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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 at 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!
Elm Rushbo serving humanity, executing assigned host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
Mark Halprin, blown away.
Sarah Palin in Milwaukee a week ago.
4,000 people paid 30 bucks.
There weren't any cameras there, so the drive-bys didn't know about it.
So I thought to myself, okay, what is it that impresses him 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, where he lives?
Did he not see those?
And I ran the question by Snerdley.
It's, 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 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.
It is a huge disconnect.
I got to tell 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 going to try to tell you what it's like.
A bunch of golf buddies in town, Vince Flynn part of group, and George Brett, part of the group.
And Vince has been telling us for a while that one of his books, I forget which, is being made into a movie.
And they're out there trying to cast the lead character, Mitch Rapp.
And 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 recently, Brett said, well, so did I have a chance?
I mean, who are you looking at casting here?
And well, we don't know for sure.
We're looking at Brad Pitt.
We're looking at maybe Clive Owen, but there's a number of guys.
What about me, Brett asks, asked Vince.
What about?
No, no, George, we're looking at actors here.
You're a great athlete.
So the next day, George comes in and we sit down for dinner after playing golf, and he makes an announcement.
Vince, I got something to tell you.
I went out and I talked to James Patterson, a local author who 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 going to be made of it, called The Man Who Killed Mitch Rapp.
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 Napolitano, 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 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 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.
52% would like to see their own.
I was wondering, see, these polls actually don't mean much because when you ask people, what do you think about incumbents?
Get rid of the wall.
What about your guy?
I like him.
So, 53% said most members should not be elected.
52% would like to see their own representative re-elected.
29% would not.
The 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, 56% are very enthusiastic about voting.
Only 32% of independents are not.
Now, this goes dovetails with what I said.
This is why Obama is 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 going to believe it?
Don't believe it, folks, because it's not going to.
What is this?
Oh, I already did that.
I don't care about that story.
Oh, Hassan called.
Here's a guy for the jury.
Abu Nadal Hassan.
No, Nidal Malik Hassan.
Nadal Hassan called himself a soldier of Allah on business cards found in his apartment after the.
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're proved guilty, and even then they're innocent.
Soldier of Allah on his business cards.
Watchdogs say that the first letters, S-O-A-S-W-T, the first letters are shorthand among militant Muslims to soldier of Allah.
The last letters refer to Subhanu Watal, which means glory to God.
I thought S-W-T might mean swarming wacko-terrorists, but apparently doesn't.
It means subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So is a soldier god?
And we can't jump to the conclusion.
Now get this.
This is from the UK Telegraph.
But look, folks, you got to keep your eye over there on what's happening in Great Britain because it's headed here.
And the same thing, you got to 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 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 center is extremely popular because many women don't want to give birth in a high-tech unit.
There are no plans to change that.
Now, 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.
Look, cut to the chase here.
What do we have here?
State-controlled hospitals in the UK.
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 20 miles away.
Fat women in this story are alleging that this is discriminatory.
Now, wait a minute.
The state-controlled hospital and doctors, rather than respond to a public demand and possible marketing niche opportunity like fat moms are 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 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 Dr. Health chimes in this story and what the factoid that moms are prevalent in deprived areas, deprived of things other than food, I guess.
And finally, we learned that English hospitals are so structurally unsound that they don't admit 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 fat.
I just told you, 5'6, and 210 or up.
That's the limit.
Now, 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.
Let's just.
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 I wonder, you know, if they're going to keep fat mothers out of the maternity ward at this hospital over there, what about a fat mother who wants an abortion?
Will they turn her away?
By popular demand, the children of EIB.
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, hi, great to have you with us on the program.
Megha Dittos, Rise.
Thank you.
Great to talk to you.
The public option, it throws up red flags for me because of the word public.
Have we forgotten about public housing, public schools?
And I'm thinking how...
You know what?
It's a great point, and you remind me, I had a story in the 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 bedbugs.
But if you look at, you're right, public housing.
Look at it.
Well, also, I would be horrified if 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 think it's pretty much the same thing.
And also, if this thing passes, will health care be chaotic in the urban areas 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.
I just couldn't imagine it being forced on us.
Yeah, I appreciate your thinking, but you don't need to go.
I mean, those are all great points.
Don't misunderstand, but you don't.
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, and lines, and 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'm hearing more and more, and as we get closer to 2012, Fox News and other places are always suggesting, you know, who would you like to see 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 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 some of our own people are doing it.
Well, I think in the case of Foxhill's presidential polls, they're just putting names up there of people who've run before, who have stated a desire to.
Well, they should let us fill in the blank.
They shouldn't do it.
I don't like it.
But in any case, well, thank you for allowing me to.
Angela, thanks much for the call.
Speaking of the grab audio soundbite number 20, since she brought up the public option, this is last night on CNBC in the Kudlow report.
Larry Kudlow spoke to Julian Epstein, who is a Democrat strategerist, about whether the health care reform package will be passed in the Senate by the end of the year.
Kudlow 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 into 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, wait.
He just said here, 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 Boat.
Thank you, sir.
I just want to let you know, it's going to 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 is down to a little over 5,000 now.
They started with 10,000 absentees, and the race continues to tighten.
Here's the latest on the story from state-controlled Associated Press.
The Hoffman campaign conceded when it had a narrow edge in Oswego County, considered his base.
And after campaign workers learned that Owens led by 5,335 votes with 93% of the returns in.
However, the routine canvassing of votes shows that Owens' lead has narrowed to 3,026 votes with about 5,800 absentee ballots received so far that have yet to be counted.
So it seems like a long shot, but it is tightening up as it goes.
Rush, the thanks 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, what happened, what's going on with the taxes, the property taxes and whatnot.
They finally voted out a man who was just out of control.
That was Clausine.
So everybody gave Christie a shot to the radio stations that people call in out here.
So ecstatic.
They got rid of an out-of-control governor, and they just can't wait to see what Christie's going to do.
Well, it was monumental.
You know, getting rid 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.
Corzine had his own problems way back when.
And of course, it wasn't our problem in Virginia because that candidate really was horrible.
Candidate didn't take any of our advice.
But they know.
They know.
And a lot of it is independents.
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?
It has to be independents, maybe even some disaffected Democrats.
We'll be back.
Sit 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 correspondents, Pete Williams, about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed being tried in New York City.
When 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 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 has asked, if these guys are acquitted, the Justice Department's not going to let them go free, right?
So Holder has a backup plan.
No, they've got a drawer full of other charges that they could bring against these defendants.
There are already indictments pending against Khaled 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.
Wait, this is important, by the way.
There are indictments out there against Khalid Sheikh Muhammad.
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, it'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, there are 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, Frush.
How are you?
Very well.
Thanks.
Well, listen, before I tell you how my little company is enduring the House bill, you know, it seems to me when the Gitmo 5 get up to New York City, the judge is going to ban cameras from the court, so only the newspapers will be allowed in.
It seems to me that Holder is announcing the newspaper bailout plan.
I thought I heard Holder say.
I thought I heard Holder say that there were going to be cameras in there.
Oh, yeah, right.
But listen, we got, as an employee of an insurance company, we got our benefit booklets 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 the travel issue.
Hold it a minute.
No, no, no.
You got to start at the beginning.
You call here and say your company is writing policies now and you have set up facilities.
Yes, sir.
What kind of 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, if you travel to Costa Rica.
Yep, and we've even got a travel agency who helps arrange 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 at Obamacare by setting up essentially offshore medical centers.
We most certainly are.
How do you make money here if you're going to 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.
I do know the money's going to come in from 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 I happen to want a knee replacement or need one, all I got to 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 co-insurance, no copay.
So they're going to do that.
Wait a second.
Now, you can't just gloss over this stuff, Stacey.
You're going to have to explain how this can be done.
No deductible, no copay, 100%.
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, I can email you a link to our sub department that's handling these arrangements.
And you can post it.
It's out there.
It's on the web.
No, I mean, no, no, no, no.
They believe what you're saying.
They don't believe that there's no deductible, that there's no copay, 100% covered.
The only thing they don't know is what does this cost them?
Well, it's going to be your standard policy.
I mean, 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.
Specialists are also going to be capitated.
It's going to be done either in a geographic region or something to that effect.
But the capitation's in there.
I got to jump in here again.
For those of you in Rio Linda, we're not actually talking about the guillotine here.
Well, but this administration, you never know what some people would believe.
Well, this is true.
I mean, I wouldn't have believed that Holder's going to bail out newspapers by bringing terrorists into New York City to have show trials.
Why did you choose Costa Rica?
I have no idea why they did that.
You know, I'm a business analyst.
I just don't work in the marketing and all of that.
I work on computer systems, but I just know I'll be happy to email you the benefit booklet if you will take off all identifying information, you know, blank it out, and I'll be happy to email it to you.
And you can post it.
It's right there.
Now, you'll still have to have your physical therapy, all of that stateside.
But for these high-dollar procedures, 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 in 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.
It's 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 of years.
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-tech procedures that they're going to offer.
And you know how we're going to make our kill and rush?
Even if it's only $50 per person that we make as a net profit, there are going to 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, 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, but Harry Reed's already got 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, Rush?
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 is the great thing about entrepreneurism.
People always find their way around these people and the obstacles they put in the way.
It's just a shame that has to happen.
But 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 very much.
You're just a pistol.
By the way, it's on the Fritz here again.
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 masochist or something.
You know how they are.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
All right, look, I appreciate Stacey.
Stay in touch.
Oh, stay on hold.
We have a super secret email address.
Snirdlies.
Snirdlies.
I do want to see this pamphlet.
Okay, sure.
All right.
I'll have it to you tonight.
Good.
Just hold on.
Don't hang up.
Okay.
We got to go, folks.
A quick timeout.
Back right after this.
Well, I got emails are pouring into me, folks, from website subscribers who know all about Costa Rica.
We're all Costa Ricans now.
It's fine and dandy, except, you know, the Canadians have to leave, too, and they come here.
But I'm learning all kinds of things that 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.
Mammo.
Just a couple sample emails here.
Dear Rush, this is Blake Hibbard.
Costa Rica healthcare 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.
10 grand there buys you the whole deal.
Face boobs, lipo, et cetera.
Lipo.
The whole deal, 10 grand.
In other words, 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 of the USA.
Venicio Lines, Coral Gables, Florida.
And I mean, there are 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 see what you learn on this program.
Folks, I'm going to 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's a home run, Grand Slam home run of a show.
All right, Sergio in Brooklyn, welcome, Sergi.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, right to the point.
A few years ago, I was forced prematurely to retire from industrial construction.
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 12 each package.
Each toothbrush said Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Excuse me.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait, January 2020.
Sergio, Sergio, slow down here just a second here because I want to comprehend this.
You were in essentially industrial construction, heavy construction.
Yes.
A truck crushed.
Did you work in construction or just a construction?
30 years.
Okay.
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 12 with January, February, March, April, May, June, so that people know when to change their toothbrush once a month.
I hooked up with a first-generation Chinese fellow in Baltimore who whom hooked me up with a manufacturing entity in China.
And what we did is I named a calendar brush.
We got the toothbrushes after a couple of years worth of jumping through the hoops and the U.S. patent 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 to 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 Rio Linda, that's 75 grand.
All 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, $8,000 or $9,000 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 a calendar brush.
That's my toothbrushes.
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 going to pay for this health care?
And guess what?
It hit me like a ton of bricks.
It said they're going to tax medical devices.
Oh, yeah, this includes tampons, sir.
Oh, yes.
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 going to do?
We're going to get a bunch of us nurses and we're going to go down to Washington and wave our tampons and say, don't tax our tampons.
But in any event, that's obtuse.
I know it's off the track.
Off on track with that.
What a rally.
What a rally that would be.
Waving the tampags around.
No, no, no tax on tampons.
Oh, but now I'm getting a lot of people.
It's a shame Senator Kennedy is not alive to see that.
But now here I am with my toothbrushes now.
I have 120,000 toothbrushes here.
I'm just getting going.
And it's my understanding now that now I'm going to get my toothbrushes taxed.
But it's just to go to show you that if they're going to hit me, small guy, just starting out, how the heck am I going to pay my taxes on my toothbrushes?
And what am I going to have to charge?
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 gets through, you think you're going to buy your toothbrushes for a $2, $3, 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 teabags around in protest?
Can you imagine the reaction when women start waving around these tampons?
Oh, oh, oh, 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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