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June 22, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 22, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman starting the week on the EIB network.
Mark Davis will be back tomorrow.
Rush returns on Wednesday to take you uh through the end of the week.
The uh the President, President Obama is uh just signing the new tobacco regulations bill into law.
Which is uh which is great news.
More regulation.
That's what we need.
That's what we need.
There are still some parts of American life that are still unregulated, but eventually we'll get to them all, and everything can be micro-regulated.
And the great thing about government health care, which is what we were talking about in the previous hour, is that it licenses you uh to regulate uh everything else.
This is a phenomenon of the modern world, by the way.
Uh you look at you look at the immense improv the the biggest single, as I said uh last hour, the biggest single improvement in life expectancy is when you cure uh childhood mortality, when you lower get control of childhood mortality.
Uh that's the big difference between uh basic difference between the United States and say uh Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is very high childhood mortality.
Most of the big cures of childhood mortality were made in the nineteenth century through basic uh hygiene procedures apart from anything else.
Uh it basically uh England conquered childhood mortality uh at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and uh uh it's uh life expectancy improved dramatically.
Everything after that, everything after that uh is basically just marginal.
So the idea of annexing a fifth of the economy uh for the for marginal for the possibility, the possibility of marginal improvements in life expectancy is is ridiculous.
And yet, simply because everybody else does it, uh we think the United States now has to do it too.
Uh Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post this morning, uh he has he has a very telling statistic.
Since 1970, he writes, government has changed radically.
Then fifty-two percent of federal spending went for defense, twenty-six percent for quote payments for individuals, or what we mean by the welfare state.
By 2008, sixty-one percent consisted of, quote, payments for individuals of the welfare state, and only twenty-one percent for defense.
Uh so in effect, uh the uh the uh uh between nineteen sixty and the turn of the century, uh our whole perspective on what is the proper role of government was transformed.
So the idea that keep what when once regarded as normal responsibilities of adulthood.
Look, you're grown up, you wear long pants, uh you can do what you like, uh you you should you have to t uh you have to look after yourself.
There's certain responsibilities that come with that.
It can't just all be uh about drinking alcohol and uh uh and and uh going on club 1830 uh vacations in the Bahamas and having a big party and going to Disney World.
It can't all be about stuff like that.
Uh the grown-up responsibilities too.
Uh and what we've done instead is take those grown-up responsibilities and made them the job of the state.
And that is what has made them expensive apart from anything else.
Now you look today, 2008 61% of federal spending consists of the welfare state.
What is that likely to be in a generation's time?
We can't afford it now.
We can't afford it now.
Uh and yet we're gonna stick it uh to our kids and our grandkids uh even even further down, even further down the line.
And the problem the problem with this, I think, i is actually not even a cost uh problem, not a budget problem, but the fact that it uh it changes uh the nature of the relationship between the citizen and the state.
It's uh in fact a full-blown assault on citizenship.
Once you once you have socialized health care, elections become about health care.
If you if you look at uh if you look at an election in uh Europe uh or in Canada, in Canada uh elections are about things like how do we reduce health care wait times?
Uh uh uh waiting times becomes the big thing.
How do we reduce the time?
How do we reduce the time that people wait?
That becomes the dominant issue in an election.
Uh the health ministry becomes the most powerful position in cabinet.
It's where you want to be.
Uh the things like being foreign minister or defense minister are no longer important.
Now you think about you think about the way that is in the United States.
Uh in in the O even in the Obama cabinet, uh Bob Gates wouldn't regard it as a promotion if he were moved from defense to health and human services.
But in in uh in Canada and in Europe, defense is just something unimportant and peripheral that you pass through uh on the way to the important jobs like being in charge of health care.
And even the health guys, uh the health care systems in those countries would be unaffordable were it not for the fact that the United States uh pays for the defense costs of essentially of of Europe and Canada.
So they can afford, they find it easier to afford to have a welfare state because they don't have to maintain a serious, credible military uh in the way that in the way that the United States does.
Now that the you you may say, well, why shouldn't we get that perk too?
Uh why but but it won't work if America does it.
Euro-Canadian socialized health care is is in essence subsidized by uh uh American taxpayers.
So if America then goes down that route, the entire system uh really will become uh uh uh unaffordable.
Um what it means, in effect, there will be worse uh health care for certain parts of the world because uh America will no longer have the money to do, for example, the research it does uh into new diseases.
If you look at the centers for disease control, for example, it essentially serves as the uh the research institute of last resort for the entire planet.
If a kid comes down with something wacky in some uh African village and his country doesn't know what it is what it's in, they put it in a test tube and ship it over to the centers for disease control.
In other words, why, if the American system is so bad and so embarrassingly bad compared to Canada and Europe, is it the leader in medical technology?
Is it the leader in new cures?
Is it the leader in uh new medications?
None of these things are going to continue once it becomes just another socialized health care system.
So we're gonna uh take some more of your uh calls on that subject.
I must say, by the way, uh that I always uh I always love uh I was love being uh on this show.
But normally it's like I'm normally kind of under under the weather slightly.
I think the uh first time I did this show I was uh jet lagged.
I'd just flown in from Australia, so I arrived here with like kind of I arrived here with fifteen minutes to go and uh and HR and Mr. Snerdley were all all panicking, you know.
And so I was like uh my my brain was uh somewhere halfway across the Pacific on the beach with the Uyghurs, and I wasn't really focused.
Uh last time I was here, I was uh I had a nightmare trip getting here.
I I went to Burlington Airport in Vermont and discovered like twenty minutes before I got there that uh I've never heard this phrase before.
Vermont Airspace had been closed.
I don't even know.
I don't even know what that means.
Vermont Airspace had been closed.
What excessive bovine flatulence or something?
It wasn't it wasn't safe to take elf at that stuff.
So I had a nightmare time.
I had to wound up uh d driving to New York, so it's kind of under under the weather for that.
But I'm like, I'm feeling uh fighting fit today, and uh this is basically as good as it gets.
So uh it's not gonna this is this is a performance unaffected by Australian jet lag or the closure of Vermont uh airspace.
Uh but uh HR reminded me the word I was looking for where I was calling it the spatula, when I was talking about chlamydia, it was the the speculum.
The sp speculum's the right word, is that it?
Spatula, I don't know.
I'm right on top of the Uyghur lingo.
When I what was that I was talking about Uyghur diaspora, I can produce that off the top of my Uyghur diaspora, but chlamydia speculum eludes me.
You know, if if if it uh if the Uyghurs had come down with chlamydia, I would have been, boy, I would have been, I would say, you know, w Uyghurs speculums I could have handled, but I I just got confused, so I apologize for calling it a spatula.
Although I wouldn't put it past me that if you go to a hospital in Labrador that they do actually use a spatula.
don't yes that's that's Ha ha ha.
No, yes, don't uh don't flip your pancakes with it afterwards.
It's not anyway, the whole uh we Uyghurs uh I I was on top of all the Uyghur lingo and now I've got all uh comp.
But that's that's the that's the word I was looking for.
Specular.
Uh socialised Health care is uh i is the reason it's so important to resist it is because it is the biggest single factor in the uh in what I would regard as the innovation of uh of of the citizens self-reliance.
Once you get the idea that somehow, you know, it's entirely normal for you to go to the supermarket and be able to choose from a hundred different breakfast cereals, it's entirely normal uh for you to uh go uh to Netflix and choose from uh a million different movies.
Uh that's fine, but when it comes to health care, it's all too complicated, and I want the government to make the decisions for me.
What you're essentially saying is I'm no longer a fully formed citizen, I am a child.
Uh and the government nanny has to make the decisions for me.
And the trick then becomes holding that redefinition of you as a child to health care.
Because once the government uh has got you to accept the principle that you're a child for something as primal a responsibility as your health, uh it becomes much easier for them to get you to accept that you're a child in all kinds of other areas.
Uh and that's why I I don't think it's unconnected, for example, that uh societies with government health care find it much easier to uh, for example, to regulate speech and regulate opinion as they do in uh in Canada and Europe, and as uh I don't think the President would be averse to doing here.
Because once you have ex a accepted that you are not a self-reliant citizen, but you are a ward of the big nanny state, once you accept that on on something as basic as health care, uh then uh it's easy to get you to accept it in all kinds of other issues.
I mentioned those incontinent Quebecers.
Those guys go into the bathroom twelve times a night, and a government bureaucrat tells them, oh, good news, we've scheduled uh your half-hour procedure for the year uh 2012.
Uh and these are people uh these people say, Oh, yeah, sure, fine, 2012, that's great.
I can cross my legs for another three years, no problem.
That's fine, that's good.
Uh once you it's you'd be surprised how easy it is to get free-born citizens to accept that.
Uh and you cross a rubric on there.
You you essentially say, uh these are people who fought for freedom and who died for freedom, uh, yet are happy to have a government bureaucrat tell them, no, you've got to go to the bathroom uh twelve times a night for the next three years just cuz.
Just because I'm the government and I say so.
Uh and that is the problem with these systems.
And the idea that you can have them side by side, by the way, I think is uh is also problematic.
Essentially, once you have once you introduce uh routine government health care, it metastasizes and swallows uh a private sector from for all but highly specialized things, and it becomes the defining uh component of your health care.
Uh one-eight hundred-282-2882, Mark Stein sitting in for rush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein in for rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Let's go to Tom in Columbus, Ohio.
Tom, thanks uh for waiting.
You're on the EIB network.
Good afternoon, Mr. Stein.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
How are you?
Good, sir.
I'm a quasi-republican that believes in single payer universal health care.
No.
I don't want Republicans for single payer health care.
We want to keep that a very small demographic group.
What's your what's your thinking?
Why are you for it?
Well, I can tell you why.
If you look at health care, my data was a hospital administrator at a nonprofit hospital for years.
But if you look at healthcare, it's an inelastic market.
Like uh, let's say gasoline, for example.
Um it's inelastic no matter where you go, uh the market, no matter the supply or the demand, the market's still the same, pretty much.
Uh now what now you so you mean it's not a normal market uh uh that uh responds to normal market pressures.
Yeah.
Now why why is that?
Because uh in essence, because uh we don't have a choice about it, is that right?
Pretty much, yes.
It's just like uh if you look at the milk industry, uh dairy producers subsidized by the government to give us a certain amount for our milk.
Uh if we pay three dollars at the store, two dollars at the store, usually the dairy farmer gets X amount.
It's a it's a they pay, they they sell their milk, but it's also subsidized by the government.
So it's a certain price that we can all afford it.
Um, if you want if you want to even draw it out this way to uh property taxes and public health or public schools, rather.
It's the same type of basis.
What I like to see is a single payer health care system.
And I don't know if it'd be a five percent like a VAT tax or ten percent tax, a flat tax just for health care.
Well, the thing the thing about that, for a start, no matter what you set it at, you can you can never get enough that way.
Uh the the British National Health Service is the biggest employer, not just in the United Kingdom, but in the whole of Europe, uh precisely because the government is responsive to that inexpense uh inelastic market too.
So the government can never have a government health service uh big enough for the pressures on it.
So you so the tax thing is whatever you set it at, whatever you set your five percent VAT or ten percent VAT, it's gonna be higher than that simply because uh we're we're we're talking about something for which there is uh inexhaustible demand uh that the government has pledged to gratify.
Uh Tom, I understand your concerns about it not being a normal market.
But that is why, uh as I said right at the beginning when we started talking about this, I'm in favor of uh having as much of the health care system uh maintain the character of a normal market as as as it can.
Now, when you get a health care bill, by the way, uh if you if you're in the position, if you ever had a hospital and they show you the thing, uh you you if you saw what was itemized on the bill, you would query it.
But you don't.
If you're insured it goes to some third party thing, uh it's uh it's seen by some bureaucrat, makes no difference to the bureaucrat whether it's w whether the uh the ten minutes the specialist was in the room is billed at a hundred and twenty dollars or six hundred dollars.
He doesn't care, he's just processing it, the bureaucrat in Hartford, Connecticut or wherever.
Uh I had an interesting experience the uh the other day.
I was giving a speech in Palm Springs, and a guy from Alberta, Canada, uh came uh to attend the speech.
It was a wealthy you know, it's Palm Springs, wealthy people at a big uh big country club in Palm Springs.
This guy's a wealthy guy up in Alberta.
He's been waiting a couple of years for uh hi hip replacement.
He's a wealthy guy, big uh oil and gas guy up in Alberta.
Uh but he was told, you know, if unless you're a hockey player or you're a prominent p politician, you can't sort of jump the line in in uh in Canada.
So he'd been waiting and waiting and waiting for these hip replacements in great pain.
Happens to have a winter home in Palm Springs, so he's down there for the weekend in howling pain, and he thinks I can't take this any longer.
I don't want to wait till 2012 for my hip replacement.
So he goes along to the local hospital in Palm Springs and he sees the doctor, and the doctor does a couple of tests and says, Hey, no problem, that's right, you need a hip replacement, we can do it on uh Tuesday or whatever it is.
So he goes and he gets his hip replacement.
It's just great, he's feeling great.
Uh he's he's standing there at the business desk in the hospital, and they say, Okay, uh, you don't have any insurance, and he goes, No, I'm a Canadian, I'm just here visiting, I got a I got a winter home down here, uh so I don't have any insurance.
And they say, okay, well, uh, in that case you get the non-insured discount, so right away there's whatever it is, 20% off.
And uh and he says and he gets out his checkbook and he goes, Well, look, you don't have to process this through any third parties.
There's no HMOs, there's no blue cross, no blue shield, none none of that stuff.
Uh they give him X thousand dollars and he he gets out his checkbook and he's writing, you know, pay Palm Springers Hospital or whatever.
He goes, Well, can't you do a bit better than that?
So she goes, uh, well, I don't know about so she goes in to see her boss, comes back out, knocks another $4,000 off.
That's a normal customer relationship.
This guy, this guy, this big wealthy Albertan, just got a hip replacement for far less in Palm Springs, for far less than any full-time year-round resident of Palm Springs is paying for it, just because it was a normal customer supplier transaction.
And we have di we have given ourselves, we have chosen to give ourselves a health care problem, uh, essentially by allowing all kinds of other parties to intercede between the patient and the doctor.
And we seem to think that's a natural feature of life now.
No, it wasn't.
In the old days, in the old days, you'd go to see Dr. Jones, or actually Dr. Jones, believe it or not, would come and see you.
That's how great it was.
So he'd come and see you in your like broken down loser shack, uh, and he'd fix you up, he'd patch you up, and uh and and uh you'd settle up with him and give it the body, and that was and that that way health care wasn't complicated.
Why is health care complicated now?
Because we're trying to design a universal system of health care for 300 million people with widely differing needs.
Uh And no and the idea and the power and control that the government would require over your lives to be able to do that is huge.
Huge.
The idea that that can be done and your life will just tick on as normal, uh tick over as normal, uh no particular problems, no big changes.
It's just that now the government is running the health of 300 million people.
Uh it is not possible to design a health system for 300 people, 300 million people.
It is possible to design a health care system for you, uh Joe Schmo of 27 Elm Street, and that is why you, Joe Schmo of 27 Elm Street, should be entrusted to make your own health care and re arrangements, except in very exceptional and very particular circumstances.
And and not trusting the people to do that will have disastrous consequences uh for the United States.
More straight ahead.
Great to be with you.
Mark Davis in for Rush tomorrow, and then Rush returns Wednesday to take you through the end of the week.
Let us go to Christine in Florida.
Christine, thanks for waiting.
You're on, the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Well, hi, talking about the uh health care.
And for myself, uh about a year ago I completed chemotherapy for breast cancer.
And while I was undergoing chemotherapy, there was an article on the internet that the United Kingdom decided that only two chemotherapy drugs were uh being discussed as being exclusively the only chemotherapies for breast cancer.
Right.
Not taking into consideration that there are breast cancer is a general uh description of a disease.
There's more than one type of cancer.
For myself, after I completed three months of chemotherapy using what would have been their approved medications, my oncologist came back and said, Hey, we didn't get it all, and I had to go through another round of chemotherapy, which did get all of my cancer, fortunately.
Because but that one wasn't one that was approved of by Britain.
So if we would have been under the British type of health care system, I would never have been able to have gotten that particular chemotherapy that did in fact work for me.
And you might not be making this uh call uh right now, because i in fact what you say about breast cancer is true for uh cancer treatment in the United Kingdom generally, uh which is why uh as Rudy Giuliani pointed out during his otherwise disastrous presidential campaign, uh, that the UK has much lower rates of cancer survival uh than the U.S. does.
And I I think uh in your case, when you actually when you actually say see what drugs, the only drugs you're allowed to be given in Britain, uh and you actually know from your own experience that these are the ones that don't get all the cancer, uh, you have a compelling reason, the most uh compelling vivid personal reason to understand why it's important for citizens to be able to make their own decisions on health care.
Oh, yeah.
Well, and I think people in this country certainly want uh health care reform.
They want free health care, forgetting that you only get what you pay for.
That's right, that's right.
And there is no uh there is no free health care.
The the the government the when there's no free anything.
The government uh only has money it can get from you or under the Obama model from your as yet unborn grandchildren that we're sticking it to uh down the line.
Uh and and and the problem with that is that uh th uh uh a bureaucracy uh becomes run for the bureaucracy.
And if you look at health care in the UK, the targets, they every time they try to reform it, because of all these horror stories, from people who go in, uh they go in with a stub toe and they wake up and find that due to some uh erroneous memo, they've had their arm amputated.
There's all those there's all those stories.
And then and then what always happens, what I love about this, this is again the uh innovation of the citizenry that goes along with socialized health care is that the minute the Daily Mail in London carries one of those stories, 48 hours later, there's a story from some guy in Wales who says, Oh, well, you know, I went along, I went along I don't know why you're making such a fuss about this poor guy having his leg amp amputated when he only uh went when he went in uh for his appendix.
Uh he goes, uh I I went to my hospital, uh I had an appointment at eight in the morning, and I only had to sit there until eleven thirty p.m. at night, and they treated me and they were all very friendly.
People become uh grovelingly grateful for the most abysmal level of service, which by the way is never factored into health care costs.
When they say that America spends more on health care uh in terms of GDP per capita than Canada.
I I've employed people in uh on both sides of this border.
When my assistant uh Tiffany uh in New Hampshire has an appointment at the doctor for nine o'clock, she's generally back at work at eleven.
Uh Chantal, my uh my who who uh who my Quebec assistant, she when she goes to her local CLSC, as they call it up there, uh in in uh Canada, she has an appointment at nine o'clock.
She's there until six o'clock in the evening.
That's it.
The day's gone.
She doesn't get to see anybody till right at the end.
She sits there all day uh reading uh all the old news uh magazines and all the rest of it all day.
The cost of that difference is borne by me.
Uh and that is never factored in.
That is never factored in.
That the costs of the health care system uh are in effect uh the additional costs imposed by a socialized health care system uh are imposed in two ways.
Uh first that, which is an economic thing, and then on the quality of life, which is what Christine uh was talking about uh in Florida, by n by not having the right to choose the most effective drugs that will treat you uh most comprehensively in the quickest way and allow you to return to uh a full life.
How are you feeling right now then, Christine?
I'm doing very well with that.
But uh might also add well, I'm on disability for another injury that I was recovering from an injury to my back when I was diagnosed with a cancer.
But uh I am also a nurse.
Oh and I get to see the other side of the health care I've seen that for thirty-five years, I felt the other side of health care, and one of the biggest scare words you could ever give a nurse was uh socialized medicine, because we knew as professionals that as soon as that came in, any income our income was going to be radically cut.
That's that's right.
And that's why uh that's why when you uh essentially uh the socialized health care system, apart from it so many other defects, becomes a way of denuding the third world of all its best and brightest.
Uh because you find that uh in in uh in in first world countries, people do not want to be nurses uh because they don't want to work in socialized hospitals.
So the socialized hospitals have to go and get their nurses from Bangladesh and Botswana.
Uh and at that point, who who's gonna be the nurse in the Botswana or Bangladesh hospital?
Because sim it's no as as I said earlier about doctors, it's no longer an attractive middle class profession to be in.
Well, South Florida is a big tourist area, and we had a seasonal type business, even within the hospital, because we have the Canadians that come down to Florida for the winter.
And where do we get our uh temporary nursing call an agency, say we'll do a contract for the winter season, and we've had British nurses coming in, and some of the comments that came out of the British nurses, what do you mean you're gonna treat this man that's eighty years old, he's gonna have open art surgery in Britain, he would be too old.
Yet this is a guy that is very leading a very active life.
He's active in the local politics, he plays golf three days a week.
Yeah, he's had his he's had his three score and ten.
Forget him, cut him loose.
We can't he's he's just the cost on the health care system now.
We can't bother with it, we can't bother with him.
That's you know you know how bad it gets, Christine, once you get that way of thinking.
Uh and you're talking about this patient, uh this guy you knew in Florida, they wouldn't bother treating the eighty-year-old.
Uh when they had all these C. difficile, you know, this uh essentially this infection, this superbug that runs around a lot of the hospitals in the socialized systems.
Uh in uh in uh Quebec, where they have four times the rate of C. diffacile than they do in American hospitals.
They attribute every death to C. difficile is where you say go in uh to be um you know, you'll you go in because you've got a broken arm and you wake up uh the following morning drowning in your own diarrhea and you're dead two days later.
That's basically you get it in the hospital.
And uh and they get the superbug.
And the the Premier of Quebec, actually, uh the separatist premier of Quebec, Lucien Bouchard, who was in favor of separating from Canada, he went into hospital, he got one of these super bugs and it ate up his leg and he had to have his leg removed.
Essentially his leg seceded from the rest of his body, which is uh appropriate for a separatist uh secessionist politician.
Uh but uh what they the system they have up there is if you're over fifty-five and you die of C. Deficile in a Quebec hospital, they put it down to old age.
Fifty-five?
That doesn't seem that seems that seems like old age it seems to be creeping under the head under the socialist system.
Old age kicks in early, oh you're two you're fifty well, he lived a full li was fifty-three and he died of a disease he picked up in a government hospital, but he had a full life.
He he he lived till fifty-three.
He lived until late middle age.
There's no point complaining.
Um thank you very much for your call, uh uh Christine.
We got more straight ahead talking about uh healthcare on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Stein's sitting in on the EIB network.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Connie in Austin, Texas, the uh the the non-reliably conservative corner of Texas.
Yes, I know.
I'm in a sea of liberals.
It's in the capital of the great nation of Texas.
So when the when the Republic of Texas secedes, your your little island of Austin will will insist on staying with the United States.
I doubt it.
I'm I I don't know what's gonna happen, actually.
We have the right to divide into five states, as a matter of fact.
A lot of people don't know that.
Oh, great.
I love small nations.
The more the merrier.
Bring it on.
I d I don't know.
I wish I could leave, but unfortunately I'm trapped here.
In fact, this why I'm calling, because I had to retire a number of years ago on disability, and I'm making a teeny tiny little social security check and a pension.
So I don't have a lot of money, so this makes this all the more reasonable, I think, when I tell you that Obama forced this two hundred and fifty dollar mini bailout, supposedly down my throat.
I tried.
The minute I heard this was gonna happen, I started calling, nobody would even talk to me.
So I decided what I was gonna do is take the money, spend it, but I'm gonna spend it on things that will thwart Obama.
Like I'm giving it to uh pro-life causes and uh oh wounded warriors and various other things, and uh just anything and everything that will fight the man because he's a socialist twit.
So you got so you, like everybody uh else over a certain age, you got a two hundred and fifty dollar stimulus check from Obama, regardless of whether you want it or not.
Exactly.
And I'm not even over that certain age because I had to retire early.
I didn't want to leave my job.
I loved my job.
So so you but you're having you've decided to use it to stimulate the downfall of the Obama stimulus.
Excellent.
Excellent.
You know, that kind of balances out because as far as I can tell, in um in uh Vermont, I s I was uh in Vermont uh uh the other day and I I picked up the local newspaper and it was advertising for all these positions available under the uh that had been funded by stimulus money.
And it was basically the Southeastern Vermont community organization regime uh that was advertising for a lot of non-jobs like stimulus projects coordinator.
So in fact, the stimulus is only stimulating more stimulus project stimulus coordination stimulus.
The stimulus basically exists to stimulate the stimulus.
So by you using your stimulus check to stimulate the anti-stimulus, you may be in a small way, you may be contributing to wrestling this monster to the ground.
Well, it's only $250, but it's everybody else's $250.
So I decided to use it as wisely and as frugally as I could on that, because it just angers me what the man is doing.
And I really felt helpless.
I really tried not to get the money.
They wouldn't let me not take it.
But you know, you got you got two hundred and fifty dollars from your government.
Isn't that great?
Isn't it it's but I got it from you?
No, no, no, you got it from the good you got it from benign King Barack, who was giving he was handing handing two hundred and fifty groats to one of one of his grateful serfs.
Don't you understand?
Uh don't you I mean that's a sm that's a generous check.
Getting two hundred and fifty bucks in return for giving up uh uh liberty and self-reliance and citizenship, that is a steal of a deal, Connie.
You should be more grateful for it.
I have to tell you one thing before I go, and that is that you are my favorite rough replacer.
Oh god.
No, no, when I can't we can't have any more of that.
Mark Mark Davis uh is in tomorrow and he's a great guy, and he'll he'll uh he'll he'll uh take care of you too.
Thanks for your call, Cody.
Let's quickly go to Sandy in Florence, South Carolina.
Sandy, you're on the air on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate it.
Nice hearing your your program today.
Hey, uh, one thing I wanted to point out, everybody can't figure out why Obama doesn't understand about the socialist system.
Failed everywhere in the world.
Why pull it here?
It's not about insurance, sir.
It's about the money.
It was the same thing with the Social Security.
I'm not one of them right-wing kind of people, but uh the Social Security was set up, and when it was challenged in the Supreme Court that you cannot uh put a system on everybody for retirement and other things, the government just said it, it's just a tax.
They use it as an income stream and they're doing the same thing with this.
It's not about your health, it's not about health care, it's not about poor people or rich people.
It's about we want that income stream, and if we have to pay a little bit out along the way, oh well, we'll be able to get more money from people because they're stupid.
Well, it's it's about two things, Sandy.
I agree with that.
That in a sense it's uh revenue, it's a revenue issue, and whatever they call it, uh it goes into the government's uh uh broad uh revenue stream uh that it allocates as it wishes.
Now, whatever they call it.
Sometimes uh you you pay taxes and it just goes into the general pot, and sometimes it goes into what appears to be designated for a particular purpose, but isn't really designated for the year.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh but it's also about something else too, which is uh I I think it is it is about uh it's about the annexation of more and more areas of your life.
Because if you believe in big government, uh it is necessary to persuade the citizenry that big government is necessary.
Uh and and the best way to do that is to make the government uh more and more a part of your life.
Now, if you go back a century, if you go back to uh William McKinley before the guy, poor guy got shot in Buffalo.
When he got shot in Buffalo, Americans were upset, but he didn't play a big role in their life.
The federal government was in those days, the federal government had very little to do with your day-to-day life.
Your day-to-day, insofar as government intruded on your life, it was town government uh in places like New England, and it was county government in uh in the West and uh other parts of the United States, and a little bit of state government and federal government almost not at all.
And now we have a situation where basic daily uh daily aspects of your life are being annexed by a federal government in Washington.
Uh that is something that would have astonished any uh any American citizen back in William McKinley's day if you told him that a bureaucrat in Washington would have a big degree of control over large elements of your daily life.
And it's about that as much as about the money too, Sandy.
Thanks, thanks very much for your call.
We gotta run.
We uh we are one of the last few unbailed.
I believe um I believe we're gonna be uh I believe uh I believe Obama is talking about bailing out the Rush Limbaugh show uh and uh putting in Air America's chief executive to uh to run it.
So uh uh we're probably so uh under the new three point seven trillion dollar budget will be there just great.
More straight ahead on the EIB network.
The EIB network, Mark Stein sitting in for us.
Uh health care is is really the line.
If you're gonna draw a line in the sand, this is the line to draw it on.
Uh you you're not gonna you're not gonna be able to reverse this if it goes through.
In fact, we need to reverse the government annexation of health care that's already there now.
And that's what Republicans and conservatives should be standing for.
You let this go, you let this go, you're never gonna have anything more than Republican light uh ever again when it comes to uh il electing uh uh electing governments, because this is a line uh too far.
This is a bridge too far.
So this thing has got to be reversed uh and the Rush Limbaugh show will be there on the front line uh helping it, helping it uh and and helping the pushback.
Uh I've got a date with a hot uiger, and uh I gotta run.
Because when you got a hot uiger parked outside, you don't want to be hanging around.
Uh uh I I wish it were that actually.
It's uh actually my three-year uh incontinence appointment up in Montreal that I've been waiting for for the with my cross legs for the best part of a half decade.
Uh Mark Davis is gonna be here tomorrow sitting in for Rush on the EIB network.
And don't forget, set your clocks.
Rush will be back on Wednesday for the rest of the week.
Thanks a lot.
See you soon.
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