story today, headline, Obama's volunteers find health plan harder sell than the candidate.
When Patricia McCardell volunteered for Obama's presidential campaign, her duties and goals were clear.
Now she's devoting her time to his health care plan, and she says she's confused and frustrated.
Obama, who enlisted a 13 million member grassroots army to help him win the White House, is trying to mobilize these same people to build support for his health care overhaul.
The goal may prove elusive.
The constituencies that join forces to back Obama, the candidate disagree over the scope of his overhaul, particularly whether it should create a so-called single-payer system that reimburses providers through a government fund.
The story goes on and on and on to describe all the problems.
I mean, this army's out there, they're trying to sell it, they're just running into a lot of opposition from John Quick.
This is why I got to keep the pressure on.
This can be rolled back.
It can be defeated, but only if people continue to shout out against it.
And all you have to know, all you have to tell people is that Obama's health care reform will likely result in you losing the health care plan you have now and like.
And I guarantee you it's going to fail because most people, despite the news, despite the PR, despite the propaganda, are satisfied with their health care plan.
I mean, everybody's got complaints about it.
We complain about everything.
But in terms of having to give it up or having to pay taxes on it...
Or go to the government and pretend that you're going to the DMV when you're going to health care.
People do not want that.
Quick time out.
We'll be back and continue.
We go to the phones now, and uh a rare occurrence here to go to the phones in the first hour of this program, except when it's Friday.
Here's Jeremy in uh Bloomville, Ohio.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Thank you.
Kudos to you rush.
Um, you know, I voted, I was born and raised in a Democratic family.
And so more or less I was I got suckered into voting for the Messiah, as you put it.
And I regret that I did.
Jeremy, how old are you?
Thirty-three.
Thirty-three this week, and you got suckered into voting for Obama by your family.
My family, and then all the propaganda that he was preaching, and he's done nothing.
Done nothing but help the the higher up people in the country.
You know, what about the little people?
And then Wait, wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, just a second now.
Did you say he's done nothing but help the higher up people?
Like the big businesses.
You know.
Um they ran their companies for so long, it's not our fault that they ran them into the ground.
Oh, you mean by bailing them out?
Yeah.
Well, and that you need you need to look at this in a different way.
I'm glad you called, bud.
You need um yeah, you you might look at it as trying to help the companies.
Actually it's destroying them.
And then taking and taking them, taking them over.
How can you say he's helping big businesses who's gonna cram new tax increases on them and limit how much people at work there can make?
You ought to be happy if you want big business to get creamed, you gotta love this guy, Jeremy.
You know, they ran for how many years by themselves, and they got into trouble before.
Let them get themselves out of trouble.
And and then there's a bill, if I'm not mistaken, there's a bill in uh in the Senate and everything to start taxing health care.
And people can't afford to health care now because it's so high.
How are they gonna afford it when they start taxing it?
Well, uh, yeah.
Yeah, I see your point on that.
But most people's health care is provided through their employer right now.
They do have some in some businesses, it's totally provided.
Other businesses, you have to make your own contribution to it, and some plans, you have a co-payment you have to make, but most businesses are helping employees access to health care that the employee for the most part doesn't have to pay for.
Not nearly as much as the employee uses.
It's the Obama people that want to tax health care benefits, not big business.
And when that happens, when they start taxing health care benefits, it just means your take-home pay is going to be smaller.
You'll still have access to health care.
They're just going to tax it as income to you, which it is.
It's imputed income.
Yeah.
Okay, and then the company I work for just raise our tax, our health insurance now.
So now I pay $200 a month.
You know, what kind of let me ask you.
Let me ask you a question about this play.
You pay two hundred dollars a month for your health care insurance.
That just I that you think that's outrageous.
I do.
Why?
You realize what what would it cost you if you had to pay for the whole thing yourself?
Which you are, by the way, you just don't know it.
Can I explain that to you?
Sure.
I'm gonna guess that I'm not you don't have to tell me I'm right or wrong.
I'm gonna let's just pick it even funny.
Let's say you earn fifty thousand dollars a year at your job.
Your employer with all the benefits that he's providing, including health care and other things, and having to match social security, even though that doesn't happen, but pay your social security.
It probably costs this guy sixty-five thousand dollars, maybe seventy thousand dollars to hire you at fifty.
Means you're being paid seventy thousand a year, Jeremy.
You're only seeing fifty of it.
And in that sense, you're only seeing the gross.
You're only seeing the net of fifty when it's costing him seventy thousand dollars to employ you.
What do you think you'd have to pay for health insurance if you had to buy it yourself?
Well, I did some checking into that.
I'm glad you asked.
Um I could, I would if I could, I would drop the insurance because I I did find where uh Okay, all right.
Good, what a gold mine this call is.
Jeremy, look, you got to ask him to hold on.
I'm not gonna have time to continue after this segment.
You this is a gold mine call.
Jeremy, don't change.
Don't talk to anybody between now and when we talk again.
Don't change.
Stay right where you are.
Okay, good.
Jeremy has agreed to hang on uh out there in Bloomville, Ohio, and we'll get back to him uh in the first segment of the next hour.
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