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	Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
	I am Rush Limbo, the grand pooba, the head honcho of the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	It's great to have you on the program.
	Great to be with you today.
	Telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbo at eibnet.com.
	All right, Howard Feynman.
	Writing on Newsweek's website, what the debate should be about.
	I got sick in South America, and I realized what the healthcare debate in this country should be about, costs.
	After covering the healthcare debate for a year, I suppose I needed to clear my head, get some perspective on the medical world, but the way I accidentally did so was a little extreme, dramatic, and painful.
	On a trip to visit our daughter in Argentina, I got a severe case of food poisoning.
	I spent two nights and three days in a small private hospital in the breathtakingly beautiful Andes resort town of Baraloch.
	I hope I'm pronouncing it Baraloche.
	I'm not sure how to pronounce it.
	Before I say more, here's the bottom line.
	I got great care at a tiny fraction of what the cost would have been in the U.S., even correcting for cost of living and currency values.
	My hospitalization included continuous IV to counter dehydration, IV antibiotics, an EKG, two blood tests, a chest x-ray, special meals, a private room, and even satellite TV access to what seemed to be every obscure soccer match on the planet.
	The doctors, nurses, aides, and others were all uniformly excellent.
	The total cost, $1,500.
	In the U.S., according to my survey of Washington doctors, my own and others, the equivalent care would have cost $10,000 to $15,000.
	And that's probably not counting the satellite TV.
	The stark arithmetic, in turn, reminds me of what the debate here should be about, but often isn't.
	How to control our immense and metastasizing medical industrial complex, which is waging the equivalent of a costly Cold War against an evil empire of bad food, bad habits, and greed.
	President Obama proclaims his plan, whatever it finally is, to be reformed.
	By the way, he's going to include four Republican ideas in his plan tomorrow.
	I don't know what they are yet.
	I'll find out.
	I'll tell you in a minute.
	But from what I can see, Mr. Feynman writes, it would merely feed at taxpayer expense 30 million currently uncovered people into a wasteful system that doesn't have either the price signaling power of a marketplace or the sweeping overview and control of a state-run bureaucracy.
	He's ripping Obama's plan there.
	Either alternative might work.
	The latter surely does, at least in a highly centralized communitarian country such as France.
	And what we have and will have even if the president has his way is a simmering mess of neither here nor there.
	Most Americans have no idea how much their health care really costs, nor do they know how well it really works compared with, say, other places, practices, or countries.
	And there is truly no truly national administration of a sector of the economy that accounts for about $2.5 trillion in annual economic activity, an amount of cash roughly equivalent to the entire economies of the UK and Russia combined.
	That's what our health care spending is.
	Now, Argentina's no role model.
	Their system is as much of a mashup as ours.
	They spend a lot of money, proportionately, about 11% of GDP compared with 17% for us.
	We are 34th in the world in life expectancy.
	They're 45th, according to the CIA World Factbook.
	Most Argentines rely on a rickety public system.
	About a quarter get coverage through their place of work, which in the leftist Peronist tradition means their unions.
	Others, mostly the better off, rely on private for-profit hospitals of all sizes and shapes.
	I ended up in one of the latter, a small, for-profit, private hospital.
	I had passed out from dehydration on the way to the airport.
	But when my wife and daughter took me to the hospital, I was aware enough to be a little worried about the place I was now entrusting my life.
	There was a gravel and dirt parking lot.
	The entrance of the emergency room looked like the side entrance to a warehouse.
	The waiting room had just a few chairs in a tight row.
	I had no choice but to intimately examine the purple foot of an injured hiker sitting in the seat next to me.
	The equipment was not fancy.
	It was not state of the art.
	On the other hand, my illness was not fancy, and I'm not state-of-the-art.
	What they had was more than enough for me.
	The key is that the doctors were clearly well-trained and knowledgeable and inspired confidence with their touch of Argentine cockiness.
	American doctors have high regard for the education of most of their Argentine colleagues.
	The only problem, they spoke almost no English.
	Luckily, our daughter speaks like a native Argentine, and she served as translator.
	There was no waste in their rounds or in their supply rooms.
	It seemed to me they treated me appropriately, but not with flourish.
	An example, to take a shower, I needed to have my IV connection covered to protect it against the water.
	The orderly improvised a solution, took a clean rubber glove and cut it off at the fingers and palm to make a protective sleeve.
	Might not be a best practice in the U.S., but it worked.
	In Argentina, perhaps they can't always afford the latest in technology, but they also strike me as doctors who don't dwell on technology for its own sake or for the sake of impressing patients.
	So I had a minor, though painful and scary ailment, and they took pretty much the line of least resistance in treating it.
	I was out of the hospital as promptly as possible and on my way back to Buenos Aires with my family.
	In figuring the bill, let's say that since the Argentine peso is worth about one-fourth of a dollar, the real cost of my care down there was $6,000, which is still about half of what I would have paid back in the United States.
	Without getting into profound issues of lifestyle and culture, such as we are killing ourselves with fast food and lack of exercise while our life expectancy goes up, Howard, the main question that we need to ask in this ongoing healthcare debate is this.
	Where does all that extra money go?
	Now, that's a seminar the president should convene before it's too late.
	And this, I took a long way getting I read the whole piece.
	But basically what Mr. Feynman's asking, how come it costs so damn much here?
	I got $1,500 down there for what would be $10,000 to $15,000 here.
	Where does that extra money go?
	This, I don't mean to be insulting, but Mr. Feynman is an educated man.
	He is as informed as anybody you would know.
	This has been his life.
	But there seemed to be, with certain people in certain professions and have certain worldviews, a genuine lack of knowledge about basic economics 101.
	Where does the money go?
	The first, Howard, here's the first thing.
	Who paid down there for you?
	Did you pay for it?
	Or did the Argentine government pay for it?
	I don't know.
	From reading, it said it cost him $15,000.
	I'm assuming he paid for it, but I really don't like making that assumption.
	But I'd venture to say that the primary, the absolute primary reason there is no relationship to cost and service in this country is because the people paying for the service aren't paying for it.
	If you have an insurance plan, or if you are on Medicare or Medicaid, you don't care what it costs because as far as you're concerned, somebody else is paying for it.
	If you have, and most Americans fit this category, if you have a benefit at work that pays for a portion or all of your health care, you are not technically insured.
	Your company is insuring you.
	You have coverage.
	Somebody other than you is paying for it.
	In other words, the ability to pay the bill has absolutely no relationship to the cost of the service in this country.
	And that's because there are too many people in the middle who are benefiting financially and politically by being there.
	The government and the government has forced the insurance business to go into all kinds of all these different mandates in the states, lack of competition amongst insurance companies nationwide.
	We have 1,300 health insurance companies.
	They can't compete with each other outside of across state lines.
	But it's real simple.
	It is real simple.
	Imagine if we had hotel insurance.
	And imagine, Howard, if somebody said that staying in a five-star hotel is a right.
	Just like they say, the best health care in the world is a right.
	It's not possible defining rights properly, it cannot possibly be a right.
	But suppose we had health or hotel insurance and everybody was able to stay in a five-star hotel, but didn't have to pay for it as far as they were concerned.
	So they didn't care what it cost because they just thought they were entitled to it.
	And a bunch of politicians, you know, there's a lot of votes out there in this.
	Everybody ought to be staying in a five-star hotel.
	So the real simple thing, until we get back to a direct participation by the patient customer in the cost of the service, we're never going to get costs down.
	Howard, I would suggest you go to the Wall Street Journal yesterday and read a piece written by the governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels, who reported declining health care costs in the state of Indiana precisely because the health service accounts, the HSAs, health savings accounts, are working brilliantly.
	They are putting people in charge of their own health care and they are shopping for it just as they shop for a car, just as they shop for a hotel room.
	Some people want to stay in a Motel 6.
	Others want to stay at a Comfort Inn.
	Others want to stay in a bed and breakfast.
	But somehow in this country, everybody thinks they have a right to stay at the Waldorf Astoria on somebody else's dime.
	Now, if you have access to a service that you don't think you're paying for, then you're not going to care what it costs.
	And if you have a bunch of politicians pounding into your head every day that you are entitled to that, then by God, you're going to expect it.
	And a politician is going to come along and say, you want it?
	You got it.
	Vote for me.
	It's really simple.
	There's no relationship between the cost of this service and anybody's ability to pay for it.
	How do you think a band-aid ends up costing $50 in a hospital?
	There's no logical market explanation for that.
	It is forces that are altering the natural ebb and flow of the market that are causing this to happen.
	And Howard is the second thing.
	I know you know this.
	I wish you would have asked those doctors down in Argentina just what their malpractice insurance premiums are and how much they have to charge patients in order to stay in business just to pay their malpractice.
	Find out what the status of trial lawyers is in Argentina and ask if they're getting rich by trying to put doctors out of business by ambulance chasing a bunch of clients who have no business suing anybody except for a big power grab for money.
	I mean, the things that are wrong with the U.S. healthcare system have nothing to do with our healthcare.
	They have nothing to do with the actual care.
	They have to do with who's running it.
	The same people who blew up Social Security, the same people who failed at the war on poverty, the same people who failed creating the great society, the same people that have created this rampant entitlement mentality among way too many of our people now want to control all of health care.
	I would simply ask anybody, go examine one massive federal program that costs less than what they thought it was going to cost, that is efficient, that has the people who interact with that program satisfied and happy with it, or are they always complaining about it?
	I don't care if it's Social Security.
	I don't care if it's a DMV.
	I don't care if it's fish and game or fish and wildlife.
	I don't care who it is.
	There's nobody that is happy interacting with a government bureaucracy.
	The next thing we need to do, Howard, ask ourselves why a guy whose only experience with medicine is as a patient is qualified to design the entire Night Nations healthcare system.
	A guy with basically no career in the private sector, a guy with basically no existence with having to make a payroll or understanding costs.
	A guy whose career is basically six to seven minutes old now from community organized, well, I take that back.
	He did work somewhere at a law firm in the private sector where he said he felt like it was in enemy territory.
	And then he goes to community organizing and does his Sololinsky bit.
	And he runs for the Illinois Senate.
	Look at the state their budget's in.
	And he comes to the U.S. Senate.
	Look at this.
	He voted for every spending bill that Bush proposed.
	And he's blaming everything he inherited on Bush, but he voted for every dime of it and wanted even more.
	But why is it, Howard, that we've got 530 Republicans and Democrats exempting the doctors who are up there in Congress?
	Where is it written that these clowns are in charge of putting together a health care system when they are the ones who broke it?
	Howard, I'll tell you, a little medical scare myself out in Hawaii in December.
	And not to belabor the point, but it involved an ambulance ride with EMS guys getting EKGs all the way.
	It involved a chest x-ray.
	It involved two overnights, a bunch of testings, IVs.
	I got an angiogram.
	It cost 60% less than had I used my insurance, which I don't have, Howard.
	I self-insure because it's cheaper.
	Now, and I get grief when I tell people I pay for my own health care.
	Somehow that makes me out of touch.
	Well, easy for you to do.
	I mean, but you're bragging.
	We all can't do it.
	Imagine making 50 grand.
	I understand.
	This is the vicious little cycle.
	You ought to be able to afford basic office checkups at $50,000 to $75,000 a year without having to use an insurance policy for it.
	And you could, if Uncle Sam were not part of the mix, and if the state governments were not part of the mix, all these stupid mandates on the insurance company.
	Howard, this is a government problem, pure and simple, just as every other screwed-up program in this country servicing the entitled is a disaster.
	And the people who bring us these programs now want to control what you properly pointed out was $2.5 trillion of our economy.
	And there's not a one of them, other than the doctors that are elected to office, that has the slightest competence, qualification.
	Just because they care doesn't mean they're qualified.
	Would you let Obama perform the medical procedures on you when you were in Argentina?
	Would you have Obama call those doctors and say, now, here's how you need to do this.
	Would you?
	The last thing I thought about was calling anybody in government when I had to go to the hospital.
	All I wanted to do was have a relationship with the doctors and let them know they were going to get paid.
	And that wouldn't have even mattered because I got emergency type treatment.
	But paying for it myself cost a whole lot less.
	Now, where do these medicines and medical devices come from?
	How many patients and patents, I should say, has Argentina received?
	How much do they spend on research and development?
	You got to understand how things end up being the best.
	You said Argentina is not the best.
	We're the best.
	How did that happen?
	It's not because government mandated it or because somebody up there knows the best.
	The free market worked around these people and the obstacles that they represent to become the best.
	There's so much that so many smart people just don't understand.
	It never occurs to them.
	Like, for example, how many big drug companies are there in Argentina that had to spend a whole lot of RD and development costs and so forth for the drugs that Howard Feynman was given while he was there?
	How many patents do they have?
	I don't know, but I'm just telling you that the best costs, if that's what you want.
	And when you think it doesn't cost you anything that somebody else is going to pay for it and a politician agrees with you, we're sunk.
	People, I think, have to have a fundamental understanding of just how things come to be.
	How does the United States come to be the best in healthcare?
	It's not because of our government.
	It's because of freedom.
	And Obamacare is all about restricting freedom.
	Pure and simple.
	Howard, by the time Obama finishes, there's only going to be one option, government insurance.
	That's it.
	They're not going to be any competition.
	That's his aim.
	That's his objective.
	Because, Howard, when these guys control health care, they control every aspect of our lives and can legislate based on costs of the government, decide who lives and dies, who gets treatment, who doesn't, what you eat, what you don't eat.
	Life expectancy is going up, but you can't eat McDonald's anymore if you want government health care.
	And that's going to be the only health care there is.
	And we got guys like Obama in office who very much want to do that.
	Now, we've got $2.5 trillion.
	$2.5 trillion of our economy is healthcare, as Mr. Feynman points out.
	And the guy, the guy who says he's got all the answers to fix the U.S. health care system is spending $1.5 trillion a year in deficits, money we don't have.
	What are we getting for that?
	Somebody explain to me when it happened that politicians became the experts on high-tech, healthcare, energy, and the like.
	When did they become experts on manufacturing automobiles?
	Who are they to bring people up and basically try to ruin their careers simply because they don't hire union workers to make their cars?
	We are lost in this country because we have made government figures godlike.
	We have assumed that they and only they have the answers.
	When they have zero qualifications to manage the outside of government things, they want to manage.
	Zero quality.
	There's not one business that would hire Obama to do anything for them.
	Not one.
	This sounds like a bunch of sick whales.
	What's this?
	Oh, this is Jerry.
	What's his name?
	Yeah, Jerry Rafferty.
	Okay, okay, yeah.
	We're playing the album version.
	That's why I don't.
	I play the top 40 version, which didn't contain all of this gibberish.
	You know, folks, nothing's the same as it used to be in this country.
	It used to be a day where if you had a mistress, she kept her mouth shut.
	Now they run for office.
	Elliot Spitzer Madam has announced her gubernatorial run.
	Not the actual, not the Ashley What's her face, but the Ashley's boss, the actual madam that Spitzer sent the money to, is now running for governor somewhere.
	I'm sure Tiger Woods agrees with me on this.
	They used to keep their mouths shut.
	Now they want to be on reality shows, beauty contests, and so forth.
	Okay, folks, I am tired of carrying this show.
	I'm going to go to the phones.
	It's up to you for a while.
	Kevin in Vienna, Virginia, welcome to the program.
	Great to have you here.
	Thanks, Rush.
	Appreciate you putting me on.
	Thank you, sir.
	You bet.
	From a second time caller.
	I just wanted to make an observation that I think the press is doing a disservice to the citizens because just look at the amount of energy that they're using going after Bunting when compared to the amount of energy going after Charlie Wrangell.
	Well, come on now.
	Charlie Wrangell, Pelosi, even Senator South, didn't do anything to harm national security or anything like that.
	Big deal.
	I mean, he's plus Dick Durbin threw down the race card.
	Hey, he's black.
	He served in a segregated unit in Korea.
	Cut the guy some slack.
	He's entitled to go on junkets and have freebies for 500 grand because he comes from a slave heritage.
	You've got to understand the priorities here.
	Bunnings a white guy in a Hall of Fame.
	That's unfair as it is.
	I guess my priorities are all wrong.
	You're right.
	I spent 20 years in Special Forces and I'm a taxpayer now and they still haven't cut me any slack.
	No, I know.
	It is hypocrisy on parade.
	They're going to pay for all of this.
	They will pay for all of this.
	This is not.
	There's a lot of people unemployed paying attention to what these people are doing because they think that these are the people that screwed it up.
	And therefore, they think these are the people that have to fix it because these are the people saying they're going to.
	Obama's been saying for over a year, I'm going to put you back to work.
	Stimulus bill, maybe three.
	Meanwhile, unemployment numbers keep going up.
	And the Council of Economic Advisors, Gran Pubah, says, hey, it's going to be so bad Friday, ignore the number.
	It's because of the blizzards.
	Meanwhile, Charlie Wrangell with half a million dollars here, tax evasion over there, a bunch of junkets down in the Caribbean, caught napping on a beach with a protrule pregnant down there.
	Oh, look, served in a segregated unit, Korea, black guy, slave heritage, got to cut the guy some slack.
	Signed his wife did it once, his staff did it the other times.
	But Jim Bunning, Republican, baseball Hall of Fame, probably pays for everything he buys himself and now wants people to starve.
	As they say, this is what they're saying.
	I'm just telling you, people are noticing this stuff.
	They are noticing.
	I have just been asked a question.
	I'm going to have to look this up.
	It's a YouTube clip, and I haven't had a chance to watch the YouTube clip on the prostitute, the mistress, running for governor.
	I don't know if she might be on a coffee party.
	Even the Democrats have come up with this coffee party business to counter the Tea Party.
	You haven't heard about that?
	Oh, let's see.
	This is from the New York Times Coffee Party with a taste for civic participation is added to the political menu.
	Fed up with a government gridlock, but put off by the flavor of the Tea Party, people in cities across the country are offering an alternative, the Coffee Party.
	And it's a bunch of pro-government leftists trying to sound like they're a bunch of moderates.
	Here, the slogan for the Coffee Party is: wake up and stand up.
	The mission statement declares the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the Democrat process in order to address the challenges.
	That's their mission statement, the Coffee Party.
	So I don't know, this madam could be a member of the Coffee Party.
	She'd be a teabagger for all I know.
	A genuine teabagger.
	I don't mean the slur for tea parties.
	Who knows?
	All I know is they used to just shut up.
	Right, certainly.
	I mean, you know what I'm talking about.
	No, no.
	I do not know this from personal experience.
	I'm just a cultural observer.
	Dennis in Phoenix.
	Thank you for waiting, sir.
	You're next on the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Maga Dittos, Rush.
	Thank you.
	Hey, I had an example for you.
	You're talking about people that put all their faith in the government.
	Look at the post office.
	You know, they've been going downhill for years.
	They're losing volume.
	What do they do?
	Nothing.
	Billions in debt.
	You know, people that want to trust the government, they don't have to operate like private business.
	Private business is not going to lose billions of dollars.
	They innovate.
	They change things.
	You know, the government will keep doing what it's doing until there's no more mail to be delivered.
	Well, I hope the hell that never.
	Actually, that would be kind of nice.
	Nobody getting more bills.
	Wow, they'd come on the internet.
	Yeah.
	That's what you mean.
	Well, look at Obama's plan to fix this.
	Look at Obama's plan to fix.
	You're right.
	Post Office is running huge deficits.
	What government bureaucracy isn't?
	So Obama said, well, you know what?
	We're going to suspend Saturday delivery, and we might go to the Postal Commission and see if we get an increase in stamps.
	That's not the Obama business model.
	Let's compare the post office to our health care circumstance.
	If Obama's business model were consistent, in the face of this massive budgetary shortfall at the post office, what Obama would do would be to expand mail delivery to Sundays, close the post office boxes, and make sure that everybody's mail is delivered to their homes from 6 a.m. to midnight.
	And then he would find 30 million new people to deliver mail to.
	Well, that's his recipe for fixing what's wrong with healthcare.
	But for some reason, he wants to cut back on one-day delivery on Saturdays.
	Here is Jack in Mobile, Alabama.
	You're up next to the Rush Limbaugh program, sir.
	Hello.
	Thank you, Russ Mega Ditto's from South Alabama, Cole, South Alabama.
	Thank you very much.
	I want to make an observation about why, in the face of all these turndowns that Americans have given the president of the Democratic Party, he keeps marching forward with the health care legislation.
	Yes.
	I believe that it's because of you, Rush Limbaugh.
	I believe that he does not want you to put a notch in your gun about your comment about his policies failing.
	Because I've analyzed it, I've looked at it, and I said, why does this man keep bringing this issue up when the Americans have American people have totally rejected it time and time again over the last eight to ten months?
	And yet here it is again in our face.
	I just believe that he does not want that thing to fail and you will be able to gloat.
	I think we have you to, I think we have Russ Limbaugh to blame for this.
	Well, of course.
	There's no logical way to dispute or even refute what you're saying because it's very clear.
	One of the things that motivates these people as much as the deal they're working on is making sure we don't win.
	Making sure we don't win, no matter what the hell the alternative is.
	Make sure we don't win.
	Yes, I agree.
	But he doesn't understand.
	My definition of Obama's success is failing at something like this.
	He doesn't look at it that way.
	He's looking at it because his motivation is, it's multifaceted, by the way.
	It's not just beating us.
	This, folks, this is Mona Charon said it once in a column.
	This is ball game.
	Obama gets this.
	And I saw Tom Coburn on TV this morning.
	And he was asked by a reporter, why not look at the polling data for the Democrats on this is so bad.
	Just let them, why don't you let them pass it?
	Just let them pass it.
	And then they'll get creamed in November and you can start rolling it back.
	And Coburn said, it's not that easy to roll stuff like this back.
	This is an entitlement.
	You want to try to roll back Social Security?
	How'd that work out?
	So it's an interesting point.
	Now Obama is going to offer, and it took 15 people to write this.
	We finally have the story.
	15 people who write this AP story on Obama including some Republican ideas, medical malpractice reform, and trying to rid the healthcare system of waste and fraud.
	See, the dirty little secret is the Republicans are not the ones who've stopped this.
	The people who've stopped this are all of us, the citizens of this country, who've let everybody know we don't want it in no uncertain terms in so many different ways.
	The Republicans don't have the votes to stop this, and they never do.
	Well, they do in the Senate theoretically with Scott Brown now, but if they go reconciliation, we don't have the votes to stop them.
	We're back to that.
	And in addition to that, it's the Democrats who cannot get unified on this.
	They've had supermajority in the Senate, a massive majority in the House, and they still can't get unified on this.
	Republicans still need to get nowhere near this.
	This is nothing more, a little trick to get the Republicans on board with this, but the whole premise hasn't changed, and that is the government running the show, meaning Democrats running health care.
	$2.5 trillion of the economy.
	And as I say, there's not one example of them handling anything this big and doing it right and doing it well and having it work out as they said they would before they took over.
	It's just the whole premise behind this needs to be blown up.
	The whole premise that government and a bunch of unqualified bureaucrats know best how to run a massive segment of our economy has just got to be obliterated.
	The premise of this is all wrong.
	I think the Republicans get that.
	Coburn does, because I saw his answer on TV this morning to these various questions about whether or not these ideas Obama is going to include are going to attract the Republicans.
	No, no, no, because he's not changing the basic premise of what he's doing.
	So we'll see.
	The American people are going to speak up on this as often and as loudly as they have to.
	And just understand it's not going to stop Obama.
	He and the Democrats are totally willing to govern against the will of people and even lose their majority to get this done.
	Quickly back to the phones to Nashville, Tennessee.
	This is David.
	Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
	Hello.
	Hi, Rush.
	Earlier, when you said that you had an idea that maybe Jim Bunning could ask to, you know, divert some of the TARP funds or stimulus funds bill funds for something like this, I saw an article from AP.
	It was buried in the paper here last Thursday.
	And it says future measures are going to be much more difficult to pass, especially since a top Senate Democrat, unnamed, it just says top Senate Democrat, has blocked unused authority from the Wall Street bailout program from being used in the future for jobs bills and other initiatives.
	And I thought, well, he's blocking things too, you know, but we don't know who that was.
	And I heard this morning that Jim Bunning actually did ask someone for the authority to, you know, use stimulus funds and they turned him down.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Really?
	Okay, cool.
	So the Democrats are the ones objecting to use already allocated funds for this.
	And this says top Senate Democrat.
	I assume they mean a senator.
	I don't know.
	It says top Senate Democrat has blocked these funds from being used.
	Well, that's very similar to what they're accusing.
	You know, it struck me as it's just a trick for more spending.
	It's just a trick for much.
	All they want to do is spend, pure and simple.
	Thanks for that update out there, David.
	I missed that buried AP story.
	How many writers did it have?
	15.
	The last two AP stories I've seen have 15 writers, both on Obama's health care plan.
	Let's play some word association for just a second.
	What do you think when I say incorporate your business or form an LLC?
	You think LegalZoom?
	You think LegalZoom?
	No kidding.
	Brilliant thinking, snerdly.
	How about if I say Will's Trust or Power of Attorney?
	LegalZoom.
	Okay, what if I said trademarks, patents, real estate, small claims, uncontested divorce, or even bankruptcy help?
	Divorce is throwing him off in there, but it's still legal Zoom.
	If you thought of LegalZoom first for these legal documents, here's why.
	LegalZoom empowers people like us, people with zero legal experience, people who may wonder if they really can create their own superb legal documents.
	You can.
	LegalZoom makes it incredibly fast and easy.
	They even have free customer support to help you.
	So for personal business online legal documents, think LegalZoom First.
	And by the way, somebody out there, one of you that formed an LLC or something, in the month of February, your business is going to be chosen, and soon your company will benefit from a LegalZoom Rush Limbaugh commercial right here on this very program.
	LegalZoom is not a law firm.
	It was started by top attorneys to provide self-help services at your specific direction.
	Visit legalzoom.com today.
	That's legalzoom.com.
	Big canoe, California.
	Gene, great to have you on the EIB network.
	Hello, sir.
	Megadittos, Rush.
	Listeners since 88.
	Thank you.
	Good quick question for you.
	I'm going to try to be as gentle as I can.
	Senator Frank Lautenberg has been diagnosed with stomach cancer.
	I'm just curious why he couldn't be a really good example for us and just be given painkillers.
	Oh.
	As Dr. Obama would prescribe for.
	Well.
	And some end-of-life counseling, maybe.
	Yeah, I remember that ABC health summit they had, and a woman shows up and says, my mother is 100 years old and wants a pacemaker.
	Would you account for her will to live?
	And now we can't take into account things like that.
	In some cases, we just have to give him a pain pill.
	So you think Lautenberg would be a good test case on this to illustrate.
	Well, as I recall, Rush, President Obama said, a grandmother, you know.
	Yeah.
	84-year-old grandmother.
	Frank might even be a great-grandfather.
	Who knows?
	Possibly true.
	Very, very good example for the Democrats to show us how the way should be in the future.
	I can't really object to your logical thinking on this.
	Because I would then add, would some of you please consider a question?
	Of all the people in the United States of America to be asked a question, can my grandmother live?
	Who the hell is Barack Obama to say, give anybody a pain pill?
	Who is he to be the one to say that?
	Where's his medical degree?
	This is unbelievable.
	Welcome back, Rush Lindboss, serving humanity on the EIB network, the fastest three hours in media.
	Okay, we got some great audio soundbites coming up in the next hour.
	Obama praising PayGo and the CNBC soundbites about how much people on unemployment can be, I think, in New Jersey, are earning.

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