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Jan. 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 8, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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And greetings and welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
As always, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Look at this headline today in the Washington Post.
U.S. to push foreign governments to use full body scanners at airports.
Why, that ought to be easy.
Everybody loves Obama overseas, right?
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
One big exciting hour to go.
At 800-282-2882.
And the email address is L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
And I promise to squeeze a lot of your calls in during this hour.
As always, we have a full board.
And we'll get there El Quico.
Not only are the iguanas falling off trees in South Florida, which actually may not be a bad thing.
The iguanas are not native to Florida.
A bunch of people here buy them as pets and don't understand what they're getting.
And these things get big and and uh you know they're gonna be nuisance.
So people let them go.
And they start propagating like crazy down there out there, and they end up in people's yards, and it's it's uh uh they can they can be quite uh quite scary.
So anyway, they're falling off of trees uh because of the of the cold weather.
You know, they're not used to this, and and they're the they're they're cold blooded, and uh they basically get paralyzed.
Now they die if the temperature gets below 32.
They fall they die, and they can't be brought back to life.
But if the temperature is not below 32, they still can get paralyzed and they fall off the trees and just drop off, and they can be revived once it warms up if it warms up pretty quickly.
But my guess is a lot of people are running around trying to collect them and get rid of them because they have become a an infestation kind of problem.
Manatees are big problems down here, and of course, uh ladies and gentlemen, uh wouldn't you know, sea turtles seem to be the hardest hit.
Some 200 were rescued uh yesterday from St. Joseph's Bay up on the panhandle.
They were brought to Gulf World Marine Park, where they will stay warm in a holding pool.
And then along Florida's Atlantic coast, 93 sea turtles were found floating on a lagoon.
And uh experts said that the cold water shocked their systems.
Uh most were endangered green sea turtles.
They were sent to research facilities for some tender loving care.
So it's not just human beings which are in trouble, it's um it's animals as well.
From Port St. Lucy, why it's it never seems to stop.
Port St. Lucie out of chicken McNuggets, you call 911.
Something else happened.
It's Fort St. Lucy recently I forget what it is, but get this.
The chill in the air is keeping hospitals busy in Port St. Lucie, Florida, thanks to the drop in temperatures in South Florida, St. Lucy Medical Center is seeing an increase in the number of patients with colds and bronchitis and pneumonia.
Dr. Rudy Linder says that ever since it got chilly, his emergency room has been full of patients with low immune systems who went out in the cold and got sick.
Wait a minute now.
I I've I've not heard of people going to the hospital because it gets cold.
The cold does not make you sick.
You know, this this the old wife said your mother was a bundle up, you better wear a coat when you go out, you're gonna get sick, you're gonna get a cold.
No, no, no, no.
You've it it's it's a it's a virus that causes it, and the virus is is I mean, this is cold season, of course, but the cold weather has nothing to do with it.
Look at um for those of you in Port St. Lucy, let me shout this in the roost types, cold Zycam, and it works.
And you don't go to the hospital with a cold.
What you do the first moment you think you're getting a cold, go take some Zycam.
Have it with you at all times.
It's easy to a lot of different flavors, a lot of different formulations of Zygam, uh liquid lozenges and so forth.
It's they're they're wonderful.
It tastes good.
Come in a big orange box.
And what happens is the first time, the first moment you think you're getting a cold, you take one.
And then every four hours you take another one.
And if you catch it early enough, the odds are that your cold won't last as long and the symptoms will not be as severe.
If you're if you go into the and they're not gonna give you Zygam in the emergency room, you gotta go to a they have it anywhere.
But it works.
If you are predisposed for colds or other season, you should not go into public, said uh Dr. Rudy Lindner.
Uh knock me down.
I I I don't feel like eating and nothing tastes good, said patient Dorothy Tricolie.
Although doctors reported decrease in swine flu.
By the way, by the way, do you know that France, France has so much unused swine flu vaccine they're trying to sell it?
You talk about a hoax.
You talk about a scare that was that was never anything at all, and there's Kathleen Sibelius out there telling it we must take the vaccine, and you remember the hell storm created when I said, I'm not taking it just because you tell me to.
Dr. Snyderman, MSNBC was shocked and stuck.
Why would anybody disbelieve their government?
That's a chuckle.
The government's only there to help us.
There's so much more swine flu than we ever needed.
Guess who benefited from this?
Guess who benefited from this?
Well, the people that make the vaccine benefited from it, obviously.
And you'd have to say that government benefited from it because uh they they were able to create all kinds of crisis uh mentality, and they got people bending to their will, they got people frightened and scared, which is what a government like ours likes to do to people.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, you know, it's been said by the White House that I am the leader of the Republican Party.
They said that uh Obama is uh well, as far back as uh January, February.
And as you know, the state controlled media picked it up and ran with it, and I am the Republican Party leader.
Not so fast.
New Harris poll came out yesterday.
64%, it was 2,276 adults that were surveyed.
Sixty-four percent surveyed, and uh, what was it uh sixty-four percent say that McCain is the leader of the Republican Party, and that Newt and I are tied at 50%.
Sixty-four percent of these adults surveyed nationwide, said McCain is influential in steering the direction of the party.
That's a 14-point edge over me and Newt, both of whom rated as influential by 50% of all of those people polled.
You know, McCain is running for re-election in in Arizona, and he's running an ad.
He's running an ad that accuses Obama of trying to bankrupt the nation.
Well, now, that's pretty similar to what I say when I say all of this destruction of the private sector is on purpose.
He's pretty much saying the same thing.
Now, isn't it interesting when he says it?
He says it in a campaign for re-election in Arizona.
He wouldn't dare say this in his campaign for the presidency.
That's right, Limbo because I wasn't gonna criticize Obama.
I told you that.
It wasn't gonna happen.
Okay, fine.
So he can have to criticize Obama now.
He's not running against Obama.
Obama's already in office, so he can run around Obama's, and he's right.
Obama is bankrupting the country.
There's no question about it.
But where was this?
Where was this when we needed it?
It wasn't anywhere around.
It was dialed back and we couldn't go anywhere near uh that that kind of uh story.
Here's an interesting story.
This is an AP from uh from New Haven, Connecticut, a one-time top attorney to former President George W. Bush, is accused of trying to kill his wife at their Connecticut home by beating her with a flashlight and choking her.
Fifty-seven-year-old John Michael Farron is charged with strangulation and attempted murder.
He was ordered held Thursday on two million dollars bail.
His uh his lawyer called it a tragic situation.
Farron was deputy White House Counsel of George W. Bush.
Um attorney.
Deputy White House Counsel to Bush also worked on the campaign and transition of former President George H.W. Bush.
Uh.
And the headline of the Story.
The headline of the story, Connecticut Police, ex-Bush lawyer tried to kill wife.
Ex Bush.
There's a story about how the mayor of Baltimore is having to leave office on a plea deal.
She's agreed to she's admitting that they've got enough evidence to charge her with perjury and a bunch of stuff, but she's not admitting it.
This is a convoluted plea they give politicians.
She's going to leave office.
I read the whole story.
You never read that she's a Democrat.
You never read it.
You never see that she's a Democrat.
Not one mention in a very long story.
Headline.
Ex-Bush lawyer tried to kill wife.
Seems like everybody who ever worked for Bush over eight years who has an issue or a squabble or is nuts will be used to tar Bush.
How about how about if we had this headline?
Illinois police, ex-Obama colleague tried to kill hundreds.
Dateline Chicago, a one-time close associate of President Obama admitted to formulating plans to bomb the Pentagon and possibly kill hundreds in an effort to promote domestic terrorism.
William Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dorn, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Would we ever see that headline?
Oh, but of course, ex-Bush lawyer tried to kill wife.
You think there's not a conservative ascendancy going on?
New Jersey Senate rejects bill legalizing gay marriage.
Twenty to fourteen vote, defeating the measure, followed an hour and a half of public debate inside the New Jersey state Senate.
The nearly thousand supporters and opponents of the bill held rallies on the State House steps.
The measure fell seven votes short of twenty-one needed for passage, and it was not a party line vote.
Some Democrats voted against legalizing gay marriage.
Something is uh cooking up, and this, folks, I cannot believe these people are doing this.
Months after the government took large ownership stakes in General Motors, Chrysler, and the auto lender GMAC Financial Services, top lawmakers and members of the Obama administration, are going to be taking a close look at their investment.
Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and Ray Lahood and others will meet with company executives, state and local leaders, and tour vehicle displays on Monday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
This is like the Soviet leaders, Gorbachev used to always go and look at the new weapons.
Always go look at the new Zill Limousines and new Illusion Jets.
Obama's administration and Pelosi and Hoyer are gonna go visit their own car companies displays at the Detroit Auto Show.
That's got to be a mistake.
I mean, reminding Americans that they own General Motor and Chrysler's, that's That's a blunder.
Only narcissists and fascists would do this to the dealers.
Do you think the dealers want to see the owners of these companies show up and parade around like they know what they're doing?
The last thing a General Motors or Chrysler dealer wants is for Americans to know that the government owns their products.
People aren't gonna buy them.
What are Pelosi's approval numbers?
Is there anybody outside MSNBC's evening audience that can stand to look at her?
Obama, radically divisive to the point where tens of millions of potential buyers would never buy anything remotely associated with him.
This is like, as I said, it's like military leaders inspecting a bomb site in enemy territory.
And uh thinking surviving locals who lost family members will thank them for it.
I mean, this is dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.
Go in there.
Hey, we're gonna inspect our products.
They're gonna go to Detroit Auto Show.
We're gonna see what our company's making here out there.
Fools.
Okay, back to the phones.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh with uh half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Mike in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, great to talk to you, Rush.
Um, on the unemployment stuff.
I've been driving trucks Since 1974.
So we've always been able to kind of see the trends in the economy because of the lack of freight.
And right now there's a huge lack of freight.
There's a lot of companies closing, a lot of owner operators losing their trucks going out of business.
And one of the things that the statistics don't count is the owner operators that have gone out of business.
So every month you can probably throw anywhere from five to seven thousand more people into the mix.
Right.
He's referring to a story we had earlier today that UPS is laying off 1,100 workers, and this is bright news.
AP says there's good news.
It's bright news for the stock price.
Well, I know the stock price, they're thinning the herd.
Of course, investors like it, but here it's 1,100 more jobs lost, and it's you know, you factor in the people that have given up looking.
And a lot of these truckers you're talking about own the trucks, right?
Therefore they they don't get uh uh unemployment compensation.
If you if you own your own business, you don't get a check.
No, not at all.
And Wednesday night before Christmas, uh company called Aero Trucking out of Tulsa.
Thirteen hundred drivers lost their jobs and ended up stranded pretty well around the United States when they closed their doors.
And that's uh that's pretty scary.
You don't hear those stories.
What, they just shut down the company?
Yep.
Yep.
Told the guys to take their trucks to the nearest dealership or terminal, and they give them a bus ticket home, and some of those guys have been buying trucks through the company and got kind of left holding the bag.
Well, I know.
You know, it's it's this is a disaster.
This is a man-made disaster uh out there, and it's it's like I I said at the uh at the top of the program, where does the buck stop with jobs?
You know, when people I want to tell you something, folks.
When people realize that this has been on purpose for the express desire Obama has to set up his massive redistribution, which is which is what the health care thing is all about.
I was talking earlier about how uh you know Pelosi loves to run around and say that that the uh we're gonna reduce costs.
There's no way.
But costs and price are a different thing.
And the use of the word cost is therefore intentional as opposed to price.
The price of health care is not going to come down because of this bill.
The price that people pay isn't going to come down, but costs to some people will, because some people who earn, I think it's family four earning less than eighty and a single family earning less than forty-two, it's somewhere in those two ranges, uh, will be exempted from having to buy insurance.
They're going to be subsidized by the government, which is us.
Everybody not being subsidized is going to have to pay for this.
Our costs will go up.
The prices are going to go up.
There are tax increases on people who have supposed Cadillac health plans.
Now you can look at the subsidy in this thing as simple redistribution.
There are a lot of families that that make under $80,000 a year.
There are a lot of families afford that make under 80.
They're going to be totally subsidized.
This is redistribution.
Everybody else is going to be paying for those people not to pay.
And we already have the S chip programs, the state children's health insurance program.
And you're a child in that program up at age 29, I think.
And you're paid for.
Already being subsidized.
So that's that's transfer of wealth.
When people figure out, when enough people figure out that all of this pillaring, this this pillaging of the private sector, which is what it is, this bankrupting of the country, when they figure out it's been on purpose.
And when they see the majority of the slush fund called the stimulus plan, which most of it hasn't been spent, when they see it start, it was supposed to kick in this year, remember.
That's what he started saying toward the uh early fall into the into the late fall, they said it's not supposed to kick in.
I think it was Christina Rome.
Twenty ten.
And then she said, Well, we've probably gotten our bank for the buck out of this.
We may need to do a second one.
And at that time they'd only spent 20% of it.
It's a slush fund for Democrats' reelection efforts.
That's what it is.
And that's what TARP was.
That was a slush fund for Goldman Sachs, but that's that's a longer story.
Now, one in five working age American men does not have a job.
That according to the latest federal employment numbers, this is an all-time high.
Twenty percent of working age men do not have jobs.
It illustrates the extraordinary or extraordinary toll that this recession has taken on male dominated professions.
Uh Men are more likely to work in sectors like manufacturing, uh matufacturing construction, and I'm thinking of trucking here with most recent call.
And these are uh areas that are more sensitive to economic downturns.
But the the downturn has been particularly brutal on those industries, leading some observers to call this a man session.
Only 80% of men 25 to 54 had jobs in December, the lowest since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started collecting that data in 1948.
Now, I want to put this in perspective.
Only 80% of men 2554 had jobs in December, the lowest since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started collecting data in 1948.
Lowest.
This is after a $1 trillion stimulus plan that the Obama administration said was going to keep unemployment at 8%.
This is after bailing out the banks and some financial institutions and Goldman Sachs.
This is after Obama's best stab at this.
But of course, no stimulus can ever work.
There's not a pile of money that's not being used, that the government can infuse into the private sector.
In order to put a trillion dollars into the private sector, they got to take it out first.
Or in this case, borrow it.
Which just runs up debt.
There's no stimulus.
It's not possible.
And it's proof because it hasn't happened.
Back to the phones.
We go open line Friday, El Rush Motor St. George, Utah, and Joe.
Nice to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
It's been a couple of years.
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
I uh it's it's uh it's hard for me to to get into this without sounding cocky, but uh you started your show on my birthday, the day I retired from broadcasting.
I've been doing radio talks since 1969, and I have followed your career very, very closely.
In fact, all the radio uh talk shows.
I just wanted to say that of all the ones that I have seen, heard, been associated with over the years, you're the best.
I not I'm I'm not sure you're the smartest, but you're certainly the best.
Because you handle the callers and you handle the subject matter so well.
Well, thank you.
Uh thank you very much.
That's very nice of you to say, Joe.
Well, uh, you know, we don't often get a chance to express our uh admiration for those of us in the field.
I mean, I still consider myself a broadcaster, even though it's been what, 20 years now?
Yeah, easily if you retired in 69.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've I've been trying to get through to you for a couple of years uh for a for a couple of three months, four months maybe.
You know, I one thing I never heard discussed was the fact that we did in our infinite wisdom turn the Congress over to the Democrats.
Two years, two years before the Obama debacle.
It was Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and the Democratic Party who purposely engineered the collapse of the financial system.
That didn't happen by accident, and it had nothing to do with George Bush.
Sorry about that, Mr. Obama.
And sorry about that, American people.
We've got to start paying more attention to who we put in the Congress.
Anyway, I it's just a real pleasure to have a chance to uh express my admiration for you.
You do a remarkably good job.
And I I you know there's a lot of other guys out there who are doing trying to do what you do, and I actually have some excellent ideas and and their hearts in the right place.
They ought to all take a week off and just listen to the way you handle your show.
And maybe Hannity might even back off long enough to let his guests get a word in edgewise.
Maybe Mark maybe Mark Levin wouldn't scare everybody off calling them nuts.
Mark Mark Levin knows what's going on, but he surely doesn't know how to be a radio guy.
Well, now they he's it everybody has their own style and they have their own objective and their own and their own purposes.
Both those guys are are are friends of mine.
And I know you probably you probably gave Hannity his beginning when you were using him as a backup there for a while.
You probably put him on the map.
You think?
Well, uh the way I look at that is um he was a guest host, but if he didn't have the talent, he wouldn't be where he is now.
I mean, it's it's not just because he hosted the show.
It it may have been because he also the show may it uh i i i include expanded his visibility, but you can't take away the talent from these guys.
They're all good.
I uh I appreciate your uh your comments to me.
I really do.
That's uh especially um you were in the business a long time, and uh uh there you know what amazes me, Joe, and I I take advantage of it.
It's so many people in the other media, television and print, who do not understand, even pe I a lot of people on cable TV do not understand broadcasting.
You refer to yourself here as a broadcaster, not a talk show host.
And a lot of people do not understand at all what this is about, what the purpose is, how you go about it, what the business model have they haven't the slightest under they look at it as just another arm of uh of a political operation, which it's not.
And uh and and some people who try to do this try to make it a political operation rather than a broadcasting enterprise because they don't have the slightest idea about broadcasting.
Broadcasting has its own skill set, requirements, talent requirements, and so forth and so on, and most people uh who judge this and are critics of it haven't the slightest clue what it is.
So and I think in a way, um their ignorance of that helps me to benefit from it even more.
Well, listen, you keep with doing what you're doing.
I'll do that.
Don't don't change your style, don't change anything.
Just keep doing what you're doing.
I ought to call you nut and hang up on you.
Well to call you nut ought to call you a nut and hang up on you.
Get off my phone, you get off my phone, you nut.
Um I bought Levin's book, I want you to know.
Well, now you gotta say that's a great book.
Oh, yeah, it is.
Absolutely.
And that that book sold I they're c over a million copies, I think.
Yeah, it did.
Great book.
And and Hannity, you know, does this thing uh uh he was out in Provo, Utah one time uh the you know on the fourth of July.
Does a lot of does a lot of great things.
The Freedom Concert.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, we're gonna be microphones.
Well, we all have our roles, Joe.
I'll I remember I went to the National Review 50th anniversary uh dinner at a um very ornate building museum in Washington, DC.
And some of the invited guests there were wounded from arm uh uh uh Walter Reed.
And I was told that there were about eight of them, and I was told they wanted to meet me.
Well, sure.
I was escorted over to where they were, and they were pretty severely injured, missing eyes, uh arms, legs.
And I got really uh embarrassed and humbled because they started thanking me, and I looked at them and I said, Thanking me.
I all I do is talk on the radio.
No, no, no, Mr. Limbaugh.
We all have our roles.
And you support what we do, and you defend us.
And uh they were very appreciative, and I've never forgotten that we all have our roles, and everybody involved in in uh in what was right now an effort to save the country?
We all have our roles and everybody has their own way of going about it.
Uh and uh we hope that the the combined effort here uh is ultimately successful.
Looks like it's gonna be.
Joe, thanks again very much.
I really appreciate it.
This is uh Alex in Minneapolis.
Great to have you, sir.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh hello, Roshlama.
It's a real honor to talk to you.
I've never wanted to do this for some time now, and I have a question.
Yeah.
Um, why does MSNBC, CNN, and A HLN, why do they keep doing their liberal bias?
It's not where the money is anymore.
They're losing viewers and they're losing cash from advertisers.
Uh let me ask you this.
Why does the Democrat Party keep doing what it's doing, which is going to guarantee its shellacking defeat in November?
Because we believe if they can get something through now, it might it might help them and preserve them for the future.
They believe it, they do it because they are committed to the end result and they will pay with their careers to get it.
That's how committed they are.
The same is true of people in the media.
They are so committed to the Obama agenda.
They are so committed to remaking this country that they will gladly suffer these losses.
Jobs, profits, and so forth.
They think that their business should be insulated from profit.
I'll never forget Dan Radder.
When Larry Tish took over and bought CBS, first thing he did was look at the news division.
So this place hadn't made a profit in 20 years, and he laid off 200 people.
Dan rather had a cow.
Why, we're the we're the we're the we're the Tiffany network.
You can't why this is a news division.
Why you can't fire people we shouldn't be held to bottom line costs.
They think their mission is far above simple capitalism.
Uh uh they do all wish to get paid and paid a lot, and they don't think that that should be a pain for anybody who's paying them.
Now, these people, these people are committed.
In fact, Alex, it's even worse than you think.
Those people, that's the one business, the one business I know of where the customer is always wrong.
You write a letter to the editor about the newspaper, if they publish it, they'll rip you to shreds for not understanding what they do.
If you call and complain about bias, they'll tell you they're not, that they're not liberals, that you're your mind has been poisoned by people like me.
Um they they they're just and and they don't think they're biased.
They don't think they're liberal.
They are that ignorant.
They think that what they are is just natural, it just is, and that we are the kooks.
And when and when they see people abandoning them in droves, they say, okay, fine, we don't want you anyway.
These are co they have a bigger investment in defeating us than they do in defeating terrorists who want to blow up the country.
I think that the one of the reasons why Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln and some of these people who know better voted for Harry Reed's health care bill is not because they support the bill, and not because they think it's good.
They were gotten to, and they and it was said you cannot let the Republicans win.
No matter what, you can't let the Republicans win.
The partisan divide in this country is worse than anybody thinks, and it exists on the left as a life or death situation.
It is a career versus death situation.
That's how committed and how fervently they are committed to it and look at it.
And they they don't want to be bothered with profit, they don't want to be bothered with they don't like losing their jobs, but and then they're they're they refuse to admit why.
Well, they're blaming it on the internet.
The internet.
We can't keep it.
They don't understand it's content, content, content.
Anything in the media is about content.
People will go for the content they want wherever it is.
And if they don't, if they're not getting it someplace, they'll go someplace else.
They're never gonna change the content at the New York Times, at CBS, NBCA, they're never gonna do it.
Look at MSNBC.
I was coming these people, I I don't even know how to describe what they do.
It's it's not it it's not it's worse than propaganda.
It it's it's indescribable what they do.
And they think they're kicking ass.
They think they are hitting home runs.
They think they are Helping defeat Republicans and conservatives, and that's what they want to do.
It's it's a um uh I know what you're saying.
Well, Rush, aren't you trying to beat liberals?
I'm trying to save the country, folks.
I I I'm, you know, yeah, we got to defeat them to save the country, but I'm not trying to defeat them just to defeat them.
And I don't have a personal dislike for any of them.
They can't say that about us.
Their dislike and their animus is personal as well as issue-oriented and and uh ideological.
And you can tell by the the uh over-the-top mischaracterizations, character assassinations, criticism, and so forth and so on.
That's a good call.
I'm glad you asked me that.
Needed to be said.
Be right back after this.
I was just talking about it, and it just happened.
Just talking about it, and it just happened.
Uh more positions are being cut from the Obama administration.
The Los Angeles Times is to cut 80 jobs.
Tribune company LA Times said it would close its printing operations in Orange County, resulting in about 80 layoffs as part of cost cutting measures.
So certain parts of the Obama administration are being cut.
Uh Lynette in uh Charlotte, Charlotte, Michigan.
Great to have you here on the program.
Oh, thank you.
This is really an honor.
Thank you.
Okay.
I've got a question about this health care nightmare.
Yeah.
We are sending enormous amounts of money to Washington for three years.
Now, this part may be an oxymoron.
What trustworthy individual in Washington is keeping track of this money and not spending it.
What she is referring to, for those of you in uh Port St. Lucy and Rio Linda is the health care bill.
The new taxes will start immediately.
All the new taxes, and there are 14 tax increases alone in the Senate bill, uh pretty much the same in the House.
Those taxes start immediately.
But the the so-called benefits, the actual reform to the health care system will not start until 2014, maybe 2013.
The reason for this is they needed to play a budget gimmick.
They needed to have a 10-year number that shows up under a trillion dollars.
Because the war in Iraq cost a trillion dollars, they say, and so health care reform.
We gotta it's had to come in under two and uh under trillion dollars.
So you got three years of tax increases or four, and then six years of spending.
Uh if you did 10 years of spending, ten years of taxes, the total cost is two and a half trillion dollars.
And what Lynette here is asking is that three and a half years worth of taxes or three years of taxes is going to be put aside to pay for all the spending in the health care three years down the Of course not, Lynette.
There is no way that that is going to happen.
No way in hell it's going to happen.
Just like it it long ago stopped happening in uh in social security.
That story I was telling you about about uh uh identity theft the other day.
Mother and son have been charged in an identity theft case that started at a county library, and all it took was a woman's purse was stolen at the library in July.
And within hours, her check card, her credit cards had been used several times.
Surveillance video from a convenience store identified the license plate of a car that was filled up with gasoline using one of those cards.
The investigators uh were able to trace that vehicle to a man from Minneapolis.
He's been charged along with his mother, whose name is Cynthia.
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There's a great story here, Fox News.com by John uh John Carchis about why Byron Dorgan really quit, and it's uh it is an excellent point.
Byron Dorgan has gotten away in in North Dakota for uh ever for portraying himself as a as a moderate.
Uh a lot of Democrats who are just card-carrying ACLU leftists have been able to get away calling themselves moderates.
And what's happened is Byron Dorgan's been exposed now.
The health care debate, everything, all this spending, all of this the people in North Dakota don't like any of this, and he's been exposed.
He can no longer win.
He can't go back and say he's a moderate.
The blue dog Democrats in the House better pay attention to what happened to Byron Dorgan, because that's why he's out.
That's why he's going to get shellaced big time.
Uh with Chris Dodd, it's not the same thing, but it's a big deal, and we'll talk more about it on Monday.
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