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March 17, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 17, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hey, if you was expressed by the host on this show documented to be almost always right.
99.5.
Still there.
Haven't lost any ground yet.
Still there, 99.5% of the time.
Great to have you with us here on the EIB network.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
And the email address Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
We are still, I should say you are still melting the Capitol Hill phone system.
Keep doing it.
Here are the toll-free number, 877-762-8762.
The other numbers 202-224-3121.
A lot of people are sending me other numbers.
Hey, Rush, why don't you shut them down too?
No, we don't need to overkill this.
But we can shut down a DNC.
We can shut down the CBO, but don't do that.
Keep your energies focused on the Capitol Hill switchboard.
They're having trouble making calls out of there, even on the on the system.
So again, the two numbers 877-762-8762 and 202-224-3121.
We had a caller, and I've I've I really am glad that she called.
We had a caller who had a message for her Congressman, Jason Altmeyer, Pennsylvania, who is undecided, is a Democrat.
And she wanted to send the message to him.
Congressman, if you run for re-election and lose, you lose your job and you lose health care.
Now, why did she think that?
Because it happens to all the rest of us.
Except union people.
And except to federal employees.
But if you lose your job, isn't that a big deal?
That's why everybody talks about portability.
That's why people talk about Cobra.
If you lose your job, you lose your health care.
Well, right here from the USGovInfo.about.com, the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program.
Can I continue my federal employees health benefit program into retirement?
When you retire, you are eligible to continue health benefits coverage if you meet all the following requirements.
And we've, you know, the you gotta have five years' service to be vested and so forth.
Will my FEHB, federal employee health benefits and premiums change when I retire?
Answer no.
You will be entitled to the same benefits and annual premiums as federal employees enrolled in the same plan.
They don't lose it.
Anyone with a brain would know that they would give themselves universal health care for the rest of their lives after they've served five years in Congress.
So they don't fa and this is not true true not just of members of Congress.
This is true of federal employees.
If they've quit, they if they get fired, if they retire, they keep it.
But not you in your job.
You know these vote counts, these whip counts are all over the place.
You got Democrat leaders saying we're five votes short.
CNN says they're 12 votes short of uh of passing the Senate bill.
ASA spades, a blog site website, they claim that Pelosi only has 192 votes, that she's 24 short, and that there are 26 maybes left.
Uh and of the maybes, there are 10 who voted yes the first time, but have refused to commit to voting the same way this time.
They are named here.
And there are 16 who voted no the first time who could be victims of uh ROM in the locker room with the lead pipe bullying or cornhusker compromise bribery because they haven't declared yet what they plan to do.
Jason Altmeyer, Pennsylvania is one of those.
Now I've got I've got a list of some of these guys, their addresses in Washington, and their phone numbers in Washington, including facts.
Now, if I can verify this, then we'll put it up at Rush Limbaugh.com.
But I gotta I don't have I don't have 26 of them here.
I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
And I know there are more than eight.
So I need to f you know a staffer sent me this.
Uh and staffers all assume my brilliance, so they think I'm gonna understand everything they send me without any explanation.
But I'm curious.
I always have quote, who are these eight?
Why just these eight?
Uh I know there are many more than these eight.
Give me all that data, and it will go from there.
So now this ace of spades, and you put in and put Stupak in there.
Stupec says that she's at 200 votes, which is 16 short.
Now let me again rely on my common sense and instincts and my well-known superior critical thinking abilities.
It's been a year.
They have not been able to get this done.
They really haven't been close.
We thought they were close, then the Scott Brown election took place, but they really haven't been close in the traditional required by the Constitution way of passing a bill.
The House and the Senate have been far apart.
Doesn't matter where the Republicans are on this.
They're all united against it.
So they can't stop it, except in the Senate now with the with their numbers.
So we've been hearing for a year the end game is near.
We're very close.
We're very, very close.
I have I've resisted saying what I really think about this very much because I don't want to fall prey to my own wishful thinking, compromising my objectivity.
I mean, my wishful thinking is that this thing goes down a pile of dust and we never see or hear from it again.
And I don't want that desire to uh pollute or corrupt my actual thinking on this.
I'll just tell you, my actual thinking on this for the longest time has been that they're never close.
That five votes, in no way they're that close.
They could have found five votes by now.
It took them what?
48 minutes with Kucinich on Air Force.
That's how long the flight was.
From Washington to Cleveland, 48 minutes.
That's all it took them to get Kucinich.
I mean, if they if it were just five, it's got to be more than five.
They could they could have had this wrapped up.
They can't even get this slaughter solution reconciliation bill written.
That's not even written.
And they're talking about having the final vote here Saturday.
The only thing they've got really right now to vote on is the Senate bill, and they despise that in the House.
So I see this ace of spades thing that shows Pelosi is 92 votes, uh 24 short, she's got 192 votes, that there are 26 maybes.
Now, the way they're looking at it at ace of spades, and they're they're you know I'm not holding them out as better having a better count than anybody else does.
They're just an example to look at here.
But if they're right, if she's 24 short and therefore needs 24, and there are 26 maybes, that means she needs 24 of the 26 maybes to say yes.
Now, that makes sense that they're having trouble getting that many to switch.
If it were just four or five, this would have been done.
They got plenty to bully, plenty to bribe, plenty to pay.
I've always thought, I've always believed, especially when we're dealing with Democrat leaders in the media, that what they're saying is what they want us to believe, but it really isn't the truth.
How often is that accurate about any news story?
So I'm not saying this to make everybody exhale and breathe a sigh of relief, because I want you to keep pounding those numbers.
And I want you to keep thinking that they're just one vote short.
But in the back of my mind, it's been gnawing at me.
There, folks, there's another reason.
I know that we have the most radical leftists running the Democrat Party ever before in our history.
And we now know that the people running the Democrat Party have decided they're going to run it on the basis that this is a majority leftist country, and they're going to approach it that way, they're going to identify themselves that way.
But we see, we have seen it for the past year.
This is a conservative country.
You can look at it by polling data, self-identification polls, you can look at it by how issue by issue Obama's doing.
You can look at it, judge the reaction to the biggest socialist attempt in this country's history.
You can see nobody wants it.
It has no majority appeal, not even close to majority appeal.
So, in my mind, now this is a little Pollyanish, and I will admit this.
But I just I can't get my arms around the fact that we're three days away from the United States of America being over as we've all known it.
I just I have not lost that much faith in the people who work in Washington, D.C. I know we've got a big bad bunch of them, but I don't think they're the majority yet.
They're trying to pretend that they are.
But if they were, this would have been done last year, last August.
Um I I admit this is Polly Anish, and this view is not clouding my objectivity.
I know, and I've led the train on this.
I know the risks that we face.
I know the horror show that awaits us.
I know exactly who these people are and what their objectives are, and they do want to remake this country.
They want to overthrow it, take it down, rebuild it in their own leftist socialist image.
And I know they're in the process of doing it.
You know, Obama, if he can't get it done through Congress, he'll go to the FDA.
FDA, uh not FDA, uh uh the the whatever the the uh EPA, EPA, if he can't get camp and trade legislate, have the EPA do it by fiat.
I mean, this is banana republic kind of stuff.
I know what they're doing.
I'm just I'm just saying, and I've always believed I've always told you, the people of this country always triumph.
They always, in the end, get what they want.
And there have been numerous attempts to take this country in a radically different direction, and they have in some ways succeeded for a time, and then the American people get rid of the people who tried it.
FDR got away with a lot.
We're still living with some of the disasters they lived with that he created.
But I just can't um I can't just don't believe that here we are in 2010, and in three days, the United States of America ceases to be a representative republic and turns into a veritable tyrannical dictatorship, which is essentially what's going to happen if this health care bill passes.
I just, and if it does pass, the American people aren't gonna put up with it.
They aren't gonna comply.
We're still the United States of America, and we are still the United States of America because it's the people who make this country work.
It's the people who have defined its greatness uh behaving and performing because of the freedoms and liberties that we acknowledge we are born with in our founding documents.
And those are under assault too.
I don't I'm under no illusions of the heavyweight assault here.
But I just it's like I I didn't have the guts to say this guy driving his Prius the other day was uh was a fraud, but something told me this is not right.
All this is on TV in the midst of all of these recalls, and here we got a guy who wants to be a reality TV starts, it's a balloon boy all over again.
But I didn't say it.
I told you I regretted not saying it.
Probably a lot of other people did.
Regardless, I could well be wrong about this.
I could be wrong on the vote count.
I could be wrong.
They are maybe they might be closer than I think.
I just think if they were, that would have been done.
Yeah, I'm snurdly, yes, of course I'm holding out hope.
I got genuine hope here.
Damn right, but I'm trying to to mobilize the hope.
Uh 877-762-8762 is the toll-free Capitol Hill switchboard number, 202-224-3121 is the other number.
And we will be right back.
Ha!
How are you?
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Overwhelmed.
But nevertheless, keeping track of all of it.
It's busy too.
We got a third number here for you to call, ladies and gentlemen.
A third Capitol Hill switchboard number.
It's very close to the other 202 number.
The one you have is 2022.
There's also 2022 53121.
And it's busying out as well.
So all three of these numbers are busy, which means that you are continuing to melt the circuits in uh in in in Washington.
Phone lines are finite.
You can overwhelm them.
Uh it's a little harder to overwhelm an internet or an email circuit.
Uh But phone lines are finite.
They can only have so much capacity, and and we've obviously maxed it out here so much so that they're expecting the max out to continue throughout the uh entire week.
Now, Rasmussen new polling data for the third month in a row, likely Republican nominee in Pennsylvania, Pat Toomey, holds a nine-point lead over incumbent Arlene Spector in the Senate race in Pennsylvania.
Folks, the evidence of an electoral landslide against these liberals is everywhere.
And this Obama has chosen Obama came to divide.
And he's pulled it off.
He's now at 46 approval, 47 disapproval in Gallup.
He is lower than McCain was in the general election.
So it there's a landslide brewing out there.
And this is why these leftists hate the people.
This is exactly why.
It's why they're willing to govern against our will.
They know we don't want anything that they stand for.
And that doesn't matter to them.
They're going to try to do it regardless.
And they're in the process of doing it.
And I just have this infinite call it faith in the country and faith in the people who live here that they're just not going to put up with it.
We're just not going to lie down, bend over, and succumb to this.
It just isn't going to happen.
One way or the other, this is not going to be the law of the land.
But we have to make that reality come true.
And we're working on these names.
I'm still trying to uh do all of the due diligence to make sure I need to publish these names and numbers on the website without incurring any kind of mistake or problem, whatever, so probably do that after the uh after the program.
Back to the phones we go.
We go to Eric in Waterloo, Iowa.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Maybe did those, Russ.
Thank you, sir.
Um, I just wanted to let you know, it kind of frustrates me that you keep calling Dennis Cassoon's mentally ill.
I have bipolar disorder, but I don't believe in UFOs and do not support a bill banging mind control, which he introduced in 2001.
Mental illnesses are treatable, but frankly, this guy is beyond help.
Uh well, I don't mean to frustrate you.
I was I was I was telling a joke.
I was just trying to be funny.
What kind of deal did he get to change his vote?
Yeah, just if his pre-existing mental disorder to continue to be covered by just it's just a flippant line.
He's yeah, he's beyond help.
He's there's no chance for him.
No, no.
Um and I'm not saying anybody else believes in UFOs.
I'm saying that if Obama thought that he did, he'd promise him a UFO trip or something.
I don't know.
We were all tribes trying to explain to people how such a quote unquote principled guy as Kucinich could be flipped in less than an hour aboard Air Force One.
Anyway, Jim in Rapid City, South Dakota, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, I was able to get through to my Democrat senator Tim Johnson yesterday, as well as our Democrat only Congresswoman Her Seth Sandlin.
And in both cases, I was treated to a little contemptuous young intern who is basically talking from talking points and trying to school me as to what I should be saying and what I should be doing.
Um it was amazing.
And I'm an RN.
I'm someone who's been in the field, and I was able to rebuff every one of their talking points.
And one of the talking points from this Johnson's aid was um it's no different than buying health insurance buying car insurance.
And I was like, Well, excuse me, I don't have to buy a car.
I'm being forced to by health insurance if I move or change my position.
And his point was, well, you know, that's the way it is.
And I said, you know, our Tim Johnson is a builds himself as a moderate fiscal conservative.
What is fiscally conservative about this health care, Obamacare?
I don't understand it.
And I and I raised this question as I left.
We will boot both of these people out as being fraud.
They build themselves as blue dog democratist fiscal conservative.
There is nothing fiscally conservative or constitutional about what these people are doing.
And they've tied their boat to this radical administration.
And I I seriously think they have doubts of that, but they're afraid.
This boat is taking them far, far to the left, and they're afraid to do anything.
And I only say, hey, get some get some religion and jump ship and admit you're wrong.
And that was kind of where I left it.
But I was treated with such contempt.
And here I'm a guy who's been in nursing.
Well, you know what?
I'm glad it happened to you because you're you're looked at with contempt by these people every day, and you finally got to experience it firsthand.
We're all going to experience it firsthand.
If we get treated to health care, that we'd get the way we get treated to DMV and post office.
Wake up, America.
This is not.
America has awakened.
Well, then let's let's you know, I I'm, you know, I don't know what to say.
I'm on a loss for words because I'm so frustrated, Rush.
And I'm sure you are too, and you do a great job of maintaining your composure.
Yeah, we're we're all frustrated, but I'm I'm glad I'm glad you had the experience.
By the way, I need to ask you a question.
Are you saying Ken or Tim Johnson?
Tim Johnson.
He's the fellow who sadly had a stroke and I'm saying you didn't talk to him, right?
No, I talked to his aide.
Yeah, you talked to you talk to some intern who's got talking points in front of him.
And this, if they're still using his auto insurance argument, that's a those are requirements requirements from state to state to state.
It is not a federal government requirement.
If that's what they're using, they really, and they've been they've they've tried using that as a as an analogy for months on this now.
It's empty, it's full of holes.
It's specious.
Uh you're right to have told this guy, what you're doing is unconstitutional.
There is no allowance for the federal government to mandate that any citizen buy anything.
And then fine them and put them in jail if they don't buy it.
Which is what this bill does, along with many other disastrous things.
Brief time out, folks, sit tight.
We're coming back before you know it.
I was just sent a note about a post from the uh the leftist weblog, FireDoglake.com, and uh it's run by a woman named Jane Hampshire.
Big, big, big leftist, just big big Kucinich supporter.
And she apparently is raising holy hell with Kucinich after his speech today.
And he's going to refund campaign contributions that he received from people on the basis he was supporting or opposing the bill until it had a public option in it.
So he's gonna have to get this he's giving back money because he has betrayed the people that he made the commitment to.
He's giving the money back.
So he can afford it because his wife is a gazillionaire.
Don't forget.
And plus she's now part of Michelle Obama's, you know, uh plant eat plants initiative.
Uh I'm sure Obama, of course, from Obama helped him out, Obama's stash.
Now, this insurance argument, this automobile insurance argument, if you get through to a member of Congress, and you get one of these little snivelling interns reading talking points, and they say to you, you know, you know, you know, they're having you money.
Everybody had to have kind insurance.
This argument can actually be made to work for our side.
You just say, okay, imagine if car company, insurance companies, had to insure people who had just had an accident.
Imagine if you could drive around with no automobile insurance whatsoever and pay a simple fine for not having it.
Then the minute you have a wreck, that's your fault, you can call an insurance company and get insurance.
How long do you think that automobile insurance business would be in business?
They'd all go out of business PVQ pretty damn quick.
Let's play some word association.
What do you think when I say incorporate your business or form an LLC?
What is that, Surely?
Legal Zoom.
How about Will's Trust powers of attorney?
Legal Zoom.
If you answered LegalZoom.com, brilliant thinking, Snertly, you're on a roll and coming back.
What if I said trademarks, patents, real estate, small claims, uncontested divorce, even bankruptcy help?
Uh no, not John Edwards is the wrong word.
No, no, no.
Uncontested divorce, bankruptcy help, small claim, John.
No, not John Edwards, legal Zoom.
You gotta think legal Zoom first for these legal documents, and here's why legal Zoom empowers people like us.
People that don't have any legal experience, people who may wonder if they really can create their own superb legal documents that hold up, you can.
LegalZoom makes it incredibly fast and easy, and they even have free customer support to help you.
Now remember for personal and business online legal documents, think legal Zoom first.
They're not a law firm at LegalZoom.
They were started by top attorneys to provide self-help services at your specific direction.
Uh February National, or it was start of business month.
Why is that still in here?
Anyway, visit legalzoom.com today.
That's legalzoom.com.
You can really get all of this stuff done.
Do it yourself, have hands on control over it, and it will hold up, saves you time, saves you money, and you don't have to deal with people like John Edwards.
What could possibly be better than that?
Back to the phones, Chris in Cincinnati.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Chris uh Rush, Megadeth from Cincinnati.
Thank you for that.
Um I'm a physician in the Cincinnati area, emergency physician.
I've asked questions for a couple of years now of people that can't give me the answer.
I thought maybe you had it.
When did health care become a right?
Well, it is constitution or any of the amendments.
Well, it isn't a right.
Uh when it's it it and it's it it it cannot be a right.
Correct.
Uh you cannot insure good health.
Nobody can insure good health.
That's not what health insurance is about.
Health insurance is insurance against catastrophic injury, costs a lot of money.
You basically you're calculating risk.
It's risk reward.
There's no way that health care is a right.
Now, the whole notion of health care be being a right, you can probably trace it back to FDR uh with his attempt to have a second bill of rights, which also said that everybody's entitled to a house, and everybody's entitled to a job, and everybody's entitled to a living wage, a livable wage.
I mean, these are leftist dreams of a utopia that have been tried and failed everywhere.
Now it it became popularized.
The whole notion in the modern era, and and Kucinich opened his press conference today by saying, I believe health care is a basic human right.
Now Kucinich is an idiot.
He is a mental midget.
He has a socialist utopian who has no concrete sense of reality at all.
But the modern era of health care as a right concept, I would trace to a candidate for the Senate who won in 1992 in Pennsylvania, Harris Wafford.
Harris Wafford ran on the notion that health care is a right.
And he said if the Constitution provides you a lawyer, the Constitution ought to provide you a doctor.
And if you can't pay for the doctor, we should pay for the doctor for you.
Just like if you can't afford a lawyer, we'll give you one and pay for him.
The public defender.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
That then the Clintons picked up on that in the campaign.
It was all part of a uh of orchestrated coordinated effort.
But it's been part of it's been a liberal dream since FDR to have this.
And just saying it it's a it's a health care right, the healthcare is a right, is still simply a sales technique.
Right.
And I think unfortunately, a lot of people are a lot, a lot of my patients are buying into that.
And uh many people don't realize that they talk about access to care, but as you found out in Hawaii, if you're sick and you go to an emergency department, we have to see you and take care of you before we even ask insurance questions.
And you know, if you can't pay for it, then the hospital eats that bill, or the physician eats that bill, and they try to get reimbursed with the government anyway.
So, in a in essence, we already have some form of health care provided by the government.
Well, no, that this is this is why we always say that everybody gets health care in this community, because what you just said is the law of the land.
You gotta be treated in an emergency situation, and they deal with getting paid later.
Uh, either making a deal with the patient, pay it back in uh increments or some other way.
Now, I meant to get to this.
I've got a stack of stuff I haven't gotten to this week that's getting pretty big, and I'd I'm not gonna be able to find it right now.
But it was a great piece earlier this week by Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post, and he explodes this emergency room myth.
The emergency room myth, if I recall what he said, and uh give me the opportunity to be a little bit wrong on this until I refresh my memory looking at it.
The emergency room myth is that it is overrun with uninsured people.
And the fact is it isn't.
83% of all emergency room treatments are made to people who have health insurance.
It's pretty much consistent with every other form of treatment.
It's it's not being overrun, is what his point is.
And it it's now you don't look at this as a negative.
He's he's exploding a popular myth here that's being used to sell universal health care.
Now I'm gonna dig this up and I'm gonna find it here because it's uh it's an interesting point, and I skimmed over it real fast.
I had it in a stack to explore later, and with this the way this issue is happening all week, it's exploding by the minute here.
And just keeping up with it currently is uh is uh is an ongoing challenge.
Anyway, I appreciate the call uh very much.
That's uh that was Chris, yeah.
David in in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
You're next.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, Russ.
Appreciate my call.
Yes, sir.
I hope you agree with me.
I think you are completely right in that if they pass the health care and we have an overwhelming win in November, it'll not be enough to rewrite the health care bill.
Um veto it.
Well, not have enough to overrun his video.
Well, we probably won't have enough to uh overturn a veto, or to overwrite a veto.
Uh but let's before we even get to that point.
Here's here's the danger, and I I have alluded to this, and I'm gonna couple it with what our emergency room doctor just said.
He comes in contact with a lot of people.
And a lot of people believe their health care is a right that they shouldn't have to pay for it.
We've had them call this show.
They think the government should pay for it.
They listen to Democrats make these promises and they think it's great.
They think health care, they they buy this notion that it's one doctor visit away from bankruptcy and so forth.
And they think the government should pay for it.
It's it's a right, should be, it should be paid for.
Now, it's not a majority of people who think this, or otherwise there'd be massive support for this bill, and there isn't.
So we got a lot of time here, not a lot of time, but we have an opportunity to turn this back.
But here's what happens if it becomes law.
The Republicans will initiate a campaign theme called repeal.
But folks, the dirty little secret is that once this becomes law, to campaign against repealing it is almost a death wish.
Now I know this doesn't make sound like it makes any sense.
Why rush?
So many people oppose it.
Once it becomes law, once it gets implemented, the Republicans are what?
Campaigning to take your health care away.
That's what the Democrats would say.
The Republicans, just like they wanted to take your Social Security away.
You have to understand what's going to happen if this passes.
The most massive PR effort and party and celebration you've ever seen is going to take place in Washington, and it's going to consist of one thing.
America now joins the rest of the world with universal health care.
You will never ever have a health care worry the rest of your life.
We have finally done.
This is what the nation's going to be told, with the best PR flax and hacks in the world writing the message.
There'll be parties and celebrations.
And the the one the one benefit here is that all the so-called benefits don't trigger for four years.
The taxes and stuff start immediately.
But if this thing sets in for five years, then I think the odd the odds of overturning it dwindle down to zero.
At that point, you're not going to have a politician brave enough after five years of it to campaign on taking it away.
It's just the way entitlements work.
It's just, it's, it's, it's, I wish I could give you examples here.
I mean, I can't, I just don't dare say them.
But it's like it's like uh to people who rely on entitlements.
You know, I've I've had an addiction problem.
It's an addiction.
And it's it's uh it's there's no reason or rationality to it.
It becomes an addiction, and taking it away, you're not gonna let you do it.
So it's a this is a very, very grave situation.
But all the talk here about repealing it, we don't even want to have to think about that.
All of the effort needs to be focused on defeating it and making sure they don't get their votes.
We'll take a brief time out and we'll be back.
Stay with us.
All right, we have a little confusion going on out there that I need to straighten out here.
Uh, we had a caller from South Dakota said he called the office of Senator Tim Johnson.
And he got a snivelling little intern with talking points.
What's happened is some of you are calling Congressman Tim Johnson in Illinois and blasting him.
His office called our office saying, no, no, no.
Don't call us.
We are Congressman Tim Johnson, not Senator Tim Johnson.
You need to call Senator Tim Johnson's office in South Dakota.
Congressman Tim Johnson, Illinois is uh opposed to Obama's health care scheme.
So you people are making the calls.
There's no question about it.
But if you're calling Congressman Tim Johnson in Illinois, stop, cease, desist.
And redirect your call to Senator Tim Johnson in South Dakota.
All right, now do you do you remember, folks?
In the Central Valley of California, the federal government was was starving farmers there of water, which was causing massive layoffs and unemployment for environmental and animal protection reasons.
This recently posted at Code Red, the Republican Congressional Committee.
As a vote approaches on Obama and Pelosi's government takeover of health care, code red now considering two supposedly undecided California Democrats, Dennis Cardoza and Jim Costa, to now be yes votes.
The U.S. Department of Interior announced yesterday it is increasing water allocations for the Central Valley of California, a region that depends on these water allocations to support local agriculture and jobs.
The region recently been starved for water as a result, unemployment has soared.
Not surprisingly, Cardoza and Costa had a hand in this announcement.
So they were starving these farmers on purpose in order to protect animals and the environment and so forth.
They were destroying these farmers.
And now for their votes, you're going to turn the water on.
That's the latest from Code Red.
Robert Samuelson's piece.
Don't have time to get into it in great detail.
The title of it is Obama's Illusion of Cost Control.
The whole piece is on how there is no cost control.
And even AP has their story here, fact-check, premiums would rise under the Obama plan.
But his point here, Samuel's Samuelson's point is that Obamacare will not lower the use of emergency rooms.
The Obamacare plan says it will lower the use.
The reason it will not is that emergency rooms are not used only by those without insurance.
The emergency room is used by everybody for emergencies.
83% of emergency use is people with insurance.
The same as the total population.
The fix makes it worse.
How does the fix make it worse?
What's the fix?
Well, if we're going to provide coverage for whatever the number is, 30 million Americans who don't have insurance, or 12 million, whatever the number turns out to be.
Figure 25 million additional, at least when they give amnesty to the illegals, uh, that means more people are going to be running to emergency rooms for health issues because as the doctors leave the profession, there are going to be fewer doctors' offices to go to.
So the emergency room is going to see more action for non-emergency procedures, simply because the system's going to be flooded with more people with insurance, meaning free health care, and fewer doctors.
We don't Have enough doctors now, as it is.
And the survey says that at least a third of them will quit if uh this becomes law.
Back right after this.
This is my kind of bookstore.
Details tomorrow, but here's basically the uh summary.
A Melbourne Australia bookstore has sparked outrage after being discovered selling a control a woman remote control on International Women's Day.
You know, I guess the old joke is that men lose control of remote control.
This is a bookstore selling a control a woman remote on International Women's Day.
Now, in this climate, nobody's gonna laugh at that except, you know, sexists like me.
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