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March 12, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 12, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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You standing by up there on uh on audio soundbite number four.
Good.
It's Friday.
Let's go here, folks.
Welcome live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
It's a glorious day for callers.
They get to determine what we talk about.
When we go to the phones on Open Line Friday.
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Okay, experts say that U.S. doctors are over testing and over treating.
This is from the very happy uh AP about this.
Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many Cicerian sections.
A spate of recent reports suggests that too many Americans, maybe even Obama, are being overtreated.
Now, why is this?
There are two reasons we're being overtreated.
One, tort lawyers.
Malpractice insurance.
Number two, every day we are being told that this grain of sand or that cup of coffee is gonna kill us.
Every day we're if you have this symptom, it could mean you're going insane.
Check your ear size and go to your nearest doctor.
Well, everybody's running off to the doctor for everything to make sure that we're not low on vitamin D, vitamin B12, make sure our cholesterol, high and low, LDL, HDL, all.
We're being pummeled every day with how we're dying.
We're being pummeled every day with how people are killing us.
And we don't want to die prematurely, so off to the doctor we go.
This is an interesting way to look at this.
I mentioned this piece in the Washington Post today by Doug Schoen and Pat Cadell, two Democrat pollsters.
And the investors business daily says the Democrat polsters are staging an intervention over health care.
Uh intervention.
When friends fall into a spiral of self-destructive behavior, you have to try to break their delusions and set them on the right path.
And that's what Pat Cadell and Doug Schoen are trying to do for Obama the Democrat Congress.
They warn in a Washington Post op-ed that if they don't stop their march of folly on health care, Democrats face an electoral route in November as pollsters to the two past Democrat presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, respectively.
We feel compelled to challenge the myths that seem to be prevailing in the political discourse and once again urge a change in course before it's too late.
And they go through the whole through routine.
The health care bill is unpopular.
The era of big government is over.
Stop digging so many holes for people.
But here's the way the Democrats are looking at this.
I kid you not, the Democrats think that if they don't pass the bill, they will lose 40 to 50 seats and lose their majority.
They think if they do pass the bill, they'll lose 30 to 40 seats and still keep their majority.
So they know they're going to get shellacked, but they think passing the bill will hurt them the least.
And that's why all these polsters are conducting the intervention.
You guys are out of control.
You literally are spiraling out of control.
You are in the most self-destructive mode a political party's ever been in.
You're in the most self-destructive mode a president has ever been in.
And all these Democrat pollsters and people are trying to stop them.
But they can't.
They're not gonna give this up.
Ain't no way, Jose.
Isn't gonna happen.
Listen to Pelosi again.
Oh, I got a note from my buddy Vince Flynn.
When he heard this, let me find it.
I want to print it out real quick.
Vince has a has an interesting story about this.
Here's Pelosi.
This is from last night on Mess NBC.
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer, a writer, without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
Or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk, but not job locked because the child has asthma, someone in the family is bipolar, you name it any condition, is job locking.
I get angrier each time I hear it.
So quit work, indulge your fantasies, become an artist, you're a documentarian, uh photographer, what have you, and let the rest of us pay for your health care bill.
And by the way, while you're out there finding yourself, if you happen to get pregnant and want to have an abortion, no worries, we'll pay for that too.
But I want to focus on something here.
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
Now, one of the things that Obama has promised is that you will not lose your coverage.
If you like it, you'll be able to keep it.
Here is Pelosi admitting.
I mean, if if if if you're able to quit your job and have free quote-unquote health insurance, health coverage, who the hell's providing it for you?
Government.
Pelosi, in as much as confirmed single-payer, public option, universal health care, in this quote, while she's attempting to establish solidarity with the nation's freeloaders.
Encouraging the freeloaders to freeload.
Isn't it such a shame this country requires people to work to have health care?
Wow, I mean, how inhumane is that.
So we're going to enable you to quit.
And if you want to dabble sitting there writing things, taking pictures or painting garbage that nobody's ever going to be able to understand, go for it.
And we'll give you your health care.
And by the way, when a 25 million illegals get amnesty, hey, they're going to join you.
We're going to be paying their health care too.
All the while the states are withholding your income tax refunds.
All of this is your money.
And in Detroit, they're going to level the place just like Mao did.
They're going to level blighted areas, they're going to turn it into farms, you're going to tell people where they have to move.
It's amazing.
Vince Flynn sent me a note.
You know, Rush, when I was writing my first novel, a friend told me I should apply for a grant from the government that was offered to support starving artists.
I can't tell you how much this deeply offended me.
I told her in very clear language, and I know what Vince Flynn clear language is.
I told her in uh in very clear language, and I thought it was ridiculous to think that other Americans ought to pay for me to chase my dream.
Anybody who understands pride and self-determination gets this.
So I bartended at night.
I wrote during the day.
I paid for my own damn insurance.
Didn't expect anybody else to pick it up for me.
And now we got the Speaker of the House encouraging people to just check out.
Just move to hate Ashbury.
Just be done with it.
Just move out there and you know, start painting murals and do whatever you want to do, and all of your neighbors will come up and pay your health care for you.
Obamacare at any cost.
The morning bell, this is the Heritage Foundation.
Yesterday the White House circulated a memo by Polster Joel Benninson.
It was designed to create momentum for Obamacare by convincing Wayward House Democrats that support for the President's plan has been building since the State of the Union.
The memo is pure fantasy.
This Tuesday, Gallup released its latest poll showing that by a 48 to 45 margin, Americans would tell their representative in Congress to vote against Obama's plan.
Compare that to the last time Gallup asked the question in January.
Americans supported the plan 4946.
That's a net six-point loss in support since the State of the Union.
It's not trending upward.
That's momentum against Obamacare.
And Gallup's not alone, the AP released a poll this week showing that 68% of Americans believe the president and the Congressional Democrats should not pass their health care plan without Republican support.
Nothing has been more disconcerting than to watch Democrat politicians and their media supporters deceive themselves into believing that the public favors the Democrats' current health care plan, right?
Pat Cadell and Doug Schoen today in the Washington Post.
They point out that a solid majority of Americans opposes this massive health reform plan.
And yesterday they say here at Heritage was a particularly tough day for the president's plan.
First, the White House underwhelmed the Democrat caucus in a presentation of the new still unwritten reconciliation bill.
I'm told by somebody was from Michelle Bachman.
Michelle Bachman said that the White House people were booed by Democrats in this closed door meeting where the White House people presented their plan.
There are actual booze from members of Congress.
Yet today Pelosi comes out, oh yeah, people love this.
We're so close.
We're really close.
We're going to trust Harry Reed.
I think it's all smoke and mirrors.
I think they come out here every day and make it sound like they've got the votes tomorrow and they're going to vote on this.
It's a done deal, and I don't think they're anywhere close.
Snurdley thinks it's going to happen.
Snurdley thinks it's going to happen.
I don't think it's going to happen.
Then the Senate parliamentarian killed the Democrats' favored procedural path by signaling that he would rule that Obama must sign the original Senate bill into law before the Senate could act on the president's new reconciliation package.
And finally, the AP reported that House leaders have abandoned all hope of finding language to satisfy Stupec that the Senate bill funds abortion.
So all of these, all of this, there's a cascade here.
There's an avalanche of negative story after negative story after negative story, and yet Pelosi and Reed and the president, oh yeah, oh, we've never been closer.
We're so excited to polls are trending up.
It's we're we're looking at it in the universe of lies the four corners of deceit.
People that are in utter denial of reality.
By the end of the day, the leftist Fire Dog Lake blog had dropped its count of committed House Democrats for passage to 189.
And Pelosi right now needs 216.
With the loss of StuPac and his seven and a half member or seven to twelve member caucus opposed the taxpayer funded abortions, Pelosi's now going to have to find the remaining dozen plus votes from the cost conscious blue dog Democrats.
The reconciliation bill only makes things worse since, among other increased spending measures, Obama fixed the Cornhusker kickback not by eliminating the new spending, but by extending it to all 50 states.
This is what Obama told them.
The White House told them yesterday in their closed door meeting.
Now, in the caucus meeting this morning, as I told you, members were told that the corn husker kickback has been removed.
Now remember, that's something.
That's Indian giving.
That's Harry Reid gave that to uh to Ben Nelson in order to get his 60th vote.
And the House just says they're going to strip it out.
Now, this Monday, the House Budget Committee will begin markup on the new reconciliation bill, which I still think we should start calling the cramdown because there's nothing reconcil reconciling nothing here.
The cramdown bill, even though actual legislative text does not exist for it.
They are going to pass something they haven't read, and they're going to pass something that they haven't voted on.
Yes, I meant to say it.
They're going to pass something you haven't voted on.
The politico today is reporting that despite the parliamentarians' initial ruling, Pelosi will press on with their slaughter rule plan to pass the Senate bill without voting on it.
It is just breathtaking to watch this.
In the midst of all this, they're trying to convince everybody's a done deal just a matter of time.
It's going to pass.
George Will pointed out yesterday the uh the very essence of progressivism sublimates the Democrat process to the rule of experts in Washington.
Now the heritage concludes this way.
Nobody can say if this bill will finally pass, but if it does, it is abundantly clear that our Republican form of government will be permanently damaged by it, because our Republican form of government will have been shredded in order to ostensibly pass the bill in the first place.
Ha, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity.
It just keeps getting worse.
Ladies and gentlemen, Democrat congressional leaders struck a tentative agreement on Thursday that breathes new life into Obama's proposed overhaul of federal student loan programs.
Listen to this.
The deal would bundle the student loan bill into an expedited budget package along with the Democrat health care legislation, which would allow for both measures to be passed by the Senate on a simple majority vote.
Cramdown.
Reconciliation.
Without the deal, the student loan bill would have been unlikely to pass because it lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.
So everything they can't get legally, they're going to put into this reconciliation bill.
I wouldn't be surprised if they have time on this, if they...
Try to cram amnesty into it.
Why not?
Why not?
If you're trying to get everything done in the Senate with 51 votes, why leave anything out of this?
Why not just put amnesty in there?
Why not put cap and trade in there?
Or why not put card check in there?
Uh, and all of these things.
You know, get rid of this March 18th deadline and just put everything in this reconciliation bill and only needs 51 votes in the Senate.
Just what are we?
I mean, what are we talking about here?
Why limit this to the government takeover of the student loan process?
I probably shouldn't have said that because I've given them an idea.
Oh, well.
No.
Snerdley, believe me, I don't have to give these people any ideas.
I have I I don't have I don't have a corruption gene in me.
I don't have a pollution gene in me.
These people are defined by their corruption genes.
Bart Stupek, last night on the record, Greta Van Susterin, she said, let me give you a hypothetical.
Suppose it goes this way.
House passes the Senate bill, goes to the president for signature, comes back for reconciliation.
Is that a procedure you could live with?
Members don't like the Senate bill, especially with the special deals in it.
Why would we vote for it?
Send it to President so he can sign it and becomes law.
Then the special deals are law, and then trust that they're gonna fix it later.
It's not just me.
Many members said they don't agree with that process.
Those of us who've been here for a little while knows that tomorrow never comes.
You know, we'll fix it tomorrow.
Never happens.
Yeah.
Well, actually, it does.
But it takes a while.
Do you remember you remember welfare reform that Clinton signed in 1996?
I'll never forget the Reverend Dax and a number of others were demanding you fix it.
Well, Clinton didn't have time to fix it, but welfare reform has significantly been rolled back, has it not?
The requirement to work is not near what it was.
So you can repeal things.
You can change, you can roll things back, but it does it does take some time.
So Van Sestra said, well, nobody can seem to agree in these deadlines.
And this doesn't seem like it's actually going to happen.
We've been having a lot of caucuses.
We're here tonight.
We finished up, but they're gonna make us stay so we can have their caucus tomorrow morning.
What happens at these caucuses?
What do you do?
Nothing saying people get up and talk.
And say like what though?
I mean, like what you guys all sit in a room.
And we think this will happen.
And we'll say, well, can we see the score from CBO?
You say it's going to cost this much.
Has anyone independently checked those figures?
And what's the answer when you say when?
Oh, we'll get it to you.
That's the standard answer.
Will they get it to us?
Sure.
But when?
Members are not going to accept that.
We're not going to accept this.
Trust me, we'll fix it later.
There has to be something more.
So there's Supak describing your average caucus meeting.
Now remember, I'll go through this briefly.
I have a spy who told me what went on in this morning's Democrat caucus meeting.
The Democrats in the meeting this morning were told that there will definitely be a House vote in the next week on health reform, and that all the members need to be prepared to stay in next weekend and through the following week until the vote happens.
They were told that the rule would be closed, providing for one vote.
That one vote would include the reconciliation provisions, the amendments to the Senate bill, and the student aid bill, along with the Senate passed bill.
Everything would be tied into one vote.
Now the Senate bill will not be separate.
They're going to go ahead, and this is what everybody's but they haven't seen the language for this yet.
That's why they're being told to stay in town.
They are going to vote on something they haven't seen.
They're going to vote on something you haven't voted on.
They are going to put all this together.
It's going to be like they're going to do their own one house conference.
They're going to take the Senate bill and the House is going to add their stuff to it, with the Senate having no input.
Then they're going to vote on it.
And that's what's going to go to Obama.
And then supposedly after he signs it, it's going to go back to the Senate, where the Senate will say, okay, or whatever.
It's a convoluted process.
But what they were told today was that the Corn Husker kickback is gone.
And that the Gator deal is gone.
They were told something different yesterday.
Michelle Bachman said in the caucus meeting yesterday that the White House people actually got booed by members of the Democrat caucus when they were presenting what Obama wants in this thing.
And it was Pelosi came out after the meeting and said, oh, the leadership from the president?
Why we wouldn't be where we are without.
This is a most competent leader, this man's vision.
We are going to get this done.
So they're saying things in public.
You listen to Stupak.
Stupec says nothing going on in here, it's just a bunch of BS.
But they come out of these meetings every day, and Pelosi and Reed have these trumped-up lying sacks full of stories about how wonderful rosy it is in there, and everybody's up and it's close, and man were never felt better about this and all that.
It's clear that what's going on behind closed doors is not at all the way it's being portrayed by Pelosi and uh and her gang.
Let's see.
Well, not enough time to sound bite, but I I have the story here.
This is uh Michael Leahy in the Washington Post.
It appears, folks, that having a black president is not all it was cracked up to be.
The headline here, a frustrated black caucus keeps complaints quiet.
A year ago when members of the black caucus openly wept at Obama's immaculation.
But slowly that euphoria has given way to frustration that his administration has not done more for black America.
Questions about how to elect him have been replaced by questions about how to prod him.
It's the surprise of a political lifetime that they find themselves wrestling with such quandaries.
They thought a black president was going to lead to all kinds of magic for the black community, and they think the Obama administration is taking them for granted.
But they have to keep quiet about their criticism.
They can't complain now because that wouldn't look good.
I'm being accused of using a slur by accusing the House of Indian giving by taking back the Cornhusker kickback.
People said I should have said Native American giving.
All right, Native American giving.
I mean by being accused in Email of racial slur by using the turn Indian giving.
Anyway, before we get back to the phones, a um little change of direction, it change of pages.
Get off this for a minute just for our sanity.
This is from uh AOL News.
Has Toyota coverage driven the public a bit crazy?
Once lauded for leading the industry in vehicle safety and reliability, Toyota has undergone a stark reversal of fortune the past five months.
The company has recalled at least 10 million cars worldwide since November of 2009, due to various things.
Yet recently a number of writers have come to the defense of Toyota, suggesting that sensationalist media coverage and trumped-up congressional outrage have grossly exaggerated the number and extent of mechanical or electrical problems in Toyota's fueling public hysteria.
Bingo!
Bingo.
Classic definition of drive-by media.
Now the companion story to this.
I wish I would have voiced my suspicions the day this happened.
I wish I would have followed my instincts so that I could do a see I told you so.
I wish when that guy claimed his accelerator got stuck in his Prius at 94 miles an hour in a cop had his.
I wish I would have said something smells here.
Fox News, man at wheel of out of control Prius has troubled financial past.
We're looking at Bubble Boy 2 here.
Or balloon boy 2 here.
The man who became the face of the Toyota gas pedal scandal this week has a troubled financial past that is leading some to question whether he was wholly truthful in his story on Monday.
A guy called 911 to report that he was behind the wheel of an out-of-control Prius going 94 on a freeway near San Diego 23 minutes later.
A California highway patrol officer helped guide him to a stop, a rescue captured on video tape.
Since then, it has been learned that James Sykes filed for bankruptcy in San Diego in 2008.
According to documents, he was more than $700,000 in debt, roughly five months behind in payments on his Prius.
In 2001, Sykes filed a police report with the Merced County Sheriff's Department for $58,000 in stolen property, including jewelry, a digital video camera and equipment, and $24,000 in cash.
Sykes has hired a law firm, though it has indicated he has no plans to sue Toyota.
Sykes won $55,000 on television's The Big Spin in 2006.
And the real estate agent has boasted of celebrity clients such as Constance Ramos of Extreme Home Makeover.
That's what he is, a real estate agent.
While authorities say they don't doubt Sykes account, several bloggers and a man who bought a home from Sykes in 2007 question whether the entrepreneur may have concocted the incident for publicity or for monetary gain.
Well, I mean.
Possi $55,000.
He was on the big spin in 2006.
Well, now at least the possible possibility that this is uh not altogether truthful is opened up.
And it it what it is is this this this culture of ours, people have this insatiable desire to be known.
Insatiable desire for fame.
All it's Facebook and MySpace, space, but whatever it is, people vomiting every bit of information there is about themselves, having no clue what it means to lose their privacy and their identity and their anonymity.
They all want to be on American Idol.
They all want to be on bachelor or bachelorette.
What?
What uh what made me suspicious was the timing of it.
The fact that the guy was able to go ninety-four miles an hour for so long without an injury or an accident to give time for video crews to get there and capture the whole thing while a cop stopped him.
Um that all of this hysteria that has been raised about Toyota would help somebody pull off a hoax like this because people will be more inclined to believe it.
What with all the news about all these accelerators sticking and so forth?
I just I don't know.
I just my my suspicions were something about this, and primarily because every bit of it was on TV.
We saw every bit of it.
And then we heard the 911 call.
And I don't know, I'm just I can't get any deeper than that, Snurley.
Just my instincts.
And I'm not, I'm not, I'm not doing a C I told you so.
I wish I really wish I had voiced my sentiments.
The reason I didn't is because that was just a wild opinion.
Uh, and with nothing other than that.
People would say rumor, and I didn't want to be responsible for starting that, but apparently other people began to look into it because they had similar doubts, questions.
What have you?
Back to the phones now as promised to Folsom, Louisiana.
This is Dennis, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
Right thinking, earn my own way, Louisiana musician diddos.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, um, I'm a musician and uh I work in in a sense in uh in the school and in the public sector, but we're given grants to work in these sectors.
And those people who give money from private grants and have had their finances so wait, wait, I'm not sure I don't understand this.
You work you're a musician.
You work in a sense in the school.
That's a private contractor doing programs for kids and stuff like that.
And it also libraries and things, and uh those people who give money for private grants that fund this kind of stuff have had their finances so badly assailed that they're not giving money now to these grants.
And those people who do the kind of work that I do uh aren't working like we used to.
I'm working, I I've always worked a day job.
By the way, thank you, Miss Pelosi.
I don't need your help.
Uh schools are closing.
Well lose it is.
I don't I don't understand what this is.
I I'm I'm pri private private money's dying up, uh drying up the private grants to keep people doing what he's doing, but he's got a day job.
Okay.
Um okay, so what?
Private money's drying up.
Because of the Oh, oh, oh, so oh, he's he's tying this back to Pelosi.
Oh, okay, so I'm back to Pelosi.
Go ahead and quit your job uh because we'll give you health care.
But then okay, what else are these people gonna live on?
You can't you can't eat your health care, and you can't drink it.
Anyway, uh Nick in Pittsburgh, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Great to have you here.
Good afternoon, Russ, how are you?
Game great.
You uh actually were a mentor of mine in Pittsburgh back in the 70s, uh helped me actually get into uh radio.
Really?
Yeah.
Was this in uh McKeesport?
Well, you were at KQV.
KQV, because it's after McKee Sports.
KTV.
Where did I meet you, Nick?
Did we meet in person?
Yes.
We actually had a uh I won the WQED auction, and you and I actually had a portrait made down at a a uh professional photography studio.
I don't know whether you remember that or not.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I we got a phone call.
What does it about now?
Yeah, that's all well the reason for the call Nick, it sounds like you're throwing up out there.
I'm on myself.
Okay.
The reason for the call, not only just to say hello and and thank you for the mentoring that you gave me back in the 70s to get into radio.
I actually uh was in radio for about five years.
Uh with a uh broadcast major in college, but uh as you know the Pittsburgh market's pretty tough to get a job in radio.
Yeah, but your big mistake.
What's that?
It's it sounds like you're being eaten out there.
It sounds like you're in a jungle or something.
No, that's in uh Monroeville.
But uh you're in Monroeville.
Yes.
Okay.
Clear up on Ruth Curdy.
All right.
But the reason for the call too, not only to say hello, is currently I own uh I'm a small business owner here in Pittsburgh.
I actually uh run a uh private licensed technical school where we put people in in the auto detailing business.
And what we've done, we've lowered our tuition this year to uh help in increase increase our tuition because there's many people that are obviously unemployed, and uh we've seen an an increase in students, but the problem is once they graduate from our course, they can't get any money to start their business.
And these are people with good credit.
They've been laid off, uh they've had great jobs, uh college students that are coming out of uh of college, and the problem is there's no money out there.
The banks aren't loaning any money.
Uh Sally May funding dried up.
And uh I just wanted uh to make that comment to see if you had any insight on uh uh what we could do to possibly help our students once they've once they've graduated to open up their own business.
Uh geez.
It sounds to me like the best option is a call Pelosi.
I the the you're you're now this is I I know the banks are tight with money right now, but I also know the existing small businesses are saying it's not that we can't get loans.
We don't want 'em.
We we're not growing.
We're not hiring anybody.
We're not we we have no desire to.
We don't know what the terms of the deal are gonna be going forward based on Obama's uh legislative agenda.
Now, if if these people when you say they got a good credit rating, uh how old are these people you're talking about?
Well, you know, it varies.
We have we have students that are just out of college, and we have people that are in their forties and fifties that uh have gotten laid off from their jobs.
Yeah.
And they're uh they're looking to do something.
And how much money are they trying to borrow?
Anywhere from five to ten thousand.
They can't get five five to ten thousand dollar loan.
The banks are not doing it.
The local banks are not doing it.
And do these people have any collateral don't.
Well mo the that's that's the the reality of that.
I mean if you've got nothing to secure it, uh that's that's gonna be problematic no matter what economy you're in.
You are in Obama's America.
We are all living in Obama's America.
And I guess you could tell these people to wait for Obama to come into town for a town hall, because that's how he's dealing with jobs.
Um he's not doing a great job uh overall as is is obviously we're in agreement.
But for the small business owner or for the entrepreneur, there is no support anymore.
There there truly isn't.
And it's the the s it's the small business owner that made this company this this country strong.
Well, I know.
There's look at there's no there's no economic Growth going on out there, and if if the um you know is this too bad.
It's too bad that your graduates aren't trying to get a house, because that'd be easy.
It's um I don't know.
The economy is in such a mess, and I think to the extent that these banks are not loaning any money, it's because they don't have confidence that these people are going to have any chance at getting their business started given the current economic climate.
But I'm just I'm just wild guessing here, Nick, because I don't know the specific circumstances of each of your uh your graduates of uh of each of your students.
So uh without knowing that, it's it's tough to get anything beyond anything just general here.
Uh but I there there are there are banks lending money to people.
There, if the problem is a lot of people don't want to borrow it.
A lot point people don't want to go into debt.
And I tell you something you know, Nick, there's a there's a that's a good point.
Snerdly has reminded me of something that all of that tarp money and a lot of the stimulus money was to go to stuff just like this.
It was to be able to bankroll people like, and it's not going there.
It's going to the states, it's going to state governments, going to Obama's union buddies.
It's not going to shovel ready projects, it's not going to schools, it's not going.
And look at Detroit.
Boy, if there's ever a place could use stimulus money, it's them.
What are they doing?
They're going to be bulldozing things.
Now, I remember Nick when we met at WQED auction.
That's the that's a PBS affiliate.
And back then they always had these auctions that ran a week or two.
Uh, that the fundraising drives.
And Fred Rogers was a few.
He did his show out of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Rogers neighborhood was done out of Pittsburgh, out of Pittsburgh PBS affiliate.
And I got thrown off of every PBS auction I ever did in Pittsburgh and in Kansas City.
I got I'm surprised I lasted long enough there to have a portrait made with Nick.
But I got thrown off because too controversial.
Uh and I'm way long on this segment.
I have to tell Oh, yeah, I got thrown off.
I got I think I got thrown off three of them.
Well, I mean within an hour.
Within an hour going up.
We'll be back.
Hey, hey, get this.
This is a Reuters story.
A union re Snurdly, you're gonna love this story.
Right up your alley.
A unions from Amsterdam.
Uh Holland.
The Dutch.
Wooden shoes.
Zykes.
You with me?
Okay.
A union representing.
A union repres.
I'm thinking, why didn't Bill Clinton think of this?
We'd have had health care passed with 85 votes years ago.
A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign today.
They probably already have, against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.
Patients in Holland are demanding that nurses provide sex.
The nurses union is called NU91, calling the campaign, I draw the line here, with an advertisement features a young woman covering her face with crossed hands.
The union said in a statement yesterday that the campaign follows a complaint that it had received in the last week from a 24-year-old woman who said a 42-year-old disabled man asked her to provide sexual services as part of his home care.
The young woman witnessed some of the men's uh other nurses offering him sexual gratification, the union said.
When she refused, he tried to dismiss her on the grounds that she was unfit to provide care.
This type of action is not part of the job responsibilities of nurses, said the union.
Can you believe Bill Clinton never thought to put that into his health care bill?
If Bill Clinton had to put this, if he could have just convinced Hillary to put this in his health care bill back in 1993, oh, we'd already have it.
Gives a whole new meaning to Medicare Advantage, doesn't it?
Medicare part S. Brief timeout while you ponder that one.
Here we are on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
It means if you listen here, you're ahead of the game.
You'll know things that count long before they count, and you'll have the right opinion on things, mine, uh, long before most other people arrive at it.
By the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, you haven't heard as of this morning.
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Tiger Woods likely to make his return to golf during the Masters tournament in Augusta next month.
It's a high alert, not yet red alert, because Woods has not made his uh final decision on this.
But they're up to speed.
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