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Sept. 30, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 30, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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You know, I'm I'm beginning to think, folks, I am the only radio host in the country that doesn't care about this Roman Polanski story, but I'm starting to start some things about it now are starting to get fascinating.
If you look at who's signing petitions to come out and free the guy, Woody Allen and some other pervert have signed up.
Here's here's the thing, you know, we've been covering in the past week.
We've had a couple stories about the unhappiness of women.
The unhappiness of women in this country, the Huffington Puffington Post has now got a new columnist exploring the phenomenon of the unhappy woman.
And why is this?
Well, let me ask you if you are a liberal woman, and you look at this Polanski story, what in the world do you see?
You see liberal, a liberal guy who drugs and rapes a 13-year-old.
Then you see liberal men allowed and encouraged by other liberal men and women to hate women enough to rape and brutalize and objectify them, regardless of their age and station in life, and then when they're held accountable by the law, these same liberal men and women that you've always idolized come out and defend the rapist.
No wonder women are sad, unhappy, and depressed and can't figure this out.
This is sick stuff.
I mean, I th Roman Polanski, I couldn't I I couldn't care less about, but this incident has amazing cultural teaching moments in it.
Which is why I mentioned it.
I mentioned the first hour.
This health care remrod, we're all going to become slaves to the government in every aspect of our lives.
And I want to give you an example.
Irving Township, Michigan, the state of Michigan, has told a Michigan mother that she's running illegal daycare by watching her neighbor's kids before school every day.
Before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow mothers, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for scrub.
Regulators who oversee child care don't see it as charity.
Days after the start of the new scruel year, Snyder got a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed daycare centers.
She said, I I was freaked out, I was blown away.
I got on the phone immediately, I called my husband, I called all the girls.
It's the mothers whose kids that she watches.
Every one of them.
Her pred what do you bet this woman voted for Obama?
Wild guess here.
What do you bet?
She voted for Obama.
Snyder's predicament has led to a debate in Michigan about whether a law that says no one may care for unrelated children in their home for more than four weeks every count of the year unless they are licensed.
Needs to be changed.
It also has irked parents who say they depend on these friendly offers to help them balance work and balance.
How do these people in Michigan think this thing ever got done in the first place?
I don't know about you growing up, but my mom and dad would park me at the friend's house for sometimes a day and a half while they had to go do something, and vice versa.
And there was no thought anywhere that somebody was violate a stupid law about daycare centers.
Now that the person that's snitched exactly right.
This is like people going through grocery stores snitching on people who are carrying their kid the wrong way in a knapsack or what have you.
Now back to health care.
There's an amazing report on ABC News.
And I alluded to it mere moments ago.
The health care coverage that members of Congress get.
Now everybody uh has asked the question hey, you guys in Congress, you're gonna sign you and your family up for the same rotten deal that you're imposing on us.
And of course they're all oh no, no, well, we can't.
We have a special, a different plan.
Some are lying and say, yes, I'll be the first to do it.
Obama says, Well, I can't.
You know, I got my own doctor running around, and I I I I I don't think anybody can get the health care I get.
I don't know.
Well, nobody's gonna get the kind of health care members of Congress get.
Timothy Johnson, who is the medical doctor director at ABC News had this report on Good Morning America today, accompanied by a full uh text report of it on their website.
And I think people are misunderstanding this.
The the ABC headline special health care for Congress, lawmakers health care perks, little known office on Capitol Hill provides quality care for low price.
And a lot of people are saying, ah, this is this is ABC blowing the whistle on Congress.
It is no such thing.
It is Tim Johnson who loves the concept of government period, loves the concept of government run health care.
It's Tim Johnson trying to say this is what's coming your way.
This is the kind of health care that awaits us all.
Under the guise of exposing it in Congress.
We have a montage here of his report.
Anybody know about this when Obama says he's going to give everybody the same health care as Congress gets, is this what he's talking about?
Listen, right in the U.S. Capitol.
At a little known and rarely discussed clinic called the office of the attending physician.
For a flat $503 yearly fee, members of Congress have access to almost all of the primary care they could ever need, right behind this door, from exams and EKGs to x-rays and minor surgeries, all provided by Navy doctors and nurses.
If a particular specialist is needed, one will be brought to the Capitol, all of this for no additional charge.
We wanted to talk to the attending physician on camera about these services, but our repeated requests were denied.
And when we tried to visit the office, we were asked to leave.
Dr. Eduardo Balbona is now in private practice, but he spent two years as a staff physician at the office.
Customer service is excellent.
A member walks in and generally walks right back into a physician's office.
They are not rushed, they are examined thoroughly.
Any test that is helpful is done.
I'm sitting here thinking, if you're going to introduce this bill for the federal health plan, why not throw in something like this office that is provide primary care?
If Congress can have those kinds of things, why can't we?
It's not a political perk.
Much like a medic who's in combat, it's not a perk to those soldiers.
It's part of the mission.
It's part of the mission.
These holier than thou, arrogant, condescending elitists, think that they are on a mission.
They have structured health care for themselves.
By the way, there's also a pharmacy.
There's a pharmacy in the U.S. Capitol in the office of the attending physician.
You walk in there, you need a prescription fill, they do it.
House bank, house post office, house, house, uh, house, house doctor.
It is all that for $500 a year.
Need a specialist, bring him in.
No additional charge.
Need a test, no additional charge.
We'll do it.
And then you catch Johnson's question, uh, sitting here, why not, why not uh throw this in the in the bill that you're planning for everybody else.
Oh, no, no, no, I can't do this.
It's not a perk.
Not a perk.
Members of Congress were being asked to believe it's somebody set this up for them because it's so important that they continue to work each and every they set this up themselves.
They pass every law in this country.
They set up their own office of the attending physician.
They determine who staffs it.
They determine how much is budgeted for it.
They determine how much they pay for it.
So while they are on the way to enslaving us to a health care system that will turn every medical decision you have about yourself and your kids over to dealing with some faceless bureaucrat miles away.
These same people have Cadillac, Mercedes, whatever you want to call it health care coverage, for essentially five hundred dollars.
This does not include the already generous health care plan they have for when they're not in the Capitol, they can choose from eleven different insurance options and so forth, and it's all paid for, of course, us.
So while they're planning this big national takeover of the health care plan, single payer, government public option, all this to bring down costs, all this to improve your care, all of this to reduce fraud and waste in government, all of this to reduce the federal deficit.
I have never had my intelligence insulted like it's been insulted with this entire health care debate.
The stimulus debate was almost as insulting.
The idea that it's gonna stimulate the economy.
There's nobody with half an economic brain whoever believed that, because it's not about stimulating the economy, and this health care reform is not about improving your health care.
It's about enslaving you.
This is what Democrats want.
This is who they are.
They don't like the Constitution.
They don't like the concepts of freedom and liberty, private property rights.
They look at the private sector as nothing other than an entity that provides them the money they need to rule.
Sadly, these people now control every branch of the government, and they're adding 63 new federal judgeships that they will populate with people just like themselves, who down the road in any further dispute legally over whatever legislation passes, their buddies will side on the side and in favor of the government.
Folks, it's being it's it's it's being taken away from us.
Right before our very eyes, under false premise, under the guise of compassion.
It's being done despite the knowledge of everybody on Capitol Hill and we don't want it.
The numbers supporting it plummet each time a poll is taken.
This is nothing more than a scheme against the American people.
The concept of a representative republic or democracy is being shattered before our very eyes.
And we're being told that the people running the country have great compassion and they care for us.
They have more compassion and more concern for us than evil, rascally Republicans have ever had.
Here's Chuck Schumer.
This is last night on MSNBC.
Question, is there hope?
Is there hope?
This is Chris Matthews.
Oh God!
Oh God!
Is there hope?
Is there hope for the public option?
Oh, yeah, I believe there is.
If you followed this closely, we said all along we never expected to win in finance committee.
In fact, there were some who were saying we're gonna get so few votes we shouldn't bring it up.
So this was really good news for us.
Yeah, well, uh, sorry, Senator Schumer, but this is all a joke.
This is all a lie, too.
The whole plan's gonna be a public option, and they're gonna ram it through as I explained in the first hour.
If they can get it done by next week, fine.
If they can't, they'll work on it October 12th.
Harry Reid has now canceled the October recess, the Columbus Day recess, to focus on health care.
Cancel the Senate's Columbus Day recess so that lawmakers can focus on passing health care reform during the week of October 12th.
Now, if they can get it done next week and take their race recess, they will.
You've been hearing people say they can't get it done before the end of the year.
They're not gonna get it done by Thanksgiving by Christmas, they can't do it.
It's gonna get it done before that, and they're gonna get it done in uh scheming ways that I detailed in the first hour, can't go through it again.
But I want you to listen, and here's some compassion.
Here is some real genuine compassion.
The Democrat Party, they own it, right?
Liberals, they're the ones with the big hearts, they're the ones who really care.
This is actually a great case of projection.
Who is it that has set up death panels?
Who is it that has written legislation that will have bureaucrats decide who does and does not get life-saving treatment based on whatever criteria they want to use?
These are Democrat written bills in the Senate and in the House.
Not one Republican word in any of these bills, right?
It's this public option that is going to determine who among us lives and dies on the basis of who among us gets health care, gets treatment based on whatever criteria they say is necessary.
Last night on the floor of the House, Alan Grayson, a Florida Democrat, spoke about health care reform and said this.
If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this.
Die quickly.
That's right.
The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.
Remember, the Republican plan, don't get sick.
And if you do get sick, die quickly.
Now that is simply outrageous.
There is no Republican plan in any way, shape, manner, reforms that comes close to this.
The only plan that asks you to die and get out of the way is a Democrat plan.
1984, Richard Lamb, Democrat governor of Colorado.
All people have a duty to die and get out of the way.
Back then he was laughed off the public stage.
How can you say something so die and get out of the way?
Twenty five years later, Newsweek magazine has a cover story, The Case for Pulling the Plug on Granny.
It's the American left that wants you to die.
They want you to die in the womb, and they want you to die when you're no longer productive toward the end of your life.
It's the Democrat Party that's obsessed with your death.
The Democrat Party that is obsessed, not with life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, but the exact opposite.
The party of abortion and euthanasia.
Slavery, not liberty, and everybody being created miserable and mediocre.
That's how they would rewrite the Constitution.
They're in the process of doing it now without actually touching the document.
Now let's go to Scarborough's show today on MSNBC.
Mika Bzinski is talking to Congressman Elijah Cummings of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Congressman, are you prepared to say that Grayson went too far in his language that Republicans want people to die?
I'm not prepared to say that.
I see a lot of people in my community dying slowly because they don't have health care and don't have insurance.
And so, and many of them have been the victims.
When I go to town hall meetings and I ask a, say a 90% African-American audience, how many know of people who have died within the last year that they knew or believed strongly should not have died because they didn't have insurance or were not treated properly.
90% of the people consistently hold up their hands.
Now, I want to give you a comparison.
Joe Wilson goes to House of the Floor during that joint speech and says, You lie to Obama.
The Republican Party, despite Joe Wilson telling the truth, denounce him.
That was uncalled for.
That was unsible.
We don't need that.
A Democrat goes to the House floor, says Republicans want you to die quickly, get sick and die quickly.
They go to Elijah Cummings.
Oh no, I think it's absolutely right.
In fact, black people are dying because of Republicans.
They don't throw their own people under the bus.
They amplify what they say.
We'll be back.
By the way, speaking of Elijah Cummings, I don't believe anybody in this country is dying because of a lack of health insurance.
But that's what Obama's saying.
And Obama's a grand poopah.
So Elijah Cummings goes out there and reports it, repeats it, and so forth and so on, and this is how these things become mantras.
Then the drive by's pick it up, and before you know it, 45,000 people a year.
Forty-five thousand people a year are dying, dying, dying because the Democratic Party's obsessed with death.
Life, no.
Abortion, euthanasia.
Liberty?
No.
Slavery, subordination to government, pursuit of happiness, not possible.
I've yet to meet a happy liberal.
They're angry, deranged lunatics.
They don't want to enjoy life.
If they become a vegetarian, everybody else must become one.
If a conservative becomes a vegetarian, fine.
Whatever you want to do with your life's fine.
You want to eat meat?
Go ahead.
Everybody has to buy a Prius.
The conservative buys a Prius, he's made fun of by his friends.
And eventually sells it.
Laura in Kansas City, Missouri, nice to have you on the EIB network.
You're up first today.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Lovely to talk to you.
Thank you.
Well, you just sort of segue right into the reason I called, which is sort of a kind of marketing, viral marketing, pick up the ball and run at the media does, and uh and the liberal democrats do for each other.
I mean, they're great with the assist.
But what had prompted me to call ways, I was uh noticed this morning that uh Obama announced a five billion dollar grant to the NIH from the stimulus fund.
And it's been a while since I've looked up the stimulus funds, you know, and I try and check in regularly to see what what's being done with it, if anything.
And uh anyways, I thought, you know, when I first heard it, I thought, well, you know, I don't have an issue with that.
The NIH, great, that's good, okay.
good research, clinical research, no big deal, good place to put the money.
And then I thought, wait a minute.
Healthcare is this guy's platform.
This is his big deal.
And this stimulus has been cast and pushed through for a while.
So why did they just now decide to announce or to give the NIH five billion?
And look, in the first place, you are wrong, sorry, to assume that five billion dollars of stimulus money to a government agency is worthwhile.
The NIH is not underfunded.
The stimulus bill was for shovel ready work projects to put people back to work.
It was not to dole out patronage money to the National Institute of Health.
This is all a marketing thing.
You have why they do it now to make it look like the stimulus is ongoing and they're giving money away to improve research into health care to save lives.
It's all a scheme.
The NIH doesn't deserve a penny of stimulus money.
Mambo number five.
That's uh Lou Bega and our bump rotation are going to get back to the phones here in just a second.
Sit tight.
Let me let me try to explain what's going on this way.
You know, we have jihadists all over the world.
We have Islamic jihadists and so forth, and right now I think we in this country face a liberal jihad.
We have a holy war against the constitution of this country being fought by the American left.
And instead of like the Islamic jihadists say, Death to America, death to America.
What the liberal jihadists are saying is death to the Constitution.
If they have to blow themselves up like the Islamic jihadists do, each liberal gets 72 interns in paradise.
That's the promise.
I have a lot of questions.
People listening to the show today.
Rush, why don't you go on television?
Everybody else has a television show.
Why don't you go on television?
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna explain this again, because I understand people uh wanting either me to be on TV to do this kind of thing on television and so forth.
I I really think that radio done right has more impact than television, or certainly as much.
My audience here is larger than any audience on cable TV of a go on or any network I can go on to have a show.
But more importantly, is this a professional thing?
I've I've done television shows, and I frankly I don't like it.
It's structured, it is planned, it is orchestrated, it allows for no improv or uh uh spontaneity.
I've never had to do it's it's really such a professional thing.
I've never had one meeting to do this radio show.
I have never sat down an hour before it, the day before it, and called somebody and said, I'm gonna do this at uh 108 30 tomorrow, and I want you to have this ready by that exact time, and this is what I'm gonna say, and I want the microphone in this position, and the phone call.
And I've done this my whole life.
Television is one of the most confining, restricting things.
You know, my it's when I when I sit down to actually write when I've tried to write things, writing is very hard for me because my vocabulary shrinks by half.
My experience is speaking.
My brain is at full 110% speed when I'm speaking.
But when I sit down to start right, and then just use an example, I get caught up in the keyboard errors, gotta correct that, lose my train of thought.
I can't type as fast as I can think.
I can speak as fast as I can think.
Uh and so I've my my experience in training is speaking extemporaneously after having been fully prepared and informed.
But to have to involve ten other people in what I'm gonna do drives me nuts.
Okay, Mr. Director, I'm gonna do this, then we've got to have this picture ready to go at that point in time, and I stop I start thinking more about the process than the content.
And monologues on television don't cut it.
You gotta have pictures on TV.
Radio, you can provide the pictures via the host's talent and the audience's imagination.
TV requires the audience requires that you show them something.
And yeah, monologues on TV were okay, but I mean it's it's not uh I don't know.
It just People are actually inundated with this question today, so I felt that I owed them an answer.
Also, uh, for those of you who were here yesterday, you know that I have uh been invited to participate in the Miss America pageant in January as a judge.
And I asked the audience what they thought of this.
Because the original note from the Miss America Pageant people said it's a week-long commitment.
From January 24th to the 30th out in Las Vegas.
January 24th to the 30th, I don't know.
I can't miss a full weeks of radio here to outjudging evening gowns and stuff.
And so they got back yesterday.
Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
We uh we heard Rush was talking about this today.
I'll bet they did.
And we were more than happy to uh work the schedule around the broadcast schedule.
Well, I haven't made up my mind yet.
I mean, I've I've got I got other things I have to ask them about and and uh decide, but they said, and I they they don't even know what the schedule is.
I've got a lot of things to batten down, but I gotta one of the things, I'll be honest with you, but one of the things that worried about, I can't go, so I've started using a treadmill now.
I can't go to a gym in a hotel to use a treadmill.
I can't do things like that in public.
I'm too famous.
Sit tight, Sturdley, if you let me finish this.
So I was worried I wouldn't be able to keep up the exercise regimen.
You know, if he if you don't keep it up, I mean it's it's uh it kind of all just falls by the wayside.
And I don't want to be a primadon and say, bring some equipment into the hotel suite, and I'm not gonna go to hotel gym.
I'm too famous to do that sort of stuff.
But I saw this story.
I saw this story.
It's it's a study actually by German scientists.
I'm not making this up here.
It's another thing to consider.
If I do judge the Miss America contest, I won't have to exercise that week.
A study by German scientists showed that 10 minutes a day of ogling women's breasts by men was as good at warding off heart disease, high blood pressure, and stress as 30 minutes of aerobic exercise.
The five-year study conducted by Dr. Karen Weatherby, followed 200 guys.
Those who partook in boob ogling for just 10 minutes a day enjoyed benefits equal to those of the 30 minutes on a treadmill.
Weatherby found that a mere 10 minutes of staring at well-endowed women is roughly the equivalent of a 30-minute aerobics workout because of the heart pumping improving circulation and so forth.
Well, so I have to throw this into the hopper of things that I have to consider.
I'm not making it up, folks.
It's right there.
I saw it doing show prep uh last night about 9.15.
I got the date, uh the timestamp here when I printed it out.
Now our last call was about stimulus money and the National Institute of Health.
Um you remember when uh Obama announced all of these ridiculous money savings ideas for government printing on both sides of the paper, saving paper clips or whatever.
Well, maybe he might want to update that and block all the pornography on taxpayer paid-for computers operated by taxpayer-paid employees.
This is an exclusive in the Washington Times.
Employee misconduct investigations, often involving government workers, accessing pornography from their government computers grew six-fold last year inside the taxpayer-funded foundation that doles out billions of dollars of scientific research grants, according to budget documents retained and obtained by the Washington Times.
We're talking here about the National Science Foundation.
The problems at the National Science Foundation were so pervasive, they swamped the agency's inspector general.
They forced the internal watchdog to cut back on its primary mission of investigating grant fraud and recovering misspent tax dollars.
Employees at the National Science Foundation are surfing the internet for pornography, and it is rampant.
To manage this dramatic increase without an increase in Staff required us to significantly reduce our efforts to investigate grant fraud.
So rather than investigate fraud in the grants, they're investigating all the employees who are using government computers to surf the net for porn.
We anticipate a significant decline in investigative recoveries and prosecutions in coming years as a direct result of having to investigate the porn.
So they have to beg the government to get money to investigate the government.
The story has more details, but there's something even more fascinating about it, a companion story, uh, this from KOTV in Oklahoma.
A professor at Oklahoma State University received 1.1 million dollars in stimulus money from the National Science Foundation to study Alaskan grandparents.
Associate Professor Tammy Henderson, PhD, will use 1.1 million dollars in stimulus money for her research project on Alaskan grandparents.
The National Science Foundation made the grant possible through their pot of stimulus money.
Some Oklahomans say this is just one more example of stimulus waste.
For more than ten years, Oklahoma State University professor Tammy Henderson has been researching grandparents.
She studies their relationships and responsibilities with their families.
1.15 million dollars of stimulus money.
This shovel ready jobs.
Anybody remember this?
Infrastructure repair.
Anybody remember all the jobs?
And now the perverts at the National Science Foundation are doling out millions of dollars to a professor to study Alaskan grandparents.
I wonder if she's studying whether or not there's incest.
Given all the pornography that's being looked at and studied at the National Science Foundation.
This is the same tawdry bunch of elitists who were telling you they know how to save money in health care, improve your coverage, and all that yada yada yada.
Now the National Science Foundation, this is an interesting point that you must know.
National Science Foundation was about to be investigated for all kinds of dubious grants that they've awarded over the years and mysteriously.
The discovery of all the porn surfing, and now the dis the investigation of all the porn surfing has temporarily halted the investigation of the dubious grants at the National Science Foundation.
The inspector general got caught up checking into the way National Science Foundation employees watch pornography and chat on telephone sex lines all day.
He's never able to get around to checking out their grant records.
So the fraudulent grants from the National Science Foundation will continue.
They're not being investigated because there's a mysterious level of porn and phone sex calls being made from the National Science Foundation.
After all, folks, I mean, this is stimulus money.
And along the same lines, the story we had yesterday about Obama's safe schools are.
This is the guy who promoted a 15-year-old boy having relationship, homosexual relationship with an older man outside the school, advised him on how to do it, do a condom, here's how to smile.
You know, all the exploitation of children going on over the country, indoctrination, the Polanski story, the safe schools are.
I mean, I think this guy'd be taking center stage right now, trying to clean it all up, right?
If there was ever an excuse for a safe school czar, this is it.
Maybe give a national address to all the schools like the president did talk about the difference between indoctrination and education, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Washington Times, when Mark Foley was caught chasing congressional pages, he got exactly what was coming to him.
In a blizzard of coverage, Foley's creepy behavior was examined from every possible angle.
Nobody wanted to hear that he was stupid, that he was objectional.
Objectional behavior was confined to emails and text messages.
His immediate resignation didn't quiet the furor.
When two years of investigations found no crime, the results got barely a peep.
Whether the press feeding frenzy around Foley's disgrace was justified or not, the explosion of coverage was certainly understandable.
That reality is what makes coverage of Kevin Jennings, President Obama's safe schools are something of a mystery.
Jennings brings all the sleaze of Foley for real.
Sex in the underage, check.
An older man, check potential misbehavior by government officials, check.
But the Jennings case brings a lot more.
Safe schools are who failed to report statutory rape, an educational leader who encouraged a 15 year old student to be comfortable with sexual abuse, a federal official who ignored a law requiring him to report even the possibility of a crime.
And now we got pornography going on, the National Sounds Science Foundation, dubious grants being made.
The Roman Polanski story.
And Sarah Palin remains public enemy number one to the drive-by media.
Back after this.
Okay, um, ladies and gentlemen, before we get back to the phones, Garrison Keeler today in the Chicago Tribune with a column.
And it dovetails precisely with what I said in the first hour after discussing this scheme to get health care passed.
You're gonna have to go to bureaucrats to have your kids treated, yourself treated, and what judgment, what criteria is going to be used when all the bureaucracy is liberal Democrats.
Garrison Keeler actually wrote these words today in the Chicago Tribune.
Tim Pollenty attacks the president for giving a speech, telling school children to work hard in school and got good grades.
One starts to wonder if the country wouldn't be better off without them.
And if Republicans should just be cut out of the health care system entirely and provided with aspirin and hand sanitizer.
And if we cut off health care to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order.
It's time to dump the dead end issues that have wasted too much time already.
Old men shouldn't be allowed to doze off at the switch and muck up the works for the young who will have to repair the damage.
Get over yourselves.
Your replacements have arrived, and you should think about them now and then.
Enough with the shrieking.
Pass health care reform.
Yeah, Prairie Home Companion Garrison Keeler, who is an old man now.
He recently had a stroke.
He was saved by good health care, but has not made him nice, nor has it made him smart.
32% of the population.
Now remember now, these are the people who are preaching to us about civility.
These are the people treaching to us about compassion.
Here's Garrison Keeler, who basically says, look, 32% of the country's Republican.
Deny them health care.
Give them aspirin and hand sanitizer.
Let them die.
We'll save lots of money.
A bill in Indianapolis.
Welcome, and the Chicago Tribune published it.
Hello, Bill.
Great to have you on the program.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Yeah, what a pleasure it is for you to get to speak to a happy, healthy Ogler.
Yeah.
It's nice to have somebody happy.
That's right.
My question is I keep hearing from these liberal Democrats that 40,000 people die every year that did not have health care coverage.
How many people with good health care coverage died?
Uh more than 40,000.
Well, that'd be about, they say 300,000 a year because of smoking, 400,000 years because of obesity, 500,000 a year because of uh trans fats.
Uh and I bet they all ate carrots too while they had health insurance.
That's right.
That's right.
Forty thousand people are not dying because they don't have health insurance.
They're dying because of bad health.
Somebody need Oh, they're dying because people die.
That's right.
Good health does not give you immortality.
We die.
Sometimes you die in an in an auto accident.
Doesn't Elijah Cummings is out there saying, in his constituency, blacks are dying because they don't have health health covers.
And he said, oops, oops, I mean health insurance, health insurance.
I would like for him to produce one death certificate of one of his constituents, cause of death, no health insurance.
I want to see it.
I want to I want to parade.
I want to see the caskets.
I want to I want to see the cemetery.
I want to see the graveyard.
I want to see the tombstones of all of his constituents who have died because they had no health insurance.
I want to I want they throw these numbers around, which are cockamamy and absurd.
So show us the cemetery.
Show us the death certificate?
If you don't want to do that, just give us the case examples.
Say the person ABC here passed away because they didn't have health insurance.
Meaning they got really sick and they didn't get covered.
They get treatment.
Really?
Did they go to the emergency room?
Because it's a federal law, you have to be treated when you go in there.
These people are just a bunch of lying sacks and you know what folks through and through, and it's all they know how to do.
This is unbelievable.
This headline just came out Bloomberg.
Alan Greenspan says he sees the U.S. economy slowing next year as the surge in stocks comes to an end.
He sees the economy slowing.
It's barely crawling as it is.
Greenspan sees growth slowing as stocks splatten.
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