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Nov. 13, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 13, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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All right, folks, I know, I know, I know.
I read the emails in the break, and I know, I know.
I'm not taking enough calls.
It's open line Friday, so I'll fix that, probably live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And we're back.
Old Rush Both serving humanity, executing a signed host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
Mark Halperon, blown away.
Sarah Palin in Milwaukee a week ago.
4,000 people paid 30 bucks.
There weren't any cameras there, so the drive-by's didn't know about it.
So I thought to myself, okay, what is it that impresses him this about this?
Is it the 4,000 people, or is it that they paid 30 bucks?
And I started to ask myself, wait a minute now.
Did he not see the tea parties that happened in Washington?
I mean, where he lives.
Did he not see those?
And I ran the question by snerdling.
Oh, they didn't see those.
They didn't see these, they didn't see the town halls, they didn't see the tea parties.
They don't watch Fox.
They don't want they watch, they watch MSNBC CNN.
They didn't watch Fox.
The only thing they saw at the tea parties was that picture of a guy outside carrying a gun.
And I guess that's true.
There's a it's a it is a huge disconnect.
I told you people a funny story, because I just got a little note of encouragement here from Vince Flynn.
Recently I had a bunch of golf buddies in town.
Here goes this audio problem again.
I had a bunch of golf buddies.
I'm sorry for this distraction here, folks, but imagine well, I'm not going to try to tell you what it's like.
Vince Flynn, part of the group, and and uh George Brett part of the group, and Vince uh has been telling us for a while that that one of his books, I forget which is being made into a movie.
And they're they're out there trying to cast the lead character, Mitch Rapp.
And uh Brett has been joking around with Vince that he wants the role.
George Brett wants to be Mitch Rapp.
And so when we got together this uh recently, the uh Brett said, Well, so I have a chance.
I mean, who who are you thinking casting here?
And uh, well, we don't know for sure.
We're looking at Brad Pitt, we're looking at uh maybe Clive Owen, but there's a number of guys.
What about me, Brett asks asked Vince?
What about No, no, George, no, we're looking at actors here.
You're great athlete with.
So the next day, George comes in and we sit down for dinner after playing golf, and he uh says makes an announcement.
Vince, I got something to tell you.
I went out and I talked to James Patterson, local author, lives here in Palm Beach, Russia introduced me to him.
And I have gotten a lead role in James Patterson's new book, a movie that's gonna be made of it, called A Man Who Killed Mitch Rapp.
Uh, get this headline.
White House to begin push on immigration overhaul in 2010.
Now, this is a story from the New York Times from November the 14th, 2009, which must mean this is going to run in tomorrow's paper.
I, as a powerful, influential member of the media have an advanced copy.
The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, according to Janet Politano, who is going to say this today or has said it today.
In an address at the Center for American Progress, a liberal policy, liberal policy.
This is John Podesta's radical leftist corrupt place.
Ms. Napolitano sought to dispel any notions that the administration with health care, energy, and other issues crowding the agenda might postpone the uh most contentious piece of an immigration overhaul until after midterm elections next November.
Laying out the administration's bottom line, she said it will argue for a three-legged stool that includes enacting tougher enforcement laws against illegals and the people who hire them and streamlining the system for Legal immigration, but also what she called a tough and fair pathway to earned legal status.
Can we can we say the word amnesty?
This is exactly what this is going to be.
Obama to give amnesty to 12 million illegals by 2010, according to the New York Times.
From the politico, there's a poll here from the Pew Research Center for the People in the Press.
One year out from midterm elections, anti-incumbent sediment is approaching its highest level in 20 years.
The survey found that 53% of Americans said that most members of Congress should not be re-elected, compared with just 34% who said that most members should be.
I was wondering, you see, these polls uh actually don't mean much.
Because when you ask people, what do you think about incumbents?
Get rid of them all.
What about your guy?
I like him.
So here we 53% said most members should not be elected.
52% would like to see their own representative re-elected.
Twenty-nine percent would not.
The uh last time voter sentiment was this negative was during the 2006 and 1994 election cycles, years in which the party in power suffered huge losses in midterm elections of independents who support a Republican candidate in their congressional district.
Fifty-six percent are very enthusiastic about voting.
Only 32% of independents uh are not.
Now, this is goes dovetails with what I said moments.
This is why Obama's becoming a deficit hawk, all of us.
Oh, there's another reason.
Isn't it interesting that on the day, the first day of his trip, that will include a stop to visit the ChICOMs.
He becomes a deficit hawk.
The thing is, who's gonna believe it?
Don't believe it, folks, because it's uh it's not going down.
What is this?
Oh, I already did that.
Oh, Hassan called here's a guy for the jury.
Uh Abu Nadal Hassan.
No, Nidal Malikasan.
Uh Nidal Hassan called himself a soldier of Allah on business cards found in his apartment after the sh but but we can't jump to conclusions on this, you see.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
We don't jump to conclusions on like this is a country in which the innocent are innocent until they are proved guilty, and even then they're innocent.
Soldier of Allah on his business cards.
Watchdogs say that the first letters, SOASWT, the first letters are shorthand among militant Muslims to uh soldier of Allah.
The last letters refer to Subhanu Watal, which means glory to God.
Um I thought SWT might mean swarmy wacko terrorist, but apparently it doesn't.
Uh, it means subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So is a soldier god?
Uh, and uh we can't jump to the conclusion.
Now get this.
This is from the UK telegraph, but look, folks, you gotta keep your eye over there on what's happening in Great Britain, because it's headed here, and the same thing, you gotta keep your eye on what's happening in Venezuela.
That's why, on this program at least, we focus our attention on a lot of these socialist countries.
Uh to keep a sharp eye, because we're headed in that direction here.
UK telegraph, fat mothers to be banned from hospital.
A hospital has banned fat women from giving birth at its maternity ward.
Mothers to be who have a body mass index of over 34, which is the equivalent of an average woman of 5'6, weighing 210 pounds, Will be turned away from Weston General Hospital, Weston Supermare, and Somerset.
Instead, patients will have to travel 20 miles to the nearest full facilitated maternity unit at St. Michael's Hospital in Bristol.
A spokesman for Weston General Hospital said it was not equipped to handle complicated births.
He also added, our midwife-led centers extremely popular because many women don't want to give birth in a high-tech unit.
There are no plans to change that.
Women who live in the town, no matter what their size, should be able to give birth without traveling miles and miles, according to Carol Welch, who runs a local slimming world class, 50 members in it.
Well look at cut to the chaser.
What do we have here?
State controlled hospitals in the U.K. Doctors say they can't safely deliver babies of fat women.
So the fat women are going to have to travel to a full service hospital twenty miles away.
Fat women in the story are alleging that this is discriminatory.
No, wait a minute.
Rather than respond to a public demand and possible marketing niche opportunity like fat moms or us.
Think of the opportunity fat moms are us.
Think of that sign outside the hospital.
Says it's little midwife led center is popular with people who don't want a high-tech birth and has no plans to change it.
Proponents of fat pregnant women, and they're they're they do have proponents, and they're mentioned in this story, using the unassailable logic of five-year-olds worldwide assert it just doesn't seem fair.
That's actually in the story.
It just doesn't seem fair that they don't have a high-tech delivery center right around the corner from where they live.
A doctor of health chimes in in this story and what the factoid that moms are prevalent in deprived areas is.
Deprived of things other than food, I guess.
And finally, we learned that English hospitals are so structurally unsound that they don't admit frat fat pregnant women to upper floors.
So that if you read the whole story, and I didn't bother to read a whole story to you, but they are afraid the fat women are going to cave the ceiling in.
Well, it's a f it I just told you, five, six, and two ten or up.
That's the limit.
Now the you're having an obvious reaction here.
Aren't all pregnant women larger than usual?
I don't want to visualize this beyond that, folks.
Listen.
You know that story on the anti-incumbent sediment.
Have you ever noticed that when the Democrats are on the show, it's always anti-incumbent.
When the Republicans are running the show, it's always anti-Republican sediment.
And uh I wonder, you know, if if if if they're gonna keep fat mothers out of the maternity ward at this hospital over there, what about a fat mother wants an abortion?
Would they turn her away?
By popular demand, the children of EIB.
B. The children of EIB respond to the children of the staffers of the World Wildlife Fund who got all this started.
All right, to the phones.
Montclair, Virginia, Angela High, great to have you with us on the program.
Megaddo's right.
Thank you.
Great to talk to you.
Um, the um the public option, it it throws up red flag for me because of the word public.
Have we forgotten about public housing, public schools?
And um I'm thinking uh how you know what?
It's a great point, and you remind me I had a story in a stack, either yesterday or the day before that I didn't get to.
Some public housing project somewhere in this country, there is an infestation of bed bugs.
But if you look at any, you're right, public housing.
Look at it.
Well, also, I I would be horrified if um President Obama suddenly appeared on TV and said because there's homeless people and because greedy real estate agents want to make a profit that all of us should move into public housing.
I I think it's pretty much the same thing.
And and also if this thing passes, will will health care be chaotic in the urban areas and and neglected just like the public schools?
Or will people buy their homes based on public care in their area like they do now for public schools?
It's just so much that I'm thinking about here with this public option.
This um I I just couldn't imagine it being forced on us.
Yeah, I appreciate your thinking, but you don't need to go.
You I mean, those are all great points.
Don't don't misunderstand, but you don't uh all you need to think about when you hear public option is lines, rationed care, meaning you won't get what you want or need, likely, uh, and lines, and uh doctors who are not being paid sufficiently to motivate them to even want to see you, and lines.
Well, also, Rush, if you don't mind my saying, I I'm hearing more and more, and is uh as we get closer to to 2012, uh, Fox News and other places are always suggesting, you know, who would you like to see uh run in 2012 on the GOP ticket and then they give us a list of names.
Now, I don't like that.
I think they're trying to force something down our throat, and if I had my way, Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana would be the one that I would want to run.
So, and I I wish people would get off these same names over and over again, and they're picking our options for us.
And I remember you talking about how we should not allow them to pick who we want to run, and and and some of our own people are doing it.
So, I think in the case of Fox, those presidential polls, they they're just you putting names up there of people who've run before who are uh uh who have stated they desire to.
Uh well they should let us fill in the blank.
They shouldn't do it.
I don't like it.
But any case, well, thank you for allowing me to Angela, thanks so much for the call.
Speaking of grab audio soundbite number twenty, since she brought up the public option.
This is uh last night on CNBC in a Cudlow report.
Larry Cudlow spoke to uh Jer uh uh Julian Epstein, who is a Democrat strategist, uh, about whether the health care reform package will be passed in the Senate by the end of the year.
Cudlow said, Do you think that dingy Harry can get a vote before the year-end holiday recess?
If I were advising him, I would say yes, and I would tell him to try to do it.
I think this is a good sell.
This will be a popular bill.
The reason you don't want to wait until January, February is because it's an election year.
Any of us who have worked on Capitol Hill know that every time you get a new election year, it gets much harder to get something passed.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, he just said here um uh it's it's a good sell, it's a popular bill.
Why wouldn't you want to do it in an election year?
I mean, if everybody wants it, and if it's that popular, why not put this vote off until say September of next year, and really soar to a massive landslide victory in the House and Senate.
Why wouldn't you do that?
Freddie in Hazlitt, New Jersey, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Mega Ditto Rush Bowl.
Thank you, sir.
I just want to let you know it's gonna be an interesting weekend and an interesting week ahead.
Regards to District 23.
According to my understanding, there are 10,000 absentee voters out there.
I think the number's down to f a little over five thousand now.
They started with ten thousand absentees, and the race continues to tighten.
Here's the latest on the story from state-controlled uh associated press.
The Hoffman campaign conceded when uh it had a narrow edge in Oswego County, considered his base.
And after campaign workers learned that uh Owens led by five thousand three hundred and thirty-five votes with ninety-three percent of the returns in.
However, the routine canvassing of votes shows that Owens lead has narrowed to three thousand twenty-six votes with about fifty, eight hundred absentee ballots received so far that have yet to be counted.
So um uh it's it seems like a long shot, but it is tightening up as it goes.
Rush, the fact that buttons are about to get pressed.
I just want to let you know out here in New Jersey, people, the independents are waking up.
Obviously, of what happened, what's going on with uh the taxes, the property taxes and whatnot.
They finally voted out a man who is just out of out of control.
That was clause line.
So everybody gave Christie a shot and to the radio stations that uh people call in out here.
So ecstatic.
They got rid of uh an out of control governor.
And they just can't wait to see what Christie's gonna do.
Well, it was monumental.
You know, getting rid of a of a Democrat governor in New Jersey is huge.
And the Obama White House, believe me, folks, they know this.
They're acting like, no, it wasn't about our guy.
It wasn't about old Barack.
Oh, no, no, no.
Corzin had his own problems and way back when.
And of course it wasn't our problem in Virginia because that candidate really was horrible.
Uh candidate didn't take any of our advice.
But they know.
They know and and it's a lot of it is independence.
It has to be.
Because the Democrats themselves, the White House said that Republican identification registration is all time low, and yet these Republicans are winning, so by their own logic, who is it that's voting Republican?
Has to be independents, maybe even some disaffected Democrats.
We'll be back.
Stick tight.
Don't go away.
All right, this is comical.
This is comical.
If it weren't so insidious, I would want to laugh at this.
This afternoon, PMS, NBC Live, the anchor Nora O'Donnell spoke with the Justice Department department correspondence, Pete Williams about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed being tried in New York City.
Wait till you hear this.
Nora O'Donnell said, if they are acquitted, which is the concern of some people.
If they are acquitted, they're already factoring that possibility.
Why would anybody think they might be acquitted?
Because it's exactly as I told you.
They're going to be able to find a jury, and by the government's going to end up being on trial here.
These defendants have no defense.
They have confessed.
They want to be executed.
So everybody's saying, you know what, this thing could backfire.
I mean, these guys could be acquitted.
So Pete Williams is asked, if these guys are acquitted, the Justice Department's not going to let them go free, right?
So what it Holder has a backup plan.
No, they've got a drawer full of other charges that they could bring against these defendants.
They're already indictments pending against Khalid Sheikh Muhammad for other crimes.
So they will just rearrest them and charge them with something else.
Well, what if they're acquitted for that?
I mean, if they're acquitted for blowing up the World Trade Center, what other minor things, quote unquote, did they do that they're going to be found guilty for?
Double parking?
What are these indictments?
There are the wait, then this is this is important, by the way.
There are indictments out there against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
This is what makes this all a joke.
So we're to be comforted by the fact that Eric Holder has a backup plan in case they're acquitted.
You know what's going to be interesting to see the odds.
You know, these websites out there you can bet take odds on who's going to win an election, who's going to they're going to be odds given on will these guys be acquitted, and it's going to be fascinating to see what those odds are.
Stacy, somewhere in Georgia.
We last heard from Stacy when she called from underneath a tree somewhere.
She didn't want to be more specific than that.
She's in the insurance business, and we welcome her back.
How are you?
Well, hi, Frás.
How are you?
Very well, thanks.
Well, listen, before I tell you how my little company is enduring um the House bill, you know, it seems to me when the Gitmo five get up to New York City, the judge is going to uh ban cameras from from the court.
So only the newspapers will be allowed in.
It seems to me this uh that Holder is announcing the uh newspaper bailout plan.
I thought I heard Holder say that there were going to be cameras in there.
Oh, yeah, right.
But listen, we got um as an employee of an insurance company, uh, we got our benefit book at booklets um this week.
And guess what we're doing now?
We have set up facilities in Costa Rica, and we are paying 100% of all medical charges associated with heart valve replacements, bypass surgeries, knee replacements, hip replacements, and spinal fusion.
If you travel to Costa Rica to have it done.
Now it does not cover it.
Hold it a minute.
No, no, no.
You gotta start at the beginning.
You call here and say your company is writing policies now, and you have set up facilities.
Yes, sir.
In Costa Rica, what kind of facilities has your insurance company set up?
Well, the insurance company is helping to set up hospital surgical centers in Costa Rica.
Wait a minute.
Your insurance company is going to build hospitals?
Well, no.
They're partnering with people who do that.
All right.
So your insurance company in Costa Rica, and you're going to pay 100% of all medical charges associated with heart valve replacement, bypass surgeries, knee replacements, hip replacements, spinal fusion, ERP.
if you travel to Costa Rica yep and we've even got a travel agency who helps arrange the the travel arrangements for coming back after you've had those kind of procedures so your company is insuring itself against the house health care bill and Obamacare by setting up essentially offshore medical centers.
We most certainly are how do you make how do you make money here if you're gonna pay 100% of all of these procedures costs.
You know I don't know the details to that I just learned about it this week so I can't tell you that but I do know the money's gonna come in from you know investments and things other ways that insurance companies make money we don't just gather up premiums and put them in a bank account.
Okay so this yes I understand that so this is your way of opting out of Obamacare and not being put out of business.
So if so if I happen to want a knee replacement or need one all I gotta do is contact you find a way to get myself to Costa Rica via your travel agency and everything's picked up 100% based on whatever my policy with you costs.
Exactly there's no deductible no coinsurance no copay.
So they're gonna decapitate wait a second now you you can't just gloss over this stuff, Stacey.
You're gonna have to explain how this can be done no deductible no co-pay one hundred percent you I I'm I'm you know I have great empathy that's why I'm a great host and I can tell you many in the audience are not buying this.
Well I mean there I can email you a link to our subdepartment that's handling these arrangements and you can post it.
Um it's out there it's on the web.
No I mean I no no no no they believe you what you're saying they don't believe that there's no deductible that there's no copay one hundred percent covered they the only thing they don't know is what does this cost them?
Well it's gonna be your standard policy.
I mean it it's not going to be necessarily any cheaper but what it will be is your procedure when you need it without standing in line.
That's what it's going to be.
And it'll still be cheaper than a house bill and you'll be guaranteed to get treated.
Absolutely so you know they can decapitate the doctors all they want and incidentally the house bill the bundling only applies to hospitals um specialists are also going to be capitated.
It's going to be done either in a geographic um or region or or something to that effect.
But um it decapitations in there and it's I gotta jump in here again.
For those of you in Rio Linda we're not actually talking about the guillotine here this administration you never know what some people would believe.
Well this is true I mean I wouldn't have believed that that Holder's going to bail out newspapers by bringing terrorists into New York City to have show trials button why did you choose Costa Rica?
I have no idea why they did that.
You know I'm a business analyst I I I just I don't work in the marketing and all of that.
Um I work on computer systems but I just know uh I'll be happy to email you the benefit booklet if you will take off all identifying information you know blanket out and I'll be happy to email it to you and you can post it it's right there.
Now you'll have to you'll still have to have your physical therapy um all of that stateside.
But for these high dollar procedures it's it is less than half the cost to do it in Costa Rica.
Ah okay there's the answer I was looking for less than half the cost than under the House Bill.
Absolutely now does that mean Costa Rican doctors and nurses or are you also going to hire American doctors who want to opt out and not get decapitated Medicare and relocate them to Costa Rica.
I have a feeling that it won't take a lot to lure highly trained, highly specialized physicians to a sunny tropical island to be paid the amount that they're worth to do what they love to do.
Actually, not an island, but it is tropical, and it is an up and coming vacation destination for the truly enlightened.
And you know, we've been doing this with dental for a number number of years.
Um you can have full dental work done at a third of the cost there, so a lot of people have been doing that.
But this is the first I've seen of these very precise, very high type procedures that they're gonna offer.
And they're and you know we're you know how we're gonna make our killing rush.
Even if it's only fifty dollars per person that we make as a net profit, there are gonna be so many people trying to get out of the government plan and get what they need done and get it now that they'll be beating our doors down.
Yeah, I can see that.
I'm just worried here that now that you've made this public, you know, the bill still hasn't been amended.
But you know, hey, Harry Reed.
I mean, don't be surprised if they put a provision you may not leave the country for health care services.
Well, you but Harry Green's already put it on the Senate schedule.
He can't change it that much, or they'll never get it through this year.
So go ahead, guys, feel free.
But you know what I love for us.
All of us little peons here just doing our thing are so much smarter than those guys up there.
They think they've got us between a rock and the hard place.
Ha.
Well, that's you know, that is the great thing about entrepreneurism.
Uh people always find a way around these people and the obstacles they put in the way.
It's just a shame that has to happen, but but uh yours is a great illustration of how that happens.
Well, you know, we make it work.
So I hope you have a fabulous Friday, and I'm so glad your cochlear implant got fixed.
Well, thanks uh very much.
You're you're just a pistol.
By the way, it's on the Fritz here again.
I'm having to uh I'm having to slap the thing silly when it starts going out on me.
Hey, you better get that off the webcam.
Next thing you know, Marco will have it on his website as your as you're a uh a masochist or something.
You know how they are.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
All right, look, I appreciate Stacey.
Stay in touch.
Oh, uh stay on hold.
We have a super secret email address.
Uh Snurdlies, snurdlys, that uh that I do want to see this pamphlet.
Okay, sure.
All right.
I'll have a tea tonight.
Good.
Just hold on, don't hang up.
Okay.
We gotta go, folks, a quick timeout.
Back right after this.
Well, I got uh emails are pouring in to me, folks, from uh website subscribers who know all about Costa Rica.
We're all Costa Ricans now.
You know, it it's uh it's fine and dandy.
Except, you know, the Canadians have to leave too, and they come here.
Uh but I'm learning all kinds of things that uh there are now vacation surgical tours.
You need a minor surgery, you schedule at a vacation spot, the costs are much less, you go two weeks, you get your recoup time, you come back, bamboo.
Just a couple sample emails here.
Dear Rush, this is in Blake Hibbert.
Costa Rica health care costs are about a quarter of what they are here.
Good private doctors.
I go there a lot.
There are always women on the planes coming home who've had plastic surgery.
Ten grand there buys you the whole deal.
Face boobs, lipo, etc.
Lippo.
The whole deal, ten grand.
In other words, the Costa Rica has the highest percentage of U.S. trained doctors in Latin America.
Relocation of doctors is possible, but you need to be board certified in Costa Rica and join the National College of Medicine.
It takes time, but you can get highly competent doctors, state-of-the-art private hospitals for a fraction of the cost to the USA.
Viniciolines, Coral Gables, Florida.
And I mean thousands of them that have poured in here.
And I had no idea.
Because I don't go to the doctor anyway, wherever he is.
So I've see what you learn on this program.
Folks, I'm gonna tell you something.
When the host learns something, it's big.
Because I know most everything that's important to know.
And I've learned something I didn't know today.
That that's a home run grand slam home run of a show.
All right, Sergio in Brooklyn, welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, right to the point.
Uh a few years ago I was forced Prematurely to retire from industrial construction.
Uh truck crash crushed both my kneecaps.
So I had a vision about going into the toothbrush business, and I invented a toothbrush that was in a package of twelve and each each each package.
Each toothbrush said Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fr.
excuse me.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait, January.
Sergio, slow down here just a second here because I want to I want to comprehend this.
You you were in essentially industrial construction, heavy construction.
Yes.
A truck crushed.
Did you work in construction or just a construction?
So a truck crushed both of your kneecaps.
And you had a vision of going into the toothbrush business.
Correct.
And my toothbrushes are being sold in package of twelve with January, February, March, April, May, June, so that people know when to change their toothbrush once a month.
I hooked up with a um with a first generation Chinese fellow in Baltimore who whom hooked me up with uh a manufacturing entity in in China.
And what we did is I named a calendar brush.
We got the toothbrushes after a couple of years worth of jumping to the hoops and the U.S. Pat and stuff.
They arrived in Baltimore, and I was following my toothbrushes saying, Yep, yep, here they are.
We have everything up, we're ready to go, and I'm ready to take my toothbrushes over two customs into Baltimore.
My friend Terry calls me up and he says, Stop, you're not getting your toothbrushes.
And by that time I was out about 75 large.
Well, for those in real linda, that's 75 grand.
Right.
And they said, the Food and Drug Administration is now classifying your toothbrushes as a medical device number.
Now you've got to go back to the FBA, which is the Food and Drug Administration, come back around.
We're not releasing your toothbrushes until you produce us this medical device number.
Now, I turned around and pretty much that was a death sentence.
But what I did is my brother Vinny jumped through the hoops for five or six weeks, eight or nine thousand dollars later, I got my medical device number, and now my toothbrushes are here, and I'm just trying to get started.
A little rough getting started.
It's calendar brush, uh, that's my toothbrushes.
You know, yesterday I was reading there's a couple of bills that are going to Congress right now, Congress and the Senate.
And how are they gonna pay for this health care?
And guess what?
It it hit me like a ton of bricks, it said they're gonna tax medical devices.
Oh, yeah, this includes tampons, sir.
Oh, yes, and and you had to see the nurse in the restaurant when I was showing her last night about my toothbrushes being taxed, and she said, you know what I'm gonna do?
We're gonna get a bunch of us nurses and we're gonna go down to Washington and and and wave our tampons and say, don't tax our tampon.
But in any event, that's obtuse.
Off on off on track with that.
What a rally!
What a rally that would be waving the tam packs around.
No, no, no, tax on tampons.
Oh now, now now I'm it's a shame Senator Kennedy is not alive to see that.
But now here I am with my toothbrushes now.
I have a hundred and twenty thousand toothbrushes here.
I I'm just getting going, and I it's my understanding now that now I'm gonna get my toothbrushes taxed, but it's it's just to go to show you that if they're gonna hit me, small guy, just starting out, how the heck am I gonna pay my taxes on my toothbrushes?
And what am I gonna have to charge?
Uh guess what?
Everybody in this nation, wake up, pick up your toothbrush.
Remember calendar brush, of course, but pick up your toothbrush, and you know what?
After January 1, when this thing goes through, you think you're gonna buy your toothbrushes for a two, three buck, whatever.
Guess what?
It's a medical device.
You are going to pay taxes on that for a fee.
Good point.
Sergio, I hate to shut you down here, my man, but the constraints of the programming format require it.
Thanks much for the call.
Hey, folks, you remember, you remember how upset the media and the Democrats got when people started waving tea bags around in protest.
Can you imagine the reaction when women start waving around these tampons?
Ho, ho, ho!
We have got to encourage this.
Well, another exciting excursion, a full week of broadcast excellence in the can.
Be back on Monday.
Have a wonderful weekend, my friends.
And we'll see you on Monday.
Can't wait for it.
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