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You know, this Mark Sanford business, the governor of South Carolina, vanishes out there.
Nobody knows where he is.
His wife doesn't know where he is.
His staff doesn't know where he is.
The word comes out that he's out there hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Then word comes back, no, he wasn't hiking the Appalachian Trail.
He was going to go to the Appalachian Trail.
He's walking the beaches of Iponima.
Then he wasn't walking the beaches of Iponema.
Then he was on a cruise ship down there to Argentina somewhere.
Just got back.
Everybody's waiting for the press conference to figure out what's going on here.
And, you know, I've got mixed emotions about this.
The appearance here is obviously very strange.
You don't tell your wife you're splitting a scene.
You don't tell your family on Father's Day, by the way.
And then Obama, you know, Obama bailed on the family on Father's Day, too.
He went out there to play golf.
But Sanford left the family on Father's Day weekend, goes out there wherever he went.
Nobody knew.
Staff didn't know.
And everybody gets in a tizzy about this.
Now, we have forgotten.
Back in the day, Teddy Roosevelt did this all the time.
Teddy Roosevelt, just to get away with hell with this.
And he'd go out there hunting or doing something.
Now, this is back before big nationwide 24-7 media cycle before television and all that.
But it was also back in the day where people were not so damn dependent on some public figure every day being visible for their own security.
So what?
A governor takes five days off.
Big whoop.
How many lives changed?
What did the welfare rolls jump?
Somebody not get their check from South Carolina.
What's the big deal?
Now, depending on what happened and what he did here, but I do think that one of the things that exacerbates this is this ever-pressing dependence on government that people have, as though the governor was gone five days.
Oh, no.
Why, we could have collapsed here.
Oh, no.
Why would we could all have gone to hell in the handbase?
Oh, no, nothing happened that affected anybody's lives except his family's and maybe his.
And we won't know that until press conference, see what the shakeout, the fallout here is.
CNBC, an interview just moments ago, Warren Buffett, big early supporter of the BAMS, huge Obama supporter, says there's been little progress over the past few months in the economic war being fought by the country.
We haven't got the economy moving yet, Buffett said.
And of course he's right.
Except Goldman Sachs is out there that had a record first half of 2009.
Are they going to pay record bonuses or some such thing?
And citibanks giving people raises of 50% while the unemployment rate skyrockets at 10%.
While the economy is a shambles and likely to stay that way for some time, Buffett remains optimistic there will eventually be a recovery over a period of years.
But of course there will be.
It's a cyclical.
But what kind of recovery is it going to be?
Buffett says the nation should concentrate on creating jobs.
I thought that's what the stimulus bill was.
The nation should concentrate on creating jobs.
The nation should...
That's what the private sector always does.
But when you deplete the private sector of operating capital, be it with this monstrosity of health care reform or cap and trade or any of the other Obama initiatives running the automobile companies.
So what the hell?
Where is the money to hire people?
The government's got it all.
And then the government's dictating how it's going to be used.
The government dictating which automobile dealerships are shut down.
The focus ought to be creating jobs.
If you want to create jobs, get Obama out of the private sector.
It's just that simple.
Get him the hell out of the private sector.
Get President Obama out of it.
Scrub this healthcare business.
It's a debacle.
It is unnecessary.
It's unneeded.
The 80-some-odd percent of the American people are satisfied with theirs.
This whole thing is a ruse.
There's no need for it.
Every claim that's being made about how it's not going to cost any money is absurd.
Let's go back.
Grab audio soundbite number one.
Audio soundbite number.
I want you to keep this in mind.
As you listen to Obama and his minions, Rahm Emmanuel and so forth, plug and promote cap and trade and healthcare.
This is Obama last Saturday during the YouTube weekly address.
There are also millions of Americans who signed contracts they didn't always understand, offered by lenders who didn't always tell the truth.
Well, who was responsible for that?
The government was.
And now they're going to operate health care, and you're going to end up with a whole bunch of other stuff you had no idea you were going to end up in, and then you're not going to be able to end up out of it because you're not going to have any options.
And then with this cap and trade business, they're going to start taxing carbon.
Do you realize they're even going to be able to raise taxes on Coke and Pepsi?
It's carbonated beverages.
It makes it fizz.
It's absurd.
All of this is going to deplete the private sector.
And Buffett's, and Buffett knows this.
And Buffett's out there talking about, well, the focus of the country ought to be on creating jobs.
Here, listen to this.
This morning and good morning, America, the day-long ABC infomercial on Obamacare.
Diane Sawyer talked to the bamster himself this morning.
She said, is it time for Americans to recognize that they're going to get fewer scans, fewer procedures, fewer tests?
The measure of the quality of care is not quantity, but whether or not it is making you better.
What we've said is, let's put out the research.
Let's study and figure out what works and what doesn't.
Will there be a board making solomonic decisions about best practices?
What I've suggested is that we have a commission that helps, made up of doctors, made up of experts, that helps set best practices.
The doctors and experts paid for by Obama.
Doctors and experts are going to be dependent on Obama for their income.
So of course, they're going to have to speak the party line.
The bottom line is you're going to get a board full of a bunch of bureaucrats deciding what medical care that you get.
And it's not going to be based on the quality of care.
It's going to be based on what they think is worth spending on you.
It's no more complicated than that.
If they think you're not worth spending enough money to find out what's wrong with you, they're not going to find out what's wrong with you.
If they don't think you're worth spending enough money to cure, then they're not going to spend the money to give you the treatment that you need.
That's what this all means.
That's what's coming down the pike.
Don't forget, we had a call last week.
There are people who are actually fearful that if they are Republicans, they will be discriminated against in terms of health care because this is such an ideologically political administration that does have a bunch of enemies.
Well, Rush, what do you mean?
They're going to decide how much it's worth to treat me.
Well, in large measure, it's going to have to do with your age.
If you're approaching seasoned citizen status, your worth is a lot less than a young person.
You have a duty to die and get out of the way.
A Democrat, former governor of Colorado, said that, Richard Lamb, old people, come on, get out of the way.
You're spending all this money.
You're costing us all this money.
You're going to die anyways.
Just go ahead and fade away and die.
And truth of the matter is, 80% of the nation's health care costs are spent, or 80% of the individual's health care costs are spent in the last years of one's life, understandably and logically.
So the best way to understand this is this board, this bunch of bureaucrats, they're not going to decide what tests you need based on the quality of care.
They're going to decide how much you're worth to them.
Help keep these social security numbers in check.
How the hell do you think they're going to reform that?
They're going to reform Social Security by having to pay out to fewer people.
And how are they going to do that?
By treating fewer older people.
You think they're really going to reform this in some measurable way and make it solvent?
They're going to try to reduce the number of people getting it.
I'm dead serious, snerdly.
I wouldn't say this stuff if I didn't mean it.
This is all such bilge.
It is all drivel.
You are going to get treatment based on how much some government agency or bureaucrat thinks you're worth.
And that could, who knows how that's going to be decided?
The degree to which you have a sickness or an illness or a disease?
Your age?
Are you working or not?
Are you a drag on the system anyway?
Did you vote for Obama?
What did you eat during your life?
Have you eaten carrots in the last 30 days?
Have you eaten trans fats?
Do you smoke?
Have you drunk a lot of softened sweet beverages and so forth?
Well, I don't know.
There's a reason.
We don't need to give you a test.
You're sick because you've been eating all this rot gut we've been warning you against for 30 years.
Screw you.
And he said, okay, well, I'll go to my own doctor.
No, there won't be a private doctor for you to go to.
Sad to say.
And surprise, surprise, his thinking on mandates has now evolved.
Remember, he blasted Hillary for having mandates during the campaign, but his promise of having no mandates has expired.
Diane Sawyer said, will you accept mandates with fines for individuals if they don't sign up?
You were against that during the campaign.
I have to tell you that this is an area where people have made some pretty compelling arguments to me that if we want to have a system that drives down costs for everybody, then we've got to have healthier people not opt out of the system.
I think my thinking on the issue of mandates has evolved.
Well, what else needs to be said?
Everything else that he said yesterday in his press conference about competition, private sector versus a public option, is just meaningless.
He's now evolved on mandates.
Fines for individuals if you don't sign up for health care.
Remember, Mrs. Clinton, this was a biggie.
They were going to force you into this.
And Obama, oh, no, we can't do that.
But he's had some pretty compelling arguments made for him.
He's changed his mind on this.
We're in a system that drives down a cost for everybody.
We got to have healthier people issues.
So you're going to mandate it.
All the rest of this is just BS.
The government's going to mandate that you get health care.
And then after they mandate you get health care and sign up for insurance, then they're going to decide whether or not you're worth treating.
Then they're going to decide whether or not you're worth testing.
If you think that national health care is going to open up a new vista of endless health care to make sure you always get cured or you never get sick, you've got another thing coming.
It ain't going to work out that way.
Here, by the way, is the Warren Buffett soundbite, Becky Quick, CNBC talking to him.
The question, last time we sat down to talk with you was on May 4th, and you told us you think we're in an economic war right now.
How much progress do you think we've made in that war?
Well, it's been pretty flat.
No, I get figures on 70-odd businesses, a lot of them daily.
I mean, everything I see about the economy is that we have had no bounce.
The financial system was really where the crisis was, you know, last September and October, and that's been surmounted, and that's enormously important.
But in terms of the economy coming back, it takes a while.
There were a lot of excesses to be wrung out, and that process is still underway.
And it looks to me like it'll be underway for quite a while.
In the annual report, I said that the economy would be in shambles this year.
And I'm afraid that's true.
Well, okay, that's inspiring.
Economy is going to be in a shambles this year.
This is a big Obama backer.
But notice, he's the financial sector been surmounted.
I guess so.
I guess the people are still being foreclosed on out there.
I've got stories on them in the stack.
And people still can't get loans, and their credit card rates are still going up.
Somehow, we've mounted the financials thing.
Goldman Sachs with the record bonus payouts the first half of this year.
Citibank raising salaries 50%.
Yeah.
Depending on how you look at it, I guess the financial sector has rebounded a little bit back after this.
White House is in trouble on health care, and the evidence of this is all over the place.
But one of the telling indications is that Ram Emmanuel has been dispatched today to call up a bunch of members of Congress and the Senate and is dropping the F-bomb on them and demanding that they get on board with this and so forth.
This is Chicago thugocracy that's operating out of the White House, the technique developed by Mayor Richard Daly, from which Emmanuel comes, or David Axelrod comes, and of course, Obama himself.
And part of Obama's news conference yesterday, that smug voice and that tone saying, hey, if the public system out-competes the private system in healthcare, then the privates will have to get with the program and learn how to do things right.
He kept talking about, yeah, this government never does anything right, but if we do it right in the private system, I have to get with the program and learn how to do things right.
Now, that is just ignorant arrogance.
He intended it to be that way.
He never answered the question about the unlevel playing field.
And the question he got on this was, well, the public option, the government will not be pressured to make a profit to stay in business.
It won't mean they won't be pressured to make a profit.
The government have to make a profit in anything.
The private sector, private insurance companies, private health care, they have to make a profit to stay in business.
And the tenor of his answer on this was most revealing.
He almost slipped up and said, well, they shouldn't be making a profit in the first place.
He didn't say it, but that was his tone.
I think that Obama looks at profits as evil.
He obviously doesn't understand that business cannot function without profits.
You know, he's like a lot of other dictators.
He's got the private sector, and he thinks it's always going to be there to be raped.
It's always going to be there to be pillaged and plundered.
The private sector is always going to be something he can go grab and control and tax and take money out of and grow the government.
He doesn't have any concept, or maybe he does, that he's going to kill it all by doing all this.
So he can sit there and say, no, we're not going to get rid of the private sector.
But the public sector, the government, will not have to make a profit to stay in business, and the other guys will.
Now, if you have to compete with somebody who doesn't have to make a profit, guess where you're going to end up?
You're going to lose.
You're going to go out of business.
You're not even going to stay in business.
There is no, if General Motors is giving away cars at what it costs to make them, and Chrysler is trying to sell them at a profit, guess what?
Chrysler is going to cease to exist.
It can't compete against people who don't have to make a profit.
Let's even give it, let's go further.
Let's say General Motors sells their cars for half of what they cost.
And Chrysler's not allowed to do that.
Of course, what sense would it make anyway?
But the government can do it.
They can post a loss because they can print the money.
So private sector health covers or health care givers, doctors, nurses, insurance companies have to make a profit, stay in business.
Obama's business doesn't have to show a profit.
They're not going to stay in business.
The government's going to end up being it all by design.
So Obama looks at the private sector as just a never-ending windfall.
He looks at profits like surplus value.
Same way Marx did.
A profit is almost a crime.
A profit's a crime against the people.
A profit is rape.
It's just, it's surplus value that you can go get.
And when you take some entity's profit, then you have been fair and you have equalized society.
And that's how he looks at it.
I think Obama's a true believer on this stuff.
It's why he's so pro-union.
He's one of these workers of the world unite type guys, down to his core.
He's unapologetic about all this.
He doesn't even know he's revealing it to me.
I think he thinks he's fooling everybody, but he's not fooling me.
This guy's right out of das capital, folks.
Profit, surplus value, take it.
Taking the profit is fair and just.
Profit is evil.
Profit is unfair.
What's sad is that the average person, including, I would even go so far as say the average conservative commentator, doesn't pick up on what Obama's all about here because they don't believe.
They can't believe the guy's as far gone as he is.
So to make this fair, I've got a way to make this fair, which will never happen, but I want to illustrate this point when we come back.
Okay, let's recap here.
Barack Obama and his national health care business.
And he says the private sector, well, if they can keep up, if they can outperform us, then fine and dandy.
Outperform you, they are going to have to make a profit, and Obama won't.
And that means they will cease to exist.
So, to be fair about this, let's establish one condition, that the government, when they run healthcare, will be subject to all administrative reporting requirements, including quarterly and annual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
They will be subject to all civil and criminal penalties that government imposes on business.
And business will be permitted to enforce these requirements on government, just as government does on business.
I'm serious about this.
I am dead serious about this.
This healthcare thing is a debacle.
It is not needed.
It is unnecessary.
And the vast majority of Americans do not want it.
If we get it, it's ballgame.
Every aspect of your life will then be regulated on the basis of cost to the government.
Now, the government can sit there and it can regulate.
It can now take over businesses.
It can take over the auto business.
It can take over the banks.
It can run the mortgage business.
It can regulate business all day long.
A bunch of people have no idea how to run a business, can regulate every aspect of your business life, fill out forms, got OSHA, all these other regulations.
Well, all right, if they're going to get into private sector business operations, let's turn to damn tables and let's regulate them.
Let's make government, when they run General Motors, subject to the same requirements that the people who used to own General Motors are required.
Now, I know it'll never happen.
We somehow got to get past this notion that government does everything right, that government's this divine angel that only intends the best.
I don't care about the intentions because the intentions don't count when you measure the results, which are always horrible when the government's running something.
And guess who has become the latest capitalist?
John Kerry.
I'm not surprised.
Half hour ago, Enria Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, on her MSNBC show, MSNBC show, interviewed Senator Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, about the Citibank news that they're going to be giving out 50% raises.
Yeah, 50% raises.
And her question to Lurch was finance and banking committees in the Senate, are you disturbed that Citibank's about to award big pay raises, perhaps to get around the bonus requirements?
I mean, Citibank took TARP money.
Should they be awarding big pay raises?
They're not earning money.
Their stock price is down.
Should they be awarding big pay raises?
Or is that, as they say, what they need to do to compete?
Look, we understand that in the normal course of business, people have to be paid appropriately.
There is competition in the marketplace.
You have to attract good people.
All of those things are true.
But you also need to do these things within the limits of what people perceive, of what the marketplace will bear in terms of a sense of appropriateness and decency given the challenges that our economy faces.
And we hope that people will respond appropriately.
What a 180.
What an absolute 180.
Back last fall when we're bailing these people out, John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, bashing all of these Wall Street entities, all of these banks.
Now all of a sudden, well, you know, we got to pay a lot of people.
And they got to pay good people.
And they've got to pay them appropriately.
It's competition in the marketplace.
That's all fine now.
It's all fine when the Democrats and Obama running the show.
I'm telling you, folks, this is going to filter out to the average Obama voter.
This is not what the average Obama voter thought he or she was voting for to make Citibank rich, to make Goldman Sachs rich.
Forget whether they're right or wrong for a second here.
I'm not concerned with whether or not these Obama voters understand capitalism or not.
In this instance, and I remain influenced by that bunch of calls we got last week from Obama voters who were livid.
They thought they were going to be getting all this money, and they just see Obama doing what Republicans have done to bail out the banks, bail out the big rich people.
Well, now with the Goldman Sachs and their big bonuses and their record first half of 09, whatever it was, now Citibank 50% raises to get around the bonus requirements, limitations.
And Democrats now say, well, yeah, we have to do this.
See, back in the early days of the administration, when AIG was doing this, it was time to hang them and burn them at the stake and send Acorn up there to protest on the lawns of the homes of the executives at AIG.
No, we got to pay people.
Competitive business out there.
Pay people, good people.
It's all fine now.
I'm going to tell you what we're looking at here, folks.
Democrats don't get it.
We are looking at Jimmy Carter too.
We're looking at it.
We're right on the cusp of it.
Warren Buffett's told us today, economy is going to be in a shambles.
We're going to see at some point, if I'm right about this, and I'm seldom wrong, we are going to see an approval ratings or approval number chart that's going to track pretty close to old Jimmy Carter.
The Democrats, they're arrogant.
They are condescending.
They make the mistake of believing that every American lives and breathes and hopes and dreams on what Democrats are going to do each and every day, and that they are insulated and insured against any criticism because there's lapdog media that follows them around.
You watch.
You watch.
This healthcare thing, too.
They're going to have more problems with this.
And what they've done to Gerald Walpin, this is coming out too.
Gerald, the Inspector General in the St. Hope Academy case, AmeriCorps, they tried.
They tried to ruin this guy.
This is Clinton Travel Office.
Like I said last week, like I said last week, this is just like the Clinton Travel Office.
They're just getting rid of somebody who's a thorn in their side.
The St. Hope Academy was a mess out there.
They shouldn't have gotten the money.
Walpin said they shouldn't have gotten the money.
They were misusing it, so they get rid of Walpin.
This kind of stuff is trying too much too soon.
Obama's on television every day, this and that and the other thing.
Now, at some point, there's going to be a lot of give here.
I'm confident of this.
Keep a sharp eye.
Here's Kevin in San Angelo, Texas.
You've got to be going there to get there.
You'll not run into it by accident.
Kevin, how are you?
Well, I'm doing very good, Professor Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Sir, I've got a question for you concerning the state of California.
The liberals have been running that state for absolutely as long as I can remember, and their state has run into a huge amount of bankruptcy.
And it looks like, you know, liberalism needs to answer for itself after all these years.
And I'm curious what your predictions might be for what we're going to see here in the state of California in the next month or two and how this relates to what potentially could happen at the federal level when Obama's policies happen.
Wait, did they move San Angelo, Texas to California when I wasn't looking?
No, well, no, no, no, sir.
I left the state of California years ago because I saw what was coming.
I got you.
And I got out of there and went to a place that's much more friendly to fellows like myself.
I got you.
I understand that.
I know a lot of people have been to San Angel.
Houston Oilers used to train there now and then back when they were in Houston and not in Nashville.
Well, California unemployment in May went up to 11.5%.
Only four states have a higher unemployment rate than California.
Michigan's at 14.1, Oregon at 12.4.
Rhode Island and South Carolina tied at 12.1%.
Now, in May of last year, a year ago, California unemployment, 6.8%.
It's now 11.5%.
Not quite doubled, but close to it.
Also, what?
I said, that's getting very close.
They overhit the tipping point there.
The state of California is just going to erupt.
People have got to answer for what they've done.
They're going to get a bailout.
At the end of the day, they're going to get a bailout.
Now, everybody right now is saying the right thing about it.
They're saying the right thing.
Obama said, no, we're not going to bail them out.
We can't bail out states.
And Schwarzenegger says, I don't want the bailout.
But what, thirdly, what?
There's going to be, they're going to have to, he's right.
The state's teetering.
The latest thing, you people in California, I don't know if you even know this yet.
State lawmakers in California have proposed either cutting drastically or eliminating totally the exemption for every child you get on your on your taxes.
It'll cost the average taxpayer an additional $214 a year, or it's either $214 a year or $214 a kid.
I'm going to have to look this up.
I saw this over the weekend, or maybe yesterday, that they're going to get rid of the personal exemption, the state version of the personal exemption.
They're going to be raising taxes now.
It's a Democrat state.
They have to keep it a Democrat state.
People are leaving that state.
They've got to keep it a Democrat state.
We've essentially bailed out Michigan for the auto company deals.
I mean, you can look at that as a quasi, quali bailout.
So I'm just predicting it won't.
And Maria Shriver, I've got this somewhere here in this.
Maria Shriver saying people of California don't want any budget cuts.
Now, she's the wife of the governor.
And she's a Kennedy.
And she's, you know, she's doing a colon powell on us out there.
People of California don't want their budgets cut.
By the way, did you hear yesterday?
I forget what the subject was, but Obama did it too.
The subject of budget cuts, local communities or something came up, and he said, well, we can't afford that.
Fireman, policeman.
That's what they always do.
They always tell local communities, if they've got to cut the budget, guess who's going to go first?
Firemen and policemen, which is absolute poppycock.
When you look at education, what are they spending per student in New Jersey?
What's the latest number?
$14,000 a student, something like that?
$14,000, maybe it's higher than that now.
Do you realize $14,000 a student?
Now, stop to think of this.
$14,000 a student, how much of that is in the classroom?
We always hear about dilapidated falling apart schools.
They don't have textbooks.
Where's the money going?
For $14,000 a student, if you give me, let's say I want to take over and run as a private business, the New Jersey school system, you give me $14,000 a student.
I'm going to limo the students across the George Washington Bridge into the tunnels.
They're going to have a lunch at 21 every day.
I'm going to go hire Harvard professors to teach them.
And I'm going to have money left over.
I'm going to make a profit at $14,000 a student.
And I'm going to keep them in class and I'm going to graduate them.
$14,000.
In some school districts, it's more than $14,000 a student.
Yeah, it's $20,000 in some districts in New Jersey.
The average is $20,000 a student.
Now, So we've got to cut the budget in New Jersey.
We ought to cut what?
Firemen and cops?
Really?
At $14,000 a student, I don't know what they're paying in California for a student.
It's got to be astronomical.
Anyway, I'm a little long here.
Brief timeout.
We will continue much more straight ahead after this.
The Obama administration, a big push on health care today and this week.
In fact, the BAMSTR is heading out.
He's turning to the grassroots to push health care reform.
Time for the Obama Road Show victim parade.
As people pour over details and ramifications of government-run health care, Obama team seeks to not get sucked in by the Washington discussion.
Obama's setting out to humanize the health care debate, push Congress to pass serious reforms.
He aims to ensure, in the words of one White House advisor, we don't get sucked in by the Washington discussion.
The Washington discussion, focused on the high costs, uncertain results of competing proposals, is not going Obama's way.
The facts suck.
The facts of this just aren't helping Obama.
The facts don't add up.
So he's got to go out there and do a dog and pony show.
And what they're going to do is they're going to head out there and they're going to have all these sorry cases of people who broke an arm or lost an eye or the dog did something and they try to get health care and an evil insurance company wouldn't pay off and the evil doctor wouldn't do the test.
That's what you're going to hear.
That's how they're going to do it.
They're going to gin up hatred.
They're going to gin up hatred and people that don't care and are going to make you think people don't care about you because they, the Obama people, do, because they're bombing in Washington on this.
They're bombing big time.
So it's time to go out to the Obama people.
So in that regard, and I know based on, just trust me, I know you Obama people are in this audience.
All it takes is for one syllable uttered by me from my oral cavity about Obama, one negative syllable, and I am overrun with emails.
So I know you're out there.
And maybe some of you independents and moderates on the fence about this.
I just have a simple question for you.
And this is the most obvious question not asked at yesterday's press conference.
Mr. President, will your health care plan work as well as your stimulus plan?
Okay, okay.
I know it's not fair because everybody knows the stimulus plan bombed.
But that's the whole point.
How's that hope and change going for you?
How's that new job?
How's all these shovel-ready make-work projects?
How's Caterpillar supposedly rehiring a bunch of people when they haven't done it?
How's that working out for you?
How's that stimulus plan getting your job?
How's your new job coming?
How's your home foreclosure?
Well, Obama's fixed all that right, and now he's going to be the provider of your health care.
How's your stimulus job working out?
I don't think that it is.
And then, of course, the New York Times today, Obama says government health coverage plan would not hurt private insurers.
I just explained how it'll wipe them out.
Private insurers have to show a profit.
The government never shows a profit, and they don't have to.
Private insurers will not be able to compete, pure and simple.
Now, Obama's talking about mandates anyway, mandating people get coverage.
It's over.
Bruce in Muskegon, Michigan.
You're next in the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Russ, for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Please bear with me.
I'm a little bit nervous.
Long time listener, first-time caller.
Yes, sir.
I'm calling regarding the firing of Inspector Walpin.
Yes.
This kind of reminds me of the days Nixon fired Archibald Cox.
You know, Obama's not even following the laws that he helped co-sponsor when he was in the Senate.
And, You know, other than back on the Fox News, the mainstream media is not covering the story at all.
So, I got two quick questions.
One, what will it take to get the mainstream media to stop being a lapdog for Obama on this?
The mainstream media is not.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Do not ever, folks, just a teachable moment, and I need to repeat this constantly: do not ever, especially with this president and this media, do not ever think that the media, the state-run media, is going to carry water for Obama opponents.
It isn't going to happen.
What can the Republicans do about it?
There's a letter, a letter signed by a former Republican U.S. Attorney General, a former Democrat White House counsel, 144 other prominent lawyers has been sent to the White House and to the Attorney General about this.
So, the private sector, you know, the special interest groups, they're going to be the ones to bring pressure.
The media is going to be dragged, kicking, and screaming into covering this and eventually covering for Obama.
We will be back.
Warren Buffett wasn't finished.
Warren Buffett wasn't through.
He blasted Pelosi's cap-and-trade national energy tax, called it a huge tax, fairly regressive.
It will harm an awful lot of people.
Warren Buffett's a giant Democrat wrecking ball on CNBC today.
And they had a gay exorcism in a Connecticut church.