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Aug. 13, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 13, 2009, Thursday, Hour #3
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Did you hear what Gibbs just said?
The White House briefing.
I'm sure that even as we speak, Cookie is working on the audio.
Gibbs just said that what is happening in the town hall meetings is not indicative of what's happening in America.
How do you say that?
The town hall meetings are America.
They're happening in America.
They're happening with members of Congress, happening all over the place, but something's not indicative of what's happening in America.
I think that's what he said.
Not indicative of what's going on in America.
Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh to EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Nice to have you with us here, folks.
I want to go back to a couple of sound bites.
played in the second, about an hour ago.
There are town halls in New Jersey for a town hall for New Jersey Representative Steve Rothman, Democrat in New Jersey, The first report is from WABC Channel 7 Eyeball News in New York.
The reporter is Dave Evans, and the audience member that you will hear speak up here is named Steven Rubinsky.
There was a feeling of exasperation at all the rhetoric, especially how some conservatives have used Nazi symbolism in blasting Obama's plan.
I am appalled as being a Jew that the N-word is racially inflammatory, but Rush Limbo could get on the radio and all over and use Nazism and Nazi and Hitler.
This man went on saying limball shouldn't be allowed on the airways, to which conservatives here took exception.
Let's keep it down.
Let's keep it down.
That's Rothman.
His contribution to the whole thing.
Let's keep it down.
And then Fox 5 eyeball news in uh in New York.
They reported their Mike Gilliam, another Rothman town hall meeting.
This one was in Rutherford, New Jersey.
Outside of Rutherford's borough hall, Linda LaRouches, people, with anti-Obama posters depicting the president as a Nazi.
Inside rowdy debate.
What are you gonna do about it there?
And also things that these are Democrats.
You know, for all you all you Democrats here who think I'm preaching to the choir, you got Democrats these town hall meetings showing up invoking my name.
They're either hearing what I'm saying or hearing about it, but it sounds like they're here they're doing both.
But the real noteworthy thing here, hear these Democrats show up in New Jersey invoking my name when I can't do diddly squat to them.
They're lucky they have enough Democrats not in jail in New Jersey to till conduct town halls, number one.
What was they had a sweep of Democrats, mayors, rabbis, 40 of them out there, and some of these rabbis were trafficking in body parts.
Rabbis.
New Jersey Democrat rabbis trafficking in body parts.
And they're worried about me.
Uttering words on the radio.
These democracy you Democrats in New Jersey, I'm gonna tell you something.
You are insane.
There is no rational explanation for the way you vote.
There's no rational explanation for the way you think.
And if it keeps up, there aren't gonna be any Democrats in New Jersey able to conduct town halls because they are all gonna be in jail.
Trafficking in body parts.
How many rabbis was it, Snurley?
At least two rabbis?
Yeah, two rabbis.
But I mean it was a it was a statewide sweep of Democrats, mayors and so forth.
And you people are worried about me.
All right.
Now, a couple funny sound bites here.
First MSNBC morning meeting today, the co-host Chris Jansing uh was talking to the real host, Dylan Radigan.
They had this exchange, and you'll hear the Washington Post's Jonathan Cape Hart in here.
I don't think Hillary Clinton's approval ratings or her popularity in the American public were ever higher than after her husband had an unfortunate situation in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky said.
Stop the tape and recue the tape.
and Ms. Jansen, if your husband had been getting BJs in the office from A woman would you refer to it as an unfortunate situation he had.
Unfortunate situation?
Hillary's ratings were never higher than after her husband had an unfortunate situ.
Yeah, minding his own business with his pants down, and here comes an intern with a pizza.
Oh, it's so unfortunate.
All right, here's the bite in total.
I don't think Hillary Clinton's approval ratings or her popularity in the American public were ever higher than after her husband had an unfortunate situation in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky.
So what does that say about us when we find women most appealing?
When they're most vulnerable and when she feels vulnerable, and then you can be sympathetic, but when she's powerful, she's a bitch.
Whoa, didn't you?
Don't we always say that?
You Democrats in New Jersey hear this?
MSNBC, which used to take place in New Jersey, and then they moved over to Rockefeller Center in New York, but you just had an MSNBC host called Hillary Clinton a B.I. itch.
And they started laughing about it.
She was never more popular than after her husband had the unfortunate situation of getting a Lewinsky'd all over the place by an intern when she was a B.I. it.
She was never more popular when she was a BIH.
And Tina Brown on MSNBC today with Joe Scarborough.
Uh, what's wrong with my former ex-girlfriend Hillary Clinton?
What's wrong with Hillary is one week too long on this African hellish tour that she's on.
Think of it from the human point of view.
She is in her second week.
She is hot.
She is feeling fat.
She had this horrible business where she suddenly lost it a bit over the whole bill thing.
Frankly, I want to get her home now.
I want to get her home.
Otherwise, you know, by the time she hits Liberia, she's going to be saying, What can I tell you?
We had an idiot for the president.
She's just letting it hang out.
Okay.
Uh I had mentioned earlier that Tina Brown said that Hillary was feeling fat, and there.
You heard it.
You heard her say it.
She said it.
Horrible business, suddenly lost it a bit over the whole bill thing.
I finally did see the video that everybody's telling me, but she's I'm telling you, she's fondling herself there.
Well, Dawn.
There's no other way to describe this.
I'm of the waste.
Don't misunderstand, folks.
She's just grabbing herself while she's speaking is over like she's uh got malaria or something, itching.
Yes, I know it's gonna be interesting news night in Detroit today.
In case you missed, let me get to this uh story just to uh repeat this.
This is from the Wall Street Journal, Detroit School Woes Deepen.
Five employees of the Detroit Public Scrual System were charged yesterday with multiple felonies as part of an investigation into alleged corruption and the loss of tens of millions of dollars in scrubal funds.
The charges come as the Detroit Public Scruels is struggling with an estimated budget deficit of 259 million dollars and weighing a potential bankruptcy filing.
Folks, this is what happens is what I said.
This is what happens when nothing but liberals, no one but liberals run anything.
Liberals, liberals, nothing but liberals have been running Detroit and the public schools.
259 million dollar budget deficit for a school system.
And I said in the last hour, reporting this, maybe just better to shut the whole school system down and let them continue to get the education on the street.
Snerdley got a panic look on his face.
He said, Oh no, no, no.
I can just see the headlines on Detroit TV tonight.
First, he said bulldoze Flint, Michigan.
Now Rush Limbaugh suggests just shutting down the Detroit school system, leaving Detroit children with nowhere to go.
First, he suggested bulldozing Flint Michael, which I didn't suggest.
Some local politician in Flint suggested bulldozing it.
I reacted in horror.
bulldozed the town.
My God, what are these liberals doing?
And then I said, thought about it.
Maybe he's got a point.
That became my idea as far as the local media in Flint.
It became my idea to bulldoze the place.
When all I did was ultimately agree with the plan put forth by some local Democrat.
All right.
Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Senator, Town Hall meeting in Anchorage said this about the health care debate.
It does us no good to incite fear in people by saying that there's an end of life provisions, these death panels.
So quite honestly, I'm so offended at that terminology because it absolutely isn't.
There is no reason to gin up fear in the American public by saying things that are not included in the bill.
Now, here here again.
This is this is why you members of Congress are in deep trouble.
End of life provisions are in the bill, and it's simply a matter of logic.
We don't treat the healthy.
The healthy have very little money spent on them for their health care because they're not sick.
Only the sick are expensive, and we got to save money in health care.
Who do you where are you gonna cut?
You can't cut money you're not spending on the healthy.
There can be no other, and it's not just end of life.
It's gonna be even young people who have certain diseases that are determined to be not worth treating because of cost or the stage of the disease.
The government's gonna be in the decision in the position of deciding who gets treatment and who doesn't.
And Senator Murkowski, it is irresponsible of you not to be informed enough to understand this.
Your constituents understand it.
They have read it.
Last night on CNN's Larry King Alive, fell-in host Wolf Blitzer during a discussion on Obama's health care plan.
So much of the medical costs would go away if people just listened.
They exercised, they ate properly, they didn't smoke, the things that everyone knows they have to do, but people still do it.
Uh what can the country do to force people to just straighten out their lives because billions and billions of dollars would be saved?
Do these do these statists understand?
Do they even hear themselves?
Do they know what they saying?
Are they so drunk on Obamaism that they don't realize this country is supposed to be about liberty?
A television anchor.
What can we do?
What can the country do to force people to straighten out their lives?
Asked by a CNN anchor.
What can we do?
Exercise, eat properly, don't smoke.
Hey, Wolf, I want you to listen to something.
We have cut the number of people who smoke in this country over by over half.
Not nearly as many people who used to smoke smoke today.
And they told us, Wolf, that if we could just get rid of smoking, it's gonna make it make it make a major dent in the number of people who smoke and therefore reduce the number of people exposed to secondhand smoke, that we would save so much in health care costs.
And Wolf, there isn't any secondhand smoke in any public place anymore.
And there are very few people smoking, period, much less in public places.
And hey, Wolf, have you seen health care costs drop any?
Have health care costs declined any wolf?
And Wolf, there's a hell of a lot of people out there exercising, and many of them are having tree limbs drop on them and kill them.
Some people are having heart attacks while they're out there exercising.
I read about it every day.
CNN may not get those stories.
I read about it all the time.
Two pieces trees are starting to revolt out there because of all the global warming.
They are lopping off people that go jogging underneath them, Wolf.
I've seen it.
And if they weren't exercising and a tree limb fell, nobody would have been hurt.
Get with it, Wolf.
You gotta get out of this narrow-minded template stuff that Obama can tell everybody how to live better than they already know how to live themselves.
But the second thing is, Wolf, it's none of your damn business how people eat or whether they exercise or not.
It's not your business.
It's not CNN's business.
It is not Barack Obama's business.
It's theirs.
Land of the free, home of the brave.
Liberty.
Life.
Pursuit of happiness, even if it is in a container of McNuggets.
Are you guys really drunk on Obama?
Is what is it here?
I've seen so many of these news people used to be somewhat sensible.
They're just gone now.
What can we do to make people live properly?
What can we do to make people eat right?
What can we do to make people exercise?
Who can we do to save billions and billions and billions in health care?
Very simple, Wolf.
Tort reform.
Health savings accounts, competition in the health care industry, where the patient actually pays for it, Wolf.
It's real simple.
I feel like a Howard Deems Dean scream is in order here, but I will not.
I will not debase myself.
By the way, one more thing here for all of you who think that there's magic to be found in preventive care, exercising and eating.
It has it has been established that there is no cost benefit to preventive care.
You know why it doesn't save medical costs?
In one way, there are many, many ways it doesn't save medical costs.
But one way it it it doesn't is that it people end up living longer.
They end up costing more at the end of their lives.
And the longer they live, that's the more social security.
Wolf, it's just idiotic.
Leave people alone.
Let them do what they want to do.
If they want to eat and die by 30, it's none of your business.
It's none of your business, Wolf.
If they want to eat McNuggets and find there aren't any and call 911 in Port St. Lucy, it's their business.
Can you imagine?
What if Wolf, I'd like to give you an idea.
You're hosting Larry King tonight, maybe on your own show.
Talk about poverty, the way you talk about health care.
Would you blame poor people for not taking more control of their lives?
What can we do to get these people to work?
What can we do to get these people to stop depending on welfare?
What can we do to get these people to educate themselves?
What?
What can we do to get people to eat right?
What can we do to get people to exercise?
What can we do to get people to understand?
Ask that about people in poverty.
What can we do to get them to take responsibility for themselves?
Ask that Wolf, see how long you last after the meeting with John Klein on that one.
Isn't how much money one earns more under your control than your health?
Because, you know, your genetic makeup is a large factor in your health.
Really is.
Why all the coddling?
Why all the compassion?
Why all the understanding for people in poverty and why they hate for people who are a little overweight.
Robert Gibbs, here's the soundbite, daily press briefing, said this about the town halls.
Well, I appreciate that you all have decided that every town hall meeting ends in pushing, shoving, uh, and yelling.
Uh I I don't think many of well, I don't know how many town halls you all have been to.
They're not completely indicative of what's going on in America.
How disconnected can you be out there, Gibbsy?
I mean, for crying out loud, have you seen a polling data?
Joe in Spring Valley, New York.
Hello.
Well, oh, one Joe, hang on just a second.
I I need to make a correction.
I have been told that the rabbis in the New Jersey body parts scam were both from New Jersey and from New York, and that many of them were Republican.
But when you want to bribe officials in New Jersey, you have no choice but then to bribe Democrats.
So the rabbis bribed officials they found in New Jersey, and when you go finding officials in New Jersey, you're gonna find Democrats.
All right, Joe in Spring Valley, uh, New York.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
Uh I've been uh in every corner of this world.
You your name is a household name.
I mean, you're a man of great intellect and wit.
I mean, it seems like whenever you open your mouth, you have an axe to grind against our president.
Why is that?
Let's say the end of life issue.
I mean, what's wrong with that?
I mean, look at all all you guys throwing your elderly parents into nursing homes at the mercy of greedy doctors, and to cut them up, slice and dice them up, and uh spend hundred thousand dollars per day in uh uh in a hospital uh you know setting.
That itself, if you remove that element from uh from our health care and keep your mother in your own home, that would save twenty cents on a dollar, just that aspect.
I mean, Obama uh just by keeping his mother in law in the White House, he's setting an example.
I mean, just say that.
Why why do you disagree with that aspect?
You think the mother in law's in the White House for any other reason than Michelle demanded it?
No, I mean he's setting an example.
You want to talk about setting an example.
How about the brother who lives in the hut?
How about how about the grandmother, the aunt, whatever that faces deportation?
But because her name is setting an example.
You look at I thought you were gonna ask me if there's even one good thing about Obama.
And I was gonna say, yeah, he's rented the house of a Republican on Martha's Vineyard for his vacation.
But the government has no business deciding when your family member lives and dies.
I don't care what money is about.
They have no business.
And welcome back.
I am Rush Limbaugh.
In every corner of the world, a household name.
We're back at 800-282-2882.
Now, we had Joe from uh uh Spring Valley, New York, uh Obama setting an example by having the mother in law in it is the mother in law, right?
You know, the mother in law in the White House.
That'd be Michelle's mom.
Look, folks, we've all been there now.
Let it let's not let let's not start telling ourselves stories.
The mother in law's in that house for one primary reason babysit the kids so that Michelle can flit around and join her husband or tell him what to say what to do when there's no prompter.
Uh whatever.
But she's not there because of poverty.
She's not there because she has no place else to live.
If Obama were setting an example, George O'Dingo Obongo would have been out of a hut in Kenya and in the White House six months ago.
That would be setting an example.
Or maybe send Jimmy Carter over there to build him a house, habitat for humanity.
Any number of things you can do.
But when your brother stays in a hut, after the world finds out that your brother is in a hut, don't call here and tell me about great examples being set.
All right, who's next?
Vincenza, Pearl River, New York.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, conservative ditto from a proud murder of two uh rush babies and a proud wife of a New York City detective, uh Macho Conservative man, very macho.
Thank you very much.
That means he doesn't go to the doctor much.
He hasn't been to the doctor since he's uh ten years old when he got his appendix out, and he's uh hitting fifty-six now.
Congratulations.
That's uh that's one way to cut health care costs is just don't spend any money on it.
Hey, listen, my first thing I want to say to you is how about putting Vincenzo on the top ten list of your old fair time favorite female names, well, I'd be glad to move it in there.
Vincenzo, one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
Thank you so much.
Um, but seriously, what I'd like to say is I've been hearing lately these libs uh saying, you know, according to the World Health Organization, France is uh rated uh number one uh for health care in uh the United States is rated like something thirty-four or something like that.
How do I uh respond to these idiots?
You simply say world any any organization which any organization which has as its first name world is a bunch of United Nations socialists.
You're right.
And and then you say the uh Secretary General UN yesterday told people in Incheon, Korea, we've got four months to save this planet.
And then you say, okay, we're 34th and France is first.
Go there when you get sick.
Go there.
Go there.
In fact, offer to pay their plane ticket.
Offer to play their pain ticket.
You're absolutely right.
You are sorry.
If they want to sit here and run down their own country, then say, okay, if it's better there, you m you might you might have missed this, but I have a I have my own plan to save money on health care and not tamper with our own health care system.
That's right.
I heard you before say that.
You're right.
Just give everybody a plane ticket or plane ticket to Canada.
And go up there and get treated.
They've already got a kind of debacle plan that Obama wants to do here.
Yeah, I just don't understand how these people think.
I really and truly.
They don't.
See, this is their you go nuts if you start thinking they think.
They're not they're reacting.
They and and they've been programmed.
They're they're they're emotional.
You know, they're they're they're emoting.
And you imagine what must your mindset be if you're American, you're born here, you're a Native American.
What must your mindset be to read a statistic that said the U.S. is 34th in the world in health care.
What must your mindset be to believe that?
When you intellectually know that any important or any anybody who can get here can afford it when they get sick, they come in here.
They're not some go to France, and I'm not in order to run France down, but I mean the world's trying to get into our country.
That's what I would say to them.
You're absolutely right.
But I just I can't.
I my my mind is boggled by how they think it really.
Yeah, don't expect to change your mind.
If you see, go in with liberals, you've got to go over the low expectations.
If you go in with high expectations, you are going to suffer letdowns.
Low expectations, you might be surprised now and then.
So thank you, Maharashi.
Thank you.
Thank you, Vincenzo.
And uh hello to your detective husband.
Thank you.
All right.
Uh Tupelo, Mississippi, this is Guy.
You're next in the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush man, why I tell you what, this is the greatest honor.
Thank you very much, sir.
I understand that.
Well, I've been listening to you since eighty-eight and first time caller, so kind of little nervous, but anyway.
I understand that too.
You know, I've been where you are.
I I have been on hold calling a talk show, and you never know when the guy, the screener is gonna say, okay, you're next.
You've been waiting all this time and you're hoping you don't forget what you wanted to talk about, and then all of a sudden you get the go signal and it's you kind of you know, your brain freezes.
I've been where you are.
That's why we're kind, patient, and tolerant with all first-time callers here.
Well, I appreciate it.
You bet.
I bought a cash for clunker deal, and uh and I really sort of feel guilty about it now.
Why daughter needed a car really bad.
She had a 14 mile per gallon Chevy Blazer.
And uh she needed something better, and we got got a great deal, but I just really feel guilty about it.
Why me?
Yeah, sorta.
Why are you feeling guilty about using the cash or clunker program?
And all you did, all you did was use somebody else's money, uh some other taxpayers' money to go buy a car.
What's the big deal?
I mean, people do that in this country all the time.
Well, I know.
I try not to.
Um that is true.
I agree with you on about 99% of the stuff that you talk about.
And I can't stand the Pittsburgh Steelers, and they're my one theme.
I can't stand the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Well, other than that, I agree with you.
They're not the worst team.
What's your favorite NFL team then?
Uh cowboys.
Cowboys.
And the Raiders second, but they've done terrible.
The Raiders, that's uh that's that's that's tough fandom for the Raiders.
It's well, uh look, the cashier clunkers they I can understand you're feeling guilty because when it came along, I'm sure you thought of as you're getting your own money back.
Okay, fine, I paid enough in taxes, I'm getting my own money back, I'm gonna go buy a car, get rid of clunker.
But what really all it was Was a uh uh redistribution of wealth.
Uh and the way to look at it, you know, they only gave money away to people buying cars.
They didn't give everybody forty, five hundred dollars back.
And by the way, they didn't give anybody anything.
They went ahead to borrow it.
We don't have the money.
They don't have the money.
Have you seen the deficit?
Have you seen the national debt?
But look, um, you know, you you I don't want you to feel guilty for too long over this.
That at some point you have to you have to get past it.
What kind of car uh guide did you buy for your daughter?
Uh Hyundai Elantra.
Uh you bought a you bought a Hyundai.
A Hyundai.
It was made in the You traded in, you traded in an Obama mobile blazer, and you bought a Hyundai.
Right.
A Hyundai Elantra.
It was made in the United States, so I will agree.
You know, I will say that.
Yeah.
It might have been assembled here.
Right.
Uh well, what what what miles per gallon does a Hyundai Elantra get?
Average is twenty-four.
Oh, well, so you you're ten miles per gallon ahead of the game.
Right.
If it's a smaller car, right?
It is.
Does she like it?
My daughter had to have something.
She just got married, her husband's in Iraq.
And uh she had to have something better.
Wait a minute now.
Wait, why didn't you say this in the first place?
You're her husband's in Iraq.
Right.
You got nothing to feel guilty about.
Well.
You've got nothing whatsoever, nor does she.
You should have told me that at the beginning.
You got nothing to feel guilty about.
Well, I appreciate it.
All right.
I'm glad you mentioned that to me.
Now you you nothing but pride you ought to have.
Oh, I definitely have great pride in him.
Good.
And all our soldiers.
Big time.
Yeah, I I I yeah, guy, you're absolved.
You you you don't you don't need to just the exact I wish you'd have told me about the uh your son-in-law in Iraq uh Iraq first.
You go in peace.
Yeah, you don't need it need to be all tensed up about this.
All right.
All right.
And I think it's even I think it's even great you bought a Hyundai and screwed Obama's car company at the same time.
So it's a win-win.
By the way, Vengenza, uh you asked uh question of a World Health Organization rating French health care at the top and the United States 34th.
Uh did some digging on this, uh, and let me tell you, one of the the two interesting factors that go into the World Health Organization's rating of health care.
One thing they take into account is military people killed in action.
When you start comparing United States troop commitments around the world to those of France, you'll find that the frogs are very few places getting shot at.
And another thing that they take into account, no, seriously, they they do that, folks.
Seriously, the second thing they take into account is homicides.
And in a lot of our blue cities, a lot of our blue states run by Democrats for years, there are a lot of homicides.
Maybe more so than in France.
The French health care system, by the way, there's a big seven-page story on it in the Wall Street Journal.
And they've got it's a public private system.
They've got a public, they got a private system and a public system just like ours.
They have recently imposed American-style copies on patients to throttle back prescription drug costs.
They have forced state hospitals to crack down on expenses.
The people don't like it.
The government controls eighty-eight percent of health care and the cost are skyrocket.
They got a monopoly on eighty eighty eight percent of health care in France.
The costs are going up, they can't control it.
People there don't like it.
So tell your people that.
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Let's see.
We got a story here from um Los Angeles Times.
We're in a rescued economy, right?
The recession is over.
But all you have to do is uh ask anybody in Coastal California hotel industry, one of the hottest vacation meeting destinations in the country, how they're doing now.
They're struggling at the height of travel season.
Luxury hotels in the Laguna Beach area, the most lavish examples of recent efforts to create a magnet for high-end pleasure travel and business meetings suffer in the still fractured economy.
Do you know where the whole idea of cap and trade came from?
The Wall Street Journal has a piece on it, a college kid.
A college kid, 24-year-old hippie college kid came up with the whole notion of creating the notion of their pollution credits that you could trade.
And the guy who came with this this hippie college kid at 24 now has become a big critic.
It's too unwieldy, he can't manage it.
He just wants a straight carbon tax.
Some college kid putting together a thesis, give us this whole mess.
Pittsburgh, Diane, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh hi, Ross.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you very much.
Um my husband is a member of the United Mine Workers.
And um I have positive proof that the unions will be the first to go to the national health care if it's in if it comes to be.
Yes, I don't have any doubt.
And one of the reasons why is some of the union health care proposals or plans, some of the plans are facing insolvency, like much of businesses that get involved with uh with unions.
Their health care plans are in big, big trouble, and uh the government taking it over would be a big boo and that's what's in it for the unions.
Well, um uh I have the coal wage agreement from 2007 between the United Mine workers and my husband's employer.
And it states in Article 20, Section 13, page 209, that if the United States government enact comprehensive health care, that the United Mine workers or the bituminous co-operators can reopen the agreement for the purpose of negotiating modifications to the employer plan.
Rush, they're gonna sell the union membership down the river.
These people worked fought hard for those employer benefits for health care.
And those health care benefits are excellent.
And I'm frightened that I'm gonna be put on this national health care plan.
Yeah, a lot of people are.
A lot of people don't want it.
A lot of people are scared because they know their health care can't possibly be as good as it is now.
Exactly.
And I know not just the UMW, but the AFL CIO.
All these union people that are out there fighting for the national health care that already have good health care benefits.
Don't know what they're getting into.
No, the rank and file does not.
But the public sector union leaders are gonna score big on this.
Uh And Robert Gibbs says that what's happening at the town halls is not indicative of what's happening in America.
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