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July 22, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 22, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Now look, I understand it, folks.
I totally understand it, but I gotta caution you again.
I think people are way too giddy out there on this health care business.
Obama I by the way, I mean, I think he's close to going over the edge.
I hope nobody talks about his big ears within his earshot today, because this is a guy who grew up charmed.
He grew up never laughed at, never teased, never kidding, and probably never criticized.
He doesn't deal with this very well.
If somebody within his earshot today happens talk about his big ears, it could push him over the edge.
So if just don't get in our giddiness out there thinking this health care thing is defeated.
It isn't.
He's gonna try and win over these blue dog Democrats, these so-called blue dog Democrats.
Um I've seen these pictures the last couple days of Rom Emanuel and this you know Dement was right.
This is waterloo.
If he loses this is his water, and he knows it.
Chuck Grassley has admitted that a Democrat member Congressman or Senator or somewhere uh quoting Obama saying, uh you can destroy my presidency.
It is about him.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you with us, uh Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to be with you.
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All right.
Now, the President of the United States says, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that uh they rescued the economy.
You know, the poll numbers are dropping here.
There's an AP GFK poll, and it now shows that a majority of Americans are back to thinking that the country's headed in the wrong direction after a so you know fleeting period in which more thought it was on the right track.
The number of people who think Obama can improve the economy is down improve the economy is down 19 percentage points from days just before his inauguration.
Ditto for expectations about creating jobs.
This is where the Waterloo is.
Not just in health care.
Now he's out there the question was asked yesterday by a caller, and it is a great question to keep asking.
What has Obama done for you?
What have the Liberal Democrats done for you?
They've been running the show since 2007 on Capitol Hill.
Obama's been running a show with them since January of this year.
What have they done for you?
Another question, what have they done to you?
They haven't done anything for anybody.
There is there is nothing they can say.
We rescued the economy as a means of saying, well, it would be much, much worse if we hadn't done what we've done.
They haven't done any.
We just found out stimulus money is gonna be used to put new energy efficient lights at the runways at the Raleigh Durham Airport.
Stimulus money.
And it's gonna cost it's either six or eight million dollars to do the how how long is it gonna take to get the savings back to put in energy, and this is part of the stimulus bill.
It's just it's it's absurd.
It's not he's not doing anything for anybody.
Now, let's get to health care, because that's what the presidential press conference tonight's gonna be about.
I have a simple question.
If health care is such a catastrophe in this country, if there is such a pressing, overwhelming need for reform.
Why didn't any of the one trillion dollars in porculus money go to insuring those who don't have any insurance?
Why didn't that happen?
Now I ran some numbers, and you know, sometimes when I run numbers, I'm off a little bit.
So I ran these numbers backwards, forwards, upside down.
By my calculation, you have 43 or 47 million uninsured people.
Now the assumption isn't all of them really wish they had insurance, but that's not true.
Not all 47 million want health insurance.
There was a guy at a town hall meeting yesterday in Maryland we played the tape for?
He didn't want it.
He likes having the money to spend on other things.
Anyway.
You could, for between 30 and 100 billion dollars, you could buy a health insurance policy for a full year for every person who can't afford it.
Let's see, 12 million people.
12 million people is what I ran on.
People that can't afford it.
For between 29, of course it depends on the policy you look at.
Between 29 and 100 billion, 100 million.
Uh 29 billion and 100 billion.
That's that's a raw uh broad range.
You could cover everybody for a year.
Now we just spent a trillion dollars in porculus money.
Why didn't we do that if it's such a catastrophe?
It's a drop in the bucket for what Obama is spending, not just on porculus, but TARP.
All the bailouts that we've had.
It's a it's a drop in the bucket.
We don't need to spend a trillion dollars on health care to insure people.
Nowhere near it.
Why didn't the stimulus bill pay for health insurance for the downtrodden?
Why not send billions to emergency rooms and hospitals who provide care for anybody who walks in?
Why not do that?
Why didn't Obama rescue the people without health insurance while he was rescuing the economy?
We have a deficit we can't pay off.
We have unemployment about to go double digit.
Obama wants to destroy the health insurance policies a huge majority of Americans have and like.
He isn't rescuing anything.
He's destroying it.
And he's doing it on purpose.
He doesn't give a damn about anybody but himself and his media.
Destroying the American economy is not how anybody helps people.
And this this healthcare debacle is an absolute debacle.
It has no prayer of working and providing greater health care.
In fact, there's a gutsy story today.
I found it last night on the American thinker by a guy named uh let me find it here.
I'm uh where did I put it?
I give a health care.
Ah, here it is, James Lewis on the American thinker.
Talk about not pulling any punches.
Does Ted Kennedy deserve his extended cancer care?
Is the headline to the piece.
Senator Kennedy, 76 years old, diagnosed with brain cancer in May of last year, telling the world that nationalized medical care is the cause of his life.
He wants to see it pass as soon as possible before he departs for better places.
The prospect of Kennedy's passing is viewed by the liberal media with anticipatory tears and mourning, but they're not asking the proper question by their own lights.
That question, which will be asked for you and me when we reach his age and his state in life is this is Senator Kennedy's life valuable enough to dedicate millions of dollars to extending it another month, another day, or another year.
Because the truth of this is a very brave piece by Mr. Lewis to the American thinker, because you're not supposed to write things like this about people who are terminal.
But it's a it's a it's a it's a pointed question because we're all gonna reach this stage, so or most of us will, and Obama's health care plan by definition will not cover people in Senator Kennedy's circumstances because the investment will not be deemed worthwhile.
Senator Kennedy is available to get this because he's got a great health care plan and because he has independent wealth to augment it and to go along with it.
Consider what happens in the Netherlands to elderly people.
The Netherlands legalized assisted suicide in 2002, no doubt in part for compassionate reasons, but also to save money.
There is only one money kitty for medical care in the socialist Netherlands, and when you get old, the question is asked, either explicitly or by implication, do you deserve to live another year compared to young refugees from Somalia who can use the same Euros to have many years of life?
That's how they look at it in the Netherlands.
This is where we are headed.
By the way, did I?
Grab audio soundbite 16, June 24th, 2009, just last month, on ABC's uh uh Obama reality show.
Prime time questions for the president.
One member of the audience, Jane Stern said, My mother is now over a hundred and five.
But at 100, the doctor said to her, I can't do anything more unless you have a pacemaker.
I said, go for it.
She said, go for it.
But the specialist said, nah, she's too old.
When the other specialist saw her, saw her joy of life, so on, he said, I'm going for it.
That was over five years ago.
My question to you is outside the medical criteria for prolonging life for somebody who's elderly.
Is there any consideration that can be given for a certain spirit, a certain joy of living, a quality of life, or is it just a medical cutoff at a certain age?
I can't believe somebody is actually asking this question of the president of the United States in this country, but it happened.
A woman asks the president, would you let my mother live?
Would you take into account her joy of living?
Would your plan let my mother live?
Can you believe that we're even asking that question?
Sadly, it was asked, and here's his answer.
I don't think that we can make judgments based on people's spirit.
Uh, that'd be uh a pretty subjective decision to be making.
I think we have to have rules that uh say that we are going to provide good quality care for all people.
End of life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we're gonna have to make.
But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another.
If they're not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they're being made by private insurers.
At least we can let doctors know, and your mom know that you know what?
Maybe this isn't gonna help.
Maybe you're better off uh not having the surgery, but taking uh the painkiller.
So maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.
All right.
Would we have said that to Senator Kennedy under the Obama health care plan?
Would we have said that?
No.
Senator Kennedy's exempt from Obamacare, as are all members of Congress.
And by the way, do you know that the health care plan, and it's a cafeteria, but it's you it's a smorgasbord of choices that Congressmen and Senators have, and members of the uh the the federal workforce.
Do you know the government does not run those plans?
Those are private plans.
Those are run by the government doesn't run the health care of elected officials in Washington.
That's not government run.
They're not gonna opt in to a government-run program.
Uh it's just not going to happen.
So many things are misunderstood about health care in this country anyway.
Anyway, I got a lot to do here.
We'll take a brief time out, our first obscene profit break.
We'll be back and continue here on the EIB network right after this.
Let me go ahead and take this call right now because I've been in the email's going nuts about this, too.
So let's just deal with it now, get it out of the way.
Tom and Tucson, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Very good to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Wow.
I wanted to uh talk about your uh your sp your uh means of uh speeding up your program.
I cannot understand the uh the uh accelerated uh speed that you're uh doing with Obama's voice and everybody else's.
Well, I'm not doing everybody else.
We're only speeding up Obama Pelosi and Barney Frank, and maybe today James Carville.
Because I understand the need to save time.
No, it has nothing to do with saving time.
Is two things.
These people are running at breakneck speed to force a debacle down our throat.
Uh, I'm just trying to illustrate the breakneck speed, the disastrous, dangerous speed with which they're proceeding on this by speeding them up.
If they're in such a hurry, we'll play them in a hurry.
Well, that's fine, but I can't understand what they're saying.
Well, uh, then we'll I'll tell you what we'll do.
We'll speed them up even more for you.
Thank you very much, Tom.
I appreciate it.
Jim Dement, a senator from South Carolina, has really, really hit pay dirt with his claim that this health care, if it's defeated, is Obama's Waterloo.
And what's interesting, Obama put his presidency on the line, and then he recoils when Dement agrees with him.
What do you mean by that, Rush?
Well, okay, from the National Journal, a telling episode recounted by Senate finance ranking member Charles Grassley reveals the Obama administration might be more worried than they're letting on that a Republican senator's comparison to the health care overhaul of Waterloo might be dangerously close to the truth.
Grassley said he spoke with a Democrat House member last week who shared Obama's bleak reaction during a private meeting to reports that some factions of House Democrats are lining up to stall or even take down the overhaul unless leaders made major changes.
Grassley said, let's just lay everything on the table.
A Democrat Congressman last week told me after a conversation with the president that the president had trouble in the House of Representatives and it wasn't going to pass if there weren't going to be some changes, and the president said, You're going to destroy my presidency.
The president told a Democrat, you're going to destroy my president.
Well, I thought it wasn't about him.
I thought this wasn't about him.
I thought this about us.
I thought it was about us and our precious health care.
No, no, no, no.
It's all about him.
He's worried about his presidency being destroyed.
So all Dement did was say this could be his waterloo, and Obama agrees with him.
Uh, and recoils when Dement says this and just he can't handle criticism.
He's never been criticized substantively, I'll guarantee you.
I know these kind of people, folks.
I've worked for him, I've been fired by them.
Never been criticized, never laughed at, never teased.
Remember, Maureen Dowd made some comment about his elephant ears during the campaign, and he walked down off the stage and confronted.
I'm very, very sensitive about my ears.
And she said, we're just trying to toughen you up.
So I guarantee you they are they are there's a there's instability over there in the White House uh coming unhinged because the magic that got can you imagine, folks?
Imagine if they'd have done health care first instead of porculus, they'd have gotten it.
They would nobody would dare stop the first thing he was going to do.
He was in his honeymoon, the first black president, historical and all that.
He was gonna get that.
He got that stimulus in two weeks.
We we better thank our lucky stars.
I never thought I would say this.
But we better thank our lucky stars that they did stimulus first.
Because if they had done this first, it would be signed into law already.
He would have gotten it.
I'll bet Rom Emanuel is kicking himself and the furniture, stabbing stakes with a knife and sending dead fish to himself because he's all upset about the strategical blunder.
Now they started with porculus and it ain't working.
It's not doing anything for anybody, and the poll numbers are plummeting.
And because of that, the health care problem's in big trouble.
Nothing this administration has done has fixed anything, and each and every day there's a greater realization of that fact by more and more people.
So here are five questions that Jim Dement would like the president to address tonight.
Now, he will not be asked these questions.
And if he does get some tough questions tonight, uh there's always the possibility that a renegade will get in there.
If he does get some tough questions, he's gonna start filibustering, he'll get a 10 to 12 minute answer to limit the number of questions because he thinks he dazzles people with his command of the facts.
In 10 to 12 minute answers.
All right, here's five questions Dement would like the president to answer.
If the major provisions of the health care bills will not kick in until 2013, four years from now, why the hurry to pass a thousand-page bill before the August recess, a bill you admit you haven't fully read yourself.
Question number two.
You've said your health care bill will cut costs and not increase the deficit, but independent analysis by the nonpartisan CBO contradicts both of your claims, saying it'll raise costs and increase the deficit by 240 billion dollars in the first ten years.
What independent analysis will you provide that supports your claims and refutes CBOs?
Number three.
You have repeatedly said that your health care bill allows every American who likes their current employer-based plan to keep it.
But the most comprehensive independent analysis available by the Lewin group contradicts your claim, found your bill will force over 80 million Americans To lose their current coverage.
Will you provide independent analysis to refute the study?
And Obama won't.
He doesn't debate.
He clears the field.
He gets rid of opponents.
He does not debate issues.
He does not do that.
He has his ideas, and they are his and they are right, and they're going to happen.
Come hell or high water, and we don't even have the right to disagree.
We are we we we are being uppity if we disagree with this man's brilliance.
Your own record in the Senate reveals you spent years voting against nearly every reform to make health care more affordable and accessible.
This week you said that opponents of your plan are content to perpetuate the status quo or in fact fighting reform on behalf of powerful special interests.
Which specific elected officials, Mr. President, will you cite that have proposed to keep the status quo?
And is that how you characterize the opposition of the 52 blue dog Democrats in the House?
Five yes or no question.
Will you guarantee pro-life Americans that they will not be forced to subsidize elective abortions?
Five questions for the president tonight.
We'll be back in a moment.
All right.
One more thing on these speeded up clips.
We're going to stick with this, folks.
And we're not doing it to save time.
Although it does help us do that.
We're doing it for well, I'm not going to tell you why we're doing it, but it's uh you you if you have I'm just not gonna tell we're gonna do it.
But don't if you can't understand them for some reason.
Now I'm deaf and I understand them.
Of course, I have a transcript in front of me.
You don't.
But always know this.
After every soundbite, I always parse it.
I always tell you what was said because I always refute what was said.
So be calm, be cool.
Everything's fine.
Jim Dement destroyed Mount Wower today on the Today Show.
Dement rendered Mount Wauer speechless on Obama's rush to have a government take over health care.
In fact, you know, I was what got in here today and I turned on the TVs.
Well, they were already on, and I look up at uh MSNBC and I see the the they've got the headline at the bottom of the screen.
Um rushed.
That's whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what did I miss?
And then just putting my name in there as a substitute for the word hurry.
Obama rush to have a government take over health care.
Question from Mount Wauer to Jim Dement.
Are you rallying conservatives to the cause of health care reform, or are you rallying conservatives to the cause of breaking a president?
We need to put the brakes on this president.
He's been on a spending spree since he took office.
His goal seems to be a government takeover, not making insurance more available.
So I do think we need to stop the president on this.
We need to stop his policy, because if we allow him to continue to ramp things through Congress before we even get a chance to read them, Matt, you know, I just brought one of the bills this morning.
I mean, if you look at this bill, it's one of the three bills that we're gonna have to do.
It's a complicated issue.
There are a lot of details in that bill.
Well, why do we need to pass it in two weeks before we go home?
Well, that's a good that's a good question.
Ah, it's a good question.
Why do we have to pass it in two weeks when it doesn't get implemented for four years?
Why do we have to pass it in two weeks?
By the way, I don't know if you saw this or not, a senior administration official says billions of dollars to raise fees for doctors treating Medicare patients are not covered by President Obama's pledge to pay for health care legislation.
The budget director, Peter Orznag said yesterday that's because the administration always assumed the money would be spent to prevent a cut of more than 20% in doctors' fees.
I'm not sure I understand this.
Did this story saying they missed 245 billion dollars in doctors' fees?
We know they're gonna squeeze the doctors to try to cut costs.
But how do you have this health court legislation and not cover payment to doctors?
That can't be what this means.
Maybe it can.
Maybe it maybe they uh uh with this bunch.
You just you just don't know.
All right, now I want to comment on Cut 12 again, but I want to play Cut 13 first.
Jim Dement and Mount Wower, the second soundbite of their exchange on the Today Show today.
The words you chose were very specific.
It could be his Waterloo.
It could break this president.
I guess the obvious question is it wouldn't break your heart if you break this president, would it?
It's not personal, but we've got to stop his policies, Matt.
The policies are not matching up to the promises.
They're loading trillions of dollars of debt onto the American people.
And the thing is we need real health care reform.
Yeah, uh the the you see the drive-by's here are trying to make it out like Dement, me, everybody else want to destroy the president personally.
Understand this.
He's already failing.
He is in the process of failing and failing big.
He is failing the United States.
He is failing our country.
He is failing our economy.
He, in his mind, is succeeding.
This is what people still don't get.
What's happened as a result of his policies is exactly what was intended.
There is no sane person in the world who would implement policies like this if their objective was economic growth and prosperity.
You would only do what they're doing and then double down on it.
If your intent is to remake it, destroy it, and put it back together in a way that we won't recognize.
And that's what's going on.
That's what we've got to stop him, is what Dement's saying.
It doesn't matter.
This could be Anastas Mikoyan could be president.
We've got this to whoever's doing this.
We've got to stop him.
The drive-bys want to make this all personal.
I'm gonna tell you something.
This health care deal is Obama's waterloo.
I think Dement's right.
I think stimulus bills is Waterloo, actually.
And this is gonna be this would be Waterloo too.
But there's another Waterloo happening out there.
And the waterloo that's happening out there is the is the mainstream media.
The mainstream media has met their waterloo, and their waterloo is Obama.
They are giving up every ounce of integrity and character they ever had to defend this guy.
They are not reporting what his policies are doing.
They're covering him only from the standpoint of a horse race.
Is he gonna win?
Is he gonna beat those evil Republicans?
Is he going to triumph?
Can Obama pull it out?
Can Obama pull it out?
Can Obama can how can we help Obama destroy the country?
That's what he wants to do.
How can we help?
They are sacrificing every bit of integrity, objectivity, and professionalism they ever had.
And we can debate how much that was, but they've sacrificed, they have punted, they've given it up.
They have met their Waterloo, they are destroying themselves to defend President Obama regardless.
Now, Dement said we need health care reform, real health care reform.
And Obama had a tweet.
You know, the White House.
The White House had a tweet.
The White House is m is running this like a campaign.
They're sending out tweets and emails to all of their acorn groups and so forth in all the states, trying to get them geared up for a campaign to get this passed.
That's not about politics, though.
That's about health care, and it's not about me, he says.
It's all about him.
He's worried his presidency's on the line here.
This tweet from the uh from the White House last night.
Health care reform opponents scale up attacks, playing politics with our lives and livelihood.
Fight back.
Now, there are no health care reform opponents.
Health care reform opponents scale up attacks.
There are no reform opponents.
We all have reform ideas.
There are just those who disagree with Obama's 1,000-page plan that Obama admits he hasn't even read.
See, we're not allowed to disagree.
We're now health care reform opponents scaling up attacks.
We just disagree with this debacle.
So the president of the United States starts off by smearing those who have different ideas.
So much for postpartisan, so much for hope and change, so much for a new era.
Obama never takes on opponents in the arena of ideas, folks.
He misleads and plays politics.
When we're talking about the doctor-patient relationship in America, this is the president tweeting.
Health care reform opponents scale up attacks, playing politics with our lives and livelihood fight back.
Next he says those that oppose his reforms are scaling up their attacks, like pointing out the CBO says this plan Obama hasn't read is a disaster.
Are they part of the group that's attacking him?
When Obama says a tax, he means bringing up facts after studying his deeply flawed plan that he says he hasn't read.
Then he says those opponents of his plan who have read the plan are playing politics.
Obama is ramming a plan to socialize medicine into law at light speed, but no one even reading the bill except the people who have read it who are pointing out what's in it, and then he demonizes those who have read it and think it's a bad idea by saying they are playing politics.
Whatever happened of the people by the people for the people.
It's become screw the people by the people to the people.
Playing politics with our lives and livelihoods?
This bill's a jobs killer.
The porkness bill is a jobs killer.
Playing politics with lives and livelihoods, Obama's already taken care of that.
He's destroying some lives.
You know, I've got a story in the stack here about kids and the music they're listening to these days, and the music they like, all talks.
There's no reason to succeed anymore because there's nothing to succeed doing.
There's nothing there's nothing out there, nothing to grab.
We've got to all learn to do with less.
It's sad.
This is the United States of America.
He's destroying ambition.
He's destroying desire.
He is creating a scenario in an atmosphere where people settle for less than they could be.
And for the young to be thinking this, not good for the future of the country.
Obama is playing politics with lives and livelihoods.
Fight back, he says.
Not compromise, not talk, not find common ground.
Fight back in that one short sentence, that tweet.
Barack Obama gave away all the dignity of the office of the president.
That tweet is filled with contempt.
It is filled with deceit, smears, and is partisan politics at its very best.
For worst.
Health care reform opponents scale up attacks, playing politics with our lives and livelihood fight back.
We are fighting back.
We're fighting back to save livelihoods.
It's called jobs.
A lot on the table.
A lot is at stake.
53%, by the way, now oppose congressional health care reform.
This is a Rasmussen report.
Health care reform legislation working its way through Congress has lost support over the last month, and 53% now oppose it.
I gotta take a break.
There's a great piece at the American Thinker.com on rights.
What they are, what a what a health care right is, it's really brilliant.
It's well done.
I will share it with you after we come back from the timeout.
But this post-partisan business.
Postpartisan Obama's gonna get rid of partisanship.
Politics as usual, hope and change.
The GOP and Blue Dog Democrats are opposing Obama.
That's bipartisan.
There is bipartisan opposition.
Not just the Blue Dogs, there are some standard run-of-the-mill liberal Democrats are very nervous about this.
But a story here.
Charlie Wrangle.
Nobody's got the guts to tell Nancy Pelosi to slow down.
And certainly nobody has the guts to tell the president so, but they are scared.
Folks, I'm telling you, even your run-of-the-mill average liberal Democrat.
This is a bit.
I mean, they'd love to get it, but they don't want to lose election in 2010.
They'd love to get this done.
But this is so fast, such an overreach, such a giant grab that, you know, this is they like to do things on the stealth.
They like to do things under the guise of helping the poor and everybody.
This is this is not going to do anything but hurt everybody.
Obama is the one being purely partisan, and Rahmanuel, Obama's the one leading the hard left of his party, and that's who exclusively support this, the hard left.
The opposition to Obama Is bipartisan.
He is the one who is the pure political party.
He's just like every other liberal Democrat that's ever come along, except he's far more radical.
There's nothing new about him.
There's nothing unique.
There's nothing we haven't seen before.
He's just the first guy that had the audacity to give an acceptance speech in front of some fake faux Greek columns.
Well, you hear this.
This is from the Toronto Star.
General Motors got a Cadillac's 100th anniversary is coming up.
They're going to launch a line of scented product.
Cologne.
Men's cologne called Cadillac.
It not smell like the inside of a car.
Nobody's been able to do that, actually.
It is grapefruit, chamomile, a mix of geranium, tarragon, and cinnamon plus sweet spice and incense.
General Motors is going to get in the cologne business.
The men's cologne business.
Rather than come up super duper Cadillac, they're in the Obama is mad at his presidency might be destroyed.
We heard this from Charles Grassley, who quotes a member of the House, saying the Democrats in Congress could destroy my presidency.
And that's what makes him mad.
See, he doesn't care if he destroys private insurance companies.
He doesn't care if he destroys the automobile industry.
He doesn't care if he destroys elements of the private sector.
He doesn't care if millions of jobs are destroyed.
But boy, let's start talking about his presidency being destroyed, and now we got some anger.
And now we got some motivation.
And I'm telling the motivation Ram Emanuel and the Democrats and Obama are in today is saving his presidency.
It's not about giving you health care.
It's not about doing anything for you.
What have they done for you?
Rich Erbick, AmericanThinker.com, one step closer to losing your right to health care.
Isn't the point of the Democrats' push to reform the health care system based on establishing health care as a right?
That's what the politicians say.
But in reality, the result will be the exact opposite.
Part of the problem is most Americans don't understand what a right is.
Anyone ever asked you to explain or define a right?
And even though you may know what it is, but have you ever tried to tell somebody what it is?
A right is not a guarantee that the government or other people will provide you anything for free or otherwise.
That's not a right does not come because a government grants it.
We have the right to engage in religious expression, but that doesn't mean the government pays for the construction of the church.
We have the right to peacefully assemble, but the government doesn't promise to supply your transportation to get you there unless you're Obama and have acorn.
You have the right to keep and bear arms, but don't expect the government to provide you with a free firearm and bullets.
You have the right to free speech, but the government will not grant you free radio or television time.
What makes something a right is not whether the government can force somebody else to pay for it.
What defines something as a right is whether the government can or cannot prohibit you from doing it.
And this is what President Obama calls negative liberties.
The Bill of Rights, he refers to as a negative liberty because all it does, all they do is define what the government cannot do to you.
But it doesn't say what the government can do to you.
It doesn't say what the government can do for you.
So the Constitution's an obstacle to this man.
A right is something that they can't take away in a free society.
If the government can't stop you from doing it, then it's a right.
And rights came from God.
We are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, but Obama's government's trying to take every one of those away.
To some people, life, of course, both abortion and late in life, death counseling.
Liberty?
Pursuit of happiness?
Young people in America have given up on that.
They just want to survive now.
More on this when we come back.
Stay with us.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, the question is: how can you possibly be said to have a right to health care if the government can deny it?
And believe me, they're going to be denying all kinds of people all kinds of health care.
It cannot possibly be a right if they can take it from you.
There's much more.
We barely scratch the surface here, folks.
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