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Aug. 17, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 17, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I swear this is the most politically correct hurricane track I have ever seen from the National Hurricane Center.
These people are so desperate for a storm.
They're calling a cluster of thunderstorms, a tropical depression.
And they've got a they got a path, they got a cone, and it includes Miami, it includes Tampa, it includes every major city in Florida.
Just so desperate for some damage to happen because of global warming and it's a cluster of thunderstorms.
It's a cluster of thunderstorms.
It's not even a tropical depression, tropical wave.
Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
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We're going to get to health care in detail here in just a second.
But the thing that you have to understand, the Senate can say that they want to take the death panels away, and it doesn't matter.
And Sibelius can say, well, we're thinking about getting rid of the public option.
And Obama can say, well, I don't know that we're thinking about getting rid of the public option.
We may go to health care exchanges.
And Kent Conrad is, oh, there's going to be a public folks.
Look at.
Whether you call them death panels or not, just to reiterate this, the only people on whom we spend health care dollars are the sick.
We do not spend money on the healthy.
Therefore, we've got to cut spending.
We got to cut costs.
That's one of the objectives.
And in addition to that, we've got to ensure 47 million more people, ostensibly.
There's no way to do this without spending more money.
And we don't have the money.
If you're going to cut medical costs, the only way to do it is to cut it on people who on whom you spend it, and that's the sick.
And I guarantee you, whether there's a death panel counseling you on your death at the end of your life, whether it's a government panel or whether it's a doctor doing it or whoever, if there is, and there is going to be a public option, there is no reason to have this kind of liberal reform without a public option.
All this talk about a public option is dropping it or maybe putting it back in, whatever they're going to call it, if if there's no reason to do this kind of reform from this standpoint, from Obama, from the liberals in Congress, without the government running it.
If that's not on the table, there's no reason for them to reform it.
Do you think, for example, that if we're going to talk about reforming health care that Obama will say, hey, let's look at some private sector reforms.
Let's see, we come to the private sector can maybe that's not going to be on the table.
And so if we're going to have health care reform, it's going to be what Obama wants.
This is all these people who wanted for 50 years as the government to run it.
Whether they call them health care exchanges or whether they call them the public option or whatever.
There's not going to be a health care plan that doesn't get us there at some point.
Now they may head fake us and try to get everybody to kind of back down on their opposition to this, but I guarantee you, these are liberals.
These are socialists.
These are people that believe the government has all the answers.
These are people who believe that the government, as big as it can be, equals utopia.
And they're not going to do anything in health care that doesn't get them there.
So don't fall for the rhetoric.
Don't fall for the head fakes.
Don't fall for the supposed disagreements of the administration to Congress.
It's all a game.
Everything is designed to react to the opposition that's out there and to get you to cool down.
This is not time to cool down, and it's not time to get giddy.
This is something that's going to be for the rest of your life.
You're going to be fighting these people as long as they are in charge, as long as they have majorities in the House and Senate, along with the White House, this is going to be a never-ending thing.
Uh, even if they have to come back and try to get it piecemeal at some point.
So we'll get to all of that in in um in just a second.
Something happened over the weekend that I think is a fascinating thing.
Because I watched a little TV over the week, and not a whole lot, but I saw all of the drive-by media going back to Woodstock.
They had their reporters there reliving Woodstock.
Oh, it's so important.
Such a major cultural shift in our society happened 40 years ago, and its effects are still being felt today.
But I've got a couple stories or maybe three stories that all in one indicate what a what what BS this is.
The Woodstock generation media types are making the 40th anniversary of Woodstock out to be something that it is not.
They're blathering over its influence on today's society.
And even as they were doing this, we have a real life reality check.
Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan is of that generation.
Now, Bob Dylan didn't go to have you heard of Bob Dylan, uh, Brian?
You know, Bob Don, you know, Bob Dillon.
Well, now wait, that's not uh you think I'm trying to be funny.
You know who Bob Dylan is.
You think everybody's heard of Bob Dylan, right?
Uh-uh.
Uh now Bob Dylan did not go to Woodstock.
He couldn't get there because his son was sick.
But still, he's of that generation.
He is of the Woodstock generation.
He was uh he was on a concert tour in New Jersey.
He went out for a walk.
Where he walked and what he wore sent warning flags to the neighborhood.
The neighborhood where Bob Dylan was taking his stroll called a fuzz.
For those of you in real Linda, well, the unit, you know it.
Uh that's 60s lingo for the cops.
They called the pigs.
So the pigs, the fuzz, showed up after the neighborhood called some weird guy running around.
He's kind of threatening with the way he's walking and uh the way the way he's dressed.
So the cop shows up and they asked him his name.
He said, I'm Bob Dylan, and they had no idea who Bob Dylan was.
Here we are, the weekend where we are marking the important 40th anniversary of Woodstock, and how important a cultural shift it was and how its effects reverberate today.
The fuzz, the local New Jersey fuzz had no idea who Bob Dylan was, so they drove him to his alleged hotel.
He told him he's staying in a hotel.
They drove him to his alleged hotel to check his story.
So here we have the post-woodstock generation not recognizing a Woodstock icon.
Now the situation was revival resolved uneventfully.
Uh the peace officers and Bob Dylan going their own way.
There were no problems, not like Henry Lewis Gates and the and Sergeant Sergeant Crowley.
You contrast that with, you know, what I call the Boston Massacre, the insult that rocked the nation, the Professor Gates affair.
The police didn't recognize a professorial professor, and they reacted when your mama got confrontational.
They said, wait a minute, we're going to arrest you, dude.
You're being contentious here with no reason.
Now, I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that Bob Dylan, the name, is a zillion times more known than Henry Lewis Gates.
And so is Dylan's face.
And so is his voice.
Now, the learning experience here is that a rock composer and singer, 40 years back, can teach civil behavior better than a tenured college professor.
Somebody from the Woodstock generation who hated the fuzz, the fuzz, the cops.
He cooperated.
They resolved the situation peacefully.
There's going to be no need for Bob Dylan and the cop to go to the White House to smoke a joint, which is what they did at Woodstock and more, or have a beer or an adult beverage or whatever.
I mean, Bob Dillon, he's a famous singer who can't really sing.
That was the amazing thing to me about Bob Dylan.
He can't sing.
But so many of these 60s icons couldn't sing, but it didn't matter because everybody was so stoned and blown away, they thought everybody could sing.
So I just, I just, you know, they attempt here, the the state controlled media of the Woodstock Age are trying to tell us how important that era was and that it still has effects today, and yet the local fuzz in New Jersey had never heard of Bob Dylan.
I don't know what he looked like, but I mean you gotta it's it's kind of interesting.
You'd be walking around a neighborhood of New Jersey on a concert tour and the local name uh feeling threatened by it.
A car dealer in Buffalo, New York says dealers may quit selling new cars under the Cash for Clunkers program unless they're reimbursed more quickly.
They can't even do this one billion, now three billion dollar program right.
Some dealers say that they've submitted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of rebates for repayment that are still outstanding.
One dealer in the Northeast is said to have fronted more than three million dollars and hasn't yet got a dime.
The uh federal agency overseeing the program, not saying how much has been paid since the program began July 27th, but a survey this week among some 100 dealerships in Virginia found that only 2.8% Of the uh roughly 4,000 cash for clunker deals submitted to the government have been paid.
First Obama's out there running down the post office as a means of selling health care.
And now the cash for clunkers program is three million dollars behind in paying dealers.
The uh Department of Transportation is dealing with this.
They've increased computer capacity.
They've hired more staff to help out.
For a three billion dollar, actually started as a one billion dollar program with all the federal employees we have at the DOT, and they're not prepared for this, and they're understaffed.
The body of evidence, day-to-day examples, ladies and gentlemen, of the inability of the government to run anything efficiently, is just blaring and glaring us right in the face.
And the idea that they can take control of healthcare and do it better than anybody else.
Who do they think they are?
The Cash for Clunkers program, by the way, um hope and change working for you here.
Cash for Clunkers program has been a boon for car makers, especially those in Japan and South Korea.
Government data show that while 54% of the top ten selling cars were manufactured domestically, eight out of ten carry Japanese or South Korean nameplates.
The Toyota Corolla is the most popular car bought out of the program, only the Ford Focus and the Ford Escape cracked the top ten.
Not one Obama mobile in the top ten, nothing from General Motors and nothing from Chrysler.
They do companies that um that Obama owns.
So how's that hope and change working for you?
Got to take a quick time out.
We'll come back, we'll get to lots of sound bites here on this health care business.
Uh, you know, it at some point, I think the topic will die away, but it's nowhere near doing that because the administration and the Democrats in Congress are doing head fakes.
They're trying to get everything they want here by now telling more lies to all of us about what the plan's gonna be.
So sit tight, we'll come back.
Again, the telephone number for your phone calls when we get there is 800-282-288-uh 2882.
Don't go away.
Welcome back.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair, Rushlin Boff from Los Angeles all week here on the EIB network.
And remember, as long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where here is, and I am here.
We're gonna have a it's gonna be a great week.
It's uh it's it's chocked full.
But again, ladies and gentlemen, I must apologize for the lack of being able to ditto cam the uh the program this week.
We tried.
We tried really hard here.
We were having we had technical problems out the wazoo.
We're actually not in a broadcast studio.
We're in a recording studio here, and the dimensions of the room uh we'd have to focus on my mouth if uh if if we were even able to get we're having trouble getting the bind ram to even work on this.
Uh we really really and if we can get it up by the end of the week, we're gonna try.
But I mean it I wouldn't count on it, and that's why we're plastering all over the uh website that I know people they did love to see me uh do the radio program, and it's become a habit now for a lot of people.
And I uh appreciate your interest.
Everybody's asked, what did Dylan do, Rush?
Why don't you what did Dylan do to have the neighborhood in New Jersey called?
Look at I didn't want to have to mention this.
But I'll mention it.
Bob Dylan's a white Jewish guy, his real name is Zimmerman.
By the way, Dylan is a is a social conservative.
He's uh is he believes in hard work, and he's he's worked very hard his whole life.
He was in a black neighborhood, he was walking around, he got profiled.
He got profiled, and that's why they call a fuzz.
Uh it's real so by the way, the uh Woodstock reunion at uh Maxi Azgir's farm has been postponed.
Such a huge that was you talk about a town hall meeting got out of control.
That's Woodstock.
All right, let's review the audio sound bites.
First off, Sunday, CNN State of the Union, John King interviewing the Health and Humor Services Secretary, the hapless Kathleen Sabilius.
And King said, You don't have the votes right now in the Senate for the public option.
Is the message from the president that the votes aren't there?
It's time to come up with plan B. What we don't know is exactly what the Senate Finance Committee is likely to come up with.
They've been more focused on a co-op, a not-for-profit co-op as a competitor as opposed to a straight government-run program.
What's important is choice and competition, and I'm convinced at the end of the day the plan will have both of those, but that is not the essential element.
I'm sorry, she doesn't believe.
She's a liberal.
Uh Choice and competition is not what they want.
If they want choice and competition, then the government should get out of this altogether and let the private sector do the reform.
Let the market take care of it.
They don't want competition and choice.
And these the co-ops, like we're too stupid to know what that's all about.
Co-op, why don't they just call them communes?
Look, I know liberal lingo when I hear it.
A co-op.
Yeah, let's go to the farmers market.
Let's let's let's go to the let's go to the community gardener.
What do we think they think we're idiots?
They said they want to cover the uninsured.
We can do that without doing this.
They said they want competition.
They said, okay, great.
We can do that too.
But they want single payer, and they're not gonna give up, and there's no competition in single payer.
They tried the back door of the phony public option, and it didn't work because people figured out what the public option is.
People are not that stupid, especially when you tell them, okay, you got private insurance agencies here in the private sector, and then you've got the public option.
And you've got businesses who are already panicked at their health care costs, who would love to offload their health care costs to the government, the public option, and the public option run by the government, it does not have to turn a profit.
So you if you do, if you have to make a profit in the private sector, no way you can compete and stay in business with an outfit that uh that doesn't have to make a profit.
Now, co-ops.
Co-ops.
As long as as long as they're gonna create some government entity, and as long as they're gonna make private insurance unsustainable with limits and regulations and taxation, their objective is the same.
Co-ops.
If you're gonna try to fool us by thinking you're dumping the public option, come up with some name that doesn't reek of liberalism.
Here's Kent Conrad.
He was on Fox News Sunday, Senator from uh North Dakota Democrat Chris Wallace.
Would the president be better off just taking the public option off the table right now?
Look, the the fact of the matter is there are not the votes in the United States Senate for the public option.
There never have been.
So to continue to chase that rabbit, I think uh is just a wasted effort.
The public option is dead in the Senate.
Maybe so.
This is what they say.
Uh and I, you know, you know, I did a little test today.
I love going to the Democrat Underground.
Because the Democrat Underground is the greatest collection, it's a close competition with the Daily Coast.
But the Democrat Underground website is the most concentrated collection of sheer lunatics that the Democrat Party has to offer that you have ever seen.
And they are just livid.
Once this public option news hit, that was gonna be taken off the table.
I mean every other word, the F bomb in practically every post, and they're mad as hell.
What do we have to do?
We run the House, we run the Senate, we run the White House.
Why can't we just pass what we want?
F bomb, F bomb, F bomb, F bomb, Jesus Christ, F bomb, F bomb, I mean, it's just it's it's hilarious.
It's kind of fun to see these lunatics get upset when their elected lunatics don't deliver.
Howard Dean.
Say, Howard Dean not happened about this, uh happy about it.
He was on the CBS early show today with the uh with the host Maggie Rodriguez.
Let me check the clock.
Yeah, we have time.
Uh, and she said to him, What if the public doesn't want this, Mr. Dean?
Obama's approval rating down to 53.
42% of voters believe he's mishandled the health care.
How do you explain he's losing public support?
Bill Clinton's still the smartest political mind in America, and he said at a net roots convention in Pittsburgh, as soon as President Obama signs the bill, his ratings will go up again, and I think that's true.
This is a messy process, it's a politics process.
The Senate's not even back in session for another three weeks.
My guess is the Republicans aren't going to vote for this bill no matter what, so there's no point in making a whole lot of concessions to people who aren't going to vote for the bill in under any circumstances anyway.
This is interesting because he's right.
The Republicans, they're not you have to tailor this for Republicans.
This is all Democrats, and there are some of them up for reelection, and they just they're hearing about it.
These town hall eruptions that you are engaging in are working.
I got a bunch of sound bites.
Cookie gave me a bunch of sound bites today from the media that are really over the top.
Um, and even even some people well, it basically from the media that it is all racist.
That that that my opposition to Obama is racist, that your opposition to Obama's racist, and I'm inspiring racism.
I mean, it's gotten to the point they've played this card for 21 years.
It doesn't work anymore.
You don't have the number one most listened to radio show in America, the most respected, the most feared, the most loved, the most whatever, if it's filled with hate and racism and bigotry and all this is just it's just not the case.
They keep going back to that same play in the playbook, and it's it's not work, but they are desperate.
And uh there's even some uh uh members of Congress not even going home to their districts during the recess for fear that they will be found.
So Howard Dean says, the hell with the Republicans, I mean, hey, let's just do the public option.
The Senate doesn't get back for three weeks.
There will be a public option.
This is the thing that you have to realize, they have to remember.
When liberals are in charge of this, and this is the number one thing on their wish list, when they say they're taking the public option off the table or gonna do co-ops, trust me on this, folks.
There's going to be a government entity, and it's eventually going to be single payer.
That is what they want, and they'll get it however much they have to lie about it.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Let me tell you what happened here this morning when I arrived at our secluded can never be found by anybody, broadcast complex at 545 this morning.
I walk in here.
Hello, Lark, how are you?
Good job here.
I walk in here.
As you people know, I'm on a diet.
I've I've lost uh I think I'm down 82 pounds.
I walk in here, and Brian, who is here and Dawn's here as well, has placed a can of mixed nuts next to the pot of coffee at 5.45 in the morning.
An hour later, Brian comes in and says, you know, you're withering away to nothing.
I got you a bacon and cheese and egg bagel.
You're withering away to nothing.
Here I am, I still I'm gonna lose 20 more pounds or so.
And they're offering me cheese and bacon, but and I I I have not opened the nuts, didn't get anywhere near this stuff.
But it's just, you know, even my trusted loyal yet overrated staff, even they trying to be thinking I've got to be so in uh miserable and I'm not.
I actually feeling uh feeling superb, staying on East Coast time this week because of the uh necessity of getting up at five in the morning, 445 or whatever, which is the same time I get up on the East Coast.
All right, back to the audio sound bites.
Still sticking here with the public Johnson, Eddie Bernice Johnson, she's a uh Democrat Congresswoman from Texas.
She's also on CNN yesterday, John King says, the uh White House now says too much attention to the public option, clearly signaling it's ready to sign a health care bill without one.
I can't believe that there's a reason nobody's watching the drive-by media anymore.
How is it that these people who are the closest to Obama are the least curious?
They have absolutely no curiosity.
There's no not even any attempt to um uh question the authority and power.
How in the world can if you know who Obama is and you've studied his career, all five minutes of it, how can you believe him?
He hasn't told the truth about any number of things.
How can you just automatically believe him when he says he's uh ready to sign a health care bill without a public option?
Anyway, that's the question Eddie Bernice Johnson, who is asked, could you support health care bill without a public option?
Could other House Democrats support a health care reform measure that does not have a robust public option?
It would be very, very difficult because without the public option, we'll have the same number of people uninsured.
If the insurance companies wanted to insure these people now, they'd be insured.
The only way that we can be sure that very low-income people and persons who work for companies that don't offer insurance can have access to it is through an option that would give the private insurance companies a little competition.
The private insurance companies have been in charge so long that I think they feel that nobody else ought to be able to do it.
Now that's just rich.
This is just loaded.
How about this?
If the insurance companies wanted to insure these people now, they'd be insured.
Well, yeah, I I guess if uh if if uh General Motors wanted everybody to have a car, everybody'd have a car.
Uh if people that build houses on a beach wanted everybody to half a house on the beach, they would give them a house on the beach.
If the insurance companies wanted to ensure these people they'd be insured, this woman doesn't even understand how the private sector works.
This is just all part of the demonization of the insurance companies.
The only way we can be sure that very low income people Oh, speaking of which, I've got this in the stack here.
Guess what?
The stimulus money, the American dream is over.
The Obama administration, I don't know what jogged this in my memory.
The Obama administration has decided that home ownership is not the American dream.
Something like $5.4 billion in stimulus money is going to go to help people rent all of a sudden.
Yeah, it's right.
It's in the Boston Globe.
And that's, you know, Barney Frank, this is going to upset him greatly because affordable housing is uh is all about putting people in houses, whether they can afford them or not.
So the administration basically comes out and says, you know what, we're gonna we're not gonna define the American dream anymore as owning a house.
That can only mean that down the road buy by mortgage deduction.
Because it won't be fair for the people who can buy a house and get a mortgage and take the deduction versus the people who can only afford to rent.
I guarantee you they're gonna have to do all kinds of radical things like that in order to generate revenue.
So, Eddie Bernice Johnson, if the insurance companies wanted you to be insured, uh you'd be insured, whether you can afford it or not.
Now listen to this from James Carve, also Sunday, CNN.
Uh, he was on with uh with his wife Mary Madeline, and she said the generic ballot for the second consecutive month is tending to Republicans.
Eight out of ten issues, people are favoring Republicans now, our recruiting, our fundraising, our gubernatorial seats in New Jersey, Virginia, the new blue, the old blue are tending Republicans.
No, I think it helps Congressional Democrats.
Put a bill out there, make them filibuster, make them be what they are a party and no.
Look, we spend the truth of the matter is we spend about $8,000 per person in the United States on health care.
Let them kill it, let them kill it with the interest group money, then run against them.
Now, this is rich because the Republicans can't kill anything.
The Republicans can't filibuster anything.
If the Democrats in the Senate want to go the reconciliation route, they can do that and just use 51 votes.
It'd be controversial, but they could do it rather than getting 60.
But propose a public option and let the Republicans kill it.
Mr. Carvel, what's happened is that the public option has been proposed, and the American people are killing it.
The American people want no part of the government running health care.
They like it.
They have no desire.
Where's the...
Let me get some polling data on this.
I got to be a lot closer to this microphone here than I do in Florida, right?
Can you hear me now?
Barely.
Let me find the polling data.
It's uh it's an amazing number.
I've got it buried, I've got four different stacks here, but it's an amazing number about the number of people that do not want a public option and who think that their health care now and the insurance company, the way they're running it is fine.
Well, it'll come to me later.
I gotta keep going with the sound bites because the next series are excellent.
This is from Grand Junction, Colorado on Saturday.
Uh Obama and a town hall meeting.
Zach Lane, a student from the University of Colorado.
I'd love to have a debate just all out any time, Oxford style, if you'd like.
I I understand how I'm willing to do that.
But my question is this.
We all know the best way to reduce prices in this economy is to increase competition.
How in the world can a private corporation providing insurance compete with an entity that does not have to worry about making a profit, doesn't have to pay local property taxes.
They they do not have to, they're not subject to local regulations.
How can a company compete with that?
And I I'm not looking for anything, I don't want generalities, I don't want philosophical arguments, I'm just asking a question.
This kid is amazing, and there's no question in my mind this kid listens to this program.
In fact, well, no, not really.
And there's there's a New York Times column today, Ross doubt it.
Doubt it's not sure he pronounces his last name, D-O-U-T-H-A-T.
And he he just point blank says that these town hall meetings are just filled with Rush Lindball.
He didn't even put my first name in there.
Town hall meetings are filled with Lindball listeners.
Well, how does a private entity compete with a company who doesn't have to make a profit?
The government stop talking generalities and philosophical arguments.
So this kid, this student challenges the president to a debate, then with one simple question that Obama can't answer, nukes the entire foundation of Obama care.
And listen to this answer.
It is true that there are certain costs associated with a private business that a government would not have to worry about.
You mentioned a couple of them.
It's conceivable that a private entity that's having to pay a certain interest rate for their money would be really undermined if the government is able to get money much cheaper implicitly because Uncle Sam backs this operation.
I think there are ways that we can address those competitive issues.
And you're absolutely right.
If they're not entirely addressed, then that raises a set of legitimate problems.
Well, I mean here you have a rambling answer, and Obama just agreed with the student and explained why the centerpiece of his plan, the public option, won't work.
Because he can print money.
He didn't say that.
But when he says, well, uh Uncle Sam uh you know get money much cheaper implicitly because Uncle Sam print it.
It's our tax people.
Just go out and take it from people.
Private insurance companies can't do that.
So this student gets Obama to admit that his whole plan won't work as he himself says.
But gets uh well, we could address those competitive issues.
How?
He does it again in this next soundbite, keeps making this comparison.
The notion that somehow, just by having a public option, you have the entire private marketplace destroyed is just not borne out by the facts.
And in fact, right now, you've got a lot of private companies who do very well competing against the government.
UPS and FedEx are doing a lot better than the post office.
No, they are.
I can't believe they're letting him still say this.
I cannot bel that this is something that after the first time he uttered this, there should have been an emergency meeting in Axlrod's office or Rahm Emanuel's office, and they should have bent Obama over their knee and spanked him.
You idiot.
You have just gone out and said that the government doesn't do nearly as well as a private sector doing something.
And you're trying to convince people the government can do it better than the private.
And he's now keeping up with it.
What are we supposed to say?
Oh, yeah, private insurance won't go away.
Well, look, if you come out, Mr. President, and say the federal government's going to take over overnight package delivery, that there is going to be a cheaper, ostensibly, public option where people can.
But Raspberry Russia already exists.
The post office does over overnight.
And I know you know who delivers it?
FedEx.
You know the post office contracts with that they do, FedEx and UPF.
The post office contracts with FedEx for their overnight, whatever they call it.
What's the post office call?
I don't even know what they call it overnight stuff.
Priority delivery or whatever it is.
Um, I was I was uh where was I was uh Saturday.
I was I got running errands getting ready for the trip, and I'm driving down the road and I see the I saw a site that I haven't seen in a long time.
It was a white post office delivery truck on a Saturday.
And I think it had to be an express package that they were delivering because and uh and but but FedEx.
FedEx is who uh they contract with.
So I can't believe that he's making this statement over and over again.
But the bottom line, nobody wants health insurance that works like the post office does.
And he's continuing to give everybody that vision and that picture.
Finally, here at the uh at the end of his answer, Obama signals that he is ready to give up on the public option.
The public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform.
This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it.
And by the way, it's both the right and the left that have become so fixated on this that they forget everything else.
I'm gonna agree with him about something here.
The whole plan is rotten to the core.
Whether there's a public option in this or not, there are still provisions in that House bill of over a thousand pages of the government running this and making that decision, your health care records uh being digitized and being made public.
Uh it's it's it's it's a disaster.
The whole thing is a disaster, and it is it would be a totally unfamiliar way to um uh contract and get a service pay for it the American people are used to.
It is just a total abomination.
Now, the public sec the public options what makes it primarily that, but he's now getting very sensitive to this whole thing.
He's learning.
I think they've always known.
I I I think the reason for the speed at the outset here.
They know people don't want this.
And see, that's an ad they're still gonna force it down your throats no matter what, folks, even if they have to tell you that they're taking the public option out.
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There's one simple reason why FedEx and UPS are outdoing the post office.
And it is the federal government doesn't set the rates, and they don't define the terms of business.
Uh, and they uh they don't tell FedEx and UPS how to do what they're doing.
If I guarantee you, if the post office could regulate UPS and FedEx, they wouldn't survive either.
Very simple.
I found that poll I was looking for.
54%.
Uh this is a Rasmussen reports poll.
54% say passing no health care reform is better than passing the congressional plan.
So Obama, 54% of the American people say doing nothing is better than your idea.
Or whatever your ideas, because he really didn't have a plan.
The only plan that we really know out there is the uh is the congressional plan.
So 54%.
And Obama loves to run out there and say, well, um do nothing.
Those who say you can't do 54% now have seen what's in store for them.
They don't want you to do anything.
They want you to just stop.
They want you to stop doing town meetings.
They want you to stop trying to argue with people about just stop it.
Don't do it.
The sediment is spreading.
And get this.
Usa to day gallup poll, 57% of adults say the stimulus package is having no impact on the economy or making it worse.
And even more than that, 60% doubt that the stimulus plan will help the economy in the years ahead.
And only 18% say it's done anything to help improve their personal situation.
Oh, ladies and gentlemen, very simple here.
Obama is losing traction.
He's losing the trust, the American people, his ideas are not working.
Uh it's not time to get giddy.
I'll tell you when it's time to get giddy.
By the way, James Carville said spend $8,000 on health care.
I thought it was six.
You know, just a couple months ago it was $6,000 per person on health care that we.
Um how much do we spend on education?
I know in New Jersey, in the neighborhoods that uh Bob Dylan walks.
We're spending sometimes upwards of $18,000 a student or $14,000.
And what's that getting us?
But this if it does anybody want to tackle the notion, maybe we're spending too much on welfare.
Maybe we're spending too much on food stamps.
Why is it all of a sudden we're just spending too much on health care?
So when you hear them talk about this, they're spending too much on health care, cutting back, reducing spending.
That's what they're talking about.
And the only place we spend in health care is on the sick.
So if we're going to reduce costs, while insuring this mythical 47 million people who aren't insured, how in the hell are we going to reduce costs without reducing costs on the people who are sick?
That is rationing their care.
Okay, Whitehouse.gov.
Flag at Whitehouse.gov is officially dead.
This was the snitch website.
And by the White House is the third party was sending out all those Axelrod emails.
Now, that's possible, right?
It's possible a third party could have been spamming them.
It's possible.
But it's not likely.
With the security techniques that they have up there.
So they're they're they're passing this off onto some probably some spammer over in the Greek Isles on his yacht.
Uh just you know, whoever, probably I'll tell you who it is, the guy that do the joker posters of Obama out here in Los Angeles, probably who's behind the spamming.
But anyway, flag at Whitehouse.gov is uh no longer in service.
You get a flag, uh you get a you get a failure message when you uh when you try to snitch on somebody.
The uh email address you just sent a message to no longer in service.
We are now accepting your feedback about health insurance reform at whitehouse.gov slash reality check.
So um they they see they haven't really gotten rid of the snitch website.
They're just they're just moving it to uh to different places.
Well, hang on a minute.
I gotta say, I gotta check this.
Oh.
I got a note.
All I could see, I had an instant message window covering up the uh the email.
All I could see in the subject line was you sound.
I thought, oh no, people are gonna complain about the tech setup.
But I've removed the IM window.
You sound great.
Isn't technology wonderful?
Well, look at it this way, folks.
If uh UPS and FedEx were told that after five years they could take on no new customers, if they were told that they um have to have all customers, whether they could pay or not, and they would have to charge whatever they were dictated to charge.
How long do you think they would last?
That's the proper comparison to post office and UPS, if you want to make it.
But Obama's doing himself no favors making that comparison.
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