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Oct. 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 28, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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No, you tell them.
You tell them it.
I'll get back to them after the show.
I am sick and tired of everybody wanting everything between noon and three.
There are 21 other hours in the day.
Oh, you tell them.
I'm not going to tell them.
I'm working.
Jeez, I'm sorry, folks.
How are you?
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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I'm checking an email during the break.
And I got a bunch of people.
They may be seminar emailers, but I don't think all of them are.
And there's a general theme among some of the emails I said.
Rush, this Reagan stuff, the year of Reagan is over.
I mean, I listen to those clips you played of Reagan.
And Reagan, he's talking about the Soviet Union.
He's talking about tyranny and communism around the world.
And the Soviet Union's gone, Rush, and what things that Reagan was focused on, why it's old.
We have to have a new set of policies and principles.
Okay.
I'm glad you sent me those notes, giving me an opportunity to explain to you why you're wrong.
Let's go back and listen to audio soundbite number four, Ronaldus Magnus, October 27, 1964, a televised campaign address for Barry Goldwater.
We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb, by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the iron curtain, give up your dreams of freedom, because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters.
Alexander Hamilton said a nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.
Now let's set the record straight.
There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace, and you can have it in the next second.
Surrender.
Now, this is the soundbite that the people were reacting to in the email.
Reagan, it's 40 years old, 45 years ago, Russia can't talk about it.
Let me present my view of this.
Let's go back not to 1964, but let's go back to 1960.
That election featured Richard Nixon, the incumbent vice president against John Kennedy.
Do you remember how close that election was?
Razor thin, it came down to the dead vote in Chicago and with some chicanery in West Virginia.
And Nixon could have contested it, but he decided for the good of the country he would concede the next day.
Why was that election so close?
Back in 1960, both candidates agreed on fundamental issues.
Both candidates agreed that national security and keeping this country safe from foreign enemies was paramount.
Both candidates agreed.
When it came to domestic policy, don't forget John Kennedy predated Reagan in tax cuts.
Hubert Humphrey, who was also a presidential contender in that era, and we've played the sound bites of this way long time ago on this radio show.
Hubert Humphrey, talking about a civil rights bill, said, if it's got quotas in it, I ain't signing it.
He was considered a liberal Democrat in those days.
John Kennedy was considered a liberal Democrat in those days.
And we all remember his inauguration speech, ask not what your country can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your country.
The reason that election was so close was because there wasn't much disagreement on the big things between the two candidates.
Now, it is 49 years later.
49 years later, and we have no more Soviet Union threat.
We've got Russia rebuilding itself in the image of the KGB.
We still have Castro and whatever he's doing, Hugo Chavez on the march.
The Chaikoms, still communist, but opening the free market.
They have all the money in the world.
But more important, these two parties today do not even agree on national security.
One of our political parties today advocates for the defeat of this country.
We have now elected a president.
We may not have a Soviet threat, but we have a communist threat.
It was all about keeping communism out of this country.
1960, Reagan, Nixon, Kennedy, it was all about keeping communism out of this country.
JFK didn't want a communist country.
Now we have an administration with members saying their favorite philosopher is Mao Tzetong.
Next, we're going to learn that somebody else in this administration admires Joseph Stalin.
We have avowed Marxists, self-proclaimed communists in this administration.
This country has moved so far and gone in that, well, the left in this country has gone so far left since from where it was in 1960.
Reagan was exactly right.
If you think that the era of Reagan is over simply because the external threat of communism in the Soviet Union was beat down, you've missed the whole point.
Reagan was talking about tyranny, liberty, freedom.
It's always threatened.
It always has to be fought for.
It has to be earned.
What's happened now is we're not fighting the Soviet Union.
We're fighting the Democrat Party.
We're fighting the American left.
We are now fighting to save our own country from itself.
We are fighting within our own country to preserve our freedom.
Reagan was exactly right.
This is why the era of Reagan will never be over because it is the era of our founding.
It is the era of individual freedom, American exceptionalism.
These are crucial times, and we are in an ascendancy here in winning this battle, at least in the hearts and minds of the American people, which I've always believed is where it starts.
So not only is the era of Reagan not over, and not only is Reagan passe, Reagan is as relevant as ever, and it is more important than ever that people heed the warnings that he, and by the way, I grew up hearing that same stuff from my father.
You know, people that lived through the Great Depression, that went, that fought in World War II, Korea and all that, and they remember Khrushchev coming over to the UN and banging his shoe on the desk, claiming that it will bury you, your grandchildren will be ours, and so forth.
I mean, they took it seriously.
Both parties, they fought it back.
Now, something happened after the assassination of JFK.
That is where I think the modern left really started gaining its ascendancy, which is amazing because it was a leftist communist who assassinated JFK.
But that gave birth to Lyndon Johnson, a massive leftist, I mean, it was always bubbling under the surface.
It was always, you know, you always had Hollywood leftists and communists, and you always had, I mean, we used to have a House Un-American Activities Committee.
Do you know that?
In the House of Representatives, we had a House Un-American Activities Committee.
We had, you know, academia was left, but it really started marching full speed ahead in the 60s after the assassination of JFK, and it has not stopped.
And the things that Ronald Reagan warned us about have happened.
Well, they're in the process of happening.
In 2008, in our presidential election, we had a war veteran, Vietnam War veteran, John McCain, against an elitist five-minute career senator of 150 days.
That senator was running as a Democrat and had actively sought the defeat of the U.S. military in Iraq, had actively sought to undermine General Petraeus, who was the author of the surge that led to a turnaround in Iraq and a victory.
And now that same man is dithering in Afghanistan while American soldiers, not Bush soldiers and not Obama soldiers, American soldiers are dying at record numbers.
The threat that people in this country who want to be free face is now within our own borders.
That's the stark reality.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
I just got an email from somebody who said, Rush, what is a whip?
You said that the Democrat whip in the House leaked the document, the whip documents.
What's a whip?
It's a good question.
We sometimes assume that people understand some of the things that they don't.
Every party, both parties in the House of Representatives have a vote counter.
This is a person in its office.
It's an official called the WIP.
Tom DeLay at one time was the whip in the Republican Party, and that's how he got the name, the Hammer, because the WIP whips up the vote.
The whip runs around and makes sure that the leadership gets the votes, the number of votes it needs and wants on any issue.
And what this leaked document shows is that the whip cannot whip them all into action.
They are 47 votes, definite no, eight leaning no, total of 56 no on the House version of health care.
And so the whip says, I've done all the whip and I can whip.
Now it's up to you people in the leadership to get in gear here and start putting the fear of God into some of these people because I, the whip, and that's James Clyburn, by the way.
James Clyber is the whip, and he's also in the Congressional Black Caucus.
So it means exactly what it says.
Run around, just whip people upside the head to make sure you get their vote.
You browbeat them, you persuade them, you offer whatever it takes.
You whip them into action.
Now, can being laid off really make you better off?
As the Great Recession continues to devour jobs at an alarming rate, wait a minute, I thought the recession was, I thought other jobs are coming back here.
There's so many, the state-controlled media cannot even get its template straight anymore.
As the Great Recession continues to devour jobs at an alarming rate, tales are to legion about the millions of unemployed struggling to right their lives and recover their self-esteem.
What happens to those left behind?
Would it surprise you to learn that survivors can suffer just as much, if not more, than colleagues who get laid off?
It certainly surprised a team of academic researchers who embedded themselves at Boeing from 1996 to 2006, a tumultuous decade during which the company laid off tens of thousands of people.
The results of the study will appear next year in a Yale University Press book called Turbulence, Boeing and the State of American Workers and Manager.
Sarah Moore, a University of Puget Sound industrial psychology professor, one of the book's four authors, said how much better off the laid-off were was stunning and shocking to us.
How much better off the laid-off were was stunning and shocking to us.
In the greatest surprise of all, the researchers discovered that the people who had been laid off often were happier than those left behind.
Many had new jobs, even if they didn't always pay as well.
Now, this book's not coming out until next year.
Isn't the timing of this little release on it fascinating?
As unemployment continues to skyrocket and approval numbers for Obama continue to plunge and a deeper suspicion of President Obama continues to surface, state-controlled media gets in Garrett and says, hey, Obama is so smart.
Obama is so wonderful.
Obama is so good that you may be better off if you lose a job when Obama is president.
It may actually be better off for you.
From Friday, July 17, 2009, a similar story.
Recession lesson.
Share and swap replaces grab and buy.
The recession is reminding Americans of a lesson.
This is from the Washington Post, by the way, that they learned in childhood.
Share and share alike.
They are sharing or swapping tools and books, cars and handbags, time and talent.
It's a wonderful thing.
Look at what being laid off is helping you to become a better person.
Having no job, being laid off is teaching you how to be a better person.
Isn't Obama wonderful?
That's the subtext of all of this.
I guarantee you that if we face 10% unemployment under George W. Bush, there wouldn't be one story on the happiness of the laid off.
It would be headlines and in-depth stories daily about the misery of living in Bush's America.
People ask me all the time, Rush, you'll tell us when it's time to panic, right?
I say, yeah, and it's not time to panic.
But I have just finished a column by Thomas Sowell that strikes me as somewhat remarkable.
There should not be any doubt with Americans interested in the truth about who Barack Obama is and what he represents.
It's become clear, surreal clear.
Dr. Thomas Sowell, a brilliant, accomplished man, a distinguished gentleman, when distinguished gentlemen, distinguished Americans such as Thomas Sowell think and write, as he has in his latest column, it's time to stop gathering evidence concerning Obama's character and do anything within the boundaries of the law to stop his agenda.
Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a cabinet member confirmed by the Senate, but simply one of many czars appointed by the president, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private business by 50 to 90 percent?
Would you have believed that just one year ago?
Just one year ago, did you think another czar would be talking about restricting talk radio?
There would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers, that is to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?
Just one year ago, did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called experts deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments just one year ago?
Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it's also chilling from the standpoint of freedom.
If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about you or your loved ones?
Does any of this sound like America?
How about a federal agency giving schoolchildren material to enlist them on the side of the president?
Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.
How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path?
President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.
We already have local police forces all across the country, military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies.
What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama with all its leaders appointed by him?
It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American.
How far the president will go depends, of course, on how much resistance he meets.
But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin.
Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to change the United States of America, the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their own hostility to the values, the principles, and the people of this country.
Jeremiah Wright said it with words, God bleep America.
Bill Ayers said it with bombs that he planted.
Community activist goons have said it with their contempt for the rights of other people.
Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who have been praising enemy dictators like Mao Tzetong, who have seen the public schools as places to promote sexual practices contrary to the values of most Americans, to a captive audience of children, no less.
Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely.
Why should we assume that Obama didn't know what such people were like when he's been associating with precisely these kind of people for decades before he reached the White House?
Nothing is more consistent with his lifelong patterns than putting such people in government, people who reject American values, resent Americans in general, and successful Americans in particular, as well as resenting America's influence in the world.
Any miscalculation on his part would be in not thinking that others would discover what these stealth appointees were like.
Had it not been for the Fox News channel, these stealth appointees might have remained unexposed for who they are.
Fox News is now high on the administration's enemies list.
Nothing so epitomizes President Obama's own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year, each bill, more than 1,000 pages long, too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed.
That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up.
Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled piece by piece is another question and the biggest question for this generation.
That is Dr. Thomas Sowell.
If you don't know, Dr. Soule is African American.
He is at the Hoover Institution on the campus, Stanford University.
Dismantling America is the distinguished judge.
When he starts writing things this way, it's time to stop gathering evidence, folks.
The evidence is clear.
It's now time to have the courage to believe the evidence and to take action, which, by the way, has been happening and will continue to happen.
Conservatism in the ascendancy.
We'll be right back.
Don't vanish.
And we'll get back to your phone calls here in just a second.
But, you know, all these stories about how wonderful it is to be laid off during the Obama presidency.
And people laid off at Boeing.
Much happier.
Much, much happier.
Maybe Boeing wasn't a good place to work.
Who knows?
But here's a list of recent Washington Post headlines along the same lines.
Michael Gerson, recisions, recession's hidden virtues.
Everyone knows the bad economy leads to bad behavior.
Everyone might be wrong.
Recession leads to more people buying seeds, trying to grow their own food.
Recession takes a bite out of snacking.
Everybody getting healthier.
Because of recession, many private colleges admitting more students than usual this year.
Well, hell's bells.
Maybe what we need is perpetual recession.
It could go on for years and years and years so that we can become an even better country.
Look at all the wonderful things that happened during an Obama recession.
It was revealed last week that the Obama daughters had not been vaccinated against the swine flu.
Malia is 11, Sasha is 8.
The White House announced on its website Tuesday that the two daughters, in fact, got shots and had been vaccinated, got the shots from a White House doctor.
The doctor was not identified.
He applied for and received the vaccine from the city's health department using the same process as every other vaccination site in the District of Columbia, said Katie McCormick Leliveld, a spokeswoman for First Lady Michelle Obama.
McCormick Leliveld said the president and Mrs. Obama would wait to get their shots until after people in priority groups like children, young adults, and pregnant women have been vaccinated.
Now, news that the Obama sisters have received their swine flu shots was likely to raise questions about whether they had been given preferential treatment.
Oh, really?
Is there some doubt about that?
It also could anger parents who are having difficulty getting shots for their own children because of shortages in the promised vaccine production and the way the vaccine is available and is being distributed.
I will never forget how Hillary was dumped all over Bush over some, what was it, bird flu vaccine in 2004.
I forget the year, but I mean, it was just relentless how incompetent.
This is after Hillary had gone after the pharmaceutical companies.
Well, let's go to the audio soundbites.
So the first children got vaccinated in the White House while people are standing in lines around the country.
Those who want the vaccine to get theirs.
Here's Janet Napolitano and Catholine Sebelius.
This afternoon in Washington, they held a joint press conference.
Here is a portion of Napolitano's remarks.
We know people are frustrated by waiting in line and by uncertainty.
And so what we want to do today is reset, in a way, tell you where we are in terms of preparation and what we can look forward to over the coming days and weeks as we as a country work our way through this flu outbreak.
We have also been continuously reminding the American people that we are our own best protectors in a way by coughing properly, by washing your hands thoroughly, by staying home from school or work if you're exhibiting signs of the flu.
Oh, man, the chickification of the U.S. government.
Nanny state.
Nanny state.
We really continuously remind the American people by coughing properly, by washing your hands thoroughly, by staying home from school or work if you're exhibiting signs of the flu.
But it was just yesterday that Sebelius said, we're not going to close the schools, even if we have an epidemic here, because then children in America will not eat.
And how about this reset business?
Yeah, what we want to do here is reset in a way to reset.
You mean, you've got a debacle on your hands, so you're going to reset it and start over.
It's sort of like, I remember when John Kerry was being interviewed during the 2004 presidential campaign by CBS, they asked him a question, and he gave a blathering, blubbering answer that made no sense.
And the producer, you want to take two on that, Senator Kerry, you want to do it over?
Democrats get do-overs.
Democrats get resets.
Here is Kathleen Sebelius, who says she is saddened.
We are saddened and unhappy about certainly the level of illness and the deaths caused by H1N1 flu.
And as the Secretary has just said, share the frustration of Americans who are eager to be vaccinated.
There's no question production started more slowly than anyone would have liked.
Well, yeah, yeah, much slower than anyone liked.
And we just, we boxed it.
We really did.
But we're going to be better about it next time.
We'll reset everything now.
So, yeah, everything's cool.
These people are flaming in competence.
This Alan Grayson guy, this guy must have, you know, I think he is a legitimate ADD attention deficit disorder.
And I mean it literally.
This guy craves attention.
He can't get enough of it.
He goes out.
You know, you call this advisor to the Federal Reserve, Linda Robertson, a K-Street whore.
We had the audio yesterday.
I just didn't get to it.
During an interview last month on a syndicated radio program at K-Street Whore.
He'd have gotten away with it.
Mr. Grayson, you're Democrat.
I would think there'd be more up to speed here on pop culture.
The correct and more widely used term is ho.
If you would have said K-Street ho, the National Football League might have asked you to become an owner of one of their teams.
But you went out there and you used the word whore, and we just can't have that.
Next time you're going to do this, Alan, you go out there and say K-Street hoe.
And instead of everybody shocked, they'll laugh at you and they'll think you're a pop culture icon.
All right, to the phones.
We'll go to Grand Rapids, Michigan first.
Jack, thank you for calling.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, what an honor it is to talk to you.
I know you hear that a lot, but I got to tell you, I've listened to you for so many years, and I just value you and listening to you and value your opinion.
Thank you.
You know, as I'm listening and have been listening to you, Rush, about the state of our country, everything else, my first question is, what do you think is going to happen in the 2010 election?
I mean, are the American people really going to get it and finally start voting for the people, the Republicans, hopefully, that not only say what they believe but actually get to the Washington and actually do what they say they believe.
Well, now, wait.
You're asking me two different things.
You're asking me, will the American people vote a certain way in 2010, and then will people they elect go to Washington do the right thing?
Well, I'm so tired of them saying they're going to do these things, Rush.
I'm of the opinion that I want to just see all the incumbents just vote it out.
Yeah.
Start over.
Yeah.
Including Hatch and all these other long stalwarts of the Republican Party.
Rush, one thing.
I don't mean to interrupt, but when I listened to Hatch speak at Kennedy's funeral and talk about he and Kennedy bantering back and forth, and then Kennedy came up and said, Hey, how'd I do?
You know, and all you did good.
It's like the good old boys club of Washington.
And it just turned my stomach when I listened to a Republican speak like that.
Like, you know, we're psyching out the American people, aren't we?
Good job.
Well, I think how'd I do?
I think that's just, you know, sometimes even I, who always know how I do, will ask people, so how was that?
Was that okay?
Not did I fool them, but was I good enough?
But that's a different thing.
The collegiality of the Senate is what you're commenting on here.
And it's no secret that Hatch and Kennedy were friends.
I mean, they just were.
Now, I understand your larger point is that people get elected campaigning for various specific things to go to Washington or somehow get corrupted.
And that's it's all too common.
So I here's my answer to your first question.
What do I think is going to happen in 2010?
I think there's going to be an uprising.
I think the American people are going to show up in droves.
I even think, and this is not, by the way, if I didn't think this, folks, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing.
If I thought all this was a lost cause, I wouldn't care so much about it.
And I was out in Las Vegas on Saturday, and I made the mistake of turning on television, saw something, I don't even remember what it was.
And I thought, my God, we've lost the country.
And it depressed me for two hours until I was able to buck myself back up.
And I know it's hard for everybody else because you don't have the outlet I have.
You don't have a microphone to shout to 20 million people, to vent and influence them.
You're sitting there, oh, gosh, what can I do?
I'm just one vote.
It doesn't count.
I know exactly how you feel.
But I do think there's going to be an uprising in 2010.
I even think it's going to happen if we have nothing to vote for.
Normally, I wouldn't say that.
I think there's going to be an uprising of people voting against the Democrat Party like they can't believe.
They do not understand what's happening to them now.
They're not.
Here, Gribb, what's the Gibbs sound like 31?
Is that right?
Yeah, 31.
Listen to this.
Now, this will help make my point.
This is Robert Gibbs, the press secretary, daily briefing today.
And a reporter asked him, what do you think this election means to the party and to the president?
This is the Virginia governor's race.
The pollsters at the Washington Post poll identified the fact that roughly 70% of the state said their vote had nothing to do with the president of the United States, that the remaining 30 was roughly divided evenly among those who wanted to use the vote to say something about the president, which led the pollsters to deduce that it had very little to do with the Obama presidency.
I would say the same thing.
I think the same poll showed that amongst those I don't want to hear this guy.
It sounds like he's at any rate, they're in denial.
They're in denial.
And I think that there is going to be revolt and an uprising against the Democrat Party in general.
You can say it's going to be against Obama, but it's going to be against Democrats.
And especially if they end up passing a health care bill with as much as is now known about it, it's going to be a bloodbath politically in 2010, regardless whether we have a national Republican agenda or not.
Remember, house races are not national races.
And these midterms in 2010 are house races.
That's one of the dirty little secrets about the Republican takeover, as it was called, of the House in 1994, is that those House races were successfully nationalized.
Newt and the boys came up with a national agenda for Republicans running for office, a House of Representatives.
Contract with America was part of it.
But rather than go into a campaign district and campaign against the local incumbent as having been weak on bringing home a nursing home center or a water treatment plant, the campaign said, focus on this guy and his weakness on national defense.
Focus on his tax raising.
Focus on how he is creating cultural rot with his votes.
Make him a national figure.
And that was huge in securing victory in the House races in 1994.
I don't, right now, I don't see anybody putting anything like that together in the Republican Party.
I don't think it's, I think the revolt is going to be so stunning, it won't even need that.
It would be better if there were some national Republican Party agenda that was rooted and founded in unabashed, unapologetic conservatism.
That individual House members could run on and say, yep, this.
this is me.
And who knows?
It may happen between now and then.
But that's what's going to happen.
Now, what's going to happen if I'm right and the winners get to Washington?
I know exactly what's going to happen.
The press are going to start attacking them.
The press is going to beat them up.
The Democrats are going to beat them up.
And it's going to come down to whether they've got the backbone to withstand it.
Few do.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
I'm reminded here that the, and I think this is mostly correct.
The contract with America didn't happen until six weeks before the 1994 elections, but it was still six weeks before.
It was still something for people to rally around.
We were coming off a lot of scandals, the House Bank and the House Post Office and general Democrat arrogance plus Clinton's failed health care bill and attempt to totally take over one-sixth of the U.S. economy back then.
So there were a lot of things, but there still was a national agenda.
There was a national strategy for all of these local house races that took place back in 1994.
Dear Rush, I have used Zycam gel swabs in the past.
And I can tell you from personal experience, they really work.
You know, they do.
And it just, the FDA banned them.
It's unprecedented.
The FDA banned the gel swabs.
You can't buy them anymore.
Some people have them like Cuban cigars.
They hide them in places in case the authorities come with a search warrant.
Some people still have the gel swabs.
Some people ran out and bought some right as the announcement happened, but there are now other kinds.
This guy says, well, now we can't purchase the gel swabs.
I was wondering if you have used the cold remedy spray mist or the rapid melts, and if you think they work just as well as the swabs.
Well, last week, last week I told you I thought I was coming down with one of these things.
What I use, ladies and gentlemen, the multi, I use a different kind.
The ingredient here is zinc.
Zinc is the ingredient, and it just happens to get into your system faster through the rhino cavity, the nostrils.
But they reformulated it, and it's, well, there's like Liquilaz form that that's called Cold Remedy Plus.
It has the cold medicine in it, plus medicine to help relieve a sore throat.
And they have Zycam Zavers, which come in different flavors, but they all work.
They all do the same thing.
You use it the minute, the second you think you're coming down with a cold.
And it will could possibly knock it out if you catch it soon enough.
But likely that won't happen, but it will really shorten the duration.
It will not mask the symptoms.
It will shorten.
Zycam, whatever form you find and like best, it all works.
Jim in Chicago, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Fine and dandy.
You know, you just talked about telling us when it was time to panic.
I'm almost, I think I've reached my panic point in regard to this medical bill.
My wife just gave me a frantic call saying that she's been trying to get our seven-year-old asthmatic child the shot.
And she was told that unless she was American Indian or could prove that she was on some type of assistance program, that we would not be able to get the shot.
What?
From these locations.
And I'm telling you, so of course.
Wait a minute.
In Chicago?
Correct.
In other words, this is an affirmative action vaccine, and you have to be an approved minority group member before you can get it?
I'm telling you, Rush, I don't understand it.
It's never happened before.
Now we've got the government involved in it.
And this is just another way of displaying how we can't have the government run the medical program when, in fact, they can now dictate which group, which people get to have care.
It's crazy.
Jim, thanks.
I'm going to check into this.
That's big, if that's actually accurate.
Not doubting you.
Just have to check it out.
Back after this.
So what you're saying to me is, is the government is hyping the number of swine flu cases.
Because they're just assuming if somebody comes in with the flu, they give them some medicine, not even a vaccine, and just assume it's swine flu.
They don't test everybody for it because it's an expensive test.
So they're hyping the number of cases out there.
Well, if that's true, that doesn't surprise me.
Create panic and chaos.
Sell health care.
Keep general unrest out there amongst the population.
It's right out of the Obama formula.
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